Recaps

Song Wen killed Guan Liang after extracting the Netherworld Sand from his group, then spent a year strengthening the Blood Sea Imperial Seal. In Taitan City, he learned that Wang Qiuyue had killed Tang He and obtained the divine-sense attack secret art, but he withheld his location until he verified her claim.

• Song Wen killed Wen Hua and the other two, then killed Guan Liang and took their four storage rings.
• A year later, Song Wen tested the enhanced Blood Sea Imperial Seal and judged that it could help him escape an Integrated Body Early Stage Cultivator.
• Disguised as a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator in Taitan City, Song Wen contacted Bai Wei about the Heavenly Dipper Body Integration Pill, and Bai Wei said she needed time to recover before refining it.
• Bai Wei told Song Wen that Wang Qiuyue had been searching for him, and Wang Qiuyue offered to deliver the divine-sense attack secret art taken from Tang He's wooden box.
• Song Wen suspected Wang Qiuyue might be luring him and checked intelligence shops, which confirmed that Tang He had died half a year earlier and that the Mystic Firmament Sect had found no clues about her killer.

Song Wen met Wang Qiuyue through a Heaven-and-Earth Avatar and received the Soul-Slaying Spike, discovering it continued the Soul-Concentrating Spike. He offered to help Wang Qiuyue comprehend the technique and arranged to meet her at a lake west of Taitan City.

• Song Wen verified Wang Qiuyue's claim about the secret technique and arranged to meet her at the Cinnabar Grove Restaurant.
• Song Wen sent a Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to meet Wang Qiuyue while his true body watched from outside.
• Wang Qiuyue gave the avatar a Jade Slip containing the Soul-Slaying Spike.
• Song Wen recognized that the Soul-Slaying Spike continued the Soul-Concentrating Spike and wondered whether the mutilated corpse in the Immortal's Tomb had been a Divine Blood Sect ancestor.
• Wang Qiuyue said she had been unable to comprehend the technique's opening section, and Song Wen offered to help her.
• Song Wen arranged for Wang Qiuyue to meet him above a lake ten thousand li west of the city.

Song Wen asked Wang Qiuyue to guard him during his planned breakthrough to the integrated body realm, offering her the Soul-Concentrating Spike in return. He traveled to Cinder Star Plain to find a secluded cultivation site and learned that the Jia Family claimed the region as forbidden ground under the authority of Jia Hongyu.

• Song Wen met Wang Qiuyue and gave her the Soul-Concentrating Spike, which she recognized as the technique preceding the Soul-Slaying Spike.
• Song Wen asked Wang Qiuyue to guard him during his breakthrough, and she agreed to protect him unless someone stronger intervened.
• After Wang Qiuyue questioned why he had not asked Bai Wei, Song Wen studied a map and set out for Cinder Star Plain to find a remote, spiritually rich cultivation site.
• Two months later, Song Wen encountered Jia Family cultivators who told him that Jia Hongyu had declared a million-li stretch of Cinder Star Plain forbidden to outsiders.
• Song Wen learned that Great Granary City lay to the west and headed there to investigate the Jia Family and its claimed territory.

Song Wen investigated the Jia Family’s forbidden zone and discovered that Jia Hongyu, believed dead for ten years, was alive in a suspended state beneath Lanyuan Mountain. He suspected the Jia Family’s planned ceremony offering sacrifices to Heaven might be connected to Jia Hongyu’s feigned death.

• Song Wen learned from an intelligence shopkeeper that Jia Hongyu had supposedly died ten years earlier, and that the Jia Family planned a ceremony offering sacrifices to Heaven on Lanyuan Mountain.
• Song Wen obtained a map and information on the Jia Family’s core members, then traveled cautiously through the wilderness to Lanyuan Mountain.
• Song Wen found a concealed cave entrance at the mountain’s base and descended deep underground, where the spiritual energy grew unusually dense.
• Song Wen followed Shadow Void’s guidance through an underground passage and stopped at an invisible barrier.
• Shadow Void sensed a white-haired, bearded man in suspended death inside a cavern beyond the barrier, and Song Wen identified him as Jia Hongyu.

Song Wen collected the Heavenly Dipper Body Integration Pill from Bai Wei and asked her to help guard his attempt to reach the Integrated Body Realm. With Bai Wei and Wang Qiuyue accompanying him, he headed toward Lanyuan Mountain near Great Granary City to begin his breakthrough.

