Recaps

Song Wen learned that Bi Xiaoyu’s Blood-Crying Mother-Child Gu would die with her, then kept her alive to help him understand the Blood Refinement Gu Sacrifice Formation. In Taitan City, Bai Wei urgently asked Gou Jun to heal Qiao Mengyu’s gravely injured soul, and Song Wen agreed after securing several promises; he arrived at Bai Wei’s ship to examine her disciple.

• Bi Xiaoyu explained that her natal Blood-Crying Mother-Child Gu could not be controlled by Song Wen and would die when her soul scattered.
• Song Wen let the black hole devour Mutu, then left for Cloud Creek Valley after finishing his meal.
• With Bi Xiaoyu’s help, Song Wen learned the Blood Refinement Gu Sacrifice Formation’s procedure and required spiritual materials.
• Song Wen received Bai Wei’s repeated messages asking him to save Qiao Mengyu and negotiated for Bai Wei’s Body Integration Realm insights, a pill, spirit stones, and a favor.
• Song Wen and Bai Wei agreed to meet in a valley, where he boarded her ship and found Qiao Mengyu lying unconscious on a soul-nourishing jade bed.

Song Wen treated Qiao Mengyu’s severely weakened divine soul while Bai Wei helped him move it within her sea of consciousness. After three days, Qiao Mengyu remained unconscious, and Song Wen claimed he needed to rest before continuing.

• Song Wen examined Qiao Mengyu and told Bai Wei he would do his utmost to heal her, then asked Bai Wei to seal off the valley.
• Song Wen tried to send Soul Source Essence into Qiao Mengyu’s sea of consciousness but found her divine soul too far from the passage.
• Bai Wei explained that divine souls touching could intermingle their thoughts and intentions, then entered Qiao Mengyu’s sea of consciousness and moved her divine soul closer to the passage.
• Song Wen resumed treatment and saw Qiao Mengyu’s divine soul begin to recover, but after three days he stopped and told Bai Wei he needed to rest.
• Bai Wei noticed Song Wen’s physical reaction and asked him to exercise restraint, while Song Wen said he could not attend to anything else during treatment.

Bai Wei explained that Qiao Mengyu wanted a second Primordial Spirit so she could enter a dangerous small world, then offered to help Song Wen resolve his lust obstruction so he could treat Qiao Mengyu. After repeated treatments and further encounters between Bai Wei and Song Wen, Qiao Mengyu finally woke and attacked Song Wen, who dodged.

• Bai Wei told Song Wen that Qiao Mengyu planned to cultivate a second Primordial Spirit to enter a small world containing Heavenly Soul Lingzhi.
• Bai Wei offered to resolve Song Wen’s lust obstruction and revealed her true appearance before taking him to another room.
• Over the following days, Bai Wei and Song Wen repeatedly went next door while Song Wen continued treating Qiao Mengyu.
• Song Wen told Bai Wei that one more treatment should wake Qiao Mengyu, and they went next door again.
• Qiao Mengyu woke during the treatment and struck at Song Wen, but he dodged and landed beside Bai Wei.

After healing Qiao Mengyu, Song Wen learned that Pure Origin Heavenly Dew might be found in the Turbid Spirit Realm, which the three great sects would enter in six months. He studied Bai Wei's Body Integration insights and learned why the treasure was especially valuable to heretical cultivators.

• Qiao Mengyu awoke after Song Wen healed her soul, thanked him, and declined further treatment.
• Bai Wei paid Song Wen what she had promised and invited him to join the expedition to the Turbid Spirit Realm, where Pure Origin Heavenly Dew had reportedly been seen.
• Song Wen left after agreeing to consider Bai Wei's offer, and Qiao Mengyu asked her master why she had removed her disguise.
• Song Wen read Bai Wei's insights and learned that Body Integration required turning 108 principal acupoints into soul apertures.
• Song Wen learned that heretical cultivators had to bring their acupoints' turbidity to its utmost extreme, and that Pure Origin Heavenly Dew could greatly aid their cultivation.

