Recaps

Song Wen attacked the ant queen and tore apart its giant insect form, only to discover it was a transformed fourth-tier Phantom Wing Butterfly. As the swarm closed in and the others reached the Teleportation Array, Blood Brow asked Song Wen to bring the wounded butterfly with him.

• The ant queen attacked Blood Brow with divine sense spikes while the Gold-Eating Ants besieged the four humans, and Blood Brow used the Tranquility Curse to defend herself.
• Song Wen told Lan Chen, Blood Brow, and Mo Yexue to prepare to move, then used the Blood Escape Technique to reach the ant queen through the poisonous mist.
• The ant queen transformed into a hundred-foot insect to move its head out of Song Wen's sword strike, but Song Wen severed its tail and ravaged its body with his sword and blade qi.
• The ant queen's remains transformed into a severely wounded fourth-tier Phantom Wing Butterfly, and the Gold-Eating Ants rushed to protect it.
• Lan Chen, Blood Brow, and Mo Yexue headed for the Teleportation Array, while Blood Brow secretly asked Song Wen to take the Phantom Wing Butterfly with him.

Song Wen tried to escape the Gold-Eating Ant nest with the wounded Phantom Wing Butterfly, but Ghost Suanni ambushed him to claim the butterfly and Song Wen’s divine sense technique. Song Wen revealed his Thunder Arts to break the ambush and began forming a plan to kill Ghost Suanni.

• Song Wen seized the wounded Phantom Wing Butterfly and charged toward the Teleportation Array as the ant queen and Gold-Eating Ants pursued him.
• Song Wen withstood an ant king’s venom and poisonous mist, which blasted him toward the array, while Lan Chen, Blood Brow, and Mo Yexue prepared to escape.
• Ghost Suanni appeared behind Song Wen and sent a ghost emperor to block him, hoping to seize the butterfly and leave Song Wen to face the ants.
• Song Wen rejected using his Life-Substitution Technique and instead summoned lightning spears to counter the ghost emperor’s attack.
• Song Wen’s lightning destroyed the ghostly palm, and he prepared to use the situation to kill Ghost Suanni.

Song Wen and the others escaped through the Teleportation Array after destroying the Ghost Emperor, but their traps demolished the array and left Ghost Suanni stranded to face the Gold-Eating Ants. They appeared in a mountain cave with a gravely injured Phantom Wing Butterfly, and Lan Chen discovered that the butterfly in her spirit beast pouch had fallen from the fourth tier to the late second tier.

• Song Wen used Thunder Arts to weaken the Ghost Emperor, while the ant queen's Divine Sense spikes destroyed the Ghost Emperor and struck Song Wen as he reached the Teleportation Array.
• Lan Chen activated the array and sent Song Wen, Mo Yexue, and Blood Brow away after they left behind a blood sphere, Sword Qi, and a poison-filled jade bottle.
• Ghost Suanni rushed to the array, but the three traps exploded and destroyed it, leaving him to face the four ant kings and the ant queen's next attack.
• Song Wen and the others appeared in a mountain cave alongside the gravely injured Phantom Wing Butterfly.
• Lan Chen summoned the Phantom Wing Butterfly from her spirit beast pouch and discovered that it had shrunk and dropped from the fourth tier to the late second tier.

Song Wen negotiated the wounded Phantom Wing Butterfly to Lan Chen and Blood Brow in exchange for spirit stones and a promise to keep his and Blood Brow's Thunder Arts secret. After ten days of recovery, the four left the cave and began exploring the secret realm, heading west.

• Blood Brow explained that the Phantom Wing Butterfly could cast powerful illusions and that its soul could help refine a Wisdom Light Pill.
• Song Wen sold the Phantom Wing Butterfly to Lan Chen and Blood Brow for one hundred superior spirit stones each and secured Lan Chen and Mo Yexue's soul oaths to keep his and Blood Brow's Thunder Arts secret.
• Lan Chen and Blood Brow divided the Phantom Wing Butterfly, while Blood Brow admitted she could not identify their location in the Divine Blood Hall.
• The four stayed in the cave for ten days to recover from poison, injuries, and depleted magical power.
• Lan Chen suggested they explore west, where the spiritual energy seemed denser, and the others agreed.

