Chapter Summaries

Song Changming entered the Heavenly Soldier Trial at the Immortal Fortress and revealed cultivation among the stronger Rogue Immortals. During aptitude testing, he displayed rare eighth-tier talent, leaving him atop the trial register as the story paused before the next stage.

• Song Changming joined more than three hundred Rogue Immortals at the Immortal Fortress for the Heavenly Soldier Trial.
• Jiuxiao, commander of the Northern Immortal Army, recognized Song Changming from his connection to Palace Mistress Zi Rou'er and checked his ordinary-looking records.
• Jiuxiao ordered the participants to reveal their cultivation, and Song Changming showed Immortal Realm power close to the late stage.
• Song Changming placed his hand on a white stone and experienced visions before it displayed the character eight, identifying his aptitude as eighth tier.
• The immortal officials ranked Song Changming first in the trial register, ahead of a participant with sixth-tier aptitude and near-Perfect Immortal Realm cultivation.

Song Changming and Wei Xuanlang fought ice demons in the final trial, demonstrating their strength by killing one each. They passed and were chosen among twenty-seven Rogue Immortals to accompany Jiu Xiao Commander to Outer Heaven.

• Jiu Xiao Commander led the Rogue Immortals through a gateway into an icy minor world and explained that they had to survive the ice demons or kill one to pass.
• Song Changming joined Wei Xuanlang and several other powerful Rogue Immortals to fight the demons in a team.
• Wei Xuanlang used his Southern Bright Golden Dragon Immortal Art to kill an ice demon, and Song Changming burned away another with his Sun God Fire-infused blade.
• An Immortal official confirmed that Song Changming had passed after slaying an ice demon, while Wei Xuanlang also received credit for his kill.
• After the trial, Jiu Xiao Commander selected twenty-seven Rogue Immortals, including Song Changming and Wei Xuanlang, to travel with him to Outer Heaven.

Song Changming and the other Rogue Immortals ascended to the Immortal Court and joined the Northern Immortal Army as reserve Heavenly Soldiers. After settling into his barracks, Song Changming reported for roll call and began training under Tianlei Zi, who sent battle-technique formulas into the recruits.

• Jiu Xiao Commander led Song Changming, Wei Xuanlang, and twenty-five other Rogue Immortals through the heavens to the Immortal Court, where Wuwang Heavenly Venerate briefly asked to borrow two recruits as furnace boys before changing his mind.
• Jiu Xiao Commander brought the group to the Northern Military Prefecture, and Li Gengsheng registered their immortal blood and issued them Heavenly Soldier gear, Immortal Tokens, and barracks rooms.
• Song Changming settled into his small barracks and learned from his Immortal Token that he was a reserve soldier who would need to excel in assessments and wait for an opening to join the regular army.
• Song Changming answered the military bell and gathered with Wei Xuanlang and nearly two hundred reserve Heavenly Soldiers for roll call and training.
• Tianlei Zi introduced himself as their instructor and sent white lights containing battle-technique formulas toward the recruits; Song Changming initially tried to stop the light aimed at him before accepting it.

Song Changming mastered the Golden Spear Battle Method and received a generous annual evaluation, choosing several physique traits and a future cultivation increase. The one-year recruit assessment began, and Wei Xuanlang earned Tianlei Zi’s praise before Song Changming’s turn.

• Tianlei Zi demonstrated the Golden Spear Battle Method and told the recruits to train for a year before their first assessment.
• Song Changming reached beginner mastery after two months and proficiency by the tenth month, while Tianlei Zi watched his rapid progress.
• Song Changming reviewed his annual rewards, selected Alchemy Prodigy, Sharp Gold Heavenly Spirit Body, Gunner Maniac, and an Immortal Realm cultivation increase, then postponed claiming the cultivation reward.
• Tianlei Zi began the one-year assessment, and several recruits demonstrated their skill with the long halberd.
• Wei Xuanlang performed better than the recruits assessed before him, earning Tianlei Zi’s praise as the best so far.
• Wei Xuanlang smiled and told Song Changming that it was his turn.

