Chapter Summaries

Song Changze successfully formed a Golden Core and was sent with Liu Yuxin to the Eastern Sea Cultivation World, while Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan continued their work at home. In the Eastern Sea, Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi discovered rare treasures in an ancient underwater ruin, but a powerful puppet and a reactivated formation trapped them.

• Song Changze stabilized his new Golden Core, was named a family Grand Elder, and agreed to travel with Liu Yuxin to guard Black Cloud Island.
• Song Qingming gave Liu Yuxin core-forming spiritual items, then concealed Song Changze's breakthrough by letting rumors describe the couple's departure as a trip.
• Song Qingming resumed preparing for the Nascent Soul Realm, while Huang Siyuan advanced to Grade 3 High-grade Alchemist and earned Spirit Stones through her work.
• Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi repaired an ancient Teleportation Array in a Sea Abyss ruin, entered an underwater hall, and discovered Grade 4 Soul Nurturing Wood and other spirit medicines.
• A black-robed puppet emerged from the pool and a formation sealed the high platform, so Li Xuanyi confronted the puppet while Song Qingyu tried to find a way to break the formation.

Song Qingyu destroyed an array eye with Nine Nether Sword Qi and escaped with Li Xuanyi, while a demon king led a beast tide toward the True Sun Sect. On Funiu Mountain, the Ice Fire Flood Dragon passed its Golden Core tribulation, but Song Qingming received an urgent message about trouble at Taiyue Lake and was summoned to the sect.

• Song Qingyu found and destroyed the array eye with Nine Nether Sword Qi, then escaped the weakened array with Li Xuanyi as the Black Shadow puppet pursued them.
• A barefooted burly man transformed from a giant fish, summoned seven or eight Golden Core Demon Kings, and ordered a demonic beast tide to attack the True Sun Sect.
• The Ice Fire Flood Dragon underwent its Golden Core tribulation on Funiu Mountain and successfully advanced, gaining the ability to speak.
• Chiyan fought the newly advanced Ice Fire Flood Dragon and defeated it, after which Song Qingming ordered the dragon to return to its cave and stabilize its cultivation.
• Song Qingming received an urgent letter from Junior Sister Xu reporting a major incident at Taiyue Lake and requesting that he hurry to the sect for a discussion.

Carefree Sect sent reinforcements to Pei State after True Sun Sect reported a devastating assault by Taiyue Lake’s demonic beasts, and Bai Yuxian warned that a Nascent Soul Demon Emperor might have emerged. As the relief force neared True Sun Mountain, the mountain fell, and Shen Tongzhou returned with news that the demonic beasts had breached it.

• Huang Siyuan and Song Qingming learned that True Sun Sect had requested aid after demonic beasts invaded Pei State, and they went to Carefree Sect to join deliberations.
• Bai Yuxian told the sect elders that a Golden Core demonic beast might have survived the Nascent Soul Tribulation, and Li Mufeng dispatched six Golden Core Cultivators and Bai Yuxian to reinforce Pei State.
• The Carefree Sect relief force crossed into Pei State and saw widespread flooding and devastation as it traveled toward True Sun Mountain.
• Wei Xuanping led True Sun Sect cultivators out to battle the besieging army, but a Nascent Soul Demon Emperor appeared and blocked his retreat.
• Shen Tongzhou returned to the relief force and reported that True Sun Mountain had already been breached by the demonic beasts.

Song Qingming and the Carefree Sect helped defend Duanyang Workshop after the Golden Horn Demon Emperor destroyed True Sun Mountain and drove the True Sun Sect from its home. The Demon Race withdrew after the humans won a costly battle, and Song Qingming returned to Wei State to resume cultivation as an unknown visitor arrived at Funiu Mountain.

• Shen Tongzhou reported that True Sun Mountain had fallen, and Bai Yuxian sent Zhang Tieyang to Duanyang Workshop to find the escaped True Sun Sect cultivators.
• The Golden Horn Demon Emperor’s assault had killed Wei Xuanping and devastated the True Sun Sect, so the Carefree Sect and its allies fortified Duanyang Workshop against the advancing Demon Race.
• The Golden Horn Demon Emperor’s forces besieged the workshop, but reinforcements from the Mystic Moon Sect and Zhao Mengling helped Song Qingming’s group kill two Late Golden Core Stage Demon Kings and drive the enemy back.
• The Demon Race withdrew south to True Sun Mountain, and the human alliance held northern Pei State while rebuilding Duanyang Workshop’s defenses.
• Song Qingming requested and received Bai Yuxian’s permission to return to Wei State for secluded cultivation, then an unknown cultivator arrived outside the Song Family’s Funiu Mountain array.

