Chapter Summaries

Song Qingxi checked Song Qingxing’s bloody methods as they continued their training journey, while Song Changsheng learned that Xu Yunhe had become a Foundation Establishment sword cultivator and discovered an auction item he needed. The chapter left Song Changsheng determined to earn Spirit Stones through artifact refining so he could bid on a White Tiger Skeleton.

• Song Qingxi rebuked Song Qingxing for torturing criminals, and he agreed to restrain his methods before they continued toward Liuyun Market.
• Song Changsheng learned that the One-Armed Swordsman of Bianzhou was Xu Yunhe, who had reached Foundation Establishment and comprehended Sword Intent.
• Song Changsheng searched the West Market for materials for the Five Beast Body Tempering Art but found no White Tiger Tooth, Bi Fang Feather, or Flood Dragon Scale.
• Song Qingluo told Song Changsheng that an upcoming auction would feature a Dharma Artifact and many other treasures, and Song Changsheng discovered its list included a Second-Tier White Tiger Skeleton.
• Song Changsheng decided to return to artifact refining to earn enough Spirit Stones to bid on the White Tiger Skeleton.

Song Changsheng began taking artifact-forging commissions in Sunset City while trying to understand Niu Dazhuang’s hostility toward the Song Clan. Niu reported Song Changsheng’s arrival to his mysterious Martial Uncle, and the chapter ended with a powerful black-robed woman offering Song Changsheng a lucrative order for a Second-Tier Low-Grade flute.

• Song Changsheng greeted Niu Dazhuang, who angrily warned him to stay away from the Song Clan, leaving Song Changsheng to suspect an old feud involving the Three City Lords.
• Song Changsheng proposed forging artifacts through the family shop, and Song Xiantu promoted his services as orders began to arrive.
• Niu Dazhuang visited his Martial Uncle at Rosy Cloud Peak and told them that Song Changsheng had come to Sunset City, prompting a quiet reaction to the name.
• Zhuang Yuechan arrived at the Bamboo Building and asked Niu Dazhuang whether anyone from the Song Clan had come for the Birthday Banquet, but he hurried away without answering.
• A black-robed woman offered Song Changsheng materials and at least twenty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones to forge a Second-Tier Low-Grade flute, and he accepted the order.

Song Changsheng completed the jade flute for Casual Senior and grew more suspicious of the powerful figures and secrets surrounding Sunset City. Xu Yunhe slew a Second-Tier Mid-Grade Zheng Beast in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, then fled toward Sunset City to escape a Third-Tier Great Demon; the chapter ended with Song Changsheng and Song Qingluo arriving at the crowded auction.

• Song Changsheng spent nearly half a year refining a jade flute from the materials Casual Senior provided, enhancing it with Dark Nether Crystal Essence until it was on the verge of reaching Second Tier Mid-Grade.
• Xu Yunhe killed a Second-Tier Mid-Grade Zheng Beast, counted it as his sixth Second-Tier kill, and decided to leave the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains for Sunset City while a Third-Tier Great Demon hunted him.
• Casual Senior returned two days before the auction, collected the flute, and remarked that it resembled its source yet had surpassed it before leaving at a speed Song Changsheng could not perceive.
• Song Changsheng wondered whether Casual Senior was connected to the Great City Lord and resolved to uncover the secrets surrounding his family and Sunset City himself.
• Song Changsheng brought Song Qingluo to the auction as crowds gathered throughout Sunset City.

Song Changsheng and Song Qingluo attended a crowded auction in Sunset City, where Song Changsheng wondered which powerful cultivators would appear. The arrival of a Golden Crow Sect elder and a stunning young woman drew the crowd’s attention, and Song Changsheng recognized how far beyond the Song Clan’s reach she was.

• Song Changsheng and Song Qingluo entered the auction house, where Song Changsheng was given a private box on the second floor.
• Song Changsheng explained the balance of power among Great Qi’s Two Sects and Seven Hopes while wondering whether the Casual Senior would attend.
• A Golden Crow Sect elder arrived with a striking young woman, and the crowd’s attention shifted to her.
• Song Qingluo was entranced by the woman, while Song Changsheng cautioned him that she was far beyond their reach.

