Song Wen

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Feature	Information
Name	Song Wen (宋文)
Alias(es)	Extreme Yin; Wu Sheng; Alchemist Yuan; Yinshuo; Cui Huo; Ye Hua; Gu Huang; Xing Chang; Wen Xuan; Wei Ding; Gou Jun; Ji Lin; Jian Xiao; Yang Yu; Bie Chou; Lei Yue; Ai Kun; Yan'e 663 966 1180 2051
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Formerly the Corpse Demon Sect and Beast Taming Sect; Sect Master of the Asura Sect, also referred to as the Extreme Yin Sect in earlier accounts; later Sect Master of the Divine Blood Sect 673 678
Occupation/Role	Cultivator; corpse refiner; alchemist; talisman master; sect leader
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 17

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Qi Refinement, Second Layer	22	Breaks through after taking Extreme Yin's pill, while Extreme Yin suffers catastrophic blood-and-qi depletion.
Qi Refinement, Fourth Layer	47	Leaves Corpse Dissection Cave after eleven months of cultivation without corpse contamination.
Qi Refinement, Sixth Layer	74	Publicly reveals the aura of a sixth-layer cultivator while posing as a Rogue Cultivator.
Qi Refinement, Perfection	107	Reaches perfection after rising from the sixth layer in roughly three years through the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art.
Foundation Establishment	130	Successfully establishes his foundation before leaving the Corpse Demon Sect; earlier passages already show him possessing Foundation Establishment strength while concealing it. 123 124
Foundation Establishment, Late Stage	276	Advances after eight months of secluded cultivation.
Foundation Establishment, Middle Stage (publicly displayed)	312	Raises his apparent cultivation from early to middle stage after ten months of supposed seclusion to enter the Azure Tide Secret Realm without attracting attention; this is not a reversal of his earlier true advancement.
Foundation Establishment, Peak	358	Reaches the peak over the following years while Zhou Siyi helps obtain Heart-Congealing Herbs for Golden Core Pills.
Golden Core, Great Completion	390	Recorded under the chapter title “Golden Core Great Completion.”
Golden Core, Middle Stage	497	Breaks the early Golden Core bottleneck by absorbing Shi Bo's spiritual power and blood essence through the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
Nascent Soul	693	Reveals Nascent Soul cultivation while overpowering Zhang Xiaofan, Miao Tong, Hao Man, and Ba Feng.
Nascent Soul, Late Stage (reported)	726	A later account records advancement after thirteen peaceful years in Forgotten World Ridge and also describes his spiritual consciousness as stabilized at late Nascent Soul strength.
Spirit Transformation, Early Stage	957	Emerges after 26 years of seclusion, having reached and stabilized the realm three years earlier.
Spirit Transformation, Middle Stage	1057	Advances by devouring Wu Yuan's cultivation.
Spirit Transformation, Late Stage	1089	Captures Chi Pei's Nascent Soul and devours his cultivation, then absorbs Tang Gui's and Sang Bu's spiritual power to break the middle-stage bottleneck and enter late stage.
Spirit Transformation, Peak	1106	Breaks through after defeating Xu Zhi and absorbing the spiritual power in his corpse.
Void Refinement, Late Stage	1209	Uses Fuliang's spiritual power and a Cloud-Unraveling Pill, then tempers the gained power for eight years in the Source-Qi Death Domain.
Void Refinement, Peak	1242	Reaches the peak after absorbing a Six Baleful Hall corpse cultivator's unusually profound spiritual power.
Integrated Body, Late Stage	1490	Devouring Rong Yiwen's spiritual power improves his late-stage cultivation, though only modestly.
Integrated Body, Peak Stage	1553	Reaches peak Integrated Body while preparing resources for a Mahayana breakthrough.
Mahayana	1638	Confirmed as a Mahayana cultivator after his breakthrough preparations in the Boundless Wasteland.
Mahayana, Early Stage, Perfection	1669	Has reached the early-stage bottleneck and turns to the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body rather than immediately attempting another spiritual-power breakthrough.
Mahayana, Middle Stage	1809	Initially breaks through by absorbing Blood Skeleton Lord's spiritual power, before using Purple-Rhyme Fruits for a further advancement.
Mahayana, Late Stage	1809	Uses Blood Skeleton Lord's spiritual power and two Purple-Rhyme Fruits, then spends twenty years stabilizing the result.
Tribulation Transcendence	1895	Reveals himself as a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator during the Divine Blood Sect crisis.
Tribulation Transcendence, Middle Stage	1968	Advances by absorbing Bi Jing's cultivation.
Tribulation Transcendence, Peak	2050	Reveals peak Tribulation Transcendence cultivation while confronting Ye Pi.
Divine Consciousness, Late Lingxu Dao Immortal Stage	2187	Breaks through after a year of cultivation, but exhausts his accumulated Soul Source Essence.
Lingxu Dao Immortal (revealed cultivation)	2198	Bai Jinge recognizes his immortal cultivation after he defeats an Evil Spirit cultivator with Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder and the Thunder Roc transformation. The passage does not specify the substage of his overall cultivation.

Background / History

Song Wen first appears as the newly accepted personal disciple of Elder Extreme Yin within the Heavenly Baleful Gang. His connection to Extreme Yin immediately draws Tang Liang's interest, leading to an ambush shortly after Song Wen begins cultivating. Despite having cultivated for fewer than ten days, Song Wen severely injures Tang Liang with a single punch. 17 18

Before turning on his master, Song Wen displays knowledge of low-grade spirit-herb cultivation and gains Extreme Yin's interest as a potential herb grower. He also learns that Extreme Yin had tested defective Blood Qi Pills on previous disciples, causing their deaths through blood-and-qi depletion. 8

When Extreme Yin is crippled by the backlash of his own pill, Song Wen feigns concern, enters his master's room, and takes the opportunity to act against him. He subsequently inherits Extreme Yin's cultivation materials, talismans, journals, pill furnace, and knowledge of the wider cultivation world. 22 23

