Chapter Summaries

Song Changming escaped the Thunder Strike Beasts and crossed Leizhou, avoiding a human-demon battlefield while traveling toward Thunder Strike Mountain to help the Thunder Wheel Tiger Princess. After reaching the mountain, he learned that its lightning could bless newly ascended great demons and began investigating the mixed-blood tiger demons who worked there.

• Song Changming fled with Yuan San and the tiger demon, and the old Thunder Strike Beast Demon King ordered his clan not to pursue because he feared Yuan San’s ancient Yin God power.
• Song Changming detected a human-demon battle in Leizhou, judged the forces and their powerful leaders, then bypassed the battlefield to continue toward Northern Leizhou.
• Song Changming and the tiger demon reached Thunder Strike Mountain, where nine bolts of heavenly lightning blessed a Thunder Wheel Tiger Clan demon who had just become a great demon.
• Song Changming learned that mixed-blood tiger demons searched the mountain for valuable purple flowers in exchange for merit and better status.
• Song Changming arranged for a white-and-purple tiger demon to separate from the workers, while the flower gatherers remained unaware that he had targeted them.

Song Changming infiltrated Thunder Strike Mountain disguised as the mixed-blood tiger demon Iv and used the God Binding Seal to contact the imprisoned Hya Figo. After learning about the mountain and its rulers, he realized that rescuing Hya and dismantling the Thunder Wheel Tiger Clan would be far harder than he had planned.

• A Thunder Wheel Tiger Demon killed a mixed-blood tiger demon who found a Purple Thunder Flower, and Song Changming, disguised as Iv, took the dead demon’s place.
• Iv joined the mixed-blood tiger demons heading to Thunder Strike Mountain during Thunderous Night, surrendered his flower to a guard, and endured the mountain’s numbing energy field.
• Song Changming revealed his human form inside Iv’s dwelling and used the Thousand Faces Man to maintain his disguise on the mountain.
• Song Changming contacted the imprisoned Hya Figo through the God Binding Seal, and Hya told him about her imprisonment and Thunder Strike Mountain.
• Song Changming learned that eleven Tiger Kings ruled the mountain as equals and abandoned his plan to dismantle the clan by helping Hya overthrow one of them.

Song Changming disguised himself as Jie Qing and entered the Thunder Wheel Tiger clan’s mountain territory while the Tiger King’s children suspected their father planned to seize Hya’s bloodline. The chapter ended as the Tiger King sensed something near the palace gates, though Song Changming had vanished.

• Jie Qing and the mixed-blood tiger demons tried to rob Song Changming, but he killed them using his physical strength and took Jie Qing’s appearance.
• Song Changming walked up Thunder Strike Mountain disguised as Jie Qing, while the demons below assumed the newly selected tiger was heading to work.
• Peidi, Lin, and the Tiger King’s other children urged Yeli Feige to kill Hya, but he postponed her execution until after Thunderous Night.
• Lin told her siblings that Yeli Feige might intend to devour Hya in the Thunder Pool to seize her bloodline, prompting Peidi to warn that they should take the threat seriously.
• Song Changming crossed the Feige clan’s bone field and approached the royal palace unseen, but Yeli Feige sensed a presence near the gates and wondered if he was being overly cautious.

Song Changming infiltrated the Tiger King’s palace and freed Hya from a dungeon, then agreed to help her reach the Thunder Pool to gain power for revenge. After they escaped the palace, Song Changming returned to his body in the black forest and silently killed the tiger demons who discovered him.

• Song Changming sent his Soul Avatar into the palace, overheard the Tiger King’s offspring discuss the Thunder Pool, and found Hya imprisoned underground.
• Song Changming broke Hya’s Thunder Strike Iron shackles with his Witch God Soul and told her what he had overheard.
• Hya decided to enter the Thunder Pool for the royal inheritance, and Song Changming agreed to take her there.
• Song Changming and Hya left the dungeon while its guards remained unconscious, then Song Changming’s Soul Avatar returned to his body in the black forest.
• Several tiger demons found Song Changming, and he killed them with concealed mental attacks before they could sound an alarm.

