Recaps

Song Wen and the other passengers debated when the Cangyu flying vessel should depart after Shui Bing said she could not leave for twenty years. Zhong Ren agreed to wait, then proposed that the Nascent Soul passengers pay the Spirit Transformation cultivators ten thousand high-grade spirit stones.

• Shui Bing joined the passenger group and said she could not depart for twenty years, prompting Zhong Ren to argue for leaving soon.
• Wei Qian supported Shui Bing, and Song Wen and the other Nascent Soul cultivators avoided taking sides.
• Zhong Ren agreed that the group would depart twenty years later rather than separate.
• Zhong Ren proposed that the five Nascent Soul passengers provide ten thousand high-grade spirit stones as compensation for the three Spirit Transformation cultivators.

Song Wen established a secluded cultivation abode, spent a year refining Death-Substitute Puppets and Blood Demon Pills, then set out to sell the Chi Family's Teleportation Token before it expired. He reached a Ghost Market near Qingye City and asked Treasure Source Hall whether it bought treasures from outsiders.

• Zhong Ren proposed that five Nascent Soul cultivators each pay two thousand superior spirit stones, but Wei Qian negotiated a split in which the Spirit Transformation cultivators paid thirty percent and the Nascent Soul cultivators paid seventy percent.
• Song Wen decided against renting a cave abode and claimed a mountain peak south of Scarlet Rainbow City, where he built a cave and installed defensive and concealment formations.
• Song Wen released Gu worms to populate and monitor the area around his abode, then spent a year refining three Death-Substitute Puppets and some Blood Demon Pills.
• Song Wen left for Scarlet Rainbow City to buy materials, earn spirit stones, and sell the Chi Family's Teleportation Token before its teleportation array activated in six months.
• Song Wen traveled to the Ghost Market near Qingye City, entered Treasure Source Hall in disguise, and asked whether the shop bought treasures from outsiders.

Song Wen negotiated with Ye Xuan at Treasure Source Hall over selling the Chi Family Teleportation Token. He rejected the Ye Family auction plan and tried to leave when the shop could not immediately pay, but Ye Xuan offered spiritual materials instead.

• Song Wen gave Ye Xuan the Teleportation Token to inspect, and she confirmed it was genuine.
• Song Wen and Ye Xuan haggled over the token, with Ye Xuan raising her offer to five thousand superior spirit stones.
• Ye Xuan offered to consign the token to a Ye Family auction in Qingye City, but Song Wen chose to sell it directly to Treasure Source Hall for five thousand superior spirit stones.
• Ye Xuan admitted the shop could not immediately produce the spirit stones and proposed contacting the Ye Family elders, but Song Wen refused and headed for the door.
• Ye Xuan blocked Song Wen and offered to make up the missing payment with spiritual materials valued at twenty percent below their usual prices.

Song Wen traded the Teleportation Token at Treasure Source Hall for spirit stones, fifth-tier pill recipes, and spiritual herbs, then learned that the Ye Family was hunting Ye Bing. After nineteen years of cultivation and preparation to cross Rotting Miasma Ridge, his spiritual sense unexpectedly advanced to the middle Spirit Transformation stage.

• Song Wen exchanged the Teleportation Token with Ye Xuan for 3,800 superior spirit stones, all eight fifth-tier pill recipes, and fifteen sets of herbs for each recipe.
• Ye Xuan gave Song Wen details about the Ye Family's hunt for Ye Bing, explaining that Ye Bing was accused of attacking Jiang Yushan and killing his guards.
• Song Wen left the Ghost Market, checked that he was not followed, and returned safely to his cave abode to cultivate.
• Over nineteen years, Song Wen refined thirty-two more Death-Substitute Puppets, bringing his total to seventy-eight, refined the Spirit-Taming Umbrella, and consumed Blood Demon Pills.
• Repeatedly tearing apart and restoring his soul while refining puppets tempered Song Wen's soul, advancing his spiritual sense to the middle Spirit Transformation stage.

