Recaps

Song Wen formed his Nascent Soul while Zhu Yin used his Illusory Demon-Locking Formation to contain the demon beasts drawn to the island. A month later, Song Wen completed his breakthrough and woke in his cave abode, leaving the extra Infant Spirit Pill unused.

• Song Wen's golden core shattered, and his Nascent Soul devoured spiritual energy from the surrounding area as a vortex formed above the island.
• Six demon beasts converged on the island, and a fourth-rank octopus devoured a giant lizard and turtle while the other beasts fled.
• Song Wen sent Zhu Yin the array disk for his Illusory Demon-Locking Formation and instructed her to trap the octopus.
• Zhu Yin activated the formation, and the octopus's attacks gradually became confused as it struck rocks and mountains inside the mist.
• One month later, the spiritual energy vortex collapsed, devastating the island and raising towering waves across the sea.
• Song Wen woke in his cave abode with his Nascent Soul formed and left his extra Infant Spirit Pill unopened.

After advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm, Song Wen parted ways with Zhu Yin, who refused his offer to leave the Sea of Disorder and chose to seek a chance to avenge her family. Zhu Yin departed with two Shadow Gu, while Song Wen returned to his cave abode to stabilize his cultivation.

• Song Wen thanked Zhu Yin for guarding his cave abode for three years, and she said she had only repaid his past favor.
• Song Wen told Zhu Yin he planned to leave the Sea of Disorder for the Heavenly Origin Continent and offered to take her with him.
• Zhu Yin refused, explaining that she planned to search ancient ruins for a chance to strengthen herself and hoped to ambush Yinshuo during the war between humans and demons.
• Song Wen gave Zhu Yin two Shadow Gu, but told her to keep the Star Raft Divine Ark she had promised him.
• Zhu Yin departed after exchanging farewells with Song Wen, who returned to his cave abode to stabilize his Nascent Soul cultivation.

After six years of recovery, Song Wen tested his fourth heavenly thunder secret art and prepared to leave the Sea of Disorder for the Heavenly Origin Continent. On the way, he found the Misty Ghost Domain and confronted the Nether Fox, offering to spare her if she served him as a spirit beast for a hundred years.

• Song Wen unleashed Purple Palace Divine Thunder, reducing the island to scorched bare ground.
• Song Wen decided to return to the Heavenly Origin Continent to seek the later stages of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and settle old grudges.
• Song Wen noticed that the Misty Ghost Domain seemed closer than he remembered and wondered whether its ghost fog was spreading.
• Song Wen encountered the Nether Fox in the ghost fog and reminded her that she had once sent him in the wrong direction.
• Song Wen proposed that the Nether Fox become his spirit beast for a hundred years in exchange for her life.

Song Wen forced Nether Fox into a slave spirit beast contract so he could use its ability to locate resentful spirits in the Misty Ghost Domain. After Nether Fox returned with nearly a hundred resentful spirits and tried to kill him with their soul-wailing assault, Song Wen resisted and punished it through the contract.

• Nether Fox bargained over the contract’s term, but Song Wen forced it to accept a hundred years and forged a slave contract in its soul.
• Song Wen learned that Nether Fox could smell resentful spirits hundreds of li away, unaffected by the ghost mist, and ordered it to bring some back.
• Nether Fox admitted it had eaten all the nearby resentful spirits, then left to find more at Song Wen’s command.
• After half a month, Nether Fox returned to Song Wen’s cave residence and released nearly a hundred resentful spirits at once, hoping their wails would incapacitate him.
• Song Wen quickly recovered from the soul assault, recognized Nether Fox’s attempt to kill him, and activated the contract, causing it intense pain.

Song Wen devoured resentful spirits in the Misty Ghost Domain to strengthen his divine sense while the Nether Fox brought him more. After three years, ghost mist erosion and dwindling supplies drove Song Wen to leave for the Heavenly Origin Continent with the Nether Fox.

