Recaps

Song Wen escaped Yang Yu, Blood Brow, and Ghost Suanni, but Blood Brow’s tracking technique repeatedly detected his direction despite the Double-Faced Buddha’s concealment. With the pursuers still on his trail, Song Wen headed for the Sea of Disorder by way of the Endless Desert.

• Song Wen’s Soul-Concentrating Spikes struck the Blood Kui Beast instead of Yang Yu, and Yang Yu survived Song Wen’s Purple Palace Divine Thunder.
• Song Wen used the Double-Faced Buddha to conceal his aura, but Blood Brow could not initially track him, prompting Yang Yu and Ghost Suanni to search for him.
• Blood Brow briefly sensed Song Wen northwest, then lost his trail again, and the three pursued him in that direction.
• Song Wen realized the Double-Faced Buddha consumed too much blood essence to conceal him indefinitely and decided to flee to the Sea of Disorder.
• Song Wen changed course toward the Endless Desert and continued feeding blood essence to the Double-Faced Buddha to hide his whereabouts.

Song Wen escaped to the Sea of Disorder through the Nether God Temple’s Teleportation Array, then returned to the Ghost Mist Domain and sought news about the human and demon races. He learned that the Northern Region had fallen to the demons and that Daoist Nun Lan Yin had suffered lasting injuries.

• Song Wen searched the Nether God Temple for an ambush, activated its Teleportation Array, and escaped to the Sea of Disorder.
• Blood Brow arrived with Ghost Suanni and Yang Yu, and Yang Yu destroyed the Teleportation Array to prevent Song Wen from returning to the Heavenly Origin Continent.
• Song Wen offered to free the Nether Fox, but kept it in the Ghost Mist Domain because its potential breakthrough might be useful later.
• Six months later, Song Wen met Purple Cloud in Four Symbols City to learn that the human race had lost the Northern Region and both sides were recovering from heavy losses.
• Purple Cloud told Song Wen that Daoist Nun Lan Yin’s nascent soul had been damaged, leaving her cultivation at the nascent soul early stage with little chance of further advancement.

Song Wen learned that Zhu Yin had defected to the Demon Race and heard that Shan Yue had died after years of yearning for him. He then went to Limitless Island under the name Gou Jun to join the Limitless Sect, where his alchemy skills prompted an offer to become an inner sect elder.

• Purple Cloud told Song Wen that Zhu Yin had joined the Demon Race and that Yinshuo was secluded while Ye Hua managed the Limitless Sect’s affairs.
• Purple Cloud said Xing Shan had asked about Song Wen, then invited him to join the Two Forms Sect; Song Wen declined.
• Xing Shan told Song Wen that Shan Yue had died two years earlier from yearning for him, and Song Wen accepted the news without offering comfort.
• Song Wen traveled to Limitless Island and asked to join the Limitless Sect as an outer sect elder under the name Gou Jun.
• After learning that Song Wen was a late Golden Core cultivator skilled in alchemy, a Foundation Establishment cultivator offered him an inner sect elder position and went to notify a sect elder.

Song Wen joined the Limitless Sect as deputy hall master of the Pill Hall after passing Ye Hua’s alchemy assessment. Half a month later, Le Liang visited him, and Song Wen recognized the former elder he had once traded Earthcore Smelting Flame with.

• Song Wen agreed to join the inner sect, and Ye Hua personally assessed him by watching him refine Five-Element Pills.
• Ye Hua judged Song Wen’s alchemy skills exceptional, appointed him deputy hall master of the Pill Hall, and gave him a cluster of Earthcore Smelting Flame.
• Xi Xuan took Song Wen to refine a soul lamp and choose a cave dwelling on West Cloud Peak, where he settled after setting up protective formations.
• Half a month later, Le Liang visited Song Wen, who recognized him as the former outer sect elder from whom he had once obtained information about Five-Colored Gold.

Song Wen learned about the Limitless Sect’s shortage of third-tier alchemists, received an assignment to refine pills for the Cui Family, and began preparing to make Ghost Power Pills. After taking charge of a grade-A alchemy room, he obtained herbs for ten batches and started studying the formula.

