Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng defeated Chen Jingming, Cang Manyun, and Mu Huachen in a single exchange, then won unanimous support to become the Southwest Alliance Leader. He established the alliance’s initial rules and contribution system as its collective power and luck began to gather.

• Song Changsheng challenged the Tianxu Mountain Lord Chen Jingming, Tianjue City Lord Cang Manyun, and Great Xiao Immortal Dynasty National Teacher Mu Huachen to fight him together.
• Song Changsheng trapped and suppressed all three in his Law Domain, then struck them down and caught them before they hit the ground.
• After the gathered factions voted for him and the three defeated leaders agreed, Song Changsheng became the Southwest Alliance Leader with unanimous support.
• The newly established alliance gathered Power of Luck into the [Chengyuan Sword], and a purple Dragon of Luck appeared above Vast Peak.
• Song Changsheng convened the first Southwest Alliance Assembly and laid out rules for settling disputes, sharing resources, and using Contribution Points.

Song Changsheng organized the Southwest Alliance to prepare for a united demon invasion, proposing teleportation arrays and regional Deputy Alliance Heads while using Song Clan resources to secure cooperation. The meeting ended with members eager to contribute resources and prepare for war.

• Song Changsheng selected an Alliance Council of Elders and warned that the demon kingdoms along the Canglan River had united, potentially gathering several dozen Demon Kings for an invasion.
• Song Changsheng proposed cross-world and short-range Space Teleportation Arrays so cultivators could reinforce any battlefield quickly, and the gathered forces agreed to provide materials.
• Song Changsheng divided the Nine Regions of the Southwest into three regions and proposed one strength-based Deputy Alliance Head for each to coordinate wartime defense.
• Song Changsheng raised the threats from the Sea Race and Wicked Path forces, then assured the alliance that the East Sea could serve as a last-resort retreat and said the Song Clan would contribute scriptures, techniques, and resources to the alliance Treasure Vault.
• The Song Clan distributed Jade Slips listing its contributions, prompting cultivators to seek Contribution Points; Song Changsheng ended the meeting and ordered everyone to marshal their forces and prepare for battle.

After the Southwest Alliance made Song Changsheng’s strength and ambitions known, Hun Sha sought the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord’s help in killing him before he reached the Nascent Soul Realm. The Golden-Eyed Demon Lord weighed the threat and went to consult the Honored Emperor, while a pair of fugitives were pursued after discussing their daughter and the Abyss.

• A man and woman in a Lu Kingdom wine shop worried that war would endanger Miaoyin, but the man said she would be safer with Song Changsheng and Yuechan; when his sword trembled, he spotted pursuers and fled with the woman.
• Hun Sha concluded that the Demon Race had to eliminate Song Changsheng before his breakthrough and decided to negotiate with the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom alone, while ordering her subordinate to prepare to awaken the Protector Envoy.
• Hun Sha was brought before the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord, apologized for the Blood Demon Sect’s broken promise, and offered to awaken two Protector Envoys using resources gathered from the Abyss.
• Hun Sha showed the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord a recording of Song Changsheng defeating three Golden Core Great Perfection Cultivators and argued that the Southwest Alliance was buying him time to advance.
• The Golden-Eyed Demon Lord recognized Song Changsheng as a growing threat, ordered Hun Sha taken away, and went to meet the Honored Emperor.

Song Changsheng assessed the Demon Race’s plans and coordinated preparations for the Southwest Alliance while waiting for Myriad Manifestations Palace to act. Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun returned under pursuit from Shadow Pavilion, gave Song Changsheng a fragment of the Imperial Seal, and prepared to seek a dangerous compass in the Abyss, leaving him urging them to visit their daughter Miaoyin first.