Song Changsheng watched the auction draw prominent cultivators and rare treasures, while the seductive auctioneer Xia Wanyun presented a series of items. He noticed Cheng Yufei buying a cultivation technique suited to Chang Wudao and grew wary that the Earth Fire Sect was preparing for Chang Wudao’s breakthrough, just as the auction began offering a white tiger skeleton.

• The Golden Crow Sect’s Xia Qingxue, the Heavenly Meridian Sect, and other powerful cultivators arrived, but the Blazing Sun Sect sent only Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Xia Wanyun opened the auction by selling a Third Tier Low-Grade Xunfeng Soul-Slaying Talisman for twenty-eight thousand Spirit Stones.
• A Foundation Establishment Cultivator bought a sword-shaped Spirit Artifact for forty thousand Spirit Stones and later died in the Dense Forest outside Sunset City.
• Cheng Yufei spent fifty thousand Spirit Stones on a Third-Tier Cultivation Technique Legacy suited to Chang Wudao, prompting Song Changsheng to suspect Chang Wudao was preparing to break through to Purple Palace.
• Xia Wanyun introduced the skeleton of a Second-Tier High Grade white tiger as the next auction item.

Song Changsheng won the White Tiger Skeleton after a bidding battle with the Puppet Master Wu Luochuan, spending nearly all his remaining Spirit Stones. The auction later sold a Low-Grade Magic Treasure to the Heavenly Sword Sect and revealed Pyro Essence as its final treasure, sparking fierce bidding among Purple Palace Cultivators.

• Xia Wanyun presented the White Tiger Skeleton, and Song Changsheng bid against Wu Luochuan until Wu Luochuan forfeited at thirty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Song Changsheng paid for the skeleton and stayed to watch the rest of the auction.
• The auction sold a flying sword Low-Grade Magic Treasure to the Heavenly Sword Sect for two thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Xia Wanyun revealed that the final treasure was a strand of Pyro Essence, which could help cultivators complete their Five Elements Power.
• Song Changsheng explained the Five-Element Golden Core Path and the use of spiritual objects to Song Qingluo as the Pyro Essence bidding soared past two hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones.

After Song Changsheng left the auction, Blood Demons attacked the Sunset Auction House and abducted Xia Wanyun, triggering a battle that plunged Sunset City into chaos. As Song Changsheng tried to escape with Song Qingluo, Cheng Yufei confronted him and launched an attack.

• The auction house added a Blood Bat King cub to the auction, and the Golden Crow Sect and Heavenly Meridian Sect elders drove its price higher.
• Song Changsheng sensed danger, took Song Qingluo, and left the auction through a back door.
• A mysterious old man seized Xia Wanyun and fled as a Purple Palace Cultivator pursued him, while battles erupted inside the auction house.
• Blood Demons escaped with the Blood Bat King cub, and fighting spread through Sunset City as the auction house collapsed and people fled or looted.
• Song Changsheng tried to leave the city with Song Qingluo, but Cheng Yufei recognized him and attacked.

Song Changsheng killed Cheng Yufei with a Godslaying Flying Dagger after surviving his attacks and a summoned Tree Demon, but the spirit artifact escaped. As Wu Luochuan tried to rob the injured Song Changsheng, a sword light arrived just as they were about to fight.

• Song Changsheng resisted Cheng Yufei’s great seal and a swarm of poisonous vines, then used the Yin-Yang Two Forms Array to defend himself.
• Cheng Yufei summoned a Tree Demon and attacked Song Changsheng with it and his seal, but Song Changsheng struck Cheng Yufei’s soul with the Spirit Severing Gourd.
• Cheng Yufei unleashed a Second Tier Peak-Grade Bright Light Heaven Sword Talisman, wounding Song Changsheng, who then killed him with a Godslaying Flying Dagger.
• Song Changsheng tried to claim Cheng Yufei’s spirit artifact, but the Golden Melon Seed fled; he collected Cheng Yufei’s Universe Bag and great seal instead.
• Wu Luochuan confronted the injured Song Changsheng and sent two puppets to attack, but a streak of sword light arrived before the battle began.

Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe fought Wu Luochuan amid the chaos in Sunset City, but a Living Puppet killed its master and escaped with his corpse. As the City Lord’s Mansion tried to restore order, Mu Guibai used his qin to quiet the entire city and revealed himself as the Great City Lord.

• Xu Yunhe arrived and helped Song Changsheng fight Wu Luochuan’s puppets.
• Song Changsheng defeated Wu Luochuan’s werewolf puppet, but Wu Luochuan released a Living Puppet that killed him and fled with his corpse.
• Elders Qianri and Qianyue arrived to punish those fighting in the city, while Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe escaped the crackdown and suspected someone was fueling the unrest.
• A mysterious qin melody calmed the chaos across Sunset City, and Song Changsheng recognized it as the Great City Lord’s work.
• Mu Guibai appeared above the city, finished playing his jade zither, and announced his name.

After Mu Guibai ended the disturbance in Sunset City, Song Changsheng reunited with Xu Yunhe and revealed that he had killed Cheng Yufei. The Earth Fire Sect learned of Cheng Yufei’s death, while a new Wanted Order exposed that several culprits had escaped; Song Changsheng noticed an alarming detail in its rewards.

• Mu Guibai sealed Sunset City for three days and ordered residents to return home, ending the fighting.
• Song Changsheng brought Xu Yunhe to the lineage’s grocery store, told the elders that he had executed Cheng Yufei, and introduced Xu as the One-Armed Swordsman.
• Li Tiancheng reported Cheng Yufei’s extinguished soul lamp to Chang Wudao, who ordered an investigation and chose to take a dark green jade slip after losing the cultivation technique and the sect’s savings.
• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe reminisced about their past and worried that Zhu Yiqun might have run into trouble in Bianzhou.
• Song Qingluo brought Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe a joint Wanted Order from the City Lord’s Mansion and Sunset Auction House, and Song Changsheng noticed a startling detail in its rewards.

Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe pursued the injured Living Puppet into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, but Song Changsheng detected the nearby aura of the evil cultivator who had abducted Xia Wanyun. They found the Blazing Sun Sect trapping the evil cultivator with an array, and Song Changsheng prepared to disrupt it before Xu Yunhe stopped him.

• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe decided to hunt the Living Puppet for a chance to choose three treasures from Sunset City's Second-Tier Treasury.
• Song Changsheng used the Ten Thousand Mile Tracking secret art to follow the Living Puppet's scent into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe learned that the Living Puppet had fled east after a Blazing Sun Sect cultivator tore off its arm.
• Song Changsheng detected the evil cultivator's aura and went with Xu Yunhe to investigate a nearby battle.
• Song Changsheng found the Blazing Sun Sect using an array to wear down the evil cultivator and considered attacking the cultivators holding its key positions.
• Xu Yunhe stopped Song Changsheng just as he prepared to use a Godslaying Flying Dagger.

Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe rescued Xia Wanyun from the evil cultivator’s cave, then Song returned to disrupt the Blazing Sun Sect’s formation so they could not obtain the Yin Yang Purple Tree Heart. Dong Tianxie escaped, and Song left with Xu Yunhe and Xia Wanyun for Sunset City after they spread word of his whereabouts.

• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe located the evil cultivator’s cave and found Xia Wanyun unconscious inside.
• Song Changsheng rescued Xia Wanyun and took two medicinal pills and the bronze furnace before rejoining Xu Yunhe.
• Song Changsheng told Xu Yunhe of the Song Clan’s feud with the Blazing Sun Sect, and Xu Yunhe chose to help him.
• Song Changsheng killed Cheng Shizhi with the Godslaying Flying Dagger, destabilizing the linked formation and giving Dong Tianxie a chance to escape.
• Dong Tianxie broke the formation and killed Senior Martial Brother Zhang, while the surviving Blazing Sun Sect cultivators fled.
• Xu Yunhe persuaded Song Changsheng to accept his decision, and the two headed for Sunset City with Xia Wanyun while spreading news of Dong Tianxie.

Dong Tianxie discovered that Song Changsheng had taken everything from his cave and faced a growing group of cultivators, while Blood Demon fled with the Blood Bat Demon King Cub. Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe became trapped in a Natural Illusion Formation, and Xia Wanyun revealed that the pill Song Changsheng had found was an aphrodisiac.