• Song Wen learned from Le Liang that the Limitless Sect had lost its third-tier alchemists and that he would receive ten superior spirit stones each month as deputy hall master.
• Le Liang gave Song Wen formulas and quantities for Ghost Shadow Pills, Soul-Returning Pills, and Ghost Power Pills, which the sect would trade to the Cui Family in one year.
• Song Wen decided to have lower-tier alchemists refine the first- and second-tier pills and went to the Pill Hall to arrange the work.
• Song Wen instructed Shu Niang to post a notice for alchemists and prepare a grade-A alchemy room for him.
• Song Wen sent Shu Niang to collect herbs for ten batches of Ghost Power Pills, then accepted them and began studying the formula.

Song Wen organized Pill Hall alchemists for a sect mission, then cultivated Meng Cao’s trust while pursuing access to the Treasure Hall. He entered Meng Lengyu’s secret chamber, where the meeting with the Treasure Hall master was about to begin.

• Song Wen ordered alchemists to meet the sect’s requirements for refining Ghost Shadow Pills and Soul-Returning Pills, but allowed Meng Cao to participate after learning he was Meng Lengyu’s son.
• Song Wen assigned the alchemists pill quotas and rewards, appointed Shu Niang to assist him, and sent her to distribute the work and collect herbs in batches.
• Song Wen spent a month refining Ghost Power Pills and guiding Meng Cao, who finally succeeded in making Soul-Returning Pills.
• Song Wen invited Meng Cao to accompany him to the Treasure Hall and introduce him to Meng Lengyu.
• Meng Lengyu initially blocked Song Wen from entering her secret chamber, but Meng Cao urged her to show courtesy, and she let Song Wen inside.

Song Wen visited Meng Lengyu and bought bone-melting vine from the Treasure Hall for his cultivation needs. When he also asked about corpse baleful essence, Meng Lengyu grew suspicious of his motives.

• Meng Lengyu sent Meng Cao away and explained to Song Wen that his father had been a mortal she used to continue her bloodline.
• Meng Lengyu challenged Song Wen to explain why he had come, and he admitted he wanted to ask about bone-melting vine.
• Meng Lengyu said the Treasure Hall sold bone-melting vine only to Golden Core elders and charged ten superior spirit stones per foot.
• Song Wen paid twenty superior spirit stones for two feet of bone-melting vine and prepared to leave.
• Song Wen asked whether the Treasure Hall had corpse baleful essence, prompting Meng Lengyu to question why a late Golden Core cultivator wanted it.

Song Wen sought more Corpse Baleful Essence and intervened when Pill Hall disciples complained that Shu Niang had withheld herbs from their assignments. After a year of cultivation and pill refining, he visited Le Liang to deliver the Cui Family’s commissioned pills.

• Song Wen learned from Meng Lengyu that the Limitless Sect possessed Corpse Baleful Essence but that she could not access it, and she asked him to look after Meng Cao.
• Chen Liang and other Qi Refinement disciples asked Song Wen to address Shu Niang withholding spiritual herbs needed for their Ghost Shadow Pill assignments.
• Song Wen summoned Shu Niang, struck her for her misconduct, and ordered her to settle the matter with the disciples; Shu Niang returned fifty mid-grade spirit stones to him.
• Song Wen spent the next year cultivating, refining pills, and visiting Shadow City to buy materials for Blood Demon Pills and food for the Shadow Gu.
• Song Wen visited Le Liang and said he had come to deliver the pills commissioned by the Cui Family.

Song Wen handed over the pills to Le Liang and learned that the Limitless Sect was preparing for a possible war with the Demon Race. Seven days later, he joined Meng Lengyu aboard the Star Raft Divine Ark to travel to the Cui Family, while Meng Lengyu wondered why he had bought so much Bone-Melting Vine.

• Song Wen delivered the pills to Le Liang, who confirmed their quantity and quality and told him to accompany Meng Lengyu to the Cui Family to inspect the exchange.
• Le Liang said the Cui Family had been refining vast numbers of living souls and that Ye Hua had ordered the Pill Hall to prepare medicines for a likely human-demon conflict.
• Song Wen learned that Devil Master Yinshuo had been in seclusion for ten years, then voiced support for the Human Race and the Limitless Sect.
• Seven days later, Song Wen boarded the Star Raft Divine Ark at Treasure Peak with Meng Lengyu and ten Foundation Establishment cultivators, and the vessel sped south toward the Cui Family.
• Meng Lengyu thanked Song Wen for saving Meng Cao from Liao Xin a month earlier, then wondered what technique Song Wen was cultivating that required so much Bone-Melting Vine.

