Recaps

Song Wen killed Yun Cang, devoured his spiritual power, and advanced to the peak Golden Core stage while trying to claim the Star Raft Divine Ark. He left Yi Hong trapped at the seabed and killed him after refusing to let a witness to Yun Cang’s death live.

• Yi Hong escaped the ark, but Song Wen trapped him in a sea of blood while the silver corpse remained caught in a Killing Intent cage.
• Song Wen searched Yun Cang’s soul and devoured his spiritual power, breaking through to the peak Golden Core stage before hitting the Nascent Soul bottleneck.
• Song Wen burned Yun Cang’s corpse, took his storage ring, and tried to find a way to refine the Star Raft Divine Ark.
• Song Wen dragged the ark, Yi Hong, and the silver corpse to the seabed, but found no refinement method in Yun Cang’s memories or belongings and could not refine the control platform.
• Yi Hong warned Song Wen that the Limitless Sect could track the ark and offered to help disable the tracking formation, but Song Wen refused to spare him.
• Song Wen contracted the sea of blood until it crushed Yi Hong after his shield failed.

Song Wen hid the Star Raft Divine Ark in an undersea canyon and returned to the waters near Extreme Yin Island, where Zhu Yin arrived looking for him. After Zhu Yin accused him of killing several Limitless Sect cultivators, Song Wen learned that Han Wu and Jing Kai had confessed, and his killing intent flared.

• Song Wen learned about the Star Raft Divine Ark from Yi Hong's memories, disabled its tracking formation, and discovered he could not refine it quickly.
• Song Wen used the Blood Sea Seal to drag the Star Raft Divine Ark into a deep undersea canyon, then hid in a cave beneath an uninhabited islet and sent Shadow Gus to watch Extreme Yin Island and the islet.
• Zhu Yin arrived on another Star Raft Divine Ark and questioned An Yin about Song Wen, but An Yin could not tell her where his cave dwelling was.
• After learning through a Shadow Gu that Zhu Yin had come alone, Song Wen decided to meet her, and Zhu Yin confronted him about the deaths of Pang Heng, Feng Lan, Duan Chuan, and Yun Cang.
• Zhu Yin said Han Wu and Jing Kai had confessed, and Song Wen responded with cold killing intent.

Zhu Yin revealed how she uncovered Song Wen's identity and explained that she had helped him to secure his promise to refine the Infant Spirit Pill. After three years of secluded cultivation, Song Wen was ready to begin refining it, and Zhu Yin arrived with ingredients for three batches and stayed to guard him.

• Zhu Yin told Song Wen that she traced his identity through Bi Zhan, Han Wu, and Jing Kai, and that she had dealt with Han Wu and Jing Kai to protect his secret.
• Song Wen said he needed three years before attempting the Infant Spirit Pill, and Zhu Yin agreed to return then.
• Song Wen secluded himself on a deserted island, where his spiritual sense advanced to Nascent Soul Early Stage; his Shadow Gu later failed to locate the Star Raft Divine Ark.
• After three years, Zhu Yin visited Song Wen's underwater cave abode and asked when he would refine the pill.
• Zhu Yin gave Song Wen spiritual herbs for three batches of Infant Spirit Pills, then stayed in his cave abode to guard him while he refined them.

Song Wen refined an Infant Spirit Pill for Zhu Yin and exchanged it for a Primordial Nascent Soul Formation Pill. Zhu Yin then offered to trade her Dao companionship for Song Wen’s remaining pill and began recounting how her family was destroyed by sea demons.

• Song Wen sent Zhu Yin outside the cave abode, restored his condition, and began refining the Infant Spirit Pill.
• After a failed batch and several attempts, Song Wen successfully refined two Infant Spirit Pills.
• Song Wen gave one pill to Zhu Yin, who handed him a Primordial Nascent Soul Formation Pill in return.
• Zhu Yin asked Song Wen to give her his remaining Infant Spirit Pill and offered to become his Dao companion.
• Zhu Yin told Song Wen about her rare spiritual root, her family’s hopes for her, and the sea demon attack that killed her clansmen and cost her father his life.

