Recaps

Song Wen gave Lei Jun proof that Mi He had killed Lei Yue, then met Mi He on Azure Mountain to trade the Soul-Concentrating Spike method and pill recipes for pill-refining insights and the location of the Longevity Hall Secret Realm. Mi He questioned the scarcity of ingredients in the method, and the chapter left her calling after Song Wen as he tried to leave.

• Song Wen handed Lei Jun an Image-Recording Stone showing Mi He killing Lei Yue and admitted that he had killed Lei Tianyu, while Lei Jun declined to seek revenge.
• Song Wen traveled to Azure Mountain, hid two Shadow Gu there, and waited in a distant cavern while he healed.
• Mi He arrived at Azure Mountain and exchanged the Soul-Concentrating Spike cultivation method and pill recipes with Song Wen.
• Mi He offered a second Jade Slip containing pill-refining insights and the Longevity Hall Secret Realm's location in exchange for the three pill-refining methods, and they exchanged the slips.
• Mi He challenged Song Wen about the unfamiliar and possibly extinct ingredients in the pill recipes, but Song Wen defended the trade and suggested she search ancient ruins.
• Song Wen turned to leave, but Mi He called after him again.

Song Wen returned to East Birch Market and reunited with Zhou Siyi, who had strengthened his Shadow Gu while he was away. He gave her an Essence Sea Fruit, and after three months of seclusion, she fully repaired her dantian.

• Mi He told Song Wen that the Beast Taming Sect had destroyed the Lei Clan except for some Golden Core cultivators and clan members who fled to demonic territory, then exchanged communication Jade Slips with him.
• After tending his injuries for a month, Song Wen returned to East Birch Market disguised as a Foundation Establishment Realm Rogue Cultivator and found that the Lei Clan's shops now belonged to the Beast Taming Sect.
• Song Wen revealed himself to Zhou Siyi, learned that she had strengthened his Shadow Gu with Mysterious Dew Flower, and left the Gu with her to raise further.
• Song Wen gave Zhou Siyi an Essence Sea Fruit and took her to a secluded mountain cave so she could repair her shattered dantian.
• After three months of healing, Zhou Siyi told Song Wen that her dantian had healed completely and was sturdier than before.

Song Wen found Longevity Hall stripped bare and left East Birch Market with Zhou Siyi for Anzhou City. On the way, they visited Witch's Resentment Market in lawless Forgotten World Ridge, where Song Wen approved of its brutal freedom.

• Song Wen returned from Longevity Hall with no clues or valuables and decided to leave East Birch Market with Zhou Siyi.
• Song Wen and Zhou Siyi traveled by flying boat toward Anzhou City and learned that Forgotten World Ridge was a lawless buffer zone between the Primordial Unity Temple and the Nine Palaces Sect.
• Song Wen turned the boat toward Witch's Resentment Market after Zhou Siyi explained that illicit goods and forbidden items were traded there.
• A masked customer accused a stall owner of selling dyed, young Seven-Colored Grass, then killed him with a short sword and stole his storage pouch.
• Onlookers looted the stall, while a demonic cultivator collected the corpse and blood; Song Wen admired the market, and Zhou Siyi looked at him strangely.

Song Wen and Zhou Siyi visited a spiritual-herb shop in Witch's Resentment Market, where an attendant tried to extort them over a stalk of Demon Spirit Grass. The shopkeeper emerged after the attendant falsely accused them, leaving Song Wen and Zhou Siyi facing a powerful Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• Song Wen told Zhou Siyi that Rogue Cultivators could settle and cultivate in Forgotten World Ridge as they explored Witch's Resentment Market.
• Zhou Siyi recognized a two-hundred-year-old stalk of third-rank Demon Spirit Grass, and the attendant quoted five thousand spirit stones for it.
• The attendant deliberately dropped the jade box, blamed Zhou Siyi for breaking it, and claimed the herb was damaged.
• Song Wen offered to buy the herb and counted out five thousand lower-grade spirit stones, but the attendant demanded five thousand middle-grade spirit stones instead.
• The attendant called for the shopkeeper, who came out and allowed him to accuse Song Wen and Zhou Siyi of causing trouble.

Song Wen exposed the shopkeepers’ attempt to extort him and Zhou Siyi, then forced the burly woman to summon her aunt, Fairy Fu Mei. He sent Xiao Si to fetch her under threat of a spell that would kill him if he failed to return within an hour.

