Chapter Summaries

At the Southwest Exchange Meeting, Song Youlin fought Mei Changfeng in a fierce points match, while Song Changsheng and the visiting True Lords weighed the Borderlands’ future and the Song Clan’s rising strength. Song Youlin won but was wounded, and his use of a Chen Clan art drew attention from the assembled experts.

• True Lord Yan Hun praised the Borderlands’ flourishing Immortal Dao and hinted that powerful factions were scheming to cull and replace rising talents, while Song Changsheng silently vowed to settle the debt when he had enough strength.
• Song Youlin unleashed the minor divine abilities Heavenly River and Mountain Overturning Seal, but Mei Changfeng evaded both with his exceptional swordsmanship and movement technique.
• Song Qingxing judged that Mei Changfeng lacked the precision to overcome Song Youlin’s steady defenses, while Mei Changfeng hesitated over whether to use a costly trump card.
• Mei Changfeng used Unity of Man and Sword and pierced Song Youlin’s shoulder, but Song Youlin counterattacked with Xun Wind Finger and pierced Mei Changfeng’s chest, securing the match.
• True Lord Qianlian recognized Song Youlin’s Flowers Bloom in an Instant as an art of the destroyed Eastern Heaven Chen Clan, and Song Changsheng confirmed that he had obtained it during a visit to the Eastern Heaven Cultivation World.

Song Changsheng’s clan dominated the Exchange Meeting’s lower arenas while Song Youlin continued challenging opponents, but Song Xingyuan drew the greatest attention by building an overwhelming lead in the Foundation Establishment rankings. Song Changsheng arranged for Paper Kites to project the Training Grounds, and the crowd finally saw the astonishingly young leader.

• Song Youlin thanked Mei Changfeng for the match, then issued another challenge after learning he had twelve points.
• Song Clan cultivators of the Jing and Ming generations excelled across the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refinement arenas as competitors fought to earn points.
• The crowd marveled that Song Xingyuan had won forty-eight matches in three hours and speculated about his strength and origins.
• After spectators called for a view of the contests, Song Changsheng ordered the clan to deploy Paper Kites fitted with Recording Orbs above the Training Grounds.
• The projections revealed Song Xingyuan, leaving the crowd stunned by how young he looked.

At the Exchange Meeting, Song Changsheng advised Cheng Junlin to embrace his talent for the Soul Dao without abandoning his body, then received the Great Profound Soul Suppressing Scripture from True Lord Yan Hun. He learned that Heavenly Soul Palace believed Junlin was born in response to The Calamity and might become the Soul Race’s Undertaker, then raised a toast to the gathered cultivators.

• Song Xingyuan’s battle prowess impressed the cultivators watching the Exchange Meeting projection.
• Song Changsheng examined Cheng Junlin and warned that his Spiritual Tide could destroy his body when he reached the Purple Palace Stage.
• Cheng Junlin told Song Changsheng he wanted to keep his physical body and guard the Borderlands rather than become a pure Soul Cultivator.
• Song Changsheng urged Cheng Junlin to study the Soul Dao and said he would introduce him to people who could help him control the Spiritual Tide.
• True Lord Yan Hun gave Song Changsheng the Great Profound Soul Suppressing Scripture in exchange for his advice to Cheng Junlin.
• True Lord Yan Hun revealed that Heavenly Soul Palace’s prophecy identified Cheng Junlin as a key variable in The Calamity, and Song Changsheng proposed that he might be the Soul Race’s Undertaker.

Song Changsheng used the exchange meeting to discuss the Dao with other Nascent Soul True Lords while the rankings shifted during the final hours of the points competition. Qian Jiujin tied Song Youlin for first place, then declined to challenge again after defeating Chen Rulong, leaving Song Qingyun intrigued by his choice.

• Song Changsheng extended the points competition to seven days and six nights and exchanged insights with the attending True Lords.
• Song Xingyuan led the Foundation Establishment rankings, Shen Yujiao held second place, and Li Chunyang briefly took first on the Qi Refinement ranking.
• As the competition neared its end, Song Youlin chose to conserve his strength rather than challenge Jian Jiuge, while Qian Jiujin continued seeking points.
• Qian Jiujin defeated Chen Rulong with a single strike of the Great Divine Ability [Dragon Subduing Seal], tying Song Youlin's score.
• Qian Jiujin declined to issue another challenge, and Song Qingyun found his decision interesting.

