Recaps

Song Wen's Blood Sea Imperial Seal survived Rong Luan's powerful attack, allowing him to taunt her and reveal that he had killed Rong Shu and Rong Yiwen. Yu Bi arrived and demanded the secret behind the ten-thousand-mile Blood Sea, threatening to capture Song Wen when he refused.

• Rong Luan's bone whip struck the Blood Sea with black-green flames, shrinking it dramatically before its scattered blood returned and restored it.
• Song Wen appeared atop a blood wave, mocked Rong Luan, and revealed that she had failed to break his Blood Sea.
• Song Wen used Fan Kang's appearance to remind Rong Luan of their earlier encounter, then admitted he had killed Rong Shu and Rong Yiwen to avenge himself against her.
• Song Wen taunted Rong Shao about being used as a humanoid great medicine, prompting Rong Luan to prepare another attack.
• Yu Bi arrived and stopped Rong Luan, then demanded that Song Wen hand over the method for expanding his Blood Sea; Song Wen refused, and Yu Bi threatened to capture him alive.

Song Wen exposed Yu Bi’s plans to seize cultivators as humanoid great medicine, prompting Yu Bi to attack Rong Luan. Rong Shao and Huang Yangshu helped rescue her aboard the Rongqi airship, where Rong Luan restored its defenses and blocked Yu Bi’s next assault.

• Song Wen warned Rong Luan, Huang Yangshu, and Rong Shao that Yu Bi might be targeting them to steal their cultivation or lifespan.
• Yu Bi attacked Rong Luan with nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails, disrupting her mind and injuring her through their ghostly howls.
• Rong Shao used a chain to pull Rong Luan through the Rongqi airship’s defensive barrier, while Huang Yangshu suffered backlash as the barrier broke.
• Yu Bi redirected the nine nails toward everyone aboard the airship, but Rong Luan took control and raised its defensive barrier to stop them.

Yu Bi revealed that he had spent thousands of years plotting to use Rong Shao as a human-shaped elixir, while Rong Luan confessed that she had raised Rong Shao as a cultivation experiment. With Rong Shao bound and the Rongqi ship still under Rong Luan’s control, Yu Bi asked Song Wen to help trap the ship, and Song Wen questioned whether Yu Bi would betray him afterward.

• Yu Bi admitted that he had targeted Rong Luan for her cultivation and raised Rong Shao as a human-shaped elixir, prompting Rong Luan to call him a schemer.
• Rong Luan told Rong Shao that he was not her grandson but one of thousands of children she had raised and tested with the Longevity Art.
• Rong Luan said Rong Shao’s purpose was to serve as her medicine body, then bound him with corpse qi.
• Yu Bi explained that his attacks had destabilized the Rongqi ship’s control nexus and offered to work with Song Wen to break its defenses.
• Song Wen doubted he could hold the ship back and warned that Yu Bi might betray him once he was no longer useful.

Song Wen bargained with Yu Bi for Heavenly-Origin Star-Burning Iron and helped him disrupt the Rongqi airship’s formation. Yu Bi’s attack shattered the airship’s defensive barrier, leaving Rong Luan exposed.

• Song Wen pretended his Blood Sea consumed enormous spiritual power while Yu Bi threatened to kill him if he refused to cooperate.
• Gu Que advised Song Wen to ask for a ten-thousand-year Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma, then for Heavenly-Origin Star-Burning Iron when Yu Bi said he had no ganoderma.
• Song Wen demanded ten thousand jin of Heavenly-Origin Star-Burning Iron and accepted the more than eight thousand jin Yu Bi offered, despite noticing a tracking mark on the ore.
• Yu Bi told Song Wen which formation nodes to strike, and Song Wen used blood pillars to interrupt the Rongqi airship’s spiritual energy circulation.
• Yu Bi formed a spellbreaking formation with the nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails and drove a black spear into the weakened barrier.
• Rong Luan failed to stop the black spear, and the Rongqi airship’s defensive barrier shattered.

Rong Luan fled Yu Bi with Rong Shao and Huang Yangshu, using Huang Yangshu’s Nascent Soul self-destruction to blunt Yu Bi’s attack. With Yu Bi still pursuing them, Rong Luan hesitated to sacrifice Rong Shao because she had raised him as a longevity-extending medicine.