Song Wen and the other cultivators gathered to depart for the Dual Extremes Sect and take delivery of the Cang Domain flying vessel. They discovered that Zhong Ren was actually the sect’s Daoist Wuwei, then boarded the vessel as Li Changhe began explaining its formations and controls.

• Song Wen met Yan He and the other cultivators at the hill, where Wei Qian and Shui Bing arrived, but Zhong Ren was absent.
• Song Wen and the others received Zhong Ren’s message saying he was already at the Dual Extremes Sect and flew there with Wei Qian leading them.
• Wang Yi led the group through the sect to a plaza, where they found Zhong Ren beside the Cang Domain flying vessel and learned his Daoist title was Wuwei.
• Zhong Ren introduced Li Changhe, the Formation Hall master who created the Profound Kun Netherfusion Formation, and Li Changhe began explaining the vessel’s formations and controls.

Li Changhe sold the Cangyu Flying Vessel to Song Wen and the others, and Zhong Ren took control of it before demanding that the Nascent Soul Cultivators pay for supplies and operate its flight formations. As the vessel neared Rotting Miasma Ridge, Jiang Lanruo and two others flew after them and ordered them to stop.

• Li Changhe explained the vessel's formations, accepted the remaining payment, and handed its control disk to Zhong Ren.
• Li Changhe gave the group jade slips containing three routes to the Qicang Region, and Zhong Ren led them away from the Dual Extremes Sect.
• Zhong Ren recommended the middle route and demanded that the six Nascent Soul Cultivators pay for the vessel's operating spirit stones.
• The six Nascent Soul Cultivators each paid Zhong Ren five hundred superior spirit stones, and five of them took positions at the flight formation nodes.
• Song Wen missed out on a formation node as the vessel sped toward Rotting Miasma Ridge, where Jiang Lanruo and two others appeared and shouted for them to stop.

Jiang Lanruo intercepted the Cang Region flying vessel but failed to find the person she sought, then let the travelers continue toward the Rotting Miasma Ridge. Deep inside the miasma, the cloaked Shui Bing stopped the vessel and revealed that the real Shui Bing was expected to meet them.

• Jiang Lanruo stopped the Cang Region flying vessel, searched its passengers, and discovered that Shui Bing was not the person she was looking for.
• Jiang Lanruo urged Zhong Ren and the others to join the Jiang Clan, but Zhong Ren politely refused, and Jiang Lanruo departed without attacking them.
• The group resumed its journey and entered the Rotting Miasma Ridge, with the Nascent Soul Cultivators taking turns operating the vessel.
• After the vessel traveled nearly a hundred thousand li through the miasma, Shui Bing ordered it to stop and said they had to wait for the real Shui Bing.
• When Zhong Ren reacted with killing intent, Shui Bing warned that killing her would leave the group without the three Spirit Transformation cultivators needed to activate the Profound Kun Netherfusion Formation.

Xiao Ying revealed that she had impersonated Shui Bing and brought Ye Bing aboard the Cangyu Flying Vessel, which continued through Rotting Miasma Ridge. After the group crossed nearly half the route, a sixth-tier Purple Firmament Dove attacked them.

• Xiao Ying explained that the real Shui Bing had sent her to travel with the group, and Wei Qian recognized Xiao Ying as the Poison Lady.
• Ye Bing arrived, identified herself, and convinced Zhong Ren to let her aboard by offering a thousand superior spirit stones.
• Ye Bing and the other cultivators helped the vessel avoid dangers as the miasma grew denser and corroded its shield.
• Zhong Ren said the group had crossed nearly half the route through Rotting Miasma Ridge.
• Wei Qian warned of a flying beast, Zhong Ren lowered the vessel, and a sixth-tier Purple Firmament Dove plunged toward them.

Zhong Ren and the others tried to escape the Purple Firmament Dove aboard the Cangyu Flying Vessel, but the beast overwhelmed their defenses and brought them crashing down. With their spirit stones exhausted and the shield shattered, Zhong Ren sacrificed two Nascent Soul Cultivators, while the survivors were battered to the ground and left at the Dove’s mercy.