Song Wen weighed the dangers of entering the Turbid Spirit Realm in pursuit of Pure Origin Heavenly Dew, then abducted a talented formation cultivator to make her set up formations for him. He brought Kang Ling to a concealed underground cavern, where she revealed she was a rogue cultivator who had learned formations from an inheritance.

• Song Wen considered the risks of entering the Turbid Spirit Realm and checked his collection of life-saving treasures, but remained undecided.
• Song Wen visited Taitan City, spotted a female formation cultivator at a stall, and followed her out of the city.
• Song Wen confronted the female cultivator and forced her to accompany him after she dismissed her protective formations.
• Song Wen dug a deep tunnel into a barren desert and led the woman into an underground cavern.
• Song Wen set up sixth-tier defensive and concealment formations, then collapsed the tunnel entrance to hide the cavern.
• Song Wen learned that the woman was Kang Ling, a rogue cultivator who had developed her formation skills by studying an inheritance.

Song Wen made Kang Ling study and construct the Blood Refinement Gu Sacrifice Formation, then used it to strengthen his Shadow King Gu. After paying Kang Ling, he left her alive as the shaft filled with rubble.

• Song Wen gave Kang Ling one month to set up the Blood Refinement Gu Sacrifice Formation, offering to answer her questions.
• With Bi Xiaoyu’s guidance through Song Wen, Kang Ling successfully completed the formation after thirty days.
• Song Wen placed ten jellyfish-like gu worms and the fifth-tier Shadow King Gu in the formation and activated it.
• The formation consumed the ten gu worms’ spiritual essence, advancing the Shadow King Gu from the early to the middle fifth tier.
• Song Wen gave Kang Ling five hundred superior spirit stones and departed as the shaft’s rubble fell around her.

Song Wen met Mi Man at the Jade Cauldron Pavilion after she asked for his Thunder Arts to purify formless weak water. Seeing that the water could strengthen the Blood Sea Seal, he asked whether her sect possessed more powerful weak water.

• Song Wen received Mi Man's request for help refining a spiritual item and negotiated to meet her at the Jade Cauldron Pavilion.
• Song Wen went to Courtyard Seventy-Two, changed his appearance into Lei Yue, and waited for Mi Man.
• Mi Man arrived in disguise and explained that she wanted Song Wen to remove yin energy from formless weak water for her bonded magical treasure.
• Song Wen examined the weak water and recognized it as a potential material for the Blood Sea Seal.
• Song Wen asked Mi Man whether the Jade Spirit Palace had any more powerful weak water.

Song Wen cleared the yin energy from Mi Man’s formless weak water and learned that Fu Hongwen had given it to her. When they met Fu Hongwen at a restaurant, he arrived with two Void Refinement cultivators whose interest in Mi Man made their ill intentions clear.

• Song Wen agreed to clear the yin energy from Mi Man’s formless weak water in exchange for one thousand superior spirit stones.
• Song Wen finished the task within hours, and Mi Man told him that Fu Hongwen had given her the water after his clan explored a dangerous place.
• Mi Man led Song Wen to a restaurant and summoned Fu Hongwen so they could ask him about the water’s origin.
• Fu Hongwen arrived with Fu Kaiyu and the newly appointed supreme elder Jing Shuo, who openly scrutinized Mi Man.
• Song Wen and Mi Man realized the visitors had come with ill intent, while Song Wen anticipated a spectacle and Mi Man trembled with apprehension.

Fu Kaiyu accepted Fu Hongwen’s defense of Mi Man, but Jing Bei then pursued her and exposed that her primordial yin was already lost. He accused Song Wen of being her lover, leaving Song Wen under everyone’s scrutiny.

• Mi Man denied deceiving Fu Hongwen, and Fu Hongwen defended her as a sincere friend who had never asked him for treasures.
• Fu Kaiyu said he believed Fu Hongwen and warned Mi Man not to betray their friendship.
• Jing Bei declared his interest in Mi Man and offered her cultivation resources, while Fu Kaiyu restrained Fu Hongwen from intervening.
• Mi Man refused Jing Bei, who revealed that her primordial yin had already been lost and accused her of secret affairs.
• Jing Bei followed Mi Man’s gaze to Song Wen and accused him of being her lover, while Fu Hongwen turned against Song Wen.
• Song Wen denied having private feelings for Mi Man and said she would never favor a Rogue Cultivator like him.