• The burly woman demanded five thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, but Song Wen claimed he had fifty Superior Spirit Stones and revealed that he knew her Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Song Wen’s pressure forced the burly woman and Xiao Si to their knees, and the woman pleaded for mercy by claiming Fairy Fu Mei of Azure Gauze Mountain was her aunt.
• Song Wen rejected the woman’s identity token as proof and ordered Xiao Si to fetch Fairy Fu Mei from Azure Gauze Mountain.
• Song Wen placed spell power inside Xiao Si and warned that it would explode if he did not return within an hour, so Xiao Si left by flying boat.
• Onlookers gathered outside the shop and watched the burly woman kneel, pleased that someone had confronted the shop after its past mistreatment of customers.

Song Wen sought a steady supply of Demon Spirit Grass from Fu Mei, but she demanded an exorbitant price and attacked him. He revealed his overwhelming strength, crippled Fu Mei, and left Zhou Siyi to exit the shop while he dealt with the survivors.

• Song Wen questioned the burly female cultivator about Demon Spirit Grass, and Xiao Si brought Fu Mei to the shop within an hour.
• Fu Mei offered twenty stalks as compensation, but Song Wen proposed buying at least one hundred stalks annually for eight hundred low-grade spirit stones each.
• Fu Mei demanded two thousand low-grade spirit stones per stalk, and Song Wen mocked her before she attacked him.
• Song Wen shattered Fu Mei's arm with a punch, killing the burly female cultivator and Xiao Si with the flying debris and trapping Fu Mei behind a black barrier.
• Fu Mei begged for mercy after realizing Song Wen was a Nascent Soul cultivator, while Zhou Siyi gathered the spirit herbs and spirit stones and passed through the barrier.

Song Wen and Zhou Siyi took control of Azure Gauze Mountain after Song Wen killed Fu Mei and learned through her memories that she cultivated Demon Spirit Grass there. They summoned the mountain’s cultivators and began assessing Fu Mei’s holdings, while Zhou Siyi discovered the spiritual fields produced only fifty stalks of two-hundred-year-old Demon Spirit Grass annually at a high cost.

• Song Wen searched Fu Mei’s soul, learned about her spiritual herbs and enslaved cultivators, then devoured the souls and blood essence of three Foundation Establishment cultivators before leaving the burning shop with Zhou Siyi.
• Song Wen and Zhou Siyi flew to Azure Gauze Mountain, where Song Wen used a formation disk to deactivate its defensive formation and announced that Fu Mei was dead and the mountain now belonged to them.
• Song Wen summoned the cultivators working the spiritual fields, learned from Quan Qiu that Fu Mei owned five profitable shops, and ordered their managers to return.
• Zhou Siyi questioned Yu Bai about the spiritual fields and learned that they produced fifty stalks of two-hundred-year-old Demon Spirit Grass per year, each costing about five hundred spirit stones to cultivate.

Song Wen settled Zhou Siyi at Azure Gauze Mountain, asked her to develop a more potent Blood Qi Pill, and traveled to Anzhou City to seek information about Yan Yiwen. The chapter ended as he asked an information broker about the Nine Palaces Sect disciple.

• Song Wen ordered the seven Azure Gauze Mountain cultivators to continue their duties and promised them freedom from Cold Chi Powder in fifty years.
• Song Wen told Zhou Siyi to remain at Azure Gauze Mountain, left her resources and her Shadow Gu, and gave her alchemy records to develop a stronger Blood Qi Pill.
• Song Wen left Forgotten World Ridge and traveled to Anzhou City disguised as a middle Golden Core rogue cultivator.
• Song Wen hired a broker, who led him to a discreet information-trading shop on the outskirts of Anzhou City.
• Song Wen asked the shop's Foundation Establishment cultivator about Yan Yiwen.

Song Wen asked an old man about Yan Yiwen and Tai He, learning that Yan Yiwen had once captured corpse-path cultivators and that Tai He had intervened after she seized a Corpse Demon Sect cultivator. He then went to the Nine Palaces Sect's Secret Lore Pavilion to seek more information about people.

