Recaps

Song Wen tortured Chi Qi for information about Jiang Yushan, Shadow Void, and the Divine Blood Sect, then killed him and gathered his remains and treasures. After Song Wen confirmed Chi Qi’s death to the arriving Ye Family members, Ye Yangshu demanded the Jade Marrow Stone and blamed him for the loss of his spirit beast.

• Chi Qi begged Song Wen to spare him, but Song Wen tortured him until he agreed to answer questions.
• Chi Qi revealed that Jiang Yushan was in an ancient ruin northeast of Demon-Suppressing Town, trying to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm while Shadow Void incubated within him.
• Song Wen questioned Chi Qi about Hong Zhe, Ji Hong, and Jiang Lanruo’s role in Shadow Void’s incubation, and Chi Qi’s answers matched what Song Wen already knew.
• Song Wen made Chi Qi sketch the ruin’s location, then devoured his soul and collected his treasures, blood essence, and demon soul.
• Ye Bing, Ye Gaozhuo, and Ye Yangshu arrived, and Song Wen told them Chi Qi was dead.
• Ye Yangshu accused Song Wen of delaying until his spirit beast died and demanded the Jade Marrow Stone.

Song Wen drove off Ye Yangshu and Ye Gaozhuo, then took Ye Bing to the hidden entrance of Jiang Yushan’s secluded cultivation site. As Ye Bing attacked the formation, Song Wen intercepted Jiang Lanruo, who was racing to stop them.

• Song Wen attacked Ye Yangshu over the Jade Marrow Stone, but Ye Gaozhuo deflected the Soul-Splitting Blade and Ye Bing persuaded them to stop fighting.
• Song Wen warned Ye Yangshu not to reveal what he had seen, then left with Ye Bing; Ye Yangshu urged her to return to the Ye Family, and she said she would consider it.
• Song Wen and Ye Bing drained a small pool and found a concealed relic entrance after Song Wen’s tentacle triggered a burst of energy beneath the mud.
• Ye Bing used her Plum Blossom Fan to expose a barrier deep underground and began attacking it with frigid energy.
• Jiang Lanruo sensed the formation being disturbed and flew toward it, but Song Wen intercepted her and met her sword with a wave of blood.

Jiang Lanruo fought Song Wen’s blood sea and escaped after inflicting a serious injury on him. She returned to the water pool and found the area devastated, then emerged from its light screen in a fury.

• Song Wen stalled Jiang Lanruo with shameless flirtation as she attacked his blood sea with her flying sword.
• Jiang Lanruo split the sea of blood with Myriad Swords Return as One, but Song Wen attacked her from behind and the blood sea blocked her escape.
• Jiang Lanruo forced her way through the blood sea, while Song Wen’s blood-shadow taunted her from beside her.
• Jiang Lanruo broke through the blood sea after Song Wen was injured, and he fled without being pursued.
• Jiang Lanruo returned to the water pool and found the terrain wrecked, a light screen suspended above the pit, and scattered formation flags below.
• Jiang Lanruo passed through the light screen, reappeared moments later, and erupted in rage.

Song Wen captured Jiang Yushan and told Ye Bing that Jiang Lanruo had escaped, then used Jiang Yushan as bait to draw her out. After sending Ye Bing to hide and claiming he would go to Demon-Suppressing Town, Song Wen secretly concealed himself nearby and monitored the area with Gu insects.

• Song Wen told Ye Bing that Jiang Lanruo had escaped, then learned from her that Jiang Yushan had been injured when his breakthrough was interrupted.
• Ye Bing revealed herself to Jiang Yushan and threatened to avenge her son, but Song Wen stopped her and promised Jiang Yushan would be released if Jiang Lanruo handed over what they wanted.
• Song Wen knocked Jiang Yushan unconscious and assured Ye Bing he would draw Jiang Lanruo out before the Divine Blood Sect could arrive.
• Song Wen set up a fifth-tier Nether Corpse Purgatory Formation around the mountain and sent Ye Bing east to hide.
• Song Wen pretended to travel toward Demon-Suppressing Town, then hid in a ground fissure and released Gu insects to monitor the area, including Ye Bing.