• Song Wen forced the Nether Fox out of his cave abode, devoured the resentful spirits inside, then ordered it to capture more.
• The Nether Fox revealed that nearby territory belonged to a stronger Nether Fox and tried to persuade Song Wen to kill it, but Song Wen refused.
• Over the next three years, Song Wen refined soul fragments while the Nether Fox intermittently delivered resentful spirits, bringing his divine sense close to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Song Wen left seclusion after ghost mist began eroding his body and the resentful spirits grew scarce, then ordered the Nether Fox to prepare to leave the Misty Ghost Domain.
• Song Wen said he was heading to the Heavenly Origin Continent by way of the Endless Desert and had the Nether Fox enter his spirit beast pouch.

Song Wen returned to the Endless Desert after a century away and began searching for clues to the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, choosing to investigate Longevity Hall through his Beast Taming Sect acquaintances. After learning that Zhou Siyi and Rong Jingyun were alive and that the righteous and demonic paths had been at peace, he contacted them and received a startled reply from Rong Jingyun.

• Song Wen teleported to the Endless Desert, reached East Birch Market, and considered leads involving the Divine Blood Sect, Blood Brow, and Longevity Hall.
• Song Wen decided to search for Longevity Hall near the Beast Taming Sect and asked Zhou Siyi and Rong Jingyun for help through the sect's records.
• Song Wen learned that Rong Jingyun had reached the late Golden Core stage and become deputy peak master of Pill Peak, while Zhou Siyi had formed her core sixty years earlier and lived in seclusion.
• Song Wen learned that the righteous and demonic sides had been at peace for a century after the five righteous powers besieged the Corpse Demon Sect.
• Song Wen sent Zhou Siyi a message but received no reply after nearly a day, then contacted Rong Jingyun, who recognized him as Wu Sheng, also known as Extreme Yin.

Song Wen learned from Rong Jingyun that Zhou Siyi had married Lei Jun in secret and left the Beast Taming Sect, then went to the Lei Clan to investigate her silence. He disguised himself and entered Commonfolk City, where millions of Lei Clan mortals lived.

• Song Wen asked Rong Jingyun about his past and sought her help investigating Longevity Hall, but she refused because the Beast Taming Sect still blamed him for betraying it.
• Rong Jingyun told Song Wen that Zhou Siyi had married Lei Jun six months earlier and left the sect without a public wedding.
• Song Wen suspected Zhou Siyi was in danger because Lei Jun was at peak Golden Core and she had not answered his messages.
• Song Wen flew to the Lei Clan, sent Zhou Siyi a voice transmission, and waited a day without receiving a reply.
• Song Wen disguised himself as a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage rogue cultivator and entered Commonfolk City, home to millions of Lei Clan mortals.

Song Wen tried to sell Lei Tianyu’s lightning-attributed short spear at a cultivator shop in Commonfolk City, but the manager recognized it and tried to trap him. Song Wen escaped into the sky as Lei Weiyue arrived and pursued him.

• Song Wen presented Lei Tianyu’s short spear to the shop manager, who pretended it was an ordinary low-grade spirit artifact.
• Song Wen exposed the manager’s attempt to delay him and offered to sell the spear only for a stated price.
• The manager offered fifty thousand spirit stones, then attacked Song Wen when he suspected the offer was a trap.
• Song Wen fled onto the street and flew east on his sword as two Foundation Establishment guards chased him.
• Lei Weiyue arrived, learned that Song Wen had escaped east, and vanished from the shop in pursuit.

Song Wen disguised himself as a wounded Foundation Establishment cultivator to lure Lei Weiyue into a trap, then captured her and Lei Da and Lei Hu. He interrogated Lei Weiyue about Zhou Siyi, but her answers left him uncertain whether the Lei Clan had harmed her.

• Lei Weiyue pursued Song Wen, who feigned panic and plunged into a forest before using blood tentacles to capture her, Lei Da, and Lei Hu.
• Song Wen took the three captives to a cave several thousand li away and questioned Lei Weiyue about Zhou Siyi.
• Lei Weiyue said Zhou Siyi was in the Lei Clan patriarch's cave residence and had not left since arriving there.
• Song Wen tortured Lei Weiyue with a blood tentacle, then questioned her again, but she insisted she knew no more about Zhou Siyi's circumstances.
• Song Wen wondered whether Lei Weiyue was telling the truth and whether the Lei Clan had actually harmed Zhou Siyi.