Song Changming fought his way past the Thunder Wheel Tiger Great Demons so Hya could enter the ancestral Thunder Pool, but Tiger King Yeli Figo intercepted them. Song Changming unleashed his strongest attack against Yeli Figo inside his Star Domain, and the chapter ended as their clash erupted.

• Hya led Song Changming to the Thunder Pool, where four Thunder Wheel Tiger Great Demons guarded the entrance, and asked him to help her force their way in.
• Song Changming swiftly defeated the guards, killing one and driving the others back, while the Tiger King raced toward the Thunder Pool.
• Yeli Figo bound Hya with lightning as she tried to enter, but Song Changming cut her free and fell with her toward the pool.
• Yeli Figo appeared during their descent, recognized Hya, and accused her of conspiring with an outsider.
• Song Changming expanded his Star Domain and unleashed his strongest blade strike against Yeli Figo.

Song Changming helped Hya reach the Thunder Pool, where her superior Tiger Clan bloodline earned her the ancestral inheritance despite the Tiger King's attempt to stop them. Inside, Hya began receiving the inheritance while Song Changming unleashed his Thunder Seed to devour the surrounding Smiting Lightning.

• Song Changming wounded the Tiger King and continued to the Thunder Pool entrance with Hya, while absorbing some of the Tiger King's Smiting Lightning to strengthen his Thunder Seed.
• Hya activated her Tiger Clan bloodline, and the Thunder Pool chose her over the Tiger King and admitted her and Song Changming.
• The Tiger King could not damage the Thunder Pool, then ordered Mais and Maike to guard its entrance and told his descendants that Hya had entered with help from a young human powerhouse.
• The Tiger King learned that Song Changming had injured him and ordered his descendants to help kill Hya and protect the royal inheritance.
• Inside the Thunder Pool, Hya transformed into a white tiger and began receiving her ancestral inheritance, while Song Changming released his Thunder Seed to devour the other Smiting Lightning.

Song Changming refined Smiting Lightning in the Thunder Pool for forty-five days, transforming his Thunder Seed and strengthening his body while Hya awakened her royal bloodline. After they escaped the Feige clan’s gathered forces, the Tiger King pursued them and captured Hya, leaving Song Changming facing him alone.

• Song Changming used the Thunder Seed and Sorcery Refining Method to absorb Smiting Lightning and temper his body inside the Thunder Pool.
• After forty-five days, Hya emerged with Song Changming, having completed her bloodline transformation and gained the strength and status of a potential Tiger King.
• Peidi accused Hya of betraying the clan, and the Tiger King prepared to kill Song Changming and seize Hya’s bloodline.
• Hya restrained her desire to fight, then used an ancestral demon art to escape with Song Changming as the Tiger King and his children gave chase.
• The other Tiger Kings declined to intervene in the Feige clan’s internal struggle, though they focused on the human intruder.
• The Tiger King blasted Hya and Song Changming out of their escape, and Song Changming emerged from the magma to find Hya trapped in the Tiger King’s claw.

Song Changming fought Yeli Feige after helping Hya escape Thunder Strike Mountain, revealing the immense strength he gained in the Thunder Pool. As Yeli Feige prepared to unleash the Thunder Wheel Tiger Clan’s deadly Soul Shaking Spear, Hya warned Song Changming of its danger.

• Hya escaped Yeli Feige’s crushing grasp with her inherited demon art, then fought him in tiger form despite the gap in their strength.
• Song Changming shielded the injured Hya and tried to flee, but Yeli Feige pursued them and attacked with lightning.
• Song Changming struck Yeli Feige with his blade, sending the Tiger King flying and injuring his claw.
• Yeli Feige unleashed overwhelming demon power, but Song Changming endured his attacks by combining his Shaman Seals, Thunder Seed, and Star Domain.
• Yeli Feige trapped Song Changming in a thunder cage and formed a Soul Shaking Spear, prompting Hya to warn him.

