Recaps

He Song acquired the Violet Heavens Tranquil Meditation Art, then spent years studying a failing Golden Core Great Array before taking control of the valley it concealed. After discovering Silver Moon True Monarch’s remains and arranging for Wang Duan to investigate the cave, He Song faced the True Monarch’s revival through Wang Duan.

• Yun Jing arranged a private sale, and He Song bought Chang Kong True Person’s Violet Heavens Tranquil Meditation Art for 160,000 Spirit Stones.
• He Song returned to Tianquan Xiancheng, thanked Master Luo Jing, mastered the art, and refined his magical treasures and spirit puppets.
• He Song visited Lin Cong’s grave, then concealed himself near the Golden Core Great Array and studied it while the alliance war expanded.
• After the array dissipated, He Song sent his puppets into the valley, lost Wild Crane to its golden-armored guards, and rebuilt the array to suppress them.
• He Song searched the cave dwelling, gathered its pills, herbs, and artifacts, and found Silver Moon True Monarch’s remains, Jade Slip, and Storage Pouch.
• He Song brought Wang Duan into the cave to test its dangers, and Wang Duan discovered and swallowed Silver Moon True Monarch’s Golden Core.
• Silver Moon True Monarch revived through Wang Duan and searched for control of the formation, while He Song recognized the possession and prepared to restrain him.

After defeating Silver Moon True Monarch, He Song claimed the Mixed Gold Spirit Fruit and spent years preparing to refine Congealed Golden Cores. He left his sect post, secured the resources he needed, and began seeking sites for medicinal gardens to fund his cultivation.

• He Song used the Golden Core Great Array to kill Silver Moon True Monarch, then searched his memories and discovered the Mixed Gold Spirit Fruit Tree and the spirit land where it had grown.
• He Song explored the dangerous cave dwelling, harvested a ripe Mixed Gold Spirit Fruit, and spent years cultivating, studying the array, and learning Silver Moon True Monarch’s techniques.
• He Song returned to Tianquan Xiancheng, reunited with Master Luo Jing, obtained the Congealed Golden Core formula, and later left the city after handing over his post.
• He Song gathered pill ingredients and array materials, mastered the Golden Core Great Array, and received a transfer order that ended the Thick Earth Sect’s support for his post.
• He Song returned to his secluded valley, continued cultivating, and exchanged messages with Su Qian after she failed to establish her foundation.
• He Song judged that his cultivation expenses would soon exhaust his funds and decided to establish medicinal gardens across several Golden Core Sects.
• He Song filled the four golden-armored guards with Spirit Stones, traveled into Pure Yin Sect territory, and found a suitable valley site for ten medicinal gardens.

He Song spent a decade cultivating, refining pills, and harvesting his fifty-five medicinal gardens before bringing a large stock of pills to Eight Vein Immortal City. Xu Jie underpriced the pills to lure He Song out for Lie Feng Real Person’s planned ambush, while He Song left after marking Xu Jie.

• He Song established protected medicinal gardens across several sect territories, returned to his Golden Core cave dwelling, and began a ten-year period of cultivation and crafting.
• Su Qian sent He Song reports about the fog-shrouded Myriad Phenomena Immortal Market, while He Song avoided investigating it and declined Master Luo Jing’s request to meet.
• After ten years, He Song harvested his gardens, refined Five Elements Spiritual Pills, and continued improving his alchemy, talisman-making, artifact-refining, and concealment skills.
• He Song returned to his cave dwelling and found Yu'er had reached Qi Refining Great Perfection, then resumed seclusion while she rested in the valley.
• He Song harvested his herbs and Spirit Rice, set up the Heavenly Dipper Divine Thunder Array near Eight Vein Immortal City, and disguised himself as a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator.
• He Song brought one hundred bottles of mid-grade Earth Spiritual Pills to Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Xu Jie offered him only three hundred and sixty thousand Spirit Stones.
• He Song suspected Xu Jie’s low offer, marked him with the Spirit-Seeking Secret Technique, and left with the pills.
• Xu Jie sent Lie Feng Real Person a message praising the tea and revealed that the low offer was meant to leave He Song carrying the pills into a planned ambush.

He Song used the Heavenly Dipper Divine Thunder Array to kill the pursuers in Eight Vein Immortal City, then returned to cultivation and reached Perfect Foundation Establishment. After making five Congealed Golden Core pills and preparing Yu'er for his absence, he began his Golden Core breakthrough.

• He Song lured Lie Feng Real Person and three Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators into his array, killed them with divine thunder, then used Lie Feng Real Person to draw Xu Jie into the trap and kill him.
• He Song searched the dead cultivators’ memories, learned of Xu Jie’s tracking secret art and Meng Guan’s destruction of the Li Family, then looted the four families’ treasure vaults and secretly left the city.
• He Song left a young girl from Lie Feng Real Person’s family in a distant mortal city, sold his pill stock and stolen goods, and returned to his cave abode near Bamboo Mountain Immortal Market, where he reunited with Yu'er.
• He Song kept cultivating while learning from Meng Guan that he had taken a Golden Core Secret Technique from the Li Family, and he remained focused on his own progress despite news of the war.
• After seven years of seclusion, He Song achieved Perfect Foundation Establishment, harvested the Mixed Gold Spirit Fruit, and refined five Congealed Golden Core pills.
• He Song took Yu'er back to the river where he had found her, established protections around her home, and returned to his cave abode to begin secluded cultivation.
• He Song filled his dantian through Great Circulation Breathing Technique, reviewed the risks of core condensation, and swallowed a Congealed Golden Core as his breakthrough began.