He conceals Extreme Yin's death by telling the guards that his master has emerged from seclusion and must stabilize his cultivation. During this period, he masters the Fireball and Shield Techniques in a single day and evades men sent to follow him while purchasing medicinal herbs. 24

Within the Corpse Demon Sect, Song Wen cultivates the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art, refines corpses, accumulates talismans, and rapidly improves his realm. He eventually kills Shi Shou, secures an elder's token, and escapes the sect after establishing his foundation. 47 107 128 130

Before obtaining Shi Shou's token, Song Wen attempts to cultivate Chen Feihe as a source of an elder's token through gifts of unusual clothing designs. After Shi Shou's death, he searches Wanrou's soul to learn Shi Shou's habits and contacts, helping him impersonate the elder when entering the Foundation Establishment Transmission Hall. 123 128 129

Using the identity of Wu Sheng, Song Wen enters the Beast Taming Sect as an alchemist and corpse refiner. His expertise in corpse refinement makes him valuable to Sect Master Fang Pengyi, but Yan Yiwen's pursuit forces him to abandon the sect rather than entrust his survival to its protection. 242 304 363

His ability to fuse Profound Qi brings him to the attention of the Beast Taming Sect's First Grand Elder Yang Yu and Fairy Lan Chen. This value also draws him into the struggle over the next sect master: Zhou Xuelin orders Zhou Siyi to assassinate him, but she reveals the plot and proposes an alliance against her abusive father. 297 304 305

While preparing to enter the Azure Tide Secret Realm, Song Wen stages a period of seclusion to raise his publicly displayed realm to middle Foundation Establishment. His actual goals in the secret realm include obtaining Yin-Yang Blood-Weeping Branches and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Liquid. His eventual gains also include spiritual flames and additional Heavenly Thunder secret arts. 312 339 356

Song Wen later develops Azure Gauze Mountain and the Asura Sect into a power base for obtaining spirit herbs, mining resources, and cultivating subordinates. By this period, his dual righteous-and-demonic cultivation becomes widely known, including his ability to assume a giant corpse form and wield lightning arts. 669 806

He entrusts Azure Gauze Mountain and an ambitious pill-development project to Zhou Siyi, then negotiates control of Azure Heaven Mountain through a confrontation and alliance with Xiao Chan. Yu Wen subsequently manages the takeover of Eastern Plain Mountain and establishes a steady supply of spiritual herbs, souls, and other cultivation resources. 658 673 678

After ascending beyond the Heavenly Origin Continent, Song Wen continues to cultivate through soul devouring, blood essence absorption, body tempering, alchemy, and the seizure of rare resources. He eventually becomes Sect Master of the Divine Blood Sect and uses its inherited arts to draw powerful cultivators into schemes that further his own advancement. 1553 1809 1900

His connections in the Profound Realm include Bai Wei, Ying Wu, Ye Bing, Qiluo, and Qiao Mengyu. Maintaining these relationships often involves concealed identities and fabricated accounts of his past. His Lei Yue persona becomes especially consequential when Qiao Mengyu descends to the lower realm and retrieves Zhou Siyi's soul, prompting him to consider faking that persona's death rather than exposing his earlier lies. 1188 1661 1672 1812

As Divine Blood Sect Master, Song Wen expands the sect's influence, directs reconstruction in its western territories, and continues using the Corpse King Reincarnation Art to eliminate enemies and obtain cultivation. His absorption of Bi Jing's cultivation raises him to the middle stage of Tribulation Transcendence. 1968 2010

In his later cultivation, Song Wen refines the Blood Sea Imperial Seal as his natal treasure and begins cultivating the Six-Aspects Prison-Suppressing Body under Puxuan's instruction. He uses the essence blood and souls of demonic beasts with divine-beast bloodlines to form transformations such as the Divine Ape, Black Tortoise, and Azure Dragon. 2185 2187

While escorting Bai Jinge through the Burning Heaven Fire Region, Song Wen defeats and interrogates an Evil Spirit cultivator, discovering that the Void Demon race has ordered forces to hunt her and blockade the route to Azure Purity City. He promises to bring her back safely, keeps his immortal cultivation secret, and begins seeking stronger Immortal-Tier Thunder Arts. 2198

A subsequent attempt to exploit the battle between Li Hunsheng and Danyang Profound Lord turns against him when Danyang throws him toward Li Hunsheng. Song Wen later obtains both opponents' storage rings and examines their treasures and techniques, taking particular interest in Li Hunsheng's Myriad Baleful Scale Armor Art. 2218 2225

Personality

Song Wen is relentlessly cautious. He conceals his aura, alters his appearance, uses substitute-death puppets, and avoids relying on other cultivators when his life is at stake. He leaves the Beast Taming Sect specifically because he refuses to place his fate in another person's hands. 155 363 1402

He is calculating and pragmatic in both alliances and conflict. Song Wen routinely gathers intelligence before acting, manipulates others through false identities or planted opportunities, and regards resources, techniques, and information as means of survival and advancement. 205 412 540 1900

His methods are exceptionally ruthless. He kills defeated enemies, searches or devours souls, absorbs cultivation, and destroys evidence with meticulous care. 128 497 1057 1089

He explicitly favors destroying an enemy's soul as well as killing the physical body. However, he can bargain, spare defeated opponents, or withdraw when these choices better serve his interests, as shown by his truce with Wu Sui, negotiated settlement over the Si Clan, and treatment of surviving Wu Clan cultivators. 108 673 1342 1402

Despite this, Song Wen is capable of loyalty and sentiment toward a small number of people. He considers Chen Yi his only friend, retrieves her body after failing to save her, and later protects her from Monk Guangfa after discovering that Suchén's damaged divine soul is entwined with Chen Yi's soul. He also works to restore Lan Chen's soul and physical body. 142 1342 2111

He also shows consideration toward Senior Brother Xu's elderly father, visiting him after leaving the Corpse Demon Sect but being unable to reveal his son's likely death. Zhou Siyi's apparent death later causes grief and guilt that he conceals beneath detached statements about fate and the cycle of life and death. 142 1524

