Recaps

Song Changming joined the Northern Immortal Army, survived the campaign against the Five-horned Giant Demon, and earned promotion to captain. Ten years later, he and Xiao Jiu reopened a sealed spatial passage at Penglai Sea, while strange spatial disasters struck the Nine Provinces.

• Song Changming passed the Heavenly Soldier Trial, traveled to the Northern Immortal Army, and earned a place in its ranks through his battle-method training.
• After the Five-horned Giant Demon attacked Tiandu Mountain, Song Changming fought in the Immortal-Demon War, killed the black monkey, and helped Li Gengsheng’s unit survive.
• Song Changming survived the White Bone Demoness’s attack with help from Xiao Jiu, then returned to the battlefield as the Immortal Army defeated the demons and captured the Five-horned Giant Demon.
• Song Changming’s campaign record earned him promotion to captain of the Eighth Company, and he later used the black monkey’s Demon Soul to improve his training in Three Heads Six Arms.
• Ten years later, Song Changming entered the fog at Penglai Sea and fought a powerful Mutated Fog Spirit until Xiao Jiu arrived to help him destroy its red pearl.
• Xiao Jiu used the Kongxu Seal to break open the spatial wall, and Song Changming recognized the passage as a possible route to the ancient Heaven-Connecting Road.
• Monkey Bro closed the spatial black hole and restored the passage, while strange energy and spatial chaos appeared near the Tianwu Imperial Palace in the Nine Provinces.

Su Qingqing reunited with Song Changming on the Primal Continent, while Song rose through the ranks and became a Heavenly Immortal amid escalating conflict with the Buddhist Sect. After helping Hua Chuyuan ascend, Song returned to the Thirty-Three Heavens and entered a contest for Battalion Commander.

• Su Qingqing abdicated and entered the passage beyond the Heavenly Staircase with Little Phoenix, Hya, and Yuan San, but they arrived scattered across the Primal Continent.
• Song Changming rescued Su Qingqing from Bird Daoist, reunited with her, and arranged for her and their scattered companions to pursue immortality and find one another.
• Song Changming advanced as a True Immortal, battled Buddhist forces, and stood by Venerable Abyss after the Buddhist Sect’s attack cost him his chance at the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Song Changming accepted the Nine Heavens Goddess as his master, mastered the Nine Heavens Divine Canon in the Divine Pool, and survived his tribulation to become a Heavenly Immortal.
• Song Changming absorbed the Sun God Fire, helped Hua Chuyuan obtain an Immortal Dao Fruit, and protected him from Buddhist attacks while he underwent his tribulation.
• Song Changming defeated Yintan and Jintan, killing them despite the threat of Unwitting Creation Saint Buddha, who was barred from descending to the lower realm again.
• Hua Chuyuan became an immortal, and Song Changming gave him directions to the Immortal City before returning to the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Jiu Xiao Commander recommended Song Changming for Battalion Commander, and Lei Xiao ordered the candidates to fight everyone else for the position.

After rising to Battalion Commander, Song Changming fought the Buddhist Sect and Evil Demons before entering the Broken Ancient Land to strengthen his body and Witch God Soul. He returned to Outer Heaven as Emperor Abyss reached the Golden Immortal realm and was ordered to prepare for the Four Directions Immortal Army Tournament.

• Song Changming defeated the Ghost Monkey and became Battalion Commander of the Tenth Battalion, then received a Divine Tear Fruit from the Nine Heavens Goddess and welcomed Chi as his deputy general.
• Song Changming joined Lu Huang and the others to protect Cangzhe during his Profound Immortal Tribulation, killing Miaoshan Buddha’s Son and many Buddhist envoys before Cangzhe ascended as a Sky Venerable.
• Song Changming led the heavenly army against the Evil Demons, defeated a black-crowned Ghost Clan man, and helped Lei Xiao and Zi Rou'er capture a Four-horned Giant Demon, which a Saint Buddha then took away.
• The Nine Heavens Goddess sent Song Changming to the Broken Ancient Land with Space-Time Sand to seek strength and Witch God Stone fragments.
• Song Changming refined ancient spirits and beast remains, increasing his physical strength, and spared the Furry Monkey after learning how Evil Demons used Black Sand to travel through the Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Song Changming found a Witch God Stone fragment in a humanoid skeleton and learned the Divine Fetus Reversal Method, then continued searching without finding another fragment by his fiftieth year there.
• Song Changming escaped the multiplying Ancient Remnant Spirits through a spatial passage and returned to his General's Mansion, where his Soul Avatar refined soul power as his Seventh Divine Step grew clearer.
• Song Changming learned that Emperor Abyss had become a Golden Immortal, inspected the soldiers Old Chi had trained, and accepted Lei Xiao's order to compete in the Four Directions Immortal Army Tournament in five years.

Song Changming obtained a Profound Immortal Dao Fruit, survived his tribulation, and rose rapidly through the immortal ranks. After winning the Four-Way Battle and defeating Gui Li, he became Great Heavenly General of the Second Army Division, where he found the division depleted by Wisteria’s defection.

• Song Changming sparred with Cangzhe on Qingguang Star just as Venerable Abyss emerged from seclusion as a Golden Immortal and became Daoist Heavenly Abyss.
• After listening to Daoist Heavenly Abyss preach for five years, Song Changming advanced and entered a Buddhist land to claim a Profound Immortal Dao Fruit from the Divine Tree.
• Song Changming used his Witch God Soul and Treading the Nine Heavens to overcome the Buddha’s Sons and take a Dao Fruit, then returned to the Nine Heavens Goddess.
• Song Changming consumed the Dao Fruit, survived the Profound Immortal Tribulation, and attained the Profound Immortal realm before receiving the title of Celestial Venerable and a Demon-Slaying Blade from the Immortal King.
• Song Changming developed his cultivation and natural source power, then entered the Four-Way Battle with the Northern Immortal Army and passed the Cloud Immortal trial.
• Song Changming defeated Ao Ye and a succession of formidable opponents, then fought Gui Li for three days before Gui Li conceded.
• Heavenly King Shenxiao appointed Song Changming Great Heavenly General of the Second Army Division, where Li Zicheng told him that Wisteria had defected with six commanders and more than ten thousand elite troops.