Chapter Summaries

A mysterious man in black visited Chiyan Market, questioned a waiter about Song Qingming and the Jinshan Market front, then revealed his Golden Core strength by rescuing the marketplace from a demonic beast attack. After learning that the man knew the Song Family ancestor, Song Changze agreed to guide him to the front lines.

• The man in black booked a room at Immortal Phoenix Tower and paid the waiter for news about Song Qingming and the battles at Jinshan Market.
• When demonic beasts attacked Chiyan Market, Song Changze and Liu Yuxin prepared a risky counterattack because the marketplace was low on Spirit Stones.
• The man in black appeared above the Demonic Beast Army and killed several powerful beasts, prompting the marketplace cultivators to drive off the attackers.
• Song Changze and Liu Yuxin thanked the man in black, who said he knew their family ancestor and wanted to go to the Jinshan Market front.
• Song Changze boarded the man in black's Flying Boat and guided him north toward Jinshan Market.

Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan faced the worsening Demonic Beast Turmoil at Jinshan Market, while Song Qingyu prepared to reinforce Guiyun Marketplace. Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan discovered that the disguised Golden Core Cultivator Li Xuan was actually Li Xuanyi, Song Qingming’s senior sister, and agreed to take her to him in a few days; the chapter ended as a Sound Transmission Talisman arrived during their visit.

• Song Qingyu told Huang Siyuan that Song Qingming had ordered her to reinforce Guiyun Marketplace and warned the family to prepare to withdraw from Jinshan Market if it fell.
• Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan planned to face the next attack by switching opponents, with Huang Siyuan holding back the White Wolf Demon King and Song Qingyu targeting the Golden Toad Demon King.
• Song Yuanli brought Song Changze and the unfamiliar Golden Core Cultivator Li Xuan to meet Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan.
• Li Xuan revealed herself as Li Xuanyi and used her Jade Profound Scripture cultivation art to prove her connection to Song Qingming, whom she called her junior brother.
• Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan welcomed Li Xuanyi and agreed to take her to Song Qingming at Guiyun Marketplace after two days, while keeping their sect relationship secret from outsiders.
• A Sound Transmission Talisman flew into the cave abode as Song Qingyu, Huang Siyuan, and Li Xuanyi chatted, and Song Qingyu asked whether the Demonic Beast Army had attacked again.

Song Qingyu, Huang Siyuan, and Li Xuanyi fought the Demon Kings leading the army attacking Jinshan Market while Song Yuanli and the other cultivators blocked the beasts’ reinforcements. The Golden Toad Demon King fell, leaving the human forces newly encouraged to counterattack as the battle continued.

• Li Xuanyi volunteered to help Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan confront the Demonic Beast Army attacking Jinshan Market.
• Li Xuanyi engaged the White Wolf Demon King while Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan attacked the Golden Toad Demon King together.
• Song Yuanli and the cultivators left the marketplace’s protection to stop reinforcements, using a Level 2 High-grade Array to hold back the Demonic Beast Army.
• As the defenders suffered mounting casualties, Song Xuanting led the Law Enforcement Team into the battle to reinforce them.
• The Golden Toad Demon King’s corpse fell near the battlefield, and the human cultivators cheered and counterattacked.

Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi defeated the demon kings besieging Jinshan Market, while the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor arrived to lead the assault on Guiyun Marketplace. As the Carefree Sect fought to defend the marketplace, Demon Emperor Molong began preparing a mysterious attack against Li Mufeng.

• Song Qingyu killed the Golden Toad Demon King, then joined Li Xuanyi and her Golden Core Corpse Puppet in defeating the White Wolf Demon King and routing the Demonic Beast Army at Jinshan Market.
• Li Xuanyi gave the White Wolf Demon King's valuable materials to Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan, and Jinshan Market's survivors counted their losses and spoils.
• The Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor arrived at the mountain north of Guiyun Marketplace and told Canglong to prepare for an attack against the Carefree Sect.
• Song Qingming joined Bai Yuxian and the other defenders as more than twenty demon kings and a vast Demonic Beast Army attacked Guiyun Marketplace.
• Li Mufeng rejected Demon Emperor Molong's offer to surrender Guiyun Marketplace, and Molong transformed into a black flood dragon and began powering up three Black Orbs.
• Li Mufeng attacked Molong as the Black Orbs grew, then realized Molong might have prepared an ambush.