Song Wen displays patience and restraint when a direct confrontation is unnecessary. Even after gaining the Divine Ape Aspect of the Six-Aspects Prison-Suppressing Body, he suppresses the impulse to test its destructive power recklessly in order to preserve his hidden cultivation site. 2185

His affability and romantic declarations can also be tools of manipulation. He uses praise and sympathetic performances to gain access to information through Shi Min, and gifts and an apparent dangerous expedition to arrange a meeting with Su Zhixi. 1617 1618 2053

Even decisive victories do not satisfy his desire to improve. After overpowering the gray-robed Evil Spirit cultivator, he judges his existing Thunder Arts insufficient for his new strength and resolves to obtain immortal-tier methods. 2198

Abilities & Skills

Corpse King Cultivation Arts

Song Wen cultivates the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art and later obtains the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, which enables him to absorb blood essence and spiritual power from compatible cultivators.

• Uses corpse qi, blood essence, and corpse-path materials to accelerate cultivation. 107 497
• Can transform into a thirty-foot giant corpse. 806
• Uses corpse qi and the Blood Sea Seal to trap or defeat enemies. 1089 1106
• His cultivation gains often depend on devouring others rather than ordinary meditation. 1052
• Uses the Blood Spirit Sacrifice, a blood-path technique that burns essence blood for destructive power. 1091 1342
• Refines the Blood Sea Imperial Seal into his natal treasure, keeping it within his dantian. 2185
• Employs the Undying True Corpse transformation for physical combat and defense, withstanding a powerful staff strike from Xiao Chan despite injury to his left hand. 673 909
• Deploys a peak fifth-tier spirit corpse against Xu Zhi and uses corpse qi to conceal the Blood Sea Seal and his sect-related methods from observers. 1106

Myriad Poisons Primordial Body

A painful body-tempering art pursued for poison resistance and physical enhancement.

• Cultivated through poisonous medicinal baths and consumption of extremely toxic materials. 72 806
• Causes severe pain and physical injury during early body-tempering stages. 72
• Allows toxins to be absorbed and converted into nourishment for his physical body. 806
• Later uses Azure Glazed Fruits and Great Yin Netherfire to further temper his body. 1624 1669 1575
• Condenses the bronze Great Lu, whose defense can withstand attacks such as a high-grade first-rank Spirit Sword Talisman. 107
• Continues cultivating the art through rare poisons after becoming Divine Blood Sect Master, though progress remains limited by the availability of suitable toxins. 1968 2010
• Initially obtains an incomplete version from Yan Feng and later cultivates a further portion acquired by Blood Brow from Shadow Soul Hall. Even after ascending, he recognizes that the available method remains incomplete. 72 1024
• Chi Pei's copy describes three levels but contains only the two portions Song Wen already possesses. Gu Que later provides more extensive information describing cultivation through a fifth layer. 1089 1471
• The third layer can generate Five Decays Yellow Springs Qi from the cultivator's body, usable for attack or as a defensive shield. The fifth layer's great perfection is described as producing Innate Poison Essence capable of defiling immortal artifacts; these are properties of the method rather than confirmation that Song Wen has attained its final level. 1471
• Obtains Mountain Prison's venom sac and additional highly poisonous spiritual herbs as later cultivation resources. 1814 1825

Six-Aspects Prison-Suppressing Body

A later body-tempering art that incorporates the bloodlines, essence blood, and souls of six demonic beasts with divine-beast bloodlines.

• Comprehends the six aspects of the Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise, Divine Ape, and Thunder Roc in less than half a year. 2185
• Sacrifices demonic beasts to create blood beads containing their condensed essence and souls. 2185
• Gains the Divine Ape Aspect, transforming into a massive ape with physical strength and killing intent surpassing the original sacrificial beast. 2185
• Successfully manifests Black Tortoise and Azure Dragon transformations; Taiyin Cold Qi proves more compatible with the Azure Dragon Aspect. 2187
• Seeks a powerful gale to enhance the White Tiger Aspect. 2187
• Successfully employs the Thunder Roc transformation in battle, diving into Earthfire to retrieve the defeated Evil Spirit cultivator before returning to human form. 2198
• His Azure Dragon form attracts the Void Dragon Vine's interest as a favorable nearby cultivation presence, though he cannot maintain the transformation indefinitely. 2187

Lightning Arts and Dual Cultivation

Song Wen retains the orthodox Longevity Art while practicing demonic corpse-path techniques, allowing him to cultivate both righteous and demonic methods.

• Can activate Heavenly Thunder Talismans with the righteous qi generated by the Longevity Art. 50
• Learns and uses the Great Cavern Divine Thunder from the Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts. 276
• Lightning arts are particularly effective against evil and yin-based cultivation methods. 331 1236
• His enhanced lightning arts destroy Peach Blossom True Person's cultivation. 1482
• His dual cultivation becomes a widely circulated rumor after the Asura Sect seizes Boundary Mountain. 806
• Learns the improved Heaven-Destroying Divine Light, a secret art capable of weakening heavenly tribulation. 2010
• His early lightning aptitude is initially ordinary: after hundreds of attempts at Palm Thunder, he can only condense a trace of lightning despite powerful spiritual awareness. 147
• Masters the Thunder Shield Technique in half a day while his Longevity Art remains at the fifth layer of Qi Refinement. At that point, its low realm prevents him from cultivating North Pole Divine Thunder and Great Cavern Divine Thunder. 173
• Obtains the third and fourth Heavenly Thunder secret arts from Ji Ruxue and later possesses the complete Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts. 339 356 976
• Uses Purple Palace Divine Thunder against Xugeng, cultivates the fifth heavenly thunder, Great Firmament Divine Thunder, after entering Spirit Transformation, and later uses Vast Extremity Divine Thunder against Huo Ming's flying ship. 909 976 1567
• Uses a talent-devouring altar to improve his lightning aptitude. After devouring twelve demonic beasts, his progress plateaus, but his escape-technique speed has increased by approximately fifty percent and his thunder power has doubled. 1397
• Overwhelms an Evil Spirit cultivator's Killing Intent and Origin Qi attacks with Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder while using the Thunder Roc form. Nevertheless, he considers his existing Thunder Arts inadequate for further growth and seeks immortal-tier techniques, possibly through Old Xu. 2198

Soul and Divine-Sense Techniques

Song Wen cultivates and exploits soul-based methods as both weapons and cultivation resources.