• Song Wen left Jia Hongyu undisturbed behind the barrier, suspecting he might be using a technique to extend his life.
• Two years later, Bai Wei gave Song Wen the Heavenly Dipper Body Integration Pill and agreed to guard his breakthrough alongside Wang Qiuyue.
• Song Wen explained that his cultivation had stalled during two years of seclusion and chose to risk attempting the breakthrough soon.
• Bai Wei arranged to meet Wang Qiuyue, and the three traveled toward Great Granary City on the Cinder Star Plain.
• Near Lanyuan Mountain, Song Wen asked Bai Wei to conceal the flying ship to avoid drawing the Jia Family's attention, then descended into the forest.

Song Wen entered the cavern hall on Lanyuan Mountain and used Pure Origin Heavenly Dew to temper his body and mana as he prepared to break through. After two years of cultivation, he had begun transforming his acupoints into soul apertures, and Bai Wei estimated he would need another three to five years.

• Song Wen stopped Wang Qiuyue from breaking the barrier, and Bai Wei used formation flags to let them pass through it.
• Bai Wei and Wang Qiuyue found Jia Hongyu lying motionless in the cavern hall, and Song Wen moved him aside before beginning cultivation on the high platform.
• Song Wen swallowed Pure Origin Heavenly Dew, enduring severe pain as it repaired and strengthened his flesh and meridians while tempering his mana.
• Song Wen continued taking drops of Pure Origin Heavenly Dew throughout two years of secluded cultivation, and began turning his acupoints into soul apertures.
• Bai Wei told Wang Qiuyue that Song Wen might need another three to five years to transform all one hundred and eight major acupoints and prepare to break through.

As Song Wen cultivated in seclusion, he transformed all 108 of Gou Jun’s main acupoints into soul apertures and reached the critical stage of breaking through to the Integrated Body realm. Wang Qiuyue and Bai Wei confronted Xiang Rong and the Jia Family as they tried to disrupt his breakthrough, and the Jia Family sealed the area with a ring of black light.

• Wang Qiuyue wounded and imprisoned successive Jia Family groups who came to investigate the spiritual energy vortex, including a Void Refinement cultivator.
• Over two years, Song Wen transformed all 108 of Gou Jun’s main acupoints into soul apertures and began drawing in spiritual energy for his breakthrough.
• Wang Qiuyue and Bai Wei left the cavern to confront Xiang Rong, an Integrated Body Middle Stage cultivator, and sixteen Jia Family members.
• Wang Qiuyue threatened Xiang Rong and the Jia Family, while Jia Mingxuan asked them not to disturb Jia Hongyu’s supposed resting place.
• Xiang Rong ordered an attack, and the Jia Family members raised a ring of black light around Lanyuan Mountain and the surrounding hundred li.

Wang Qiuyue and Bai Wei defeated Xiang Rong and the Jia Family ambush while Song Wen struggled to break through underground. The battle disrupted the spiritual energy around Gou Jun, and Song Wen’s breakthrough remained blocked even after he took a Heavenly Dipper Body Integration Pill.

• Wang Qiuyue and Bai Wei shattered Xiang Rong’s defenses, severely wounded the sixteen Jia Family cultivators, and stopped their formation from activating.
• Xiang Rong fled, and Wang Qiuyue pursued him despite Bai Wei’s warning that the battle had disrupted the spiritual energy needed for Gou Jun’s breakthrough.
• Bai Wei gathered the wounded Jia Family cultivators as Jia Mingxuan regretted bringing Xiang Rong to Lanyuan Mountain and pleaded for mercy.
• Song Wen found that transforming all one hundred and eight primary acupoints into soul apertures had not loosened his bottleneck.
• Song Wen swallowed a Heavenly Dipper Body Integration Pill and forcefully attacked the bottleneck, but the pill’s power faded without breaking through.

Song Wen failed to break through to the Integrated Body Realm, and Wang Qiuyue explained that his poor spiritual root aptitude was likely the obstacle. Song Wen decided the Six Baleful Hall’s powerful cultivators might provide the spiritual energy he needed and planned to enlist Jian Xiao against them, though their whereabouts remained unknown.