Qian Jiujin gave up first place in the Purple Mansion Ranking to win the Song Clan’s favor, while the Exchange Meeting’s results displayed the clan’s overwhelming talent and strength. Song Changsheng announced his teachings and the upcoming Arena Competition, which then began beneath the attention of nearly ten million cultivators.

• Qian Jiujin yielded the Purple Mansion Ranking’s top spot because he hoped to align the Blazing Sun Sect with the rising Song Clan.
• Song Qingxi announced the Exchange Meeting rankings, revealing the Song Clan’s dominance in the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment rankings and strong results across the Hundred Arts.
• Song Changsheng told the gathered cultivators that Li Chunyang had joined the Song Clan only a little over a year earlier, after being found beneath Myriad Manifestations Mountain.
• Song Changsheng announced that he would expound the Five-Element Golden Core Path for three days and discuss the Dao with the gathered cultivators for three months after the Arena Competition.
• After three days of Song Changsheng’s Dao voice, the Arena Competition began, with Song Youlin, Chi Li, and Song Muze among the Song Clan cultivators expected to contend for the top places.

Song Changsheng’s Arena Competition began, with cultivators fighting for three Golden Core Forming Pills and a chance to advance. Song Youfu stunned the crowd by defeating Du Chong with a feathered arrow launched without a bow, though he was badly injured himself.

• Zhuang Yuechan asked Niu Dazhuang and Yin Shang to join the Arena Competition, but both declined, while the chapter explained Song Changsheng’s reasons for offering three Golden Core Forming Pills as prizes.
• Chi Li and Song Youlin drew their lots and learned they would not meet in the first round; sixteen cultivators entered the competition.
• Song Muze faced Jian Jiuge, considered whether to injure him to help the Song Clan, and chose to fight him openly.
• Song Youlin, Chi Li, Qian Jiujin, and Ye Hanyan advanced to the final eight, alongside Xiao Cheng and Mu Huayun.
• Song Youfu endured Du Chong’s relentless assault, then unleashed a concealed feathered arrow that pierced Du Chong and pinned him to the arena, shocking the watching cultivators.

Song Youfu advanced to the top eight after defeating Du Chong, then lost to Qian Jiujin after enduring a brutal match that helped him absorb Wujie's medicinal soup and heal. The next bracket draws gave Song Youfu a bye in the Loser's Bracket, while Song Youlin and Jian Jiuge continued advancing in the Winner's Bracket.

• Song Youfu defeated Du Chong, and Cang Manyun confirmed his advancement to the top eight.
• Jian Jiuge defeated Song Muze, while Wujie treated Song Youfu's injuries with bitter medicinal soup before the next round.
• Song Youfu drew Qian Jiujin and fought on despite his injuries; Qian Jiujin defeated him after Song Youfu absorbed the medicine's healing effects.
• Song Youlin and Jian Jiuge won their Winner's Bracket matches, while Qian Jiujin and Chi Li fell into the Loser's Bracket; Mu Huayun withdrew after Chi Li injured him.
• The Loser's Bracket draw gave Song Youfu a bye, while Chi Li faced Xiao Cheng and Qian Jiujin faced Ye Hanyan.

At Vast Peak, True Lord Yan Hun tried to recruit Xu Miaoyin into Heavenly Soul Palace, but she chose to stay with the Song Clan and accepted his divine soul ring as a gift. Meanwhile, Qian Jiujin withdrew from the title race to secure third place, leaving Song Youlin and Jian Jiuge to fight for the championship.

• Song Changsheng introduced Xu Miaoyin to True Lord Yan Hun, who offered to take her as his disciple and showed her a divine soul ring.
• Xu Miaoyin refused to leave Great Qi, but Song Changsheng insisted she keep Yan Hun's ring and gave Yan Hun a sword talisman for Junlin in return.
• Chi Li defeated Xiao Cheng at great cost, while Qian Jiujin eliminated Ye Hanyan; the exchange meeting then advanced to the winners' bracket final between Song Youlin and Jian Jiuge.
• Qian Jiujin proposed deciding third place before the championship, and Chi Li and Song Youfu withdrew, securing Qian Jiujin third place and sending Song Youlin and Jian Jiuge straight to the final.
• Qian Jiujin returned to True Lord Tianyang and asked for punishment for acting on his own, but Tianyang praised him for choosing what was worth doing.

Song Youlin defeated Jian Jiuge in the Southwest Grand Competition finals, winning the championship for the Wangyue Song Clan. The First Southwest Exchange Meeting concluded, and Song Changsheng began a three-month discussion of the Dao with the visiting cultivators.