• Devours cultivators' souls to strengthen his spiritual sense. 169 661
• Uses the Soul Search Technique to extract intelligence from captured enemies. 497 540
• Cultivates the Soul-Concentrating Spike, forming divine-sense blades that attack an opponent's sea of consciousness. 396 462 497
• Possesses a black-hole-like phenomenon within his sea of consciousness that can suppress or devour souls and divine-sense attacks. 549 816
• Raises his divine sense to the middle stage of Void Refinement despite sustaining severe injuries. 1179
• Uses the Divine Illumination Light-Splitting Art to improve the efficiency of searching for hidden treasures. 2070
• Reaches the late Lingxu Dao Immortal stage in divine consciousness after exhausting his Soul Source Essence. 2187
• Cultivates the Soul-Banishing Technique early in his career, improving mental strength, Gu control, comprehension of cultivation arts, and facility with spells and talismans. 48 208
• Obtains the Darkness-Breaking Technique from Du Tianhua, a rare spiritual-sense method capable of probing dense mist. 233
• Secretly captures Cheng Ruidá's soul with the Binding Soul Technique. 265
• Uses the Golden Broth Curse to torture Xu Zhi's soul for information. He later employs painful golden liquid while interrogating the gray-robed Evil Spirit cultivator. 1107 2198
• Cultivates the Ten-Thousand-Mile Breath-Tracking Technique and later combines it with soul lamps and divine-sense marks to track Qiao Mengyu's return to the Profound Realm. 540 1669
• Possesses the Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye, obtained from Xuan Li under the Jian Xiao identity, and can use it to perceive node passages. 1761 1838
• The incomplete Divine Illumination Light-Splitting Art divides divine sense into penetrating threads and is described as expanding perception range by roughly thirty percent. Song Wen obtains its opening portion from Zhuang Qiu. 2070

Alchemy, Talismans, and Corpse Refinement

Song Wen is a capable alchemist, talisman user, and corpse refiner.

• Learns beginner talisman arts from Extreme Yin's and Huang Shang's records; creates Fireball and Shield Talismans in quantity. 23 47
• Masters the Fireball Technique and Shield Technique shortly after acquiring their manuals. 24
• Refines Qi-Gathering Pills efficiently and studies Bloodburst Pills while employed by the Su Clan. 203
• Is valued by the Beast Taming Sect for corpse refinement, especially the Man-Snake Profound Corpse project. 363
• Successfully refines third-rank pills, including the Hundred Flowers Detoxification Pill. 568
• Later operates under the reputation of a sixth-rank alchemist. 1553
• Provides the Divine Blood Sect's eighth-rank alchemists with his earlier alchemical insights and orders them to develop comparable high-rank pills. 1968
• Begins his first alchemical attempts through self-study of Extreme Yin's notes, initially discovering that he still needs suitable wood to heat the inherited furnace. 147
• Uses Rong Jingyun's insights into failed pill formation to overcome difficulties in developing a new Bloodburst Pill. 255
• Successfully fuses Profound Qi and explains the process to Lan Chen under Yang Yu's supervision. 297
• Acquires the Corpse Puppet True Canon from the Corpse Demon Sect's Foundation Establishment Transmission Hall. 129
• Uses Nether Corpse Cold Flame to re-refine corpse puppets and change their appearances and auras. 497
• Studies Hong Zhe's corpse-refining records and gains reliable control of a Profound Corpse after half a year. 1164
• Agrees to produce third-tier lightning talismans for the Nine Palaces Sect, using the arrangement as leverage in his search for Yan Yiwen and Blood Brow. 663

Deception and Concealment

Song Wen frequently survives through false identities, aura suppression, altered appearances, and misdirection.

• Uses disguises ranging from Qi Refinement Rogue Cultivators to Foundation Establishment and Golden Core personas. 74 155 527 641
• Can alter his physique through control of his muscles and bones, and can imitate the corpse-path aura of cultivators whose techniques he knows. 129
• Conceals his true cultivation even from other high-level cultivators. 412 693
• Uses Heaven-and-Earth Avatars to keep his true location hidden during dangerous negotiations. 915 1582
• Crafts more than one hundred and twenty substitute-death puppets. 1402
• Uses Life-Substitution Techniques, teleportation talismans, Blood Escape, and Blood Shadow Clones to evade lethal attacks and pursuit. 848 1025
• Infiltrates the Cui Family as Wei Ding to obtain Cui Huo's jade token containing Xugeng's soul, successfully passing the family's verification. 543
• Transfers Tai He's tracking mark from his own sea of consciousness to a captive soul, then seals that soul inside a corpse puppet left at Azure Heaven Mountain. 678
• Uses Chi Pei's Heavenly Secret Concealment Formation to hide beneath a river while absorbing Xu Zhi's cultivation. 1106
• Obtains the Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions escape art from Gu Que. Its requirements for blood crystals and heavy essence-blood expenditure are unusually manageable for him, though possession of the method does not by itself establish mastery. 1471
• Recognizes that ordinary teleportation talismans and death-substitute puppets become less reliable against Tribulation Transcendence cultivators because they cannot carry him beyond such opponents' divine-sense range. 1836
• Asks Bai Jinge to conceal his Lingxu Dao Immortal strength and waits until she is out of range before secretly consuming and disposing of their captive. 2198

Gu Cultivation and Spirit-Beast Support

Song Wen raises Gu insects and spirit beasts for surveillance, combat, torture, and cultivation support.

