Chapter Summaries

Grandmaster Xuanlei reinforced the seal on the Abyss fissure while Song Qingxing and Song Qingyun fought spreading Demon Slave armies whose blood ruined the land. The brothers were sent to reinforce Yulong, where Chi Li and Hou Yu faced a vast army led by two Fourth-Tier Demon Slaves.

• Grandmaster Xuanlei established a Fifth-Tier Ultimate Grade sealing formation and used his power to smooth the distorted space around the fissure.
• Song Qingyun examined land poisoned by Demon Slave blood as Song Qingxing noticed the [Traceless Sword] had transformed again after drinking blood.
• Song Qingxing received orders to join Chi Li in Yulong, where a Demon Slave army likely containing Fourth-Tier Demon Slaves threatened the cultivation world.
• Hou Yu gathered nearly forty thousand Cultivators to confront an army of over three hundred thousand Demon Slaves, and Chi Li spotted two Fourth-Tier Demon Slaves among its ranks.

Hou Yu, Chi Li, and the Nine Profound Gate forces fought the advancing Demonic Tide, while Hua Yan joined the battle and helped Hou Yu bring down the Fourth-Tier Demon Slaves. The fighting ended in under half an hour, and Song Qingxing and Song Qingyun arrived too late to take part.

• The Yulong Cultivation World prepared its warships and battle formations as the Demonic Tide approached, and Hou Yu charged ahead to confront two Fourth-Tier Demon Slaves.
• The warships and Nine Profound Gate cultivators attacked the Demonic Tide, using coordinated volleys and battle formations to contain and slaughter Demon Slaves.
• Chi Li entered the fight and used his spear and Golden Crow flames to cut through the Demonic Tide and hunt Third-Tier Demon Slaves.
• The Fourth-Tier Demon Slaves called for reinforcements, and Hou Yu fought four of them until Hua Yan descended and killed one with her Great Divine Ability [Nine Yin Ghost Hand].
• Hou Yu destroyed the wounded Fourth-Tier Demon Slave, while Hua Yan used [Seal and Sever Heaven and Earth] against the remaining three.
• Song Qingxing and Song Qingyun reached the Nine Profound Gate after the battle had already ended.

Hua Yan and Chi Li burned the Demon Slaves on the Main Battlefield, while the arrival of Song Qingyun revealed a growing threat from stronger Demon Slaves. After the Abyss was sealed, Song Changsheng learned that the Imperial Seal had vanished into a mysterious fissure and that the search party had become trapped inside.

• Hua Yan froze the Demon Slaves as Chi Li used Solar True Fire to burn nearly a hundred thousand of them, and they met Song Qingxing and Song Qingyun at the battlefield.
• Song Qingyun introduced himself as Song Changsheng’s son and gave Hua Yan and Chi Li Crystal Pendants that could trap targets in dreams and bypass most Sea of Consciousness Restrictions.
• Chi Li explained that fourth-rank Demon Slaves had appeared, and Song Qingyun urged the group to target large Demon Dens before the creatures could grow stronger.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei and Song Changsheng sealed the Abyss, and Thunder Elephant True Monarch gave Song Changsheng a Jade Pendant that allowed him to pass through the seal once.
• Yi Tianzheng learned that Grandmaster Xuanlei had helped kill Xiaokun and capture Gao Yu, but the Imperial Seal and Human King Sword collided and opened a vast fissure that swallowed the Imperial Seal.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei said the search party had entered the fissure to find the Imperial Seal and had become trapped inside.

Thunder Elephant True Monarch and Grandmaster Xuanlei recounted how the [Imperial Seal] and [Human King Sword] had revealed a strange Void Land and an immense metal net, but Song Changsheng advised against investigating it again. Grandmaster Xuanlei assigned the leaders to suppress the devil disaster, and Song Changsheng began clearing the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World while seeking a way to save people carrying dormant Demonic Qi.

• Thunder Elephant True Monarch and Grandmaster Xuanlei told Song Changsheng that they had become lost in a lawless Void Land, seen a boundless metal net, and been expelled after the two treasures of Human Dao Luck collided.
• Song Changsheng and Yi Tianzheng urged Thunder Elephant True Monarch not to risk entering the Void Land again, and Thunder Elephant True Monarch agreed to postpone another attempt.
• Yi Tianzheng reported that the Dazhen Immortal Dynasty planned to send people, while Grandmaster Xuanlei insisted they use the devil disaster to demand support from them.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei assigned himself, Yi Tianzheng, and Kan Ze to the Central Region, Song Changsheng to the Southwest, and Ji Shinian to the southeast before ordering everyone to gather at Myriad Manifestations Mountain.
• Song Changsheng redistributed the Southwest Alliance's forces, then personally began clearing the Demon Slaves in the devastated Lu Kingdom Cultivation World.
• Song Changsheng decided not to merge the Lu Kingdom Cultivation World with its neighbors and realized the Demon Subduing Hall might help treat people with dormant Demonic Qi.