Song Wen sent Ye Bing away as Jiang Lanruo and Hong Zhe approached, then used his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to negotiate with them for a route from Qicang Island to the Eastern Profound Continent. After Hong Zhe offered him a place in the Divine Blood Sect and Song Wen refused, Hong Zhe attacked the avatar, leaving Jiang Yushan’s fate uncertain.

• Song Wen warned Ye Bing that Jiang Lanruo had brought late-stage Void Refinement cultivator Hong Zhe, and Ye Bing fled toward Scarlet Rainbow City.
• Song Wen activated his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar near Jiang Yushan’s cave and threatened to kill Jiang Yushan if Jiang Lanruo and Hong Zhe came closer.
• Song Wen told Hong Zhe that he knew about the Shadow Void in Jiang Yushan’s sea of consciousness and demanded a way to reach the Eastern Profound Continent.
• Hong Zhe offered Song Wen a place as an outer sect elder in the Divine Blood Sect, but Song Wen refused and renewed his threat against Jiang Yushan.
• Hong Zhe revealed that crossing the strait was possible, then abruptly launched nine black spikes at Song Wen’s avatar.

Jiang Lanruo rescued Jiang Yushan from Song Wen’s avatar, but Hong Zhe confronted Song Wen beneath the Blood Sea Seal. Song Wen trapped Jiang Lanruo and Jiang Yushan in the blood sea, then emerged to shatter Hong Zhe’s Corpse Prison Soul-Devouring Spike.

• Jiang Lanruo activated the Black Kun Thick Earth Talisman around Jiang Yushan as Hong Zhe’s corpse nails destroyed Song Wen’s wooden avatar.
• Jiang Lanruo revived Jiang Yushan while Hong Zhe broke the concealment formation and discovered Song Wen’s Blood Sea Seal.
• Song Wen used Blood Spirit Sacrifice to raise his power to the middle Void Refinement stage and stalemated Hong Zhe’s corpse nails.
• Hong Zhe told Jiang Lanruo to flee with Jiang Yushan, but Song Wen sealed the thousand-mile area with a blood-colored cage.
• Hong Zhe formed the Corpse Prison Soul-Devouring Spike from his nine corpse nails, and Song Wen emerged from the blood pillar to destroy it with his crimson gaze.

Song Wen fought Hong Zhe and Jiang Lanruo, but the two joined forces and escaped his blood-red cage with Jiang Yushan. Song Wen pursued them, revealing that Jiang Lanruo had raised a Shadow Void in Jiang Yushan’s sea of consciousness and that Hong Zhe had taken him as a disciple to help it hatch.

• Song Wen severed Hong Zhe’s connection to his corpse needles with the Law-Breaking Divine Eye, then used lightning to blast down Hong Zhe’s corpse coffin.
• Song Wen sent the Soul-Splitting Blade to stop Jiang Lanruo from escaping with the unconscious Jiang Yushan, and the blood wall healed before she could get through.
• Hong Zhe abandoned his attempt to defeat Song Wen and asked Jiang Lanruo to help him break through the blood sea.
• Jiang Yushan woke, and Hong Zhe and Jiang Lanruo combined the corpse needles and flying sword to tear open the blood wall while Hong Zhe shielded them from Song Wen’s blade.
• Song Wen let the three escape, then pursued them and warned Jiang Yushan that Jiang Lanruo had raised a Shadow Void in his sea of consciousness and that Hong Zhe wanted it to hatch.

Song Wen attacked Jiang Lanruo, Hong Zhe, and Jiang Yushan, but Shadow Void’s emergence and Hong Zhe’s intervention turned the battle. The chapter ended with the nine corpse nails piercing Song Wen after his protective shield shattered.

• Jiang Yushan began doubting Jiang Lanruo after Song Wen accused her of keeping a monster inside him, while Hong Zhe attacked Song Wen’s substitute puppet.
• A hidden attacker struck Jiang Yushan with a Soul-Splitting Blade, damaging his divine soul and causing Shadow Void to emerge through eight tentacles.
• Shadow Void’s humming incapacitated Jiang Lanruo and weakened Hong Zhe, while Song Wen used his Soul-Splitting Blade to kill Hong Zhe’s substitute.
• Hong Zhe appeared beside Jiang Yushan and scattered dark green powder over Shadow Void’s tentacles, making them go limp.
• Hong Zhe sent his giant corpse and nine corpse nails against Song Wen, and the nails pierced him after his black shield broke.