• Yu Bi’s attack shattered the flying ship’s defenses, but Rong Luan protected its passengers and fled with Rong Shao and Huang Yangshu.
• Rong Luan used a bell to nullify Yu Bi’s ghostly sound attack, then blocked the nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails with her bone shield.
• As Yu Bi pursued them, Rong Luan poured violent spiritual power into Huang Yangshu and hurled him toward the incoming nails.
• Huang Yangshu failed to activate his Nine-Bend Sky River Talisman, and his Nascent Soul, body, and soul exploded, weakening the nails enough for Rong Luan to block them.
• Rong Shao mocked Rong Luan for using Huang Yangshu as a pawn, while Rong Luan refused to make him self-destruct because she had cultivated him as a longevity-extending medicine.

Rong Luan took an Essence-Reversing Pill and broke through to the late Mahayana stage, then prepared to fight Yu Bi. As Rong Shao landed on the damaged Rongqi spacecraft, Zhu Mei tried to flee but was stopped by Xing Chang, who revealed he had tracked her to learn Huang Yangshu’s whereabouts.

• Rong Luan swallowed an Essence-Reversing Pill, raised her cultivation to the late Mahayana stage, and challenged Yu Bi.
• Rong Luan threw Rong Shao toward the Rongqi spacecraft and faced Yu Bi with her bone whip as he controlled nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails.
• Rong Shao crashed onto the damaged spacecraft, where Zhu Mei saw him restrained and tried to escape while Rong Luan and Yu Bi fought.
• Xing Chang emerged from a blood wall to block Zhu Mei, who realized he had approached her to trace Huang Yangshu’s whereabouts.
• Zhu Mei urged Xing Chang to flee with her and offered to serve him in exchange for her life.

Song Wen took Rong Shao after learning he had clues about the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma, hoping to profit from the clash between Rong Luan and Yu Bi. As Zhu Mei fled and Yu Bi turned his attention toward Song Wen, Rong Luan’s boosted cultivation began to fade and Yu Bi brought out a corpse coffin.

• Song Wen weighed fleeing against waiting for Rong Luan and Yu Bi to weaken each other, while Shadow Void warned him Rong Luan was nearing defeat.
• Rong Shao offered Song Wen clues to the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma in exchange for being taken away.
• Song Wen threatened Rong Shao if he had lied, then pulled him into the Blood Sea and withdrew from the battlefield.
• Zhu Mei realized Song Wen’s escape with Rong Shao would draw the Mahayana cultivators’ pursuit, so she fled alone.
• Yu Bi roared in anger that Song Wen had taken Rong Shao, while Rong Luan mocked him and accepted that her cultivation was fading.
• Yu Bi used the nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails to push back Rong Luan’s attacks, then summoned a giant corpse coffin and sent it crashing toward the Blood Sea.

Gu Huang and Rong Shao escaped Yu Bi’s corpse coffin while Rong Luan held him off, leaving Yu Bi enraged after he lost track of the pair and his mark on the Heavenly-Origin Star-Burning Iron vanished. Rong Luan fled, believing the Fallen Spring Nether Baleful Intent afflicting Rong Shao might still kill him.

• Yu Bi shattered the blood sea with his corpse coffin and discovered Gu Huang and Rong Shao fleeing underground with a fifth-grade Earth-Escape Talisman.
• Rong Luan attacked Yu Bi with her bone whip, forcing him to defend himself instead of immediately pursuing the pair.
• Yu Bi searched underground but found that Gu Huang and Rong Shao had vanished, and he discovered his divine sense mark on the Heavenly-Origin Star-Burning Iron was gone.
• Rong Luan mocked Yu Bi, who sent his nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails after her and descended to search for Gu Huang and Rong Shao.
• Rong Luan fled to save herself, reasoning that the Fallen Spring Nether Baleful Intent inside Rong Shao might still prove fatal.

Song Wen rescued Rong Shao from the Fallen Spring Nether Baleful Intent and learned how to help him purge it. Rong Shao then revealed that the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma had been seen in Demonfall Valley, though a powerful demonic beast guarded it.

• Song Wen escaped Rong Luan and Yu Bi with Rong Shao by using the stone nun statue to conceal their auras and a Teleportation Talisman to flee.
• Gu Que identified Rong Shao's affliction as Fallen Spring Nether Baleful Intent and explained that Rong Shao's Longevity Art could counter it if Song Wen activated his soul apertures.
• Song Wen stimulated Rong Shao's one hundred and eight soul apertures, allowing the Longevity Art to circulate and purge the Sha.
• Rong Shao thanked Song Wen, acknowledged that he had saved him to obtain information, and promised to honor his word.
• Rong Shao said that someone had seen the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma near a nether spring in Demonfall Valley, where a powerful demonic beast lived.

