Recaps

Venerable Biwu unleashed her power against the invading Demon Kings and pursued the fleeing survivors with a deadly snake scale. After killing all twelve Demon Kings and several human cultivators, she watched Yuan Rong vanish using a Teleportation Talisman.

• Venerable Biwu's aura froze the twelve foreign-clan Demon Kings, who fled when she released them.
• Venerable Biwu sent a blue-black scale after the fleeing Demon Kings, killing the silver giant wolf, Jiao Yi, the two-winged black tiger, and the rest.
• Yuan Rong fled far ahead of the female cultivators, but Venerable Biwu's scale killed them and continued after him.
• Yuan Rong used a Teleportation Talisman to disappear just before the scale reached him, surprising Venerable Biwu.

Song Wen escaped the Willow Snake Clan using a seventh-order Earth-Escape Talisman, while Venerable Biwu discovered the wounded Crimson-Scaled King and set out to capture him. Qing Lian shared the location of the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss before Song Wen fled beyond her senses, but the Green Jade King found him underground and struck him with a blood-colored beam.

• Venerable Biwu ordered the surviving demons killed, destroyed the Crimson-Scaled King's cave, and awakened her injured disciple, who said Extreme Yin had poisoned her.
• Song Wen released Qing Lian and escaped underground with a seventh-order Earth-Escape Talisman as she told him where to find the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss.
• Qing Lian watched Song Wen flee beyond her senses and murmured farewell, believing he would never return to the Willow Snake Clan.
• After escaping more than a million li, Song Wen encountered the Green Jade King, who pursued him underground with a stone statue that fired a blood-colored beam.
• The beam began melting Song Wen, and the Green Jade King realized she might have to return with fragments of him instead of capturing him alive.

Green Jade King pursued Song Wen across the Cloud-Drooping Plain, trying to capture him despite his repeated use of the Blood Escape Technique. Song Wen redirected her toward the wounded Yuan Rong, and Green Jade King raced to confront him.

• Green Jade King saw Song Wen reappear after she had apparently killed him and began pursuing him across the plain.
• Song Wen repeatedly used the Blood Escape Technique to keep ahead while Green Jade King toyed with him.
• Green Jade King suppressed Song Wen’s escape art, but he destroyed his own head and reappeared thousands of li away.
• Song Wen changed direction and led Green Jade King toward Yuan Rong, whom she found ahead in a badly wounded state.
• Green Jade King accelerated toward Yuan Rong, judging that he might be stronger than her but deciding to confront him anyway.

Yuan Rong used the Mysterious Yin Mirror and Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions to escape Venerable Biwu, then recognized “Extreme Yin” as Gou Jun and attacked him. Song Wen escaped with a Minor Teleportation Talisman while the Green Jade King attacked Yuan Rong, and the chapter left Yuan Rong defending against her giant stone statue with a barrier of Sword Qi.

• Yuan Rong used the Mysterious Yin Mirror and Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions to deceive Venerable Biwu and flee, exhausting much of his magical power and blood essence.
• Yuan Rong recognized “Extreme Yin” as Gou Jun after seeing him use a Death-Substitute Puppet and attacked him with a flying sword.
• Song Wen teleported away with a Minor Teleportation Talisman, while Yuan Rong sent nine black swords out to form a sword formation.
• The Green Jade King struck Yuan Rong’s swords with beams from her stone statue, preventing the formation and shielding herself with scales from three eighth-tier Willow Snakes.
• Yuan Rong pursued Song Wen while fighting off the Green Jade King, who enlarged her stone statue into a thousand-zhang colossus and hurled it at him.
• Yuan Rong gathered his nine swords and formed a barrier of Sword Qi against the approaching statue.

Yuan Rong risked serious injury to send three flying swords after Song Wen, who realized Yuan Rong’s pursuit of Jian Xiao’s killer came from love rather than wounded pride. Song Wen proposed that he and the Green Jade King kill Yuan Rong together, while secretly preparing a Teleportation Talisman, and all three believed the situation favored them.

