Recaps

Song Wen discovered that Blood Brow had destroyed the Teleportation Array connecting Reef Island to the Heavenly Origin Continent, leaving him stranded in the Sea of Disorder. Suspecting Dingguang Buddha was actually Xugeng and knew another route between the lands, he flew to Azure Treasure Island and investigated the Sun-Moon Temple, whose interior was concealed by an array.

• Song Wen attempted to teleport from Reef Island, but the array failed; he concluded Blood Brow had destroyed the array at the other end.
• Song Wen questioned Nether Fox about other arrays and ruins, then realized Dingguang Buddha might be Xugeng and know another Teleportation Array.
• Song Wen flew to Azure Treasure Island and approached East Creek Mountain, where devotees made pilgrimages to the Sun-Moon Temple.
• Song Wen concealed his cultivation aura and examined the array barrier around East Creek Mountain, which distorted Divine Sense and concealed the temple's true situation.

Song Wen learned that Dingguang Buddha’s recruitment of three thousand devout men and virtuous women was a scheme run by disguised cultivators, and he decided to use the selection to infiltrate East Creek Mountain. After overhearing the city officials discuss the dangers, he found a way to enter the chosen group.

• Song Wen saw two female Foundation Establishment cultivators impersonate monks and use Worry-Free Grass to make believers think Dingguang Buddha had manifested.
• The disguised cultivators announced that three thousand young, handsome, intelligent virgins would be selected to receive Buddhist teachings at East Creek Mountain.
• Song Wen suspected Dingguang Buddha was Xugeng and decided that infiltrating the mountain would give him a chance to launch a surprise attack.
• Song Wen entered Guanling City as the recruitment spread, then saw a notice that the city lord’s residence would begin selecting candidates the next day.
• Song Wen overheard City Lord Miao, General Wang, and Master Jiang discuss Sun-Moon Temple’s selections and their suspicion that those chosen would not survive.
• Song Wen devised a plan to infiltrate the three thousand candidates.

Song Wen disguised himself as Fang Pengyi and passed Guanling City’s initial selection for Dingguang Buddha’s disciples. After City Lord Miao announced a scripture-memorization test for the next day, Xu Yan asked Song Wen to help him during the examination.

• Song Wen registered as Fang Pengyi, claimed to be from Sifang Village, and received token No. 4,952.
• A soldier escorted Song Wen to the barracks, where thousands of candidates gathered after passing the initial selection.
• City Lord Miao announced that candidates had to memorize and comprehend the Lotus Sutra overnight, with the top three thousand men and women advancing to East Creek Mountain.
• Xu Yan introduced himself to Song Wen and asked to borrow answers during the scripture examination.

Song Wen agreed to let Xu Yan copy his Lotus Sutra during the assessment, while keeping his own submission limited to a thousand characters. After the assessment, the two waited for the results, unaware that widespread cheating had gone unnoticed.

• Xu Yan introduced himself to Song Wen and offered his family’s protection in exchange for help on the assessment.
• Song Wen calmly ate breakfast before Xu Yan hurried him to the examination grounds.
• Xu Yan secured two central seats, and Song Wen wrote more than a thousand characters before letting Xu Yan copy them.
• Xu Yan finished his own submission by copying Song Wen’s work, while many others also cheated without being caught.
• After the assessment, Song Wen explained that he had written only enough to pass and told Xu Yan to wait for the results.

Song Wen and Xu Yan passed the selection and entered East Creek Mountain with the other chosen candidates. There they found that newcomers were expected to farm and recite scriptures while waiting to see whether the temple would select them for the mountain above.

• Song Wen and Xu Yan ranked among the top three thousand men, and Miao Sheng dismissed the unsuccessful candidates.
• Miao Sheng led the selected three thousand men and three thousand women to East Creek Mountain, escorted by a thousand soldiers.
• Two novice monks opened the formation barrier and admitted only the selected candidates.
• After crossing the misty passage, the candidates found rice fields, wooden houses, and a Buddhist hall rather than the temples they had expected.
• Qu Xin told the newcomers that those with deep spiritual roots were taken to the mountain above, while the rest had to attend scripture lessons and work in the fields.