Song Wen learned that Jing Bei cultivated the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and suspected the Divine Blood Sect core disciple had a hidden purpose in Taitan City. After Mi Man refused to report the incident, Song Wen tracked Jing Bei and his companions to an inn, where a maid mistook his invitation for an improper advance.

• Jing Bei threatened Mi Man with a permanent facial scar but stopped short of harming her, then left with Fu Kaiyu and Fu Hongwen.
• Song Wen urged Mi Man to report Jing Bei to Jade Spirit Palace, but she refused and asked him to keep the encounter secret.
• Song Wen decided to investigate Jing Bei himself and reasoned that he would need to monitor the group until they left Taitan City.
• Song Wen disguised himself as a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator and used the Dream-Floating True Eye to follow the trio's traces to an inn.
• At the inn, Song Wen told a maid to enter his courtyard, and she hesitated, saying staff could not engage in improper conduct with guests.

Song Wen investigated Jing Bei and watched him from a nearby inn courtyard, eventually discovering that Jing Bei and Fu Kaiyu were heading toward Xiuyang City. He raced ahead to intercept and kill them.

• Song Wen questioned a maid about Jing Bei and learned that Jing Bei, Fu Hongwen, and Fu Kaiyu had stayed in Courtyard Number Thirty-Seven for half a month.
• Song Wen left Taitan City in disguise, changed his appearance, returned to the same inn, and rented Courtyard Number Thirty-Six beside theirs.
• Song Wen watched Jing Bei leave each morning and return at dusk, then briefly followed him through shops before giving up and continuing to monitor the courtyard.
• After half a month, Fu Kaiyu left the inn, and Song Wen followed him out of Taitan City.
• Jing Bei joined Fu Kaiyu outside the city, and Song Wen recognized they were headed toward Xiuyang City and sped ahead to intercept them.

Song Wen ambushed Jing Bei and Fu Kaiyu, using his Law-Breaking Divine Eye to disrupt Jing Bei’s corpse coffin and attack them. Jing Bei sacrificed Fu Kaiyu to counter the eye technique, then concealed himself in a vast lake of corpse qi and sent a giant python after Song Wen.

• Jing Bei told Fu Kaiyu about the Divine Blood Sect’s Corpse King Reincarnation Art and promised to recommend him for entry into the sect.
• Jing Bei blocked a surprise attack with his corpse coffin and sent his corpse puppet to fight a late sixth-rank Profound Corpse emerging from a mountain.
• Song Wen rushed past the battling corpse puppets and used two blood-colored beams to wrest control of Jing Bei’s corpse coffin.
• Jing Bei hurled Fu Kaiyu into the beams as a distraction, then decapitated him while Fu Kaiyu believed the beams were harmless.
• Jing Bei flooded the area with corpse qi, hid within it, and summoned a giant python to attack Song Wen.

Song Wen battled Jing Bei and Fu Kaiyu, using the Blood Sea Seal and his eye technique before defeating them with a feint and the Nine Nether Baleful Qi. He escaped with their frozen remains, devoured their souls, and found he could not use Jing Bei’s spiritual power to break through his bottleneck.

• Song Wen’s Blood Sea Seal overwhelmed Jing Bei’s corpse-qi python and kept Jing Bei’s corpse puppet from reaching him.
• Jing Bei swallowed a pill that pushed his cultivation to a half-step from the Body Integration Realm, then used ink-green baleful qi to corrupt and drive back Song Wen’s blood sea.
• Golden lightning destroyed Jing Bei’s corpse-qi cover, and Song Wen’s eye beams weakened Jing Bei’s spiritual-power barrier as the corpse puppet and baleful qi attacked him.
• Jing Bei believed Song Wen had been killed, but Song Wen appeared behind him and beheaded him with the Soul-Splitting Blade before freezing Jing Bei and Fu Kaiyu in Nine Nether Baleful Qi.
• Song Wen fled a million li, devoured both men’s souls, and burned Fu Kaiyu’s remains after draining their blood essence.
• Song Wen tried to temper his spiritual power with Jing Bei’s, but his bottleneck prevented him from absorbing it, and it dissipated as spiritual qi.