• The Green Jade King’s stone statue struck Yuan Rong’s sword barrier, but Yuan Rong sent three swords toward Song Wen and held off the attack with the remaining six.
• The barrier shattered under the Green Jade King’s assault, leaving Yuan Rong badly injured, but he continued controlling the three swords to trap Song Wen.
• Song Wen realized Yuan Rong’s determination to avenge Jian Xiao came from deep love and regretted having tried to use him against the Green Jade King.
• Song Wen saw that Yuan Rong’s swords were forming an enclosure and secretly readied a Teleportation Talisman capable of taking him beyond it.
• Song Wen asked the Green Jade King to join forces against Yuan Rong, and she agreed while attacking the three swords with bloody light.
• Yuan Rong declared that Jian Xiao had been the love of his life and vowed to destroy Gou Jun’s soul; all three believed they held the advantage.

Song Wen and Green Jade King worked together to wound Yuan Rong, but Yuan Rong unleashed a blood-burning secret technique as the battle turned against him. The fight remained unresolved as his aura surged and Song Wen warned Green Jade King to be careful.

• Song Wen struck Yuan Rong with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, injuring his hand and sending the sword flying, while the blade's sharpness wounded Yuan Rong.
• Green Jade King attacked Yuan Rong with the thousand-zhang stone statue, smashing him into the ground and breaking his right arm.
• Yuan Rong pressured Green Jade King with flying swords and pursued Song Wen, who used talismans before being beheaded and leaving behind a withered corpse puppet.
• Song Wen reappeared behind Yuan Rong and stabbed his lower back with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, then escaped Yuan Rong's counterattack by reappearing beside Green Jade King.
• Green Jade King pressed Yuan Rong with the stone statue as Yuan Rong recalled his nine swords and realized Song Wen's wound was disrupting his spiritual power.
• Yuan Rong activated a blood-burning secret technique, and Song Wen warned Green Jade King that he was about to risk everything.

Song Wen and the Green Jade King joined forces against Yuan Rong, whose golden attack shattered her stone statue and left both fighters badly wounded. Song Wen struck Yuan Rong with lightning as Yuan Rong’s flying sword threatened the Green Jade King, who redirected a wisp of demonic essence toward Song Wen.

• The Green Jade King offered to spare Song Wen and grant him a blessed land if he became her lover, while Yuan Rong’s aura strengthened as he burned blood to fight.
• Yuan Rong’s golden radiance smashed the Green Jade King’s stone statue, so she tried to flee until Song Wen persuaded her to fight beside him.
• The Green Jade King empowered the statue with essence blood, but Yuan Rong blasted it away again, leaving her badly injured as his own strength faltered.
• Song Wen seized the opening and struck Yuan Rong with dark-golden lightning while Yuan Rong sent a flying sword toward the Green Jade King.
• Unable to evade or block Yuan Rong’s sword, the Green Jade King flicked a wisp of demonic essence toward Song Wen.

Song Wen escaped Yuan Rong’s sword formation with a Teleportation Talisman, leaving Yuan Rong to kill the Green Jade King. Yuan Rong pursued Song Wen and, after losing his trail, sent up a warning signal while Song Wen hid nearby.

• The Green Jade King hurled Song Wen into Yuan Rong’s flying sword, but Song Wen survived by teleporting away as Yuan Rong’s sword formation closed around them.
• Yuan Rong discovered Song Wen had escaped and blamed him for earlier schemes, then killed the Green Jade King with his sword formation.
• Yuan Rong pursued Song Wen across the Cloud-Drooping Plain and found his aura disappearing at a river.
• Song Wen revealed he had used a stone nun statue to conceal his aura and had left the river for a mountain hideout.
• Yuan Rong activated a jade talisman that sent a huge white sword shadow into the sky, while Song Wen buried himself in a beast’s mud hole and concealed his aura.

Song Wen hid from Yuan Rong and the cultivators searching for him, then caught up with Wang Qiuyue to learn what had happened. After she explained her plans and asked about obtaining a spiritual treasure together, the story left their alliance undecided.