Song Wen and the others reached Divine Blood Peak, where Blood Brow revealed a hidden stairway leading up the mountain. After learning that the Path to Heaven imposed stronger gravity on those with higher cultivation, they considered how to climb it and the danger posed by Gou Jun.

• Blood Brow identified the mountain as Divine Blood Peak, and Song Wen led the group toward it.
• Blood Brow guided Song Wen, Lan Chen, and Mo Yexue to the stone stairs known as the Path to Heaven, where Gou Jun and Yang Yu struggled to climb.
• The group met the injured Mi Hai, who explained that the mountain's gravity restriction grew stronger with cultivation but was easier to endure with a strong physical body.
• Mi Hai used a Wisdom King phantom to help him climb the stairs and began catching up to Gou Jun and Yang Yu.
• Song Wen warned that Gou Jun might attack climbers from above, and Blood Brow said the Path to Heaven could only be ascended through perseverance.

Song Wen struggled up the gravity-bound stone stairs toward the mountain summit, using his corpse transformation to outpace the others despite its heavy mana cost. As Gou Jun neared the top and Yang Yu transformed with a peak fourth-order Blood Kui Beast, Song Wen collapsed seven or eight li from the summit, facing the hardest stretch ahead.

• Mo Yexue, Lan Chen, Song Wen, and Blood Brow entered the barrier and began climbing under crushing pressure.
• Song Wen used the Undying True Corpse Transformation to climb past Blood Brow, Lan Chen, Mo Yexue, and Mi Hai, then rested when the strain and mana loss became severe.
• Song Wen resumed climbing in corpse form and gradually closed the distance to Yang Yu and Gou Jun.
• Yang Yu released a peak fourth-order Blood Kui Beast, which enveloped him and transformed him into a powerful blood-red monster.
• Song Wen collapsed under the intensified gravity seven or eight li from the summit, while Gou Jun remained near the top.

Gou Jun and Yang Yu agreed to work together to keep the others from competing for Divine Blood Peak’s treasures, while each concealed his own motives. After reaching the summit, they waited as Song Wen struggled up the steps, and Gou Jun secretly planned to kill him for the technique he used.

• Yang Yu caught up to Gou Jun using the Blood Kui Beast, and Gou Jun proposed that they join forces to claim the treasures on Divine Blood Peak.
• Yang Yu agreed to force the others back after they reached the summit, provided no other dangers remained.
• Gou Jun reached the summit first, then Yang Yu arrived and saw a plaza and a cave marked Origin Cave.
• Gou Jun and Yang Yu agreed to wait until the climbers were nearly exhausted before acting against them, especially Yinshuo.
• Gou Jun secretly coveted Song Wen’s corpse-path technique and planned to kill him near the summit, take his storage ring, and search his soul.

Song Wen tried to reach the treasures on Divine Blood Peak, but Gou Jun and Yang Yu attacked him with a massive iron sphere. After faking his death and ambushing Gou Jun, Song Wen escaped into Origin Cave, where Gou Jun followed him into deadly ghost mist.

• Yang Yu tested the steps' gravity restriction with a stone sphere, and Gou Jun sent a huge iron sphere rolling down toward Song Wen and his companions.
• Song Wen let the iron sphere crush his body, then reappeared in the square and attacked Gou Jun with a blood-red tentacle.
• Gou Jun's chain failed to find Song Wen's soul or storage ring, and Song Wen used a green talisman to flee toward Origin Cave.
• Song Wen passed through the cave's barrier, and Gou Jun pursued him into the black ghost mist.

Gou Jun waited for Yinshuo inside Origin Cave, believing the ghost mist would kill him, while Yang Yu discovered Gou Jun had prepared for the danger and was forced back into the cave. When Gou Jun finally ventured deeper, resentful spirits attacked him and his corpse puppet.