• His early soul cultivation permits simultaneous control of numerous beetle Gu, reinforcing the connection between his spiritual awareness and Gu handling. 48
• Invests in Gu-nurturing herbs and minerals after his beetles prove useful, aiming to raise Sacred Beetle Gu with Foundation Establishment-level strength. 72
• Uses Shadow Gu to monitor enemies and intermediaries, including coercing Lei Weiyue into rescuing Zhou Siyi. 436 636
• Studies Xiao Ying's Witch-Gu Dao Method, which includes advancement methods for fourth- and fifth-rank Gu, but must defer some breakthroughs for lack of suitable spiritual materials. 1164
• Refines King Gu Pills from four-hundred-year Bodhi Spirit Stamen to strengthen fourth-tier Gu and plans Beast Soul Pills to help peak fourth-tier Shadow King Gu advance. The latter require Nine-Curve Grass and a fifth-tier Yin Demon Spider soul. 1217
• Supplies Soul Source Essence to Shadow Void, whose progress eventually becomes constrained by the exhaustion of that resource. 1638 2187
• Regards Shadow Void's ability as especially effective against Evil Spirit cultivators when assessing the blockade around Azure Purity City. 2198
• By the time he examines Li Hunsheng's and Danyang Profound Lord's storage rings, Shadow Void is undergoing a breakthrough that does not require his deliberate supervision. 2225

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Cold Moon Blade — A refined broken blade with material and grade above high-grade magical artifacts; Song Wen controls it precisely with spiritual sense. 100
• Blood Sea Seal — A blood-path treasure used to restrain enemies and create immense bloody hands. 602 1089
• Blood Sea Imperial Seal — Song Wen's later natal treasure, refined at enormous cost and housed within his dantian. He also strengthens it with Nether-Tide Voidwater and blood- and corpse-path spiritual materials. 2185 1814 1825
• Soul-Concentrating Spike — A divine-sense attack technique with Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul levels. 396
• Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword — Used to break the Wu Clan's barrier. 1342
• Thunder Kui Wings — Reforged into a top-grade spirit treasure by Daoist Lord An Yi with Bai Wei's assistance. 1703
• Mount Tai Ring — Refined during a ten-year seclusion. 915
• Profound Abyss Scale Armor — Flexible defensive inner armor originally given to Wu Yuan by the Divine Blood Sect. 1058
• Spirit-Taming Umbrella — A low-grade defensive spirit treasure refined from Jiang Shi's possessions. 1004
• Bronze Corpse Coffin — Obtained from Blood Brow's sealed stone hall; initially cannot be refined. 276
• Corpse-nurturing coffins — Two magic-treasure-grade coffins acquired from Shi Bo and Shi Zhong. 497
• Heaven-and-Earth Avatars — Constructs used for remote interaction and strategic concealment. 915 1582
• Substitute-death puppets — Mass-produced survival tools used to evade fatal attacks. 1402
• Gu insects — Includes Black Armor Gu, Shadow Gu, Sacred Beetle Gu, and other Gu used for surveillance, torture, scouting, and combat. 100 205 497
• Startling Swan Blade — A short spiritual blade selected from the Shi Family's secret treasury. 2055
• Soul-Splitting Blade — A weapon used against Xugeng and later identified as a spirit treasure that Song Wen still cannot refine with early Spirit Transformation cultivation. Its form also serves as the model for a commissioned fire-attributed short blade. 406 909 976
• Dao Treasury Blade — Used in an ambush against Xugeng. 909
• Chasing Sun Spear — One of his spirit treasures after entering Spirit Transformation. 976
• Fire Astral Wood — Two rare stalks used to negotiate the forging of a mid-grade fire-attributed short-blade magic treasure with Wei Zhengzhi; the agreement leaves space for a spiritual flame and is secured by a soul contract. 406
• Eight-Banner Yin Soul Banner — A ghost-path treasure into which he plans to transfer five late second-order skeletal ghost generals obtained from Jie Hui's prayer beads. 339
• Human-skin hand drum — A high-grade spirit artifact for mental attacks, successfully refined during his secret-realm expedition. 339
• Heavenly Secret Concealment Formation — Obtained from Chi Pei and used to hide his breakthrough site after Xu Zhi's defeat. 1106
• Ten-Directions Annihilation Formation — A top-grade eighth-rank formation combining defense, concealment, and entrapment, acquired after Rong Luan's death. Its deployment remains taxing at early Mahayana strength. 1643
• Bodhi Spirit Stamen — Cultivated in Cloud Creek Valley under Guan Lin's care and used for Gu-strengthening pills. 1217 1679
• Supreme-grade Spirit Stones — Two extremely rare stones obtained from Xuan Qu, whose concentrated spiritual energy is suited to restoring power or assisting bottleneck breakthroughs. 1217
• Mystic Thunder Nine Heavens Escape Art — A technique obtained from Xuan Qu's storage ring; Song Wen initially remains uncertain whether he can master it. 1217
• Soul Source Essence — Used to restore damaged souls and strengthen his own divine consciousness and Shadow Void; his accumulated supply is exhausted during his late Lingxu divine-consciousness breakthrough. 1342 2187
• Li Hunsheng's storage ring — Contains a little over eighty thousand low-grade Immortal Spirit Stones, more than two thousand mid-grade Immortal Spirit Stones, a low-grade ghost-path bronze-mirror immortal artifact, and cultivation records including the Myriad Baleful Scale Armor Art. Song Wen shows little interest in the mirror but studies the armor method. 2225
• Danyang Profound Lord's storage ring — Also comes into Song Wen's possession and is examined alongside Li Hunsheng's ring. 2225