Qu Xin’s new recruits learned they would have to work at the foot of the mountain, while Xugeng, posing as Buddhist Master Dingguang, summoned thirty people to his pavilion and slaughtered them when they resisted. The newcomers still hoped to be chosen, and Qu Xin was left watching another group leave without him.

• Qu Xin ordered the recruits to choose huts, cook, and work instead of expecting to receive Buddhist teachings.
• Xugeng summoned thirty people to his lavish pavilion and demanded that the women undress.
• After one young man challenged him, Xugeng beheaded him, drank his blood, and killed the other twenty-nine in a burst of force.
• Xugeng told Yan Yao that he would not approach new recruits until they had lived at the mountain’s foot for a month and shed their mortal aura.
• Qu Xin watched the thirty people depart with desolation, while the new recruits eagerly began cleaning their huts and preparing food.

After a month of Buddhist services and chores, Song Wen and nine others were chosen and brought before Buddhist Master Dingguang, whom Song Wen recognized as Xugeng. Xugeng announced a character test that left Song Wen and the others stunned, ordering them to crawl and bark like dogs.

• Song Wen and Xu Yan discussed how eagerly they hoped to be chosen to meet Buddhist Master Dingguang.
• Ten pillars of light selected Song Wen, Xu Yan, and eight others, carrying them through hidden barriers to a mountain plaza with an ancient Buddha statue.
• Xugeng emerged from the statue, and Song Wen recognized him as the cultivator who had possessed Mi Hai.
• Bao Dan and the other nine declared their resolve to pursue Buddhist Dharma and submit to Xugeng's test.
• Xugeng ordered all ten to crawl on all fours and bark like dogs, prompting Song Wen to suspect that Xugeng had become perverse.

Song Wen watched as Xugeng tested the group with cruel humiliations and killed Xu Yan after he stood up for Bao Dan. When Xugeng seized Bao Dan, Song Wen saw his chance to attack.

• Mi Fu barked to win Xugeng's favor, but he took her away and returned her battered after she failed his test.
• Xugeng ordered Bao Dan to strip, and Xu Yan intervened to defend her dignity.
• Xugeng shifted the group into a hall, dragged Xu Yan to him, and killed him to drink his blood.
• Grief-stricken, Bao Dan attacked Xugeng, but he pulled her into his arms and moved to kiss her.
• Song Wen recognized the moment as his best opportunity to kill Xugeng.

Song Wen ambushed Xugeng, but Xugeng's bronze ring and powerful techniques thwarted his attacks. After Song Wen broke Xugeng's shield with the Soul-Splitting Blade, Xugeng activated a formation that trapped Song Wen before a towering black monster.

• Song Wen attacked Xugeng with the Dao Treasury Blade and Purple Palace Divine Thunder, but Xugeng's bronze ring blocked both.
• Song Wen used a blood tide and a Blood Shadow Clone to evade the ring's attacks, while Xugeng bombarded the tide until Song Wen's true body was exposed.
• Song Wen used the Life-Substitution Technique to survive Xugeng's attack, then struck Xugeng's shield with the Soul-Splitting Blade and shattered it.
• Xugeng activated a formation plate, distorting the surroundings and revealing a hundred-zhang black monster that stomped toward Song Wen.

Song Wen overcame Xugeng’s illusion array and cornered him beneath the ruins of East Creek Mountain. Xugeng agreed to lead Song Wen to a teleportation array, but as they exchanged the array disc, both men revealed hostile intent.

• A black hole cleared Song Wen’s mind, letting him see through Xugeng’s illusion and withstand the monster’s attack.
• Song Wen flooded the array with blood, found Xugeng hiding in a cave beneath East Creek Mountain, and destroyed the mountain to expose him.
• Song Wen demanded Xugeng’s teleportation array disc and learned that the array was at the bottom of the sea in the Southern Region.
• Song Wen and Xugeng recognized each other’s identities and exchanged false pleasantries while agreeing to end their fight.
• Xugeng deactivated the array and tossed Song Wen the disc, but both men’s eyes flashed coldly as Song Wen reached for it.