Zhu Yin revealed that Yinshuo had arranged her lineage’s destruction so he could exploit her Profound Yin Physique, then offered Song Wen a partnership involving nascent-soul cultivation and dual cultivation. Song Wen questioned how she would hide her breakthrough from Yinshuo, leaving her plan unresolved.

• Zhu Yin explained that Yinshuo rescued her after her lineage was destroyed, raised her as his disciple, and secretly made her practice a formula that prevented her from losing her virginity.
• Zhu Yin said she discovered that Yinshuo had targeted her Profound Yin Physique to use her as a cultivation cauldron, and that a tracking mark in her sea of consciousness kept her from fleeing.
• Zhu Yin offered Song Wen her help with nascent-soul cultivation in exchange for his Infant Spirit Pill, and claimed their dual cultivation could raise his chance of success above sixty percent.
• Song Wen doubted Zhu Yin would cooperate after reaching the nascent-soul realm, so Zhu Yin offered a soul oath and gave him the Yin-Yang Harmony Art.
• Song Wen warned that Zhu Yin’s breakthrough could take ten to twenty years and asked how she would keep Yinshuo from suspecting her during seclusion.

Song Wen gave Zhu Yin an Infant Spirit Pill in exchange for her promise to help him form his Nascent Soul after she succeeded, then spent nine years tempering his cultivation and body on Extreme Yin Island. The chapter left him relaxing with An Tong as An Yin returned from Limitless Island, and An Tong prepared a Blue-Scaled Snake feast.

• Zhu Yin showed Song Wen the Star Raft Divine Ark he had discarded and offered to give it to him after forming her Nascent Soul.
• Song Wen agreed to give Zhu Yin an Infant Spirit Pill, and Zhu Yin swore to find him and help him cultivate after her breakthrough.
• Song Wen spent the following years cultivating the Undying True Corpse Transformation and Soul-Concentrating Spike while consolidating his Golden Core realm.
• An Tong, after failing to establish her foundation for a second time, continued tending the spiritual field on Extreme Yin Island.
• An Tong invited Song Wen to eat Blue-Scaled Snake soup, and An Yin returned from a successful trip to Limitless Island.

Song Wen learned that the Demon Race threatened both the Northern and Western Regions, complicating the human alliance’s plans to send aid north. After Purple Cloud revealed the Western Region’s danger and competing theories about the demons’ strategy, Song Wen realized the crisis could force him to the front and put Zhu Yin at risk.

• An Yin told Song Wen that the Jing Family was losing territory in the Northern Region while the Cui Family and Limitless Sect delayed sending an army.
• Song Wen worried that war would disrupt his cultivation and force him to leave the Limitless Sect, but he stayed because he needed to wait for Zhu Yin on Extreme Yin Island.
• Purple Cloud visited Song Wen and explained that she had accompanied her master to discuss an expedition against the Demon Race.
• Purple Cloud revealed that sea demons, including fourth-rank Merfolk, had gathered near the boundary between the Western Region’s inner and outer seas, preventing Yinshuo and Ye Hua from sending a large force north.
• Song Wen suspected the western gathering was meant to deter the Limitless Sect from aiding the north, while Ye Hua believed it might be a trap to draw Yinshuo and Yinshuo away from Limitless Island.
• Song Wen feared that the growing crisis could bring him to the front and prompt Yinshuo to retrieve Zhu Yin, exposing her attempt to form her Nascent Soul.

Purple Cloud visited Song Wen and learned that he had refined Infant Spirit Pills, then agreed to exchange Nascent Soul formation insights for his help making pills. She urged him to leave the troubled Limitless Sect and join the Two Forms Sect, where his alchemy skills could earn him protection from the coming war.

• An Tong brought Blue-Scaled Snake stew, and she and An Yin told Purple Cloud that Song Wen had rescued them from bandits and treated them kindly.
• Purple Cloud asked Song Wen to refine Infant Spirit Pills for her, and he revealed that he had refined them himself.
• Song Wen asked for the Two Forms Sect’s Nascent Soul formation insights as payment, and Purple Cloud agreed on the condition that he keep them secret.
• Song Wen and Purple Cloud agreed to keep their respective secrets, but postponed the pill refinement because the Limitless Sect’s situation was too unstable.
• Purple Cloud invited Song Wen to join the Two Forms Sect as a Golden Core consecrated elder, warning that the Limitless Sect might send him to the front lines if war began.