Song Wen killed Hong Zhe and Jiang Lanruo, captured Shadow Void in his sea of consciousness, and fled with Jiang Yushan’s corpse and a sample of the strange powder. After his Blood Spirit Sacrifice power faded, he absorbed Hong Zhe’s remains and tried to break through to the middle Void Refinement stage, but the spiritual power ran out before he could succeed.

• Song Wen used a divine sense attack to stun Hong Zhe, killed him, and stored his corpse.
• Song Wen rejected Jiang Lanruo’s offer to serve him, killed her, and devoured her divine soul and blood essence.
• Song Wen collected the dark green powder from Jiang Yushan and captured Shadow Void when it lunged into his sea of consciousness.
• Song Wen killed the unconscious Jiang Yushan, preserved his corpse, and fled deep into Rotting Miasma Ridge.
• After his Blood Spirit Sacrifice boost faded, Song Wen absorbed Hong Zhe’s remains and battered at the early Void Refinement bottleneck.
• Hong Zhe’s spiritual power ran low before Song Wen could break through to the middle Void Refinement stage.

Song Wen failed to break through after taking large quantities of demon pills and turned to Hong Zhe’s soul for information on reaching the Eastern Profound Continent. Hong Zhe revealed an ancient seafloor tunnel through the Source-Qi Death Domain that Song Wen might be able to cross using Shadow Void and the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.

• Song Wen swallowed Blood Demon Pills and Corpse Demon Pills to force a breakthrough, but the poison injured him and disrupted his spiritual power.
• Song Wen destroyed Hong Zhe’s corpse, then threatened the imprisoned souls with the Golden Broth Curse until Hong Zhe offered to share what he knew.
• Hong Zhe told Song Wen that an ancient tunnel beneath the seafloor once connected the Qicang Region and the Eastern Profound Continent.
• Hong Zhe explained that Shadow Void’s royal Void Race bloodline could help Song Wen deal with other Void monsters in the tunnel.
• Hong Zhe said Song Wen’s Corpse King Reincarnation Art could weaken source qi’s erosion enough for him to cross the strait if he did not linger.

Song Wen questioned Hong Zhe about illusion-destroying powder and learned that the Divine Blood Sect concealed its secrets while exploiting cultivators of certain arts. After killing Hong Zhe and the Jiang siblings, Song Wen left his cave and flew deeper into Rotting Miasma Ridge, uncertain how to reach Ye Bing safely.

• Song Wen learned from Hong Zhe that illusion-destroying powder was made with Bodhi Spirit Stamens and that the Divine Blood Sect could rapidly increase their medicinal age.
• Song Wen revealed that the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art and Longevity Art derived from the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, then learned the location of an undersea tunnel from Hong Zhe's blood-colored jade slip.
• Song Wen devoured Hong Zhe's soul and told Jiang Lanruo and Jiang Yushan that he was Ai Kun before devouring their souls as well.
• Song Wen left the cave, worried that the Divine Blood Sect would investigate Shadow Void's disappearance and that Ye Bing was in danger near Scarlet Rainbow City.
• Song Wen flew deeper into Rotting Miasma Ridge while considering where to go next.

Song Wen reunited with Ye Bing, told her a false account of Jiang Yushan and the others' deaths, and traveled with her to a secluded underwater cave. After Ye Bing destroyed Jiang Yushan’s corpse, the two spent weeks together, leaving Song Wen exhausted and eager to recover.

• Song Wen encountered Ye Bing and told her that Shadow Void had killed Jiang Lanruo, the Divine Blood Sect member, Jiang Yushan, and itself.
• Ye Bing kissed Song Wen, then destroyed Jiang Yushan’s corpse and coffin after he presented them to her.
• Song Wen and Ye Bing crossed Rotting Miasma Ridge and descended into an underwater cave that Ye Bing prepared for seclusion.
• Ye Bing refused to let Song Wen begin seclusion and spent ten days with him, claiming she was helping heal his injuries.
• After another month, Song Wen staggered from the stone bed while Ye Bing offered him more medicinal pills, which he refused.