• Song Changsheng and Song Qingxi discussed the Demon Race’s suspicious calm, the alliance’s deputy leaders, and the need to finish the Space Teleportation Arrays before applying pressure to other factions.
• Song Changsheng contacted Yi Tianzheng, who said Myriad Manifestations Palace’s preparations were underway, then discovered Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun hiding near Vast Peak after Yun He’s jade pendant broke.
• Xia Wanyun explained that Shadow Pavilion was pursuing them for the Magic Artifact once inside her, and Xu Yunhe revealed that a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion expert had restored her meridians in exchange for retrieving a compass from the Abyss.
• Xu Yunhe gave Song Changsheng a fragment of the Imperial Seal, which Song Changsheng recognized as a powerful treasure capable of helping protect the Song Clan’s and Southwest Alliance’s luck.
• Song Changsheng urged Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun to visit Miaoyin in the East Sea before entering the Abyss, but they said they only wished to see her from afar.

Xu Miaoyin attended the East Sea Alliance Exchange Meeting while her parents watched from afar, then Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun set out for the Abyss with Song Changsheng’s help. Song Changsheng began forging a fifth-tier artifact for the Song Clan, while the couple lured Shadow Pavilion pursuers to the Abyss and entered it after a fierce battle.

• Zhuang Yuechan told Xu Miaoyin to attend the East Sea Alliance Exchange Meeting, where Xu Miaoyin quickly joined in and displayed her strength.
• Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun watched Xu Miaoyin from the stands without meeting her, and Song Changsheng gave them an Abyss map, a Jade Slip of notes, and supplies for their journey.
• Song Changsheng asked Song Qingxi to gather fifth-tier spirit materials so he could refine a fragment of the Imperial Seal into an artifact to replace the Human King Sword in suppressing the clan’s fortune.
• Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun reached the Abyss, prepared Song Changsheng’s Array Plate, and revealed themselves to draw the Shadow Pavilion pursuers toward them.
• After fighting the pursuers for hours, Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun entered the Abyss as Shadow Pavilion’s Golden Core Cultivators arrived; unseen black mist clung to the wounded pursuers.

Two cultivators secretly looted the battlefield where Xu Yunhe and his wife had fought Shadow Pavilion, unknowingly carrying black mist back to Rakshasa Hall. Three years later, Song Changsheng forged an Inherited Seal, awakened the Human King Sword’s Dragon of Luck, and set out for Myriad Manifestations Palace as a Song Clan child was born in the Vast Small World.

• Shen Qing and Chen Jie found an Array Plate, Formation Flags, and Spirit Stones at the battlefield, then unknowingly absorbed black mist before returning to Rakshasa Hall.
• Song Changsheng completed the Inherited Seal and presented it to the Song Clan ancestors in the ancestral hall.
• The Dragon of Luck entered the Inherited Seal, while the Chengyuan Sword was freed and returned to Song Changsheng’s hand.
• Song Changsheng considered using the Chengyuan Sword to search for Imperial Seal fragments and Thunder King Hall, then traveled toward Myriad Manifestations Palace.
• As a woman struggled through a difficult birth in Chonghua City, a dragon roar sounded across the Song Clan settlement, and her child was born crying.

Song Ze and his wife welcomed their son Song Yuan after a dangerous birth, while Song Changsheng sensed an unexplained disturbance in the Vast Small World. At the Gemini Islands, he learned that Li Ban had developed Heavenly Star Steel and ordered a batch of arrowheads made from it.

• Song Ze welcomed his newborn son Song Yuan after the midwife confirmed that his wife and child were safe.
• Song Changsheng sensed that something had happened in the Vast Small World, sent Song Qingxi and the others to investigate, and continued toward the Gemini Islands.
• Song Changsheng learned that Song Youlin had reached Purple Mansion Great Perfection and promised him a Golden Core Forming Pill after the war.
• Li Ban told Song Changsheng that the Fourth-Tier Sky Battleship had passed its flight test and described his new, more efficient Crystal Cannons.
• Li Ban revealed that Heavenly Star Steel could withstand a full-force attack from Zhan Tianxia, and Song Changsheng ordered him to make a batch of arrowheads from it.

