Recaps

Yuan Hao and the Wind Eagle entered the secret realm to reclaim the Holy Demon's corpse while Xing Wenyao and Xing Gaohan pursued Jing Wuming through a perilous underground maze. After learning Jing Wuming seemed to know the maze’s route, Xing Gaohan suspected the Jing Family had gained secret information from Patriarch Xing Ci, and the Xing men hurried after him toward the Demon Soul Spirit-Breaking Pill.

• Yuan Hao shrank to human size and entered the bronze gate with the Wind Eagle to reclaim the Holy Demon's corpse.
• Xing Wenyao and Xing Gaohan arrived in a dark underground cave, and the Nether Fox led them into the maze after Jing Wuming's scent.
• Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao defeated a late fourth-rank resentful spirit with spiritual sense blades and lightning.
• The Nether Fox lost Jing Wuming's trail briefly, then found it again and led the Xing men deeper into the maze.
• Xing Gaohan suspected the Jing Family had learned the maze's secrets from Patriarch Xing Ci, whose death he believed was tied to the Jing Family.
• Xing Gaohan decided to follow Jing Wuming through the maze, and he and Xing Wenyao quickened their pace toward the Demon Soul Spirit-Breaking Pill.

Song Wen cultivated in a hidden cave until his spiritual consciousness advanced to the late Golden Core stage, while Xing Yixuan searched the secret realm with her two subordinates. They discovered an underground pit and a still-functioning Corpse-Refining Grand Formation, and Xing Yixuan ordered Niu Ying to study how to break it.

• Song Wen hid in a temporary cave abode and secluded himself until his spiritual consciousness broke through to the late Golden Core stage.
• After waiting three months outside the mountain Cave, Xing Yixuan retreated to the foot of the mountain as her jade pendant began to corrode.
• Xing Yixuan found Ox-Faced Man and Horse-Faced Man, and the three searched the secret realm for ruins and treasure.
• Xing Yixuan, Niu Ying, and Ma Qi discovered a buried entrance leading to a vast pit of bone fragments and a stone platform protected by a formation.
• Niu Ying identified the barrier as a Corpse-Refining Grand Formation, and Xing Yixuan ordered him to study it while she sealed the entrance.

After the corpse baleful qi erupted from the broken formation, Xing Yixuan and her companions collected Baleful Crystals from the corpse pit. Jing Lie and two Jing Family cultivators ambushed them, killing Ma Qi as the fight began.

• The formation’s collapse unleashed a blast of corpse baleful qi that pinned Xing Yixuan, Ma Qi, and Niu Ying against the cavern wall.
• Xing Yixuan ordered the group to collect the treasures and leave, but they found Baleful Crystals instead of the supreme treasure she expected.
• The three searched the corpse pit and each found more than a hundred Baleful Crystals.
• Jing Lie sent wind blades from the passage and then appeared with two Jing Family cultivators to attack Xing Yixuan.
• Ma Qi tried to protect Xing Yixuan, but Jing Lie redirected the wind blades at him and killed him; the attack then turned toward Niu Ying.

Niu Ying, Xing Yixuan, and the Jing Family cultivators fled as a blood-red stone pillar erupted from the corpse pit and began destroying it. Meanwhile, Jing Wuming reached the maze’s end and found an underground hall containing a pillar that pierced a chained stone coffin.

• Niu Ying shielded Ma Qi with a formation while Xing Yixuan fought Jing Lie and the two Jing Family Golden Core cultivators, and Ma Qi’s remains and soul vanished as blood-red patterns spread across the platform.
• The Jing Family members tried to escape through the stairway, but Xing Yixuan pursued them with the Raging Water Banner while Jing Lie raised wind walls to hold back the flood.
• The platform rose as a massive stone pillar, struck and pierced the corpse pit’s ceiling, and sent rocks crashing down around the fighters.
• Jing Wuming endured fourth-rank vengeful spirits in the maze for a month and reached a half-open bronze door, realizing someone had arrived before him.
• Jing Wuming entered a crimson-lit underground cave and found an enormous hall where a pillar pierced a lidless stone coffin bound by four chains.

