Recaps

He Song protected the One Yang Sect as Wei Fan reached the Nascent Soul Realm, while building a network of puppets and helping Ghost Soul establish Ghost Soul Hall. After the sect’s Nascent Soul Convention, He Song was promoted to branch pavilion master and began choosing where to serve.

• He Song used Clear Wind to complete Treasure Gathering Pavilion missions, seized a Nascent Soul cave abode, and gathered its treasures and cultivation resources.
• He Song helped protect Wei Fan’s breakthrough by bringing Clear Wind to the One Yang Sect, where Clear Wind established a teleportation array for the sect.
• He Song refined the Devil Dao cultivator’s corpse into Ghost Soul, who took over the Heavenly River Sect and renamed it Ghost Soul Hall.
• Wei Fan successfully reached the Nascent Soul Realm, while He Song refined more puppets and strengthened his growing force.
• He Song gave True Monarch Luo Jing his remaining Purifying Spirit Pill to support her planned breakthrough, then returned to the One Yang Sect.
• He Song and Meng Guan congratulated Wei Fan, and Meng Guan promoted him to Supreme Elder and announced a Nascent Soul Convention.
• He Song attended the convention and then traveled to Linyao Capital after Yue Lingzi told him he had been approved as a branch pavilion master.
• Red Lotus promoted He Song and gave him a map of vacant branch posts, and He Song decided to seek a safe location near the Treasure Gathering Pavilion headquarters.

He Song established himself as the Treasure Gathering Pavilion branch master in Zetianjing, brought An Ning there, and prepared her for a Nascent Soul breakthrough. He secured a concealed cultivation site and began strengthening his puppets, while learning that their identities could be exposed by traces of puppet-refining techniques.

• He Song took charge of the Treasure Gathering Pavilion branch in Zetianjing, expanded its informant network, and kept his own presence concealed behind Mingyue.
• He Song obtained Snow Wind Palace’s composite grand formation and brought An Ning from the sect to Zetianjing, where he made her a guest elder.
• He Song gave An Ning two Purifying Spirit Pills and breakthrough insights, and she entered seclusion to attempt reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• He Song discovered a natural concealing array in an underground water vein, built the Nine Abyss Return-to-Void Array there, and began cultivating in its dense spiritual energy.
• An Ning’s breakthrough stirred Zetianjing, and He Song used Clear Wind’s Nascent Soul aura to deter threats as news of her progress enhanced his reputation.
• At Yue Lingzi’s banquet, Han Yuezi recognized Mingyue as a puppet and explained that the Spiritual Artifact Puppet Refinement Technique could reveal its nature.
• He Song identified the telltale traces on his puppets, modified Clear Wind and Idle Cloud to conceal them, and turned his attention to Ghost Soul and Mingyue.

He Song befriended Han Yuezi, used Enlightenment Tea to advance his cultivation and skills, and built powerful arrays while keeping his strength concealed. After rescuing An Ning from a demonic cultivator, he uncovered signs of growing demonic incursions and warned his allies near the border.

• He Song met Han Yuezi in Zetianjing, and the two gradually grew closer as they discussed caution, their pasts, and the Dao.
• He Song discovered that Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s Enlightenment Tea Leaves were ripened through demonic methods at the cost of cultivators’ lifespans, then accepted leaves from Han Yuezi.
• He Song used Enlightenment Tea in seclusion to reach the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and master new spells, secret arts, artifact refinement, and formations.
• He Song built a powerful composite array and relocated his hidden dwelling to a natural array near the Zetian Immortal Domain, while preparing array sets for his puppets.
• He Song repaid part of his debt to Han Yuezi for the tea and gave An Ning supplies and a token before she left Zetianjing to gain experience.
• When a Nascent Soul Middle Stage demonic cultivator threatened An Ning, He Song sent Idle Cloud to rescue her and Clear Wind to kill the attacker.
• He Song learned from the demonic cultivator’s memories that the Heavenly Yin Sect had sent him across the border, and he warned An Ning, Meng Guan, and Wei Fan about the growing danger.

He Song advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, expanded his puppet forces, and forged his first Dao Artifact while preparing for the righteous-demonic war. When the Yin Soul Sect fell to a righteous assault, Ghost Soul fled and He Song weighed whether to return as its only surviving Nascent Soul elder.

• He Song attended the Treasure Gathering Pavilion auction and secured a Nine-Turn Dragon-Scale Fruit and a Void Azure Lotus Seed, then used them and his last Enlightenment Tea Leaf to reach the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• He Song claimed the treasures of a Nascent Soul abode through his puppets, refined the cave master's corpse into Evening Snow, and strengthened her with Clear Wind's Nine-Turn Tribulation Lightning Pearl.
• Han Yuezi gave He Song the secret Profound Yellow Artifact Refinement Art, and He Song gathered rare materials, built five Two-Principles Qi-Separation Arrays, and studied how to forge a Dao Artifact.
• Ghost Soul was drawn into the Soul Locking Sect's preparations for war, while He Song secretly strengthened him to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and kept him in place to gather intelligence.
• He Song warned his friends and allies about demonic attacks, helped prepare the One Yang Sect for danger, and sent puppets to seize another Nascent Soul abode's treasures.
• He Song refined Morning Dew from a Nascent Soul Middle Stage corpse, mastered the Dao Artifact method with Enlightenment Tea Leaves, and forged the Profound Yellow World-Suppressing Cauldron.
• Ghost Soul fled after the Yin Soul Sect's Sect Master warned of a massive righteous assault, and He Song saw signs that righteous cultivators had occupied the sect before considering whether to return as its sole surviving Nascent Soul elder.