Li Mufeng was ambushed by the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor while fighting the Demon Emperor Molong, then escaped to Guiyun Marketplace as the two Demon Emperors began besieging it. After weighing retreat against defending the sect’s territory, the Carefree Sect elders chose to hold the marketplace, and Li Mufeng ordered preparations for a decisive battle in two days.

• The Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor ambushed Li Mufeng alongside the Demon Emperor Molong, injuring him before he escaped back to Guiyun Marketplace.
• The two Demon Emperors attacked the marketplace array, and hundreds of cultivators died before the survivors retreated inside.
• Li Mufeng told the Carefree Sect elders that the array could last only two or three days and asked whether they should withdraw or await reinforcements.
• Li Wutong, True Person Guangling, Chen Xuanxin, Song Qingming, and the other elders supported defending Guiyun Marketplace, and Hu Qingyun changed his position to join them.
• Li Mufeng ordered the sect to distribute its usable resources, prepare to fight in two days, seek support from the True Sun Sect, and gather defenders at Mount Guyang.

Li Xuanyi arrived at Guiyun Marketplace after helping Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan defeat the Demon Kings besieging Jinshan Market, and she asked Song Qingming to help resolve a bottleneck in the Tai Xu Sword Art. As the battle at Guiyun Marketplace loomed, Bai Yuxian planned to ask Li Xuanyi to stay and aid the Carefree Sect, though Song Qingming warned that her powerful family background made her unlikely to agree.

• Li Xuanyi arrived at Guiyun Marketplace with Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan, and Bai Yuxian learned they had already lifted the siege of Jinshan Market by killing two Demon Kings.
• Song Qingming reunited with Li Xuanyi, thanked her for saving his family, and agreed to examine her difficulty with the Tai Xu Sword Art.
• Li Xuanyi accepted Song Qingming's Silver Token and agreed to visit him at Funiu Mountain after the battle, while he stayed to prepare for the defense.
• Bai Yuxian asked Song Qingming about Li Xuanyi and whether he could persuade her to help fight the Demonic Beast Army.
• Song Qingming explained that Li Xuanyi came from a powerful Nascent Soul family, but Bai Yuxian decided to prepare gifts and ask her for help anyway.

Li Xuanyi agreed to help the Carefree Sect defend Guiyun Marketplace after Bai Yuxian offered her a precious spiritual item, though she had initially refused. As the decisive battle against the Demonic Beast Army approached, reinforcements gathered, and the Carefree Sect revealed its plan to confront the two Demon Emperors.

• Bai Yuxian visited Li Xuanyi and returned with more than eighty Mid-grade Spirit Stones to thank her for helping Song Qingyu escape Jinshan Market.
• Bai Yuxian asked Li Xuanyi to stay and fight the Demonic Beast Army, and Li Xuanyi agreed after examining a Jade Slip of spiritual items and selecting a reward.
• Song Qingming warned Li Xuanyi that the coming battle would be dangerous, but she said her chosen item was important and she had protective means from her master.
• The Carefree Sect gathered cultivators and provisions for a decisive battle, while more than four thousand cultivators from the True Sun Sect arrived as reinforcements.
• Song Qingming and the other Golden Core Cultivators assembled in Guiyun Marketplace's Council Hall, where Li Mufeng said Heavenly Pole Sect reinforcements would arrive within two days.
• Li Mufeng said he, Li Xuanyi, and Chen Xuanxin would help him hold back the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor while the other cultivators fought the Golden Core Demon Kings.

Bai Yuxian and her allies used the Vajra Heavenly Net Formation to restrain the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor while Guiyun Marketplace’s defenders fought the Demonic Beast Army. As the battle continued, Li Xuanyi summoned a powerful golden eagle that killed the Black Bull Demon King, while the wider fighting remained unresolved.

• Bai Yuxian explained that a Level 4 formation would let her group hold off the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor, and the defenders prepared Guiyun Marketplace for battle.
• Demon Emperor Molong attacked the marketplace formation, prompting Li Mufeng to fly out and challenge him while Bai Yuxian, Li Wutong, Chen Xuanxin, and Feng Yuan formed the Vajra Heavenly Net Formation against the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor.
• Song Qingming and the other cultivators charged out to engage the Demon Kings as the marketplace’s defenders fought the Demonic Beast Army; Song Qingming faced the Giant Elephant Demon King while supporting his allies.
• Li Xuanyi asked Song Qingming to help her evade the Black Bull Demon King, then summoned a golden eagle from a Golden Scroll and used it to kill the demon with a single attack.