• Song Wen used two Supreme-grade Spirit Stones to force his breakthrough, but his dantian was injured and he collapsed after failing.
• Bai Wei blamed Xiang Rong and the Jia Family for disrupting the spiritual energy, while Wang Qiuyue identified Song Wen’s poor aptitude as the likely reason for his failure.
• Wang Qiuyue suggested finding a treasure that improved spiritual-energy affinity, and Bai Wei warned that Song Wen’s soul apertures would deteriorate within a year unless he regained his breakthrough momentum.
• Song Wen resolved to obtain spiritual energy from Gong Tianzong and Wei Gu, then asked Bai Wei why she and the other Integrated Body Realm cultivators had besieged the Six Baleful Hall.
• Bai Wei explained that Jian Xiao held a grudge against the Six Baleful Hall, and Song Wen said he intended to use Jian Xiao against Gong Tianzong and Wei Gu.
• Bai Wei asked whether Song Wen knew where the vanished Six Baleful Hall was hiding.

Song Wen revealed the Six Baleful Hall’s location and joined Wang Qiuyue in a plan that could pit it against Jian Xiao. After interrogating Jia Mingxuan, Song Wen found the Reincarnation Calamity-Transcending Scripture, killed the Jia Family cultivators, and helped track Xiang Rong before rewarding his protectors with a secret art.

• Song Wen told Bai Wei and Wang Qiuyue where the Six Baleful Hall was, and Wang Qiuyue agreed to use it against Jian Xiao.
• Song Wen left the underground cavern with Jia Hongyu and asked Bai Wei and Wang Qiuyue to leave him alone with the Jia Family cultivators.
• Jia Mingxuan revealed that Jia Hongyu used the Reincarnation Calamity-Transcending Scripture to drain his descendants and said he had a copy in his storage ring.
• Song Wen devoured the Jia Family cultivators, took their storage rings, and found the scripture in Jia Mingxuan’s ring.
• Wang Qiuyue gave Song Wen Xiang Rong’s shield, and Song Wen used the Ten-Thousand-Mile Breath-Tracking Technique to locate Xiang Rong’s direction.
• Song Wen gave Bai Wei and Wang Qiuyue jade slips containing the tracking technique, and Wang Qiuyue accepted hers.

Song Wen, Wang Qiuyue, and Bai Wei tracked Xiang Rong to a lake and defeated him after destroying his hiding place. Wang Qiuyue restrained Xiang Rong and left him to Song Wen.

• Wang Qiuyue mastered the Ten-Thousand-Mile Breath-Tracking Technique and used Xiang Rong's shield to locate him beneath a lake.
• Bai Wei summoned a vortex that drained the lake and crushed the sixteen Formation Flags Xiang Rong had placed on its bed.
• Xiang Rong emerged from a cave, and Bai Wei's water vortex forced him into the open before Wang Qiuyue's dragon claws shattered his body.
• Bai Wei's water dragon bound Xiang Rong and imprisoned his Nascent Soul as Wang Qiuyue mocked him for attacking her and Bai Wei.
• Wang Qiuyue told Song Wen that Xiang Rong was his to deal with.

Song Wen learned that Jian Xiao was assembling cultivators to attack Six Baleful Hall and went to wait near its valley for a chance to act. After dozens of days underground, he saw five attackers launch a sudden assault on the valley, including one woman more than he had expected.

• Wang Qiuyue told Song Wen that Jian Xiao had recruited Fan Kang, Xuan Feng, Ying Wu, and others for another assault on Six Baleful Hall.
• Song Wen decided to wait near Six Baleful Hall, despite Bai Wei warning him of the danger, and thanked her and Wang Qiuyue before leaving.
• Song Wen hid underground in the Source-Qi Death Domain for dozens of days while watching the valley from afar.
• Five cultivators emerged less than ten li from the valley and attacked it with sword light, lightning, and fire.
• Shadow Void told Song Wen that the attackers had emerged from underground using earth-escape and aura-concealment methods, and Song Wen realized they had planned a surprise attack.

Song Wen learned that Wei Gu was being besieged by Jian Xiao and four other cultivators, then watched Wei Gu expose their hidden dealings and cast doubt on Xuan Qu’s killer. Jian Xiao’s allies began to waver, leaving the assault on Six Baleful Hall in jeopardy.