Song Wen left the Limitless Sect after receiving an urgent summons and traveled to Two Forms Island with the An sisters, avoiding a disastrous battle with the Demon Race. Purple Cloud later told him that the battle had been an ambush orchestrated with help from the supposedly dead Xing Wenyao.

• An Tong reported an emergency message from the Limitless Sect, and Purple Cloud suspected it was preparing to attack the Demon Race in the western region.
• Song Wen decided to leave the Limitless Sect and stay temporarily on Two Forms Island, while Purple Cloud remained behind until the conflict was settled.
• Song Wen packed his belongings, took the An sisters, and settled in a rented courtyard in Four Symbols City.
• Purple Cloud told Song Wen that the Limitless Sect had suffered heavy losses after Flying Eagle and Yuan Hao ambushed it, though Xuanchengzi, Yinshuo, and Ye Hua survived.
• Purple Cloud revealed that Xing Wenyao had betrayed the humans and helped the demons plan the ambush, shocking Song Wen because he had believed Xing Wenyao was dead.

Song Wen learned that Xing Wenyao had betrayed the human race and that the Limitless Sect had branded Extreme Yin a traitor. He refined an Infant Spirit Pill for Purple Cloud, received the promised jade slip on forming an Infant Soul, and heard that the war remained stalled after Yinshuo and Ye Hua were wounded.

• Purple Cloud told Song Wen that Xing Wenyao had survived by disguising himself as a Limitless Sect cultivator and betraying the human race to the Demon Race.
• Purple Cloud informed Song Wen that the Limitless Sect had declared Extreme Yin a traitor and issued a kill order against him.
• Purple Cloud lent Song Wen her cave abode on Skyvault Peak so he could refine the Infant Spirit Pill, and he accepted the offer.
• Song Wen spent three months refining the pills and successfully produced pills from the second batch, though the first batch failed.
• Purple Cloud gave Song Wen the promised jade slip on forming an Infant Soul after receiving the pills.
• Song Wen asked about the war, and Purple Cloud said there had been no major changes since the battle in the Western Region because Yinshuo and Ye Hua remained gravely wounded.

Song Wen learned that Yinshuo and Ye Hua would need years to recover, helped An Yin accept Purple Cloud’s invitation to join the Two Forms Sect, and moved to a separate cave abode in Four Symbols City. He contacted Xing Mo and arranged to refine a Barrier-Breaking Pill for Xing Shan, with Xing Mo agreeing to sacrifice his life as the pill’s ingredient.

• Song Wen learned from Purple Cloud that Yinshuo and Ye Hua might take several years to recover, then declined her invitation to join the Two Forms Sect for now.
• Purple Cloud invited An Yin to become her disciple, and An Yin accepted after Song Wen told her to decide for herself.
• Song Wen asked An Tong to have An Yin learn more about the conflict between the human and demon races, then rented cave abode seventeen on Illusion Gorge Mountain under the name Wei Ding.
• Song Wen contacted Xing Mo and learned that Xing Shan had reached the peak stage of Foundation Establishment a year earlier.
• After hesitating over his impending death, Xing Mo agreed to begin refining the Barrier-Breaking Pill, and Song Wen told him to come to his cave abode in three days.

Xing Mo spent what he believed would be his final days avoiding Xing Shan before going to Song Wen to begin refining the Barrier-Breaking Pill. He left Song Wen with his belongings for Xing Shan and asked him to keep the pill’s origin secret.

• Xing Mo left the courtyard to buy spirit herbs, but realized he had no destination because he had already gathered everything needed for the pill.
• Xing Mo stood beneath the sky for three days and nights, then returned to Xing Shan and told her that Extreme Yin had come back to refine her pill.
• Xing Mo left Xing Shan and went to Cave Residence Seventeen on Illusion Gorge Mountain to meet Song Wen.
• Xing Mo gave Song Wen his storage ring and asked him to pass its other contents to Xing Shan.
• Xing Mo asked Song Wen to conceal where the Barrier-Breaking Pill came from, and Song Wen agreed.

Song Wen refined Xing Mo into a living corpse and used him to make a Barrier-Breaking Pill, then delivered it to Xing Shan while concealing her father’s fate. As years passed, Song Wen left Zhu Yin a clue to find him, while the Demon Race’s expansion prompted the human factions to form an allied army and sent the Two Forms Sect onto alert.