After Li Xuanyi killed a Demon King and the first day’s battle ended, Song Qingming comforted Song Qingyu over the family’s losses and warned his wounded kin to rest. The next day, Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor trapped Bai Yuxian’s group with the Two Elements Heavenly Star Pearls and began attacking Guiyun Marketplace’s weakened array, but True Person Guangling charged out to confront him.

• Li Xuanyi killed the Black Bull Demon King, then joined her Corpse Puppet against the Fire Fox Demon King until Yanhu Demon King intervened.
• After the battle, Song Qingming checked on the wounded Song Yuanhao and Huang Siyuan, urged the family’s younger cultivators to protect themselves, and comforted Song Qingyu as she grieved for fallen clansmen.
• The next morning, Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian led the defenders into battle while Song Qingming and the other Golden Core Cultivators fought the Demon Kings; Li Xuanyi struggled against a Late Golden Core Stage Great Demon King.
• Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor used the Two Elements Heavenly Star Pearls to trap Bai Yuxian and the others, then flew to attack Guiyun Marketplace’s weakened Mountain Protection Array.
• As Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor prepared another strike, True Person Guangling charged out from the Mountain Protection Array to confront him.

True Person Guangling sacrificed his Natal Magic Treasure to interrupt the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor, who killed him before turning his attack on Song Qingming. Li Xuanyi used Daoist Lingxu’s sealed Sword Qi to wound the Demon Emperor and drive him away, but the battle for Guiyun Marketplace continued as Song Qingming returned to the fighting.

• True Person Guangling self-destructed his Seven-Star Blade to interrupt the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor’s spell, then died when the Demon Emperor pierced his dantian.
• Song Qingming headed to rescue Bai Yuxian and the others, but the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor attacked him and pursued him after Song Qingming blocked the first strike.
• Li Xuanyi appeared before Song Qingming and unleashed the Sword Qi sealed by Daoist Lingxu, destroying the Demon Emperor’s defenses and piercing his shoulder.
• The wounded Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor fled north, and the Human Race Cultivators regained their resolve while two Demon Kings pursued him.
• Song Qingming returned Li Xuanyi to the Mountain Protection Array, where she recovered after taking a Spirit Pill, then went back out to aid the ongoing battle.

After Li Xuanyi drove back the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor, Song Qingming and the other cultivators repelled the Demonic Beast Army from Guiyun Marketplace. The Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor then withdrew north with his forces, leaving Demon Emperor Molong’s army weakened and unable to take the marketplace.

• Bai Yuxian and her companions joined the battle, and the Human Race forces killed three Demon Kings before the Demonic Beast Army retreated.
• Bai Yuxian stopped the cultivators from pursuing and ordered them to regroup and defend Guiyun Marketplace.
• Song Qingming thanked Li Xuanyi for saving him, and she accepted his promise to help her comprehend her cultivation technique.
• Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian praised Li Xuanyi’s contribution and privately resolved to investigate her background discreetly while keeping her on good terms.
• Demon Emperor Molong learned that the Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor had withdrawn to Crimson Cloud Mountain without permission and angrily condemned him.

The Carefree Sect defeated the Demon Emperor Molong’s army after reinforcements arrived, then launched a campaign to reclaim Tuoyun Mountain and Iron Immortal Fortress. Both territories were retaken, though they had suffered extensive damage and loss of life.

• The Crimson Cloud Demon Emperor withdrew his army from Wei State, while Demon Emperor Molong continued attacking Guiyun Marketplace without its support.
• Yang Fengyu of the Heavenly Pole Sect arrived with reinforcements, and he and Li Mufeng ambushed and wounded Demon Emperor Molong before the Carefree Sect routed the demonic beasts.
• Li Mufeng ordered the sect to reclaim its lost northern territories and revealed that Zhang Tieyang had joined as a Guest Elder.
• Bai Yuxian’s force retook Iron Immortal Fortress after the Cloud Crane Demon King fled, while Song Qingming, Chen Xuanxin, and Zhang Rong reclaimed Tuoyun Mountain and killed its Demon King.
• Song Qingming and the formation masters repaired Tuoyun Mountain’s damaged protective array as Zhang Rong’s people began rebuilding, while Iron Immortal Fortress was found in even worse ruins.

