Recaps

Song Wen broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage in spiritual consciousness and visited the Asura Sect, where Yu Wen asked him to avenge her family by finding Lei Jun. He then went to Pure Sea to visit Zhou Siyi and ask Lan Chen about another matter.

• Song Wen spent thirteen years strengthening his spiritual consciousness and cultivating the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body, then broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and stabilized his progress in seclusion.
• Song Wen visited Azure Heaven Mountain, where Yu Wen asked him to avenge her clansmen by killing Lei Jun, the last surviving member of the group responsible for their deaths.
• Yu Wen told Song Wen that Lei Clan remnants had been spotted at Northern Azure Market, and Song Wen said he would visit when he had time.
• Song Wen went to Pure Sea to visit Zhou Siyi, who had made an agreement to breed Man-Snakes for the Blissful Union Sect in exchange for resources and protection.
• Lan Chen contacted Song Wen at the Man-Snake Farm, and he asked her to meet so he could ask about a matter.

Song Wen questioned Lan Chen about the Divine Blood Hall and learned that it was a dangerous complex of regions, then became entangled with her in an intimate encounter. Afterward, Lan Chen hinted that her cultivation might exceed the Nascent Soul Late Stage and invited him to travel with her to the hall in seven years.

• Song Wen asked Lan Chen about the Divine Blood Hall, explaining that he sought a missing Nascent Soul Realm portion of his cultivation technique.
• Lan Chen shared Gou Jun's account of the hall's dangerous regions and confirmed its location and opening time.
• Lan Chen used her bewitching art on Song Wen, but he regained his clarity and the two became intimate.
• Song Wen realized Lan Chen might be stronger than a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator, and she assured him she would not harm him for now.
• Lan Chen invited Song Wen to travel with her to the Divine Blood Hall when it opened seven years later.

Song Wen prepared for the Divine Blood Hall, then secretly watched the leading cultivators of eight sects gather at its entrance. A dispute between Tai He and Xi Ling and Mi Hai threatened to erupt, while the righteous cultivators refused to support Mi Hai.

• Song Wen met Zhou Siyi at the Man-Snake Farm, urged her to return to Azure Gauze Mountain, and left when she chose to honor her twenty-year promise to Mu.
• Song Wen made preparations for the Divine Blood Hall by refining twenty substitute-death puppets and gathering defensive treasures, escape talismans, and poisons.
• Seven years later, Song Wen traveled to the Vast Azure Mountain Range and hid near the Divine Blood Hall after spotting Gou Jun, Tai He, Xi Ling, Blood Firmament, and Ghost Suanni.
• Yang Yu, Lan Chen, Mi Hai, and Mo Yexue arrived, bringing the foremost cultivators of eight sects together at the hall’s entrance.
• Tai He accused Mi Hai of helping ambush him and Xi Ling twenty years earlier, and Xi Ling and Tai He readied their weapons.
• Mi Hai sought support from Lan Chen, Yang Yu, and Mo Zhengqi, but the three retreated instead of defending him.

Song Wen stopped hiding and approached the cultivators gathered near the Divine Blood Hall, claiming to be Yinshuo of the Asura Sect. Tai He tried to take his Bronze Key Coffin, but Lan Chen welcomed him to the righteous group, while Mi Hai sought his support against Tai He and Xi Ling.

• Gou Jun stopped Tai He and Xi Ling from fighting Mi Hai, and the nine cultivators resumed a tense exchange of cultivation insights.
• After waiting several days for Blood Brow, Song Wen abandoned his hiding place and approached the group as Yinshuo of the Asura Sect.
• Blood Firmament questioned why a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator had a Bronze Key Coffin, and Tai He urged Song Wen to leave before demanding to borrow it.
• Lan Chen rebuked Tai He and invited Song Wen to join the righteous cultivators, so Song Wen moved toward her.
• Mi Hai greeted Song Wen warmly and invited him to join forces, hoping to gain support against Tai He and Xi Ling.
• Song Wen answered Mi Hai ambiguously and moved closer to Lan Chen before Mi Hai could continue.