Song Wen questioned Jing Bei about his origins, the Turbid Spirit Realm, and his survival measures before devouring Jing Bei and Fu Kaiyu’s souls. After studying Jing Bei’s Jade Slip, Song Wen decided to ask Bai Wei about entering the Turbid Spirit Realm to seek Pure Origin Heavenly Dew.

• Song Wen told Jing Bei he was not a member of the Divine Blood Sect and asked whether Jing Bei had the Body Integration Realm portion of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, but Jing Bei said he did not.
• Jing Bei revealed that he had planned to enter the Turbid Spirit Realm through the Fu Clan to seek Pure Origin Heavenly Dew and described the pills and talismans he had prepared for survival.
• Song Wen asked Jing Bei about Body Integration and the Six Baleful Hall’s base, then devoured Jing Bei and Fu Kaiyu’s souls.
• Song Wen studied a blood-red Jade Slip containing Divine Blood Sect predecessors’ breakthrough insights and learned that Pure Origin Heavenly Dew had helped most recipients break through.
• Song Wen decided to visit Bai Wei and tell her he wanted to enter the Turbid Spirit Realm.

Song Wen agreed to enter the Turbid Spirit Realm with Bai Wei’s help and learned how Pure Origin Heavenly Dew formed and could be found. Three months later, he boarded Jade Spirit Palace’s flying ship, where Wang Qiuyue mistook his relationship with Bai Wei for a romantic one.

• Song Wen asked Bai Wei to bring him into the Turbid Spirit Realm, and she agreed while warning him that he would face its dangers on his own.
• Bai Wei explained that Pure Origin Heavenly Dew formed in the Ninth Heavens and drifted with the gale winds, so Song Wen could search for it in the high skies.
• After waiting in Taitan City for three months, Song Wen boarded Jade Spirit Palace’s flying ship at Bai Wei’s summons.
• Wang Qiuyue questioned Song Wen, and Bai Wei introduced him as Gou Jun, a rogue cultivator who had once helped her.
• Wang Qiuyue hinted that Bai Wei and Gou Jun might be bound together in immortality, then left without waiting for an explanation.

Bai Wei arranged for Song Wen to enter the Turbid Spirit Realm safely and explained how he could avoid surrendering half his gains. After reaching Cloudpass Mountain Range, Song Wen kept apart from the other cultivators, but Xue Cong and Hong Yi approached him as the realm’s opening drew near.

• Bai Wei told Song Wen to stay in his room during the journey, seek her protection from Fan Kang, and leave the Turbid Spirit Realm before its exit closed.
• After a month and a half, the flying ship reached Cloudpass Mountain Range, where Fan Kang greeted Bai Wei and Wang Qiuyue and explained that the three sects had sealed the realm’s entrance with an array.
• Wang Qiuyue ordered everyone to disembark, and Fan Kang led the group to a pavilion on the mountain.
• Song Wen stood alone at the edge of the square to avoid drawing attention to his identity.
• Xue Cong introduced himself and asked Song Wen why he was entering the realm; Song Wen repeated his prepared explanation that Bai Wei had recommended him to Jade Spirit Palace.
• Hong Yi approached Song Wen and Xue Cong and presumptuously asked what they hoped to obtain in the Turbid Spirit Realm.

Song Wen gained Hong Yi’s favor by explaining his modest goal in the Turbid Spirit Realm and invoking his gratitude to Bai Wei. After the three sects opened the realm’s gateway, their cultivators entered, while Gu Huang exchanged a veiled threat with Wang Qiu Yue.

