Chapter Summaries

Song Qingming returned to the Song Family after helping Huang Siyuan recover and celebrating Song Qingyu’s new Natal Magic Treasure. As he prepared to travel to the Eastern Sea Cultivation World, an urgent message from the sect interrupted the family meeting.

• Song Qingming inspected his growing Golden Illusion Butterfly swarm and the Ice Fire Flood Dragon, which had advanced to the Mid Qi Refining Stage.
• Huang Siyuan emerged from secluded cultivation with her injuries nearly healed, and she and Song Qingming returned to Funiu Mountain.
• Song Qingyu showed Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan her newly refined Profound Nether Golden Light Swords, a three-sword Natal Magic Treasure.
• Song Qingming celebrated Song Qingyu’s achievement and Huang Siyuan’s recovery, then learned that Song Yuanqian had achieved Foundation Establishment while Song Changwen had failed.
• Song Qingming told the family elders he planned to visit the Eastern Sea Cultivation World to seek Foundation Establishment Pills and a Five Elements Core Formation Spiritual Item for Huang Siyuan.
• Song Yuanhao asked to accompany Song Qingming, but a Qi Refining Cultivator rushed into the Council Hall with an urgent message from the sect.

Song Qingming learned that the Lingyin Sect had been defeated after the Yuxiao Sect defected, forcing its army to retreat to Baimeng Mountain, and that Lu Boyang had died in battle. The Carefree Sect chose to send reinforcements after hearing the Myriad Spirits Sect would intervene, and Song Qingming reached Baimeng Mountain and reunited with Song Yuanli and the others.

• Song Qingming received news that the Lingyin Sect had lost the Fenggu Plain defense line and Lu Boyang had died, then hurried to the Carefree Sect for a meeting.
• Yao Ganshu explained that the Yuxiao Sect’s defection had let the Tianhai Alliance break through, driving the Lingyin Sect back to Baimeng Mountain and costing thousands of lives.
• True Person Guangling and Zhao Menglian questioned whether the Carefree Sect should keep supporting the Lingyin Sect, but Li Mufeng revealed that the Myriad Spirits Sect had agreed to send aid.
• Li Mufeng dispatched Li Wutong, Jin Ziyuan, and Song Qingming with reinforcements to Lu State.
• Song Qingming and Jin Ziyuan scouted Baimeng Mountain and found it surrounded except for a northern gap the Tianhai Alliance had left as a route for retreat.
• Song Qingming and the Carefree Sect party entered Baimeng Mountain, where Song Qingming found Song Yuanli and the others.

Song Qingming and the other cultivators survived the war in Lu State, which ended in a hundred-year ceasefire that left the Tianhai Alliance holding Zipeng Mountain. After returning to Wei State, Song Qingming prepared a family trading expedition and set out with Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan for the Eastern Sea, reaching Meishan Market on their way to Tiandan City.

• Song Qingming reunited with Song Yuanli at Baimeng Mountain and comforted him over the Song Family casualties.
• Myriad Spirits Sect's reinforcements turned the battle at Baimeng Mountain, but the sides agreed to a hundred-year ceasefire that returned Fenggu Plain to Lingyin Sect and left Zipeng Mountain under Tianhai Alliance control.
• Song Qingming and the surviving Song Family cultivators returned to Funiu Mountain, where their family welcomed them home.
• After a year of cultivation, Song Qingming reached the Late Qi Refining Stage and arranged a trip to the Eastern Sea with Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan to purchase spiritual resources.
• Song Qingming directed the family to require Foundation Establishment cultivators supported by the treasury to repay it after succeeding, then departed with nearly sixty thousand Spirit Stones and other trade goods.
• The three crossed Duan Yun Mountain and arrived at Meishan Market, where they rested before planning to continue to Tiandan City.

Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan reached Tiandan City to buy Foundation Establishment Pills and a Core Formation spiritual item, but the Heavenly Pill Pavilion could not sell them the Heavenly Fire Black Pearl. After purchasing two Foundation Establishment Pills and other supplies, they inspected their order, where Huang Siyuan spotted a suspicious Azure Jade Pill and Ye Qiuyuan stepped in to examine it.

• Song Qingming and his companions crossed the sea and entered Tiandan City after registering at the harbor.
• Song Qingming asked Ye Qiuyuan for five Foundation Establishment Pills and a Heavenly Fire Black Pearl, but Ye Qiuyuan offered only two pills and refused to sell the Core Formation item before the next auction.
• Song Qingming bought the two Foundation Establishment Pills and received a Yellow Jade Token granting him a five percent discount at the Heavenly Pill Pavilion.
• Ye Qiuyuan arranged most of the pills and spiritual items on Song Qingming's list, though the Barrier Breaking Pill and Wulong Pill were out of stock.
• Huang Siyuan found impurities in an Azure Jade Pill and requested an exchange, prompting Ye Qiuyuan to come over and inspect it.