Song Wen joined forces with Lan Chen and the other cultivators as they waited for the Divine Blood Hall’s restrictions to weaken. When the Demon Race’s wolf king Howling Moon confronted them and demanded they leave the Vast Azure Mountain Range, Gou Jun prepared to fight.

• Yang Yu welcomed Song Wen and offered him a place as a Supreme Elder in the Beast Taming Sect, while Mo Yexue questioned Lan Chen about helping him.
• Song Wen thanked Lan Chen, and Tai He tried to sow distrust between him and the righteous cultivators.
• Gou Jun demanded to see Song Wen’s secret art after their journey to the Divine Blood Hall, and Song Wen agreed to deliver it afterward.
• The blood-red glow appeared on the cliff, signaling that the Divine Blood Hall’s formation restrictions were weakening.
• Howling Moon arrived with the heads of four human cultivators and ordered the group to leave the Vast Azure Mountain Range.
• Gou Jun refused to withdraw and threatened to kill Howling Moon and wipe out the Silver Wolf Clan.

Gou Jun led Blood Firmament, Ghost Suanni, and Yang Yu in an attack on Howling Moon while Song Wen and five others watched for its ferocious-beast allies. As Song Wen collected the heads of Lei Clan cultivators, the Dragon Leech burst from underground, interrupting his argument with Tai He.

• Gou Jun warned the others that Howling Moon might have the Dragon Leech and Calamity Scorpion nearby, then assigned four cultivators to attack and the other six to guard against them.
• Howling Moon fled from Gou Jun, Blood Firmament, Ghost Suanni, and Yang Yu, but Blood Firmament used a baby corpse's laughter to injure it and slow its escape.
• The baby corpse's laughter made Tai He's blood pour from his body, while Song Wen and the others managed to suppress its effects.
• While guarding the mountain ridges, Song Wen used spiritual power to gather four Lei Clan heads, including Lei Jun's, prompting Tai He to reprimand him.
• A giant, headless worm burst through the ground and sprayed black liquid from its tooth-lined maw.

The six cultivators struggled to breach the Dragon Leech’s defenses while a Calamity Scorpion attacked them. With two streams of the Dragon Leech’s black water bearing down on him, Song Wen rushed toward Tai He and begged him to save him, leaving Tai He poised to use a Minor Teleportation Talisman.

• The Dragon Leech shielded itself with corrosive black water, and Lan Chen’s pink smoke made it crash into the ground, briefly exposing a gap in its defenses.
• Song Wen’s Void-Breaking Blade failed to injure the Dragon Leech, while Mo Yexue and the others fought off bristles fired by a giant Calamity Scorpion.
• The Dragon Leech recovered and sent six black-water spears toward the cultivators, leaving Song Wen without help as the others defended themselves.
• Song Wen avoided using his Blood Escape Technique, Minor Teleportation Talisman, and Life-Substitution Technique, then shouted for Tai He to save him and rushed toward him.
• Tai He, already fending off a black-water spear and unwilling to help Song Wen, produced a silver Minor Teleportation Talisman.

The cultivators defeated Howling Moon, and Gou Jun stopped Tai He and Song Wen from fighting over their grudge. Five days later, the Divine Blood Hall opened, and Gou Jun explained the first areas inside before revealing that a blood corpse at Blood Corpse Mountain had once gravely wounded him.

• Xi Ling and Tai He destroyed the blackwater spears, after which Tai He attacked Song Wen until Gou Jun ordered the group to focus on Howling Moon.
• Gou Jun and three other cultivators killed Howling Moon in a sneak attack by the Ghost Suanni, while the Calamity Scorpion and Dragon Leech fled underground.
• The ten cultivators divided the spoils, and Song Wen received Howling Moon's soul before they rested for five days.
• The bloody cliff opened, and Gou Jun announced that the cultivators could enter the Divine Blood Hall with the Bronze Key Coffin.
• Gou Jun described the route through the mountain gate, snow mountain, and Living Soul Hall, then said a blood corpse at Blood Corpse Mountain had forced him to leave the hall.

