Chapter Summaries

Song Changsheng led the Borderlands’ fleet on its East Sea expedition, while arranging the clan’s logistics and investigating Minggong Pavilion’s hidden motives. He and Zhuang Yuechan joined the Myriad Manifestations Palace’s flagship to search for the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins, where the two Patriarchs had already gone ahead.

• Song Changsheng led the fleet through a Spatial Tunnel toward the East Sea, and the Song Clan’s Star-Slaying joined as its flagship.
• Song Youping left Song Youfu to manage the Garrison Manor’s logistics and prepare for the expedition’s second force.
• Sikong Han asked to let Minggong Pavilion seize an island independently, and Song Changsheng agreed while warning him to choose carefully.
• Song Changsheng tasked Song Qingyun with secretly watching Minggong Pavilion, then left the fleet’s command to Song Qingxing and Song Youfu.
• Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan met Grandmaster Xuanlei and the Myriad Manifestations Palace’s cultivators aboard the Sea Emperor to search for the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins.
• Hua Yan reported that the two Patriarchs had gone ahead to investigate, and two streaks of lightning appeared on the deck.

Song Changsheng joined the expedition to sweep the East Sea, using the Wuji Demon-Suppressing Bell to slaughter Sea Demons as the Sky Battleship searched the waters. After half a year, Grandmaster Xuanlei detected traces of the Blood Soul Demonic Sect and led Thunder Elephant True Monarch to investigate, leaving Song Changsheng to guard the ship.

• Mu Guibai arrived and revealed that he had knocked on the gate of the Musical Rhythm Dao after a period of seclusion.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch ordered the Sky Battleship to search the sea in stages and clear out Sea Race forces along the route.
• Song Changsheng used the Wuji Demon-Suppressing Bell to slaughter thousands of Sea Demons and continued clearing areas whenever the ship stopped.
• The expedition searched in one direction for half a year, while the Sea Race's powerful figures remained conspicuously absent.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei sensed traces of the Blood Soul Demonic Sect nearby and left with Thunder Elephant True Monarch to investigate, while Song Changsheng stayed to guard the Sky Battleship.

Song Changsheng and the others waited at the divination site until a storm revealed the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins, where they discovered traces of Tribulation Qi and captured the Blood Soul Demonic Sect's survivors. After Grandmaster Xuanlei searched the Sect Master's soul, they learned the demonic cultivator had not yet explored the ruins in depth.

• Baili Yuntu, Liu Yunxuan, Song Changsheng, and the others debated where the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins might be hidden, and Grandmaster Xuanlei told them to wait for the right time.
• After two months, a fierce storm made a vast island appear at sea, and Grandmaster Xuanlei confirmed that it was the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins.
• Song Changsheng and the others examined the ruins, spotted a damaged area leaking Tribulation Qi, and heard that Thunder Elephant True Monarch was battling the Blood Soul Demonic Sect's cultivators.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch returned with Yin Chou, You Lianyue, and the Blood Soul Demonic Sect's captured Nascent Soul Sect Master.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei searched the Sect Master's soul and learned that he had recently reached Nascent Soul and had not yet explored the ruins in depth.

Grandmaster Xuanlei explained how the Blood Soul Demonic Sect discovered the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins and explored them at great cost. At the southern breach, he absorbed the lingering Tribulation Qi to cultivate, and Song Changsheng followed his example, leaving Thunder Elephant True Monarch wondering whether he could do the same.

• Grandmaster Xuanlei explained that Zong Tianli and the Blood Soul Demonic Sect had found the ruins through the Sea Yaksha Clan and entered them during natural thunderstorms.
• He said the sect had lost many cultivators exploring the southern pill workshop breach, while Zong Tianli had obtained Qingshen Pills that helped him reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei descended to the breach, confirmed that Tribulation Qi suited him, and absorbed it through his acupoints.
• Song Changsheng took a wisp of Tribulation Qi and used his Immeasurable Dao Tree’s Lightning Dao flower to absorb it, despite Thunder Elephant True Monarch’s warning.
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch, who also cultivated the Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Dao, began considering whether he could absorb the Tribulation Qi himself.

Song Changsheng and Thunder Elephant True Monarch absorbed Tribulation Qi and gained new insights, while Song Changsheng condensed his second Dao Fruit. After Grandmaster Xuanlei cleared a path through the ruins, the group began exploring the Treasure Bottle Sect, where Song Changsheng found an empty Alchemy Hall and a hidden barrier.

• Thunder Elephant True Monarch followed Song Changsheng and Grandmaster Xuanlei in cautiously absorbing Tribulation Qi, and Song Changsheng condensed his [Lightning Tribulation Dao Fruit].
• Thunder Elephant True Monarch completed his breakthrough in understanding, and he and Song Changsheng summoned the others aboard the Sea Emperor Battleship.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei divided the ruins into exploration areas, warned everyone about the Tribulation Qi and the island's restrictions, and set out for the Central Region.
• Song Changsheng gave Sword Talismans to his companions and led the eastern exploration team into the ruins, where they split up to search separate areas.
• Song Changsheng explored a well-preserved Alchemy Hall, found a damaged Fifth-Tier High Grade Alchemy Furnace but no remains, and noticed another barrier in the rear hall.