Song Wen outmaneuvered Xugeng, forcing him to surrender the teleportation array’s location and control method. Xugeng revealed that the Divine Blood Sect came from the Upper Realm and had been sent to create the Nether Fox, leaving Song Wen with new questions about the Ghost Mist Domain and the divine beasts.

• Xugeng trapped a Song Wen incarnation with the Mount Tai Ring, but the real Song Wen emerged from the rubble with twelve corpse coffins and attacked him with a giant corpse phantom.
• Song Wen surrounded Xugeng with three Golden Corpse puppets and warned that they could kill him if he used the ring, while his Life-Substitution Technique would prevent Xugeng from killing him.
• Xugeng gave Song Wen a Jade Slip containing the teleportation array’s location in a Southern Region deep-sea trench and instructions for controlling it.
• Song Wen asked about the Divine Blood Sect, and Xugeng explained that he and two other Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators had descended from the Upper Realm and founded it.
• Xugeng revealed that the group had been ordered to create a creature able to survive in source qi, eventually producing the Nether Fox, and had brought juvenile divine beasts from the Upper Realm.

Song Wen learned that Xugeng was a second Primordial Spirit who had stayed in the lower realm to escape being devoured by his powerful main body. Xugeng explained how he was trapped in the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall, possessed Mi Hai, and finally escaped, leaving Song Wen with the mysteries of the Divine Blood Sect largely resolved.

• Xugeng told Song Wen that the Divine Blood Sect created the Nether Fox hybrid in the lower realm, then abandoned the sect and sacrificed most of its members.
• Xugeng revealed that he was a second Primordial Spirit controlled by a main body in the upper realm, and that he stayed behind to avoid being devoured and having his memories taken.
• Xugeng explained that his main body had reached Great Ascension before descending and likely advanced to Tribulation Transcendence, with a lifespan long enough to survive tens of thousands of years.
• Xugeng recounted how Shen Dong tried to use a safeguard to control him, but Xugeng ambushed Shen Dong and caused him to be forcibly sent back to the upper realm.
• Shen Dong's attack nearly destroyed Xugeng's puppet body, forcing him to hide in the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall until he could possess Mi Hai and escape.
• Xugeng explained that he had waited thousands of years for cultivators to reach the hall and that Mi Hai's memories revealed why Song Wen and the others had entered the Divine Blood Hall.

Xugeng explained how Fallen Immortal Blood could aid Spirit Transformation before attempting to devour Song Wen’s soul. Song Wen’s black hole suppressed Xugeng, and Song Wen dismantled the illusion array over East Creek Mountain and flew away.

• Xugeng told Song Wen that Fallen Immortal Blood contained Profound Spirit Qi that could help fuse the three souls, and said he suspected the blood was connected to the Immortal Realm.
• Xugeng offered Song Wen the Mount Tai Ring, then sent his Primordial Spirit into Song Wen’s sea of consciousness to devour his soul.
• Song Wen’s black hole appeared in his sea of consciousness and suppressed Xugeng, who begged for his life.
• Song Wen removed the Mount Tai Ring and storage ring from Mi Hai’s corpse, devoured its essence blood, and burned the corpse to ashes.
• Song Wen removed the array flags at East Creek Mountain, revealing its ruins to the pilgrims, then flew away.

Song Wen found the hidden cave and teleportation formation Xugeng had described, then returned to the Limitless Sect without activating it. He began testing whether devouring souls could advance his cultivation, leaving Xugeng convinced that he would eventually be consumed.

• Song Wen entered the poisonous trench, found the cave, and asked Xugeng how to control its defensive formation.
• Song Wen took the formation plate and jade slip from Xugeng's storage ring, opened the barrier, and discovered a teleportation formation inside.
• Song Wen restored the defensive formation and returned to the Limitless Sect, ordering Shu Niang to gather souls and arrange the purchase of two portions of Dark Orchid Wood.
• Song Wen devoured demon-beast souls in his cave abode to test whether they could help his soul advance toward a Primordial Spirit.
• Xugeng watched Song Wen consume the souls and realized that he might eventually suffer the same fate.