After returning from the war in Pei State, Song Qingming learned that Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi had been injured while exploring an ancient ruin in the Eastern Sea and had asked for his help. He traveled to Hundred Flowers Palace and reunited with Song Qingyu, who said she was recovering.

• Song Qingming returned to Funiu Mountain and learned from He Mengxin that Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi were staying at Hundred Flowers Palace after being injured in an Outer Sea ruin.
• He Mengxin explained that Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi had discovered an ancient Teleportation Array, encountered a powerful Restriction, and wanted Song Qingming to help them attempt it again.
• Song Qingming left Huang Siyuan to manage the family and traveled with He Mengxin to Myriad Lake Island.
• Song Qingming arrived at Hundred Flowers Palace, where Song Qingyu greeted him and said she was fine before revealing another figure behind her.

Song Qingming reunited with Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi, learned they had found a Grade 4 Soul Nurturing Wood guarded by a Nascent Soul Puppet, and agreed to help them retrieve it. After He Mengxin could not obtain the White Glaze Fruit needed for Li Xuanyi’s recovery, Song Qingming met Xia Mo, who had become a Nascent Soul Grand Elder and predicted he would reach her realm.

• Song Qingming examined Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi’s injuries, gave Song Qingyu Healing Pills, and learned Li Xuanyi needed a White Glaze Fruit to recover.
• Li Xuanyi told Song Qingming that she and Song Qingyu had discovered a Soul Nurturing Wood in an Ancient Ruin guarded by a Nascent Soul Puppet, and Song Qingming agreed to help them pursue it.
• He Mengxin found a White Glaze Fruit in Hundred Flowers Palace’s Treasury Hall but lacked the Merit Points needed to obtain it.
• Song Qingming asked He Mengxin to deliver a letter to Xia Mo, and Xia Mo agreed to meet him in the peach orchard.
• Xia Mo greeted Song Qingming as an old friend and told him she believed he would eventually become a Nascent Soul Cultivator like her.

Song Qingming obtained a White Glaze Fruit to heal Li Xuanyi, then accepted Xia Mo’s wager that he would reach the Nascent Soul Realm within a hundred years. After Li Xuanyi and Song Qingyu recovered enough to travel, the group set out for the Ancient Ruin beneath Luoxia Abyss, where they encountered approaching green flames.

• Xia Mo agreed to help Song Qingming obtain a White Glaze Fruit and wagered a Nascent Soul Formation Spiritual Item against his reaching the Nascent Soul Realm within a hundred years.
• Song Qingming and He Mengxin exchanged two High-grade Spirit Stones for a White Glaze Fruit at the Treasury Hall, and Li Xuanyi used it to heal most of her injuries.
• Song Qingyu proposed that the group leave for the Ancient Ruin, and Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, Li Xuanyi, and He Mengxin set out two days later.
• Song Qingming and the others crossed the Bewitching Sea Region and descended into the Sea Abyss at Luoxia Abyss, following Song Qingyu toward the Ancient Ruin.
• The group reached the ruined seafloor settlement, where more than a dozen eerie green flames emerged from the rubble and rapidly approached them.

Song Qingming and his companions fought through the Ghost Cultivators guarding the Yin Spirit Land, defeated the Black Armor Ghost King, and reached an ancient Teleportation Array. After traveling to the treasure site and recovering their strength, they arrived at the white-mist Restriction, where Song Qingming prepared to inspect its Array Eye.

• Song Qingming, Song Qingyu, Li Xuanyi, and He Mengxin fought through waves of Ghost Cultivators, using He Mengxin’s Crimson Incense Burner to escape one encirclement.
• Song Qingyu found the hidden entrance beneath a stone pillar, where the Black Armor Ghost King ambushed her; Song Qingming trapped and defeated him, claiming his Ghost King Core.
• The group entered the great hall, cleared its Ghost Cultivators, and used the repaired Teleportation Array to reach the treasure site.
• Song Qingming warned the others to retreat if the Nascent Soul Puppet or other dangers proved too formidable, and they agreed before flying deeper into the ruins.
• Song Qingming placed Golden Illusion Butterflies along their route and arrived with the others at the white-mist Restriction, then asked Li Xuanyi to show him the Array Eye.

