Chapter Summaries

Song Qingming emerged from seclusion in the Sea Abyss after refining the Flame Heart Jade, then reunited with Huang Siyuan and learned that Li Xuanyi was attempting a breakthrough. Three months later, Song Qingyu and Fang Baixuan investigated a demonic cultivator attack near White Lion Marketplace and became trapped in battle, while another figure detected someone arriving nearby.

• Song Qingming left the Sea Abyss, told Huang Siyuan that refining the Flame Heart Jade had strengthened his cultivation, and learned that Li Xuanyi had entered seclusion to break through.
• Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan stayed on the island to guard Li Xuanyi and talked about growing old together beneath the snowfall.
• Song Qingyu and Fang Baixuan arrived at White Lion Marketplace after Song Xuanting and the Law Enforcement Team vanished while investigating a demonic beast near Grasshead Mountain.
• Song Qingyu and Fang Baixuan found a masked Golden Core cultivator at Grasshead Mountain, who attacked them with two Late Golden Core Blood Corpse Puppets.
• Fang Baixuan sent a message talisman, but a dark figure intercepted it and spotted a moving point of light on a wooden plaque.
• The masked cultivator received a voice transmission from the dark figure and exclaimed that the awaited arrival had finally come.

After returning to Qinghe County, Song Qingming found two Blood Spirit Sect cultivators attacking Chiyan Market and demanding the Tongtian Token. He revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation, killed both attackers, and sealed their Primordial Spirits.

• Song Qingming returned to Qinghe County with Li Xuanyi and Huang Siyuan after nearly ten years away, and the group headed to Chiyan Market to learn how the family had fared.
• Two masked Blood Spirit Sect cultivators arrived at Chiyan Market, demanded Song Qingming, and attacked Huang Siyuan and the marketplace’s protection array.
• Song Qingming confronted the attackers, recognized their connection to Ma Wuchen, and refused to hand over the Tongtian Token.
• The Blood Spirit Sect cultivators summoned Blood Corpse Puppets and a Blood Spirit Ten Thousand Bones Plate, but Song Qingming revealed that he had become a Nascent Soul Cultivator.
• The attackers fled, but Song Qingming pursued and killed both, destroying the Blood Colored Skeleton and sealing each man’s Primordial Spirit.

Song Qingming returned to Funiu Mountain after defeating two Blood Spirit Sect cultivators, then learned that Song Xinyu had died and honored his family’s dead. Bai Yuxian visited to arrange a Nascent Soul celebration for him, and Song Qingming agreed to hold it at Mount Guyang.

• Song Qingming defeated two Blood Spirit Sect Golden Core cultivators who had attacked Chiyan Market, and reunited with Song Qingyu and Fang Baixuan.
• Song Qingming revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation to Fang Baixuan and asked him to keep it secret.
• Song Qingming returned to Funiu Mountain and learned that Song Xinyu had died half a year earlier, then poured Spirit Wine at his grave and the graves of other relatives.
• Bai Yuxian visited Song Qingming and explained that the Carefree Sect needed to hold a Nascent Soul celebration to announce his advancement and display the sect’s strength.
• Song Qingming initially declined the celebration, but agreed after Bai Yuxian insisted, and they set a date for it.

Song Qingming agreed to join the Carefree Sect as its Grand Elder while remaining Song Family patriarch, then searched the souls of two Blood Spirit Sect cultivators and advanced his Puppet Skill. Half a year later, the sect delivered the Song Family an invitation to an important occasion.

• Song Qingming accepted the Carefree Sect’s terms for becoming Grand Elder, including swearing an oath of loyalty, while retaining authority over the Song Family.
• Qu Bai complained that Song Qingming’s cave abode lacked suitable yin energy, and Song Qingming promised to find him a better place.
• Song Qingming searched the souls of two captured Blood Spirit Sect cultivators, learned they had plotted to lure him out, and destroyed a shadow linked to the Crimson Blood Old Demon.
• Song Qingming examined the captured Blood Spirit Ten Thousand Bones Plate and continued studying puppet crafting until he made his first Grade 2 Puppet Beast.
• Qiu Yunhe visited Funiu Mountain, told Song Yuanfang that Uncle-Master Xu had agreed to the Yinfeng Ridge matter, and delivered the Carefree Sect’s invitation for the Song Family ancestors.