• Song Wen questioned the old man about Yan Yiwen's whereabouts and Tai He's cultivation, learning that Yan Yiwen had appeared at the Nine Palaces Sect a year ago and that Tai He was believed to remain at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Song Wen recalled that Tai He had taken Yan Yiwen as a disciple to use her yin essence to break through, and reasoned that he had not yet taken it.
• The old man said Yan Yiwen had captured corpse-path cultivators more than seventy years earlier, including a Corpse Demon Sect cultivator, prompting Tai He to settle a dispute with the sect.
• Song Wen paid the old man a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone for the information and asked the broker to take him to the Nine Palaces Sect's Secret Lore Pavilion.
• Song Wen dismissed the broker at the pavilion and entered its First-Class Section for person-finding intelligence.

Song Wen visited the Secret Lore Pavilion to seek information on Blood Brow and arrange for a fourth-tier artifact refiner to upgrade Lei Yue’s lance. He negotiated with Hao Kong to inspect a soul-defense treasure at Flat Creek Waterfall, where their meeting was set to take place.

• Song Wen asked the Secret Lore Pavilion about Blood Brow, but the woman at the desk found no information about her.
• Song Wen showed Lei Yue’s lance and requested a fourth-tier artifact refiner to turn it into a high-grade lightning magical treasure.
• Steward Kang Jiang said Patriarch Hao Kong would have to decide whether to take the commission, and Song Wen offered a low-grade soul-defense magical treasure as payment.
• Song Wen gave Kang Jiang his communication jade slip and left the Secret Lore Pavilion.
• Hao Kong contacted Song Wen and requested to inspect the soul-defense treasure before agreeing to the transaction.
• Song Wen arranged to meet Hao Kong at Flat Creek Waterfall, six hundred li south of Anzhou City, in one hour.

Song Wen hired Hao Kong to refine Lei Yue’s lightning-attribute natal magic treasure in exchange for a soul-defense treasure, then planned to use the year-long wait to strengthen his spiritual sense. He took over a secluded rift valley after killing the Three Netherworld Ghosts, leaving him free to cultivate there.

• Song Wen met Hao Kong at Flat Creek Waterfall and gave him Lei Yue’s short lance and a low-grade soul-defense magic treasure to secure the refinement deal.
• Hao Kong agreed to finish refining the lance within a year and asked Song Wen to bring the hidden Nascent Soul Cultivator to meet him when it was ready.
• Song Wen returned to Anzhou City, bought cultivators’ souls, and planned to raise his spiritual sense enough to defeat Tai He.
• Song Wen traveled west and chose a rift valley as a cultivation site, where the Three Netherworld Ghosts confronted him.
• Song Wen killed the Three Netherworld Ghosts with a surprise attack by his Shadow Gu.

Song Wen advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, then traded a soul-defense treasure with Hao Kong for the reforged lightning spear. He accepted a job to provide thirty third-rank lightning talismans and left Hao Kong with a cryptic message for Yan Yiwen.

• Song Wen devoured the three men’s souls and blood essences, looted their belongings, and hid in Rift Valley to cultivate.
• After eight months, Song Wen advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, then left for Anzhou City four months later.
• Song Wen met Hao Kong at Flat Creek Waterfall as Cui Huo and traded the beast bone for the reforged high-grade lightning spear.
• Hao Kong hired Song Wen to deliver at least thirty third-rank lightning talismans within seven months, and Song Wen accepted despite lacking the skill to draw them.
• Song Wen asked Hao Kong to tell Yan Yiwen that the outer sect disciple who took inventory of the Seven-Colored Grass had returned, then departed.

Song Wen used the alias Bie Chou to send Yan Yiwen a Jade Slip and a cryptic message, hoping to lure her out and use her as leverage against Tai He. At the Nine Palaces Sect, Tai He revealed to Hao Kong that Yan Yiwen's soul had scattered and Blood Brow now occupied her body, then decided to lie about passing along the message.

• Song Wen met Kang Jiang at the Secret Lore Pavilion and claimed he had been close to Yan Yiwen's grandfather, Yan Zhengping.
• Song Wen gave Kang Jiang a Jade Slip containing an incomplete Myriad Poisons Primordial Body and asked him to tell Yan Yiwen that the outer disciple who counted the Seven-Colored Grass had returned.
• Song Wen paid Kang Jiang and left, intending to draw Yan Yiwen out so he could use her as leverage to make Tai He reveal information about Blood Brow.
• Hao Kong told Tai He that Cui Huo had agreed to make third-tier lightning talismans but had asked him to pass a message to Yan Yiwen.
• Tai He told Hao Kong that Yan Yiwen's soul had scattered and Blood Brow occupied her body, then decided they would claim the message had been delivered.