Song Wen and Meng Lengyu arrived at Jade Terrace City to complete a transaction with the Cui Family, where Song Wen reunited with Cui Qiao after 120 years. The Cui Family hosted them, but Song Wen suspected something was wrong and noticed a new temple outside the city that had not been there on his previous visit.

• Cui Qiao welcomed the Limitless Sect delegation, and Song Wen concealed his past connection to her by insisting they had never met.
• Cui Xuanjing received the delegation and asked Meng Lengyu and Song Wen to stay because the Cui Family had not prepared all the treasures for their transaction.
• Song Wen suspected the delay and Cui Xuanjing’s recent injury signaled trouble, but Meng Lengyu dismissed his concerns after receiving a private transmission from Cui Xuanjing.
• Cui Qiao hosted Song Wen and Meng Lengyu at Taotie Tower and guided them around Jade Terrace City, where they bought spiritual materials.
• Song Wen asked Cui Qiao about Sun-Moon Temple, a grand temple outside the city that had not existed when he visited more than a hundred years earlier.

Song Wen and Meng Lengyu went to East Peng Peak to complete a treasure exchange with the Cui Family, but learned that the crucial Corpse Baleful Essence was missing. Cui Gu refused to return the Limitless Sect’s treasures and tried to recruit Meng Lengyu with a Primordial Nascent Soul Formation Pill, leaving the transaction on the verge of conflict.

• Cui Qiao told Song Wen and Meng Lengyu that Sun-Moon Temple’s Dingguang Buddha was a Nascent Soul Buddhist cultivator who used his temple to select women as playthings.
• After several days, Cui Qiao escorted Song Wen and Meng Lengyu to East Peng Peak to exchange treasures with Cui Gu.
• Song Wen overheard Meng Lengyu and Cui Gu secretly arguing because the Cui Family had failed to obtain the Corpse Baleful Essence.
• Meng Lengyu canceled the transaction and demanded the return of the Limitless Sect’s treasures, but Cui Gu refused to give them back.
• Cui Gu warned that the Limitless Sect would not risk war over the treasures and offered Meng Lengyu a Primordial Nascent Soul Formation Pill if she joined the Cui Family.

Meng Lengyu refused Cui Gu’s offer to join the Cui Family, and she and Song Wen were placed under house arrest at Guestglow Peak after the deal for Corpse Baleful Essence fell through. Ten days later, Ye Hua arrived in Jade Terrace City and summoned them, leaving their fate in the Cui Family’s hands.

• Cui Gu offered Meng Lengyu a Primordial Nascent Soul Formation Pill to join the Cui Family, but she reaffirmed her loyalty to the Limitless Sect.
• Cui Gu ordered Cui Qiao to escort Meng Lengyu and Song Wen to Guestglow Peak, where guards confined them as honored guests.
• Meng Lengyu explained that the transaction failed because the Cui Family could not provide the ten strands of Corpse Baleful Essence promised for countless living souls.
• Cui Qiao said the Cui Family had found Corpse Baleful Essence but encountered an accident while collecting it, then refused to reveal its location to Song Wen.
• Song Wen told Meng Lengyu that the Cui Family was likely holding them until Ye Hua arrived.
• Ten days later, Ye Hua appeared above Jade Terrace City with two soul lamps and called for Meng Lengyu and Gou Jun to come see him.

Ye Hua confronted Cui Xuanjing over Meng Lengyu and Gou Jun’s detention, then agreed to help the Cui Family retrieve Corpse Baleful Essence from a dangerous seafloor valley. The group reached the valley’s edge, where dense corpse baleful aura obscured everything within.

