Recaps

Shen Wen passed the Eighth Rank assessment, gained influence in the Pill Pagoda, and married Cai Lin as his Equal Wife. He built his forces and prepared to confront Ice River Valley while pursuing the Calamity Poison Body research.

• Shen Wen offered the Pill Tower access to his pill recipe and cultivation method, then announced his plan to marry Cai Lin as an Equal Wife after his Eighth-grade assessment.
• Shen Wen studied and adapted the Spirit Ascension Method, impressing Xuan Danzi with his mastery and earning encouragement to attempt an Eighth-Grade Pill.
• Shen Wen refined an Eighth-Grade Soul Cleansing Pill, used Spirit Ascension to temper it, and swallowed its Pill Lightning, stunning the spectators.
• Shen Wen passed the Eighth Rank assessment by refining an Yi Shi Pill, while Xuan Yi investigated the Bai and Qiu families for tampering with the ingredients.
• Xuan Yi reported that the guilty Bai and Qiu representatives had been punished, and Shen Wen accepted a vacant Pill Pagoda elder seat while preparing the Northwest Space Wormhole.
• Shen Wen broke through to Six-star Dou Ancestor, recruited seven subordinates, and completed his marriage rites with Cai Lin in Pill Tower City.
• Shen Wen rejected Blazing Flame Valley’s offer for a Fire Bodhi Pill until the valley agreed to provide the complete Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes, then refused its conditional arrangement.
• Shen Wen used the Great Pudu Technique to convert captured Dou Zongs, while arranging to visit Ice River Valley with Xiao Yi Xian for research on the Calamity Poison Body.

Shen Wen brought Ice River Valley under his control, helped Tang Huo'er fuse with the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, and gained Blazing Flame Valley’s inheritance insights. After Demon Crow targeted Qing Lin, Shen Wen uncovered Sky Snake Mansion’s role and left with her for the Northwest, while Tang Huo'er met his companions in Sacred Pill City.

• Tang Zhen offered Shen Wen gifts and the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes in exchange for a Fire Bodhi Pill, and Shen Wen later traded two Zong Ji Pills with Bing He for Ice River Valley’s Calamity Poison research.
• Bing He’s ambush failed, and Shen Wen converted Bing He, Tian Shuang Zi, and nearly a hundred Ice River Valley disciples before Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the poison origin and resolved to pursue her own cultivation path.
• Shen Wen returned to the Pill Tower, arranged for Tian Shuang Zi to serve as Shen Tian, and completed the core of a Twin Space Crystal Array.
• Shen Wen refined the Fire Bodhi Pill for Tang Huo'er, whose successful fusion with the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire followed his intervention to calm the flame.
• Shen Wen studied Blazing Flame Valley’s inheritance and learned the principles behind the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes, while Tang Huo'er discovered he already had wives.
• Yao Wu attacked Qing Lin to seize her eyes, but Shen Wen stopped and converted Demon Crow, who revealed that Sky Snake Mansion had reported Qing Lin’s whereabouts to his clan.
• Shen Wen sent Demon Crow undercover, then announced he would travel to the Northwest with Qing Lin while Cao Ying remained in Sacred Pill City.
• Dan Chen gave Shen Wen a clan record about locating a weak point in the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Void Space and a Storage Ring of techniques, and Tang Huo'er met Shen Wen’s companions at Shen Manor.

Shen Wen strengthened his influence across the northwest, defeated Cao Xiu in a public alchemy contest, and brought the Gold Devouring Rat clan under his control. Following their intelligence into a volcanic fissure, he entered a hidden world and discovered the remains of two ancient beasts and a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Cao Ying encouraged Tang Huo'er to face her feelings for Shen Wen, then shared news of a Seventh-Order Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast in Fallen God Ravine.
• Shen Wen and Qing Lin traveled to Sky Snake Mansion, where Shen Wen converted its people and left Qing Lin to study its serpent-bloodline arts.
• Shen Wen built a concealed Space Channel linking the northwest to Sacred Pill City, then returned and asked Cai Lin and Xiao Yi Xian to accept Qing Lin as his concubine.
• Cao Tianxiong offered Shen Wen access to the Cao Family's resources in exchange for their first child bearing the Cao surname, but withdrew the condition after Shen Wen refused.
• Shen Wen and Qing Lin held their concubinage ceremony, and Shen Wen helped her refine the Heavenly Demon Body Origin and gave her the Great Charm Technique.
• Cao Xiu challenged Shen Wen to a public alchemy contest, but Shen Wen refined a Half-step Eighth Grade Profound Sun Pill and won before Cao Xiu could finish.
• Shen Wen traveled to the Tian Mu Mountain Range, converted Patriarch Jin Shi and the Gold Devouring Rat clan, and tasked them with gathering intelligence and rare metals.
• Shen Wen entered a spatial rift beneath a volcano and found the entwined corpses of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, with a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit growing in their Blood Lake.

Shen Wen expanded his strength and influence while refining pills, testing his combat power, and arranging alliances. The arc left him helping Zi Yan complete her transformation after she refined the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Shen Wen drained the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, completed his Azure Dragon Body transformation, and advanced to middle-stage Eight-star Dou Zong.
• Shen Wen returned the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to safekeeping for Zi Yan and later welcomed Shen Yi Nian, whose birth revealed her immense power.
• Shen Wen opened his Fourth Origin, refined a Venerable Title Pill, and demonstrated his formidable techniques in a spar with Old Monster Lin.
• Shen Wen converted captured Dou Zongs and negotiated with Huang Xuan for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to capture Ancient Void Dragons.
• Shen Wen expanded his pill and weapon trade, strengthened his influence, and married Dan Chen at Shen Manor.
• Zi Yan advanced to the Demon Venerable realm, then began refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit as Shen Wen watched over her.
• Shen Wen guided Zi Yan through a month of cultivation in the Heaven-Burning Cauldron, and she emerged in violet-gold dragon-and-phoenix robes.