• Song Wen remained buried while You Ci and other cultivators flew toward Yuan Rong's search area, then waited as Yuan Rong fought Willow Snake Clan members.
• Song Wen transformed into a demonic body and pursued Wang Qiuyue after confirming she had no followers.
• Wang Qiuyue initially attacked Song Wen, then recognized him as Extreme Yin and recalled her flying sword.
• Wang Qiuyue told Song Wen that Yuan Rong's signal had drawn Willow Snakes, that the seven female cultivators who accompanied him had died, and that she planned to act alone for a while.
• Song Wen avoided explaining how he would return to the Eastern Profound Continent, and Wang Qiuyue asked whether he would join her to obtain a spiritual treasure.

Song Wen and Wang Qiuyue traveled to Poison Dragon Abyss seeking Myriad Phenomena Spirit Liquid, but found the poisonous lake guarded by powerful venomous pythons. After Fan Kang joined Wang Qiuyue in the lake, they fled as several pythons attacked, while Song Wen remained hidden.

• Wang Qiuyue told Song Wen that the Black-Scaled Flood Dragon Clan had revealed the Myriad Phenomena Spirit Liquid was in Poison Dragon Abyss, and Song Wen agreed to go with her.
• Song Wen and Wang Qiuyue reached Poison Dragon Abyss and found its deep, poisonous lake eerily still.
• Shadow Void warned Song Wen that a Body Integration Realm cultivator was approaching, so Song Wen hid in a cave while Wang Qiuyue stayed on the mountain.
• Fan Kang arrived, and he and Wang Qiuyue agreed to enter the lake together and split any treasure they found.
• Wang Qiuyue and Fan Kang emerged from the lake as a giant red-and-white python attacked them with venom, then several more pythons pursued them.

Wang Qiuyue fought the Poison Flood Dragons while Fan Kang secretly formed a Weakwater Sky-Imprisoning Barrier around her and the remaining four dragons. After Wang Qiuyue demanded he release her, Fan Kang refused and told her to kill the trapped beasts first.

• Wang Qiuyue broke a Poison Flood Dragon’s poison arrow and clawed out its eyes as the other four attacked her.
• Wang Qiuyue blocked the four poison arrows with Mystic Abyss Dragon Scales, then killed the blinded dragon by destroying its head.
• Fan Kang completed a Weakwater Sky-Imprisoning Barrier that trapped Wang Qiuyue and the four remaining Poison Flood Dragons.
• The four dragons crashed against the barrier’s hardened water and were thrown back injured.
• Wang Qiuyue confronted Fan Kang and asked him to release her, but he refused until she killed the trapped dragons.

Song Wen emerged to attack Fan Kang’s Weakwater Sky-Imprisoning Barrier with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, but Riverless Weak Water absorbed its force. Wang Qiuyue explained that only an extreme yang flame could break the barrier, leaving Song Wen weighing his options as she struggled against the four venomous pythons.

• Fan Kang trapped Wang Qiuyue with four venomous pythons inside the Weakwater Sky-Imprisoning Barrier and taunted her over his exile.
• Song Wen burst from a mountain and struck Fan Kang’s barrier with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, but Riverless Weak Water dispersed the blow.
• Song Wen recognized the barrier’s unusual resilience and became interested in taking its Riverless Weak Water for his Blood Sea Imperial Seal.
• Wang Qiuyue warned Song Wen that only extreme yang flames could overcome the barrier’s softness, while she struggled against the pythons.
• Fan Kang mocked Song Wen for seeming to lack a powerful extreme yang flame, and Wang Qiuyue grew grave as she prepared to act.

Wang Qiuyue unleashed her Glazed Flames to resist Fan Kang’s Weakwater barrier, but Song Wen used his blood-red eye technique to weaken one section and let his Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword shatter it. The venomous pythons escaped, while Fan Kang’s attempt to block the sword failed and it pierced his dantian.

• Wang Qiuyue’s Glazed Flames burned away Fan Kang’s Weakwater threads as she prepared to attack him.
• Song Wen told Wang Qiuyue he could break the barrier and focused his blood-red eye beams on one spot.
• Song Wen’s black sword light pierced the weakened spot and shattered the Weakwater barrier.
• The four venomous pythons fled, and Wang Qiuyue’s flames dissipated as Fan Kang panicked.
• Fan Kang begged Song Wen for mercy, then tried to block the sword with his flying sword, but it pierced his dantian.