Song Qingming identified the restriction as a Twin Array Formation and led the group to battle the Nascent Soul Puppet while they searched for the hidden inner Array Eye. The fight grew more dangerous when Song Qingyu discovered several Golden Core Puppets beneath the pool, leaving Li Xuanyi to enter the water and break the formation.

• Song Qingming destroyed the outer Array Eye in the stone lion and explained that a second yin-position Array Eye could restore the formation.
• Song Qingming and the others searched the high platform, then concluded that the hidden Array Eye was in the pool with the Nascent Soul Puppet.
• Li Xuanyi summoned her powerful Golden Core Corpse Puppet to draw out the Nascent Soul Puppet, and Song Qingming and He Mengxin joined the fight while Song Qingyu searched underwater.
• Song Qingyu discovered several Golden Core Puppets beneath the water and fled the pool with them pursuing her.
• Song Qingming sent He Mengxin to help Song Qingyu, then summoned his puppets to hold off the Nascent Soul Puppet while Li Xuanyi went to break the formation.

Song Qingming and his allies fought to break the formation and defeat the powerful Nascent Soul Puppet. After Li Xuanyi destroyed the Yin Array Eye, the group overwhelmed their weakened enemies and brought down the puppet, leaving them ready to collect the spiritual objects.

• Song Qingming held off the Nascent Soul Puppet with his Myriad Spirit Puppet Array while Li Xuanyi searched the pool for the Yin Array Eye.
• Li Xuanyi found the black puppet guarding the Yin Array Eye, destroyed the nearby Spirit Springs, and then broke the Array Eye’s protection.
• Li Xuanyi joined Song Qingyu and He Mengxin against the six Golden Core Puppets, discovered their chest-core weakness, and helped destroy them.
• Song Qingming used spirit milk, his incomplete map, and his Crimson Heart Sword to hold off the weakened Nascent Soul Puppet until the others arrived.
• The group attacked together and forced the Nascent Soul Puppet toward the pool, where Song Qingming severed its head and ended the battle.

Song Qingming and his companions recovered after defeating the puppets, then tried to collect the treasures in the pool. A Primordial Spirit possessing a puppet trapped Song Qingming and Li Xuanyi, and after Song Qingming appeared to cut it in two, the enemy enveloped him in darkness.

• Song Qingming gathered the damaged puppet materials and sealed away the still-functioning Nascent Soul Puppet, explaining his interest in Puppet Skill to Li Xuanyi.
• Li Xuanyi led the group to collect the Soul Nurturing Wood and spiritual medicine, but the wood would not budge, so she and Song Qingming inspected its roots underwater.
• A purple barrier sealed the pool, and the destroyed puppet revived with a Primordial Spirit inside; it attacked Song Qingming and Li Xuanyi with Black Iron Balls.
• Li Xuanyi was trapped by a Black Iron Ball while Song Qingming evaded the others and used Golden Illusion Butterflies to deceive the puppet.
• Song Qingming feigned an attack, then struck the puppet with help from Golden Wind, Silver Armor, and his other puppets, cleaving it in two before Black Light engulfed him.

Song Qingming escaped the Green-Eyed White Fox’s Illusory Dream Black Realm and fought it inside his formation, using his treasures and abilities to counter its attacks. After Song Qingming battered the fox and threatened to continue, it admitted defeat and agreed to let everyone leave, though it began to add a condition.

• The Green-Eyed White Fox trapped Li Xuanyi and Song Qingming in darkness, then tried to possess Song Qingming, but he escaped into his own formation.
• Song Qingming attacked the fox with the Yin-Yang Eight Extremes Array and the Azure Jade Bottle, while the fox’s barrier and White Orb blocked his strongest strikes.
• Song Qingming used the Heaven Devouring Thunder Control Art to draw the White Orb’s lightning into his Bronze Oil Lamp, shocking the fox.
• The Green-Eyed White Fox offered to let Song Qingming leave alone if he returned the lightning, but Song Qingming rejected the terms and strengthened himself with the Myriad Spirit Puppet Array.
• Song Qingming’s Azure Rhinoceros Jade Pendant countered the fox’s illusion attack, and his repeated sword strikes battered its barrier until it admitted defeat and agreed to release everyone.
• The Green-Eyed White Fox threatened the people outside when Song Qingming kept attacking, prompting him to demand that it let them out before he would consider stopping; the fox began to object.