After the Carefree Sect announced Song Qingming’s successful breakthrough to Nascent Soul, the news spread across the region and cultivation families and sects prepared to attend his celebration. A year later, Song Qingming arrived at Mount Guyang for the ceremony, where visiting Golden Core cultivators welcomed him as a senior.

• Song Yuanfang learned from Song Qingyu that Song Qingming had formed a Nascent Soul and hurried to share the news with the Song Family.
• The Song Family’s allied families offered congratulations, while Zhang Tieyang and leaders from other sects discussed the news and planned their attendance.
• A year later, Xu Ziyan and Li Junyan welcomed Song Qingming and his group as they arrived at Mount Guyang for his Nascent Soul Celebration.
• Song Qingming joined the celebration guests at Carefree Hall, where visiting Golden Core Cultivators stood and greeted him respectfully.

Song Qingming attended a celebration at Carefree Sect after forming his Nascent Soul, where he revealed that he had deduced a suitable cultivation art himself and impressed the sect leaders and visiting cultivators. The celebration was about to begin when Zhao Wuling arrived in person, surprising the hosts.

• Song Qingming thanked Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian for their congratulations and praised the Spirit Tea Li Mufeng served.
• Song Qingming declined to switch to a sect cultivation art and explained that he had deduced a Nascent Soul cultivation art suited to himself, astonishing Li Mufeng, Bai Yuxian, and the other cultivators.
• Bai Yuxian acknowledged Song Qingming's skill in comprehending cultivation arts and asked to seek his guidance in the future.
• He Wuyou arrived from Star Gate and congratulated Song Qingming, while cultivators from the Heavenly Pole Sect and Lingyin Sect also gathered at Carefree Hall.
• Xu Ziyan announced the arrival of the Myriad Spirits Sect, then escorted Zhao Wuling into the hall, surprising Li Mufeng and the others.

Song Qingming’s Nascent Soul Celebration brought together nearly a hundred Golden Core Cultivators and eight Nascent Soul Cultivators, including Zhao Wuling of the Myriad Spirits Sect. After Zhao questioned Song about the Blood Demon Old Ancestor, the celebration’s guests presented Song with valuable gifts.

• Zhao Wuling and Han Yu arrived with the Myriad Spirits Sect delegation, and Zhao’s unexpected presence prompted Li Mufeng and the others to wonder about his purpose.
• Li Mufeng, Bai Yuxian, and Song Qingming opened the celebration before a gathering of Nascent Soul and Golden Core Cultivators.
• Zhao Wuling asked Song about the two demonic cultivators he had killed and whether he knew the Blood Demon Old Ancestor’s whereabouts, so Song handed over the locations he had learned from their memories.
• Zhao asked whether Song could deal with the Nascent Souls of demonic cultivators, and Song explained that his Level 3 Talismans could target their Primordial Spirits but that he had no such method.
• Bai Yuxian and Li Mufeng gave Song a Level 4 Radiant Golden Armor, and the other Nascent Soul guests presented spiritual items and a pill refined by Zhao Wuling.
• Golden Core Cultivators presented their congratulatory gifts one by one, with a familiar guest remaining last.

Song Qingming’s Nascent Soul celebration ended with the Carefree Sect rebuking the Nine Yuan Sect and welcoming congratulations from across the region. Back at the Song family, he arranged Song Yuanhao’s core-forming retreat and divided the celebration gifts among his family, ending by asking Huang Siyuan to identify a pill.

• Linghu Jie presented Song Qingming with a precious spiritual herb, and Song Qingming accepted it and told him to put their past conflict behind them.
• Li Mufeng stopped Linghu Jie and returned Silver Tokens to him with a warning for Wu Jiuyuan, while Han Yu urged Linghu Jie to leave the stage.
• Zhang Yurong met Song Yuanhao and Xu Qingyin at the celebration, and she and Song Yuanhao discussed his prospects for forming a Golden Core.
• After the ten-day celebration ended, Song Qingming returned to Funiu Mountain and arranged for Song Yuanhao to enter seclusion and attempt core formation one month later.
• Song Qingming showed Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan his congratulatory gifts and divided the spiritual items between them before asking Huang Siyuan to identify a medicinal pill.

Song Qingming sorted through his gifts, settled his cultivation plans with his family, and spent half a year refining Puppet Beasts before seeking Qu Bai’s guidance. The chapter ended with Qu Bai accepting Song Qingming’s gift and inviting him to ask his cultivation questions.