• Xue Cong redirected Hong Yi’s question to Song Wen, who said he sought rare items for Jade Spirit Palace and hoped to join the sect.
• Hong Yi praised Song Wen and continued speaking with him, while she dismissed Xue Cong’s similar explanation.
• Jian Xiao arrived with Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion, and the leaders of the three sects agreed to open the Turbid Spirit Realm immediately.
• Zhao Ce, Fan Kang, and a Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion cultivator activated the array, creating a golden vortex that served as the realm’s gateway.
• Jian Xiao led Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion into the realm, and Gu Huang warned Wang Qiu Yue to be cautious before she replied with a pointed warning of her own.
• Mystic Firmament Sect entered next, followed by Wang Qiu Yue and Bai Wei leading Song Wen and the remaining Jade Spirit Palace cultivators into the realm.

Song Wen searched the Nine Heavens Gale Winds for Pure Origin Heavenly Dew and discovered that tracking the winds’ direction could lead him to it. After finding a small cluster, he claimed it ahead of an approaching cultivator, who demanded that he release it.

• Song Wen ascended into the Nine Heavens Gale Winds and found that their force and interference made searching for Pure Origin Heavenly Dew difficult.
• Song Wen spent ten days searching without success, then realized the winds tended to blow southwest and followed their flow.
• When the winds abruptly shifted, Song Wen was swept backward and spotted a five-colored pearl of Pure Origin Heavenly Dew.
• Song Wen chased down the pearl and seized it, but Shadow Void warned him that a peak Void Refinement cultivator was approaching.
• The approaching cultivator shouted at Song Wen to release the Pure Origin Heavenly Dew, claiming to have discovered it first.

Song Wen, posing as Fu Kaiyu, tried to bargain with Ying Deng for the Pure Origin Heavenly Dew, but their meeting turned into a fight when Ying Deng attacked him. After Song Wen revealed powerful lightning arts and Elder Xuan Qu’s Mountain-Suppressing Gong, Ying Deng fled, only for Song Wen to pursue him using the Mystic Thunder Nine Heavens Escape Art.

• Song Wen claimed to be Fu Kaiyu of the Fu Clan and met Ying Deng of the Mystic Firmament Sect, who offered ten thousand high-grade spirit stones for the Pure Origin Heavenly Dew.
• Song Wen proposed joining Ying Deng to search for more Pure Origin Heavenly Dew, but Ying Deng suspected a trap and attacked with his lightning-charged halberd.
• Song Wen countered with silver lightning and blocked Ying Deng’s halberd using Elder Xuan Qu’s Mountain-Suppressing Gong, prompting Ying Deng to demand the identity of the person who harmed Elder Xuan Qu.
• Song Wen struck Ying Deng’s halberd with a golden bolt of the Divine Blood Sect’s Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts, forcing Ying Deng to retreat.
• Song Wen pursued Ying Deng with the Mystic Thunder Nine Heavens Escape Art, and Ying Deng was shocked to recognize the technique.

Song Wen defeated Ying Deng and learned that he had found Pure Origin Heavenly Dew in a native village. Song Wen reached the village and found it slaughtered, then heard how the dew had fallen from the sky and been collected by the natives.

• Song Wen wounded Ying Deng with Soul-Concentrating Spikes and captured him in a blood cocoon.
• Song Wen threatened Ying Deng, who revealed that he had obtained two drops of Pure Origin Heavenly Dew from a native village about a million li south.
• Song Wen flew south with Ying Deng and found the valley, where the native village lay in ruins and every inhabitant had been killed.
• Ying Deng admitted killing the villagers and explained that the Pure Origin Heavenly Dew had fallen from the sky and the natives had collected it.

Song Wen killed Ying Deng and followed the astral winds southwest in search of native villages with Pure Origin Heavenly Dew. He found a stronger village under attack by bald-feathered beasts and watched its powerful but flightless defender struggle to protect his people.