Song Changsheng learned from Wang Zaixing that the Demonic Hall believed a fifth-tier [Merfolk Tear] could cleanse demonic pollution, and he brought one to Myriad Manifestations Palace for verification. After Grandmaster Xuanlei confirmed it was genuine, the group agreed to test a medicinal powder made from it and distribute effective doses at low cost.

• Song Changsheng consulted Wang Zaixing, who explained that demonic blood spread through the environment and Spirit Veins and shared the Demon Subduing Hall’s theory that a high-rank [Merfolk Tear] could counter it.
• Wang Zaixing said the Demon Subduing Hall’s headquarters had promised to send an envoy and investigate a solution, but offered no arrival date.
• Song Changsheng realized he already possessed a fifth-tier [Merfolk Tear] given to him by Kongsang Lingxi and decided to use it to test Wang Zaixing’s proposal.
• After Grandmaster Xuanlei and the other True Lords cleared the scattered Demonic Calamities, Song Changsheng arrived at Myriad Manifestations Palace with the [Merfolk Tear] and proposed using it to purify demonic qi.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei confirmed the [Merfolk Tear] was genuine and untampered, and the group discussed testing its spring water and refining it into medicinal powder.
• Yi Tianzheng approved selling the powder for one Low-Grade Spirit Stone per portion, with merits as an alternative payment.

Song Qingyun returned to Vast Peak after two hundred years away and was formally welcomed by the Song Clan as Zhuang Yuechan’s adopted son. He learned that Song Qingli had died while he was gone, and was left grieving at her tomb.

• Song Youfu learned that the Alliance had sold a million packets of Demon-Repelling Powder in a day and urged the Song Clan to recruit cultivators displaced by the war.
• Song Youfu asked Song Youlin about the missing reports from Ling Xiao and Dong Hua, then saw the casualty records from the recent battles.
• Song Qingyun returned to Vast Peak, greeted Song Qingxi and the elders, and paid his respects to his family.
• Zhuang Yuechan publicly acknowledged Song Qingyun as her eldest adopted son, and Song Luzhou led the elders in recognizing him as Young Master.
• Song Qingyun asked about Song Qingli, and Song Qingxi took him to her grave and told him she had died three years after he disappeared.
• Song Qingyun remained at Song Qingli’s tomb as Song Qingxi left him alone to grieve.

Song Qingyun returned to Song Qingli’s room and found her final letter, learning that she had waited for him until her death. As the Borderlands prepared for a gathering of powerful factions amid efforts to contain demonic contamination, Yi Tianzheng explained that the Eight Directions Pavilion had supported Myriad Manifestations Palace.

• Song Qingyun opened Song Qingli’s sealed room, read her farewell letter, and watched the fragile paper crumble into dust.
• Song Qingyun gathered the letter’s remains and grieved that Song Qingli had died without receiving his answer.
• Song Changsheng told Yi Tianzheng that Demon Subduing Hall’s envoys would arrive with a way to cleanse Demonic Blood corruption, while Shadow Pavilion would also send people.
• Yi Tianzheng explained that Shadow Pavilion’s past purge had spread Demonic Qi and that Central Continent forces were investigating the danger as envoys prepared to attend Grandmaster Xuanlei’s ceremony.
• Song Changsheng asked about the upper sects supporting the Borderlands, and Yi Tianzheng revealed that the Eight Directions Pavilion had backed Myriad Manifestations Palace’s founding before their contact faded.

Song Changsheng learned that a hidden Deity Transformation Supreme had intervened in the aftermath of the decisive battle, then prepared for Grandmaster Xuanlei’s Supreme ceremony. Supreme Jingxuan of the Demon Subduing Hall arrived with Guying of the Shadow Pavilion and took Song Changsheng to the Southwest Alliance, where she declared that branch hall master Wang Zaixing had rendered merit.