• Gou Jun used a jade pendant to shield himself from the ghost mist and waited at the cave entrance for Yinshuo.
• Yang Yu entered Origin Cave, realized Gou Jun had concealed his knowledge of the ghost mist, and retreated after his spiritual shield began to fail.
• Yang Yu found the mountain sealed by a barrier, then sat down to recover his spiritual power while waiting for Lan Chen and the others.
• When Yinshuo did not appear, Gou Jun suspected he could resist the ghost mist and headed deeper into the cave.
• Gou Jun used a fox skull for protection and summoned a fourth-order peak corpse puppet as resentful spirits emerged and attacked.

Song Wen escaped Gou Jun by turning resentful spirits against him, then found a cave in Origin Cave to recover while learning more about the ghost mist called Origin Qi. Meanwhile, Yang Yu told Lan Chen, Mo Yexue, Mi Hai, and Blood Brow that Gou Jun had pursued Yinshuo into the cave, and the group looked to Blood Brow for a way to resist the ghost mist.

• Song Wen ordered the Nether Fox to find an existing cave, and it led him deeper into Origin Cave.
• Song Wen asked why the Nether Fox clan called the ghost mist Origin Qi, and the Nether Fox explained that the mist was spreading and might eventually cover the world.
• Song Wen sealed the cave entrance, set up an array, and began healing while the Nether Fox kept watch.
• Mi Hai, Lan Chen, Mo Yexue, and Blood Brow reached the plaza and questioned Yang Yu about Yinshuo and Gou Jun.
• Yang Yu said Gou Jun had chased Yinshuo into Origin Cave and had hidden his way of resisting the ghost mist, prompting the four cultivators to look to Blood Brow for help.

Blood Brow taught the Spirit Bell Shield to Lan Chen, Mo Yexue, Mi Hai, and Yang Yu in exchange for their promise not to harm her in the plaza. Seven days later, the group entered Origin Cave, met up with Song Wen, and found fresh battle marks suggesting Gou Jun had taken the left passage.

• Blood Brow gave the four the Spirit Bell Shield technique after they promised not to attack her in the plaza.
• Yang Yu mastered the shield, entered Origin Cave, and promised to help Blood Brow once if she ever needed him.
• Seven days later, Blood Brow, Lan Chen, Mo Yexue, and Mi Hai entered Origin Cave, where Blood Brow explained that its resentful spirits and branching paths made Yang Yu and Gou Jun useful scouts.
• Song Wen emerged from the ghost mist and joined the four as they continued through the cave.
• At a fork with three identical passages, Mi Hai found fresh claw marks and rubble, and the group suspected Gou Jun had taken the left passage.

Song Wen and the others followed the Nether Fox through Origin Cave, where it guided them through the labyrinth and helped them deal with resentful spirits. They eventually encountered Yang Yu approaching from ahead and prepared to question him about the cave and Gou Jun.

• Song Wen summoned the Nether Fox, which chose the left passage and warned the group of a fourth-rank resentful spirit ahead.
• Blood Brow gave the Nether Fox a wounded third-rank resentful spirit to devour, and the five defeated the injured ox-headed spirit they encountered.
• Song Wen absorbed the ox-headed resentful spirit, and Lan Chen promised him any others they subdued in Origin Cave.
• The Nether Fox guided the five through the labyrinth by following traces of battle, and they found signs of a fierce fight and a collapsed passage.
• The Nether Fox sensed someone approaching, and Yang Yu identified himself as a member of the Beast Taming Sect; the five lowered their magic treasures but stayed ready to strike.

Yang Yu reunited with Song Wen and the others in the Origin Cave and joined their group, while they discussed the search for Fallen Immortal Blood and the fates of their separated companions. Following signs of Gou Jun’s recent battle, the six reached a vast, brightly lit exit.