Yuan Hao and the Wind Eagle decided to wait for the humans to break the formation, while Jing Wuming hid nearby to seize an opportunity. Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao arrived, broke the barrier, and Xing Gaohan discovered the sealed corpse was a Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast.

• Yuan Hao and the Wind Eagle failed to break the barrier and agreed to wait for the humans, then attack when they were weakened.
• Jing Wuming withdrew to a nearby cave, planning to take advantage of the demons and humans competing for the treasure.
• Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao tracked Jing Wuming to the high platform, where Xing Wenyao used nine flags to break the formation over three days.
• Xing Gaohan ordered Xing Wenyao to guard the area while he went to retrieve the Demon Soul Spirit-Breaking Pill.
• Xing Gaohan saw the preserved corpse pinned by chains and a stone pillar and identified it as a Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast.

Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao discovered the Demon Soul Spirit-Breaking Pill furnace in the cavern, but corpse baleful qi prevented them from retrieving it. Wind Eagle and Yuan Hao ambushed them, and Yuan Hao unleashed Profound Yin Heavy Water against Xing Gaohan’s fire phoenix.

• Xing Gaohan recognized the pill furnace as the source of Demon Soul Spirit-Breaking Pills and tried to retrieve it, but corpse baleful qi blocked his spiritual power.
• Wind Eagle and Yuan Hao attacked Xing Gaohan from behind, while Xing Wenyao used his wooden ruler to help defend him.
• Xing Gaohan countered the demons’ spear and halberd with his feather fan, and Xing Wenyao revealed Wind Eagle and Yuan Hao in their true forms with his vines.
• Xing Gaohan summoned a fire phoenix that flooded half the cavern with flames, and Yuan Hao answered with Profound Yin Heavy Water.

Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao used Soul-Concentrating Spikes to disable Yuan Hao and Wind Eagle, then attacked the demons. A flying-sword ambush distracted them, allowing Yinshuo and Jing Wuming to emerge from a magma fissure and rush toward the corpse coffin.

• Wind Eagle and Yuan Hao drove Xing Gaohan's sea of flames back with astral wind and Profound Yin Heavy Water.
• Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao attacked the demons with Soul-Concentrating Spikes, overcoming their Nether Fox skull defenses and disrupting their abilities.
• Xing Gaohan engulfed Yuan Hao in flames while Xing Wenyao bound and stabbed Wind Eagle with a vine.
• Two flying swords shot from the eastern tunnel, forcing Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao to defend themselves and wounding Wind Eagle.
• Yinshuo and Jing Wuming burst from a magma fissure and flew toward the corpse coffin atop the raised platform.

Yinshuo and Jing Wuming joined forces to seize the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast’s corpse and the Demon Soul Spirit-Breaking Pill, but the stone pillar’s Killing Intent erupted and the beast suddenly awakened. The beast remained trapped in its coffin as silver runes spread across the platform.

• Yinshuo and Jing Wuming agreed to cooperate, with Yinshuo claiming the beast’s corpse and Jing Wuming claiming the pill.
• Yinshuo attacked the stone coffin while Jing Wuming fought Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao, who accused Jing Wuming of betraying their families.
• Yuan Hao secretly absorbed the Profound Yin Heavy Water and recovered, while the badly injured Wind Eagle left the cavern hall.
• The stone pillar released a torrent of Killing Intent, and Yinshuo failed to reach the beast through the coffin’s corpse Killing Intent.
• The Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast opened its blood-red eyes and tried to rise, then released soul power that activated silver runes across the coffin and platform.

A stone pillar burst through the cavern ceiling, freeing the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast, which Yinshuo identified as a corpse puppet inhabited by a powerful soul. As the cavern and secret realm began collapsing, Song Wen fled from the mountain and watched the upheaval spread.