Song Wen and Wang Qiuyue killed Fan Kang and collected the Riverless Weak Water. Song Wen then drained Poison Dragon Abyss to expose its depths and prepare to reach the Myriad Phenomena Spirit Liquid.

• Wang Qiuyue learned that Tang Feng had revealed her secret report to Fan Kang, then asked Song Wen how to deal with him.
• Song Wen collected the Riverless Weak Water, and Wang Qiuyue killed Fan Kang at his instruction.
• Song Wen devoured Fan Kang’s remains and erased every trace of him while Wang Qiuyue warned that Poison Dragon Abyss’s poison made the depths difficult to navigate.
• Song Wen said he would remove the water instead of luring the venomous pythons out, then used his sea of blood to excavate a vast pit and channel the Lake water away.
• Within an hour, Song Wen had drained Poison Dragon Abyss and exposed its immense Lake bed.

Song Wen and Wang Qiuyue found and divided the Myriad Phenomena Spirit Liquid, and Song Wen gave her pills to treat her soul injury. While they fled Poison Dragon Abyss, Wang Qiuyue revealed that Qiao Mengyu was Bai Wei’s daughter and began recounting the story of her father, Qiao Yuheng.

• Song Wen and Wang Qiuyue divided the Myriad Phenomena Spirit Liquid after killing the venomous pythons in Poison Dragon Abyss.
• Wang Qiuyue tried eating venomous python eggs but found they did not ease her soul injury.
• Song Wen gave Wang Qiuyue two Three Radiance Soul-Converging Pills, and she accepted them before the pair left the abyss.
• Wang Qiuyue asked Song Wen why he would not heal her as he had treated Bai Wei and her daughter, prompting him to learn that Qiao Mengyu was Bai Wei’s daughter.
• Wang Qiuyue told Song Wen that Qiao Yuheng was Qiao Mengyu’s father and described his exceptional cultivation, refinement, and popularity among women.

Song Wen continued west toward the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss, gathering demonic beast essence blood and souls to strengthen his treasures and heal the remnant soul. At the edge of the Source-Qi Death Domain, the remnant soul awakened, and Song Wen demanded to know its identity.

• Wang Qiuyue told Song Wen about Bai Wei and Qiao Yuheng’s past and asked him to keep Qiao Mengyu’s parentage secret; Song Wen agreed and explained why he had declined to treat Wang Qiuyue’s soul injuries.
• Song Wen and Wang Qiuyue parted ways, and Song Wen traveled west to search for the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss while also seeking to restore the remnant soul.
• Song Wen slaughtered numerous weak demonic beast clans along the way, using their essence blood to strengthen the Blood Sea Imperial Seal and their souls to nourish the remnant soul, while escaping an eighth-rank demon king.
• After three years, Song Wen found a Bone-Eroding Butterfly habitat, a landmark that confirmed the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss lay farther west, and chose not to attack the surviving clan.
• At the Source-Qi Death Domain, Song Wen prepared to enter with the Nether Fox and Shadow Void when the remnant soul awakened in his sea of consciousness.
• The remnant soul questioned where it was, and Song Wen introduced himself as Extreme Yin before demanding that the remnant soul answer his questions.

Song Wen questioned Gu Que, a remnant soul from the Immortal's Tomb, and learned about the lightning tribulation that killed him and the formation sustaining his spirit. Gu Que then asked Song Wen about the black hole in his sea of consciousness, which had apparently erased the lingering power of heavenly punishment.

• Song Wen threatened Gu Que with the Golden Broth Curse, and Gu Que revealed he had been a Supreme Elder of the Divine Blood Sect before agreeing to answer questions.
• Gu Que told Song Wen that he had died failing the final lightning tribulation required to ascend to immortality.
• Song Wen connected Gu Que's lightning wounds to Venerable Biwu and learned that Gu Que's friend Jing Chen had built the Immortal's Tomb and its surrounding formation to repair his soul.
• Gu Que explained that the formation drew life force from outside the small world and that the lingering power of heavenly punishment had sometimes driven him mad.
• Gu Que said the power of heavenly punishment vanished after he entered Song Wen's sea of consciousness and asked about the black hole above it.