• Huang Siyuan identified Zhao Wuling’s gift as a rare Purple Cloud Pill, and Song Qingming agreed she could study it before he refined it.
• Song Qingming tested the Radiant Golden Armor, then told Song Qingyu and Huang Siyuan he would remain at Funiu Mountain and keep the sect’s planned southern campaign secret.
• Song Qingming spent six months refining Puppet Beasts, then learned from Song Yuanfang that Song Linyu had established her foundation and gave the family puppets for her and the Treasury Pavilion.
• Song Qingming traveled to Yinfeng Ridge and entered a hidden cavern to meet Qu Bai, bringing him a cyan jade bottle.
• Qu Bai saw through Song Qingming’s reason for visiting, accepted the gift, and invited him to ask for cultivation advice.

Song Qingming received the Heavenly Heart Divine Art from Qu Bai and struggled to advance his Tongtian Myriad Spirits Art. Back at Funiu Mountain, the Song Family celebrated Song Linyu’s Foundation Establishment, where she gave Bai Jingyun a precious spirit pill before Song Yuanfang caught up with them.

• Song Qingming showed Qu Bai his Puppet Beasts and asked how to control them more effectively, and Qu Bai gave him the Heavenly Heart Divine Art.
• Song Qingming left Qu Bai’s cave and meditated in the forest for over a month, but failed to break through with the Tongtian Myriad Spirits Art.
• Song Linyu emerged from seclusion after establishing her foundation, and the Song Family held a celebration attended by many cultivators.
• Song Linyu gave Bai Jingyun a Grade 2 High-grade Spirit Pill in gratitude for his help, and Bai Jingyun reluctantly accepted it after offering her a low-grade talisman.
• Song Yuanfang found Song Linyu and Bai Jingyun together and told her to return to the guests.

Song Qingming joined the Carefree Sect and allied cultivators in a counterattack to reclaim True Sun Mountain from the Demon Race. As the assault met the Demon Mist Great Formation, Song Qingming intercepted the Golden Horn Demon Emperor, who attacked him.

• Song Yuanfang warned Song Linyu to focus on cultivation and forbade her from secretly leaving the mountain, while she insisted she could pursue both cultivation and Senior Brother Jingyun.
• Three years later, Song Qingming failed to advance from Nascent Soul First Layer Peak, then went to Mount Guyang and received the Level 4 Low-grade auxiliary magic treasure Li Mufeng had crafted from Soul Nurturing Wood.
• Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian told Song Qingming that the Carefree Sect planned to join True Sun Sect and nearby sects in driving the Demon Race out of southern Pei State, and Song Qingming agreed to help.
• The Carefree Sect and allied cultivators gathered at Duanyang Workshop, advanced to True Sun Mountain, and were trapped in the Demon Mist Great Formation as Bai Yuxian led Golden Core Cultivators to attack its array eye.
• The Golden Horn Demon Emperor left Taiyue Lake to aid the defenders, but Song Qingming blocked his path; the emperor recognized Song Qingming’s Nascent Soul cultivation and launched a Golden Sword Light at him.

Song Qingming fought the Golden Horn Demon Emperor to keep him from reinforcing True Sun Mountain, ultimately driving him away after overpowering him with his treasures and puppet formation. At True Sun Mountain, Bai Yuxian’s forces continued attacking the Demon Mist Great Formation as the defenders awaited reinforcements, and a Nascent Soul Cultivator approached from the east.

• Song Qingming blocked the Golden Horn Demon Emperor’s path and used the Five Elements Divine Light Mirror to defend against his attacks and poisonous Purple Smoke.
• The Golden Horn Demon Emperor tried to escape, but Song Qingming intercepted him and wounded him with an empowered Azure Sword Light from the Azure Jade Bottle.
• The Golden Horn Demon Emperor trapped Song Qingming in Purple Smoke and attacked with Golden Sword Lights, but Song Qingming escaped with his six Puppet Beasts and Myriad Spirit Puppet Great Formation.
• Song Qingming used the Myriad Spirit Puppet Great Formation to strengthen the Crimson Heart Sword of Departing Fire and defeated the Golden Horn Demon Emperor, who fled after being knocked from the sky.
• Song Qingming pursued the fleeing Demon Emperor and struck him with another Azure Sword Light, then collected a severed tail and confirmed that the Demon Emperor had departed.
• Bai Yuxian and the Human Race Cultivators continued assaulting the Demon Mist Great Formation at True Sun Mountain as the defenders awaited the Golden Horn Demon Emperor, then noticed a Nascent Soul Cultivator approaching from the east.