At Heavenly Pill Pavilion, Ye Qiuyuan discovered that a faulty Azure Jade Pill had been contaminated by an extra ingredient, then learned Huang Siyuan was a skilled alchemist and spirit chef. He offered her a place as an outer member of the Heavenly Pill Alliance in exchange for access to a Core Formation spiritual item, leaving Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan to decide whether to accept.

• Ye Qiuyuan tested the Azure Jade Pill with his pill fire, identified an extra ingredient, ordered a replacement, and apologized to Song Qingming and his companions.
• Ye Qiuyuan asked Huang Siyuan how she had detected the pill's flaw, and she explained that her Grade 2 Spirit Chef skills gave her a keen sense of scent.
• Song Qingming confirmed that he was seeking a Core Formation spiritual item for Huang Siyuan, and Ye Qiuyuan privately proposed that she join the Heavenly Pill Alliance as an outer member.
• Ye Qiuyuan explained the alliance's flexible requirements and offered Huang Siyuan access to a suitable Spirit Spring Eye; Song Qingming said he would discuss the proposal with her and return in three days.
• After completing their purchase, Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan returned to their inn, where Song Qingming told them about the offer and Huang Siyuan asked whether he intended to accept.

Song Qingming and Song Qingyu supported Huang Siyuan’s decision to join the Heavenly Pill Alliance, securing her a Core Formation spiritual item and a future Spirit Spring Eye retreat. After the group left Tiandan City for Hundred Flowers Palace, four disciples killed a Black Scaled Beast, only to face a far larger Golden Core beast that attacked their array.

• Song Qingming and Song Qingyu reassured Huang Siyuan that joining the Heavenly Pill Alliance was her choice, and Huang Siyuan agreed to become an outer member.
• Huang Siyuan joined the Heavenly Pill Alliance, while Song Qingming exchanged a High-grade Spirit Stone and Grade 2 Spirit Medicines for a Heavenly Fire Black Pearl; they arranged for Huang Siyuan to attempt Core Formation in Tiandan City three years later.
• Song Qingming, Huang Siyuan, and Song Qingyu left Tiandan City with four Foundation Establishment Pills and other supplies, then headed toward Hundred Flowers Palace to visit He Mengxin.
• Four Hundred Flowers Palace disciples lured and killed a Grade 2 High-grade Black Scaled Beast using Ice Ling Grass and a grand array.
• A much larger Golden Core Black Scaled Beast appeared, and the disciples activated their array and braced for its attack.

Song Qingming and Song Qingyu rescued Yu Yanting and her fellow Hundred Flowers Palace disciples from a Golden Core Black Scaled Beast, then traveled with them to Myriad Lake Island. There, Wu Xiang welcomed them and summoned He Mengxin, who arrived to greet Song Qingyu.

• The Black Scaled Beast broke the Hundred Flowers Palace disciples’ formation, killed one woman, and chased Yu Yanting onto a nearby island.
• Song Qingyu arrived and fought the beast, while Song Qingming used his Golden Illusion Butterflies and Golden Mirrors to prevent its escape; Song Qingyu killed it and Song Qingming collected its soul and materials.
• Yu Yanting thanked Song Qingming and Song Qingyu, then offered to guide them to Myriad Lake Island because Song Qingyu was visiting her friend He Mengxin.
• Song Qingming and his companions departed aboard the Phantom Boat with Yu Yanting and the surviving disciples, but Wu Xiang intercepted them and learned how they had saved the group.
• Wu Xiang escorted Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan to Myriad Lake Island, where they rested as he sent for He Mengxin.
• He Mengxin arrived at the reception hall and greeted Song Qingyu with delight.

Song Qingming reunited with He Mengxin and Song Qingyu on Myriad Lake Island, where He Mengxin invited them to a Golden Core trade fair. After Wu Xiang thanked Song Qingming for helping Hundred Flowers Palace disciples and tested whether he knew Xia Mo well, the story revealed that palace insiders were secretly trying to draw closer to Song Qingming’s group; two days later, the group arrived at the trade fair.