Song Changming battled Yeli Feige, surviving the Tiger King's Soul Shaking Spear and turning the fight in his favor. He rescued Hya from her siblings, killed Peidi, and left Yeli pinned beneath his thunder saber.

• Yeli Feige struck Song Changming with a Soul Shaking Spear, but Song survived and rapidly healed while the Tiger King's lightning power waned.
• As Song Changming fought Yeli Feige, Peidi and the other tiger demons attacked the wounded Hya, but Song's sword formation and treasures protected her.
• Peidi joined his siblings' Smiting Lightning to unleash nine lightning arrows at Hya, but Song intercepted them and killed Peidi with Silent Saber.
• Yeli Feige charged Song Changming in a rage, but Song grew stronger during their renewed battle and knocked the Tiger King to the ground.
• Song Changming descended with Silent Saber, and Yeli Feige was forced down beneath the hundred-zhang thunder saber.

Song Changming defeated Yeli Feige, rescued Hya, and escaped Thunder Strike Mountain with Yuan San, leaving the Tiger Kings arguing over how to respond. At the Northern Leizhou battlefield, Sun Qitong and Sun Zhuoyue faced a Thunder Python Great Demon before Song Changming arrived and subdued it.

• Song Changming forced Yeli Feige back into the magma, but seven Tiger Kings arrived and Yeli Feige accepted their help.
• Song Changming summoned Yuan San, then left with Yuan San and Hya instead of fighting the Tiger Kings; Yeli Feige returned to Thunder Strike Mountain to recover and plan revenge.
• In the ancient Black Mountain forest, Sun Qitong and Sun Zhuoyue killed several minor Thunder Eaters and then saw a Thunder Python Great Demon attack three wounded Sun family elders.
• Sun Qitong prepared to support the elders while Sun Zhuoyue froze in fear, and the Thunder Python turned on them.
• Song Changming landed on the Thunder Python, stomped it into the ground, and ordered it to stop; Sun Zhange thanked him as a senior.

Song Changming returned to Donghua City after leaving Leizhou, where rumors spread that he had defeated the Thunder Wheel Tiger King. The Cloud Emperor summoned him, while a Great Demon in Yanzhou learned that Song Changming was in Southern Yunzhou.

• Song Changming killed a Thunder Python and rescued Sun Zhuoyue and the other Sun Family youths before declining Sun Zhu and Shen Leishou’s invitations.
• Sun Zhu and Shen Leishou speculated that Song Changming was the renowned Yunzhou genius, unaware of his secret battle with the Thunder Wheel Tiger Clan.
• Song Changming returned to Donghua City with Hya and learned from Song Changping that Yanzhou fire monsters had devastated regions south of Yunzhou.
• Yuan San took the zombies and Yinsha Ghosts back to the Land of Nine Nether to reclaim territory from demon clans.
• Reports of Song Changming’s fight with the Thunder Wheel Tiger King spread among humans and demons, and the Cloud Emperor ordered him to come to the Cloud Palace.
• A Great Demon in western Yanzhou heard that the Thunder Wheel Tiger King had been severely wounded, then was startled to learn Song Changming was in Southern Yunzhou.

Song Changming’s reputation drove powerful demons out of Cuibai Way, while his forces continued guarding the frontier against smaller raiders. At the annual evaluation, he chose rewards that strengthened his cultivation and Silent Blade, then began absorbing a massive influx of martial arts experience.

• A fire monster king fled Yanzhou after hearing of Song Changming’s reputation and ordered his demons to withdraw from Yunzhou.
• King Cui and Hu Zhong learned the invasion had ended, and Song Changming discussed how his growing reputation had eased pressure on Cuibai Way.
• Months later, a Void-tail Demon led a raid near Maple City, but Su Qingqing and the martial generals ambushed the group and captured its commander and strange wooden stick.
• Su Qingqing ordered the demon corpses recorded and sent to Song Changming for use as cultivation resources.
• Song Changming selected four annual rewards, including increased Silent Blade experience, and gained two hundred thousand experience that he had to carefully digest.