Song Wen learned about Demonfall Valley and its rare treasures from Rong Shao, who gave him detailed information about the valley and the nine-aperture profound-connecting ganoderma. Song Wen offered Rong Shao a secret art to evade tracking by his Soul Lamp, then separated from him while Rong Shao studied it and recovered.

• Rong Shao explained Demonfall Valley’s lethal miasma, abundant spirit materials, and the Lin Clan’s Blazing-Fire Purifying Talisman.
• Rong Shao gave Song Wen a jade slip containing his research on Demonfall Valley and the nine-aperture profound-connecting ganoderma.
• Rong Shao revealed that his Soul Lamp could let Rong Luan or Yu Bi track him, and Song Wen learned from Gu Que about the Myriad Transformations Incantation.
• Song Wen copied the secret art onto a jade slip, and Rong Shao confirmed it could conceal soul fluctuations for seventy-two hours.
• Song Wen stopped the flying ship so Rong Shao could study the incantation and heal in a cave, then traveled ten thousand li away to hide in another cave.

Song Wen set out with Rong Shao for the Northern Region, but a stop near Five Extension City led him to reunite with Zhu Mei. He learned that a red-robed sword cultivator from the lower realm had recently ascended nearby, and suspected she was Yan Yuyan.

• Rong Shao emerged from seclusion healed and having mastered the Myriad Transformations Incantation, then set out north with Song Wen.
• Song Wen asked Rong Shao to stop near Five Extension City so he could buy spiritual materials, then flew ahead alone.
• Song Wen encountered Zhu Mei, who apologized for offending him and asked to accompany him; he agreed.
• Zhu Mei told Song Wen that a red-robed woman from the lower realm had ascended near Five Extension City and fought the Wei Family’s men.
• After hearing the woman was a sword cultivator with a snow-white sword, Song Wen suspected she was Yan Yuyan and asked Zhu Mei if she was certain.

Song Wen went to the Wei Family residence to seek information about the ascended person who might be Yan Yuyan, disguising himself as Feng Xin of the Divine Blood Sect. After he attacked the Wei Family guards at the gate, the Wei Family patriarch arrived and confronted him.

• Song Wen learned from Zhu Mei that the Wei Family might know the ascended person's whereabouts and went alone to its residence near Five Extension City.
• Song Wen claimed to be Feng Xin, a core disciple of the Divine Blood Sect, but the guard captain demanded proof of his identity.
• Song Wen attacked the guard captain, pierced his abdomen, and destroyed his Nascent Soul when the captain failed to recognize his magic treasure.
• More than a dozen Wei Family cultivators attacked Song Wen, and his scarlet tentacles killed them all.
• The Wei Family patriarch arrived, pressured Song Wen with his Integrated Body Realm aura, and heard Song Wen threaten to slaughter the entire family.

Song Wen confronted Wei Tiancheng over the Wei Family’s pursuit of the newly ascended Yan Yuyan, forced the family to call off its hunters, and killed an elder who revealed her last known location. At Jadewater Market, Song Wen learned that Yan Yuyan had left heading north.

• Song Wen confronted Wei Tiancheng with the Blood Sea Seal and demanded information about the ascended person, prompting Wei Tiancheng to confirm that the Wei Family had been hunting her.
• A Wei Family elder told Wei Tiancheng that Yan Yuyan had evaded their pursuit and revealed that she was last seen buying healing pills at Jadewater Market.
• Song Wen demanded the elder’s death and ordered Wei Tiancheng to recall every person pursuing Yan Yuyan; after Song Wen left, Wei Tiancheng carried out the order.
• Song Wen searched Jadewater Market with his divine sense and Shadow Void but found no trace of Yan Yuyan.
• Song Wen offered one thousand high-grade spirit stones for information, and a Nascent Soul Realm Rogue Cultivator said Yan Yuyan had left the market heading north.

Song Wen found Yan Yuyan under attack by six cultivators and rescued her just as she was about to be defeated. He revealed himself as Extreme Yin of the Corpse Demon Sect, leaving Yan Yuyan stunned by the appearance of someone from the lower realm.