Song Changsheng learned that the East Sea Alliance had grown powerful and heard of the promising loose cultivator Zhao Wuji, whom he suspected was the child he had once guided. He then visited Myriad Manifestations Palace, where he revealed the reforged [Chengyuan Sword] and admitted it was the complete [Human King Sword].

• Song Changsheng ordered Li Ban to forge as many [Heavenly Star Steel] arrowheads as possible and promised to share a place where star cores might be found.
• Song Youlin told Song Changsheng that the East Sea Alliance had expanded and described Tang Yunmeng and Zhao Wuji, who had broken through to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection during the Exchange Meeting.
• Song Changsheng asked Wind Whisper Hall to monitor Zhao Wuji discreetly after learning he was escorting a merchant ship toward the Great Zhen Immortal Dynasty's waters.
• Song Changsheng entrusted the East Sea Garrison Manor to Song Youlin and used his mastery of the [Path of Space] to travel to Myriad Manifestations Mountain.
• Song Changsheng met Thunder Elephant True Monarch, True Monarch Heavenly Manifestation, and newly advanced Ji Shinian, then revealed the [Chengyuan Sword] and confessed it was the complete [Human King Sword].

Song Changsheng revealed that the [Human King Sword] had been suppressing the Song Clan's destiny, and Myriad Manifestations Palace accepted his reasons for keeping it hidden. Thunder Elephant True Monarch unveiled a plan to force Kongsang Lifeng into battle by preparing the [Mysterious Thunder Sky-Piercing Lance] for its tribulation, while Song Changsheng learned the Instant Flash technique and planned to provoke the Demon Race before announcing his seclusion.

• Song Changsheng explained why he had withheld the [Human King Sword], and Yi Tianzheng told him to keep it because Myriad Manifestations Palace no longer needed it.
• Ji Shinian said they could not locate Thunder King Hall unless its members revealed themselves, and Song Changsheng warned that delaying the war would leave the Borderlands vulnerable.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch showed Song Changsheng the [Mysterious Thunder Sky-Piercing Lance] and explained how its coming tribulation would force Kongsang Lifeng to attack or lose his chance against Myriad Manifestations Palace.
• Yi Tianzheng taught Song Changsheng Instant Flash, and Song Changsheng said he would visit the Demon Domain to provoke the Demon Race before using seclusion as further pressure.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch and Yi Tianzheng approved Song Changsheng's plan, and Thunder Elephant True Monarch declared that the final battle would begin when Heavenly Lightning shook the sky.

Kongsang Lifeng suspected Myriad Manifestations Palace was preparing a preemptive strike and summoned Third Brother for a discussion. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng mastered Instant Flash, demonstrated his speed and Thousand Shadow Tracing, and was sent to face the Demon Race with renewed confidence.

• A Sea Race messenger told Kongsang Lifeng that Human Cultivators had been scouting the Golden Scale Clan’s waters, and Kongsang Lifeng approved its relocation request.
• Kongsang Lifeng ordered Qian'er to travel to the Void Sea and invite Third Brother to meet him.
• Song Changsheng tested his newly mastered Instant Flash by teleporting from a cliff and back, then raced Ji Shinian through repeated short-distance shuttles.
• Song Changsheng used Thousand Shadow Tracing to create seventy-two clones, but Thunder Elephant True Monarch destroyed them all with lightning and forced Song Changsheng’s true form to appear.
• Yi Tianzheng advised Song Changsheng to develop his clones toward One Breath Forms the Three Pure Ones, and Thunder Elephant True Monarch warned him not to underestimate fifth-tier cultivators.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch told Song Changsheng to go down the mountain and show the Demon Race the Human Race’s prodigy.

Song Changsheng returned to Great Qi after mastering Space Shuttle and planned to exploit his mobility to provoke the Demon Race and hunt its Demon Kings. He left for the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom and launched a surprise attack on Howling Heaven Demon King.