• Song Wen questioned Ying Deng about native villages, then crushed him in the blood cocoon and took the Pure Origin Heavenly Dew from his storage ring.
• Song Wen searched a weak village with Shadow Void and the Spirit-Seeking Treasure Eyes, found no Pure Origin Heavenly Dew, and continued southwest.
• Song Wen passed more than ten villages before finding one whose strongest native rivaled a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.
• Several bald-feathered beasts raided the village and carried natives into the sky to eat them.
• The village's strongest man leaped at the beasts and hurled boulders, but they evaded him because he could not fly.

Song Wen saved a native village from giant birds and tried to trade Pure Origin Heavenly Dew with its leader to learn where the natives had found more. The burly man led Song Wen far south, where Song Wen encountered a colossal waterfall of astral energy descending from the Ninth Heaven.

• Song Wen killed the giant birds attacking the village, and the natives knelt before him.
• The burly man mistook Song Wen's Pure Origin Heavenly Dew for a gift and offered him a woman, but Song Wen reclaimed the treasure and demonstrated his power.
• Song Wen showed the burly man a damaged drop of Pure Origin Heavenly Dew and learned that it had come from somewhere south.
• Song Wen carried the burly man hundreds of thousands of li south until a vast waterfall of astral energy came into view.

Song Wen approached the astral wind waterfall seeking Pure Origin Heavenly Dew and discovered that the astral winds reversed, surging up from the abyss. After traveling along the waterfall’s curved edge, he encountered Xue Cong and two other Void Refinement cultivators.

• A burly native showed Song Wen that Pure Origin Heavenly Dew could fall from the sky when the astral winds calmed and reversed, then returned to his village.
• Song Wen flew toward the astral wind waterfall and found an abyss beneath it, but the astral winds shredded his divine sense before he could investigate its depths.
• Song Wen determined that the waterfall was a colossal curved pillar of astral wind and traveled along its edge to seek a safer way into the abyss.
• Shadow Void alerted Song Wen to seven cultivators ahead, including three Void Refinement cultivators, and Song Wen recognized Xue Cong among them.
• Song Wen greeted Xue Cong and told him that he had come for Pure Origin Heavenly Dew but had gained very little.

Song Wen, posing as Gou Jun, joined Leng Zhi, Heng Ziping, and Xue Cong outside the Astral Qi Abyss as they discussed seeking Pure Origin Heavenly Dew. Leng Zhi proposed using her Heavenly Net Wind-Binding Formation to enter the abyss together the next morning, and Song Wen began studying its operation.

• Song Wen claimed he had obtained only one drop of Pure Origin Heavenly Dew and questioned the others about their gains.
• Heng Ziping explained that the group had gathered to enter the Astral Qi Abyss, while Leng Zhi described its ring-shaped layout and dangerous shifting astral winds.
• Heng Ziping proposed that the four cultivators explore the abyss together and divide any Pure Origin Heavenly Dew according to their abilities.
• Leng Zhi revealed her Heavenly Net Wind-Binding Formation and explained that four people could use it to resist the astral winds.
• Song Wen, Heng Ziping, and Xue Cong agreed to enter the abyss with Leng Zhi the next morning, and Song Wen sat down to study the formation disc.

Leng Zhi, Song Wen, Heng Ziping, and Xue Cong descended into the abyss using the Heavenly Net Wind-Binding Formation to search for Pure Origin Heavenly Dew. Song Wen found a drop and secured first place in their distribution order, leaving the group to continue searching on later descents.

• Leng Zhi led Song Wen, Heng Ziping, and Xue Cong into the rising astral wind waterfall with the Heavenly Net Wind-Binding Formation.
• The four descended tens of thousands of miles through increasingly violent astral winds but found no Pure Origin Heavenly Dew at first.
• Song Wen sensed a crystal of Pure Origin Heavenly Dew embedded in the rock wall, and Leng Zhi used the formation to retrieve it.
• Heng Ziping challenged Song Wen's claim to the drop, while Xue Cong proposed that they distribute future finds in an agreed order.
• Leng Zhi backed Song Wen as the first recipient, and the group agreed that Leng Zhi would be second, Heng Ziping third, and Xue Cong fourth.