Gou Jun revealed an inscription describing Profound Qi and Fallen Immortal Blood, then gathered the cultivators to enter the Divine Blood Hall and seek a path to Spirit Transformation. As the group prepared to enter, Tai He lacked a Bronze Key Coffin, and Gou Jun offered him a spare.

• Gou Jun showed the group an ancient stone slab describing how to fuse Profound Qi and stating that Fallen Immortal Blood could enable Spirit Transformation.
• Song Wen recalled a damaged inscription from the Azure Tide Secret Realm and suspected that Fallen Immortal Blood was the Beast Taming Sect's guardian divine beast, Blood Year.
• Lan Chen warned that she had extracted only a faint wisp of Profound Qi, but Gou Jun and Yang Yu urged the cultivators to work together and gather more if needed.
• Song Wen suspected Gou Jun had engineered the Righteous-Demonic War to draw the great sects toward the Divine Blood Hall and its method of reaching Spirit Transformation.
• Gou Jun explained how to leave the hall, warned that it would remain open for one year, and urged everyone to enter before the passage closed.
• Tai He said he could not enter without a Bronze Key Coffin, and Gou Jun offered him a spare.

Gou Jun led the group into the Divine Blood Hall, where they arrived at a vast plaza and tried to activate its Teleportation Array. The array failed to transport them, leaving Gou Jun and the others to wonder whether too many people had tried to use it at once.

• Tai He bargained with Gou Jun and agreed to pay two Minor Teleportation Talismans to borrow the Bronze Key Coffin.
• Gou Jun proposed that everyone enter the Divine Blood Hall together, and Song Wen reluctantly joined them after Gou Jun pressured him.
• The ten cultivators sealed themselves inside their Bronze Key Coffins and passed through the blood-like cliff into the Divine Blood Hall.
• Song Wen and the others surveyed the plaza, then gathered at the Teleportation Array after Gou Jun confirmed its location and the bloodstone exit.
• Gou Jun placed twelve Mid-Grade Spirit Stones in the array, but it failed to transport the group, so Lan Chen suggested they might have exceeded its capacity.

Song Wen and the others found a hidden Teleportation Array and followed Gou Jun’s route toward Corpse Blood Mountain. They arrived in a plaza filled with black mist, where a ghost attack drew more powerful ghosts toward them as they flew uncertainly toward the Living Soul Hall.

• Song Wen learned the group could not teleport back toward the Divine Blood Hall’s mountain gate and searched the snow-covered mountain with the others.
• Ghost Suanni’s scouting ghosts discovered a hidden residence, where the group found an empty chamber and a Teleportation Array.
• The group chose to follow Gou Jun’s route toward Corpse Blood Mountain and used another array to reach a mist-filled plaza.
• A Ghost King killed one of Ghost Suanni’s scouts, and Ghost Suanni destroyed it, alerting nearby ghosts.
• Gou Jun pointed toward the Living Soul Hall, and the group flew that way to evade the approaching ghosts.

Song Wen and the others fought through a horde of fourth-tier ghosts until they reached the Living Soul Hall, where Gou Jun ordered Song Wen to scout ahead. Song Wen entered the sealed hall alone to check the teleportation array to Corpse Blood Mountain, leaving the others outside as the doors closed behind him.

• Mi Hai warned the group that a powerful ghost pursued them, while Gou Jun sensed fourth-tier ghosts ahead and prepared everyone for battle.
• Gou Jun and the others fought off the ghosts as Mi Hai used a Wisdom King apparition to reveal more than a dozen fourth-tier ghosts around them.
• The group charged through the ghosts and reached the Living Soul Hall, with more than twenty fourth-tier ghosts trailing behind them.
• Gou Jun ordered Song Wen to enter the hall first and check whether the teleportation array to Corpse Blood Mountain remained intact.
• Song Wen opened the stone doors, raised a black shield, and entered the hall; the doors then shut behind him.

Song Wen entered the Living Soul Hall and searched for the source of the dread pressing on him. He found a mysterious wooden box and forced the Poison Flood Dragon to open it, while the Nether Fox waited by the doors.