After probing Lei Weiyue’s memories, Song Wen learned that the Lei Clan was capturing cultivators for a Devouring Essence Array and suspected it had explored the Longevity Hall Secret Realm. He used Lei Weiyue as leverage to demand Zhou Siyi’s return, while Lei Jun discovered that her soul lamp could not be tracked.

• Song Wen searched Lei Weiyue’s memories and learned the Lei Clan had captured Longevity Art cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators with potent wood-element spiritual power.
• Song Wen connected the Lei Clan’s methods to the Devouring Essence Array and suspected it had obtained the array instructions from the Longevity Hall Secret Realm.
• Song Wen spared Lei Weiyue, Lei Da, and Lei Hu, then ordered Lei Da and Lei Hu to tell Lei Jun to exchange Zhou Siyi for Lei Weiyue.
• Lei Jun learned that Lei Weiyue, Lei Hu, and Lei Da were missing after the short lance spirit artifact appeared in Commonfolk City.
• Lei Jun tracked Lei Da and Lei Hu with their soul lamps but could not locate Lei Weiyue, so he suspected someone was using Hidden Soul Jade to conceal her.

Lei Jun informed Lei Yue that Lei Weiyue had been captured and that the captor demanded Zhou Siyi, prompting Lei Yue to prepare for an exchange at Azure Mountain. Song Wen used Lei Yue’s departure to force Lei Weiyue to enter the Lei Clan grounds and try to rescue Zhou Siyi.

• Lei Jun learned from Lei Da and Lei Hu that their captor demanded Zhou Siyi in exchange for Lei Weiyue, then went to report the matter to Lei Yue.
• Lei Yue ordered the Lei Clan to scout Azure Mountain and decided to attend the exchange himself, but refused to bring Zhou Siyi because she was crucial to his efforts to extend his lifespan.
• At Azure Mountain, Lei Yue arrived with a disguised woman posing as Zhou Siyi and found no one else nearby.
• Song Wen brought Lei Weiyue to the North City gate after Lei Yue left, threatened her with the Shadow Gu inside her body, and ordered her to rescue Zhou Siyi within half an hour.
• Lei Weiyue used her identity token to pass through the formation barrier and enter the Lei Clan grounds.

Lei Weiyue infiltrated the Lei Clan to steal her soul lamp and rescue Zhou Siyi, whom she believed was held in the underground prison. After seizing the lamp and incapacitating the ancestral shrine’s guards, she reached the prison and claimed she had come to inspect the captives.

• Lei Weiyue entered the Lei Clan Ancestral Shrine and persuaded Lei Yuanzhong to bring out her soul lamp.
• Lei Weiyue struck Lei Yuanzhong and knocked him and the shrine guards unconscious without killing them.
• Lei Weiyue took her soul lamp, moved the unconscious guards into a side room, and left the shrine.
• Lei Weiyue reached the underground prison and told its guards that the Clan Head had sent her to inspect the Rogue Cultivators.

Lei Weiyue found Zhou Siyi imprisoned in the Lei Clan dungeon and broke into her cell to rescue her. Zhou Siyi agreed to leave after learning Wu Sheng had sent Lei Weiyue, but Lei Weiyue pulled the chain embedded in Zhou Siyi’s dantian, leaving her bleeding and losing strength.

• Lei Weiyue questioned a guard captain about Zhou Siyi and learned that a young Golden Core cultivator sent by the clan head was held in the deepest cell.
• Lei Weiyue recognized Zhou Siyi, knocked out the guard captain, took his token, and broke the cell’s defensive formation.
• Lei Weiyue told Zhou Siyi that Wu Sheng had sent her, and Zhou Siyi remembered her long-lost Junior Brother Wu and agreed to go with her.
• Zhou Siyi revealed that a chain pierced her dantian and would destroy it if removed, but Lei Weiyue pulled the chain out anyway.
• Zhou Siyi endured the pain as the chain tore her flesh, and blood and strength drained from her body.