Song Changsheng and Zhuang Yuechan searched the Treasure Bottle Sect’s Alchemy Hall and Spirit Fields for surviving treasures. Zhuang Yuechan found valuable spirit grain, fourth-tier Spirit Plants, and a Nine Profound Jade Longevity Plum, while Song Changsheng opened a hidden vault and feared its stored herbs had spoiled.

• Song Changsheng collected a fifth-tier Alchemist’s pill-refining notes and broke through the formation concealing a door in the Alchemy Hall.
• Zhuang Yuechan found medicinal mud and gathered roughly a thousand surviving grains of unusual spiritual rice from the island’s Spirit Fields.
• Zhuang Yuechan broke into indoor Spirit Fields and collected surviving fourth-tier Spirit Plants, including flowers containing a trace of the Law of Fire.
• Zhuang Yuechan discovered a Nine Profound Jade Longevity Plum tree bearing six fruits and recognized its immense value as a life-extending treasure.
• Song Changsheng opened the hidden vault and found its Spirit Gathering Array had failed, leaving him worried that the stored spiritual herbs had spoiled.

Song Changsheng and Grandmaster Xuanlei discovered the Xuantian Secret Mirror and a fifth-rank Sky Battleship in the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins, but the treasure’s emergence drew the Sea Race’s Demon Sovereigns. As Song Changsheng evacuated the group through a Spatial Tunnel, two powerful pursuers caught up, leaving him preparing for battle.

• Song Changsheng found a surviving bottle of Qingshen Pills and collected alchemy treasures while exploring the Treasure Bottle Sect ruins with Thunder Elephant True Monarch.
• Grandmaster Xuanlei discovered and claimed the Xuantian Secret Mirror, a damaged Dao Artifact containing the Xuantian Secret Realm.
• The group found a damaged fifth-rank Sky Battleship and prepared to leave as the Sea Race’s Demon Sovereigns arrived near the ruins.
• Song Changsheng escorted the group and the Sea Emperor through a Spatial Tunnel while Grandmaster Xuanlei and Thunder Elephant True Monarch confronted the Sea Race.
• The tunnel nearly collapsed from the clash between supreme powerhouses, and Caidie warned Song Changsheng that two powerful auras were pursuing them.

Grandmaster Xuanlei and Thunder Elephant True Monarch fought the Sea Race while Song Changsheng sent his companions ahead and battled Demon Lords Canglang and Fanyun. Song Changsheng used his Dao Fruit divine abilities to withstand their attacks, then lured them into the sky and struck with a golden bell and a great halberd.

• Thunder Elephant True Monarch confronted five Sea Race Demon Lords while Grandmaster Xuanlei faced a Demon Sovereign above the Nine Heavens.
• Song Changsheng ordered Baili Yuntu and the others to flee toward the Borderlands, then destroyed a Spatial Tunnel and swept himself and two pursuing Sea Race True Lords into the Boundless Void.
• Song Changsheng escaped the Boundless Void with the Immeasurable Dao Tree and used Void-Reality Boundless to negate Demon Lord Canglang's attack.
• Demon Lord Fanyun joined Canglang, and the two tried to break Song Changsheng's domain before he summoned his Nascent Soul Dharma Image and struck them with the Great Dao of Force.
• Song Changsheng agreed to fight the two Demon Lords in the sky, where he summoned a golden bell and prepared to cleave with a great halberd.

Song Changsheng used the Wuji Demon-Suppressing Bell and his divine abilities to trap and kill Demon Lord Canglang while Demon Lord Fanyun struggled to break through his defenses. Fanyun fled after Canglang fell, leaving Song Changsheng to wonder whether Zhuang Yuechan and the others had escaped safely.

• Song Changsheng caught Demon Lord Canglang and Demon Lord Fanyun off guard with the Wuji Demon-Suppressing Bell and struck at them with the Desolate Heaven Halberd.
• Demon Lord Fanyun blocked the halberd with his tortoise shell, but Song Changsheng used World in the Palm and Drawing a Circle as a Prison to isolate Canglang in a spatial cage.
• Song Changsheng used the Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Diagram to hold Fanyun back, then trapped Canglang with Void-Reality Boundless and rendered his attacks ineffective.
• Song Changsheng and his ferocious beasts wounded Canglang, and he killed the demon lord with the Desolate Heaven Halberd.
• Demon Lord Fanyun unleashed a powerful bloodlight attack, but when the spatial cage disappeared and Canglang’s corpse was revealed, he fled through a Spatial Tunnel.
• Song Changsheng sent thunder after Fanyun but abandoned the pursuit and worried about whether Zhuang Yuechan and the others had escaped.