Song Changming demonstrated exceptional mastery of the battle art, collected his Heavenly Salary, and used a cultivation reward to advance close to the completion of the Immortal Realm. After a massive Immortal Court deployment departed, he learned that the Northern Immortal Army had mobilized.

• Song Changming displayed his battle art with overwhelming power, impressing the immortals and earning Tianlei Zi's praise.
• Wei Xuanlang invited Song Changming to collect his Heavenly Salary, and Pei Hu, Xu Qingfeng, and other immortals joined them.
• Song Changming collected his pills, then claimed a cultivation reward that drew in nearby immortal energy and raised him to near the completion of the Immortal Realm.
• A huge force of heavenly soldiers and Immortal Court officials streamed out from the Immortal Mountain, leading Song Changming to suspect a war was underway.
• At a banquet days later, Pei Hu told the gathered heavenly soldiers that their Northern Immortal Army had mobilized.

Song Changming and the reservists learned that a Five-horned Giant Demon and its hundred-thousand-strong army had occupied Tiandu Mountain, prompting the Immortal Court to deploy its elite Demon Quelling Immortal Army. As the war created hopes of promotion, Song Changming continued his training and cultivation, and the chapter ended as Tianlei Zi began the second battle-method assessment with everyone watching Song Changming.

• Pei Hu told the reservists that his elder brother had revealed a Five-horned Giant Demon had razed Tiandu Immortal Palace and claimed Tiandu Mountain with nearly a hundred thousand demons.
• Wei Xuanlang argued that casualties in the northern war could create openings for reservists, and Song Changming agreed the battle might offer a chance to advance.
• The Demon Quelling Immortal Army and renowned Immortal Court High Gods deployed, leading Wei Xuanlang and Song Changming to end their drinking and return to their duties.
• Tianlei Zi noticed that Song Changming was close to forging his Immortal Body, while Song Changming spent the following year training and cultivating with Immortal Nurturing Pills.
• At the end of the year, Tianlei Zi began the second battle-method assessment, and the reservists watched to see how far Song Changming had progressed.

Song Changming demonstrated his battle technique, impressing Tianlei Zi, who recommended him to Qingquan as a promising recruit. Song Changming was made a regular in the Northern Immortal Army and reported to the Fifth Department, where he entered the Tenth Company and showed that he could withstand its training shockwaves with his body alone.

• Song Changming displayed his battle technique at Minor Accomplishment, earning Tianlei Zi's praise and the admiration of the heavenly soldiers.
• Tianlei Zi told Qingquan about Song Changming's talent, and Qingquan decided to seek him for his battalion.
• An Immortal Court messenger ordered Song Changming into the Northern Immortal Army's Fifth Department, Ninth Battalion, Tenth Company, Sixth Squad.
• Song Changming reported to the Fifth Department and met Si Yanqing, who served under Squad Leader Li as well.
• Tian Du led Song Changming into the Tenth Company, where Song Changming calmly withstood the surging immortal-power shockwaves without protection.

Song Changming joined Li Gengsheng’s Heavenly Soldier squad and drew attention for his Eightfold Immortal Talent. After seeing how badly the northern war had depleted the unit, he faced a veteran’s challenge to prove his strength, and the chapter ended with him effortlessly blocking Jiebao’s halberd strike with one arm.

• Tian Du brought Song Changming to the unit’s drill, where Li Gengsheng recognized him and introduced him to Zhao Fulun and Ji Yingchen.
• Song Changming watched Zhao Fulun’s Fourth Squad defeat the other two squads in the assembly drill, then received Qingquan’s encouragement and a promise of future advancement.
• After the squads gathered, Song Changming noticed the many vacancies left by soldiers and officers who had likely fallen in the Immortal-Demon War.
• Li Gengsheng introduced Song Changming to his squad, where Jiebao challenged him because veterans resented the attention given to the new recruit.
• Jiebao charged with his halberd, but Song Changming blocked the strike with one arm without moving.

Song Changming defeated Jiebao in a spar, then advanced to the True Immortal Realm and mastered the Golden Spear Battle Method. As the Northern Immortal Army prepared to march north, he joined the assembled forces and stood before Great General Lei Xiao.

