Recaps

Ye Hua, Yinshuo, and Cui Xuanjing pressed their attack against Xing Wenyao and Zhu Yin, but a report that the Two Forms Sect had been forced to retreat made their side withdraw from the battle. Ye Hua led the Limitless Sect and Cui Family southeast while Yinshuo and Cui Xuanjing covered the retreat.

• Ye Hua used the Ten Directions Heavenly Demon Formation to attack Xing Wenyao, and Zhu Yin protected Xing Wenyao with the Nine Luminaries Profound Spirit Formation.
• Yinshuo and Ye Hua combined their attacks against Zhu Yin's formation, but Xing Wenyao took control of its formation disk and strengthened its defense.
• A Limitless Sect messenger reported that the Two Forms Sect had retreated after Wind Eagle and Yuan Hao intercepted them, so Ye Hua ordered his forces to withdraw.
• Ye Hua led the Limitless Sect and Cui Family southeast, while Yinshuo and Cui Xuanjing broke away from their opponents and retreated after exchanging taunts with Xing Wenyao.

Song Wen watched Zhu Yin depart while considering how to kill Yinshuo and Ye Hua, and Zhu Yin warned Xing Wenyao that defeating the strongest human cultivators could doom the human race. On Yangning Island, the human powers gathered to discuss their retreat and the four powerful ferocious beasts controlled by an unknown enemy.

• Song Wen watched Zhu Yin's ship disappear and resolved to wait for an opportunity to ambush Yinshuo before attacking Ye Hua.
• Xing Wenyao promised Zhu Yin that Yinshuo would die, but Zhu Yin cautioned that Xuanchengzi could make the demon alliance's plans difficult.
• Xing Wenyao admitted he sought rare resources from the Demon Race to reach Spirit Transformation, even if the human race perished.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivators of the Two Forms Sect, Limitless Sect, and Cui Family gathered on Yangning Island after retreating from Fangzhu Island.
• Xuanchengzi explained that four powerful fourth-order ferocious beasts had forced his sect to withdraw, and the gathered cultivators discussed finding their hidden controller.

Ye Hua and the other leaders devised a plan to lure out fourth-rank demons by sending Golden Core cultivators to infiltrate Fangzhu Island and hunt third-rank demons. Jiang Lu, Meng Lengyu, and Song Wen volunteered and set off separately under the leaders’ watch, leaving the mission’s outcome uncertain.

• Cui Xuanjing proposed sending Golden Core cultivators to Fangzhu Island to kill third-rank demons and draw out fourth-rank demons for capture.
• Ye Hua announced that the three major forces would each send three Golden Core cultivators, and promised rewards to those who killed three third-rank demons.
• Jiang Lu volunteered and asked Ye Hua to protect and accept his granddaughter Jiang Yan as a personal disciple if he did not return.
• Meng Lengyu and Song Wen volunteered in exchange for Primordial Nascent Soul Formation Pills.
• Song Wen, Jiang Lu, and Meng Lengyu agreed to split up near Fangzhu Island and departed in different directions.
• Ye Hua, Yinshuo, Cui Xuanjing, Xuanchengzi, and Daoist Yunxu watched over the nine infiltrators’ soul lamps from above.

Song Wen secretly met Zhu Yin through a communication jade slip and learned why the Two Forms Sect had retreated from Fangzhu Island. Meanwhile, the human cultivators tracked Gou Jun’s soul lamp and saw that he was moving toward them, possibly with a fourth-rank demon in pursuit.

• Song Wen landed on Fangzhu Island in disguise and contacted Zhu Yin, who warned that demons were watching her and she could not meet him in person.
• Song Wen offered to help Zhu Yin kill Yinshuo, but Zhu Yin worried that Yinshuo’s death during battle would endanger the human army.
• Zhu Yin revealed that she had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage by taking an Essence Exchange Pill from Xing Wenyao, which harmed her foundation and shortened her lifespan.
• Zhu Yin explained that the Demon Race had used Essence Exchange Pills to advance two peak third-rank Merfolk and had them control four fourth-rank ferocious beasts, forcing the Two Forms Sect to retreat.
• Yunxu and the other human cultivators watched Gou Jun’s soul lamp shift toward them and hoped a fourth-rank demon was chasing him.