• Song Wen followed Shadow Void's report of a battle and discovered Yan Yuyan being besieged by two Spirit Transformation cultivators and four Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• As Yan Yuyan's sword formation faltered, she recalled killing Wei Zimo after he tried to force her into becoming his concubine, which had led to the Wei Family's pursuit.
• The pressure from Song Wen incapacitated Yan Yuyan and all six attackers, causing them to fall from the sky while a gentle force caught Yan Yuyan.
• Song Wen appeared before Yan Yuyan and greeted her by name, then identified himself as Extreme Yin of the Corpse Demon Sect.

Song Wen rescued Yan Yuyan from six Wei Family cultivators and learned that Zhou Siyi had been murdered by Cui Qiao. He realized Cui Qiao had killed his senior sister to avenge her grandfather, leaving him consumed by guilt and determined to understand how she reached the Heavenly Origin Continent.

• Song Wen gave Yan Yuyan healing pills and crushed the six Wei Family cultivators who had pursued her, despite their pleas for mercy.
• Song Wen asked Yan Yuyan about Zhou Siyi and learned that she had died.
• Yan Yuyan explained that Cui Qiao had claimed responsibility for killing Zhou Siyi to avenge her grandfather, Cui Gu, whom Song Wen had killed.
• Song Wen remembered his past encounters with Cui Qiao and wondered how she had discovered his identity and crossed the Endless Desert.
• Song Wen recognized that his actions had caused Zhou Siyi's death and was left in agonized guilt.

Song Wen learned that Zhou Siyi had died at Cui Qiao’s hands and struggled with grief and helplessness over being unable to reach the lower realm for revenge. He offered to help Yan Yuyan take revenge on the Wei Family and left with her to unleash a slaughter.

• Song Wen released a vast wave of Sha, devastating the surrounding mountains and leaving Yan Yuyan frightened by his power and sorrow.
• Song Wen recalled the people he had known, especially Zhou Siyi, and learned from Yan Yuyan that Cui Qiao had supposedly killed her, though the details were unknown.
• Yan Yuyan said Yu Wen had become the Corpse Demon Sect’s leader after Zhou Siyi’s death, but had made no statement about it; Song Wen wondered whether Zhou Siyi’s soul remained.
• Song Wen asked whether Yan Yuyan wanted revenge on the Wei Family for hunting her, and she hesitated to ask him to risk himself.
• Song Wen told Yan Yuyan to follow him and departed, saying he wanted to unleash a slaughter.

Song Wen brought Yan Yuyan to the Wei Family’s mountain gate and ordered the family to surrender everyone involved in hunting her. After the Wei Family handed over more than a hundred people, Song Wen told Yan Yuyan to kill them, and she attacked despite her injuries and depleted spiritual power.

• Song Wen and Yan Yuyan arrived at the Wei Family’s mountain gate, where Song Wen demanded that Wei Tiancheng come out.
• Song Wen ordered Wei Tiancheng to hand over everyone involved in pursuing Yan Yuyan or face the destruction of the Wei Family.
• Wei Wuren urged the family to comply, and the Wei Family gathered more than a hundred participants outside the gate.
• Wei Wuren told the gathered people that they had to repay the family, extinguishing their hope of being spared.
• Song Wen gave Yan Yuyan the gathered people’s storage rings as compensation and told her to kill them.
• Yan Yuyan summoned the Condensed Smoke Sword and sent it toward the terrified crowd despite her injuries and weakened spiritual power.

Song Wen used his assumed identity as Young Master Feng Xin to force the Wei Family to pay for its members’ attack on Yan Yuyan. After the Wei Family executed the attackers and agreed to pay three million superior spirit stones, Song Wen demanded that all five of its Integrated Body Realm cultivators personally apologize to Yan Yuyan.

• Yan Yuyan repeatedly slashed a Void Refinement cultivator who had hunted her, but Wei Wuren’s suppression could not overcome the magical power protecting him.
• Wei Tiancheng objected to the torture, but Wei Wuren silenced him and dispersed the captive’s magical power so Yan Yuyan could kill him.
• Yan Yuyan killed the captive and the rest of the hundred-odd attackers, and took their storage rings.
• Song Wen rejected Wei Wuren’s attempt to settle the matter with the executions and demanded three million superior spirit stones.
• Wei Wuren agreed to pay, and Song Wen demanded that all five of the Wei Family’s Integrated Body Realm cultivators appear to apologize to Yan Yuyan.

Song Wen forced the Wei Family to pay three million superior spirit stones and apologize to Yan Yuyan by posing as a core disciple of the Divine Blood Sect. He then provoked Wei Tiancheng, who attacked him in a rage.