• He Mengxin reunited with Song Qingyu and learned that Liu Yuxin and the Jingyuan Mountain Liu Family were developing well.
• He Mengxin invited Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan to a Golden Core trade fair where they might find core-formation treasures and Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Song Qingming explored Myriad Lake Island’s shops, then met Wu Xiang, who rewarded him for helping Hundred Flowers Palace disciples and asked whether he knew Xia Mo.
• Wu Xiang reported to a woman that Song Qingming had little connection to Xia Mo, and she decided they should cautiously build ties with his group through He Mengxin.
• Two days later, He Mengxin led Song Qingming and the others to an island hosting the trade fair, accompanied by Hundred Flowers Palace elders Chen Yurong and Liu Cuiyun.

Song Qingming and his companions attended the Luolong Island Barter Convention, where he traded for a Water Spirit Fruit and a Crimson Dragon Pill. After the gathering, he and the other two departed for Wei State, while He Mengxin asked Song Qingyu to deliver supplies to Liu Yuxin.

• Chen Yurong brought Song Qingming and the others into the convention cave abode, where Long Fuhai welcomed them and explained the trading rules.
• Cultivators exchanged valuable spiritual items, including a White Jade Thunder Pearl and a water-attribute spiritual herb, while He Mengxin failed to obtain the pearl.
• Song Qingming exchanged his Green Willow Sword for a Water Spirit Fruit and paid Luolong Island its transaction fee.
• Song Qingming traded a Grade 3 Low-grade formation for a Grade 3 Mid-grade Crimson Dragon Pill, adding five thousand Spirit Stones to make up the value.
• He Mengxin, Chen Yurong, and Liu Cuiyun obtained useful items, and He Mengxin gave Song Qingyu supplies for Liu Yuxin before Song Qingming and his companions left for Wei State.

Song Qingming intervened in a fight over golden spirit fruits, killed two Foundation Establishment cultivators, and discovered that the fruits came from a mature Level Three Golden Fruit Tree in Yunwu Mountain. He helped the Song Family transplant the tree and let the white-haired elder go after making him swear to keep the matter secret.

• Song Qingming left Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan on a mountain while he investigated a fight, then seized a golden spirit fruit from the white-haired elder and killed the two cultivators pursuing him.
• Song Qingming questioned the white-haired elder, paid him Spirit Stones for the fruit, and compelled him to lead the way to the valley where the fruits had been found.
• Song Qingming discovered a mature Level Three Golden Fruit Tree in a cave and concealed the white-haired elder in a formation while he waited for the Song Family to arrive.
• Song Qingyu brought Song Yuanxue, Huang Siyuan, Song Yuanli, and Song Changze to the valley, where Song Yuanxue confirmed the tree could be transplanted and the family carried it away.
• Song Qingming released the white-haired elder after making him swear not to reveal what happened or return to the valley.

After returning from the Eastern Sea Cultivation World with valuable spiritual items, Song Qingming distributed and safeguarded the treasures, then arranged for a Spirit Planter Master to transplant the Golden Fruit Tree at Funiu Mountain. At Mount Guyang, he reunited with Gao Yuyao, who had failed twice to form her Golden Core, before returning home to begin closed-door cultivation.

• Song Qingming returned to Funiu Mountain and sorted the journey’s spiritual items, keeping the most valuable treasures while assigning others to family members or future plans.
• Song Qingming learned that Bai Yuxian had emerged from seclusion after failing to reach the Nascent Soul Realm, and he sent Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan to Tuoyun Mountain.
• Song Qingming visited Xu Ziyan at Mount Guyang and unexpectedly met Gao Yuyao, who had failed twice to form her Golden Core but still had another chance.
• Xu Ziyan recommended Wei Jingliang, a Level 3 Spirit Planter Master, to help Song Qingming transplant the Golden Fruit Tree.
• Wei Jingliang transplanted the tree into the Song Family’s Spiritual Medicine Garden, and Song Qingming rewarded and hosted him.
• After the transplant succeeded, Song Qingming made preparations and began closed-door cultivation.

Song Yunfeng tested positive for Three Spirit Roots and joined the Song Family on Funiu Mountain, where Song Qingming renamed him Song Xuanfeng. Song Qingming also proposed opening Foundation Establishment support to qualified outside-surname cultivators, and the chapter ended with Song Qingyu teasing Huang Siyuan about having a child.

• Song Yunfeng tested positive for a Spirit Root at Mujiao Town’s assembly, and his family celebrated his chance to cultivate.
• Song Qingming named the new arrival Song Xuanfeng and told Song Yuanfang to let him earn further support through cultivation.
• Song Qingming approved Xuanting’s Foundation Establishment Pill and proposed that qualified, loyal cultivators with outside surnames could also receive Foundation Establishment support, beginning with Huang Leqing.
• Song Yuanfang told Huang Leqing that the family ancestors would support her Foundation Establishment alongside Xuanting, and she agreed to prepare.
• Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan visited Mother Song’s grave, then welcomed Song Qingyu back from Tuoyun Mountain.
• Song Qingyu teased Huang Siyuan about having a child with Song Qingming, and Huang Siyuan blushed and scolded her for meddling.