Lei Weiyue rescued Zhou Siyi from the dungeon and tried to take her out of the Lei Clan, but Lei Mingxu intercepted them at the North City gate. As Lei Mingxu prepared to strike them, a powerful disturbance erupted at the gate.

• Lei Weiyue treated Zhou Siyi’s wounds, disguised her with a magical cloak, and led her out of the dungeon.
• Lei Weiyue flew with Zhou Siyi toward the North City gate, while Lei Clan members let them pass without question.
• Lei Mingxu recognized Zhou Siyi and attacked Lei Weiyue, knocking them both to the ground before they could reach the gate.
• Lei Weiyue sent her spinning shield at Lei Mingxu, then used the distraction from two Shadow Gu to flee with Zhou Siyi.
• Lei Mingxu killed one Shadow Gu and turned to attack the fleeing pair, but violent spiritual power erupted at the city gate.

Song Wen rescued Zhou Siyi from Lei Mingxu and learned that an Essence Sea Fruit could reforge her damaged dantian. He planned to obtain it from the Lei Clan, while Zhou Siyi worried his Hidden Soul Jade might leave him vulnerable to Tai He.

• Song Wen arrived at the city gates, drove Lei Mingxu back with his presence, and helped Lei Weiyue and Zhou Siyi escape aboard his flying vessel.
• Song Wen treated Zhou Siyi's wounds but could only temporarily seal her damaged dantian.
• Lei Weiyue revealed that the Lei Clan's Essence Sea Tree bore fruit capable of reforging a dantian, and Song Wen let her leave.
• Song Wen told Zhou Siyi he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and intended to pursue the Lei Clan's Essence Sea Fruit.
• Zhou Siyi warned that Lei Yue could track her through her soul lamp, so Song Wen gave her a Hidden Soul Jade to hide her location.
• Zhou Siyi recognized the jade as the item Song Wen had used to evade Tai He and returned it, fearing Tai He could locate Song Wen without it.

Song Wen brought Zhou Siyi to East Birch Market, equipped her to recover and hide from the Lei Clan, and left to seek a Golden Core cultivation technique. He ended the chapter at Mountain Ravine Ghost Market, asking to speak privately with a shop manager after learning the shop had no such techniques for sale.

• Song Wen refused Zhou Siyi’s Hidden Soul Jade and explained that his contracted Nether Fox could conceal his soul fluctuations without being killed.
• Song Wen told Zhou Siyi to call him Extreme Yin, then warned that Lei Weiyue could endanger them and took Zhou Siyi to East Birch Market in disguise.
• Song Wen settled Zhou Siyi in a courtyard, left a Shadow Gu to protect her, and gave her pills, spirit stones, and several magic treasures.
• Zhou Siyi offered to find a way to strengthen Song Wen’s Shadow Gu, and Song Wen left her to work on restoring her damaged dantian.
• Song Wen visited Mountain Ravine Ghost Market disguised as a newly Golden Core Rogue Cultivator and asked a spell shop attendant to bring out the manager after finding no Golden Core cultivation techniques for sale.

Song Wen asked Lei Feiguang to acquire a Golden Core wood-element cultivation technique, explaining that his Wood Spirit Life-Rebirth Scripture conflicted with the demonic technique he had obtained. Lei Feiguang reported the wealthy Golden Core cultivator to Lei Mingxu, who became intensely interested upon hearing the scripture’s name.

• Song Wen met Lei Feiguang privately and asked him to find a wood-element Golden Core cultivation technique.
• Lei Feiguang offered Song Wen a place in the Lei Clan, but Song Wen declined and paid him two Superior Spirit Stones to pursue the request.
• The next morning, Lei Feiguang went to the Lei Clan and told Lei Mingxu he had encountered a wealthy Rogue Cultivator who could be ambushed.
• Lei Mingxu initially refused to act, but grew interested when Lei Feiguang said Song Wen cultivated the Wood Spirit Life-Rebirth Scripture.

The Lei Clan suspected Cui Huo was the Nascent Soul cultivator behind its recent troubles and set a trap to kill him. When he exposed their ambush and redirected the meeting to Emerald Mountain Lake, Lei Yue chose to pursue him while secretly summoning help.