• Song Wen asked Shadow Void about the battle and learned that a black barrier had appeared beneath the ruined valley, shielding Wei Gu.
• Jian Xiao accused Wei Gu of slaughtering innocents, while Wei Gu denied Jian Xiao’s claims and said he sought Six Baleful Hall’s treasures and secret arts.
• Wei Gu revealed that Ying Wu had paid him for a Beauty Serpent and that Fan Kang had traded with him for Netherworld Sand, surprising Jian Xiao.
• Xuan Feng accused Wei Gu of killing her brother Xuan Qu, but Wei Gu argued that the righteous cultivators who had attacked Six Baleful Hall were more likely responsible, causing her to stop attacking.
• Wei Gu urged the unfamiliar rogue cultivator Ye Nan to leave Jian Xiao’s group or join Six Baleful Hall, and Jian Xiao anxiously tried to keep Ye Nan from being swayed.

Wei Gu turned Jian Xiao’s allies against him by offering them rewards and exposing the danger of breaking the Nine Yin Corpse Baleful Formation. After Ying Wu, Fan Kang, Xuan Feng, and Ye Nan fled, Jian Xiao also retreated, leaving Wei Gu to plot his next move with the black wolf Void Demon.

• Wei Gu warned Jian Xiao that activating his Profound Heaven Spirit Treasure would leave him vulnerable, then offered Ying Wu, Fan Kang, Xuan Feng, and Ye Nan reasons to abandon the fight.
• Ying Wu summoned a stitched-together monster to attack the barrier, but stopped when Wei Gu swore to find Beauty Serpent within a year.
• Ying Wu left the Source-Qi Death Domain, and Fan Kang followed after accepting Wei Gu’s offer to buy cultivation supplies from him.
• Xuan Feng departed after saying she would investigate Xuan Qu’s death, while Ye Nan fled in a different direction despite Jian Xiao promising him two sword arts.
• Jian Xiao retreated after his allies abandoned him, and Wei Gu spoke with the black wolf Void Demon before laughing at Jian Xiao’s betrayal and isolation.

Jian Xiao fought Wei Gu inside the Source-Qi Death Domain, where Wei Gu’s blood sea and Vast Extremity Divine Thunder gradually cornered him. Jian Xiao unleashed the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, which shattered Wei Gu’s defenses and destroyed his body.

• Wei Gu pursued Jian Xiao with the black wolf Void Demon, while Gong Tianzong was ordered to kill Ye Nan.
• Jian Xiao used a jade tablet to resist the Void Demon’s divine-sense attack and blocked Wei Gu’s corpse-qi spears as he fled.
• Wei Gu attacked Jian Xiao with a sea of blood and Vast Extremity Divine Thunder, forcing Jian Xiao into a difficult battle.
• Jian Xiao drew the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword and sent it through Wei Gu’s blood sphere and body, causing both to explode.

Jian Xiao and Wei Gu continued their battle as Jian Xiao used a Wither-and-Bloom Pill to restore his power and attacked with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword. After Wei Gu managed to block the sword, Jian Xiao tried to flee but was struck down by the Vast Extremity Divine Thunder.

• Jian Xiao realized the dark golden lightning was still forming overhead and learned Wei Gu had survived using a Death-Substitution Spell.
• Jian Xiao swallowed a Wither-and-Bloom Pill and drove the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword through Wei Gu's blood walls, Corpse Puppet, and corpse aura.
• Wei Gu blocked the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword with his Bone Sword, suffering serious injuries but stopping the attack.
• Jian Xiao recalled the sword and turned to flee as Wei Gu shouted after him.
• The Vast Extremity Divine Thunder struck Jian Xiao and drove him into the ground, splitting the earth around him.

Jian Xiao nearly died after his battle with Wei Gu, but a hidden talisman destroyed Wei Gu’s head without injuring his divine soul. Song Wen arrived to intervene, only to find Wei Gu protected by a powerful black wolf Void Demon, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Jian Xiao used a concealed sword talisman to destroy Wei Gu’s head, but Wei Gu’s divine soul survived and took control of his mangled body.
• Song Wen appeared to save Jian Xiao, who tried to strike Wei Gu’s dantian but was flung aside by corpse qi and a skeletal arm.
• Wei Gu summoned the late seventh-rank black wolf Void Demon and waited for Song Wen to approach.
• The black wolf Void Demon knocked Song Wen’s Soul-Splitting Blade away and struck down two death-substitute puppets.
• Song Wen appeared above the battlefield, and Wei Gu recognized his tactics and grew more vigilant and intent on killing him.