• Zhong Ren pushed the Cangyu Flying Vessel to its limits, but the Purple Firmament Dove caught up and repeatedly slammed it into the ground.
• Ye Bing, Xiao Ying, and Wei Qian powered the Profound Kun Netherfusion Formation to withstand the Dove’s attacks while Zhong Ren struggled to control the vessel.
• Song Wen warned that the spirit stones were nearly depleted, and Zhong Ren revealed that the group had used all their collected stones.
• The Purple Firmament Dove struck the vessel with silver lightning, exhausting the remaining spirit stones and shattering the shield.
• Zhong Ren hurled two Nascent Soul Cultivators into the Dove’s mouth, while the other eight tried to flee and were swept to the ground by its wings.
• The surviving cultivators crashed down badly injured as the Purple Firmament Dove watched them like prey.

Song Wen escaped the Purple Firmament Dove after Zhong Ren sacrificed the Cangyu Flying Vessel, then hid in Rotting Miasma Ridge as the bird hunted the fleeing cultivators. Zhong Ren secretly concealed himself on a nearby mountain, but a distant explosion drew the Purple Firmament Dove away before it could investigate.

• Zhong Ren sacrificed the Cangyu Flying Vessel, whose explosion wounded the Purple Firmament Dove and gave Song Wen and the others a chance to flee.
• Song Wen used the Blood Escape Technique to reach a mountain six hundred li away, concealed his aura with the Two-Faced Buddha, and hid in a ravine.
• Song Wen sent the Shadow King Gu to a nearby peak to watch for danger, then saw Zhong Ren pass overhead and return to hide on that mountain.
• The Purple Firmament Dove followed Zhong Ren's aura to the mountain after swallowing four Nascent Soul cultivators and prepared to search for him.
• A thunderous blast and distant firelight caught the Purple Firmament Dove's attention before it could investigate Zhong Ren's hiding place.

Zhong Ren used a pill to frighten the Purple Firmament Dove into retreating, then fled while his spiritual power was nearly exhausted. An unseen attacker ambushed him and destroyed his dantian, Nascent Soul, and body, leaving only his head.

• The Purple Firmament Dove found Zhong Ren's concealed thicket and attacked it with silver lightning.
• Zhong Ren shut down his formation, took a pill, and released an overwhelming aura that drove the Purple Firmament Dove away.
• Zhong Ren collected his formation flags and fled a thousand miles before stopping to recover his spiritual power.
• An attacker used a spirit treasure spear, divine sense blades, and a bronze ring phantom to bind Zhong Ren.
• The spear pierced Zhong Ren's dantian and shattered his Nascent Soul, then destroyed his body, leaving his head intact.

Song Wen killed Zhong Ren, took his storage ring, and continued alone toward the Dual Extremes Sect. He entered a canyon where violent winds and venomous insects threatened his crossing.

• Song Wen devoured Zhong Ren’s soul and body, then fled and hid before inspecting Zhong Ren’s storage ring.
• Song Wen found nearly ten thousand spirit stones, a Ten Directions Illusory Domain Formation, and two fourth-grade fire talismans in the ring.
• Song Wen returned to the Cangyu Flying Vessel’s wreckage, consulted the map, and traveled more than ten thousand li to a vast canyon.
• Song Wen entered the canyon under the Spirit-Taming Umbrella and used the Blood Escape Technique to cross its gale-swept skies.
• Near the canyon’s center, swarms of fist-sized venomous insects attacked, and Song Wen swept at them with the Chasing Sun Spear, striking only a small portion.

Song Wen fought the Twin-Winged Centipede inside the astral-wind canyon and used the Life-Substitution Technique to land a devastating spear strike. The wounded centipede fled, while Song Wen remained in the canyon with the wind still raging.