After ten years of seclusion, Song Wen finished refining the Mount Tai Ring and traveled to the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall before heading to Ultimate Bliss City to learn about the Heavenly Origin Continent and find Zhou Siyi. He reunited with her under the alias Wu Sheng, and she explained how Lan Chen had protected her by making her an outer sect elder of the Blissful Union Sect.

• Song Wen's divine sense stopped growing and his three souls remained unmerged, but he refined the Mount Tai Ring and crafted two Heaven-and-Earth Avatars and ten Death-Substitute Puppets.
• Song Wen left the Limitless Sect, teleported to the Ten Thousand Beasts Hall, and confirmed that the abandoned site held nothing of value.
• Song Wen traveled to Ultimate Bliss City and noticed that Hao Kong, Tong Hua, and Nine Palaces Sect disciples occupied his former residence.
• Song Wen found Zhou Siyi and asked the guards to announce a visitor named Wu Sheng, then told Zhou Siyi privately to call him Junior Brother.
• Zhou Siyi welcomed Song Wen and explained that Lan Chen had made her an outer sect elder so she could stay safe and earn spirit stones without adopting the Blissful Union Sect's cultivation methods.

Song Wen reunited with Lan Chen after thirty years and planned revenge against Ghost Suanni, Blood Brow, and Yang Yu amid a war between the sects. He chose to target Yang Yu first and signaled that Mi He would be involved, while Yang Yu ordered secret preparations for the coming conflict.

• Zhou Siyi told Song Wen that the Mysterious Yin Sect and Beast Taming Sect had destroyed the Nine Palaces Sect and Primordial Unity Temple and were pressuring the remaining major sects.
• Lan Chen arrived, reunited with Song Wen, and spent three days with him before asking where he had been for thirty years.
• Song Wen told Lan Chen he intended to kill Ghost Suanni, Blood Brow, and Yang Yu, and decided to attack the Beast Taming Sect first.
• Lan Chen warned Song Wen that Blood Brow could escape with Minor Teleportation Talismans and the Blood Escape Technique, while Yang Yu and Ghost Suanni were difficult to locate.
• At the Beast Taming Sect, Yang Yu ordered Mi He to secretly gather wartime supplies within six months and rebuked her for questioning his alliance with the Mysterious Yin Sect.
• Mi He noticed a communication jade slip in her storage ring, concealed her reaction from Yang Yu, and left after he reminded her to keep the preparations secret.

Mi He agreed to help Song Wen and Lan Chen kill Yang Yu after securing their promises that the sect grudges would end and Yang Yu’s treasures and spirit beasts would go to her. She entered Rockshade Mountain to inspect Yang Yu’s spirit beasts, but Zhang Chen challenged her right to approach them alone.

• Song Wen contacted Mi He and proposed killing Yang Yu, and Mi He admitted she could temporarily disable his two spirit beasts.
• Mi He agreed to cooperate after Lan Chen confirmed he was with Song Wen and swore that the other sects would not retaliate and Yang Yu’s possessions would belong to her.
• Mi He told Lan Chen to wait by a lake outside the Beast Taming Sect, saying Yang Yu would appear within a day.
• Mi He entered Rockshade Mountain and learned from Zhang Chen that the Wind-Scale Beast had grown irritable after going without its favored Purple Star Flowers.
• Mi He claimed Yang Yu had ordered a major move and said she needed to inspect his Blood Kui Beast and Ice Soul Spider, but Zhang Chen objected that sect rules barred her from approaching them alone.

Mi He inspected the Ice Soul Spider and Blood Kui Beast at Rockshade Mountain, using Rainbow Garment Grass to provoke their appetites before leaving. Rong Jingyun then reported that she had spotted someone resembling Blood Brow at East Birch Market, prompting Yang Yu to consider pursuing her for information about Fallen Immortal Blood.