• Lei Mingxu told Lei Yue and Lei Jun that Cui Huo might be the Nascent Soul cultivator who took Zhou Siyi and had a grudge against the Lei Clan.
• Lei Yue and Lei Jun decided to eliminate Cui Huo, and Lei Feiguang arranged to meet him in a valley east of the Ghost Market to buy a wood cultivation technique.
• Lei Yue, disguised as a Golden Core cultivator, joined Lei Mingxu and Lei Feiguang while six hidden Golden Core cultivators prepared a Confinement Formation in the valley.
• After the Lei Clan waited in vain, Cui Huo warned Lei Feiguang that bandit cultivators were lying in ambush and moved the exchange to Emerald Mountain Lake.
• Lei Yue concluded Cui Huo knew about the trap and intended to attack him, then set out for Emerald Mountain Lake and secretly sent a clan member to summon help.

Song Wen confronted Lei Yue at Emerald Mountain Lake to obtain the Longevity Hall texts and cultivation techniques, and the two exchanged powerful attacks. Mi He arrived as Lei Yue defended the fleeing Lei Mingxu and the other cultivators, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Lei Yue brought Lei Mingxu, Lei Feiguang, and seven other Golden Core cultivators to Emerald Mountain Lake, where Song Wen appeared and demanded the Longevity Hall texts and cultivation techniques.
• Lei Yue attacked Song Wen with Purple Palace Divine Thunder, but Song Wen’s Blood Sea Seal absorbed the blow and then shattered the flying ship’s defensive array with a pillar of blood.
• Lei Yue struck the pillar of blood with another bolt of Purple Palace Divine Thunder, dispersing it, and ordered the flying ship to carry Lei Mingxu and the others away.
• Song Wen sent the Void-Breaking Blade after the fleeing ship, but Lei Yue intercepted it with a silver short spear.
• A flying sword knocked the Void-Breaking Blade aside, and Lei Yue recognized Mi He, whom he had summoned from the Ghost Market.

Song Wen, posing as Cui Huo, refused Mi He's offer to join the Beast Taming Sect and escaped Lei Yue and Mi He's joint attack with the Blood Escape Technique. He seized Lei Mingxu and seven Lei Clan cultivators as hostages and demanded Longevity Hall's texts and cultivation techniques, while Lei Yue argued that Song Wen could no longer escape.

• Mi He arrived to help Lei Yue, questioned Song Wen, and offered to mediate before proposing he join the Beast Taming Sect in exchange for Longevity Hall's texts and cultivation techniques.
• Song Wen refused to join any faction, and Mi He and Lei Yue attacked him as he vanished beneath the bloodwater using the Corpse Demon Sect's Blood Escape Technique.
• Song Wen reappeared near the Lei Clan's flying ship and used the Blood Sea Seal to engulf the ship, its passengers, and Lei Mingxu in a blood tide.
• Song Wen killed Lei Mingxu after demanding compensation for his Gu insect, then restrained seven Lei Clan Golden Core cultivators to prevent Lei Yue from attacking.
• Song Wen demanded Longevity Hall's texts and cultivation techniques in exchange for the hostages, but Lei Yue claimed the Blood Escape Technique had depleted Song Wen's blood qi and left him unable to escape again.

Song Wen escaped Mi He and Lei Yue by using the Blood Escape Technique, then ambushed Mi He with Soul-Concentrating Spikes as she pursued him. Mi He endured the spiritual attack and paused, apparently waiting for Lei Yue to arrive.

• Song Wen killed Lei Feiguang after Lei Yue refused to trade the Longevity Hall cultivation manuals for his clansmen's lives.
• Mi He attacked Song Wen with her flying sword, and her strike shredded his tentacles and killed the Lei Clan captives bound to them.
• Lei Yue joined the attack, but Song Wen used the Blood Escape Technique to vanish and leave behind blood mist.
• Mi He and Lei Yue split up to search for Song Wen, and Mi He spotted a trace of blood mist in the forest and signaled Lei Yue.
• Song Wen launched nine Soul-Concentrating Spikes at Mi He, but her mutton-fat white jade weakened them enough for her to withstand the attack.
• Mi He stopped pursuing Song Wen and looked toward Lei Yue, waiting for him to approach.