• The Twin-Winged Centipede devoured more than two hundred venomous insects before attacking Song Wen with its silvery thread.
• Song Wen used the Life-Substitution Technique to evade the thread and tried to escape, but realized he could not cross the canyon while the centipede pursued him.
• Song Wen turned back, used lightning to slow the centipede's thread, and shifted above its head with another Life-Substitution Technique.
• Song Wen pierced the Twin-Winged Centipede's right eye with the Chasing Sun Spear, then blocked its tail needle with the Spirit-Taming Umbrella.
• Song Wen's sweeping spear blow sliced away nearly half the Twin-Winged Centipede's head, and the wounded creature fled along with the astral wind.

Song Wen fled from three twin-winged centipedes through Rotting Miasma Ridge and found Yan He being forced to scout ahead for Ye Bing, Wei Qian, and Xiao Ying. He joined their group just as the pursuing centipedes approached.

• Song Wen crossed the gorge, but the wounded twin-winged centipede returned with two peak fifth-rank companions and chased him into Rotting Miasma Ridge.
• Song Wen used the Blood Escape Technique to stay ahead of the centipedes, then searched for a way to lose them without drawing other demon beasts.
• Song Wen sensed Yan He's trail and followed it, hoping she could help him evade his pursuers.
• Song Wen emerged from the blood mist near Yan He and noticed she was tied to a rope leading back to a concealed flying vessel.
• Ye Bing, Wei Qian, and Xiao Ying appeared aboard the vessel, and Song Wen pretended to seek their help as the centipedes' auras surged from the miasma.

Ye Bing, Wei Qian, and Xiao Ying drove off three Twin-Winged Centipedes after Ye Bing slowed them with her Plum Blossom Fan. They left the battlefield with Song Wen and Yan He aboard the flying boat, while Wei Qian demanded to know how Gou Jun had provoked the beasts.

• Two Twin-Winged Centipedes attacked Ye Bing's group, and Ye Bing raised an ice wall to block their silk strands.
• Wei Qian and Xiao Ying fought the centipedes with a guillotine blade and poisoned steel needles, but neither side gained a decisive advantage.
• A third, badly injured Twin-Winged Centipede arrived, and Ye Bing unleashed frigid air that slowed all three beasts.
• Wei Qian and Xiao Ying pressed their attacks, prompting the two stronger centipedes to retreat while carrying off the wounded one.
• Wei Qian questioned Song Wen about provoking the beasts, but Xiao Ying insisted they leave before more demonic beasts arrived.
• Xiao Ying bound Song Wen and Yan He with ropes, and the flying boat carried them away.

After escaping a demonic beast, Ye Bing’s group rested in a cave, where Song Wen learned the Demon Breath Formula and discovered Ye Bing’s secret request for help against Xiao Ying. Three days later, they set out again with Song Wen and Yan He scouting ahead, tethered to Xiao Ying’s vessel by ropes she said would protect them.

• Wei Qian accused Song Wen of deliberately luring a demonic beast toward the group, but Ye Bing and Xiao Ying agreed to spare him for now.
• Ye Bing promised Song Wen and Yan He safe departure if they scouted ahead and taught them the Demon Breath Formula to disguise their auras from demonic beasts.
• Song Wen found a hidden message in the Jade Slip in which Ye Bing asked him to help deal with Xiao Ying in exchange for safe passage and a request of his choice.
• After three days of rest, Ye Bing led the group onward, and Xiao Ying bound Song Wen and Yan He to the flying vessel with ropes, claiming they would let her rescue the scouts if danger arose.

Song Wen and the others entered the miasma-dense mountain range, where Ye Bing ordered Yan He to scout ahead and Song Wen to follow behind. Their crossing seemed uneventful until a swarm of poisonous spiders drove Yan He back, and Song Wen saved her before they reached the flying vessel and found it empty.

• Ye Bing gave Song Wen and Yan He Numinous Pivot Detox Pills before ordering Yan He to scout ahead and Song Wen to follow five li behind.
• Song Wen and the others crossed most of the mountain range without encountering demonic beasts.
• Yan He flew back toward Song Wen and warned him that swarming poisonous insects, including fourth-rank ones, were ahead.
• A swarm of multicolored poisonous spiders chased Song Wen and Yan He, and several spiders leaped at Yan He.
• Song Wen pulled Yan He away from the spiders with the rope around her waist and saved her.
• Song Wen and Yan He reached the flying vessel, but no one was aboard.