Song Qingming returned to True Sun Mountain after driving off the Golden Horn Demon Emperor, helping Bai Yuxian defeat the Demon Race and reclaim Pei State. As the Carefree Sect returned to Wei State to face a northern invasion, they learned Li Mufeng had been injured and White Dragon Valley was in danger.

• Song Qingming arrived at True Sun Mountain with proof that he had driven the Golden Horn Demon Emperor back to Taiyue Lake, and Bai Yuxian ordered the Human Race Cultivators to resume their assault.
• The Yellow Saint Demon King led a desperate charge from the mountain, and the ensuing battle lasted through the night; the Human Race forces killed six Demon Kings and wiped out most of the demonic beasts, though both sides suffered heavy losses.
• Bai Yuxian distributed the spoils among the participating groups, and the Carefree Sect stayed to help the True Sun Sect reclaim Pei State over the next two months.
• Bai Yuxian learned that Demon Emperor Molong had appeared near White Dragon Valley, then arranged for Li Wutong, Shen Tongzhou, and a thousand cultivators to help guard Pei State before leading the others back to Wei State.
• Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian learned that Li Mufeng had been injured fighting Molong and that White Dragon Valley was in imminent danger, so they hurried there through the sect's Teleportation Array.

Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian arrived at besieged White Dragon Valley and learned that Demon Emperor Molong had injured Li Mufeng with a powerful Level 4 High-grade Magic Treasure. The plan to ambush Molong failed when he sensed the attackers and fled to Golden Feather Mountain, but the Carefree Sect drove off the remaining Demon Race army and slew several Demon Kings.

• Chen Xuanxin welcomed Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian to White Dragon Valley, where he and other cultivators had stabilized the defenses after Li Mufeng was injured.
• Li Mufeng explained that Demon Emperor Molong had reached the Nascent Soul Sixth Layer and wounded him with a Level 4 High-grade silver bell that attacked the mind and divine sense.
• Li Mufeng entrusted the Golden Flame Bottle to Bai Yuxian and arranged for her and Song Qingming to help him attack Molong during the coming battle.
• Song Qingming, Bai Yuxian, and Li Mufeng tried to surround Molong, but Molong detected them, blocked Li Mufeng, and fled to Golden Feather Mountain.
• Molong's army retreated from White Dragon Valley, and Song Qingming, Bai Yuxian, and Li Mufeng killed four Demon Kings and many lesser demons while pursuing the scattered forces.

After the Carefree Sect drove the Demonic Beast Army from White Dragon Valley, Song Yuanhao successfully formed his Golden Core and became a Guest Elder of the sect. Song Qingming handed much of the Song Family’s management to the younger generation, then entered seclusion and began breaking through to the Nascent Soul Second Layer.

• The Demon Emperor Molong blamed the Golden Horn Demon Emperor for the failed attack, warned the Demon Kings against confronting Song Qingming and Bai Yuxian, and sent the White Dragon Demon King to investigate Bai Yuxian’s magic treasure.
• Song Qingming and Song Qingyu learned that Song Yuanfang had gone to Cangyuan Mountain and found Song Yuanhao undergoing core formation there.
• Song Yuanhao passed the final stages of core formation on his first attempt, becoming a Golden Core Cultivator and the Song Family’s newest Golden Core Elder.
• The Carefree Sect invited Song Yuanhao to become a Guest Elder, and he held a Golden Core celebration at Funiu Mountain.
• Song Qingming transferred family management to Song Yuanhao and Song Yuanfang, then entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Second Layer.

Song Qingming emerged from more than three years of seclusion after reaching the Nascent Soul Second Layer and advancing the Tongtian Myriad Spirits Art to the Golden Core Realm. After checking on his spirit beasts, puppets, and Golden Illusion Butterflies, he learned that Bai Yuxian had sent a letter asking him to go somewhere and had since traveled to Qin State.

• Song Qingming broke through to the Nascent Soul Second Layer, while the Tongtian Myriad Spirits Art advanced to the Golden Core Realm and revealed a method for tempering his body.
• Song Qingming tested the new body-tempering method but stopped when the pain overwhelmed his meridians, resolving to cultivate it gradually.
• Song Qingming emerged from seclusion and praised Xiao Jin for advancing to the Second Layer of Golden Core and caring for the other spirit beasts and insects.
• Song Qingming inspected his Golden Illusion Butterflies and his puppets, reflecting on how the Myriad Spirit Puppet Great Formation strengthened him and how he needed more powerful puppets.
• Song Yuanhao told Song Qingming that the sect had sent a letter, and Huang Siyuan explained that Bai Yuxian had asked whether he would go before traveling to Qin State.
• Song Qingming asked Huang Siyuan how the situation in Qin State was going.