• Song Changming outmatched Jiebao in strength and battle-method skill, and Jiebao admitted defeat and apologized.
• Song Changming quickly integrated into the Heavenly Soldiers' formation drills and spent two years training with Li Gengsheng's troop.
• Song Changming used a high-grade Immortal Nurturing Pill to forge his Immortal Body and advance directly to the True Immortal Realm.
• Song Changming practiced the Golden Spear Battle Method with his Soul Avatar and advanced it from minor mastery to major mastery.
• Great General Lei Xiao ordered the Northern Immortal Army to march north in three days, and Song Changming joined the gathered troops.
• Great General Lei Xiao appeared before nearly fifty thousand Heavenly Soldiers and generals, whose ranks included Song Changming.

Song Changming followed Lei Xiao’s heavenly army to the Northern Immortal-Demon Battlefield, where Sea Demons attacked them during their descent. After Lei Xiao drove the demons away, the army reached the devastated battlefield near Tiandu Mountain.

• Lei Xiao led fifty thousand heavenly soldiers and generals out of the Immortal Court to reinforce the Northern Immortal-Demon Battlefield.
• Song Changming passed through the Great Heavenly Gates and descended with Li Gengsheng’s troop toward the Primal Continent.
• A Sea Demon attacked the army, and the heavenly soldiers drove it back before more Sea Demons emerged and swallowed several troops.
• Song Changming warned Li Gengsheng about an approaching Sea Demon, allowing their troop to evade its claws while a Battalion Commander engaged it.
• Lei Xiao unleashed divine lightning that wounded more than a dozen Sea Demons, then led the army onward across the sea.
• Song Changming saw the ruined Tiandu Immortal Palace and reached the battlefield, where immortals and gods fought the Evil Demons.

Song Changming fought alongside the Ninth Battalion on the Immortal-Demon Battlefield, where his hidden True Immortal strength helped the unit battle a powerful black monkey demon. After Li Gengsheng and Song Changming joined forces to behead it, the monkey survived, and their clash continued in a battle whose shockwaves drove nearby soldiers and demons back.

• Song Changming and the Ninth Battalion advanced into the demon-filled battlefield and were attacked by a Red-eyed Black Monkey and its horde.
• Li Gengsheng fought the stronger black monkey while the heavenly soldiers’ formation killed many of its weaker followers, with Song Changming contributing alongside his unit.
• The black monkey swept the unit with a tide of water and broke its formation, but Li Gengsheng used threads to pull thirty-two soldiers back together; Song Changming was among them.
• Li Gengsheng and Song Changming attacked the black monkey together, and Li Gengsheng blinded one of its eyes with a silver needle.
• Song Changming severed the black monkey’s head with his halberd, then burned the head with Sun God Fire when he realized the demon could recover it.
• The headless black monkey attacked Song Changming with its hammer, and their opposing powers sent shockwaves across the battlefield.

Song Changming and Li Gengsheng fought a powerful black monkey during the Immortal-Demon War before Qingquan took over the battle. After a giant foot struck down Kōzō Butsu and hurled Song Changming into a mountain, Song Changming discovered local spirits scavenging the battlefield and forced one to reveal an Immortal Family treasure.

• Li Gengsheng joined Song Changming against the black monkey, which unleashed Three Heads Six Arms and drove them back.
• Qingquan arrived and trapped the black monkey in a golden ring while Song Changming and Li Gengsheng defeated its monkey minions.
• Song Changming surveyed the vast Immortal-Demon Battlefield and saw shockwaves sweep across it, followed by Kōzō Butsu falling from the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• A Heaven-Supporting giant foot crushed Kōzō Butsu's Golden Body and blasted Song Changming into a mountain.
• Song Changming confronted mountain spirits hiding in the mountain and discovered they had been scavenging the battlefield.
• Song Changming threatened the spirits until the grass spirit spat out a glowing white pearl that proved to be an Immortal Family treasure.