After the Demonic Beast Turmoil ended, Song Qingming helped Li Xuanyi overcome a cultivation bottleneck and returned to Funiu Mountain to oversee the Song Family’s mourning rites for its fallen. The chapter leaves the family beginning to recover after more than two years of war.

• Song Qingming approved the Carefree Sect’s early merit assessments and rewards for those who served during the turmoil.
• Song Qingming returned to Funiu Mountain, recovered from his injuries, and spent nearly half a year studying the Tai Xu Sword Art to resolve Li Xuanyi’s bottleneck.
• Li Xuanyi received Song Qingming’s cultivation insights, then stayed on Funiu Mountain to attempt a breakthrough while Song Qingming went to Jinshan Market to relieve Song Qingyu.
• The demonic beast armies retreated, and Song Qingming disbanded the defenders at Jinshan Market before leading the Song Family cultivators home.
• Song Qingming arranged solemn funerals at Funiu Mountain for the nearly one hundred Song Family cultivators killed in the turmoil and ordered their families cared for.

After mourning Song Family cultivators and distributing battlefield rewards, Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan attended True Lord Guangling’s funeral at Mount Guyang. The chapter ended as Song Xinyu arrived to meet them, likely seeking help with his upcoming attempt to form a Golden Core.

• Song Qingming approved family Merit Point rewards for battlefield contributions, allowing cultivators to exchange them for spirit items and Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Song Qingming and Song Qingyu learned that True Lord Guangling’s funeral would be held at Mount Guyang, and Huang Siyuan joined them after attending Huang Sibao’s funeral at Taiyuan Mountain.
• Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan traveled to Mount Guyang, paid respects to True Lord Guangling, and spoke with the ailing former Sect Leader Yao Ganshu.
• Huang Siyuan explained that Yao Ganshu’s unusually good spirits likely came from a medicinal pill that temporarily concealed his poor condition.
• Song Qingming and the others discussed mortality and the cultivation path as they remained at Mount Guyang for the funeral.
• Song Xinyu arrived with several cultivators to meet Song Qingming and the others, as he neared the time to prepare for core formation.

Song Qingming helped Song Xinyu obtain a Core Formation spiritual item and advised him to prepare carefully before attempting a breakthrough. After returning to Funiu Mountain, Song Qingming guarded Li Xuanyi during her seclusion until she emerged after a successful breakthrough, and the group began making plans to travel to the East Sea.

• Song Xinyu introduced Song Linxi, a Dual Spiritual Root disciple descended from the Song Family, and Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan gave her gifts.
• Song Xinyu asked Song Qingming for help obtaining a Core Formation spiritual item, and Song Qingming made up the Merit Points he needed and gave him Spirit Stones for a Jade Dust Pill.
• Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, and Huang Siyuan returned to Funiu Mountain after attending True Person Guangling's funeral and paying respects at Song Qingze's grave.
• Song Qingming stayed to guard Li Xuanyi as five-colored auspicious clouds appeared above her cave abode, then congratulated her when she emerged from seclusion after breaking through.
• Song Qingyu invited Li Xuanyi to travel to the East Sea, and Huang Siyuan and Song Qingming agreed to accompany them, with Song Qingming planning to handle family business there.

Song Qingming took Huang Siyuan, Li Xuanyi, and Song Qingyu to Tiandan City to sell the Song Family’s Demonic Beast Materials, crossing devastated Zheng State on the way. After selling the materials with help from Ye Qiuyuan, Song Qingming heard Ye wanted to buy a Grade 3 or higher Fire Attribute Demon King Inner Core and asked what price he would offer.

• Song Qingming and the others prepared the family’s Demonic Beast Materials and set out for the Eastern Sea with Song Yuanqian and Song Xuanfeng.
• The group crossed war-ravaged Zheng State, then continued through the Duan Yun Mountain Range to Tiandan City.
• At Ten Thousand Spirits Hall, Song Yuanqian negotiated the sale of less than thirty percent of the materials.
• Ye Qiuyuan arranged for two Golden Core cultivators to buy the Song Family’s remaining materials, and Song Qingming gave up some profit in return for his help.
• Ye Qiuyuan asked Song Qingming whether he had a Grade 3 or higher Fire Attribute Demon King Inner Core, and Song Qingming asked what price he would pay.