• Song Wen refined Xing Mo into a living corpse and then into a blood-streaked Barrier-Breaking Pill.
• Song Wen gave Xing Shan her father’s storage ring and the pill, but left without telling her what had happened to Xing Mo.
• An Tong reported Demon Race attacks and Illusory Mist Jellyfish near the Two Forms Sect, and Song Wen instructed him to keep gathering intelligence through An Yin.
• After two years, Song Wen returned to Extreme Yin Island and left the words “Two Forms Four Symbols” as a clue for Zhu Yin.
• Three years later, the human allied army led by Xuanchengzi and Cui Xuanjing departed for the Northern Region, while the Two Forms Sect increased patrols and abandoned remote holdings.

Song Wen met Purple Cloud while patrolling near Two Forms Island, but a fourth-rank Heaven-Burning Eagle pursued Zhu Yin’s Star Raft Divine Ark into their area. After Zhu Yin called for help, Song Wen flew out to confront the bird, leaving Purple Cloud and Zhu Yin astonished by his choice.

• Song Wen bought the Illusory Demon-Locking Formation from Purple Cloud and learned that the human-demon war in the Northern Region had become a stalemate.
• Purple Cloud said she had postponed her plans to form a Nascent Soul because the Demon Race threat required her to remain on duty.
• A crimson danger signal appeared, and Purple Cloud gathered nearby Two Forms Sect patrol members aboard her ship.
• A Heaven-Burning Eagle pursued Zhu Yin’s Star Raft Divine Ark, whose shield was close to collapsing under its fiery attacks.
• Zhu Yin called to Song Wen for help, and he sensed that she had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Song Wen decided to attack the early-stage fourth-rank Heaven-Burning Eagle and flew toward Zhu Yin’s ark.

Song Wen transformed into an Undying True Corpse and attacked the Heaven-Burning Eagle with the Blood Sea Seal, then used his Soul-Concentrating Spike to stun it. He wounded the eagle’s eye with his broken blade, but the eagle recovered from the attack and prepared to strike back.

• Song Wen used the Undying True Corpse Transformation and revealed that he cultivated the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, shocking Zhu Yin and the others.
• Song Wen spread the Blood Sea across a hundred li and attacked the Heaven-Burning Eagle, whose flames kept the blood qi at bay.
• Song Wen rushed into close range and struck the eagle with nine blades of divine sense from the third level of the Soul-Concentrating Spike, making it lose control and dive toward the sea.
• Song Wen’s claws were repelled by the eagle’s hidden purple flames, and the flames destroyed his Black Frost Blade when he tried to strike with it.
• Song Wen used the broken blade to pierce the eagle’s eye, but the Heaven-Burning Eagle recovered from the divine sense attack and fixed him with its remaining eye.

Song Wen helped the Star Raft Divine Ark escape Heaven-Burning Eagle, but Daoist Nun Lan Yin learned that a Demon Race army was approaching Two Forms Island. The group returned to the sect and prepared for battle, with the enemy’s exact strength still unknown.

• Song Wen withdrew his blood sphere from Heaven-Burning Eagle’s flames and used the impact to reach the Star Raft Divine Ark.
• Daoist Nun Lan Yin arrived, and Song Wen emerged injured but alive after severely wounding Heaven-Burning Eagle’s eye.
• Daoist Nun Lan Yin pursued Heaven-Burning Eagle, but Purple Cloud warned her that a large Demon Race force was approaching Two Forms Island.
• Zhu Yin estimated the army was three to five thousand li away, so Daoist Nun Lan Yin sent a warning signal and returned to the sect with the others.
• Daoist Nun Lan Yin learned that Zhu Yin had encountered two Mystic-Feather Cranes and Heaven-Burning Eagle but had not seen the Demon Race army.

Song Wen reunited with Zhu Yin after she formed a Nascent Soul and removed the tracking technique from her soul. With the Demon Race threatening Two Forms Island and Yinshuo likely to pursue Zhu Yin, Song Wen decided they should stay put until a safer chance to escape arose.