• Gou Jun explained to Blood Firmament that the Living Soul Hall was dangerous and that he had escaped it three hundred years earlier through a Teleportation Array.
• Song Wen found that his Divine Sense could not locate the source of his unease, and the Nether Fox could neither sense a threat nor identify any ghosts.
• Song Wen sent the Nether Fox to guard the entrance and walked deeper into the hall, scanning it with the Darkness-Breaking Technique.
• Song Wen discovered a rune-carved wooden box on a stone platform and realized it was the source of his dread.
• Song Wen summoned the Poison Flood Dragon and ordered it to open the box, threatening to kill it if it refused.

Song Wen opened the wooden box and discovered the Soul-Splitting Blade, whose sharp aura wounded his soul and nearly killed the Poison Flood Dragon. After securing the blade, he searched the Divine Blood Hall and found its exit and an intact Teleportation Array.

• The Poison Flood Dragon tried to throw the wooden box at Song Wen, but Song Wen struck it open with magical power.
• The Soul-Splitting Blade emerged and stripped flesh from the Poison Flood Dragon as it fled, leaving it near death.
• Song Wen captured the blade with the wooden box, then took it in hand and suffered painful wounds to his Sea of Consciousness and flesh.
• Song Wen identified the characters Soul-Splitting on the blade, stored it, and killed the Poison Flood Dragon.
• Song Wen found the Teleportation Array Gou Jun had mentioned destroyed, then located the passage out of the Divine Blood Hall and an intact Teleportation Array in the other rear corner.

Song Wen returned from the Living Soul Hall and told the others that its array to Corpse Blood Mountain was destroyed, so they used another array to reach a lush new area. After spotting a rare Swift Thunder Harrier, the group headed toward its nest.

• Song Wen left the Living Soul Hall, reported that its Teleportation Array to Corpse Blood Mountain had been destroyed, and said another array remained intact.
• Gou Jun and Yang Yu checked the hall and found no danger, while Blood Firmament accused Song Wen of hiding treasure before Gou Jun ended the argument.
• The group agreed to use the intact Teleportation Array and arrived in a vast, green landscape filled with birds and flowers.
• Yang Yu identified a Swift Thunder Harrier as a rare fourth-rank bird carrying Thunderbird bloodline after it caught a large fish from a lake.
• Lan Chen suggested they investigate the bird's nesting place, and Gou Jun led the group toward where it had flown.

The group discovered a lightning-wreathed mountain with a pavilion at its summit, and Xi Ling risked her eyes to read its name: Immortal Spirit Pavilion. Believing it might hold clues to the Fallen Immortal Blood, Gou Jun tried to break through the barrier, then ordered everyone to find another entrance; Ghost Suanni found stone steps leading into the formation.

• The group pursued the Swift Thunder Harrier and found a mountain sealed inside a powerful lightning-path formation, with a pavilion visible at its summit.
• Gou Jun asked Xi Ling to use her Bright Clarity Dharma Eye to identify the pavilion’s plaque, and Xi Ling strained her eyes until they bled before reading the words “Immortal Spirit Pavilion.”
• Gou Jun and Yang Yu speculated that the pavilion might be connected to the Fallen Immortal Blood, and Gou Jun decided the group had to enter the mountain.
• Gou Jun attacked the barrier with corpse aura, but its lightning dispersed the attack; he then used a Bone-Slicing Knife to cut apart a lightning bolt before ordering the group to search for an entrance.
• Ghost Suanni found stone steps that led through the barrier toward the summit, and Gou Jun questioned what use they were if the barrier blocked the way.

The cultivators discovered that the stone steps bypassed Thunder Mountain’s barrier, but lightning made the ascent dangerous. After uncovering an unknown altar and agreeing to climb together, Song Wen decided to stay behind, secretly believing the altar held the greatest opportunity.

• Ghost Suanni sent a vicious ghost up the stone steps, where it passed through the barrier but was destroyed by lightning, and Gou Jun proposed that the group ascend together.
• Lan Chen asked about the missing Swift Thunder Harrier, so the group searched nearby while Song Wen investigated a bluestone path leading to a concealed altar.
• The cultivators gathered at the altar, but none recognized its runes or knew its purpose; Gou Jun urged them to focus on reaching the Immortal Spirit Pavilion.
• After resting for three days, Song Wen declined to climb Thunder Mountain, citing his cultivation and vulnerability to lightning, and Yang Yu reminded him where to find the Three-Zhang Bloodstone.
• Song Wen watched the altar as the others prepared to ascend, believing it held the greatest opportunity in the area.