Song Qingming worried about Bai Yuxian’s demon hunt, then spent time with Huang Siyuan and agreed they could have a child after her cultivation breakthrough. Elsewhere, Wang, Han, and a white-clothed woman realized they were trapped in a powerful formation in the Illusion Sea Desert with no Array Eye in sight.

• Song Qingming waited anxiously for news of Bai Yuxian and the Myriad Spirits Sect’s campaign against the Blood Demon Old Ancestor, while Huang Siyuan reassured him that the operation’s secrecy explained the delay.
• Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan toured Funiu Mountain and met Qing'er, who had lost her way while looking for her mother, Song Yuanxue.
• Song Yuanxue reunited with Qing'er and told Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan that the girl had Three Spirit Roots with better attributes than her own.
• Huang Siyuan asked Song Qingming to have a child with her, and he agreed to wait until after the Demonic Beast Turmoil and her Late Golden Core Stage breakthrough.
• Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan worked together in her overgrown vegetable garden beneath Funiu Mountain.
• In the Illusion Sea Desert, Wang, Han, and the white-clothed woman realized an array had trapped them and that they could not find its Array Eye.

Song Qingming traveled to Qin State to help rescue Bai Yuxian and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators who had vanished in the Illusion Sea Desert. After arriving at Wanxiu Mountain, he joined Zhao Wuling and Fu Yungui, and their search party grew to include Wu Jiuyuan and the unexpected Zheng Zitong.

• Xu Ziyan delivered Li Mufeng’s urgent summons, and Song Qingming learned that Bai Yuxian and two other Nascent Soul Cultivators had disappeared in the Illusion Sea Desert.
• Song Qingming persuaded Li Mufeng to let him go to Qin State while Li stayed behind to guard the Carefree Sect, and Li gave him a defensive magic treasure.
• Song Qingming traveled to Wanxiu Mountain and met Zhao Wuling and Fu Yungui, who explained how the group had lost contact with Bai Yuxian and the others.
• Wu Jiuyuan arrived at Wanxiu Mountain to join the search party, followed unexpectedly by Zheng Zitong of Star Gate.

Song Qingming and his companions searched the Illusion Sea Desert for the missing Wang and Bai Yuxian, whose life tokens indicated they were nearby. After discovering an unexplained restriction that seemed to vanish, they were left uncertain where to search next.

• Zheng Zitong joined Zhao Wuling and the others in traveling to the Illusion Sea Desert to rescue their missing companions.
• A band of desert cultivators captured and killed two Wind Kylin Beasts, but a massive Black Hurricane swept in and devoured them all.
• Zhao Wuling, Fu Yungui, Song Qingming, and Zheng Zitong used the missing cultivators’ tokens to confirm they were somewhere nearby and split up to search.
• Song Qingming, Zheng Zitong, and Fu Yungui searched thousands of miles north but found no trace of Bai Yuxian or the others.
• While returning to their meeting point, the three noticed they had inexplicably switched positions after passing a patch of cloud.
• Song Qingming detected an unusual spiritual radiance with his array disc, but the mysterious restriction disappeared before he could locate it.

Song Qingming and his companions fought Gale Sandworms that could vanish and revive through a mysterious restriction, then became separated inside it. After a figure impersonating Zheng Zitong led Song Qingming to an ancient ruin, Song Qingming saw through the deception, and the chapter ended with the impostor asking how he had recognized its true form.

• Song Qingming sensed a concealed restriction, and he, Zheng Zitong, and Fu Yungui searched for it while waiting for Zhao Wuling and the others.
• Zheng Zitong killed a blackened Gale Sandworm, but its corpse vanished and the beast reappeared alongside dozens of others, which attacked the three cultivators.
• Song Qingming, Zheng Zitong, and Fu Yungui struggled to destroy the sandworms as they repeatedly escaped and revived through the restriction.
• Zheng Zitong used his golden cloth bag to open a path, but the restriction separated Song Qingming from the others and left him alone in the desert.
• A figure resembling Zheng Zitong found Song Qingming and led him to an ancient ruin, claiming that Fu Yungui and the others were nearby.
• Song Qingming challenged the supposed Zheng Zitong's story, and the impostor asked how Song Qingming had seen through its true form.