Relationships

• Extreme Yin — Former master. Song Wen becomes his personal disciple, then kills him after the elder is incapacitated by pill backlash. 17 22
• Tang Liang — Early enemy and Young Gang Master of the Heavenly Baleful Gang; attempts to seize Song Wen's cultivation method and is gravely injured by him. 17 18
• Chen Yi — Song Wen's only acknowledged friend. After her apparent death, he retrieves her body and reads her journal to understand her wish for a mortal life. Much later, he protects the restored Chen Yi from Monk Guangfa and reveals the danger posed by Suchén's divine soul within her sea of consciousness. 142 2111
• Yan Yiwen — Long-term enemy. As the surviving Yan Family prodigy, she pursues revenge against Song Wen for his role in exposing her family's betrayal. He later tries to draw her out as leverage against Tai He, unaware that her soul has already scattered and Blood Brow occupies her body. 71 360 363 663
• Zhou Siyi — Senior Sister, deputy sect leader, and trusted subordinate. She assists with Azure Gauze Mountain and the Asura Sect, while Song Wen values her work and safety; he later helps repair her dantian and supports her cultivation after she possesses a new body. Their alliance develops after she warns him of Zhou Xuelin's assassination order, and her apparent death later causes him considerable grief. 669 652 1703 304 1524
• Lan Chen — Long-standing ally whose damaged soul Song Wen heals; he later helps her regain a physical body through possession. Their acquaintance dates to his Foundation Establishment period, when she takes interest in his Profound Qi refinement. At a later banquet, she portrays their relationship as familial and platonic to avoid exposing private matters. 1342 297 1811
• Blood Brow — Ancient Nascent Soul cultivator whom Song Wen inadvertently helps free. Their relationship is marked by mutual utility, suspicion, and eventual hostility. She occupies Yan Yiwen's body and supplies a later portion of the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body; later recollections identify her among the enemies Song Wen has killed. 276 667 668 663 1024 938
• Nether Fox — Spirit beast bound by a slave contract. It later asks to remain in Song Wen's service after learning of his intended ascension. 629 957
• Shadow Void — Demonic servant and spirit beast. It remains loyal while injured, provides spiritual-sense support, and receives Soul Source Essence as a reward. Its abilities also help Song Wen counter Evil Spirit cultivators, and it undergoes another breakthrough during his later acquisition of Li Hunsheng's and Danyang Profound Lord's possessions. 1179 1638 2198 2225
• Mo You — Informant and agent who carries out Song Wen's schemes within and around the Divine Blood Sect. He is revealed as the former Corpse Demon Sect Master and Gou Jun's former master. Song Wen later discloses their earlier connection through his Yinshuo identity. 1582 1900 1567
• Xuan Li — Trusted elder and Hall Master of the Divine Blood Sect's Yin Puppet Hall. Song Wen considers her one of the few people in the sect he can trust; they later become intimate partners. His use of her Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye exposes his connection to the Jian Xiao identity and temporarily provokes her suspicion. He subsequently rescues her and Yang Xi from the Myriad Corpses Ancestor. 1602 1761 1904 1912
• Qiluo — Secret intimate partner who supplies spiritual materials Song Wen requests. She later identifies Ye Hua as an old lover and suspects his connection to Song Wen's many identities. He also regards her connections to the Divine Blood Sect's higher ranks as a potential source of information and resources. 1141 1838 1555
• Ye Bing — Talisman refiner and intimate partner; Song Wen fulfills his promise to provide materials for her work. They reunite after sixty years apart, and Song Wen later seeks revenge against Moon-Covering Hall for the destruction of her family. After his disappearance, she erects a grave for him on Wu Yuan Island. 1141 1136 1706
• Ying Wu — Powerful ally, intimate partner, and frequent companion. She assists Song Wen's later plans, improves the Heaven-Destroying Divine Light for him, and travels with him to investigate Youye's whereabouts. Song Wen admires her strength and recognizes her aptitude and comprehension as exceeding even his later ninth-grade spiritual root. 1353 2010 2016 1679
• Bai Wei — Integrated Body cultivator who helps guard Song Wen's breakthrough and later assists in gathering materials for the Thunder Kui Wings. Their relationship also becomes intimate. As Qiao Mengyu's master, she is later drawn into the exposure of Song Wen's Lei Yue romance. 1306 1686 1394 1703 1812
• Shi Min — Shi Family cultivator whom Song Wen cultivates as an information channel; he later confesses his feelings for her after she seeks to rebuild her family through the support of Profound Lord Danyang. She initially confides both family affairs and cultivation doubts to him without reservation. 2053 2138
• Puxuan — Teacher and guide who transmits the complete Six-Aspects Prison-Suppressing Body method and praises Song Wen's rapid comprehension. 2185
• Senior Brother Xu — Early supplier of talismans and poisons. Song Wen later visits his elderly father in Zhao Kingdom but cannot bring himself to disclose Xu's likely death. 50 142
• Chen Feihe — Foundation Establishment cultivator whom Song Wen courts with novel clothing designs while seeking an elder's token. 123 128
• Fang Pengyi — Beast Taming Sect patron who values Song Wen's corpse-refining abilities, provides cultivation support, and encourages his seclusion. Song Wen nevertheless refuses to rely on this protection when Yan Yiwen threatens him. 304 312 363
• Zuo Shuiyun — Temporary partner during the Cheng Family mission. They cooperate to kill Cheng Ruidá and divide the spoils while concealing their separate aims from one another. 261 265 276
• Yu Wen — Trusted Asura Sect administrator who manages Eastern Plain Mountain and cultivation supplies. Song Wen rewards her service and promises help against Lei Jun, later retrieving Lei Jun's severed head after the latter is killed by demonic beasts. 678 726 731
• Xiao Chan — Primordial Unity Temple cultivator with whom Song Wen negotiates an alliance after withstanding a powerful attack. Their agreement secures Azure Heaven Mountain and spares the displaced Si Clan in exchange for payment. 673
• Hao Kong — Nascent Soul artifact refiner and Nine Palaces Sect elder. Song Wen negotiates artifact work and lightning-talisman dealings with him under concealed identities; they later discuss cooperation against the Mysterious Yin Sect despite earlier enmity. 660 663 835 836
• Tai He — Enemy who pursues Song Wen and marks his sea of consciousness for tracking. Song Wen attempts to exploit Yan Yiwen against him and later defeats the tracking method by transferring the mark to a captive soul. 663 678
• Gu Que — Former Tribulation Transcendence cultivator who guides Song Wen in cultivation and secret arts, including later poison-body methods. Because they cultivate the same primary technique, Gu Que's breakthrough knowledge reduces Song Wen's need to risk himself merely for scattered advancement insights. 1471 1679 1823
• Qiao Mengyu — Bai Wei's disciple and a romantic partner of Song Wen's Lei Yue persona. She shares intelligence with him, searches for him after his disappearance, and risks descending to the lower realm to retrieve Zhou Siyi's soul. Her later recognition of him at a banquet exposes their relationship to Bai Wei and Ye Bing. 1188 1217 1661 1672 1812
• Qing Lian — Demonic cultivator who openly seeks to become Song Wen's Dao companion. He initially proposes a trial period rather than immediate lifelong commitment, and later refuses to let her accompany him to the Eastern Profound Continent because of safety concerns. 1427 1863
• Crimson-Scaled King — Qing Lian's protective elder sister. She saves Song Wen and Qing Lian from an attack, questions his intentions, and acknowledges his earlier assistance to her sister. 1427
• Guan Lin — Cultivation assistant entrusted with tending Bodhi Spirit Stamen in Cloud Creek Valley. Despite her earlier seductive behavior, Song Wen does not pursue a physical relationship with her. 1217 1294 1679
• Su Zhixi — Su Clan formation master whom Song Wen approaches through repeated gifts and a spirit-beast ploy, overcoming her initial refusal sufficiently to arrange a guarded meeting. 1617 1618 1619
• Su Wei / Bi Jing — Powerful adversary who previously placed a Blood Contract Soul-Devouring Curse on Song Wen. He negotiates an alliance and the transfer of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art with her while refusing to disclose how he broke the curse. He later learns that Su Wei is an assumed identity of Bi Jing and ultimately absorbs her cultivation. 1911 1912 1936 1968
• Yuan Rong — Persistent enemy seeking revenge for Jian Xiao. His later instigation brings Qing Yuan against Song Wen and the Divine Blood Sect, reinforcing Song Wen's desire to eliminate him. 1456 1761 1948 1966
• Bai Jinge — Later traveling companion whom Song Wen protects from Evil Spirit cultivators serving the Void Demon race. After discovering his Lingxu Dao Immortal cultivation, she promises to keep it secret even from her father. 2198
• Danyang Profound Lord — Powerful figure connected to Shi Min's rebuilding plans. During a later battle, he turns Song Wen's attempt at manipulation against him by throwing him toward Li Hunsheng, treating the rogue cultivator as expendable. Song Wen subsequently acquires his storage ring. 2138 2218 2225
• Li Hunsheng — Later opponent who confronts Song Wen after Danyang throws him into danger. Song Wen subsequently examines his storage ring and takes interest in the Myriad Baleful Scale Armor Art he used before death. 2218 2225