Kang Jiang arranged for Jiang Chang to secretly deliver a body-tempering method and a message to Blood Brow, who recognized that the sender was Extreme Yin. She suspected he had returned for revenge, but realized his Bronze Key Coffin could offer her a way to escape the Nine Palaces Sect.

• Kang Jiang paid Jiang Chang to deliver a cultivation-method Jade Slip and Song Wen's message to Elder Yan without alerting Patriarch Tai He.
• Jiang Chang took over the corpse-qi array beneath Purple Cloud Peak and sent the Jade Slip up the shaft to Yan Yiwen's cave.
• Blood Brow received the incomplete body-tempering art and a message saying that the outer disciple who had inventoried the Seven-Colored Grass had returned.
• Blood Brow recognized the sender as Extreme Yin and wondered whether he had returned to lure her and Tai He out for revenge.
• Blood Brow recalled that Extreme Yin possessed a Bronze Key Coffin and considered taking it to seal her Soul-Locking Curse and escape the sect.

Blood Brow used Jiang Chang to obtain Song Wen’s message Jade Slip, then lured him into her cave and reshaped his aura to resemble hers. She planned to use him as a decoy while the Tranquility Curse and a Baleful Qi Gathering Formation helped her evade Tai He’s surveillance and escape the Nine Palaces Sect.

• Jiang Chang brought Blood Brow Song Wen’s message Jade Slip and eagerly offered to do anything for her.
• Blood Brow invited Jiang Chang into her cave abode and beguiled him into agreeing to her task.
• Blood Brow flooded Jiang Chang with Corpse-Baleful Qi and began changing his aura to resemble hers.
• Blood Brow planned to use Jiang Chang as a stand-in while her formation interfered with Divine Sense and the Tranquility Curse concealed her Sea of Consciousness from Tai He.
• Blood Brow’s transformation of Jiang Chang left him immobilized and in unbearable pain.

Blood Brow escaped the Nine Palaces Sect and went to Azure Wolf Valley to meet the person she believed was Song Wen, hoping to reclaim the Bronze Key Coffin. Song Wen ambushed her and discovered that she had possessed Yan Yiwen, while Blood Brow was stunned to learn he had become a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

• Blood Brow used the guard leader to open the Nine Palaces Sect's mountain gate and fled toward Anzhou City.
• Blood Brow contacted Song Wen, agreed to meet him at Azure Wolf Valley, and set out expecting to take the Bronze Key Coffin.
• Song Wen prepared the Six Extremes Star-Guarding Formation at Azure Wolf Valley and waited for Blood Brow to arrive alone.
• Song Wen ambushed Blood Brow with the Void-Breaking Blade and recognized that she had possessed Yan Yiwen.
• Blood Brow was astonished to discover that Song Wen had advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Song Wen questioned Blood Brow about the next stage of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, and she revealed it was in Divine Blood Hall in the Vast Azure Mountain Range. They learned the hall would open in twenty-one years and that entry required a Bronze Key Coffin, while Song Wen also discovered the hall might contain a method of Spirit Transformation.

• Song Wen threatened Blood Brow and demanded to know where he could find the subsequent cultivation method of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
• Blood Brow identified Divine Blood Hall in the Vast Azure Mountain Range and marked its location on Song Wen's map.
• Blood Brow explained that Divine Blood Hall's restrictions would weaken in twenty-one years and that each entrant needed a Bronze Key Coffin to withstand them.
• Blood Brow told Song Wen that another Bronze Key Coffin might be in Shadow Soul Hall, which would open in the Poison Miasma Swamp eight months later.
• Blood Brow said Nascent Soul Cultivators sought the method of Spirit Transformation in Divine Blood Hall and suspected it was connected to the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.

Blood Brow explained why she had escaped the Nine Palaces Sect and asked Song Wen to let her return so she could pursue the Bronze Key Coffin and the Corpse King Reincarnation Art. Song Wen returned to Azure Gauze Mountain and agreed to attend a gathering of Golden Core Rogue Cultivators at Forgotten World Ridge.