Song Wen and Tai He stayed at the foot of Thunder Mountain while Gou Jun and seven others braved the lightning to reach the Immortal Spirit Pavilion. Song Wen and Tai He pretended to make peace over their grudge, while the climbers struggled through the summit’s most dangerous stretch.

• Song Wen recognized the altar and realized the secret realm raised lightning-element demonic beasts to devour their Thunder Arts talent.
• Tai He refused to climb, and Song Wen claimed he was staying behind because he feared the danger; Gou Jun warned them not to hide anything before leading seven others uphill.
• Tai He explained that he hoped the climbers would weaken themselves and fight over the pavilion’s treasures, giving him a chance to take advantage.
• Tai He revealed that he intended to settle his grudge with Song Wen, but Song Wen showed him three Minor Teleportation Talismans and proposed making peace.
• Gou Jun and the other seven reached within a few dozen yards of the Immortal Spirit Pavilion, where intensified lightning battered them, especially Ghost Suanni.

Gou Jun and the others reached the Immortal Spirit Pavilion, where the Swift Thunder Harrier attacked them and was wounded before fleeing into the clouds. As the group pressed onward, the lightning gathered into a devastating silver waterfall, forcing the eight to abandon their formation and use their hidden methods to survive.

• Gou Jun led the group to within sight of the Immortal Spirit Pavilion, whose gates suddenly opened and revealed the Swift Thunder Harrier.
• The Swift Thunder Harrier attacked the eight with a pillar of thunder, and Yang Yu countered it with fire from his cauldron.
• Mo Yexue's flying sword missed, but Mi Hai's Demon-Subduing Pestle and Lan Chen's pink smoke wounded the Swift Thunder Harrier and drove it into the clouds.
• Gou Jun noticed the lightning growing sparse and warned everyone that the beast was preparing another attack as they continued toward the pavilion.
• A gigantic bolt gathered in the clouds and descended as a silver waterfall, causing the eight-person formation to break apart as everyone used their strongest methods to escape.

Song Wen used the chaos at Thunder Mountain to attack the fleeing Swift Thunder Harrier while Tai He launched a poisonous ambush against him. As Song Wen resisted the poison and countered, Tai He's flying sword failed to stop a Soul-Breaking Awl from reaching him.

• A devastating silver waterfall struck Thunder Mountain, and the wounded Swift Thunder Harrier fled toward the stairs.
• Song Wen considered killing Tai He to claim the Swift Thunder Harrier's innate talent, but Tai He attacked him with the Plaguefall Banner.
• Song Wen protected himself with a blood cocoon, then sent nine Soul-Concentrating Spikes into the Swift Thunder Harrier, leaving it unable to rise.
• Tai He's poisonous mist engulfed Song Wen, but the phantom from his Myriad Poisons Primordial Body kept the poison from reaching his flesh.
• A Soul-Breaking Awl attacked Tai He from behind, and his flying sword missed when the awl split into two.

Song Wen and Blood Brow cornered Tai He and defeated him, revealing that Song Wen was the cultivator Tai He had once known as Extreme Yin. Tai He’s Nascent Soul was captured, leaving his fate in Blood Brow’s hands.

• Tai He used the Plaguefall Banner to fend off the Soul-Breaking Awls as Blood Brow appeared and confronted him over their past betrayal.
• Song Wen and Blood Brow pursued Tai He after he escaped with Minor Teleportation Talismans, and Song Wen repeatedly tracked his location.
• Tai He’s feint with poisonous mist nearly struck Blood Brow, but Song Wen knocked aside his flying sword and then pierced Tai He’s sea of consciousness with spiritual-sense blades.
• Blood Brow shattered Tai He’s dantian with the Soul-Breaking Awl, forcing his Nascent Soul to flee.
• Blood Brow revealed that Song Wen was the former Foundation Establishment cultivator Tai He had encountered in the Nether God Temple, and bound Tai He’s Nascent Soul after he begged for mercy.