• Dong Tianxie returned to his cave, found it stripped bare by Song Changsheng, and prepared to fight his way past the cultivators surrounding him.
• Blood Demon evaded the pursuing Golden Crow Sect by turning into a pool of blood and sinking underground with the Blood Bat Demon King Cub.
• Song Changsheng recognized the Bamboo Forest as a Natural Illusion Formation and began studying its patterns while Xu Yunhe waited with Xia Wanyun.
• Xia Wanyun woke and tried to seduce Xu Yunhe, but he resisted her advances and continued cultivating his Sword Dao.
• Song Changsheng asked Xia Wanyun to identify the pill from the cave, and she told him it was an aphrodisiac called a Love Potion.

Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe tried to escape an illusion formation with Xia Wanyun, then rushed to save her when the Living Puppet attacked. Song Changsheng found a way to break the formation, but the chapter ended as he and Xu Yunhe launched a decisive strike against the puppet.

• Xia Wanyun explained that the pills were love potions made to turn her Special Physique into a cauldron, and her Communication Jade Slip failed to pass through the illusion formation.
• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe used false names around Xia Wanyun and agreed to keep their distance from her until they could return her safely.
• After studying the formation overnight, Song Changsheng discovered that severing its Earth Vein would make it collapse.
• The Living Puppet appeared and severely wounded Xia Wanyun, but Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe arrived and fought it off her.
• Song Changsheng asked Xu Yunhe to create an opening, and Xu Yunhe unleashed a powerful sword strike as Song Changsheng invoked a gourd to attack the puppet's soul.

Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe defeated the Living Puppet, rescued Xia Wanyun, and returned to Sunset City, where they learned that a mysterious Purple Palace Cultivator had slain the Blood Demon. At Sunset Auction House, powerful cultivator Yi Wenqing welcomed them and offered to reward their help, while Xu Yunhe kept his real name from Xia Wanyun as they parted.

• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe used the Spirit Severing Gourd to destroy the Living Puppet and collected its remains.
• Wu Luochuan emerged from beneath a mound in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and walked away with an empty chest where his heart should have been.
• Xia Wanyun woke while Xu Yunhe was treating her, and Song Changsheng returned to find the two staring at each other.
• Song Changsheng and his companions reached Sunset City and learned that Dong Tianxie had escaped, the Living Puppet had not been found, and Soul Returnless had killed the Blood Demon.
• Song Changsheng urged Xu Yunhe to reveal his real name to Xia Wanyun, but Xu Yunhe refused and they escorted her to Sunset Auction House.
• Yi Wenqing welcomed Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe, then offered to satisfy their requests in return for helping the auction house.

Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe received compensation from Sunset Auction House for saving Xia Wanyun, then went to Sunset City's City Lord's Mansion to claim their reward for slaying the Living Puppet. After passing through the guarded entrance to the Second-Tier Treasury, they entered to choose their treasures, where Song Changsheng froze at what he saw.

• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe requested five hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and rare materials from Yi Wenqing, then exchanged an offered Flood Dragon Horn for a Third Tier Low-Grade Qian Tian Shocking Thunder Talisman.
• Hongxiu gave Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe honored guest credentials for Sunset Auction House, while Xia Wanyun learned they had left and was warned by a sharp-featured woman to remain in her room.
• Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe headed to the City Lord's Mansion and agreed that Xu Yunhe would take one treasury treasure while Song Changsheng took two, with Song Changsheng giving him a Red Jade Vermilion Fruit as compensation.
• Elder Qianri verified that they had slain the Living Puppet and led them through the heavily guarded underground entrance to the Second-Tier Treasury.
• Three Old Men opened the Bronze Gate, and Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe entered the treasury; Song Changsheng froze upon seeing what was inside.

Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe explored Sunset City’s vast Second-Tier Treasury and chose treasures suited to their needs. After leaving, Xu Yunhe explained that the city’s deep foundations inspired him to become a powerful protector for his own descendants and disciples, and Song Changsheng encouraged him.