Song Wen returned from his mission after telling Ye Hua and the other Nascent Soul cultivators that two fourth-rank Merfolk had appeared among the Demon Race. On Yangning Island, Le Liang told him that Jiang Yan had been killed by Meng Cao, despite Ye Hua’s promise to protect her.

• Song Wen met Ye Hua and four other Nascent Soul cultivators, who questioned him about his mission and the three third-rank demon beasts he had killed.
• Song Wen claimed that a tiger demon had revealed the Demon Race had recently produced two fourth-rank Merfolk, prompting the cultivators to discuss the news after he left.
• Song Wen returned to Yangning Island, where Le Liang told him that Jiang Yan had died.
• Song Wen asked how Jiang Yan had been killed, and Le Liang named Meng Cao.

Song Wen learned that Meng Cao had killed Jiang Yan after attempting to assault her, and the sect’s disciples demanded justice. When the Demon Venerable Ye Hua returned, he heard the details, saw Jiang Yan’s body, and turned his killing intent toward Meng Cao’s cabin.

• Le Liang told Song Wen that Meng Cao had beaten Jiang Yan to death and was imprisoned while the sect awaited the return of Yinshuo and Ye Hua.
• Song Wen meditated near Meng Cao’s cabin and saw that disciples had gathered outside it, while Meng Cao remained confident that Meng Lengyu would protect him.
• Yinshuo, Ye Hua, and the returning cultivators arrived at Yangning Island after the failed mission had cost three Golden Core cultivators their lives, including Jiang Lu.
• Foundation Establishment disciples knelt and demanded that Ye Hua punish Meng Cao, and Ye Hua questioned them about Jiang Yan’s death.
• Le Liang presented Jiang Yan’s body to Ye Hua, who confirmed that Meng Cao had killed her and fixed a blade-sharp gaze on his cabin.

Ye Hua killed Meng Cao for killing Jiang Yan despite Meng Lengyu’s pleas, then led the Limitless Sect toward Fangzhu Island. As the human fleet approached the Demon Race’s defenses, it changed course to attack a weaker point.

• Meng Lengyu begged Ye Hua to spare Meng Cao, but Ye Hua exposed him and condemned him after Meng Cao admitted Jiang Yan’s death was an accident.
• Meng Lengyu tried to shield Meng Cao from Ye Hua’s attack, but the strike killed Meng Cao and shattered his soul; she collected the blood mist in a jade bottle.
• Ye Hua ordered the Limitless Sect to board its flying ships and march on Fangzhu Island, while Song Wen received instructions to watch Meng Lengyu.
• The human fleet approached Fangzhu Island, then changed direction to attack a weak point in the Demon Race’s defenses and avoid the previous trap near the shore.

The human army attacked Fangzhu Island, but the Demon Race’s forces blocked its advance. The battle ended in a stalemate, with the human ships pinned down and unable to move forward or retreat.

• Yuan Hao unleashed a towering tidal wave at the human flying ships, and Yinshuo countered with corpse qi before their attacks clashed over Profound Yin Heavy Water.
• Wind Eagle attacked Xuanchengzi with Azure Nether Astral Wind, but Xuanchengzi’s Eight Trigrams diagram repelled its giant blade.
• Ye Hua ordered Yunxu and Cui Xuanjing to handle the Blood Shadow Mosquito Dragons and led the Limitless Sect in activating the Ten Directions Heavenly Demon Formation against Xing Wenyao.
• Xing Wenyao used a green wooden ruler to summon vines that briefly bound the formation phantom before it broke free and destroyed them.
• Purple Cloud, Daoist Nun Lan Yin, Daoist Yunxu, Jing Yuanliang, and Cui Xuanjing struggled to hold off the four poisonous Blood Shadow Mosquito Dragons, leaving the human fleet pinned down near Fangzhu Island.

The Human Race used formations and a feigned assault to conceal Daoist Yunxu’s attack on two Merfolk controlling the Blood Shadow Mosquito Dragons. With the dragons turning on the Demon Race and a Cloud Eagle slain, the battle’s advantage shifted to the Human Race as its Nascent Soul Cultivators counterattacked.