• Daoist Lan Yin invited Song Wen and Zhu Yin to meet Daoist Yunxu, but Song Wen declined and promised to help resist the Demon Race if it attacked.
• Song Wen and Zhu Yin left Four Symbols City and went to the deserted Heavenly Vault Mountain, where Zhu Yin thanked him for saving her and confirmed she had removed the Soulshadow Tracking Technique.
• Zhu Yin explained that she had formed her Nascent Soul aboard the Star Raft Divine Ark in the outer seas, then spent five years stabilizing her cultivation before returning to find Song Wen.
• Song Wen warned that Yinshuo might identify Zhu Yin from the Star Raft Divine Ark and come after them, but argued that leaving Two Forms Island immediately could expose them to the Demon Race.
• Song Wen persuaded Zhu Yin to remain on Two Forms Island until they could find a safe opportunity to escape.

Song Wen retrieved the Hidden Soul Jade from Shan Yue and arranged for her and Xing Shan to take refuge on Extreme Island. With the Demon Race army threatening Four Symbols City, he and Zhu Yin agreed to help defend it and heard the Two Forms Sect’s plans.

• Song Wen returned to Four Symbols City with Zhu Yin and collected the Hidden Soul Jade from Shan Yue.
• Song Wen arranged with Purple Cloud for Shan Yue and Xing Shan to join the Two Forms Sect and take refuge on Extreme Island.
• Song Wen and Zhu Yin discussed their aims, including Zhu Yin’s desire to avenge her family.
• Purple Cloud asked Song Wen and Zhu Yin to help defend Four Symbols City, and they agreed to follow Daoist Nun Lan Yin’s arrangements.
• Purple Cloud explained that the Two Forms Sect would prepare defenses and decide whether to hold or attack once the Demon Race’s main force appeared.

Song Wen and the cultivators of Four Symbols City prepared to defend a thousand-zhang wall against the Demon Race’s aquatic army. Song Wen detected the approaching force, and its immense waves battered the wall as the defenders struggled to hold their ground.

• Five Golden Core cultivators of the Two Forms Sect raised a defensive stone wall along the shore, and Daoist Lan Yin assigned Song Wen, Zhu Yin, and Purple Cloud to guard its central sections.
• Song Wen told Zhu Yin that the Demon Race had to attack that night before the Limitless Sect and Cui Family could send reinforcements.
• Using his Shadow Gu, Song Wen spotted four Sea-Swallowing Beasts underwater and warned Daoist Lan Yin that the Demon Race was approaching.
• The Demon Race sent towering waves crashing into the wall, killing Rogue Cultivators and throwing the defenders into turmoil.
• Daoist Lan Yin ordered the cultivators to hold their positions, while Song Wen summoned a peak third-rank corpse puppet and a Ghost King to help stabilize the defense.

Song Wen and Zhu Yin agreed to flee if the Two Forms Sect was overwhelmed, while Zhu Yin also sought to earn the sect’s support. As the Demon Race attacked, two Merfolk disrupted the human defenders with their song, and Daoist Nun Lan Yin moved to confront them.

• Song Wen and Zhu Yin discussed escaping if the battle turned against the Two Forms Sect, and Zhu Yin admitted she wanted to forge ties with it.
• Daoist Nun Lan Yin ordered the cultivators to attack as swarms of Bloodmouth Beasts surged up the city wall, with Sharp-Toothed Porpoises hiding among them.
• Two late third-order Merfolk appeared above the sea and sang, throwing the human Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment cultivators into chaos.
• Zhu Yin launched nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails at the Merfolk, but a water curtain swept them away.
• Daoist Nun Lan Yin formed a sword seal and sent her flying sword toward the two Merfolk.

Daoist Lan Yin trapped the Black Flood Dragon in a sword formation, while Song Wen fought the Heaven-Burning Eagle to keep it from interfering. The Heaven-Burning Eagle unleashed its natal spirit flame, and Song Wen’s Blood Sea Seal shifted aside to evade the attack.