Song Wen spent ten years in seclusion refining Hong Zhe’s Profound Corpse and sorting through the treasures taken from four storage rings, while Ye Bing waited in the cave. After they reconciled and left for Phoenix Plume City, they found the city and the Jin Clan untouched, contradicting Song Wen’s prediction of a conflict with the Divine Blood Sect.

• Song Wen sealed himself in a stone chamber, examined the four storage rings, and spent half a year refining Hong Zhe’s late sixth-rank Profound Corpse.
• Song Wen found Chi Qi’s powerful bow and arrow, which he could not use without reforging, and discovered two sixth-rank arrays in Jiang Lanruo’s ring.
• Song Wen spent ten years stabilizing his cultivation and tending to his Gu insects, then emerged from seclusion to find Ye Bing dispirited and suspicious.
• Song Wen reassured Ye Bing, and after half a month together, they agreed to leave the cave and seek spiritual materials in Phoenix Plume City.
• Song Wen and Ye Bing saw that Phoenix Plume City and the Jin Clan residence remained undamaged, despite Song Wen’s prediction that Yun Xinghai’s actions would provoke the Divine Blood Sect.

Song Wen went to Phoenix Plume City to buy high-tier souls while Ye Bing shopped separately. At the city's largest shop, he faced Jin Kaicheng's attempt to monopolize the demon-soul supply and ended by accepting the inflated prices, claiming Jin Kaicheng could represent the Jin Clan.

• Song Wen and Ye Bing concealed their appearances, entered Phoenix Plume City separately, and agreed to contact each other if trouble arose.
• Song Wen bought human and demon souls from shops around the city, drawing the attention of its well-informed residents.
• Jin Kaicheng introduced himself as the manager of the largest shop and offered Song Wen its stock of eight hundred fourth-tier and thirty-two fifth-tier demon souls at prices more than twice the usual rates.
• When Song Wen tried to leave, Jin Kaicheng warned that he had arranged to buy up all the high-tier demon souls in the city and threatened him for refusing the deal.
• Song Wen asked whether the Jin Clan approved of the coercive sale, and Jin Kaicheng claimed he had full authority to represent the clan.
• Song Wen said he would buy every demon soul in the shop at Jin Kaicheng's quoted prices.

Song Wen used Jin Xiuqi’s concern for Li Yue to make him punish Jin Kaicheng for inflating the price of the goods. After accepting the Jin Clan’s goods as compensation, Song Wen demanded that Jin Xiuqi cripple Jin Kaicheng before he would lead him to Li Yue.

• Song Wen asked Jin Kaicheng for demon souls and thirty aged Star Transformation Grass plants, agreeing to the inflated price of thirty-two thousand four hundred Superior Spirit Stones.
• Song Wen summoned Jin Xiuqi by claiming he knew Li Yue’s whereabouts, and Jin Xiuqi arrived eager to find her.
• Song Wen told Jin Xiuqi that Li Yue was safe and outside the city, then showed him the goods and their inflated price.
• Jin Xiuqi stripped Jin Kaicheng of his manager position, ordered him to face the Lineage’s Law Enforcement Hall, and gave Song Wen the goods as compensation.
• Song Wen demanded that Jin Xiuqi cripple Jin Kaicheng if he wanted to see Li Yue, then walked out of the shop.

Song Wen escaped Phoenix Plume City after Jin Xiuqi severed Jin Kaicheng’s arm, but Jin Xiuqi caught up and learned Ye Bing claimed to be Song Wen’s Dao companion. Song Wen and Ye Bing fled north to the Source-Qi Death Domain, where Song Wen began seeking the undersea tunnel and investigating Shadow Void.

• Song Wen ignored Jin Xiuqi’s plea to change his condition, and Jin Xiuqi cut off Jin Kaicheng’s right arm before pursuing him.
• Song Wen hurried out of Phoenix Plume City, but Jin Xiuqi flew over the city barrier and caught up with him near Ye Bing.
• Jin Xiuqi recognized Ye Bing as Li Yue and tried to seize her hand, but she rebuffed him and said she and Fang Pengyi were Dao companions.
• Song Wen took Ye Bing away, and they traveled north after Ye Bing questioned why he had provoked Jin Xiuqi.
• Two months later, Song Wen and Ye Bing reached the edge of the Source-Qi Death Domain, where Song Wen looked toward the depths to find the undersea tunnel and test Hong Zhe’s claims about Shadow Void.