Huang Siyuan entered seclusion in Tiandan City to attempt Golden Core formation while Song Qingming began traveling through the Eastern Sea Cultivation World. After reaching Spirit Turtle Island to seek spirit fruits and a chance to hunt in the Outer Sea, he encountered two familiar Golden Core cultivators.

• Song Qingyu reassured Huang Siyuan about her upcoming Golden Core attempt, and the Song Family council selected Huang Leqing and Song Xuanting for Foundation Establishment support.
• Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan traveled to Tiandan City, where Ye Qiuyuan provided a Void Spirit Pill and arranged for Huang Siyuan to enter seclusion.
• Song Qingming left Huang Siyuan in the Heavenly Pill Alliance’s care and spent more than two years traveling through the Eastern Sea Cultivation World.
• Song Qingming arrived at Spirit Turtle Island, hired Luo Li to help him find an Ice Spirit Fruit, and bought one at the Wind Spirit Pavilion.
• Song Qingming visited the island’s team-forming hall to seek companions for a trip to the Outer Sea, where cultivators planned to hunt a Level 3 Demon King in the Fengyuan Sea Region.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator brought two Golden Core cultivators to meet Song Qingming, and he recognized them with surprise.

Song Qingming reunited with Li Xianyun and Long Yue on Spirit Turtle Island and joined their group of Golden Core cultivators for a demon-hunting expedition in the Outer Sea. After reaching the Tian Yuan Sea Region, the group abandoned its search for a Silver Tiger Shark and began hunting other beasts, leaving after killing a Golden Core Demon King.

• Song Qingming met Li Xianyun and Long Yue on Spirit Turtle Island and agreed to join their expedition to the Outer Sea.
• Song Qingming fed the Ice Fire Flood Dragon an Ice Spirit Fruit, causing it to enter a bloodline metamorphosis that could lead to a Foundation Establishment breakthrough.
• Song Qingming and five companions traveled to the Tian Yuan Sea Region and planned to hunt a Silver Tiger Shark for its Golden Core.
• After searching for the Silver Tiger Shark without success, the group changed course to hunt other Demonic Beasts.
• Song Qingming used his Golden Light Demon Binding Formation to trap a Golden Core Demon King while Li Xianyun and the Golden Armored Man killed it.
• Dragon Moon Fairy warned the group that other High-grade Demonic Beasts might arrive, and the cultivators prepared to leave with the Demon King's corpse.

Song Qingming and his companions attacked the Silver Tiger Shark, but a Sky Wind Beast Tide interrupted the battle and forced them to flee separately. Song Qingming escaped two pursuing Demon Kings by hiding in a cave on an unnamed island, where a sudden collapse buried the cave entrances.

• After collecting the Early Golden Core Demon King's remains, Dragon Moon Fairy spotted the Silver Tiger Shark and offered the hunt's materials to Song Qingming's group in exchange for helping kill it.
• Song Qingming and the others trapped the Silver Tiger Shark while Li Xianyun, Dragon Moon Fairy, and Luo Yulong attacked it, but the injured Demon King broke free and fled with the formation in pursuit.
• A Sky Wind Beast Tide swept toward the battlefield, so Dragon Moon Fairy abandoned the hunt and ordered everyone to flee; the group scattered when Demon Kings began chasing them.
• Song Qingming escaped alone, but two Early Golden Core Demon Kings pursued him, including a fast-moving avian beast, and he used the Phantom Boat to reach an unnamed island.
• Song Qingming hid in a small cave in the island's cliff, and a sudden boom sent rocks tumbling down to bury its entrance and several nearby caves.

After escaping the Demon Kings, Song Qingming explored the flooded karst caves beneath the island and found a secret realm entrance protected by the Golden Sun Five Lightning Array. Inside, he discovered the remains of Zhao Jibai and learned from his testament that the chamber concealed Tian Yuan Sect’s ancient secret realm, which had sustained Tianxuan Sect for generations.