Song Changming accepted the Water Stabilizing Pearl from a grass spirit and then witnessed the Five-horned Giant Demon confront Heavenly King Shenxiao and the Immortal Court’s gods and Buddhas. As the Ten Directions Demon Slaying Array trapped the demon, Song Changming retreated to search for Li Gengsheng’s unit and gather demon flesh.

• Song Changming took the grass spirit’s high-grade Water Stabilizing Pearl and gave her a demon corpse to refine in return.
• Song Changming saw the Five-horned Giant Demon emerge, destroy Tiandu Mountain, and swallow the fleeing Spirit Veins and earth-core energy.
• Heavenly King Shenxiao and the gods and Buddhas surrounded the Five-horned Giant Demon, which rejected the Buddhist Sect’s offer to surrender and attacked them.
• Heavenly King Shenxiao deployed the Ten Directions Demon Slaying Array, forcing Song Changming to retreat when its thunder swept across the battlefield.
• Song Changming searched the battlefield for Li Gengsheng and collected demon corpses, fleeing from powerful Evil Demons and luring them toward stronger immortals when necessary.

Song Changming intervened when the black monkey nearly defeated Li Gengsheng and overwhelmed it with his full strength, severing its limbs and head. The black monkey survived and revealed that its master was the formidable Hun Tian Monkey King of Eastern Monkey Mountain.

• Crimson Eyebrow Great Immortal saved Song Changming from an Evil Demon but told him not to lead any more demons to him.
• The Five-horned Giant Demon’s battle with the gods and Buddhas continued while Song Changming kept a lower profile on the battlefield.
• The black monkey battered Li Gengsheng and prepared to devour him so it could use its divine power again.
• Song Changming ambushed the black monkey, severed one arm, and used the Death Sleep Wind and his saber techniques to gain the upper hand.
• Song Changming used his Spatial Eyes, Great Evolution Five Elements Saber Array, and Water Stabilizing Pearl to defeat the black monkey and cut off its limbs and head.
• The black monkey begged for its life and named Hun Tian Monkey King as its master, and Li Gengsheng explained the Monkey King’s formidable reputation.

Song Changming and Li Gengsheng survived a day-long battle against a horde of demons, but a powerful female demon nearly killed Song Changming. Xiao Jiu arrived to fight her, leaving Song Changming injured but temporarily out of her grasp.

• Song Changming killed the black monkey, captured its Demon Soul, and joined Li Gengsheng in fighting the demons drawn by the battle.
• After fighting for a full day and night, Song Changming and Li Gengsheng defeated the demon horde, though Li Gengsheng was gravely wounded.
• A powerful white-haired female demon appeared, and Song Changming drew her away so Li Gengsheng could seek reinforcements.
• The female demon caught Song Changming and overwhelmed his attacks, piercing his chest with white bone and severing part of his arm.
• A monkey wielding an iron staff struck the female demon and knocked her back, while Song Changming crashed into a mountainside.
• Song Changming recognized the monkey fighting the female demon as Xiao Jiu, the disciple of Venerable Abyss.

Song Changming survived the White Bone Demoness’s attack after Xiao Jiu fought her and Xu Yunzi intervened to take her away. After recovering from his severe injuries, Song Changming looked out over the still-raging Immortal-Demon War.

• Xiao Jiu fought the White Bone Demoness, but Xu Yunzi subdued her with Buddhist beads and took her away, claiming she had affinity with Buddha.
• Old Stubborn Stone calmed Xiao Jiu, removed the demonic poison from Song Changming, and gave him a healing immortal pill.
• Song Changming thanked Xiao Jiu, who gave him a monkey hair that would summon him if Song Changming called for help.
• The Jiu Xiao Commander and Li Gengsheng arrived; the commander criticized the Buddhist Sect’s intervention, then advised Song Changming to rest.
• Song Changming and Li Gengsheng left the battlefield, and Song Changming fully regenerated his severed arm over several days.
• Song Changming surveyed the battlefield and saw that the Immortal-Demon War was still raging.

Song Changming forced the black monkey to teach him its spells and the Three Heads Six Arms divine power before returning to the Immortal Army. He rejoined Li Gengsheng near Tiandu Mountain as the Immortals and Evil Demons gathered for the final battle against the Five-horned Giant Demon.