• Yang Yu explained that the Origin Cave’s winding passages had made him lose his way, then asked to travel with the group because the Nether Fox could guide them out.
• Lan Chen privately urged Song Wen to accept Yang Yu, warning that he possessed another peak fourth-rank spirit beast, and Song Wen agreed to let him join.
• Lan Chen, Mi Hai, and Yang Yu discussed their fruitless search for Fallen Immortal Blood on Corpse Blood Mountain and speculated that Gou Jun had found clues on Divine Blood Peak.
• Mi Hai claimed Xi Ling had failed to reach a teleportation array while fleeing zombies, and Yang Yu gave him a strange look without commenting.
• The six found recent battle traces that Yang Yu attributed to Gou Jun, then followed the widening passage to an exit nearly fifty zhang wide.

Lan Chen and the others caught up with Gou Jun in Origin Cave and confronted him over his schemes. When Gou Jun demanded that they hand over Yinshuo, Mo Yexue defended him and prepared to fight.

• The six found Gou Jun healing in the plaza and Yang Yu accused him of using them to reach Divine Blood Peak and then trying to trap them in Origin Cave.
• Gou Jun summoned twelve corpse coffins and formed the Twelve Capital Corpse Formation, while Yang Yu brought out two peak fourth-order demonic beasts.
• Mi Hai persuaded Gou Jun and Yang Yu to stand down and exchange information, but Gou Jun demanded that they hand over Yinshuo.
• Mo Yexue refused to surrender Yinshuo, summoned eighteen flying swords, and formed an Exorcising Evil Sword Formation to oppose Gou Jun.

Gou Jun handed over an ancient tome about Divine Blood Peak, and the group set out toward Corpse King Hall with Song Wen forced to lead the way. Song Wen sensed a demonic beast stirring in the mist and rushed forward to escape its reach.

• Mo Yexue stood up for Yinshuo, and Yang Yu told Gou Jun the group would not let him kill Yinshuo after the Nether Fox had guided them through Origin Cave.
• Gou Jun tossed Yang Yu an ancient tome that described Corpse King Hall and Demon Spirit Hall but gave no information about the Fallen Immortal Blood.
• Yang Yu proposed that Yinshuo lead the way because he possessed the Life-Substitution Technique, and the group agreed without objection.
• Song Wen stepped onto the mountain path, found his spiritual sense hampered by the shifting mist, and advanced with Gou Jun and the others following behind.
• After traveling dozens of miles without seeing a demonic beast, Song Wen noticed dense mist stirring ahead and sped forward.

Song Wen fought off a half-human, half-insect monster by distracting it with Blood Shadow Clones, then escaped while another monster attacked Gou Jun's group. He reached Corpse King Hall and found Xi Ling waiting there, leaving him to consider whether to eliminate her before Gou Jun's group arrived.

• Song Wen entered the fog and encountered a half-human, half-insect monster that tore apart his blood-red tentacles.
• Song Wen distracted the monster with Blood Shadow Clones and used the Double-Faced Buddha to conceal his aura and escape.
• Song Wen heard another monster with a dog's head and a sheep's lower body, while Gou Jun's group of six fought the two monsters below.
• Song Wen crossed the fog and reached Corpse King Hall, where he found Xi Ling waiting.
• Xi Ling asked Song Wen where Tai He was, and Song Wen said they had parted at Thunder Mountain before slowly flying toward her.

Song Wen met Xi Ling outside the Corpse King Hall, and Gou Jun's group arrived to investigate its restrictions. Xi Ling confronted Mi Hai over his betrayal on Corpse Blood Mountain as the group prepared to continue toward the Demon Spirit Hall.

• Xi Ling questioned Song Wen about how he reached the square, and Song Wen concealed his battle with the demonic beasts and named Gou Jun's group as the fighters below.
• Xi Ling summoned her Mother-and-Child Blades when she learned Mi Hai was approaching with Gou Jun, Yang Yu, Lan Chen, and Mo Yexue.
• Gou Jun attacked the Corpse King Hall's gates, triggering a powerful black tornado that shredded his corpse qi and forced everyone to retreat.
• Xi Ling explained that the monsters avoided the square and that she had been unable to break the hall's restrictions; Gou Jun revealed the hidden trail onward to the Demon Spirit Hall.
• Xi Ling accused Mi Hai of preventing her escape from Corpse Blood Mountain, and Mi Hai apologized and urged her to let go of the grievance.