Song Changming claimed the Shuttle Eye trait and used an annual reward to transform the God Devourer Blade into a weapon more powerful than an ordinary Spirit Tool. After Su Qingqing brought him a Void-tail Demon carrying the missing wooden handle for his bronze mirror, Song Changming assembled the complete treasure and activated his Shuttle Eyes.

• Song Changming claimed the Shuttle Eye trait, endured temporary blindness, and gained the ability to perceive microscopic details and changes in space.
• Song Changming spent 5,000 years of lifespan to strengthen the God Devourer Blade, whose transformation shattered his protective array and startled Martial Artists across the city.
• Song Changming examined the transformed blade and found its power beyond that of a top-grade Spirit Saber, while its Ferocious Beast Blade Spirit remained asleep.
• Su Qingqing returned with a captured Void-tail Demon and showed Song Changming the strange wooden stick it carried.
• Song Changming assembled the stick with his twenty-two bronze mirror fragments, completing the mirror, then gripped its handle as his Shuttle Eyes emitted blue light.

Song Changming used the completed bronze mirror to travel through space, learned it might restore itself, and bound a surviving Void-tail Demon as a useful servant. He spent years cultivating while the human-demon war ended in a stalemate over Leizhou, and the chapter left off with spiritual qi surging above Yunzhou’s sea.

• Song Changming activated the bronze mirror with his Shuttle Eyes and used it to travel from Cuibai Way to Maple City, then to the Land of Nine Nether and back to Song Manor.
• Song Changming asked Yuan San about the bronze mirror, and Yuan San said it would restore itself if Song Changming waited, though it could not free Yuan San from his spatial seal in its current state.
• Song Changming planted a God Binding Seal in the surviving Void-tail Demon and kept it because of its spatial talent.
• Song Changming spent the ensuing years cultivating and refining his skills while thirty years passed.
• The human army failed to conquer Leizhou after demon reinforcements arrived, and the war ended with humans and demons each controlling half of the province.
• Spiritual mist and sea beasts moved above Yunzhou’s Sea of Spiritual Qi near Cloud Emperor City.

After the Leizhou war ended, Yunzhou welcomed home its surviving generals and honored the fallen, while Song Changming reflected on humanity’s fragile truce with the demon race. In Cuibai Way, Xu Yuan broke through to the Grandmaster realm, strengthening the military department.

• Over a hundred thousand Xiantian generals and tens of thousands of coffins returned to Cloud Emperor City, where Cloud Emperor rewarded the soldiers and formally disbanded the army.
• King Cui, Song Changming, Hu Zhong, and others welcomed the returning forces at Cuibai Way, where only three thousand of nearly ten thousand generals who had departed returned alive.
• Song Changming recalled how he had used the bronze mirror to attack Leizhou’s demons, though even his efforts could not turn the final battle against the Demon Kings.
• Xu Yuan’s breakthrough unleashed a gale at the Xu Family residence, and Song Changming, Qianyuan, and others contained the disturbance.
• Xu Yuan emerged as a Martial Arts Grandmaster, and King Cui celebrated the military department’s growing strength.

Song Changming took Su Qingqing to Fox Mountain after her breakthrough to the Grandmaster realm caused her human cultivation and Divine Fox Bloodline to clash. Xi Yanxue explained that the broken balance threatened Su Qingqing’s life, leaving them to seek a way to resolve the conflict.

• Xu Yuan broke through to the Grandmaster realm, while Su Qingqing began her own breakthrough at Song Manor.
• Su Qingqing’s newly formed Grandmaster Essence Blood provoked her demon bloodline, and Song Changming used his power to keep the two forces apart.
• Song Changming took Su Qingqing and Hya through a gate of light to Fox Mountain to seek help from Su Qingqing’s mother, Xi Yanxue.
• Xi Yanxue brought them into her cave residence and listened as Song Changming described the breakthrough complication.
• Xi Yanxue said the balance between Su Qingqing’s Grandmaster power and Divine Fox Bloodline had broken, putting her life at risk.