• Song Changming tortured the black monkey's Demon Soul until it agreed to teach him, then used a corpse as a temporary body for its demonstrations.
• Song Changming learned seven spells and added Three Heads Six Arms to his cultivation panel as a divine power he could train.
• Song Changming followed his Immortal Token to Li Gengsheng near collapsed Tiandu Mountain, where the Immortal Army had assembled in formation.
• Li Gengsheng told Song Changming that the Five-horned Giant Demon was trapped and near death, but had summoned the Evil Demons for a final desperate fight.
• Song Changming saw the gathered Immortal Gods, surviving soldiers from his squad, and a vast host of Evil Demons preparing for battle.

Song Changming joined the Immortal Army as the final battle against the Giant Demons and Evil Demons began, while the Immortal Gods unleashed powerful treasures against a Five-horned Giant Demon. Amid the fighting, Song Changming protected his comrades and killed a formidable Black Dog Demon, leaving the battle still raging.

• Song Changming exchanged greetings with Crimson Eyebrow Great Immortal as more than ten Four-horned Giant Demons appeared across the battlefield.
• True Lord Tudé and other Immortal Gods descended, using a Seven-Treasure Umbrella, five true dragons, and other powers to restrain the Five-horned Giant Demon, but it roared back and spurred the Evil Demons to attack.
• Heavenly King Shenxiao ordered the Immortal Army into battle, and Jiu Xiao Commander and Li Gengsheng led their troops while warning the Heavenly Soldiers to stay together.
• Song Changming killed a Black Dog Demon that had attacked Jiebao, then helped the troop fight off more Black Dog Demons.
• Song Changming fought a powerful Black Dog Demon with flaming sabers, trapped it briefly with Spatial Solidification, and beheaded it before it could escape.

Song Changming fought through the Immortal-Demon War as the Immortal Court and Buddhist Sect competed for the Five-horned Giant Demon. Supreme Immortal Venerable captured it in a furnace, and after more than half a month the demons were defeated, leaving Li Gengsheng’s battered unit alive.

• Song Changming and Li Gengsheng killed the Ox Demon leader, and their unit rested before returning to the battlefield.
• Big-bellied Buddha tried to convert the suppressed Five-horned Giant Demon into a Saint Buddha, but an enormous furnace arrived from the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Supreme Immortal Venerable captured the Five-horned Giant Demon in his furnace and refused the two Saint Buddhas’ request to release it.
• Golden Lotus Holy Buddha and Big-bellied Buddha left to report the failed conversion, while Supreme Immortal Venerable departed with the demon.
• The Immortal-Demon War continued for more than half a month until the Northern Immortal Army and the immortals and gods suppressed the remaining demons.
• Li Gengsheng surveyed the dozen surviving Heavenly Soldiers in his unit and felt relieved that Song Changming had helped them survive.

After the Northern Immortal Army’s victory, Song Changming learned his battle record ranked among the best and returned to the Military Prefecture for rewards and celebration. As he struggled to cultivate the Three Heads Six Arms divine ability, the army’s banquet continued, and Li Gengsheng speculated about the lavish feast being held for the high Immortals.

• The Northern Immortal Army withdrew after the battle, leaving the ruined Tiandu Mountain and its drained Spirit Vein behind.
• Song Changming and the surviving soldiers entered their merits into the Myriad Immortal Monument, which recorded Song Changming’s outstanding demon-slaying record.
• Heavenly King Shenxiao announced a ten-day feast and one hundred mid-grade Immortal Nurturing Pills for every soldier, while Li Gengsheng predicted Song Changming would be promoted to squad leader.
• Jiebao left to cultivate in seclusion and attempt to forge an Immortal Body, with Li Gengsheng arranging his absence from the banquet.
• Song Changming tried to cultivate the Three Heads Six Arms divine ability but gained no experience after three days.
• At the celebration banquet, Song Changming found the food less impressive than the delicacies Venerable Abyss had served him, while Li Gengsheng talked about the high Immortals’ feast.