After Ye Bing and the others abandoned them, Song Wen fought through the poisonous spiders and manipulated Yan He into scouting ahead for him. Yan He agreed to repay what she believed was his sacrifice, while Song Wen followed with his injuries feigned.

• Song Wen and Yan He freed themselves after Ye Bing and the others fled, and Song Wen decided to break through the spider swarm rather than take a detour.
• Song Wen crushed and trapped many spiders beneath a corpse-qi mountain, giving Yan He a chance to escape while his real self used the Blood Tide to harvest the swarm.
• Song Wen caught up with Yan He, pretending to be badly injured, and asked her to scout ahead as they continued through Rotting Miasma Ridge.
• Yan He offered a chain signal system and agreed to lead the way to repay Song Wen for saving her.
• Song Wen pretended to accept Yan He's help and told her to escape without him if she encountered danger.

Song Wen, Yan He, and Wei Qian encountered a powerful demon beast while trying to avoid a battle in the mountains. The Earth Savage Bull pursued Wei Qian after he escaped its jaws, while Song Wen and Yan He fled in opposite directions.

• Song Wen and Yan He found a fresh crater bearing the aura of a powerful demon beast and continued along their route.
• After hearing roars ahead, Song Wen ordered Yan He to retreat with him and hide in the crater, but Mange Moths appeared and Yan He fled toward the roars.
• Wei Qian was blasted into their path while fleeing a Blood-Eyed Giant Ape, and an Earth Savage Bull charged after them.
• Song Wen and Yan He split up and fled as the Earth Savage Bull focused on Wei Qian.
• Wei Qian regained control of his mana, struck at the Earth Savage Bull's eye with his Ghost-Head Guillotine, and dived toward the ground, but the beast blocked the weapon with its horn and pursued him.

Song Wen became caught between the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape and the other powerful beasts after Ye Bing and Xiao Ying drew the ape into the fight. The Earth Savage Bull wounded the ape and fled, leaving it to search for Song Wen and the others.

• Song Wen put away his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar and headed north, but Ye Bing came flying through the miasma after being struck, followed by Xiao Ying and the pursuing Blood-Eyed Giant Ape.
• The Blood-Eyed Giant Ape attacked Song Wen and Xiao Ying; Song Wen blocked its claw with the Spirit-Taming Umbrella, while Ye Bing caught him and Xiao Ying used a gu insect to protect herself.
• The Blood-Eyed Giant Ape pounced on Xiao Ying, who ordered Ye Bing to help; Ye Bing used her Plum Blossom Fan to unleash cold air and briefly hinder the ape.
• Wei Qian fled past the group as the Earth Savage Bull arrived, abandoned its pursuit of him, and charged the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape.
• The Blood-Eyed Giant Ape seized the Earth Savage Bull by its horns and tore its neck, but the bull rammed the ape in the chest, broke free, and fled into the mountain range.
• The Blood-Eyed Giant Ape did not pursue the Earth Savage Bull and instead searched for Song Wen and the others.

Song Wen, Wei Qian, Ye Bing, and Xiao Ying fled toward the outskirts of Rotting Miasma Ridge while the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape pursued them. After Ye Bing urged them to stand together against it, she attacked first, and the others halted to join the fight.

• Song Wen and the others hurried east, and Wei Qian questioned Song Wen about his concealed aura technique.
• Song Wen promised to share the secret technique after they left Rotting Miasma Ridge, and the thinning miasma suggested they had crossed its core region.
• The Blood-Eyed Giant Ape pursued them, and Ye Bing proposed that the four join forces to kill it.
• When Wei Qian hesitated, Ye Bing began to flee alone, but Xiao Ying urged her to stay and fight.
• Ye Bing summoned her Plum Blossom Fan and shattered the ice wall against the charging ape, while Song Wen, Xiao Ying, and Wei Qian prepared to fight.