Song Changming learned that Su Qingqing had to build her demon power to Great Demon level to balance her cultivation, and agreed to protect her and Xi Yanxue while they secluded themselves on Fox Mountain. Meanwhile, the Eight-Eyed White Hairy Worm King learned Song Changming had arrived there and sent Chong Er to capture him, as Song Changming reflected on the long life ahead of him.

• Xi Yanxue explained that Su Qingqing needed to cultivate Great Demon-level demon power before resuming martial arts, then used her own power to stabilize her daughter.
• Xi Yanxue asked Song Changming to protect her and Su Qingqing during their seclusion, and he agreed; she also accepted Hya on Fox Mountain after Song Changming explained her history.
• Xi Yanxue took Su Qingqing into the Crystal Palace cave abode, while Song Changming stayed on Fox Mountain, studied eighth-rank talisman scrolls, and shared pastries with Hya.
• White worms reported to the Eight-Eyed White Hairy Worm King that Song Changming had flown to Fox Mountain, and the Worm King ordered Chong Er to bring him back.
• Chong Er accepted the mission to prove himself, while Song Changming learned Hya was over eight hundred years old and reflected on his own lifespan of 136 years.

Song Changming had advanced to the Late Grandmaster Realm after thirty years of cultivation when Chong Er led an insect swarm to Fox Mountain to seize him. Hya fought Chong Er with her Thunder God's Hammer, and their battle continued as Mu Ye and the fox demons faced the threat.

• Song Changming assessed his progress, including sixty-one drops of Grandmaster Essence Blood and physical strength of three hundred strands of Dragon Power.
• Chong Er led an insect swarm into Fox Mountain, wounded a great fox demon, and demanded that the foxes hand over Song Changming.
• Hya blocked Chong Er's attack and protected the fox demons, while Mu Ye emerged from seclusion to confront the invaders.
• Hya attacked Chong Er with Song Changming's Thunder God's Hammer, destroying much of the insect swarm and badly injuring the great insect demons.
• Chong Er countered with streams of black water, and Hya met his attack as Mu Ye watched their clash with concern.

Song Changming confronted Chong Er, an Eight-Eyed White Worm demon who had come seeking revenge, after Chong Er injured Hya at Fox Mountain. Song Changming’s spatial blade art wounded Chong Er despite his full transformation, and Song Changming followed with a lightning-charged Dimensional Slash.

• Mu Ye learned that Lord Divine Fox had invited the Thunder Wheel Tiger to Fox Mountain and that Hya had rescued the great demon who explained the visitors’ presence.
• Chong Er pierced Hya’s lightning armor and infected her with black insects, but Song Changming struck the swarm out of her body and ordered her to stand down.
• Song Changming identified Chong Er as a member of the White Worm Clan, then blasted apart his arm and repelled his insects with pure force and strange techniques.
• Chong Er opened all eight eyes and transformed, while his attacks threatened Fox Mountain’s peaks until Mu Ye and the other great demons stopped them.
• Song Changming used Dimensional Slash to imprison Chong Er through distorted space and wound him, then launched another slash charged with lightning.

Song Changming defeated Chong Er, a powerful White Worm Clan expert, by unveiling his perfected Human King Statue and Great Perfection Silent Blade. Chong Er’s body was destroyed, but two of his eight Insect Eyes escaped, leaving open the possibility that he survived.

• Chong Er escaped Song Changming’s Dimensional Slash by splitting into black insects, then transformed into a giant insect and attacked with blood insects and crushing force.
• Song Changming manifested the Human King Statue, resisted Chong Er’s attacks, wounded him with its blade and lightning cannon, and trapped him in a Thunder Cage.
• Song Changming used his Great Perfection Silent Blade to shatter Chong Er’s insect body and destroy his demonic core.
• Chong Er’s eight Insect Eyes fled in different directions; Song Changming destroyed six, while two vanished beyond his range.
• Hya and Mu Ye joined Song Changming, and he extracted Chong Er’s blood and flesh essence while considering how formidable the White Worm Clan’s Insect King might be.