• Mi He fed the Ice Soul Spider a demon beast corpse sprinkled with Rainbow Garment Grass, then left after it demanded more leaves.
• Mi He fed the Blood Kui Beast a similarly prepared corpse and returned to Zhang Chen's flying ship.
• The Blood Kui Beast charged the ship, but Zhang Chen's companions dropped more than a hundred human corpses, drawing it back to its Cave.
• Zhang Chen warned the two Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators to conceal the incident and claim Rockshade Mountain had been peaceful.
• Rong Jingyun told Su Hong she urgently needed to see Yang Yu, then reported that a woman at East Birch Market resembled Blood Brow.
• Yang Yu recalled his search for Fallen Immortal Blood and resolved to capture Blood Brow alive for questioning.

Yang Yu and Mi He set out to capture Blood Brow in East Birch Market, but Extreme Yin ambushed them on the way. As Yang Yu struggled against the attack and his suddenly uncontrollable Blood Kui Beast, he realized Mi He had betrayed him, and she hinted that she had tampered with more than the beast.

• Yang Yu learned from Rong Jingyun that Blood Brow had entered the sect's affiliated Immortal Beast Pavilion and summoned Mi He to help capture her.
• Yang Yu and Mi He flew toward East Birch Market, planning to use the Five-Element Cosmic Formation to trap Blood Brow.
• Extreme Yin ambushed Yang Yu with purple lightning, which overwhelmed his flying sword and Ice Soul Spider's attack.
• The Blood Kui Beast became violently agitated, broke free of Yang Yu's control, and forced him out of its armor as the lightning struck his shield and injured him.
• Yang Yu saw Lan Chen and Mi He blocking his path back to the sect and accused Mi He of tampering with the Blood Kui Beast.
• Mi He denounced Yang Yu as a traitor before the sect, then revealed she had tampered with more than the Blood Kui Beast.

Mi He used Bloodthirsty Berserk Beast Pills to disrupt Yang Yu’s spirit beasts, but Yang Yu regained control with the Essence-Blood Soul Refinement Technique and shattered Song Wen’s second Purple Palace Divine Thunder. Song Wen sealed off Yang Yu’s escape with the Blood Sea Seal, forcing Yang Yu to fight him as their battle began in earnest.

• Mi He made the Ice Soul Spider and Blood Kui Beast go berserk with Bloodthirsty Berserk Beast Pills, and the Ice Soul Spider attacked Yang Yu.
• Song Wen struck Yang Yu with another bolt of Purple Palace Divine Thunder while Mi He and Lan Chen discussed its power.
• Yang Yu used essence blood to regain control of the spirit beasts, merged with the Blood Kui Beast, and broke the lightning with the Ice Soul Spider’s cold air and his shield.
• Mi He recognized Yang Yu’s Essence-Blood Soul Refinement Technique and urged Lan Chen to help kill him, but Song Wen asked her to block Yang Yu’s escape instead.
• Song Wen raised a vast blood wall with the Blood Sea Seal, cutting off Yang Yu’s route to the Beast Taming Sect and trapping Lan Chen and Mi He outside the fight.
• Yang Yu charged Song Wen with his sword and shield as the Ice Soul Spider attacked with its web, and Song Wen transformed into a giant corpse to meet the assault.

Song Wen overpowered Yang Yu in their battle, binding the Ice Soul Spider and breaking through Yang Yu’s defenses. Yang Yu’s fate was left uncertain as he crashed into the lake after Song Wen’s soul attack.

• Song Wen used the bronze ring to bind the Ice Soul Spider while Yang Yu attacked him with his sword, shield, and horn.
• Song Wen seized Yang Yu and struck him with lightning, forcing Yang Yu to abandon the Blood Kui Beast and flee in his true body.
• Song Wen tore the Blood Kui Beast in two and sent its remains toward the wall of blood.
• Song Wen launched nine Soul-Concentrating Spikes at Yang Yu, piercing through his soul-defense artifact and disrupting his control of his body.
• Yang Yu crashed into the lake after losing control of his mana.