• Ye Hua demanded an explanation from Cui Xuanjing, and Meng Lengyu revealed that the Cui Family had blocked their departure after failing to produce Corpse Baleful Essence.
• Cui Xuanjing explained that the essence lay in a seafloor valley guarded by demon corpses and a powerful octopus demon, then asked Ye Hua to help trap it.
• Ye Hua agreed to accompany Cui Xuanjing, while the ten Foundation Establishment cultivators stayed behind in Jade Terrace City.
• Cui Xuanjing led Ye Hua, Meng Lengyu, and Song Wen aboard their flying ships to the deep sea, where they descended to the seafloor.
• The group saw a vast, ink-black valley filled with corpse baleful aura that concealed everything within.

Ye Hua followed Cui Xuanjing into a valley to set up a formation to lure out demon corpses and locate the Corpse Baleful Essence. When a hidden snake corpse attacked, Gou Jun risked himself to protect Ye Hua, and Cui Xuanjing killed it before the group continued their mission.

• Cui Xuanjing explained that the octopus demon would not leave the valley and led Ye Hua, Song Wen, and Meng Lengyu inside to set up the Earthly Fiend Demon-Locking Formation.
• Ye Hua planted eight formation flags while Cui Xuanjing killed a demon-fish corpse with an iron needle and warned the others not to use magical power against demon corpses.
• Gou Jun detected a snake corpse hiding near Ye Hua and struck it with the Void-Breaking Blade, then Ye Hua shielded them as the snake emerged.
• Cui Xuanjing killed the snake corpse with his ghost-head saber, and Ye Hua praised Gou Jun and promised him a rich reward.

Cui Xuanjing and Ye Hua lured the octopus demon from its valley lair and attacked it while trying to draw out all eight tentacles so Ye Hua could activate the formation. Song Wen and Meng Lengyu watched from a distance as the battle continued, with the octopus demon still resisting.

• Cui Xuanjing warned the group that their spiritual power might attract more demon corpses, and they left the valley before scattering flesh and blood to lure the creatures.
• Cui Xuanjing killed the fish demon corpses and drew a stronger demon corpse out of the valley, where Ye Hua destroyed it with eighteen iron spikes.
• Cui Xuanjing identified a rotten tentacle as part of the octopus demon and urged Ye Hua to attack until all eight tentacles appeared.
• The octopus demon attacked Cui Xuanjing and Ye Hua with multiple tentacles, then withdrew them after the cultivators wounded it.
• Cui Xuanjing scattered more flesh to lure the octopus demon back, and he and Ye Hua resumed their assault as Song Wen and Meng Lengyu watched with the Cui Family cultivators.

Cui Xuanjing and Ye Hua trapped the octopus demon corpse, then Cui Xuanjing led the Cui Family and Gou Jun into the valley to seek the Corpse Baleful Essence. At the cave entrance, Cui Xuanjing told Gou Jun to remain outside with Cui Gu while the others prepared to enter.

• Cui Xuanjing and Ye Hua used the Earthly Fiend Demon-Locking Formation to bind the octopus demon's eight tentacles.
• Ye Hua required Gou Jun to accompany Cui Xuanjing into the valley, while Cui Xuanjing left Cui Qiao with Ye Hua.
• Cui Xuanjing led the Cui Family cultivators and Gou Jun through the corpse-filled valley, using a Ghost Emperor to clear their path.
• The group reached a deep cave near the valley's center, and Cui Xuanjing ordered Cui Gu to remain outside.
• Cui Xuanjing told Gou Jun to stay outside the cave with Cui Gu while he and the Cui Family entered to retrieve the Corpse Baleful Essence.

Song Wen killed Cui Gu after the Cui Family entered the undersea Cave, then discovered them extracting Corpse Baleful Essence from a Baleful-Devouring Demon Flower. He withdrew without revealing himself and drew a swarm of demon corpses toward the Cave entrance.

• Song Wen persuaded Cui Xuanjing to enter the Cave without him, then killed Cui Gu with a blood tentacle and searched his soul.
• Song Wen entered the Cave and saw Cui Xuanjing and eight Cui Family Golden Core cultivators restraining a Baleful-Devouring Demon Flower while extracting its Corpse Baleful Essence.
• Song Wen inferred that Cui Xuanjing planned to weaken the flower, report some essence to Ye Hua, and capture it alive for its continuing supply of essence.
• Song Wen retreated to the Cave entrance and used the Blood Sea Seal to drive away two demon corpses before spreading a blood scent through the water.
• More than a dozen demon corpses, including the two Song Wen had thrown away, surged toward the Cave entrance.