• Silver light drove the stone pillar through the cavern ceiling, and the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast broke free of its chains.
• The Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast took the pill furnace and flew through the opening, while Yinshuo realized its aura was fake and identified it as a corpse puppet occupied by a powerful soul.
• Yinshuo and the other three Nascent Soul Cultivators pursued the creature, while Yuan Hao stayed behind because of his injuries and spoke with the Wind Eagle about the Holy Demon's remaining essence blood.
• As the cavern began collapsing, Song Wen escaped his underground dwelling and flew away from the mountain.
• Song Wen subdued a second-order resentful spirit, then continued fleeing as the mountain collapsed, the ground caved in, and the ghostly mist and gale engulfed the secret realm.

Xing Yixuan escaped the collapsing corpse pit, where Niu Ying was killed by the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast. At the mountaintop, the beast activated nine stone pillars and tried to bluff four Nascent Soul Cultivators, but Xing Gaohan exposed its weakness and they attacked.

• Xing Yixuan and Niu Ying escaped through the fissure as the corpse pit collapsed, but the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast burst out and killed Niu Ying with a glancing blow and falling rocks.
• Xing Yixuan fled the mountain and saw four Nascent Soul Cultivators pursue the beast, followed later by Yuan Hao and Wind Eagle.
• Xing Wenyao asked Xing Gaohan why the beast was heading for the mountaintop, and Xing Gaohan warned him to be cautious of both the beast and Yinshuo and Jing Wuming.
• At the mountaintop plaza, the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast channeled soul power into nine stone pillars, creating a pillar of bloody light.
• The beast claimed to be the Lord of the Sea and master of the Nether God Temple, but Yinshuo recognized it as a remnant soul and Xing Gaohan shouted that it was stalling.
• Xing Gaohan attacked with his fire phoenix, forcing the beast to flee; the four Nascent Soul Cultivators realized it was bluffing and launched their own attacks.

Yinshuo, Xing Wenyao, Xing Gaohan, and Jing Wuming fought over the pills and the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast as the secret realm closed and expelled everyone. In the valley outside, Gan Hong fled with the pill furnace, while the battle over the beast continued between Yinshuo and the two demons.

• Yinshuo attacked the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast while Xing Wenyao, Xing Gaohan, and Jing Wuming tried to seize the pill furnace; the furnace burst open and sent out two pills and a blood-colored token.
• Yuan Hao and the Wind Eagle confronted the fleeing Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast, but the secret realm's closing force transported everyone to a valley.
• Gan Hong took the fallen pill furnace and fled, prompting Jing Lie to pursue him as Jing Wuming ordered the Jing Family to leave Fangzhu Island.
• Jing Wuming fled with a Demon Soul Spirit-Breaking Pill, while Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao followed him; Yuan Hao trapped the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast in Profound Yin Heavy Water.
• Yinshuo offered to let Yuan Hao take the beast's body in exchange for its soul, but Yuan Hao refused, and Yinshuo unleashed Corpse-Baleful Qi against the water sphere.

Yinshuo captured Senior Xugeng’s soul and departed, while Song Wen escaped Xing Yixuan by using a corpse puppet and the Blood Escape Technique before disguising himself and reaching Fangzhu City. The chapter ended with a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s spiritual sense searching the city and several brief battles breaking out.

• Wind Eagle persuaded Yuan Hao to let Yinshuo extract Senior Xugeng’s soul from the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast, and Yinshuo sealed it in a soul bottle before leaving.
• Xing Yixuan pursued Song Wen, who sent the Shadow Gu carrying a blood-colored token away as a decoy, then used three Soul-Concentrating Spikes and a corpse puppet to escape her attack.
• Song Wen used the Blood Escape Technique to flee west, relied on his map to find concealed landing spots, disguised himself as an old man, and traveled to Fangzhu City.
• Song Wen checked into a cheap inn in Fangzhu City, where a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s spiritual sense swept through the southern district and several battles quickly erupted.

After the Xing Family failed to find Xing Liren’s killer, Song Wen left Fangzhu Island to avoid being identified and pursued. On the way to Limitless Island, he found a method to refine the Blood Sea Seal and examined the treasures he had taken from Xing Liren.