Song Wen ventured into the Source-Qi Death Domain and discovered that Shadow Void could speak and sense nearby Void Race members. Shadow Void offered to serve him and revealed that resentful spirits were its favorite food, though it could not yet devour a complete soul.

• Song Wen sent Ye Bing to wait near Heavenly Prosperity City and traveled deeper into the Source-Qi Death Domain.
• Song Wen summoned the Nether Fox, which reported a low-grade resentful spirit nearby and found no other living beings within two thousand li.
• Song Wen questioned Shadow Void in his sea of consciousness and learned it had acquired human speech by observing Jiang Yushan for over two hundred years.
• Song Wen opened his sea of consciousness, allowing Shadow Void to sense three nearby Void Race members within ten thousand li.
• Song Wen asked why Shadow Void had missed the resentful spirit, and Shadow Void explained that resentful spirits were its favorite food but that it could not yet devour an intact soul.

Song Wen used Shadow Void’s senses to locate three Void demons and secured them for Nether Fox to consume when it advanced. As Song Wen continued north through the Source-Qi Death Domain, Shadow Void offered a life-bound blood pact in exchange for help completing its hatching, warning that it would otherwise vanish within ten years.

• Song Wen learned that Shadow Void’s demonic sense reached about one thousand miles under the black hole’s suppression, while its special sense detected Void Race members within ten thousand miles.
• Shadow Void sent out a ripple to test whether it could command lower-ranking Void Race creatures, and Nether Fox detected three approaching demons.
• Song Wen killed one Void demon with the Soul-Splitting Blade, while Nether Fox killed the other two and brought their corpses to him.
• Song Wen stored the three corpses for Nether Fox’s advancement and continued north, intending to investigate the Source-Qi Death Domain before leaving it.
• Shadow Void offered Song Wen a life-bound blood pact in exchange for help completing its hatching, explaining that it would otherwise gradually disappear within ten years.

Song Wen negotiated with Shadow Void over its hatching and used a damaged remnant soul to receive the Void Race creature’s blood pact of life. Following the Nether Fox, he found an abyss that matched the description of the undersea tunnel entrance.

• Song Wen offered Shadow Void soul fragments from the black hole, but withheld them until Shadow Void agreed to form a blood pact of life.
• Shadow Void cast its pact rune, and Song Wen used a damaged Spirit Transformation remnant soul to receive it instead of risking his own divine soul.
• Song Wen stored the remnant soul in a soul bottle and continued following the Nether Fox, avoiding low-level wraiths and Void demons along the way.
• The Nether Fox sensed an underground abyss about fifteen hundred li northwest, and Song Wen went there with it.
• The Nether Fox described the abyss as descending roughly a hundred li before opening into a sloping tunnel, convincing Song Wen that he had found the undersea tunnel entrance.

Song Wen agreed to let Nether Fox make a breakthrough in a concealed cave while he stood guard and absorbed souls. Shadow Void revealed that the silver motes Song Wen had thought were soul fragments were rare Soul Source Essence, but Song Wen refused to help it hatch until Nether Fox's breakthrough was complete.

• Nether Fox asked to remain in the source-qi region and attempt to advance to the fifth rank, and Shadow Void also asked to stay and hatch.
• Song Wen led Nether Fox one hundred thousand li from the sea and helped it find a cave in an abandoned sect's mountain range.
• Song Wen set up a concealment array around Nether Fox's cave, then hid among boulders nearby and absorbed the souls in his soul vial.
• Shadow Void explained that the silver motes Song Wen had called soul fragments were Soul Source Essence, which could strengthen or repair souls without hidden dangers.
• Shadow Void asked Song Wen for Soul Source Essence to finish hatching, but Song Wen refused until Nether Fox's breakthrough was over.

Song Wen protected Nether Fox during its breakthrough, using Shadow Void to drive off or kill creatures drawn by the surging source qi. Nether Fox reached the fifth rank in less than a year, and the chapter ended with it discovering the void fiend attached to Song Wen and reacting in shock.