• Blood Brow told Song Wen that the Nine Palaces Sect wanted her to retrieve the Bronze Key Coffin from the Shadow Soul Hall and that she had escaped by suppressing Tai He's Soul-Locking Curse.
• Blood Brow said she would risk returning to the Nine Palaces Sect to pursue Spirit Transformation, and offered to help Song Wen seek the later portion of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art in twenty years.
• Song Wen agreed to let Blood Brow return, followed her until she entered the Nine Palaces Sect, and then flew to Forgotten World Ridge.
• Song Wen returned to Azure Gauze Mountain and reunited with Zhou Siyi, who told him that Xiao Chen had repeatedly invited her to a gathering of Golden Core Rogue Cultivators.
• Song Wen decided to attend the gathering with Zhou Siyi three days later.

Song Wen reviewed Zhou Siyi’s proposed enhanced Blood Qi Pill formula and decided to form a faction in Forgotten World Ridge to secure a steady supply of spirit herbs. He sent Zhou Siyi to the Golden Core Rogue Cultivator gathering, where she joined the other cultivators.

• Zhou Siyi gave Song Wen a revised Heaven-Returning Pill formula and explained that its ingredients would need to be sourced and cultivated.
• Song Wen decided to rally Forgotten World Ridge’s Rogue Cultivators to collect and grow the herbs, and Zhou Siyi agreed to help him establish a faction.
• Song Wen asked Zhou Siyi to assist him at the Golden Core Rogue Cultivator gathering three days later.
• Zhou Siyi arrived at the Witch's Resentment Market pavilion, where Xiao Chen welcomed her and Yu Wen invited her to sit beside her.

At a gathering of Rogue Cultivators in Forgotten World Ridge, Xiao Chen argued for joining Primordial Unity Temple while Ding Yan refused, and Yu Wen explained the sect’s plans to reclaim two spirit stone mines. Song Wen arrived as the Nascent Soul cultivator Extreme Yin and invited them to join his newly proposed, independent Extreme Yin Sect, leaving the group to consider his offer.

• Xiao Chen urged the gathered Rogue Cultivators to secretly cooperate with Primordial Unity Temple, while Ding Yan denounced the idea and prepared to leave.
• Yu Wen explained that Primordial Unity Temple wanted recruits to help reclaim spirit stone mines held by Nine Palaces Sect and Corpse Demon Sect.
• Xiao Chen warned that Rogue Cultivators risked becoming expendable members of a devil sect, but Ding Yan insisted he would leave Forgotten World Ridge rather than join Primordial Unity Temple.
• Song Wen arrived in the pavilion as the Nascent Soul cultivator Extreme Yin and proposed that the Rogue Cultivators form their own force.
• Extreme Yin invited the seven cultivators to join his not-yet-established Extreme Yin Sect, promising they could keep their assets and join or leave freely without oaths or missions.

Song Wen recruited seven Golden Core cultivators into the Extreme Yin Sect and discussed where to establish its headquarters. He chose Azure Heaven Mountain despite its ties to the Primordial Unity Temple and appointed Yu Wen Chief Seat.

• Song Wen offered protection and sect benefits in exchange for an annual payment of fifty thousand spirit stones, and Zhou Siyi joined after asking whether he would shield her from Luo Liangong.
• Old Ghost Xiao Chen and the other six Golden Core cultivators followed Zhou Siyi and joined the Extreme Yin Sect.
• Yu Wen proposed Azure Heaven Mountain, and Song Wen declared that the sect would sacrifice the Si Clan to the banner despite its ties to the Primordial Unity Temple.
• Old Ghost Xiao Chen argued against attacking the Si Clan and suggested Guimeng Mountain, while Ding Yan accused him of trying to provoke conflict with the Nine Palaces Sect.
• Song Wen rejected Guimeng Mountain, chose Azure Heaven Mountain, and appointed Yu Wen Chief Seat after Zhou Siyi nominated her.

Song Wen ordered an attack on the Si Clan and used Xiao Chen’s suspected betrayal to draw out a Nascent Soul Cultivator from Primordial Unity Temple. He offered Monk Xiao Chan the Si Clan and Xiao Chen in exchange for an alliance, but Xiao Chan dismissed the proposal.