• Song Changsheng returned from Great Gan to Great Qi in under two hours using Space Shuttle and told the clan’s elders he could reach any battlefield without teleportation arrays.
• Song Changsheng ordered Song Qingxi and Song Youfu to leak information about the clan’s hidden teleportation network and provoke the Demon Race while he was away.
• Song Changsheng investigated a list of clan members unusually favored by fortune, narrowed the candidates to twelve Song Yuans, and postponed the search after finding no likely match.
• Song Changsheng assigned Song Youfu to train a few archers with poisoned arrowheads from Li Ban and to inspect the Wutong Small World with him.
• Song Changsheng infiltrated the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom and chose Howling Heaven Demon King, Golden-Eyed Demon Lord’s favored descendant, as his target.
• Song Changsheng set up a Space Blockade around Howling Heaven Demon King’s Spirit Peak, cleared away nearby Demon Beasts, and smashed into the peak while Howling Heaven Demon King was in seclusion.

Song Changsheng raided the Golden-Eyed Demon Kingdom, killing the Howling Heaven Demon King and Bai Hong Demon King before confronting the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord. He escaped across the Cambang River with Space Shuttle, while the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord was struck by Heavenly Tribulation and left the story furious and injured.

• Song Changsheng overwhelmed the Howling Heaven Demon King, trapped him with a Space Blockade, and killed him with sword qi.
• Song Changsheng collected the Howling Heaven Demon King's body and Golden Core, then killed the upper-grade Bai Hong Demon King with [World in the Palm].
• The Golden-Eyed Demon Lord arrived and attacked Song Changsheng with a tiger roar, but Song Changsheng endured the sound waves with [World-Ending Grinding Mill], [Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram], and his [Star Bloodline].
• As Heavenly Tribulation gathered, Song Changsheng used Space Shuttle to escape across the Cambang River, while the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord pursued him and was struck by tribulation lightning.
• The Heavenly Tribulation dispersed after the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord concealed his presence, leaving him wounded as Demon Lords from nearby kingdoms sent envoys to investigate.

Song Changsheng left the Demon Domain after hunting thirteen Demon Kings, prompting the Demon Lords to discuss an early war and a plan to kill him with help from the Blood Demon Sect. He returned to Song Qingxi, handed her his spoils, and ordered an unlimited supply of Barrier Breaking Pills for the alliance as war approached.

• Song Changsheng reflected on leaving Jinxuan in the Demon Domain, then hunted Demon Kings across the Six Great Demon Kingdoms and escaped into the Tianhua Cultivation World when Demon Lord Huanyan pursued him.
• Demon Lord Huanyan gathered the Demon Lords, who realized thirteen Demon Kings had been killed and debated whether to attack the Human Race or continue the Demon Sovereign's plan.
• The Golden-Eyed Demon Lord proposed using two fifth-order Blood Demon Sect Cultivators to kill Song Changsheng, and the Demon Lords agreed to petition the Demon Sovereign and begin war early.
• Song Changsheng returned safely and told Song Qingxi to manage the clan and alliance while he pretended to enter seclusion.
• Song Changsheng gave Song Qingxi his spoils and ordered the Alchemy Hall to supply Barrier Breaking Pills without limit, leaving her stunned by the Storage Bag's contents.

After returning from his campaign against the Demon Race, Song Changsheng ordered the alliance to remain on guard and concealed his condition while the conflict with the Sea Race approached. At the Blood Demon Sect’s new base, Hun Sha accepted Yu Fu’s plan to control a sleeping Protector Envoy, unaware that Yu Fu was secretly Blood Consort, working with her brother Soul Returnless against the sect.

