Recaps

He Song settled in Lingyun Capital, refined pills, strengthened Yu'er, and quietly expanded his network while avoiding unnecessary risks. As the northern Devil Dao prepared to attack Snow Wind Palace, Meng Guan and Wei Fan faced One Yang's succession struggle and He Song was summoned to war, though his Treasure Gathering Pavilion status might keep him from fighting.

• He Song tested the Evil Repelling Pill against the Hidden God Technique and confirmed that even cultivators who had taken the pill could not detect him while he hid and traveled underground.
• He Song established concealed teleportation arrays and a protected herb garden, then spent years in Lingyun Capital mastering pill formulas and selling surplus pills under disguises.
• He Song brought Yu'er to Lingyun Capital, discovered she had reached the Golden Core realm, and used the Spirit Taming True Formula to strengthen her and improve their mutual understanding.
• Meng Guan and Wei Fan visited He Song and revealed that One Yang was choosing a successor, with Meng Guan competing against several better-connected Golden Core candidates.
• After An Ning warned He Song that Snow Wind Palace Golden Cores had been ambushed, He Song told Meng Guan and Wei Fan that the northern Devil Dao was preparing to attack and gave them pills and talismans.
• One Yang announced that it would join the war against the northern Devil Dao, and He Song revealed that he had left the Congealed Golden Cores in Star Rock True Monarch's cave for Meng Guan and Wei Fan.
• One Yang summoned He Song to fight, but Meng Guan and Wei Fan advised him not to reply and planned to explain his Treasure Gathering Pavilion status to the sect.
• He Song asked Meng Guan and Wei Fan to warn him if the warfront moved south, while they departed for the sect and Meng Guan resolved to pursue the Nascent Soul realm during the war.

He Song reached Golden Core Great Perfection, then traveled to the Purple Bamboo Domain and spent decades studying a concealed Nascent Soul Array while the war between the righteous and demonic paths intensified. After mastering the array and finding its hidden cave abode, he acquired materials to build a Nascent Soul Array of his own.

• He Song reached Golden Core Great Perfection, reviewed reports of the growing war, and traveled to Purple Bamboo Capital to seek a Nascent Soul breakthrough opportunity.
• He Song attended the super-large auction, bought natural treasures and a Void Stone, then built a third teleportation array and searched the surrounding wilderness for hidden cave abodes.
• He Song followed the traces of a Golden Core battle to a concealed array and began studying it, preparing several protective arrays and a teleportation escape route.
• As the war intensified, He Song arranged for Meng Guan and Wei Fan to protect An Ning when she was sent to Jade Lake Prefecture, while he continued comprehending the Nascent Soul Array.
• He Song learned that Meng Guan led a breakthrough against the demonic forces, while An Ning helped him and Wei Fan stay supplied and safer on the battlefield.
• After decades of study, He Song mastered the array, found its miniature cave abode and treasures, and decided to leave to gather materials for an array of his own.
• He Song traveled through Lingyun Capital to another immortal capital and spent much of his fortune on Nascent Soul spiritual materials, then began considering his next steps.

He Song explored a Nascent Soul cave abode and acquired treasures and methods that enabled him to prepare for his breakthrough. He reached the Nascent Soul Realm in Lingyun Capital and began cautiously selecting what to cultivate next.

• He Song named his completed formation the Myriad Swords Return to Origin Array, returned to the remote cave abode, and used the linked arrays and his Golden Core puppets to explore it.
• He Song harvested the abode’s spirit plants and treasures, then used captured evil cultivators to test its cultivation chamber, where a dormant puppet killed several probes.
• He Song obtained a vast collection of treasures from the cultivation chamber and Treasure Vault, including Purifying Spirit Pills and the Core Shattering and Infant Formation Method.
• He Song returned to Lingyun Capital, secured a guest elder’s residence in the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, and prepared for his breakthrough with advice from Meng Guan and True Monarch Luo Jing.
• He Song shattered his Golden Core, formed a Nascent Soul embryo, and overcame inner-demon illusions, including one in which he relived his death in a modern city.
• Jade Xuanzi recognized He Song’s breakthrough and protected his seclusion as he gathered spiritual energy, merged half his divine sense into the embryo, and entered the Nascent Soul Realm.
• He Song examined the abode’s Jade Slips, learned powerful Nine Yang Sect techniques that he chose not to use, and asked True Monarch Luo Jing to raise his Guest Elder Token’s permissions.

He Song stabilized his Nascent Soul cultivation, created a powerful puppet, and investigated a cultivator who had searched for the destroyed cave abode. He later attended Meng Guan’s accession ceremony and exchanged insights with the Ancestor of Snow Wind.

• He Song studied Nascent Soul techniques and artifacts, mastered the Void Traversal Technique, and stabilized his cultivation while Meng Guan’s return helped end the war between the righteous and demonic paths.
• He Song erased the Nascent Soul cave abode, joined Treasure Gathering Pavilion as a Guest Elder, and chose the Void Escape Technique, Azure Cloud Moon-Chasing Steps, and Spiritual Artifact Puppet Refinement Technique.
• He Song gathered precious materials and refined the Nascent Soul corpse into Clear Wind, a puppet with Nascent Soul Late Stage combat power that he disguised as an ordinary Golden Core cultivator.
• He Song tracked Cang Yan after discovering someone had investigated the destroyed abode, then learned that Azure Flame True Person possessed a map to another Nascent Soul abode and had fled his family to seek it.
• He Song prepared Clear Wind for battle and agreed to attend Meng Guan’s accession ceremony, where he met True Monarch Luo Jing and secretly supported Meng Guan before the gathered Nascent Soul cultivators.
• At the One Yang Sect ceremony, He Song spoke with the Ancestor of Snow Wind, who revealed she had observed him in the Canglan Secret Realm when he was a Golden Core cultivator.
• He Song learned that the Ancestor of Snow Wind had admired his caution rather than sought to recruit him, then invited her to exchange insights about concealing breakthrough fluctuations.