Song Wen lured demon corpses into the Cave, giving the Baleful-Devouring Demon Flower an opening to escape while Cui Xuanjing fought to contain the disaster. Song Wen tracked down and killed the flower, then stored it and left the valley.

• Song Wen drew two fourth-rank demon corpses into the Cave and hid in a sealed hollow, while the corpses continued toward the cavern hall.
• Cui Xuanjing confronted the snake and turtle corpses, but the Baleful-Devouring Demon Flower shattered the formation with a petal and escaped through the rubble.
• Cui Xuanjing chose to protect his injured clansmen before pursuing the flower, allowing it to vanish back into the undersea valley.
• A Shadow Gu followed the flower, enabling Song Wen to find it and kill it with a single slash.
• Song Wen sealed the flower to preserve its Corpse Baleful Essence, stored it in his ring, and left the valley.

Cui Xuanjing returned from the valley without finding the Baleful-Devouring Demon Flower and gave Ye Hua only five of the ten agreed strands of Corpse Baleful Essence. After returning to the Limitless Sect, Ye Hua met with Yinshuo, who had reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, and rewarded Song Wen with a corpse puppet.

• Cui Xuanjing questioned Song Wen about Cui Gu's disappearance, then confirmed that Song Wen had returned before Cui Gu went missing.
• Cui Xuanjing handed Ye Hua five strands of Corpse Baleful Essence instead of the ten they had agreed upon, and Ye Hua reluctantly let the breach go.
• Ye Hua released the octopus demon, retrieved the nine formation flags, and left the valley with Song Wen and Meng Lengyu.
• Ye Hua learned that Yinshuo had advanced to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage and took Song Wen and Meng Lengyu to congratulate him at Corpse King Peak.
• Yinshuo advised Ye Hua not to quarrel with the Cui Family while the Demon Race threatened, and Ye Hua gave Song Wen a mid-grade corpse-nurturing coffin containing a peak third-rank corpse puppet.

Song Wen received authority from Ye Hua to organize the Pill Hall’s preparations for a possible war between humans and demons. He instructed Shu Niang to secretly withhold ten percent of the alchemists’ herbs and rewards, leaving the consequences to unfold.

• Ye Hua gave Song Wen a Corpse-Nurturing Coffin and put him in charge of producing pills for the sect’s possible war with the Demon Race.
• Yinshuo asked Ye Hua for the corpse baleful essence, but only five wisps remained, enough for one Corpse Puppet.
• Song Wen found Ye Hua’s divine sense imprint on the Corpse Puppet and decided to leave it in his cave abode whenever he handled secret matters.
• Song Wen arranged with Le Liang to take half the Pill Hall’s personnel, then gathered them and appointed Shu Niang to distribute herbs and rewards.
• Song Wen privately ordered Shu Niang to withhold ten percent of every alchemist’s herbs and rewards, telling her to distribute them individually so the alchemists would not cause trouble in public.

Song Wen let Shu Niang withhold the second-tier alchemists’ herbs and rewards, then dismissed their complaints while protecting her from consequences. Four years later, he was summoned to Corpse King Hall, where Purple Cloud of the Two Forms Sect announced that the Demon Race’s attacks threatened humanity’s survival.

• Song Wen gave Shu Niang a defensive artifact and spirit stones to buy a corpse puppet, then assigned the third-tier alchemy work without taking their herbs or rewards.
• Jiang Rui and other second-tier alchemists complained that Shu Niang had withheld a tenth of their herbs and rewards, but Song Wen dismissed them and they abandoned plans to report her to higher authorities.
• Over the next four years, Shu Niang continued giving Song Wen withheld spirit stones, while he cultivated and bought Bone-Melting Vine in small quantities to avoid Meng Lengyu’s suspicion.
• Shu Niang told Song Wen that Ye Hua had personally welcomed a female visitor from the Two Forms Sect, and Song Wen later received Ye Hua’s summons to Corpse King Hall.
• At Corpse King Hall, Ye Hua introduced Purple Cloud as a Nascent Soul Cultivator and said the Demon Race’s attacks on remote Central Region islands threatened to wipe out humanity.