• Song Changsheng warned the alliance that the Demon Race might retaliate and ordered its members to stay inside the Mountain Protection Array.
• Song Changsheng arranged to claim he was injured and entering seclusion, leaving the alliance’s affairs to the three Deputy Alliance Heads.
• Hun Sha learned that the Blood Demon Sect lacked resources to revive both Protector Envoys and decided to awaken Venerable Blood Gu first.
• Yu Fu proposed controlling Venerable Blood Soul with a Gu King-level Calamity Heart Gu, and Hun Sha assigned her to contact the Gu Immortal Sect.
• After leaving Hun Sha, Yu Fu met Soul Returnless and revealed that she had gained Hun Sha’s trust while remaining cautious.
• Soul Returnless told Blood Consort that they had to resolve their past wrongs and wait until Venerable Blood Soul was controlled before acting against Hun Sha.

Hun Sha left to negotiate with the Golden-Eyed Demon Lords while Song Changsheng searched the clan’s newborns for the person he remembered. He identified infant Song Yuan as a likely match and considered giving late-starting cultivators a chance, while Kongsang Baijue arrived to aid Kongsang Lifeng against the Myriad Manifestations Palace on costly terms.

• Hun Sha learned that the Demon Lords wanted Song Changsheng eliminated, departed to negotiate, and ordered the Blood-Eyed Crow to watch Yu Fu.
• Song Changsheng examined newborns with Song Qingxi and found that infant Song Yuan had strong Five-Element Dao Rhyme and was a likely match for the person he sought.
• Song Qingxi proposed training willing adults who had missed their chance to cultivate as stationed cultivators, and Song Changsheng approved the idea.
• Kongsang Baijue agreed to help Kongsang Lifeng fight the Myriad Manifestations Palace in exchange for battle expenses, all gains, and the Profound Origin Sea-Calming Pearl.
• Kongsang Baijue refused to commit his full forces and rode into Kongsang Lifeng’s palace with one additional Demon Lord promised.

Hun Sha secured the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord’s support and recovered the Sacred Artifact, but he gave her only fifteen years to revive the Blood Demon Sect’s Protector Envoys. Five years later, she used the [Soul-Control Bell] to awaken Venerable Blood Soul and force him to kneel under the control of [Calamity Heart Gu].

• Hun Sha promised to awaken the Protector Envoys and kill Song Changsheng, then offered a riskier fifteen-year plan that the Golden-Eyed Demon Lord accepted.
• The Golden-Eyed Demon Lord returned Hun Sha’s Sacred Artifact, tore away part of her soul and True Spirit as a fifteen-year deadline, and sent her away.
• Hun Sha ordered Blood-Eyed Crow to have Blood Consort plant [Calamity Heart Gu] in Venerable Blood Soul, while the Blood Demon Sect sealed its lair and prepared for battle.
• Blood Consort planted the Gu in Venerable Blood Soul’s Sea of Consciousness, then left Blood-Eyed Crow to oversee him as Hun Sha’s deputy.
• Five years later, Hun Sha rang the [Soul-Control Bell] to awaken Venerable Blood Soul, and the Gu forced him to kneel at her command.

Song Changsheng uncovered evidence that True Person Jinzhu and the Marquis of Brocade were using medicinal pills to mark him for tracking, then continued preparing the alliance for war. Three years later, he oversaw the Immortal Ascension Assembly and discovered that Song Yuan possessed nine-inch Five Elements Perfect Spiritual Roots and an innate Five Elements Dao Body.

• Song Qingxi told Song Changsheng that True Person Jinzhu and the Marquis of Brocade had repeatedly sent him medicinal pills, and Wujie found Bone-Attached Fragrance in them that could let the Demon Race track him.
• Song Changsheng ordered the alliance to keep the two suspects under observation without exposing their suspicions, reviewed war preparations, and learned that the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation for the Mysterious Thunder Sky-Piercing Lance was approaching.
• Song Qingxi reported that Hua Yan had reached the Golden Core Stage and Chi Li the Late Purple Mansion Stage, but Song Changsheng decided they should remain at Deer Chasing Academy and stay unaware of the coming war.
• After three more years of secluded cultivation, Song Changsheng traveled with Song Qingxi to oversee the spiritual root testing of twelve children named Song Yuan.
• Song Yuan's test revealed nine-inch Five Elements Perfect Spiritual Roots and an innate Five Elements Dao Body, astonishing Song Changsheng and Song Qingxi.