• Song Youfu and Chi Li encouraged Song Youlin and advised him to pressure Jian Jiuge from the start.
• Song Youlin and Jian Jiuge fought fiercely, forcing Song Changsheng to create an aerial arena after they destroyed the steel one.
• Song Youlin and Jian Jiuge unleashed their Great Divine Abilities; both were injured, but Song Youlin stayed conscious while Jian Jiuge fell and was caught by Cang Manyun.
• Song Changsheng announced Song Youlin as champion, while Qian Jiujin considered how the competition had raised his standing and drawn Song Changsheng's attention.
• Song Changsheng closed the First Southwest Exchange Meeting and announced that he would discuss the [Immeasurable Grand Dao] with the visiting cultivators.

Song Changsheng’s three-month discussion of the Immeasurable Grand Dao earned the admiration of cultivators across the Human Race and helped True Lord Qingxuan glimpse a breakthrough in alchemy. After the guests departed or remained to discuss business, True Lord Nantu revealed that the Eight Directions Pavilion wanted to merge with the Wanlong Merchant Association.

• Song Changsheng answered the Nascent Soul True Lords’ questions with insights that combined their different Great Daos, and True Lord Qingxuan bowed to him for helping him see through his alchemy bottleneck.
• True Lord Qingxuan promised to refine pills for Song Changsheng without compensation, and Song Changsheng extended the discussion by three months as the assembled cultivators sought further gains.
• The Dao discussion strengthened the Song Clan’s standing in the Human Cultivation World, while True Lord Qingxuan stayed at the Myriad Manifestations Palace to pursue a breakthrough.
• Song Changsheng assigned several remaining guests to clan members and summoned True Lord Nantu to learn why the Eight Directions Pavilion had attended.
• True Lord Nantu told Song Changsheng that his pavilion intended to merge with the Wanlong Merchant Association and asked him to name his conditions.

Song Changsheng rejected Eight Directions Pavilion’s attempt to absorb Wanlong Merchant Association, insisting that the Borderlands remain open to competition, though he agreed Wanlong would withdraw gradually from the high-end market. After True Lord Nantu left, Song Changsheng received a Snake Human Race delegation whose priestess presented him with a portrait depicting his exact likeness.

• Song Changsheng refused True Lord Nantu’s merger proposal, citing Wanlong’s importance to the Borderlands and his duty to protect his allies.
• True Lord Nantu pressed Song Changsheng with offers of rare cultivation resources and warned that Wanlong could not compete with Eight Directions Pavilion’s channels.
• Song Changsheng rejected a monopoly and challenged True Lord Nantu’s implied threat, prompting the aura around them to calm.
• Song Changsheng proposed that Wanlong withdraw gradually from the high-end market, and True Lord Nantu accepted before leaving him a ten-percent discount token.
• After learning the Snake Human Race envoys had arrived, Song Changsheng ordered Elder Quan Chong to escort them to the Song Clan.
• Priestess Mo Yuan led the delegation in presenting gifts to Song Changsheng, including an embroidered portrait that looked exactly like him.

Moyuan led a Snake Human Race delegation to Song Changsheng, offering rare treasures and asking to renew an alliance with the Song Clan. Suspicious of their eagerness and the high priest’s absence, Song Changsheng sent them away while deciding to watch them and consider bringing their branch under the clan’s protection.

• Moyuan presented an ancient portrait said to foretell that Song Changsheng would become the future of the Snake Spirit Race, but Song Changsheng questioned the prophecy and threatened to search her soul.
• Moyuan displayed Weeping Blood, a blessed heart-protecting scale, Golden Pine Wood, and an Ultimate Grade Spirit Stone, revealing that her clan might control a large Spirit Stone Vein.
• Moyuan asked Song Changsheng to renew an ancient alliance with the Song Clan, and Moji explained that Moyuan was a gifted priest and candidate to succeed the high priest.
• Song Changsheng suspected that the Snake Human Race was concealing its real reasons for seeking protection and dismissed the delegation; Moyuan refused to leave.
• Song Changsheng told Song Qingyun that he would observe the delegation and might bring the Snake Human Race branch into the clan’s sphere, despite criticism over allying with an Alien Race.

Song Changsheng weighed how to deal with the alien races and sent Song Qingyun to investigate the Snow Region Barbarian tribes while he prepared to enter seclusion. He then brought Xu Miaoyin and Chi Li to the Golden Crow Sect, where he briefly revived the dying Chen Zhongfang with the Law of Life.