• Elder Qianri let Song Changsheng and Xu Yunhe choose three treasures each from Sunset City’s Second-Tier Treasury.
• Song Changsheng searched for a Foundation Establishment Pill, Bi Fang True Feather, and Flood Dragon Scale, but found no pill or scale.
• Song Changsheng chose the Five Animal Heavenly Fire Fan, which contained Bi Fang True Feather, and Yin-Yang Iron to improve his Spirit Severing Gourd.
• Xu Yunhe chose a Second Tier Peak-Grade sword art.
• Xu Yunhe told Song Changsheng about his harsh upbringing and said he would build a powerful foundation to shelter his descendants and disciples.
• Song Changsheng praised Xu Yunhe’s potential and said he could become a regional overlord if he founded a sect.

Song Changsheng dismantled the Five Animal Heavenly Fire Fan to obtain its Bi Fang True Feather and used it with a White Tiger Tooth to comprehend two body-forging methods. He gained techniques for strengthening his muscles and for tempering muscles and bones with flames, while the threat of demon beasts moving north made his remaining time in Sunset City more urgent.

• Xu Yunhe accepted Song Changsheng's medicinal pills before the two parted ways.
• Song Changsheng looted Cheng Yufei's Universe Bag, recovering thirty-five thousand spiritual stones, several magic artifacts, and a third-tier fire-attribute cultivation method for the lineage.
• Song Changsheng destroyed the Five Animal Heavenly Fire Fan and extracted its Bi Fang True Feather, then prepared to comprehend techniques using it and a White Tiger Tooth.
• Song Changsheng learned that the City Lord's Mansion was stockpiling strategic supplies in anticipation of demon beasts moving north, but he could not yet leave Sunset City because his assignment remained unfinished.
• Song Changsheng witnessed visions of a White Tiger and Bi Fang attacking a Three-legged Golden Crow, and comprehended the White Tiger method for strengthening muscles and the Bi Fang Blazing Bone Forging Method.

Song Changsheng received news that the Song Clan had mistakenly blamed itself for Cheng Yufei’s death and learned that Foundation Establishment Pills were on their way. At the Great City Lord’s birthday celebration, he arrived at Heavenly Sound Mountain a month before the public banquet began and presented his invitation despite the crowd’s ridicule.

• Song Changsheng continued forging his body with White Tiger and Bi Fang techniques until Song Qingluo delivered a one-time message from Great Elder Song Xianyun.
• Song Xianyun explained that the Song Clan had ambushed Cheng Yufei, missed him, and later discovered Song Changsheng had killed him, worsening tensions with the Earth Fire Sect.
• Song Xianyun reported that Foundation Establishment Pills were on their way and instructed Song Changsheng to be careful in Sunset City and return after the birthday banquet.
• Niu Dazhuang told Zhuang Yuechan that Xu Yunhe had reached Foundation Establishment and that Zhu Yiqun and Song Qingxing had rescued a kidnapped woman and taken treasures from the Treasure Vault.
• After repairing his artifacts and refining the Spirit Severing Gourd, Song Changsheng took Song Qingluo to Heavenly Sound Mountain on the date printed on his invitation.
• When cultivators mocked Song Changsheng for climbing the mountain a month before the public banquet, he presented his gilded invitation to the two Foundation Establishment guards.

Song Changsheng reached Heavenly Sound Mountain for the Great City Lord’s birthday banquet and was welcomed as an honored guest of the Song Clan. After settling into a lavish residence, he rested and dreamed of his deceased parents.

• The Mountain Guarding Cultivators recognized Song Changsheng’s invitation and escorted him up the mountain as an honored guest of the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng asked after Zhuang Yuechan, but his guide said she was in seclusion and could not receive visitors.
• Qian Duoyu warmly welcomed Song Changsheng and Song Qingluo, then led them to a quiet bamboo residence arranged by the Great City Lord.
• Song Changsheng admired the rare white lotuses and disabled the residence’s Spirit Gathering Array so its intense spiritual energy would not burden Song Qingluo.
• Song Changsheng realized he was exhausted, lay down on the warm Jade Bed, and dreamed of walking with his mother, Xia Yunxue, and his deceased father, Song Luyan.