Xi Ling reconciled with Mi Hai, then confronted Blood Brow over her past betrayal and demanded a way into the Corpse King Hall. Blood Brow revealed that only cultivators of the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art could pass its restrictions and gave Xi Ling a strand of spiritual power to help deceive them.

• Mi Hai offered compensation to avoid fighting Xi Ling, and the two privately reached a reconciliation.
• Gou Jun, Yang Yu, Lan Chen, and Mo Yexue examined the Corpse King Hall but found no way to break its restrictions, so they agreed to rest before attacking them together.
• Xi Ling confronted Blood Brow about using Tai He and the Nine Palaces Sect before fleeing with the Bronze Key Coffin, while the others declined to intervene.
• Xi Ling privately asked Blood Brow for a way into the Corpse King Hall, and Blood Brow explained that the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art could bypass its restrictions.
• Blood Brow transferred a strand of spiritual power into Xi Ling's right arm, and Xi Ling sealed it there to use as a shield against the hall's restrictions.

Xi Ling used Blood Brow’s spiritual power to enter the Corpse King Hall, where the source qi quickly overwhelmed her defenses. Song Wen and Blood Brow confronted her as she tried to escape, and Xi Ling’s desperate attack appeared to sever both their heads.

• Blood Brow gave Xi Ling spiritual power that could shield her from the Corpse King Hall’s restrictions, and Xi Ling used it to enter the hall.
• Gou Jun tried to force his way into the hall, but its black tornado repelled him as Blood Brow and Yinshuo advanced through it under similar shields.
• Song Wen and Blood Brow entered the hall and learned from the Nether Fox that Xi Ling was nearby.
• Xi Ling’s shield failed against the dense source qi, so she attacked Song Wen and Blood Brow while trying to escape.
• Xi Ling’s blades struck Song Wen and Blood Brow, apparently severing their heads.

Xi Ling was trapped by Blood Brow and Yinshuo’s illusions, struck by a spiritual sense attack, and killed after Song Wen dragged her into a blood tide. Song Wen and Blood Brow divided her treasures and reached the Corpse King Hall’s inheritance altar, where Blood Brow confronted the legacy she had once been denied.

• Xi Ling realized Song Wen and Blood Brow had used illusions to mislead her and repeatedly block her path to the hall doors.
• Xi Ling reached the real doors but was struck by nine spiritual sense blades, then pierced by a blood-red tentacle and dragged into the hall.
• Song Wen killed Xi Ling with a blood tide before Blood Brow could attack her Nascent Soul, and they divided her belongings.
• Song Wen took Xi Ling’s Mother-and-Child Blades and Minor Teleportation Talismans, while Blood Brow claimed her azure jade plaque.
• Blood Brow led Song Wen to the inheritance altar and recalled how the Divine Blood Sect had refused to teach her the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.

Song Wen and Blood Brow recorded the Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation sections of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, then agreed to seek the Demon Soul Spirit-Breaking Pills in the Demon Spirit Hall. Seven days later, Gou Jun and the others gave up trying to enter the Corpse King Hall and set off for the Demon Spirit Hall.

• Blood Brow activated the altar, revealing the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art, and Song Wen recorded its Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation sections.
• Song Wen learned that the Bronze Key Coffin could serve as proof of identity for entering the Demon Spirit Hall and agreed to go there with Blood Brow.
• Blood Brow revealed that she had secretly told Lan Chen how to enter the Demon Spirit Hall.
• Seven days later, Gou Jun and the other four failed to break the Corpse King Hall's restrictions, and Gou Jun threatened Yinshuo and Blood Brow.
• Lan Chen urged the group to explore the Demon Spirit Hall, and the five went around the Corpse King Hall and climbed the mountain path together.

Gou Jun, Lan Chen, Yang Yu, Mi Hai, and Mo Yexue entered the Demon Spirit Hall using their Bronze Key Coffins, then discovered a hidden teleportation barrier leading to the Fallen Immortal Blood Grotto. Song Wen and Blood Brow arrived afterward and chose the other passage, the Demon Origin Cave, to avoid the group.