Song Xingyuan’s perfect Five-Element Spiritual Roots and innate Five Elements Dao Body revealed him as a prodigy bound to the Song Clan’s fate, so Song Changsheng concealed his identity and entrusted his guidance to Song Qingxi. Three years later, a Heavenly Lightning Tribulation gathered over Heavenly Dragon Peak, and Song Yuqing appeared beneath the clouds as someone prepared to break through.

• The deacon revealed Song Xingyuan’s perfect five elements and Five Elements Dao Body, astonishing Song Changsheng and the witnesses.
• Song Changsheng erased the witnesses’ memories of Song Xingyuan, protected the boy from being detected, and gave him a waist token.
• Song Changsheng assigned Song Qingxi to register and guide Song Xingyuan while he prepared to enter seclusion and forge powerful consumable artifacts for the coming war.
• Song Changsheng planned to refine ten fifth-tier artifacts using Void Demon Crystals so the Song Clan could defend itself without sacrificing cultivators.
• Three years later, dark clouds and a Heavenly Lightning Tribulation gathered over Heavenly Dragon Peak, and Song Yuqing appeared beneath them as the cultivators anticipated a Golden Core breakthrough.

Song Changsheng refined dangerous [Void-Breaking Beads] while learning that Song Yuqing had become a Golden Core Cultivator, and the clan celebrated his breakthrough with an alliance ceremony. Song Yuqing then warned Song Changsheng of an ominous feeling around Myriad Manifestations Palace, which Song Changsheng recognized as Tribulation Qi gathering before the coming war.

• Song Changsheng completed a third [Void-Breaking Bead], sensed the clan's Power of Luck strengthen, and learned that Song Yuqing had broken through to the Golden Core Stage.
• Song Changsheng gave Song Qingxi the three [Void-Breaking Beads] for protection and instructed her to arrange a private audience with Song Yuqing.
• Song Qingxi organized a Golden Core Ceremony attended by nearly thirty Golden Core True Persons, making the branch lineages feel valued.
• Song Yuqing paid respects to Song Changsheng, reported that he had condensed a sixth-grade Golden Core, and described his loyalty and the Brocade Banner's circumstances.
• Song Yuqing told Song Changsheng that he felt an ominous presence above Myriad Manifestations Palace, and Song Changsheng identified it as Tribulation Qi gathering before war.

Song Changsheng analyzed the coming war between Myriad Manifestations Palace, the Sea Race, and the Demon Race, using military simulations to identify hidden threats and prepare countermeasures. Five years after Song Yuqing’s breakthrough, the Mysterious Thunder Sky-Piercing Lance’s tribulation clouds formed, prompting Kongsang Lifeng to order his forces assembled.

• Song Changsheng explained to Song Yuqing that the Mysterious Thunder Sky-Piercing Lance’s Heavenly Dipper Lightning Tribulation would likely trigger war, and urged him to consolidate the family and prepare while guarding against Thousand Blades City and the Vast Sea Merchant Association.
• After Song Yuqing left, Song Changsheng failed to divine the battle’s outcome and used a chessboard to simulate the opposing forces and consider the Demon Race’s hidden plans.
• Song Changsheng identified the Demon Sovereign, unknown Nascent Soul-level experts, remnants of the old era, alien races, and possible attacks on the teleportation network as threats, then resolved to seek outside reinforcements.
• In the fifth year after Song Yuqing’s Golden Core breakthrough, tribulation clouds formed above Myriad Manifestations Palace and locked onto the Mysterious Thunder Sky-Piercing Lance.
• Kongsang Lifeng ordered his generals assembled because he could no longer afford to wait.