• The Black Flood Dragon, Zhu Yin, and three fourth-rank demons joined the battle, while Purple Cloud withdrew and activated the Two Forms Sect’s Five-Element Reversal Formation.
• Yunxu covered the retreat of Cui Xuanjing, Lan Yin, and Jing Yuanliang, but a Blood Shadow Mosquito Dragon drained what appeared to be his body; Xing Wenyao recognized it as an avatar.
• Xing Wenyao ordered Zhu Yin, the Blood Shadow Mosquito Dragons, and the demons to attack Yinshuo and Xuanchengzi while he held off Ye Hua’s Ten Directions Heavenly Demon Formation.
• The Blood Shadow Mosquito Dragons suddenly attacked Zhu Yin and the demons, killing a Cloud Eagle, then fled as Xing Wenyao tried to stop them.
• Daoist Yunxu emerged from the sea with the heads of two fourth-rank Merfolk, revealing that he had killed the creatures controlling the Blood Shadow Mosquito Dragons.
• The Cui Family and Two Forms Sect dropped their defensive formations, and their five Nascent Soul Cultivators charged the remaining Demon Race leaders.

Meng Lengyu’s attack on the Limitless Sect’s warship disrupted the Ten Directions Heavenly Demon Formation and forced Ye Hua and Yunxu to fight Xing Wenyao without its support. As Song Wen fled toward Yinshuo, his disguise was exposed when his aura suddenly rose to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Meng Lengyu stopped activating the rune and killed nearly a hundred cultivators aboard the warship, weakening the Ten Directions Heavenly Demon Formation.
• Ye Hua tried to attack Meng Lengyu, but Xing Wenyao’s vines drove him back until Yunxu joined him to fend off the assault.
• Song Wen abandoned his corpse puppet and fled as Meng Lengyu pursued him, striking his Origin-Returning Sha Qi shield with her Soul-Breaking Awl.
• Yuan Hao blocked Yinshuo’s attacks on Meng Lengyu and raised a water wall to separate her from Song Wen, forcing her to turn toward the demon.
• Yinshuo shattered Yuan Hao’s wave to protect Song Wen, then ordered him to retreat from the battle.
• Song Wen smiled strangely as his aura surged to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

Song Wen fought Yinshuo while disguised as Gou Jun, using corpse puppets, Blood Tide, lightning, and Soul-Concentrating Spikes. After his divine-sense attack failed and Yinshuo seemingly killed him, Song Wen used the Life-Substitution Technique to strike from behind, kill Yinshuo, and capture his soul; the human and demon fighters then turned their attention to him.

• Yinshuo sent a peak fourth-order corpse puppet against Song Wen, who countered with two peak fourth-order corpse puppets and advanced through a Blood Tide.
• Song Wen's blood-path avatar was destroyed by Yinshuo's flying wheel, but Song Wen emerged from the Blood Tide and countered Yinshuo's corpse qi with lightning.
• Song Wen attacked Yinshuo with nine Soul-Concentrating Spikes, but Yinshuo's talisman shield blocked them, and Yinshuo battered Song Wen with his flying wheel and Blood Coffin.
• Yinshuo's Blood Coffin shredded Song Wen, but Song Wen reappeared behind him and stabbed him with a short blade, then imprisoned his soul with a Binding Soul Technique.
• Yinshuo's death drew the attention of both armies, and Yuan Hao recalled the Profound Yin Heavy Water to avoid injuring Song Wen.

Song Wen revealed his identity as Extreme Yin and killed Yinshuo, then sent his corpse puppets to kill Ye Hua as humanity’s defenders struggled against the demon forces. The human cultivators retreated into the Five-Element Reversal Formation, but Yunxu remained trapped by Xing Wenyao while Xuanchengzi fought to protect him.

• Zhu Yin and the cultivators witnessed Song Wen kill Yinshuo, and Zhu Yin felt her revenge was complete.
• Purple Cloud accused Song Wen of betraying humanity, but he said his grudge with Yinshuo was personal and flew toward Ye Hua.
• Xing Wenyao attacked Ye Hua, but Xuanchengzi shielded him from the Purple Palace Divine Thunder with an Eight Trigrams Diagram.
• Song Wen’s two corpse puppets ambushed Ye Hua and killed him before he could escape.
• Purple Cloud completed the Five-Element Reversal Formation as Xing Wenyao trapped Yunxu, forcing Xuanchengzi to defend himself against Yuan Hao and the Wind Eagle.

Song Wen attacked the Black Flood Dragon and fought off Yuan Hao while Zhu Yin and Xing Wenyao struck each other down in a fatal exchange. He fled with Zhu Yin’s body to a remote island, where he began searching and devouring Ye Hua’s remaining soul, blood essence, and mana.