• Yi Tianzheng explained that an unknown Supreme had stopped nearby cultivators from seizing Gao Yu’s Treasures of Human Dao Luck, and Song Changsheng agreed to help oversee the ceremony preparations.
• Hua Yan returned to Great Gan after helping suppress a Demonic Tide and learned that her master, True Lord Longxiang, was rebuilding his physical body at the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Supreme Jingxuan, the Demon Subduing Hall’s Right Protector, and Guying of the Shadow Pavilion arrived at Myriad Manifestations Mountain and asked to investigate the demonic situation without delay.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei assigned Song Changsheng to accompany Supreme Jingxuan to the Southwest Alliance, and the three traveled through a Spatial Tunnel to the Demon Subduing Hall branch in the Great Qi Cultivation World.
• Wang Zaixing and the branch hall elders knelt to greet Supreme Jingxuan, who told the trembling hall master that he had rendered merit.

Supreme Jingxuan examined the Borderlands’ methods for suppressing the Demonic Calamity and ordered Song Changsheng to take her to the Abyss. There, True Lord Guying revealed Shadow Pavilion’s hunt for Xu Miaoyin’s pursuer, Youying, and gave Song Changsheng a jade tablet containing Youying’s wanted information.

• Supreme Jingxuan praised Demon Subduing Hall’s efforts, examined its collected samples, and questioned Wang Zaixing about how Song Changsheng’s Demon-Repelling Powder had expelled Demonic Qi.
• Supreme Jingxuan concluded that the powder depended on a rare fifth-rank Merfolk Tear and ordered Song Changsheng to take her to the Abyss.
• True Lord Guying recalled Song Changsheng’s rise and warned him to guard against hidden enemies before revealing that Xu Miaoyin’s identity had come to Shadow Pavilion’s attention.
• True Lord Guying recounted how Youying’s son had pursued Xia Wanyun and Xu Yunhe, then said Youying had fled after learning Shadow Pavilion planned to punish him.
• True Lord Guying gave Song Changsheng a jade tablet with Youying’s wanted information and bounty, and Song Changsheng accepted it while recognizing Guying’s implied request to help hunt him.

Song Changsheng agreed to work with True Lord Guying to hunt Youying in exchange for the Shadow Pavilion’s intelligence, while Supreme Jingxuan entrusted him with monitoring the Abyss. Jingxuan then used a Jade Purifying Bottle to turn a vast quantity of spiritual liquid into rain, beginning to purify the Borderlands.

• True Lord Guying gave Song Changsheng the Shadow Pavilion’s Wanted Order for Youying, and Song accepted the task to protect Xu Miaoyin.
• Song Changsheng negotiated for intelligence support, and True Lord Guying agreed to provide the Shadow Pavilion’s information in return for help eliminating Youying.
• Supreme Jingxuan placed a detection barrier around the Abyss entrance, gave Song Changsheng two command arrows, and assigned him to monitor the site.
• Supreme Jingxuan sent True Lord Guying to the Myriad Manifestations Palace and explained that Merfolk Tear spiritual liquid could purify land contaminated by Demonic Blood.
• Supreme Jingxuan summoned vast clouds, poured spiritual liquid into a Jade Purifying Bottle, and caused cleansing rain to fall across the Borderlands.

Song Changsheng witnessed Supreme Jingxuan’s rain cleanse Demonic Qi and restore the lands damaged by the Demonic Calamity, then discussed the wider threats facing the Borderlands with True Lord Guying and Yi Tianzheng. As Supreme Jingxuan returned, Song Changsheng accepted an invitation to a Shadow Pavilion trade fair and grew uneasy about the secrets behind a ban on Nine Heavens Secret Treasures.

• Supreme Jingxuan’s rain spread across the Borderlands, purifying Demonic Qi and healing land scarred by demonic blood.
• Song Changsheng learned from Song Qingxi that the rain had reached several cultivation worlds, while True Lord Guying explained the Demon Subduing Hall’s history and Myriad Manifestations Palace’s swift contribution of resources.
• Song Changsheng returned to Myriad Manifestations Palace with True Lord Guying and warned Yi Tianzheng that the Borderlands still faced threats from surviving remnants of the Heavenly Fire Cult and Gu Immortal Sect.
• Song Changsheng asked True Lord Guying about the prohibition on Nine Heavens Secret Treasures, but Guying said the matter was restricted and details were unknown to him.
• True Lord Guying invited Song Changsheng to a Shadow Pavilion trade fair where goods would be exchanged for Law Essence, and mentioned that someone from Qiaogong Pavilion would attend.
• Song Changsheng saw Supreme Jingxuan return as the rain clouds approached.

After the Borderlands’ victory, Grandmaster Xuanlei told Supreme Jingxuan that Myriad Manifestations Palace would demand resources for a teleportation corridor at the Supreme Ceremony, threatening a northern expedition if the other powers refused. Song Changsheng then traveled to the East Sea to find Xu Miaoyin and investigate the missing Blood Soul Demonic Sect, but Song Jingxiu’s map left him alarmed about her whereabouts.