Gu Que revealed that he and Jing Chen came from the Immortal Realm and founded the Divine Blood Sect to develop spirit beasts capable of surviving in source-qi. Song Wen realized that even the Immortal Realm’s supreme powers might be unable to escape source-qi’s erosion.

• Song Wen pressed Gu Que about the Divine Blood Sect’s investigation of the Source-Qi Death Domain, but Gu Que claimed the sect hoped to protect all living beings.
• Song Wen challenged Gu Que’s claims and questioned why he called himself an Immortal, prompting Gu Que to reveal that he and Jing Chen came from the Immortal Realm.
• Gu Que explained that Immortal Lord Yu Jiang had sent them to the Profound Realm to create a spirit beast that could survive and reproduce in source-qi.
• Gu Que said he and Jing Chen founded the Divine Blood Sect, sent cultivators to the Heavenly Origin Realm, and eventually obtained the Nether Fox.
• Gu Que recounted that he failed his third lightning tribulation and was placed in the Immortal’s Tomb by Jing Chen, who he believed had ascended.
• Song Wen suspected the Immortal Realm had sent Gu Que and Jing Chen to find a way to survive source-qi, then realized even the Immortal Realm might succumb to it.

Song Wen questioned Gu Que about Xugeng and the Divine Blood Sect’s long-term monitoring of the Nether Foxes, then asked for cultivation methods and secret arts. Gu Que passed on the later stages of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and began listing other techniques.

• Gu Que explained that Xugeng monitored the Nether Foxes’ breeding and population growth in hopes of gaining favor with the High-Heaven Immortal Domain after ascending.
• Gu Que said Xugeng was over eighty thousand years old and had likely survived two Heavenly Tribulations by cultivating carefully, unlike Gu Que, who had lost his treasures during his third tribulation.
• Gu Que told Song Wen that the Corpse King Reincarnation Art included instructions through the Lingxu Dao Immortal realm and explained the four major immortal realms.
• Song Wen made Gu Que impart the remaining cultivation methods of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and checked that they were correct.
• Gu Que listed several other secret arts, including the Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts, Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions, and Netherworld Corpse Refining Art.

Song Wen examined Gu Que’s secret arts and learned that the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss lay within the vast, dangerous Source-Qi Death Domain on the Western Rong Continent. He considered cultivating the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body and Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions, then faced the need to enter the domain cautiously to seek a route home.

• Gu Que warned Song Wen about the secret arts’ demanding cultivation requirements and imparted them to him.
• Song Wen found that the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body’s third layer could produce Five Decays Yellow Springs Qi, while Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions suited him because its essence-blood costs posed little difficulty.
• Gu Que told Song Wen that fully refining the Undying Blood Sea Yama Emperor Seal could let him contend with powerful enemies, and explained that the Divine Blood Sect’s teleportation arrays led into its territory.
• Song Wen asked about the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss, and Gu Que warned that it had been swallowed by the Western Rong Continent’s exceptionally dangerous Source-Qi Death Domain.
• Song Wen, already outside the domain, weighed the danger from powerful wraiths and considered relying on the Blood Sea Imperial Seal.

Thirty years later, Song Wen entered the Western Rong Continent’s Source-Qi Death Domain with Shadow Void and the Nether Fox. Shadow Void revealed that it had reached the eighth tier, while Song Wen considered whether to capture Void Demons to help the Nether Fox advance, leaving their hunt ahead.

• Song Wen entered the Source-Qi Death Domain and ordered Shadow Void to watch for danger.
• The Nether Fox sensed a fourth-tier Void Demon and begged Song Wen to let it devour the creature, but he refused.
• Shadow Void detected wraiths twenty thousand miles away and announced that it had advanced to the eighth tier.
• The Nether Fox begged Song Wen to help it advance too, but he sent it away without answering.
• Gu Que told Song Wen that the Nether Fox could reach the eighth tier by devouring enough Void Demons, and Song Wen considered capturing more during the trip.