• Song Wen attacked the Black Flood Dragon with Soul-Concentrating Spikes, then sent a corpse puppet after it as Yuan Hao attacked him with a trident.
• Song Wen met Yuan Hao’s attack with violet lightning and declared he needed no reason to kill the Black Flood Dragon.
• Zhu Yin ambushed Xing Wenyao, but his counterattack destroyed her dantian and Nascent Soul as his chest was badly wounded.
• Yunxu and Xuanchengzi retreated into the Five-Element Reversal Formation, while Song Wen sealed Zhu Yin’s broken body in a corpse coffin and fled with his corpse puppets.
• Song Wen reached an uninhabited island, set up defenses, searched Ye Hua’s soul, and began devouring his soul, blood essence, and mana.

Song Wen devoured Ye Hua’s and Yinshuo’s cultivation, breaking through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage before destroying Yinshuo’s soul at Zhu Yin’s request. Zhu Yin then refused possession, asked Song Wen to save the human race to atone for her sins, and vanished.

• Song Wen used Ye Hua’s and Yinshuo’s spiritual power to break through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Song Wen awakened Zhu Yin’s soul and let her confront Yinshuo, whose soul he had imprisoned.
• Yinshuo begged Song Wen and Zhu Yin for another chance, but Zhu Yin demanded that Song Wen destroy him.
• Song Wen shattered Yinshuo’s soul with repeated Soul-Concentrating Spikes.
• Zhu Yin refused to possess another body and asked Song Wen to save the human race before her soul vanished.

Song Wen returned after advancing to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and demanded Xing Wenyao’s life, while the Human Race remained trapped inside the besieged Five-Element Reversal Formation. Wind Eagle agreed not to intervene, but Yuan Hao and Wind Eagle attacked Song Wen after Xing Wenyao was caught in his sea of blood.

• The Demon Race continued attacking the Five-Element Reversal Formation as its defenders struggled to recover and maintain it.
• Song Wen arrived in a sea of blood, and Yuan Hao and Wind Eagle noticed he had advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Song Wen demanded Xing Wenyao’s life, and Wind Eagle withdrew from the conflict after Song Wen said he would not interfere in the war between the races.
• Wind Eagle reminded Xing Wenyao that he was human too, then Song Wen attacked him as the other demons moved away.
• Xing Wenyao fled Song Wen’s blood wave, but Song Wen’s lightning and sea of blood trapped him despite his vines and humanoid puppet.
• Xing Wenyao called for help, and Wind Eagle and Yuan Hao launched a giant wind blade and a blue dragon at Song Wen’s sea of blood.

Song Wen used his supreme-grade Law Treasure and zombie strength to fight Yuan Hao, Wind Eagle, and Xing Wenyao. With the human Nascent Soul Cultivators holding off the two demons, Song Wen killed Xing Wenyao and devoured his soul.

• Song Wen summoned the twelve corpse coffins and used their giant corpse phantom to repel Yuan Hao and Wind Eagle's combined attack.
• Xing Wenyao attacked Song Wen with vines, but Song Wen shattered them and countered with a black spear formed from corpse qi.
• Xuanchengzi blocked Xing Wenyao with a Bagua barrier, then led the human Nascent Soul Cultivators to hold off Yuan Hao and Wind Eagle.
• Song Wen put away the corpse coffins and attacked Xing Wenyao with a lightning-wreathed short lance before closing in to strike.
• Xing Wenyao's Soul-Concentrating Spikes failed to injure Song Wen, who crushed Xing Wenyao's head and dantian, destroyed his Nascent Soul, and devoured his soul.

After Xing Wenyao died, Yuan Hao and the Wind Eagle tried to escape the battle, but Song Wen intervened. Yuan Hao was surrounded while Song Wen pursued and killed the Wind Eagle, leaving the Demon Race’s forces in danger of collapse.

• Xuanchengzi warned Yuan Hao that fleeing would abandon the Tidal Demons gathered on Fangzhu Island, and Yuan Hao hesitated while the Wind Eagle escaped.
• The Wind Eagle used a tornado to shove Yuan Hao into the path of Song Wen’s lightning-wrapped short lance, but the others surrounded Yuan Hao as the Wind Eagle fled.
• Song Wen pursued the Wind Eagle with lightning and his short lance, forcing it to defend against repeated attacks and slow down.
• The Wind Eagle attacked Song Wen with its beak and claws, but Song Wen’s two peak fourth-order corpse puppets seized its claws and dragged it down.
• Song Wen stabbed the Wind Eagle’s lower jaw with the Soul-Splitting Blade, and its metallic sharp qi shattered the Wind Eagle’s skull, killing it.