• A female Foundation Establishment cultivator searched the inn, but Song Wen concealed his storage ring inside his heart and passed unnoticed.
• The Xing Family searched Fangzhu Island for seven days without success, while Song Wen boarded a flying ship to Azure Sky Island.
• Song Wen left Azure Sky Island and headed northwest toward Limitless Island, stopping at an uninhabited island to retrieve his storage ring.
• Song Wen discovered that the blood-colored token contained instructions for refining the Blood Sea Seal, a process that required rare spiritual materials.
• Song Wen inspected Xing Liren’s belongings, found a material needed for the Blood Sea Seal, and kept the Ten Directions Diagram defensive treasure while deciding to sell the Coldlight Mirror.

Song Wen arrived at Limitless Island and used the name Extreme Yin while seeking a territory among its surrounding islands. Jing Kai introduced him to Sheep Island, where millions of mortals were kept ignorant and bred to supply cultivators with essence blood and living souls.

• Song Wen reached Shadow City and entered the External Affairs Hall in Corpse King Valley, openly displaying his early Golden Core cultivation.
• Song Wen introduced himself to Jing Kai as a Rogue Cultivator from the eastern region and explained that the Xing Family had suppressed demonic cultivators on Fangzhu Island.
• Song Wen gave Jing Kai two bottles of Five-Element Pills, and Jing Kai accepted them and learned that his visitor was called Extreme Yin.
• Jing Kai showed Song Wen a sea chart of the islands around Limitless Island and explained that a Golden Core cultivator could choose a Heaven-rank island.
• Song Wen asked about the vast unnamed island north of Limitless Island, and Jing Kai identified it as Sheep Island, where millions of mortals were confined and raised as a source of essence blood and living souls.

Song Wen secured a Heaven-grade island from Limitless Island and became a Golden Core Attendant. At the Task Hall, he reviewed high-rank missions and considered trading rare items for resources he needed.

• Song Wen asked Jing Kai how Limitless Island harvested two-legged sheep without being discovered, and Jing Kai described the island’s divided regions and strict surveillance.
• Song Wen chose a Heaven-grade island, which Jing Kai registered as Extreme Yin Island, and received a Starline Formation and an identity token.
• Jing Kai told Song Wen that alchemy missions offered generous, safe rewards, and Song Wen headed to the Task Hall.
• Song Wen examined rank-seven through rank-nine missions and found several offers involving pills and materials he could provide or needed.
• Song Wen realized he could trade rare items he did not need for spirit materials he wanted.

Song Wen claimed Extreme Yin Island and confronted Peng Guang, a Foundation Establishment cultivator who had been living there after buying information from Chu Qian. The island’s Starline Formation then trembled, though the chapter ended before its cause was revealed.

• Song Wen declined the tasks at Corpse King Valley, bought a map and nautical charts, and traveled to Extreme Yin Island.
• Song Wen discovered Peng Guang’s cave abode and broke through its concealment formation with the Darkness-Breaking Technique.
• Peng Guang mistook Song Wen for a weaker cultivator, then cowered when he realized Song Wen could fly without an artifact.
• Song Wen inspected the cave abode and questioned Peng Guang, who admitted he had paid Chu Qian for information about vacant islands.
• Peng Guang explained Chu Qian’s ties to Chu Lingyun and pointed out the incomplete Starline Formation, which suddenly trembled.

Song Wen spared Peng Guang for trespassing and asked him to arrange a meeting with Chu Qian, whose connections he hoped to use. At Tide-Listening Pavilion, Chu Qian apologized and compensated Peng Guang, and Song Wen began to ask for his help with an undisclosed matter.

• Peng Guang received Chu Qian's delayed warning that the island had an owner, and Song Wen agreed to spare him if he arranged an introduction.
• Chu Qian refused to leave Limitless Island and invited Song Wen to meet him at Tide-Listening Pavilion the next day.
• Peng Guang cleared the cave abode, left with the two female cultivators, and guarded the island overnight while Song Wen stayed there.
• Song Wen and Peng Guang traveled to Limitless Island and met Chu Qian at the appointed time; Chu Qian explained that he knew Song Wen's title from a sea chart.
• Chu Qian hosted Song Wen and Peng Guang at a spirit banquet, apologized, and gave Peng Guang thirty thousand spirit stones in compensation.
• After three rounds of wine, Song Wen told Chu Qian that he wanted his help with a small matter.