Song Qingming struck a deal with Qu Bai: he agreed to help retrieve a treasure in exchange for a chance to refine Heaven and Earth Divine Thunder, while Qu Bai promised to release his companions. After the group recovered and claimed the Soul Nurturing Wood, Song Qingming stayed behind to retrieve another item.

• Song Qingming agreed to Qu Bai's deal after they signed a life-and-death contract, and Qu Bai entered Golden Wind's puppet body while Song Qingming concealed him from the others.
• Song Qingming found Li Xuanyi, Song Qingyu, and He Mengxin unconscious but safe, then helped them recover and told them a cover story about defeating a Nascent Soul Ghost Cultivator.
• Li Xuanyi and the others retrieved the Soul Nurturing Wood and left the hidden site together.
• Two days later, Li Xuanyi paid He Mengxin and gave her an additional spiritual herb before He Mengxin departed.
• Song Qingming told Li Xuanyi and Song Qingyu that he needed to retrieve one more item and asked them to wait for him.

Song Qingming left Li Xuanyi and Song Qingyu behind to seek the Crimson Sun Divine Thunder, while Qu Bai helped him reach it in a seabed volcano. After subduing the powerful divine thunder, Song Qingming began refining it and asked Qu Bai to guard him before he handed over the promised item.

• Song Qingming told Li Xuanyi and Song Qingyu that he was seeking a dangerous Heaven and Earth Divine Thunder, gave Song Qingyu a Sound Transmission Talisman, and left them waiting nearby.
• Qu Bai emerged from the Soul Nurturing Wood and gave Song Qingming a puppet-refining secret manual in exchange for half the wood; Song Qingming then wrapped the box and continued toward the Sea Abyss.
• Song Qingming followed Qu Bai's directions to a seabed volcano, put on Qu Bai's Fire Repelling Cover, and descended into its magma cavern.
• The Crimson Sun Divine Thunder attacked Song Qingming, who endured its strikes before trapping and absorbing it with his Heaven Devouring Thunder Control Art.
• After Song Qingming subdued the Crimson Sun Divine Thunder, Qu Bai demanded the promised item, but Song Qingming asked him to guard him while he finished refining the thunder.

Song Qingming accidentally absorbed the Flame Heart Jade, whose overwhelming spiritual energy threatened to destroy him. He chose to risk an immediate breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, while Qu Bai prepared formations and Song Qingyu received his message talisman far away.

• Song Qingming refined the Crimson Sun Divine Thunder, revealing the Flame Heart Jade, which flew into his dantian and unleashed dangerous spiritual energy.
• Song Qingming used the Heaven Devouring Thunder Control Art to suppress the energy, and Qu Bai explained that he could either expel it at great risk or attempt to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Song Qingming chose the breakthrough, and Qu Bai taught him a sealing secret art and agreed to guard him in exchange for a future favor if he succeeded.
• Song Qingming gave Qu Bai formations to arrange, sent out a Golden Talisman, and began sealing the spiritual energy before entering secluded cultivation.
• Song Qingyu sensed Song Qingming's message Spirit Talisman on a distant reef, and Li Xuanyi worried that something had happened to him.

Huang Siyuan investigated reports of cultivators going mad at White Lion Marketplace and ordered the Song Family to examine the formation and seek help from the sect, while hidden demonic cultivators plotted against Song Qingming. In the Eastern Sea, Li Xuanyi found Song Qingming beneath an undersea volcano, where he revealed that he planned to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough.

• Song Yuanhao told Huang Siyuan that cultivators had repeatedly gone mad and attacked people at White Lion Marketplace, and Song Yuanfang suspected demonic interference.
• Huang Siyuan ordered Song Yuanhao to inspect the Demon Extermination Great Formation, investigate the northern demons, and notify the sect's Law Enforcement Hall.
• Two demonic cultivators learned that the Song Family had begun investigating and agreed to wait for Song Qingming rather than risk alerting the Carefree Sect.
• Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi followed a Golden Talisman's guidance to an undersea volcano, and Li Xuanyi descended into its magma to search for Song Qingming.
• Li Xuanyi found Song Qingming beneath the magma, where he explained that a spirit item had left him unable to move and asked her to inform Huang Siyuan and find someone to guard his Dao while he attempted a Nascent Soul breakthrough.

Song Qingming began forming his Nascent Soul beneath the volcano at Luoxia Abyss while Li Xuanyi, Song Qingyu, Huang Siyuan, and Bai Yuxian arranged protection for him. Five years later, a strange phenomenon appeared near Bai Yuxian’s outpost, and a Red-robed Man arrived to challenge her presence in the Outer Sea.