Ye Hua and Yinshuo prepared the Limitless Sect for a joint campaign against the Demon Race after Jiang Lu reported the destruction of his clan’s island. Three months later, the Limitless Sect’s fleet sailed to join the Cui Family and advance toward the Eastern Region.

• Ye Hua questioned the sect halls about their war supplies and ordered them to finish any remaining preparations quickly.
• Jiang Lu reported that the Demon Race had destroyed Sunward Island, killing hundreds of thousands of Jiang Clan members and millions of mortals, and explained that he and Jiang Yan had survived because they were away.
• Yinshuo concluded that a small Demon Race force had raided the island and ordered the Limitless Sect to assemble within three months for an attack on Fangzhu Island, while Purple Cloud left to notify the Two Forms Sect.
• Ye Hua ordered the Limitless Sect’s halls to mobilize their resources and elite disciples, and allowed Jiang Lu and Jiang Yan to stay in the Pill Hall.
• Three months later, the Limitless Sect’s fleet sailed through the Southern Region, joined the Cui Family’s fleet, and headed toward the Eastern Region.

Limitless Sect’s fleet reached Azure Sky Island on its way toward Fangzhu Island, and the Star Raft Divine Ark blasted a ravine through the island. Song Wen’s ship was assigned to clear the remaining demons, leaving him and Jiang Lu approaching a mountain inhabited by intelligent apes.

• Yinshuo agreed to Xuanchengzi’s plan for Limitless Sect and the Cui Family to attack Fangzhu Island from the south while the Two Forms Sect attacked from the east.
• Le Liang questioned why Jiang Lu and Meng Lengyu had brought their young family members to the dangerous Eastern Region, and they explained their reasons.
• Song Wen identified the island ahead as Azure Sky Island and warned the fleet that demons might be stationed there.
• Huang Sheng piloted the Star Raft Divine Ark past Azure Sky Island while its beam tore through the terrain, and Yinshuo ordered the fleet to clear the island thoroughly.
• Ye Hua assigned Meng Lengyu’s ship to the clearing operation, and Song Wen and Jiang Lu joined a group sent toward a mountain where intelligent apes lived in crude treehouses.

Song Wen led the Limitless Sect in wiping out the ape demons and uncovered a hidden cave sheltering their young. Jiang Yan pleaded for the young apes, but after Jiang Lu reminded her of the Demon Race’s slaughter of her clan, she killed them all.

• Song Wen’s corpse puppet killed the mountain’s third-rank ape king and delivered its corpse to him.
• Song Wen discovered a concealed cave where hundreds of young and unborn apes were hidden, then killed the female apes that charged at the ship.
• Jiang Yan asked Song Wen to spare the young apes, but Jiang Lu struck her and condemned her for defending them.
• Jiang Lu threw Jiang Yan into the cave and demanded she kill every young ape to earn his forgiveness.
• Jiang Yan obeyed and slaughtered the young apes, becoming numb as blood covered her.

The Limitless Sect and Cui Family fleets reached Fangzhu Island and began their assault on the Demon Race. Yinshuo and Cui Xuanjing fought Xing Wenyao and the Black Flood Dragon, while Ye Hua ordered the Limitless Sect disciples to form a battle formation to aid Yinshuo.

• Ye Hua announced that the fleets had reached Fangzhu Island and reported that the Two Forms Sect was nearby.
• Yinshuo ordered the Cui Family and Two Forms Sect to prepare for the decisive battle, then led Cui Xuanjing and the fleets toward Fangzhu Island.
• Xing Wenyao confronted Yinshuo and Cui Xuanjing from atop a giant puppet, and their attacks shook the coast.
• Yinshuo sent a corpse-qi hill and a Golden Corpse against Xing Wenyao, while the giant puppet fought the corpse puppet.
• The Black Flood Dragon froze Cui Xuanjing's ghost-head saber with black droplets, preventing him from joining Yinshuo's fight.
• Ye Hua ordered the Limitless Sect disciples to form the Ten Directions Heavenly Demon Formation and assist Yinshuo.