• Song Changsheng considered the Ancient Wu Clan and Snake Human Race valuable potential allies, but worried that using the Snow Region Barbarians against the Great Xiao Immortal Dynasty could trigger a wider war.
• Song Changsheng told Song Qingyun to take Song Qingxing to investigate the barbarian tribes and said he would enter seclusion to refine Magic Artifacts while awaiting news about the East Sea expedition.
• Song Changsheng asked Song Qingyun to bring Xu Miaoyin to meet her aunt, and encouraged Chi Li to keep advancing toward Golden Core after his defeat by Jian Jiuge.
• Song Changsheng told Xu Miaoyin that True Lord Tiangang's lifespan was nearly exhausted and took her and Chi Li to the Golden Crow Sect to see Chen Zhongfang and meet Xia Qingxue.
• Song Changsheng found Chen Zhongfang frail and near death, then used the Law of Life to restore his awareness for a brief final moment.

Song Changsheng attended Chen Zhongfang’s deathbed, accepted Pure Yang Essence for Chi Li, and helped Shi Potian resist an Inner Demon. He then brought Xu Miaoyin to meet Xia Qingxue, whose paired Magatamas triggered a dangerous yin-yang fusion that left their immortal cave in ruins.

• Chen Zhongfang told Song Changsheng about the Golden Crow Sect’s Secret Realm and gave Chi Li a drop of Pure Yang Essence before dying.
• Song Changsheng led Chi Li and Xu Miaoyin away while Su Ye and the others arranged Chen Zhongfang’s funeral.
• Shi Potian nearly succumbed to an Inner Demon, but Song Changsheng awakened him and gave him a Buddhist Scripture before sending him into seclusion.
• Xia Qingxue brought Xu Miaoyin into her immortal cave, where Song Changsheng explained that their Magatamas seemed to be a pair and might respond to being brought together.
• Xia Qingxue and Xu Miaoyin pressed their palms together and circulated their cultivation methods, while Song Changsheng helped balance their power.
• The Magatamas changed and their Tai Chi diagrams collided, unleashing yin-yang power that wrecked the immortal cave and forced Song Changsheng back.

Song Changsheng witnessed Xu Miaoyin and Xia Qingxue fuse their Magatamas, revealing a vast inheritance tied to yin and yang. After half a month, they separated, but Xia Qingxue had sacrificed her cultivation to help Xu Miaoyin break through to the Purple Mansion Mid-stage.

• The Magatamas drew Xu Miaoyin and Xia Qingxue toward merging, so Song Changsheng stopped their first attempt and warned them of the danger.
• Xu Miaoyin and Xia Qingxue chose to fuse again, transforming into a Tai Chi Diagram as Song Changsheng saw visions of the living world, the underworld, and a towering figure.
• The fused Magatamas transmitted that they were receiving an inheritance, and Song Changsheng guarded them while they remained merged for half a month.
• The Magatamas separated, and Xu Miaoyin broke through from Foundation Establishment to the Purple Mansion Mid-stage while Xia Qingxue's cultivation declined.
• Song Changsheng confronted Xu Miaoyin about drawing on Xia Qingxue's cultivation, and Xia Qingxue said the sacrifice was her decision and compensation for the years apart.

Song Changsheng learned that the Samsara Rebirth Jade could help Xu Miaoyin cultivate and protect her from Inner Demons, then watched her and Xia Qingxue demonstrate its formidable power. After arranging for Xu Miaoyin to remain at the Golden Crow Sect, he returned to Vast Peak and unlocked the next restriction on the Qingtian Sword Immortal’s light sphere, where he encountered his master’s phantom.

• Xia Qingxue explained that the Samsara Rebirth Jade could safeguard Xu Miaoyin’s soul and help her advance, but its strongest combined Secret Art required sacrificing the users’ True Spirits.
• Song Changsheng agreed to let Xu Miaoyin stay at the Golden Crow Sect with Xia Qingxue for three months at a time, and Xia Qingxue and Xu Miaoyin demonstrated a joint attack that Song Changsheng judged could rival a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.
• Song Changsheng arranged for Chi Li to stay with Xu Miaoyin, then returned to Vast Peak and learned that Peng Siying planned to lead Wanlong toward a new path.
• Song Changsheng learned that True Monarch Yingyue had begun preparations for an ultra-long-distance cross-domain Space Teleportation passage and chose not to disturb her.
• Song Changsheng entered seclusion at Cloud Reaching Hall, broke the next restriction on the Qingtian Sword Immortal’s light sphere, and bowed to the phantom that appeared as his master.