Song Wen helped defeat the remaining demons after Yuan Hao self-destructed, then recovered Xing Wenyao’s puppet. As the survivors discussed Zhu Yin’s sacrifice, Xuanchengzi promised to clear her name and honor her, easing Song Wen’s anger.

• Yuan Hao declared that the Demon Race would never surrender and self-destructed, forcing Xuanchengzi and Song Wen to shield their allies from the blast.
• Song Wen trapped and killed the Heaven-Burning Eagle and Twin-Wing Silver Tiger in the Blood Sea Seal, then recovered and shrank Xing Wenyao’s humanoid puppet.
• Purple Cloud and Daoist Lan Yin thanked Song Wen and asked after Zhu Yin, and he told them she had chosen reincarnation rather than seizing a body.
• Yunxu blamed himself for Zhu Yin’s death, provoking Song Wen’s killing intent, but Song Wen insisted she had sacrificed herself to protect the human race.
• Xuanchengzi promised that the Two Forms Sect would clear Zhu Yin’s name, publicize her deeds, and erect a monument and statue in her honor, calming Song Wen.

Song Wen accepted leadership of the Limitless Sect after Xuanchengzi and Cui Xuanjing declared him its new Devil Master. The human powers divided the recovered territories, and Song Wen set out to pursue the fleeing Meng Lengyu.

• Xuanchengzi and Cui Xuanjing named Song Wen the Limitless Sect’s new Devil Master, and Shu Niang and the sect disciples bowed to him.
• Song Wen promised to protect the sect’s disciples, and the six Nascent Soul Cultivators congratulated him.
• Xuanchengzi proposed returning the Northern Region to the Jing Family and dividing the Eastern Region among four powers, but Cui Xuanjing and Song Wen demanded territory for their own factions.
• Xuanchengzi agreed that the Limitless Sect would take half the Northern Region, the Jing Family the other half, the Cui Family thirty percent of the Eastern Region, and the Two Forms Sect the remaining seventy percent.
• Song Wen learned that Meng Lengyu had fled toward Fangzhu Island and ordered Fang Xian to send the disciples to pursue and kill her.

Song Wen led the Limitless Sect’s fleet toward Fangzhu Island, harvesting demons and capturing Meng Lengyu, whom he sentenced to death. The fleet then encountered a primitive settlement cultivating spirit herbs, and one of its ships smashed through the valley’s formation.

• Shu Niang joined Song Wen, and Song Wen appointed Fang Xian Sect Master of the Limitless Sect.
• Song Wen used Meng Lengyu’s meditation cushion to track her to a lake, where Blood Tide broke through her hiding place and dragged her aboard.
• Meng Lengyu recognized Song Wen as Devil Master Extreme Yin and pleaded for her life, but Song Wen ordered her executed.
• Song Wen’s fleet advanced toward Fangzhu City, slaughtering demons as the Limitless Sect disciples and the Two Forms Sect gathered their materials.
• The fleet found a valley of spirit-herb fields and thatched huts, and a spindle-shaped ship shattered the formation surrounding it.

Song Wen’s Limitless Sect harvested a spirit field on the way to Fangzhu Island and fed its brainwashed inhabitants to their spirit beasts. After arriving at Fangzhu City, Song Wen let the Shadow Gu begin its advancement to the fourth rank, risking exposure before the other sects.

• Song Wen stopped a Limitless Sect disciple from killing the old man guarding Wind Eagle’s spirit fields and questioned him about his origins.
• Fang Xian identified Human Pen Island as a Demon Race breeding ground, and Song Wen ordered the old man’s people fed to the disciples’ spirit beasts.
• The Limitless Sect harvested the valley’s spirit herbs and soil, then continued to Fangzhu Island, where the Two Forms Sect and Cui Family were already searching the ruins.
• Song Wen told Fang Xian to send the disciples searching for Demon Race treasures and asked Xuanchengzi about the treasure vault.
• Song Wen sensed that the Shadow Gu was about to advance, released it from his body, and fed it the Black Flood Dragon’s corpse while gathering spiritual energy with a Spirit-Gathering Formation.