• Grandmaster Xuanlei proposed building a long-distance teleportation corridor and said the Borderlands might launch a northern expedition if other powers refused to fund it.
• Supreme Jingxuan agreed to attend the Supreme Ceremony without intervening, and Grandmaster Xuanlei accepted the spiritual fluids left from the rain-summoning.
• Song Changsheng accepted Thunder Elephant True Monarch’s task to find the Blood Soul Demonic Sect and bring Ling Xiao and the others back.
• Song Changsheng visited the Wind Whisper Hall branch in Lin Hai City, praised Song Jingxiu’s work, and promised to arrange for him to return to the clan and enter seclusion.
• Song Jingxiu said Xu Miaoyin was likely clearing out surviving Sea Race in the area he marked on a sea chart, and Song Changsheng’s expression turned grave.

Song Youping’s fleet was attacked by True Lord Youying, but Xu Miaoyin’s hidden power broke his attack and wounded him. As True Lord Youying prepared to strike again, an unknown force answered with a powerful bolt of lightning.

• Song Youping led the fleet in destroying a small Sea Race force while Song Jingxiao and Xu Miaoyin fought on the battlefield.
• Song Youping sensed danger, and Xu Miaoyin said she felt someone watching her, so he ordered the fleet to withdraw.
• True Lord Youying stopped the warships with a Law Hand and targeted Xu Miaoyin, but a force within her split the attack and left her unconscious.
• True Lord Youying decided to kill the fleet despite the injury Xu Miaoyin’s power inflicted on him.
• Dark clouds gathered overhead, and an azure thunderbolt struck near True Lord Youying, who fled a thousand li and demanded to know who had attacked him.

Song Changsheng arrived as True Lord Youying attacked the fleet to kill Xu Miaoyin, and trapped him in a spatial cage. Youying unleashed the Human King Sword to break free and sent it flying toward Xu Miaoyin as he escaped.

• Song Changsheng sensed a Nascent Soul battle and rushed toward the fleet, where he found True Lord Youying preparing to strike it.
• Song Changsheng attacked Youying with thunder and used the Heavenly Dao Tree to expose and imprison him.
• Youying drew out the rusted Bronze Broken Sword, which Song Changsheng recognized as the Human King Sword.
• Youying unleashed the sword’s Power of Luck, and its strike shattered Song Changsheng’s Golden Lotus barrier and broke the spatial cage.
• Youying sent the Human King Sword toward Xu Miaoyin’s warship and tore through space to flee.

Song Changsheng saved Xu Miaoyin and pursued True Lord Youying with an avatar while Thunder Elephant True Monarch and Bai Wuyou joined the chase. They defeated Youying and captured his Nascent Soul, leaving Song Changsheng with a chance to question him about the [Human King Sword].

• Song Changsheng used [Thousand Shadow Tracing] to stop the Human King Broken Sword from striking the warship while his avatar pursued True Lord Youying through a Spatial Rift.
• Song Changsheng confirmed Xu Miaoyin was alive, learned that she had fought Youying, and altered the memories of those who had witnessed her power.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch arrived, and he and Song Changsheng pursued Youying as Bai Wuyou intercepted him above the East Sea.
• True Lord Youying fought Bai Wuyou, then realized Song Changsheng's pursuer was an avatar just as Song Changsheng and Thunder Elephant True Monarch arrived to surround him.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch defeated Youying and destroyed his physical body, but spared his Nascent Soul at Bai Wuyou's request and Song Changsheng's request to question him about the [Human King Sword].

Song Changsheng investigated the Black Magatama in Xu Miaoyin’s mudball palace after saving her from True Lord Youying, then learned that she had called on it for help herself. The magatama’s origins remained unknown, and Song Changsheng was left considering what Xu Miaoyin’s ability to summon its power might mean.

• Song Changsheng assured Bai Wuyou that Thunder Elephant True Monarch would return True Lord Youying’s Nascent Soul, then invited Bai to attend the Supreme Ceremony at Myriad Manifestations Mountain.
• Song Changsheng returned to the warship, confirmed Youying had been killed, and ordered Song Youping to keep Xu Miaoyin’s connection to the attack secret.
• Song Changsheng examined Xu Miaoyin’s mudball palace, restrained the growth of her divine soul, and found a Black Magatama bearing unfamiliar inscriptions.
• Xu Miaoyin woke and tearfully reunited with Song Changsheng, then asked whether her parents could return after Youying’s death; Song Changsheng concealed that they had entered the Abyss.
• Song Changsheng asked Xu Miaoyin how she had activated the magatama, and she explained that she had prayed to it while Youying froze space, drawing out her strength before she lost consciousness.