• The Demon Kings searched the island for Song Qingming for several days, then left without finding him.
• Song Qingming emerged from concealment beneath the island, recovered from his injuries, and searched the karst caves for an exit.
• Song Qingming found a blue stone gate guarded by the Golden Sun Five Lightning Array and used Golden Wind, the Thunder Gathering Pearl, and array flags to suppress the array.
• Song Qingming opened the stone gate and found the remains of Zhao Jibai, a former Tianxuan Sect Sect Master, along with his silver Storage Artifact.
• Song Qingming read Zhao Jibai’s testament and learned that the chamber was the entrance to Tian Yuan Sect’s secret realm and that Tianxuan Sect had secretly used its resources for generations.

Song Qingming discovered that Zhao Jibai’s remains concealed a secret realm that he could not open for several decades, but he recovered valuable treasures and carefully hid the chamber before returning to Spirit Turtle Island. There, he learned Li Xianyun had survived and found that the Ice Fire Flood Dragon had advanced to Foundation Establishment.

• Song Qingming read Zhao Jibai’s letter, learned of the secret realm, and tested the jade tile that could not yet overcome the spatial barrier.
• Song Qingming collected Zhao Jibai’s valuable Spirit Stones and Magic Treasures, wrapped his remains, and restored the chamber’s protective formations.
• Song Qingming left the island through an underwater passage and flew back toward Spirit Turtle Island, deciding not to search for his missing companions.
• Song Qingming returned to Spirit Turtle Island and learned from Luo Li that Li Xianyun had come looking for him after surviving the beast tide.
• Song Qingming entered his cave abode and discovered that the Ice Fire Flood Dragon had advanced to Foundation Establishment.

Song Qingming left Spirit Turtle Island after nearly two years of Demon Hunting and agreed to take Luo Li with him so she could seek entry into a sect. Before returning to Tiandan City, he brought Zhao Jibai’s remains and relics to Tianxuan Sect on White Sand Island, where he found the once-powerful sect reduced to a small Foundation Establishment sect.

• Song Qingming met Li Xianyun and Dragon Moon Fairy, learned how the survivors of the Sky Wind Beast Tide had fared, and received his share of the Demonic Beast Materials proceeds.
• Song Qingming joined Li Xianyun and Dragon Moon Fairy on repeated Demon Hunting trips for about a year before deciding to leave Spirit Turtle Island.
• Luo Li asked Song Qingming to take her away and help her find a sect, and he agreed after she insisted she was ready to leave.
• Song Qingming brought Luo Li to White Sand Island and confirmed that its diminished Tianxuan Sect was the sect Zhao Jibai had named.
• Song Qingming returned Zhao Jibai’s remains and relics to Sect Leader Chen Jianghai and the other Foundation Establishment Elder, who thanked him for fulfilling their senior’s final wish.

Song Qingming stayed at Tianxuan Sect to bury Zhao Jibai and helped Luo Li join the sect before returning to Tiandan City to wait for Huang Siyuan. Huang Siyuan successfully condensed her core, and Song Qingming welcomed her as she emerged from seclusion as a Golden Core Cultivator.

• Song Qingming agreed to remain at Tianxuan Sect for Zhao Jibai's funeral, where Chen Jianghai used his presence to strengthen the sect's standing with nearby forces.
• Luo Li chose to join Tianxuan Sect, and Chen Jianghai accepted her as his personal disciple before Song Qingming left for Tiandan City.
• Song Qingming waited in Tiandan City, improved his talisman-making until he became a Rank 3 Talisman Master, and learned that Huang Siyuan's core-condensation phenomenon had begun.
• Profound Daoist examined Huang Siyuan's seclusion and assured Song Qingming that she was close to successfully condensing her core.
• Huang Siyuan emerged two months later after stabilizing her Golden Core cultivation, accepted congratulatory gifts from Ye Qiuyuan and other elders, and reunited with Song Qingming.

After returning from the East Sea, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan reunited with the Song Family, and Huang Siyuan joined the Carefree Sect as a Guest Elder. Song Qingming advanced to the Golden Core Fifth Layer, and the chapter ended when Song Yuanli sent a letter asking to see him.

• Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan returned to Qinghe County, where Song Xuanting and Song Changze greeted them after they killed a demonic beast.
• Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan learned that Zhang Rong had formed a False Core, while Song Xuanting and Huang Leqing had both achieved Foundation Establishment.
• Song Qingming agreed to let Huang Siyuan join the Carefree Sect as a Guest Elder after Yao Ganshu promised the sect would respect her work with the Heavenly Pill Alliance and avoid sending her on risky missions.
• Huang Siyuan formally joined the Carefree Sect, then refined her Natal Magic Treasure, the Purple Gold Seal, while Song Qingming entered seclusion and advanced to the Golden Core Fifth Layer.
• Song Xuanfeng delivered Song Qingming a letter from Song Yuanli, who asked to see him at Yinfeng Ridge.