Song Wen escaped Mi He and fought Lei Yue, whose pursuit ended in Mi He’s betrayal. Mi He revealed she planned to kill Lei Yue over the Bronze Key Coffin, leaving the two cultivators fighting while Song Wen watched.

• Mi He summoned her Wind-Scale Beast and pretended Song Wen’s divine-sense attack had injured her, then sent Lei Yue after him.
• Song Wen used the Blood Sea Seal to conceal himself and struck Lei Yue’s sea of consciousness with nine Soul-Concentrating Spikes.
• Mi He arrived and attacked Lei Yue instead of Song Wen, while Song Wen mocked Lei Yue for trusting her.
• Mi He accused Lei Yue’s clan of trying to take the Bronze Key Coffin and said she had planned to ambush him when he extended his lifespan.
• Lei Yue invoked True Person Yang Yu’s promise to protect the Lei Clan, but Mi He said Yang Yu would praise her once she obtained the Bronze Key Coffin.

Song Wen and Mi He joined forces to kill Lei Yue after he refused to surrender the Bronze Key Coffin. They negotiated over Lei Yue’s storage ring, leaving Song Wen with the ring and the items inside divided between them.

• Mi He revealed that she had learned of the Bronze Key Coffin and asked Song Wen to help kill Lei Yue in exchange for the Longevity Hall’s cultivation arts and manuals.
• Song Wen attacked Lei Yue’s consciousness with Soul-Concentrating Spikes while Mi He and her Phoenix-Qilin Beast blocked his escape and clashed with his lightning.
• Song Wen struck Lei Yue’s consciousness again, allowing Mi He to knock aside his spear, kill him, and destroy his Nascent Soul.
• Song Wen reached for Lei Yue’s corpse and storage ring with the Blood Sea Seal, but Mi He’s flying sword contested his claim.
• Song Wen and Mi He agreed to empty Lei Yue’s storage ring from a distance and divide its contents, and Song Wen kept the empty ring.

Song Wen and Mi He divided the treasures from the Longevity Hall and negotiated a trade for its location. They agreed to exchange the Soul-Concentrating Spike method for Beast Taming Sect pill recipes and alchemy notes on Azure Mountain in three days.

• Song Wen recognized the Bronze Key Coffin as resembling one he owned, then let Mi He claim it after she opened it and showed it was empty.
• Song Wen examined the blood-colored Jade Slip, which contained the Longevity Art through Spirit Transformation and an advanced Devouring Essence Array method.
• Song Wen and Mi He divided the remaining treasures and copied Jade Slips, with Song Wen receiving Spirit Stones, a lightning lance, and the final five Thunder Arts and Thunder Codex.
• Song Wen asked Mi He for the Longevity Hall's location, and they negotiated an exchange involving the Soul-Concentrating Spike method and Beast Taming Sect pill recipes and alchemy notes.
• Song Wen and Mi He agreed to meet at noon on Azure Mountain in three days to complete the trade.

Song Wen contacted the Lei Clan after Lei Yue’s death and traded the truth about his killer for the Essence Sea Fruit. After receiving the fruit, he told Lei Jun that Mi He had killed Lei Yue, leaving the Lei Clan preparing for a possible attack.

• Song Wen disguised himself, went to Commonfolk City, and messaged Lei Jun demanding the Essence Sea Fruit in exchange for information about Lei Yue’s killer.
• Lei Jun and the Lei Clan’s Golden Core cultivators discussed Lei Yue’s death and feared the clan would be attacked without its Nascent Soul ancestor.
• Song Wen warned Lei Jun that the Lei Clan faced disaster and gave him thirty breaths to hand over the fruit.
• Lei Jun ordered the clan’s cultivators to gather resources and prepare for evacuation, then went to the north gate with the Essence Sea Fruit.
• Lei Jun sent the Essence Sea Fruit through the formation barrier, and Song Wen took it and revealed that Mi He had killed Lei Yue.