Song Changsheng returned to the Gemini Islands and began handling the East Sea Alliance’s postwar affairs. He weighed competing proposals for dealing with hidden spoils and unpaid pensions, then reminded Song Youlin that sufficient strength could expose any secret.

• Song Changsheng tore open a Spatial Tunnel and arrived at the Gemini Islands, where over a hundred thousand cultivators gathered to pay respects to True Lord Zixu.
• Song Youlin welcomed Song Changsheng to the Garrison Manor and gave him the battle report, which showed limited casualties but heavy resource costs and meager spoils.
• Song Youlin explained that the East Sea Alliance could not pay all required pensions because it lacked breakthrough treasures, while some elders wanted to reduce pensions and revise battle merits after cultivators hid spoils.
• Song Youlin proposed paying the pensions in full, changing how Rogue Cultivators served in future wars, and using borrowed family resources to cover the current shortfall.
• Song Youlin suggested Song Changsheng use a Heart-Questioning Array to expose those hiding spoils, and Song Changsheng told him that sufficient strength left no secrets concealed.

Song Changsheng gave a sermon on White Dragon Peak, using it to reward East Sea Alliance cultivators and expose those who had hidden spoils of war. He then learned that the Blood Soul Demonic Sect had vanished from its lair, and set out to investigate with Ling Xiao.

• Song Changsheng announced a sermon for East Sea Alliance cultivators, and the news spread across the archipelago.
• More than a hundred thousand cultivators attended as Song Changsheng explained the Five-Element Golden Core Path and One-Origin Golden Core Path, hoping to widen access to cultivation knowledge.
• Song Changsheng demanded that cultivators who had hidden spoils of war confess by midnight the next day or die, and many handed over what they had kept.
• Song Youlin informed Song Changsheng that Ling Xiao and Donghua had returned, so Song Changsheng ended the sermon and summoned them.
• Ling Xiao and Donghua reported that the Blood Soul Demonic Sect's fleet had vanished through sea fog, leaving behind an abandoned Floating Island lair, and suspected a Nascent Soul True Lord supported the sect.
• Song Changsheng decided to inspect the lair himself, and Ling Xiao offered to accompany him.

Song Changsheng survived a trap left by the Blood Soul Demonic Sect and recovered a faint trace of spatial aura, which he planned to bring to Grandmaster Xuanlei. He returned to Myriad Manifestations Mountain for the coming Supreme Ceremony and learned that True Lord Qingxuan and True Lord Miaohua had arrived.

• Song Changsheng found a hidden spatial rift on the deserted island and triggered the Blood Soul Demonic Sect's explosive trap, but escaped the spatial black hole with a faint thread of aura.
• Song Changsheng told Ling Xiao that the trap had been aimed at him and resolved to repay its mastermind, while planning to ask Grandmaster Xuanlei to trace the aura.
• Song Changsheng and Ling Xiao returned to Myriad Manifestations Mountain, where Yi Tianzheng asked about the disturbance in the East Sea.
• Yi Tianzheng identified the arriving guests as True Lord Qingxuan and True Lord Miaohua of the Great Zhou Qu Clan, and Song Changsheng became interested in meeting the Qu Clan.

Yi Tianzheng recounted the Qu Clan’s rise and decline, prompting Song Changsheng to consider the Song Clan’s future and reaffirm his resolve. He then revealed the Blood Soul Demonic Sect’s interest in the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins, before visitors arrived at Myriad Manifestations Mountain, including Song Changsheng’s old acquaintance Xia Qingxue.

• Yi Tianzheng explained how Supreme Tianlin’s death, failed breakthroughs, and Jin Wuqian’s rebellion weakened the Qu Clan, while Song Changsheng reflected on the risks facing his own clan and resolved to follow Butu Sect’s example.
• Yi Tianzheng revealed that Myriad Manifestations Palace had once considered killing Song Changsheng as a potential threat, but chose to support him with the Nascent Soul Formation Pill instead.
• Song Changsheng told Yi Tianzheng that the Blood Soul Demonic Sect had taken Ye Shinu and might seek the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins after its Sect Master reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Yi Tianzheng and Song Changsheng sensed the arrival of True Monarch Yingyue of the Array Dao Academy and True Monarch Xuanzhen of the Taixuan Dao Sect.
• Song Changsheng recognized Xia Qingxue among the Taixuan Dao Sect’s party, and he and Yi Tianzheng went forward to meet the visitors.