Song Wen fed the Shadow Gu the Black Flood Dragon’s corpse and traded its reverse scale and the Wind Eagle’s talons to Xuanchengzi for the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar Technique and a short blade. He learned the technique required rare materials, while Cui Qiao silently resolved to avenge her grandfather’s death, which she believed was connected to him.

• Song Wen fed the Shadow Gu more than half of the Black Flood Dragon’s corpse as it advanced, while Cui Qiao recognized the Gu and privately blamed Song Wen for her grandfather Cui Gu’s death.
• Yunxu offered spirit stones for the Black Flood Dragon’s reverse scale, but Song Wen demanded the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar Technique instead.
• Xuanchengzi proposed exchanging the technique for the reverse scale and the Wind Eagle’s talons, and Song Wen asked for a high-grade magic treasure short blade as well.
• Xuanchengzi gave Song Wen the Dao Treasury Blade, and Song Wen traded him the reverse scale and the Wind Eagle’s two talons.
• Song Wen examined the jade slip and learned that the avatar technique created a puppet with forty percent of its user’s strength, but required rare Golden Essence Seed and Dark Orchid Wood.

Song Wen obtained Dark Orchid Wood and learned that the Cui Family’s Nethermoon Valley held Golden Essence Seeds, then returned to Limitless Island after the human forces defeated the Demon Race’s fourth-order experts. He left Limitless Sect’s affairs to Fang Xian and went into seclusion at Three Corpse Peak.

• Yunxu gave Song Wen a piece of Dark Orchid Wood and told him Golden Essence Seeds were rare and could be found in the outer seas.
• After the Shadow Gu devoured the Black Flood Dragon and much of the Wind Eagle, Song Wen ordered Limitless Sect to return to Limitless Island.
• Cui Xuanjing told Song Wen that Golden Essence Seeds grew in Nethermoon Valley and invited his sect to send cultivators when the secret realm opened in eleven years.
• The Cui Family and Limitless Sect parted ways, and Song Wen traveled back to Limitless Island while monitoring the Shadow Gu and tempering his spiritual power.
• Fang Xian told Ye Yan that the human race had defeated the Demon Race’s fourth-order experts and that Song Wen now governed Limitless Sect.
• Song Wen assigned the sect’s affairs to Fang Xian, ordered him to take over the sect’s share of the Northern Region, and went into seclusion at Three Corpse Peak.

Song Wen's Gu insect advanced to the initial fourth tier while Song Wen continued stabilizing his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation. When Nethermoon Valley opened, Fang Xian entered seeking a Golden Essence Seed but returned gravely injured and empty-handed, accusing the Cui Family of sabotaging him.

• Song Wen guarded his Gu insect as it absorbed vast amounts of spiritual energy, and it advanced to the initial fourth tier.
• Song Wen spent eleven years tempering his cultivation but still needed two or three more years to stabilize his spiritual power.
• Fang Xian asked to enter Nethermoon Valley for a Golden Essence Seed, and Song Wen gave him third-tier lightning talismans and two Yin Spring Stones to obtain Ghost-Breath Talismans.
• Two months after entering Nethermoon Valley, Fang Xian returned seriously injured without the Golden Essence Seed and told Song Wen that the Cui Family had sabotaged him.

Song Wen learned that the Cui Family had taken the Golden Essence Seeds and sent Fang Xian to obtain one, then spent four years mastering the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar Technique and stabilizing his cultivation. After emerging from seclusion, he gathered herbs for Blood Demon Pills and set out to settle an old grudge.

• Fang Xian told Song Wen that the Golden Essence Seeds had been harvested, and Song Wen ordered him to offer five low-grade Spirit Stones for one seed, threatening to visit Jade Terrace City if Cui Xuanjing refused.
• A month later, Fang Xian returned with a Golden Essence Seed after invoking Song Wen’s threat during a bidding contest with Senior Purple Cloud of Two Forms Sect; Song Wen rewarded him with the Primordial Nascent Soul Formation Pill.
• Four years later, Song Wen had mastered the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar Technique and refined an avatar puppet that looked and felt exactly like him, though his Shadow King Gu recognized the difference.
• Song Wen emerged from seclusion and asked Shu Niang to collect spirit herbs, obtaining four hundred sets for making Blood Demon Pills.
• Song Wen told Shu Niang he would be away and said he was going to settle an old grudge.