Song Wen and the others fought the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape, but its bloody eye beams shattered their attacks and weakened their control over their treasures. As the group fled, Song Wen used a corpse puppet and the Life-Substitution Technique to ambush Wei Qian, then destroyed Wei Qian’s dantian and Nascent Soul.

• Xiao Ying, Wei Qian, and Song Wen attacked the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape while Ye Bing trapped it within her Ice-Cold Domain, but the ape broke their assault with its bloody eye beams.
• The Blood-Eyed Giant Ape’s beams shattered Ye Bing’s ice barrier and weakened Song Wen, Wei Qian, and Xiao Ying’s control of their magic treasures, forcing the four to retreat.
• Ye Bing helped Xiao Ying escape, while Wei Qian punched at Song Wen to prevent him from using the Blood Escape Technique and leaving Wei Qian behind.
• Song Wen let Wei Qian’s phantom fist destroy a corpse puppet, then appeared nearby and attacked Wei Qian with the Life-Substitution Technique.
• Song Wen struck Wei Qian with nine transparent blades and stabbed his dantian with a short blade, destroying his Nascent Soul and ending his cultivation.

Song Wen escaped the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape and learned that Ye Bing knew his identities and wanted his help obtaining the Five-Viscera Spiritwood and the Void-Merging Origin-Breaking Pill formula. Ye Bing threw Xiao Ying toward Song Wen and used her Plum Blossom Fan to trap the pursuing ape in cold qi, while Song Wen charged into the fight.

• Song Wen's corpse puppet failed to stop the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape, so he abandoned it and reappeared more than two hundred li away.
• Ye Bing recognized Song Wen as Gou Jun and Yang Yu because she had seen him use the Blood Escape Technique, then offered him a condition if he helped kill Xiao Ying.
• Song Wen reconsidered after Ye Bing revealed Xiao Ying carried Five-Viscera Spiritwood and that Ye Bing possessed the Void-Merging Origin-Breaking Pill formula.
• Ye Bing explained that a Gu insect in her dantian prevented her from attacking Xiao Ying, and Xiao Ying questioned their secret exchange.
• Ye Bing flung Xiao Ying toward Song Wen, then blocked the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape with her Plum Blossom Fan while Song Wen charged at it with his spear.

Song Wen pursued Xiao Ying while Ye Bing and Xiao Ying fought to keep the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape at bay. After Xiao Ying activated a gu insect inside Ye Bing, Song Wen continued after Xiao Ying and left Ye Bing in danger.

• Ye Bing urged Xiao Ying to help attack the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape, and Xiao Ying sent her centipede to spray it with poisonous smoke as it broke free of the ice.
• Song Wen ambushed the giant ape with his spear, then blocked its attacks with the Spirit-Taming Umbrella as it pursued him.
• Xiao Ying filled the area with poisonous smoke, but Song Wen emerged unharmed, killed her centipede, and chased her beyond the mist.
• Xiao Ying called for Ye Bing’s help and accused her of conspiring with Song Wen, then activated the gu insect in Ye Bing’s dantian.
• Ye Bing begged Song Wen to kill Xiao Ying quickly, but Song Wen continued pursuing Xiao Ying while the giant ape charged at Ye Bing.

Song Wen killed Xiao Ying and drove off the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape, then returned to find Ye Bing gone. He followed her clue east and found her waiting on a hill.

• Ye Bing warned Song Wen that he would lose the Void-Merging Origin-Breaking Pill formula if she died, so he attacked Xiao Ying instead of her.
• Song Wen used his Soul-Concentrating Spikes to destroy Xiao Ying's gu insects and kill her, freeing Ye Bing from the gu insect in her dantian.
• Song Wen gave up the chance to attack the injured Ye Bing, took her Plum Blossom Fan, and lured the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape away.
• Song Wen escaped the giant ape with the Life-Substitution Technique and Blood Escape Technique, then returned to find Ye Bing missing and a stone character pointing east.
• Song Wen followed the clue for a thousand li and found Ye Bing waiting atop a small hill.