Song Wen sought rare Blood Jade Coral from Chu Qian and returned to Extreme Yin Island, where two sisters offered to reveal the location of Origin-Returning Sha Qi in exchange for shelter. He agreed to take them in if the sha qi was real and they followed his arrangements, leaving them under his protection.

• Song Wen agreed to pay Chu Qian ten Superior Spirit Stones for Blood Jade Coral and promised to give him priority when selling pills.
• Song Wen returned to Extreme Yin Island and found An Tong and An Yin waiting to be taken in.
• An Tong said she and An Yin had been abducted by Peng Guang and offered the location of Origin-Returning Sha Qi as a condition for shelter.
• Song Wen agreed to let the sisters stay if the Origin-Returning Sha Qi existed and they obeyed his arrangements.
• Song Wen gave An Tong and An Yin spare clothes after they said Peng Guang had usually kept them unclothed.

Song Wen learned the location and scant details of the tomb containing the Origin-Returning Sha Qi, then established a hidden cave abode on Extreme Yin Island and began redirecting its Earth Veins. He left An Tong and An Yin in the original cave abode to guard the Starline Formation, unaware that a Gu Worm was spying on them.

• An Yin recalled and drew a sketch of the tomb her father had explored, and Song Wen destroyed it after warning the sisters to keep the tomb secret.
• Song Wen set up the Starline Formation and let An Tong and An Yin live in the cave abode, ordering them to watch for messages and not leave the island at will.
• Song Wen explored Extreme Yin Island and excavated a concealed cave abode behind the sisters’ cave, adding unfinished escape passages.
• Song Wen began setting up the Spirit Pivot Illusory Vein Formation, causing the island to tremble and the spiritual energy in the sisters’ cave abode to decline.
• An Tong guessed that Song Wen was behind the disturbance and told An Yin to obey him, while a hidden Gu Worm watched them from a crack.

Song Wen entered the underwater tomb and fought through its corpse guards, finding that they had absorbed Origin-Returning Sha Qi. After clearing the main chamber, he reached a black corpse coffin wreathed in faint Origin-Returning Sha Qi.

• Song Wen released Peng Guang's two maidservants and declined to accept payment from Peng Guang.
• Song Wen traveled to the reef island and descended through a hidden cave into the tomb.
• Song Wen cleared fallen rocks, passed through the tomb passage, and found that its side chambers had been emptied.
• Song Wen opened a sealed stone gate, where eight bronze corpses attacked the silver corpse.
• Song Wen destroyed the bronze corpses with lightning spears and entered the tomb's vast main chamber, where a black corpse coffin rested on a stone platform.

Song Wen opened the corpse coffin and fought the rotten corpse inside, using Soul-Concentrating Spikes and lightning arts to overcome it. The rotten corpse was weakened and begged for its life, then explained how it had preserved its soul and body with ghost cultivation and Origin-Returning Sha Qi.

• Song Wen searched the burial chamber, set up the Four Symbols Reversal Formation, and had the silver corpse open the coffin.
• A rotten corpse rose from the coffin and fought the silver corpse, tearing off one of its arms before Song Wen struck its soul with Soul-Concentrating Spikes.
• The rotten corpse attacked Song Wen with Origin-Returning Sha Qi, but Song Wen's lightning shield forced it to negotiate.
• Song Wen demanded the Origin-Returning Sha Qi, and the rotten corpse spat out a stone bottle that exploded; Song Wen had anticipated the trick and kept the formation stable.
• Song Wen repeatedly attacked the rotten corpse's soul until it lost control of the Origin-Returning Sha Qi and begged for its life.
• The rotten corpse told Song Wen it had transformed its soul into a ghost and refined its body into a corpse puppet protected by Origin-Returning Sha Qi.