• Song Wen ordered the Extreme Yin Sect members to attack the Si Clan in three days, while Ding Yan and Yu Wen warned that Xiao Chen might betray them.
• Song Wen and Zhou Siyi discussed Yu Wen’s loyalty and agreed to use Xiao Chen’s scheme for their own purposes.
• Three days later, Xiao Chen failed to appear, and Song Wen sent Yu Wen to lead six flying ships toward Azure Heaven Mountain.
• Yu Wen confronted Si Ming and accused the Si Clan of occupying the Extreme Yin Sect’s sacred ground, prompting Monk Xiao Chan to emerge from the mountain.
• Song Wen appeared and admitted he had expected Xiao Chen to lure a Nascent Soul Cultivator there, then offered the Si Clan and Xiao Chen in exchange for an alliance with Primordial Unity Temple.

Song Wen negotiated with Xiao Chan for the Extreme Yin Sect to take Azure Heaven Mountain, enduring Xiao Chan’s strike to secure the agreement. He left with an alliance and three hundred Superior Spirit Stones, while the Si Clan was allowed to leave with only what its members could carry.

• Song Wen warned Xiao Chan that he would turn to the Nine Palaces Sect if he could not establish his sect on Azure Heaven Mountain, and Xiao Chan agreed to yield the mountain if Song Wen endured one strike.
• Song Wen transformed into a zombie and withstood Xiao Chan’s golden staff strike, though the Buddhist light tore flesh from his hand.
• Song Wen and Xiao Chan agreed that the Extreme Yin Sect and Primordial Unity Temple would exchange intelligence and support each other against the Corpse Demon Sect and Nine Palaces Sect.
• Song Wen refused to spare the Si Clan until Xiao Chan offered three hundred Superior Spirit Stones, then agreed to let the clan depart with only what its members carried.
• Song Wen inspected Xiao Chan’s payment and called Yu Wen and the others back to Azure Heaven Mountain.

Song Wen took control of Azure Heaven Mountain, executed Xiao Chen, and learned that the Extreme Yin Sect needed new sources of wealth. Yu Wen revealed that the region’s most valuable Spirit Stone vein belonged to the Nether Soul Gate, whose ties to the Nine Palaces Sect made it dangerous to seize.

• Song Wen ordered the Si Clan to leave Azure Heaven Mountain without taking anything, then sent Yu Wen and the others to capture Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chan abandoned Xiao Chen and departed with the Si Clan; Xiao Chen tried to flee but was killed by Ding Yan and the others.
• Song Wen praised the execution, gave Xiao Chen’s storage ring to the six cultivators, and ordered Yu Wen to inventory Azure Heaven Mountain’s resources.
• Yu Wen reported that the mountain’s treasury and herb fields held limited wealth, and explained that the Si Clan had earned much of its income from a Star Radiance Stone mine.
• Yu Wen identified a richer Spirit Stone vein beneath Eastern Plain Mountain, but warned that the Nether Soul Gate controlled it and was protected by the Nine Palaces Sect.

Song Wen rushed the founding of the Asura Sect and held its ceremony on Azure Heaven Mountain, where Tai He of the Nine Palaces Sect arrived to challenge its legitimacy. As Song Wen and Tai He prepared to clash, Song Wen secretly offered to put the Asura Sect under the Nine Palaces Sect’s command in exchange for being allowed to save face.

• Song Wen ordered Yu Wen to hold the Asura Sect’s founding ceremony in three months and demanded that Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivators in Forgotten World Ridge join or leave.
• The Asura Sect spent the next three months rebuilding Azure Heaven Mountain and gathering spirit stones from Rogue Cultivators, while Lu Mo and Ding Yan delivered invitations to the major sects.
• Envoys from most major sects attended the ceremony, including Fang Pengyi of the Beast Taming Sect, though the Nine Palaces Sect sent no representative.
• Song Wen performed the founding sacrifice, and Golden Core Cultivators created an artificial heavenly omen as the assembled envoys congratulated him.
• Tai He arrived and declared that no sect could be founded in Forgotten World Ridge without the Nine Palaces Sect’s consent, prompting Song Wen to transform and attack.
• As Song Wen’s Origin-Returning Sha Qi met Tai He’s poisonous green mist, Song Wen secretly offered to obey the Nine Palaces Sect if Tai He let the Asura Sect save face.