Song Wen searched Tai He's soul, divided his treasures with Blood Brow, and used the altar at Thunder Mountain to absorb the Swift Thunder Harrier's blood essence and gain its thunder talent. Before they leave through a Teleportation Array, Song Wen pressed Blood Brow to explain where to find the Corpse King Reincarnation Art inside the Divine Blood Hall.

• Blood Brow agreed to let Song Wen search Tai He's soul in exchange for copying the Minor Teleportation Talisman method and insights, but the search revealed no information about the Divine Blood Hall.
• Song Wen took Tai He's storage ring, shared its treasures with Blood Brow, and secretly used the Blood Sea Seal to devour Tai He's soul and body.
• Blood Brow returned Song Wen's Shadow Gu, then told him she had found a Teleportation Array in a valley several hundred li away.
• Song Wen went to the Thunder Mountain altar and used the Blood Sea Seal to restrain the Swift Thunder Harrier while the altar consumed its blood essence and soul, giving him its thunder-art talent.
• Blood Brow said none of the eight nascent soul cultivators had come down from Thunder Mountain, and Song Wen asked her to reveal where inside the Divine Blood Hall they could find the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.

Song Wen and Blood Brow entered the Divine Blood Sect’s Avici Prison while seeking the Technique Pavilion and the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art. They escaped their cell using Song Wen’s powerful Thunder Arts, and Blood Brow grew suspicious of how he had acquired them.

• Blood Brow admitted she did not know the route to the Technique Pavilion and said she and Song Wen would have to search through teleportation arrays.
• Song Wen and Blood Brow arrived in a sealed cell in Avici Prison, where restrictions blocked Divine Sense and prevented escape.
• Blood Brow examined the cell’s restrictions and identified a spot for Song Wen to attack, but his blood tentacle failed to break them.
• Blood Brow suggested Song Wen use Thunder Arts against the restrictions, and his lightning lance destroyed the runes and opened the cell wall.
• Blood Brow wondered whether Song Wen’s Thunder Arts were connected to the altar at Thunder Mountain and how he had learned about it.

Song Wen and Blood Brow searched Avici Prison for a Teleportation Array and found a phantom karma heartflame, which Blood Brow claimed after Song Wen helped her retrieve it. They later encountered Blood Firmament and Ghost Suanni, and Song Wen explained how he had reached the prison while concealing what had happened to Tai He.

• Song Wen and Blood Brow explored empty cells and a torture hall before choosing another corridor.
• Blood Brow recognized an oil lamp's flame as phantom karma heartflame and asked Song Wen to help her obtain it in exchange for a favor.
• Song Wen broke the cell's restrictions with his Thunder Arts, confirmed the flame's identity, and let Blood Brow take it.
• Song Wen and Blood Brow searched a jailers' building for a Teleportation Array but found nothing.
• Blood Firmament and Ghost Suanni appeared in the cavern hall, and Song Wen retreated with Blood Brow.
• Blood Firmament questioned Song Wen about how he had arrived, and Song Wen claimed that he and Tai He had split up while searching for a Teleportation Array.

Song Wen, Blood Brow, Blood Firmament, and Ghost Suanni explored a dungeon in the Endless Prison and found a spiritual-energy-filled tunnel. When a Three-Corpse Hound emerged, Blood Brow identified it as a powerful guardian puppet, and she and Song Wen fled into a corridor.

• Blood Firmament challenged Song Wen about leaving Tai He behind and demanded to know who Blood Brow was, but Ghost Suanni persuaded them to travel together.
• The four explored a dungeon corridor and found a deep Vertical Tunnel filled with spiritual energy.
• Ghost Suanni sent two vicious ghosts, two ghost generals, and a Ghost King into the tunnel, and each was killed instantly.
• A hairless, three-headed Three-Corpse Hound burst from the tunnel, and Blood Brow recognized it as an Avici Prison guardian puppet as strong as a peak Nascent Soul Cultivator.
• Song Wen and Blood Brow fled into a corridor while Blood Firmament watched them escape and regretted not forcing Song Wen to scout first.