Song Changsheng met Feng Changqing, who explained the tribulation qi clinging to him and revealed the danger of a growing calamity. He left determined to strengthen himself and retrieve the mysterious item from the Abyss within ten years.

• Feng Changqing recognized Song Changsheng's chaos Nascent Soul and praised his rapid cultivation, then told him about Di Yi, an ancient genius who disappeared.
• Feng Changqing warned Song Changsheng to hide his abilities, revealed that someone around him had entered a calamity, and taught him the Demon Execution and Eye Obscuring techniques to help retrieve the item in the Abyss.
• Song Changsheng described the Yin-Yang Rebirth Emperor and the visions from his Inner Demon Tribulation, and Feng Changqing warned him not to trust what he saw or heard.
• Feng Changqing told Song Changsheng to bring the item out of the Abyss and nurture it to break the calamity, then vanished before answering Song Changsheng's remaining questions.
• Song Changsheng resolved to prepare for the Abyss, cultivate his strength, and set out within ten years if he had not found news of the Treasure Bottle Sect's ruins.

Song Changsheng fused his newly evolved Yin-Yang Void Realm with the Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram, completing a major step toward his Dao. The fusion triggered a devastating Heavenly Tribulation that the diagram survived, and a second, familiar Golden Core Lightning Tribulation began as the chapter ended.

• Song Changsheng infused chaos Qi into his Yin-Yang Dao Fruit and comprehended the essence of the Yin-Yang Great Dao through its Dao Script.
• Song Changsheng evolved a complete Yin-Yang world of laws, then planted a Dao Tree through both realms to provide vitality and connect them.
• Song Changsheng covered the Void Realm with the Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram, causing Vast Peak to shake and a Heavenly Tribulation to descend.
• The Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram endured thirty-six bolts of heavenly thunder, grew more powerful, and restored the shattered Void Realm with a trace of tribulation qi.
• After Song Changsheng took back the diagram, another tribulation cloud gathered, and he recognized it as a Golden Core Lightning Tribulation.

Song Xianming faced the Golden Core Lightning Tribulation and survived its final Heart-Questioning strike, attaining the Golden Core Realm. The Song Clan declined to hold a ceremony, and Song Xianming explained that the clan needed peace and restraint before Song Changsheng was confronted about leaving Yin'er and Li'er at the Golden Crow Sect.

• Song Changsheng identified Song Xianming as the cultivator facing the tribulation and warned the Song Clan to take shelter.
• Song Xianming endured the initial lightning bolts, then used a Flood Dragon scale shield against the fifth bolt and survived with a grave chest wound.
• After Sweet Rain healed him, Song Xianming endured three more bolts before the final strike tested his Dao Heart.
• Song Xianming's Violet Palace Furnace absorbed the Law Dao Rhyme, formed a golden pill, and carried him safely to the Golden Core Realm.
• Song Xianming rejected a Golden Core Ceremony and returned all congratulatory gifts, saying the clan needed to keep a low profile and avoid waste.
• Zhuang Yuechan questioned Song Changsheng about leaving Yin'er and Li'er at the Golden Crow Sect without telling her, and he awkwardly changed the subject.

Song Changsheng discussed the East Sea expedition and the Song Clan’s succession with Ling Xiao and Song Qingxi, then assigned Song Youfu to the East Sea Garrison Manor. Two years later, he completed the Fifth-Tier Low Grade Wuji Demon-Suppressing Bell, a weapon forged from the souls of slain Demon Kings.

• Ling Xiao told Song Changsheng that Myriad Manifestations Palace had clues to the Blood Soul Demonic Sect’s location and planned to begin the East Sea expedition ahead of schedule while he prepared to enter seclusion for a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Song Qingxi presented the expedition plan, and Song Changsheng urged her to consider becoming the next clan head after breaking through to the Golden Core Stage.
• Song Changsheng appointed Song Youfu Town Guardian Envoy of the East Sea Garrison Manor and promised to forge him a Natal Magic Tool using a White Flood Dragon’s tendon.
• After two years in the Artifact Forging Room, Song Changsheng completed the Wuji Demon-Suppressing Bell, which could grow stronger by devouring Demon Beast essence blood and souls.