• Song Qingming asked Li Xuanyi to carry a Grade 4 Spirit Medicine to the Floating Cloud Mountain Range and seek a Nascent Soul cultivator to protect his Dao.
• Li Xuanyi gave Song Qingyu the medicine and told her that Song Qingming planned to break through beneath the volcano; Song Qingyu returned to the sect to seek help.
• Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian agreed that Bai Yuxian would travel to the Eastern Sea, while the sect used a Grade 4 Spirit Medicine to arrange a replacement overseer for Pei State.
• One year later, Bai Yuxian set up a defensive formation near the undersea volcano and stationed herself on a nearby island while Song Qingyu, Huang Siyuan, and Li Xuanyi guarded the perimeter.
• Song Qingming used the Crimson Sun Divine Thunder to temper his Golden Core, consumed a Nascent Soul Thunder Fruit and a Nascent Soul Pill, and began Fetal Nascent Soul Transformation.
• Five years later, Bai Yuxian sensed a strange Heaven and Earth Phenomenon, and a Red-robed Man arrived above her island and questioned why she was in the Outer Sea.

Song Qingming completed Fetal Nascent Soul Transformation after seven years of seclusion, while Bai Yuxian and their allies drove off the Demon Race forces gathering to stop him. The chapter ended with Song Qingming preparing to face the Nascent Soul Tribulation.

• Bai Yuxian fought the Red-robed Demon Emperor for three days and drove him away after he tried to investigate Song Qingming’s seclusion.
• Bai Yuxian recognized that Song Qingming had completed Fetal Nascent Soul Transformation, and Huang Siyuan went to invite Profound Daoist to protect him through his tribulation.
• The Red-robed Demon Emperor returned with Demon Kings, but Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi helped Bai Yuxian repel them by activating the formation and killing one Demon King.
• Huang Siyuan returned with Profound Daoist and Xia Mo, and the reinforcements later frightened off the Red-robed Demon Emperor, the Green-robed Man, and their Demon Kings.
• Song Qingming formed a Golden Nascent Soul and prepared to undergo the Nascent Soul Tribulation.

Song Qingming faced the six bolts of the Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation with help from his allies and the defensive treasures and formation he had prepared. After surviving the final strike, he emerged above the Sea Abyss as the thunderclouds cleared and attained the Nascent Soul Great Dao.

• Qu Bai congratulated Song Qingming on completing Fetal Nascent Soul Transformation and lent him the Level Four Illusionary Sky Golden Bracelet for his tribulation.
• Huang Siyuan tried to approach Song Qingming, but Song Qingyu and Li Xuanyi persuaded her to wait while Bai Yuxian, Xia Mo, and Profound Daoist guarded the Sea Abyss.
• Song Qingming endured the first three lightning tribulations with his Five Elements Divine Light Mirror, reinforcing it with the Azure Jade Treasure Refining Art.
• Song Qingming used the Heavenly Dipper Five Elements Great Array to withstand the fourth and fifth lightning tribulations, though the formation was badly damaged.
• Song Qingming sent the Black Tortoise Vajra Talisman against the sixth lightning bolt, then blocked its weakened remainder with the Illusionary Sky Golden Bracelet.
• Song Qingming flew above the Sea Abyss as the thunderclouds faded and declared that he had attained the Nascent Soul Great Dao.

Song Qingming celebrated his successful Nascent Soul breakthrough with the allies and family who had guarded him, then returned beneath the Sea Abyss to stabilize his cultivation. He began refining the remaining Flame Heart Jade, which Qu Bai said could save him decades of cultivation.

• Song Qingming collected the Earth Spirit Dew and thanked Xia Mo and Profound Daoist for guarding his Dao; he agreed to visit Myriad Lake Island and honor his pact with Xia Mo.
• Bai Yuxian declined Song Qingming’s offer of Earth Spirit Dew, and Song Qingyu, Huang Siyuan, and Li Xuanyi arrived to congratulate him.
• Song Qingming thanked Li Xuanyi for lending the Grade 4 Spirit Medicine and promised to repay her with a similar spiritual item.
• Song Qingming persuaded Song Qingyu to return to the Floating Cloud Mountain Range with Bai Yuxian while he stayed behind with Huang Siyuan to stabilize his cultivation.
• Song Qingming returned to the undersea volcano, gave Qu Bai back the golden bracelet, and began refining the remaining Flame Heart Jade in seclusion.