• Daoist Lan Yin fought the Black Flood Dragon, enlarging her flying sword and striking its scales as it charged toward Four Symbols City.
• Daoist Lan Yin revealed a nine-sword formation and trapped the Black Flood Dragon, which attacked the barrier with Nether Spring True Water.
• The Heaven-Burning Eagle approached, and Daoist Lan Yin told Song Wen to hold it off while she controlled the formation.
• Song Wen sent the Blood Sea Seal against the Heaven-Burning Eagle, whose flames burned away the seal’s tentacles.
• The Heaven-Burning Eagle fired its natal spirit flame, and Song Wen transformed the Blood Sea Seal into an opening and then blood mist to let the fire pass through.

The Heaven-Burning Eagle escaped the blood mist, while the injured Black Flood Dragon broke Daoist Nun Lan Yin’s sword formation and fled. Yunxu and Lan Yin pursued it into the sea with Song Wen and Zhu Yin following, where Lan Yin’s growing unease hinted that danger remained.

• The Heaven-Burning Eagle escaped the spiritual sense attack and Corpse-Suppressing Nails by fleeing beyond the blood mist.
• The Black Flood Dragon broke Daoist Nun Lan Yin’s sword formation and attempted to attack her, but fled when Yunxu’s rune-covered ruler appeared.
• Yunxu pursued the Black Flood Dragon despite Lan Yin’s concern that leaving Extreme Island could expose it to danger.
• Lan Yin led twelve Golden Core cultivators after Yunxu, and Zhu Yin persuaded Song Wen to follow in the Star Raft Divine Ark.
• After searching the seabed and finding no sign of the demons or the two Merfolk, Lan Yin followed Yunxu and the Black Flood Dragon beneath the sea.

Song Wen and Zhu Yin escaped Four Symbols City after Daoist Nun Lan Yin revealed that Yunxu had been trapped by Xing Wenyao and Black Flood Dragon. Once safely beyond the city, Song Wen summoned the Star Raft Divine Ark and set course for the Outer Sea to form his Nascent Soul.

• Zhu Yin steered the Star Raft Divine Ark away from the sea after Song Wen warned her not to plunge into Demon Race territory.
• Daoist Nun Lan Yin fled the underwater battle to Four Symbols City, activated its protective formation, and told Zhu Yin that Yunxu was trapped in an Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation with Xing Wenyao and a fourth-order puppet.
• Black Flood Dragon taunted the cultivators outside the formation before departing, while Lan Yin meditated and Song Wen and Zhu Yin decided to leave.
• Song Wen and Zhu Yin exited through the southern formation barrier and traveled south, with Song Wen using six early third-order Gu insects to scout their route.
• Song Wen summoned the Star Raft Divine Ark and told Zhu Yin they were heading to the Outer Sea so he could form his Nascent Soul.

Song Wen and Zhu Yin reached the remote island where Song Wen had once formed his core, and Zhu Yin honored her deceased family before asking him to become her Dao companion. After half a year of preparing for dual cultivation, Song Wen took Zhu Yin to see a dazzling gathering of glowing sea creatures.

• Song Wen and Zhu Yin traveled to a remote island in the Sea of Disorder where Song Wen had formed his core.
• Zhu Yin set up memorial tablets for her family and asked Song Wen to offer incense as her Dao companion; Song Wen agreed.
• Song Wen postponed dual cultivation so they could prepare, and the two spent the next half year growing more at ease together.
• Song Wen took Zhu Yin beneath the sea, where they saw countless enormous, translucent creatures glowing with brilliant colors.

Song Wen and Zhu Yin completed forty-nine sessions of dual cultivation, helping Song Wen begin forming a Nascent Soul. Years later, a vast spiritual-energy vortex gathered over the island as Song Wen’s breakthrough continued, leaving Zhu Yin anxiously watching outside his cave.

• Song Wen and Zhu Yin practiced the Yin-Yang Harmony Art for forty-nine days, and the yin-yang energy nurtured an embryonic Nascent Soul in Song Wen’s Golden Core.
• Zhu Yin left Song Wen’s cave and established her own nearby to refine the primordial yang she had gained.
• Song Wen used Superior Spirit Stones and pills to nourish the Nascent Soul as fissures spread across his Golden Core.
• After seven years of seclusion, Zhu Yin emerged and sensed Song Wen’s breakthrough disturbing the island’s spiritual energy; concern kept her there for three years.
• A massive spiritual-energy vortex formed above the island, drawing in energy from a thousand miles around and frightening the island’s creatures and nearby aquatic beasts.