• Song Wen told Shadow Void to watch the area while Nether Fox advanced, and Shadow Void drove away two fifth-rank Void Race members and killed a fourth-rank resentful spirit.
• Shadow Void helped Song Wen repel the creatures drawn to Nether Fox's breakthrough, but a sixth-rank resentful spirit charged toward the cave.
• Song Wen followed Shadow Void to the green-ox resentful spirit, stunned it with Shadow Void's buzzing attack, struck it with lightning, and watched Shadow Void swallow it.
• Nether Fox emerged after successfully advancing to the fifth rank and thanked Song Wen for nurturing it.
• Nether Fox noticed the void fiend growing from Song Wen's head, and Song Wen explained that he had suppressed it within his sea of consciousness.
• Song Wen marveled at Nether Fox's talent after learning it had reached the fifth rank in less than a year.

Song Wen fled the Source-Qi Death Domain while Shadow Void’s hatching aura drew several Void beasts, including a seventh-rank pursuer. A seventh-rank resentful spirit attacked his divine sense from behind, leaving him in pain as the chapter ended.

• Song Wen helped Shadow Void advance in his sea of consciousness while the Nether Fox kept watch, and after six months Shadow Void neared the end of its hatching.
• The Nether Fox detected two fifth-rank Void beasts approaching, and Shadow Void explained they wanted to devour it before it hatched.
• Song Wen abandoned the valley and flew south, but a late sixth-rank Void beast and two others pursued him as Shadow Void’s aura attracted them.
• Shadow Void warned Song Wen that a seventh-rank inferior Void beast was approaching, so he changed course and headed north despite being unable to stop the hatching.
• A seventh-rank resentful spirit shrieked behind Song Wen, violently shaking his sea of consciousness and causing him intense pain.

Song Wen fought the seventh-rank eagle-like void demon after his Minor Teleportation Talisman sent him north instead of south. He broke its source qi shield, wounded it with the Chasing Sun Spear, and struck its incorporeal body with lightning as it tried to escape.

• Song Wen used a Minor Teleportation Talisman to escape the giant eagle void demon, then learned from Shadow Void that his lightning attack had failed to injure it.
• Song Wen sent the Profound Corpse and his own attacks against the demon, while Shadow Void spotted a flaw in the source qi shield around its head.
• Song Wen struck the shield with golden lightning, shattered it, and drove the Chasing Sun Spear into the demon's body.
• The giant eagle void demon turned incorporeal and broke free, but Song Wen pursued it with a torrent of lightning.

After defeating a giant eagle Void Demon, Song Wen fled from a stronger seventh-tier Void Demon and followed the eagle’s directions to an underground tunnel where a seventh-tier Wraith lived. He reached a rubble-blocked passage near the Wraith’s cavern as the pursuing demon followed him inside.

• Song Wen killed the giant eagle Void Demon, and Shadow Void warned him that a stronger seventh-tier Void Demon was approaching.
• Song Wen had Shadow Void question the eagle and learned of an underground cavern occupied by a powerful seventh-tier Wraith.
• Song Wen used the Blood Escape Technique and Minor Teleportation Talismans to evade the pursuing black hound Void Demon while traveling north.
• Song Wen entered the undersea tunnel and followed it deeper into the underground passage, with the black hound still on his trail.
• Shadow Void told Song Wen that the cavern beyond a pile of rubble held the seventh-tier Wraith.

Song Wen hid deep underground while Shadow Void completed its hatching, after the giant canine void demon and the seventh-rank resentful spirit fought above. Shadow Void’s tentacles caused a collapse before it finished transforming, and the chapter ended with the resentful spirit approaching Song Wen’s cavern.

• Song Wen drilled deep underground as the giant canine void demon and the seventh-rank resentful spirit arrived and fought above him.
• Song Wen settled in a cavern and had the Nether Fox guard while Shadow Void absorbed soul-source essence to complete its hatching.
• The Nether Fox reported that the resentful spirit had defeated the giant canine void demon and was pursuing it.
• Shadow Void’s tentacles drained the cave’s origin qi and battered the rock, forcing Song Wen and the Nether Fox to flee as the passage collapsed.
• Shadow Void’s new tentacle reached five zhang, its nine tentacles vanished into Song Wen’s sea of consciousness, and the Nether Fox sensed the seventh-rank resentful spirit entering the passage.