Song Wen used Illusion-Destroying Powder to disable the Black Wolf Void Demon and then attacked Wei Gu with the Blood Sea Seal. Wei Gu escaped into his Nascent Soul and countered with his bone sword, which began tearing apart the Blood Tide.

• Song Wen rejected Shadow Void's plan to fight the Black Wolf Void Demon after weighing the danger of releasing it without a pact.
• Wei Gu ordered the Black Wolf Void Demon to attack Song Wen with a divine-sense howl, but Song Wen's soul withstood the impact.
• Song Wen threw Illusion-Destroying Powder into the demon's mouth, then used a substitute-death technique as the powder incapacitated it.
• Song Wen sent a Blood Tide toward Wei Gu, who fled into his Nascent Soul and summoned his cracked bone sword.
• Wei Gu's bone sword tore through the Blood Tide and threatened to break it apart.

Song Wen killed Wei Gu and Jian Xiao, then used the Void Demon’s buzzing and a gu insect to ambush Ye Nan and escape. He hid in a cave and began absorbing Jian Xiao’s Nascent Soul to strengthen himself.

• Song Wen used Blood Tide to kill Wei Gu and Jian Xiao, then fled when Shadow Void warned him that an Integrated Body Realm Cultivator was approaching.
• Song Wen discovered that Ye Nan was pursuing him and learned that Ye Nan wanted Jian Xiao and Wei Gu’s storage rings.
• Song Wen offered Ye Nan two empty storage rings, then used a gu insect and the Void Demon’s buzzing to stun him and escape with him wrapped in Blood Tide.
• Song Wen traveled several million miles through the Source-Qi Death Domain, entered a cave, and set up defensive and spirit-isolating formations.
• Song Wen revealed Jian Xiao’s Nascent Soul and absorbed its spiritual power using the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.

Song Wen broke through to the Integrated Body Early Stage by devouring Wei Gu's Nascent Soul, then learned about the Thunder-Commanding Divine Control Ritual Altar and obtained Wei Gu's copy of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art through the Body Integration Realm. He still lacked the later portions of the art, which were held by the Divine Blood Sect's Mahayana stage elders.

• Song Wen forced his way through his bottleneck by absorbing Wei Gu's magic power and advanced to the Integrated Body Early Stage.
• Song Wen revealed to Jian Xiao that he was Gou Jun and confessed that he had arranged for Bai Wei and Wang Qiuyue to reveal the Six Baleful Hall's location.
• Jian Xiao explained that the wooden box from the Immortal's Tomb contained a method for crafting the Thunder-Commanding Divine Control Ritual Altar, which could steal another person's Thunder Arts talent.
• Song Wen learned that Wei Gu had the Corpse King Reincarnation Art through the Body Integration Realm and took the blood-colored Jade Slip containing it from Wei Gu's storage ring.
• Wei Gu told Song Wen that the later portions of the cultivation art were held by the Divine Blood Sect's Mahayana stage elders, whom Song Wen could not risk provoking.

Song Wen disposed of Wei Gu and Ye Nan, then examined Ye Nan’s mysterious stone statue before emerging thirteen years later as an Integrated Body Realm cultivator. At a meeting with Wang Qiuyue and Bai Wei, he discussed the fall of Six Baleful Hall and revealed that Wei Gu’s wooden box contained Divine Blood Sect’s Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts.

• Song Wen devoured Wei Gu and Jian Xiao, then questioned Ye Nan about how he had escaped Gong Tianzong.
• Ye Nan revealed that he had found a stone statue in a tomb, and Song Wen recognized similarities between it and his Two-Faced Buddha statue before devouring Ye Nan.
• Thirteen years later, Song Wen met Wang Qiuyue and Bai Wei in Taitan City, where they congratulated him on reaching the Integrated Body Realm.
• Wang Qiuyue inferred that Song Wen had taken advantage of the battle involving Jian Xiao and Wei Gu, then asked what Wei Gu’s wooden box had contained.
• Song Wen gave Wang Qiuyue a jade slip containing the Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts and explained its connection to Divine Blood Sect.