Story Role / Major Arcs

Disciple of Extreme Yin

• Becomes Extreme Yin's personal disciple and begins cultivating.
• Survives Tang Liang's ambush and discovers his abnormal physical strength.
• Exploits Extreme Yin's collapse, kills him, and inherits his cultivation resources. 17 18 22 23
• Conceals his master's death behind a story of cultivation stabilization, learns basic spells, and evades the Heavenly Baleful Gang's surveillance. 24

Corpse Demon Sect Escape

• Secretly develops talisman, corpse-refining, and blood-refinement abilities.
• Advances from Qi Refinement into Foundation Establishment.
• Kills Shi Shou, acquires his elder token, and abandons the Corpse Demon Sect. 47 107 128 130
• Uses soul-search intelligence to prepare an impersonation of Shi Shou and obtains advanced Blood Sacrifice, Netherworld Claw, Sword-Flying, and corpse-puppet refinement methods from the Transmission Hall. 128 129
• Retrieves Chen Yi's body after escaping and visits Senior Brother Xu's father before pursuing further opportunities around the Beast Taming Sect. 142

Beast Taming Sect Period

• Enters the Beast Taming Sect under a false identity as an alchemist.
• Gains status through alchemy and corpse refinement.
• Leaves after Yan Yiwen tracks him to the sect, refusing to trust the sect with his survival. 242 304 363
• Cooperates with Zuo Shuiyun against Cheng Ruidá and inadvertently frees Blood Brow through Great Cavern Divine Thunder. 265 276
• Develops Profound Qi refinement, drawing both high-level patronage and Zhou Xuelin's assassination plot; Zhou Siyi's warning establishes a lasting alliance. 297 304 305
• Conceals his actual cultivation while preparing for the Azure Tide Secret Realm, obtains rare herbs and spiritual flames, and later reaches peak Foundation Establishment while preparing Golden Core Pills. 312 339 356 358

Asura Sect and Nascent Soul Rise

• Establishes a power base at Forgotten World Ridge to secure spirit herbs and other cultivation resources.
• Becomes the Asura Sect's master and seizes Boundary Mountain's spirit-stone mine.
• Is exposed as a cultivator of both righteous and demonic paths. 669 729 806
• Uses hostages and Shadow Gu to compel Lei Weiyue to rescue Zhou Siyi from the Lei Clan. 636
• Delegates Azure Gauze Mountain to Zhou Siyi, negotiates an alliance with Xiao Chan, and places Yu Wen in charge of Eastern Plain Mountain's resource network. 658 673 678
• Attempts to exploit Yan Yiwen as leverage against Tai He while Blood Brow secretly occupies her body. 663
• Defeats Tai He's tracking method and cultivates away from his obvious sect headquarters to reduce the risk of attack. 678
• After thirteen peaceful years, revisits Zhou Siyi and begins investigating circumstances connected to Yu Wen's revenge request. 726