Song Wen reached the Endless Sea while searching for Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss, but an eighth-order superior Void Demon caught up with him. He fled north as its divine-sense attack failed to harm him, and the demon closed in to strike.

• Shadow Void easily killed a group of resentful spirits and a sixth-order Void Demon, then later captured two seventh-order Void Demons for Song Wen.
• After traveling nearly three million li into the Source-Qi Death Domain, Song Wen reached the Endless Sea and began searching for Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss beyond the Bone-Eroding Butterflies' current territory.
• Shadow Void detected an eighth-order superior Void Demon pursuing them, so Song Wen put Nether Fox away and fled toward the sea at full speed.
• When the demon drew within a hundred li, Song Wen asked Shadow Void about reefs; Shadow Void reported none nearby but detected two seventh-order resentful spirits rising from the seafloor.
• The Void Demon's screech struck Song Wen's sea of consciousness, but the black hole swallowed its divine-sense impact, leaving Song Wen unharmed; Gu Que wondered at Extreme Yin and the black hole's power.
• The Void Demon absorbed the resentful spirits' remnant souls, caught up with Song Wen, and lashed at him with one of its tentacles.

Song Wen escaped an eighth-rank Void Demon with Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions and discovered the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss, but an eighth-rank resentful spirit kept him from approaching. After hiding for two years, he learned that shadows had appeared above the reefs, though the origin qi obscured them.

• Song Wen used Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions to scatter a hundred doubles, escaping east while the bovine Void Demon pursued the false figures in other directions.
• Shadow Void detected a reef region ahead and an eighth-rank resentful spirit beneath it, so Song Wen retreated and hid in a seafloor cave.
• Song Wen recognized the reefs as the likely location of the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss and decided to wait for the phantoms said to lead to the Eastern Profound Continent.
• The bovine Void Demon followed Song Wen's lingering aura to the reefs, then fled when its arrival stirred the resentful spirits.
• Song Wen remained concealed for two years until origin qi surged over the reefs, and Shadow Void reported that unclear shadows had appeared in the air.

Song Wen witnessed the Spatial Projection open above the Source-Qi Death Domain and rushed toward it, hoping to escape through it. As he neared the projection of a vast lake, the eighth-rank bull-bodied Void Demon that had chased him two years earlier noticed him and launched a focused soul attack.

• Gu Que identified the afterimage as a Spatial Projection that appeared once every ten years, and Song Wen ordered Shadow Void to monitor it.
• After the projection blazed open and the wraiths streamed toward it, Song Wen used a fifth-rank Earth-Escape Talisman to reach the reef waters and emerged onto the sea surface.
• Song Wen flew toward the projection with his Thunder Kui Wings, blasting apart wraiths that attacked him for his flesh and blood.
• The bull-bodied eighth-rank Void Demon unleashed an area soul attack, killing weaker wraiths, while Song Wen continued toward the projection.
• Song Wen saw a seventh-rank wraith vanish into the projection's image of a lake, but the Void Demon noticed him and aimed a concentrated soul attack at him.

Song Wen escaped the bovine Void Demon through the spatial projection and arrived at a Lake in the Western Rong Continent, where vengeful spirits pursued him. A cultivator from Southern Cinnabar City followed after learning of his arrival, while Song Wen prepared to use blood crystals to evade his pursuers.

• Song Wen entered the spatial projection and emerged above a Lake surrounded by vengeful spirits and a besieged human city.
• Eighth-rank vengeful spirits attacked Song Wen, and he fled away from Southern Cinnabar City.
• Old Man Bai and the elderly woman discussed Song Wen’s mysterious arrival and resistance to divine sense attacks, and the woman pursued him while Rong Shao stayed to help defend the city.
• Old Man Bai explained that the vengeful spirits would soon exhaust their source qi, so Rong Shao remained inside the formation instead of attacking them.
• Song Wen prepared five blood crystals as the three eighth-rank vengeful spirits closed in, and Shadow Void warned him that a human Mahayana cultivator was pursuing him from behind.