• Lan Chen revealed that Blood Brow's Jade Slip said the Bronze Key Coffins could pass through the Demon Spirit Hall's restrictions, and Yang Yu proved it by entering the hall.
• Gou Jun, Yang Yu, Lan Chen, Mo Yexue, and Mi Hai searched the hall separately but found no treasures or records.
• Mi Hai discovered a teleportation barrier in the ceiling, and the five passed through it into an underground cavern.
• The group found the entrance to the Fallen Immortal Blood Grotto and descended to an underground river lined with caves.
• Song Wen and Blood Brow appeared in the cavern, recognized traces of Gou Jun's group in the right-hand corridor, and chose the passage marked Demon Origin Cave.

Song Wen and Blood Brow explored the Demon Spirit Hall, where coffins revealed the Divine Blood Sect’s experiments with hybrid creatures and traces of divine beasts. They followed a battle underground and found Gou Jun and the others trying to breach a barrier around a stone coffin believed to contain Fallen Immortal Blood.

• Song Wen inspected coffins containing hybrid creatures, and Blood Brow explained that the Divine Blood Sect had researched creature hybridization and explored the Ghost Mist Domain.
• Song Wen and Blood Brow descended a deep tunnel after hearing a battle below, then used a gu insect to locate Gou Jun and the others in an underground cavern.
• Gou Jun, Mi Hai, Yang Yu, Lan Chen, and Mo Yexue failed to break the barrier protecting a platform and stone coffin by force.
• Yang Yu promised Mo Yexue a share of the Fallen Immortal Blood if she broke the restriction, and the others agreed to the proposal.
• Mo Yexue deployed nine azure array flags and attacked the barrier, making its ripples grow increasingly violent.

Mo Yexue and Lan Chen broke through the high platform’s restriction while Gou Jun, Yang Yu, and Mi Hai tried to stop them. Inside, they found a preserved Nether Fox corpse, and Song Wen realized it was likely the progenitor of the Nether Fox race and a priceless specimen to the Divine Blood Sect.

• Mo Yexue used Myriad Spirits Immortal Dew from Lan Chen to restore her spiritual power, then trapped the two of them and the high platform behind a formation barrier.
• Lan Chen used the Forbidden-Breaking Pearl to destroy the platform’s restriction while Gou Jun, Yang Yu, and Mi Hai attacked the barrier.
• Lan Chen opened the stone coffin and revealed a preserved two-tailed Nether Fox corpse as Mo Yexue, the three men, and Song Wen looked inside.
• Song Wen read the coffin lid’s inscription identifying the Nether Fox as a hybrid of the Nine-Tailed Fox, Nether Leech, and Soul-Devouring Hou.
• Song Wen connected the corpse to the Divine Blood Sect’s research into hybrid creatures and concluded that the sect had considered it a treasure.

Song Wen and the others found only a Nether Fox corpse in the stone coffin, but the fading divine-consciousness phantom Xugeng revealed that some Fallen Immortal Blood remained in the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall. Xugeng noticed Song Wen hiding nearby before he vanished, while Yang Yu reacted strangely to the hall’s name.

• Song Wen saw the second-rank Nether Fox corpse, and Gou Jun, Yang Yu, and Mi Hai stopped attacking Mo Yexue’s formation in shock and disappointment.
• Mo Yexue joined Lan Chen, who held the Blissful Union Sect’s Earth-Escape Talisman, as Gou Jun and the others turned on them with murderous intent.
• A phantom appeared above the coffin and identified himself as Xugeng, a former deputy sect master of the Divine Blood Sect, explaining that the Nether Fox corpse had been the sect’s greatest harvest in the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Xugeng said the Fallen Immortal Blood in Divine Blood Hall had been used up, but some should remain in the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall, prompting Gou Jun and the others to beg him for its location.
• Xugeng noticed Song Wen and Blood Brow hiding to the west, then dissipated after hinting that treasures remained in the cavern; Yang Yu showed an unusual reaction to the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall’s name.