Ascension and Divine Blood Sect Intrigue

• Reaches Spirit Transformation, prepares for ascension, and disposes of Xugeng before departing. 957 959
• Continues advancing through Void Refinement, Integrated Body, Mahayana, and Tribulation Transcendence. 1209 1553 1638 1968
• Takes control of the Divine Blood Sect and spreads incomplete Corpse King Reincarnation Art methods to lure powerful cultivators into his schemes. 1895 1900
• Devours Wu Yuan, Chi Pei, Tang Gui, Sang Bu, and Xu Zhi to advance through the minor Spirit Transformation stages, hiding the sect-associated methods that enable these gains. 1057 1089 1106
• Establishes intelligence and personal connections in Southern Nether Province under the Lei Yue identity. 1180 1188 1217
• Restores Lan Chen's damaged soul and arranges her return to a physical body after confronting the Wu Clan. 1325 1342
• Receives further cultivation guidance from Gu Que and improves his lightning aptitude through a talent-devouring altar. 1397 1471 1679
• Qiao Mengyu's rescue of Zhou Siyi's soul complicates his fabricated history, while later reunions expose his Lei Yue romance to other companions. 1672 1811 1812
• Returns to Qicang Island with reforged Thunder Kui Wings and confronts Moon-Covering Hall over the destruction of Ye Bing's family. 1703 1705 1706
• Advances first to middle and then late Mahayana by combining Blood Skeleton Lord's cultivation with two Purple-Rhyme Fruits. 1809

Divine Blood Sect Expansion

• Absorbs Bi Jing's cultivation, reaching the middle stage of Tribulation Transcendence, and removes Qing Yuan as a threat. 1968
• Directs the development of high-rank pills, Flood Dragon Banners, and surveillance of black-market inquiries into the Corpse King Reincarnation Art. 1968
• Orders the reconstruction of cities and industries in the Divine Blood Sect's western territories after the sect's expansion. 2010
• Reaches peak Tribulation Transcendence cultivation during his conflict with Ye Pi. 2050
• Investigates the abduction of Xuan Li and Yang Xi, captures the Myriad Corpses Ancestor, rescues both elders, and turns his attention to the informer Dan Chen. 1904 1912
• Negotiates with Su Wei over the Corpse King Reincarnation Art before discovering her identity as Bi Jing. 1911 1912 1936
• Orders a retaliatory campaign against Pagoda Temple while leaving the military operation and sect restoration to subordinates. 1966
• Travels with Ying Wu to investigate Youye and learns that the Phantom Illusion Sect has recruited corpse-path and wood-element cultivators through a powerful new cultivation art. 2010 2016

Chen Yi and the Immortal Conflict

• Meets Chen Yi again while operating under the Yang Yu identity within the Gai Family. 2096
• Protects Chen Yi from Monk Guangfa's attempt to strip Suchén's divine soul from her sea of consciousness. 2111
• Reveals that Suchén's damaged divine soul has been recovering by consuming Chen Yi's spiritual essence. 2111
• Builds an intelligence channel through Shi Min while staying with the Shi Family and obtains the incomplete Divine Illumination Light-Splitting Art to improve treasure exploration. 2053 2070

Six-Aspects Body Cultivation

• Refines the Blood Sea Imperial Seal as a natal treasure at the cost of more than twenty thousand Immortal Spirit Stones. 2185
• Learns the Six-Aspects Prison-Suppressing Body from Puxuan and sacrifices divine-beast-bloodline demonic beasts to cultivate its transformations. 2185
• Successfully develops Divine Ape, Black Tortoise, and Azure Dragon forms while seeking further resources to strengthen the remaining aspects. 2185 2187
• Raises his divine consciousness to late Lingxu Dao Immortal strength, exhausts his Soul Source Essence, and hunts demonic beasts before traveling to Azure Purity City to sell unused possessions and seek information about Central Mu City. 2187
• Demonstrates the Thunder Roc transformation and Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder against an Evil Spirit cultivator, then resolves to seek more powerful immortal-tier thunder methods. 2198

Bai Jinge Escort and the Later Windfall

• Protects Bai Jinge in the Burning Heaven Fire Region and reveals his concealed Lingxu Dao Immortal cultivation to her. She promises confidentiality. 2198
• Interrogates their captive to uncover the Void Demon race's pursuit and the Evil Spirit blockade toward Azure Purity City. 2198
• Sends Bai Jinge ahead before secretly devouring the enemy's soul, corpse, and blood essence and disposing of the remains in an Earthfire fissure. 2198
• Attempts to profit from the battle between the injured Li Hunsheng and Danyang Profound Lord, but Danyang instead hurls him toward Li Hunsheng. 2218
• Later examines both cultivators' storage rings, obtaining substantial Immortal Spirit Stones and taking interest in the Myriad Baleful Scale Armor Art while Shadow Void undergoes a breakthrough. 2225

Trivia

• Song Wen's spiritual-root aptitude is described as sixth-grade early in his cultivation career and ninth-grade much later; the provided accounts do not explain the change. 47 1490
• He considers the Flight Technique and Wind Blade Technique among the most valuable discoveries in Extreme Yin's records, though both initially require the fourth layer of Qi Refinement. 23
• Song Wen's first named weapon, the Cold Moon Blade, began as a damaged broken blade. 100
• His preferred survival principle is to keep his own life and death “in his own grasp,” rather than depend on a sect or ally. 363
• Song Wen's unusual physical aptitude is apparent from the beginning of his cultivation: he severely injures Tang Liang after fewer than ten days of cultivation and later proves exceptionally suited to both corpse-path and body-tempering arts. 18 107
• His cultivation of the Six-Aspects Prison-Suppressing Body is extremely resource-intensive, requiring both Immortal Spirit Stones and the essence blood and souls of suitable demonic beasts. 2185
• His early interest in flight is presented as an ordinary human dream of freely soaring through the sky. 23
• His lightning aptitude begins as relatively ordinary but later becomes exceptional through talent-devouring methods; this improvement does not eliminate his need for stronger techniques after reaching immortal cultivation. 147 1397 2198
• Despite extensive use of formations for concealment and defense, he considers himself poorly talented in the Dao of formations. 1823
• A successful battle does not prevent renewed resource pressure: his late Lingxu divine-consciousness breakthrough exhausts his Soul Source Essence while Shadow Void also needs the resource for advancement. 2187

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