Song Wen discussed selling the Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts and learned that his Two-Faced Buddha statue was a Willow Snake clan treasure. He gave it to Wang Qiuyue and asked Bai Wei to obtain Jade Spirit Palace intelligence on the Wu Clan, whose ancestor Wu Bo had killed Lan Chen.

• Wang Qiuyue proposed selling the Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts to the Mystic Firmament Sect, and Song Wen agreed while Bai Wei remained uneasy.
• Song Wen showed Wang Qiuyue and Bai Wei the Two-Faced Buddha, and Wang Qiuyue identified it as a magic treasure of the Willow Snake clan from the Western Rong Continent.
• Wang Qiuyue explained that the Jadeglow Lotus could reshape spiritual roots, and Song Wen committed the herb’s name to memory.
• Song Wen gave the Two-Faced Buddha to Wang Qiuyue after she expressed interest in seeing the ancient treasure.
• Song Wen asked about the Wu Clan of You Shang Lake, and Bai Wei offered to ask Qiao Mengyu to retrieve the Jade Spirit Palace’s intelligence on the clan.

Song Wen arranged for Wang Qiuyue to have Elder Dujiang reforge Xuan Qu’s Thunder Kui Wings and asked whether the master could repair Wei Gu’s Bone Sword. After Qiao Mengyu delivered information about the Wu Clan, she heard that Song Wen wanted a lightning-aspected spirit treasure and asked whether he was proficient in Thunder Arts.

• Song Wen asked Wang Qiuyue about rogue cultivator artifact refiners, then revealed the Thunder Kui Wings and asked her to arrange for Elder Dujiang to reforge them.
• Wang Qiuyue accepted the Thunder Kui Wings and Song Wen’s lightning-aspected materials, while Song Wen also asked whether Elder Dujiang could repair Wei Gu’s cracked Bone Sword; she said he could not refine unorthodox artifacts.
• Song Wen explained that he had spent thirteen years stabilizing his Body Integration cultivation, refining the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, and mastering the Soul-Slaying Spike.
• Qiao Mengyu brought Bai Wei detailed information about the Wu Clan, and Bai Wei instructed her to give the jade slip to Song Wen.
• After Wang Qiuyue mentioned Song Wen’s planned lightning-aspected spirit treasure, Qiao Mengyu fixed her gaze on him and asked whether he was proficient in Thunder Arts.

Song Wen gathered intelligence on the Wu Clan from Mo Yexue and traveled to You Shang Lake, where he saw the clan's celebrated genius, Wu Lingzhu. He left the chapter observing her arrival in Hepo City, surrounded by admirers.

• Song Wen avoided further attention from Qiao Mengyu, then met Mo Yexue a year later to ask for information about the Wu Clan.
• Mo Yexue gave Song Wen her collected intelligence and warned him that Patriarch Yuan Rong was hunting demonic cultivators after Jian Xiao's death.
• Song Wen learned that Jian Xiao had reportedly been Yuan Rong's male concubine and promised to be cautious.
• Song Wen traveled to Hepo City beside You Shang Lake, where he saw Wu Lingzhu arrive with several admirers.
• Song Wen recognized Wu Lingzhu as the Wu Clan's gifted Spirit Transformation cultivator, who accepted gifts from her admirers.

Song Wen posed as Jiang Yushan and used extravagant flattery to secure an invitation to dinner with Wu Lingzhu, while provoking her other admirers. Wu Lingzhu led him and Ke Zheng to Jadeite Pavilion, which belonged to her clan, leaving Song Wen to suspect the costly meal might be a scheme to fleece him.

• Song Wen blocked Wu Lingzhu and her companions, introduced himself as Jiang Yushan of the Jiang Clan of Shangchu City, and flattered Wu Lingzhu until she invited him to dinner.
• Song Wen promised to pay for a lavish meal at Jadeite Pavilion, and Ke Zheng revealed that its dishes could cost thousands or even tens of thousands of high-grade spirit stones.
• Song Wen praised Ke Zheng's master, Gu Huang, and invited Ke Zheng to join them for dinner.
• Wu Lingzhu dismissed her other admirers, then took Song Wen and Ke Zheng to Jadeite Pavilion and ordered its signature dishes and finest spirit wine.
• Wu Lingzhu told Song Wen that Jadeite Pavilion belonged to her Wu Clan, and Song Wen suspected she had lured him there to make him pay an exorbitant bill.