Song Wen killed the Corpse, claimed its Origin-Returning Sha Qi and cultivation records, then spent a year cultivating, refining pills, and advancing his Sacred Beetle Gu. Facing dwindling funds, he began using the Shadow Gu to hunt aquatic demonic beasts near Extreme Yin Island, but the profitable arrangement did not last long.

• Song Wen decapitated the Corpse, devoured its soul, and recovered a bottle of Origin-Returning Sha Qi, ghost-path materials, and Jade Slips containing the Profound Nether Canon and alchemy insights.
• Song Wen returned to Extreme Yin Island, gave An Tong and An Yin supplies and pills, and told them to watch the Starline Formation.
• Song Wen cultivated with the Origin-Returning Sha Qi and refined pills for Chu Qian and the Mission Hall, but his income fell short of the island's contribution costs.
• Song Wen obtained Blood Jade Coral and bought Dragon-Pattern Grass until all five Sacred Beetle Gu reached the third order, leaving him with little savings.
• Song Wen learned that hunting demonic beasts could earn spirit stones and sent the Shadow Gu to kill second-order aquatic beasts while preserving their corpses and essence blood.
• The Shadow Gu's hunts earned Song Wen more than alchemy, but the arrangement did not last long.

Song Wen accepted a mission to make Demon-Luring Incense and help eliminate a suspected third-tier Bloodthirsty Bee queen on Sheep Island. He flew toward the island but was stopped at its restricted airspace by a Limitless Island cultivator.

• Song Wen hunted demonic beasts with his Shadow Gu, earning nearly a hundred thousand spirit stones from their corpses.
• Over eight years, Song Wen established himself on Limitless Island, bought a Netherworld Stone from Chu Qian, and raised the Ghost King's cultivation to the middle of the third tier.
• An Tong told Song Wen that a message had arrived through the Starline Formation, and he learned that the Mission Hall had assigned him a pill-refining mission.
• Qiao Ke gave Song Wen a mission to make Demon-Luring Incense and help Pavilion Master Zhu Yin deal with Bloodthirsty Bees in the Cold Mountain Kingdom on Sheep Island.
• Song Wen flew toward Sheep Island and was halted by a Late Qi Refinement cultivator guarding Limitless Island's restricted airspace.

Song Wen arrived on Sheep Island to help contain the Bloodthirsty Bees threatening Cold Mountain Kingdom. Pavilion Master Zhu Yin gave him the Demon-Luring Incense formula and herbs, leaving him to prepare for a task she expected him to handle without delay.

• Song Wen met Jing Kai, who explained that he had recommended Song Wen for the mission and offered to lead him to Zhu Yin.
• Jing Kai described Sheep Island's shepherds and sheep attendants, who held power over the kingdoms of two-legged sheep.
• Song Wen and Jing Kai arrived at Shepherd Hall, where Zhu Yin rebuked the shepherds for failing to report the Bloodthirsty Bees' spread.
• Zhu Yin questioned Song Wen about his experience refining Demon-Luring Incense, then gave him its third-rank formula and the required spiritual herbs.

Song Wen refined Demon-Luring Incense for Zhu Yin, then accompanied her to Shanfu City to observe a Bloodthirsty Bee attack and learn why the swarm was difficult to track to its queen. The bees left the devastated city carrying blood, and Song Wen and Zhu Yin prepared to follow them.

• Song Wen studied the Demon-Luring Incense formula and refined a batch after four attempts, impressing Zhu Yin.
• A disciple reported Bloodthirsty Bees in Cold Mountain Kingdom, and Zhu Yin invited Song Wen to test the incense against them.
• Tens of thousands of Bloodthirsty Bees attacked Shanfu City while Jing Kai refused King Cui Zaishi’s pleas for help.
• Song Wen and Zhu Yin watched from above as Zhu Yin explained that worker bees could not lead them directly to the queen’s nest.
• After filling sacs with blood, the Bloodthirsty Bees gathered at the second-grade soldier bees’ summons and flew out of Shanfu City.