Song Wen killed Yang Yu after destroying the Ice Soul Spider and trapping him beneath the Lake. Yang Yu died believing Song Wen’s revelation that Blood Year was the Fallen Immortal Blood, and Song Wen gave Yang Yu’s belongings to Mi He.

• Song Wen formed a thunder spear and killed the bound Ice Soul Spider, then entered the Lake to pursue Yang Yu.
• Yang Yu tried to escape through the Lake but found Song Wen waiting; he unleashed a golden flame from a square cauldron, but the Mount Tai Ring confined him and protected Song Wen.
• Song Wen told Yang Yu that Blood Year was the Fallen Immortal Blood, then smashed his head and devoured his soul and essence blood.
• Song Wen burned Yang Yu’s corpse, collected his possessions, and returned to Lan Chen and Mi He, confirming Yang Yu’s death.
• Song Wen handed Yang Yu’s belongings to Mi He according to her agreement with Lan Chen.

After Yang Yu's death, Mi He became the Beast Taming Sect's new First Supreme Elder and agreed to reconcile with the Blissful Union Sect and Mysterious Heaven Sword Sect. Song Wen and Lan Chen departed to pursue other matters, while Mi He ordered the sect to conceal Yang Yu's death and retreat from some of its holdings.

• Mi He accepted Song Wen's item, and Lan Chen congratulated her on becoming the Beast Taming Sect's First Supreme Elder.
• Mi He asked Lan Chen to put aside the sects' long feud, and he promised to honor his oath and persuade Mo Yexue to do the same.
• Rong Jingyun confirmed Yang Yu's death with Mi He, and Mi He told her that Song Wen was likely the cultivation world's foremost cultivator.
• Song Wen asked Mi He to delay news of Yang Yu's death, then left with Lan Chen to pursue their other matters.
• Mi He announced Yang Yu's execution to the Beast Taming Sect disciples and ordered them to conceal his death, repair ties with the two sects, and contract the sect's influence.

Lan Chen, Song Wen, and Mo Yexue planned to lure Ghost Suanni out of Mysterious Yin Cave by having Yan Yuyan intercept the sect’s disciples. The plan began when Hong Li pursued Yan Yuyan toward the cave where the others were hiding.

• Lan Chen and Song Wen met Mo Yexue at the Mysterious Heaven Sword Sect and told her that Song Wen had killed Yang Yu.
• Song Wen proposed using Hao Kong to lure Ghost Suanni out, but Mo Yexue offered her disciple Yan Yuyan instead, and the group set out for Mysterious Yin Cave.
• Song Wen gave Yan Yuyan his last Minor Teleportation Talisman before she went to intercept Mysterious Yin Sect disciples.
• Song Wen sensed Hong Li leaving Mysterious Yin Cave and warned Mo Yexue, who messaged Yan Yuyan to be cautious.
• Yan Yuyan moved near the others’ hiding place, where Hong Li discovered her trail and came after her.

Yan Yuyan fought Hong Li while Mo Yexue and Lan Chen watched from a concealed Cave with Song Wen. After Song Wen spotted an ambush, the confrontation grew into a standoff between Mo Yexue, Lan Chen, and Ghost Suanni, who vowed to keep them from leaving.

• Yan Yuyan traded attacks with Hong Li, while a Ghost Emperor used the ghost qi to ambush her.
• Song Wen detected danger and told Yan Yuyan to flee upward while Mo Yexue went to help her.
• A Gold-Eating Ant attacked Yan Yuyan with poison, but she escaped using a Minor Teleportation Talisman.
• Mo Yexue struck at the Gold-Eating Ant, but a larger, peak fourth-tier Gold-Eating Ant appeared and knocked her flying sword away.
• Ghost Suanni emerged and questioned Mo Yexue about Lan Chen, who left the Cave and joined her in surrounding him.
• Ghost Suanni taunted Mo Yexue and Lan Chen about Yang Yu, then declared that none of them would leave.