Song Qingming exchanged a Demon King Inner Core for a Qianyuan Pill and Golden Dragon Pills, then reunited with Luo Li, whom he had helped decades earlier. After seeing Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi depart Tiandan City, he led Huang Siyuan and the others away from their route home to handle an undisclosed matter important to the family.

• Ye Qiuyuan traded a Qianyuan Pill and two bottles of Golden Dragon Pills for Song Qingming's Demon King Inner Core, and Song Qingming's group bought more pills at the Heavenly Pill Pavilion.
• Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi explored Tiandan City while Huang Siyuan went to the Heavenly Pill Alliance to submit an alchemy assignment.
• Song Qingming met Luo Li, learned that she had joined the Tianxuan Sect and reached the peak of the Third Layer of Foundation Establishment, and promised to visit her on White Sand Island.
• Luo Li reunited with her traveling companions, including Sister Guo, who hoped to seek Song Qingming's help with a matter.
• Song Qingming saw Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi off, then left Tiandan City with Huang Siyuan and the others after Huang Siyuan completed her assignment.
• Song Qingming steered the Phantom Boat away from the route to the Floating Cloud Mountain Range and said he had an important family matter to handle.

Song Qingming opened the Tian Yuan Sect Secret Realm on an island in the Outer Sea and entered it with Huang Siyuan after confirming the entrance was safe. They reached a mist-shrouded valley that the Manual identified as a Spiritual Medicine Garden.

• Song Qingming brought Huang Siyuan and the others to the island, concealed their presence with an array, and led Huang Siyuan through underwater caverns to the Secret Realm entrance.
• Song Qingming used Zhao Jibai's Jade Tile and the Golden Radiance Treasure Ring, with Huang Siyuan's help, to break the weakened barrier and open the entrance.
• Song Qingming sent Golden Illusion Butterflies through the entrance to scout, then entered the Secret Realm with his Five Elements Divine Light Mirror protecting him.
• Song Qingming killed a Peak Foundation Establishment white eagle, surveyed the area, and activated the Twin Spirit Talisman to let Huang Siyuan know it was safe to enter.
• Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan joined forces, consulted Zhao Jibai's Manual, and flew to the Spiritual Medicine Garden, arriving outside a valley hidden by white mist.

Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan entered a hidden Spiritual Medicine Garden, captured the intelligent Flame Rat Demon, and bound it to Huang Siyuan as a spirit pet named Chiyan. Chiyan revealed the location of spiritual water guarded by a stronger black bear, while the group reached the garden’s abundant medicinal stores and began exploring cautiously.

• Song Qingming used the Manual and his formation skills to break the Mysterious Ice Array, allowing him and Huang Siyuan to enter the valley.
• Chiyan followed them into the garden, where Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan trapped it with the Five Elements Divine Light Mirror.
• Huang Siyuan persuaded Chiyan to sign a Bloodline Contract by promising to take it outside the secret realm and free it if she died, and she named it Chiyan.
• Chiyan told Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan that spiritual water had awakened its bloodline, but a Mid Golden Core black bear now guarded the spring.
• Song Qingming promised to help Chiyan defeat the black bear, and the group reached a garden containing over a thousand spiritual medicines, including several near Grade 4.

Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan harvested a vast store of spirit herbs from a protected garden, then followed Chiyan to a spirit-water spring and killed the Black Bear Demon King guarding it. The chapter ended with Song Qingming stopping Chiyan from drinking the newly discovered White Spirit Water before they could assess its value.

• Song Qingming, Huang Siyuan, and Golden Wind harvested nearly three hundred mature spiritual medicines, including two Grade 4 Spirit Medicines, and replenished the garden with Spirit Stones.
• Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan searched other recorded sites, found a few Grade 3 spirit fruits, and killed a newly advanced Grade 3 Low-grade Demon King.
• Chiyan led Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan to its former cave, where they fought and killed the Mid Golden Core Stage Black Bear Demon King with the help of Golden Wind and Song Qingming's Golden Light Demon Binding Formation.
• Song Qingming learned that the spirit water had strengthened the Black Bear Demon King's body, and he and Huang Siyuan collected the bear's valuable materials.
• Chiyan showed Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan the pool of White Spirit Water and began drinking from it, but Song Qingming grabbed it and tossed it aside.