• Wei Wuren rejected Wei Tiancheng's suggestion to kill Song Wen, explaining that the Divine Blood Sect might destroy the Wei Family on suspicion alone.
• Yan Yuyan realized Song Wen's claim to belong to the Divine Blood Sect was probably false, but Song Wen told her to wait for the Wei Family's payment.
• Wei Wuren returned with four other Integrated Body Realm Cultivators and gave Song Wen three million superior spirit stones.
• Wei Wuren and the other four bowed and apologized to Yan Yuyan on the Wei Family's behalf.
• Song Wen insulted the Wei Family as a dog beneath the Divine Blood Sect, and Wei Tiancheng attacked him with a palm strike.

Song Wen revealed his true Integrated Body Realm strength and used a Blood Tide to trap the five Wei Family cultivators, intending to kill them all. As they tried to escape, dark golden lightning shattered Wei Tiancheng’s shield, and their spiritual treasures rushed to intercept the bolt.

• Wei Tiancheng attacked Song Wen, but Song Wen shattered his hand and revealed cultivation above Wei Tiancheng’s.
• Wei Wuren and the other Wei Family cultivators attacked Song Wen, who used a Death-Substitute Puppet to appear beside Yan Yuyan and protect her.
• Song Wen’s Blood Tide swallowed him and Yan Yuyan, blocked the Wei Family’s attacks, and closed around the mountain gate.
• Wei Tiancheng warned the others that Song Wen intended to kill them all, and the five Wei Family cultivators fled upward as the Blood Tide enclosed them.
• Dark golden lightning descended from the storm clouds and shattered Wei Tiancheng’s tortoiseshell shield.
• The Wei Family’s two flying swords, long saber, and Soul-Breaking Awl swept past Wei Tiancheng toward the lightning.

Song Wen trapped Wei Wuren and the other four Wei Family experts inside Blood Tide and killed them after revealing that the target of Wei Wuren’s Annihilating Divine Nether Needle was only a Blood Shadow Clone. He left with Yan Yuyan, whose astonishment at his strength deepened.

• Song Wen confronted Wei Wuren and the other four, declaring that he had come to kill them for trying to kill Yan Yuyan.
• Wei Wuren fired the Annihilating Divine Nether Needle into Song Wen’s glabella, but the wound healed because the target was a Blood Shadow Clone.
• Song Wen sent waves of Blood Tide surging toward the five, while Wei Wuren realized the needle had struck an incarnation and the group faced certain death.
• The five attacked the Blood Tide in a final struggle, but Song Wen absorbed the tide and left no trace of them.
• Yan Yuyan asked whether the five were dead, and Song Wen confirmed they were as they flew south together.

Song Wen traveled toward the Lin Clan with Rong Shao, Yan Yuyan, and Zhu Mei, venting his grief over Zhou Siyi’s death before speaking privately with Yan Yuyan. The chapter ended with Yan Yuyan learning that her master and Lan Chen were safe in Southern Nether Province, far from their current location.

• Song Wen introduced Yan Yuyan to Rong Shao and asked him to take the flying ship to the Lin Clan in the Northern Region.
• Song Wen took Zhu Mei to a room and spent a month with her, after which his Sha had disappeared.
• Song Wen learned from Rong Shao that Yan Yuyan was staying on the Ship Pavilion’s lowest floor and went to speak with her privately.
• Yan Yuyan tried to comfort Song Wen over Zhou Siyi’s death, but he said cultivators should regard life and death lightly.
• Song Wen told Yan Yuyan that her master and Lan Chen were in Southern Nether Province and had joined powerful sects, so they were safe.

Song Wen discussed Yan Yuyan’s safety and future after the Wei Family massacre, then gave her sword techniques and flying swords. As they traveled toward Yujiang Province, he revealed that he had once been the Foundation Establishment corpse cultivator she had encountered in the lower realm.

• Yan Yuyan asked whether Song Wen had joined a sect, and he explained that he remained a Rogue Cultivator and introduced her to the Divine Blood Sect and the powers of the Profound Realm.
• Song Wen warned Yan Yuyan that she could not safely remain in Divine Blood Sect territory and suggested she seek a place to cultivate in the Northern Region of Yujiang Province.
• Yan Yuyan chose to remain a Rogue Cultivator for now, so Song Wen gave her sword cultivation arts, secret techniques, and six low-grade spirit treasure flying swords.
• Song Wen recalled how Yan Yuyan had once hunted Wu Ren and revealed that he had been the Foundation Establishment Realm junior who escaped her attack and later killed Wu Ren.
• Yan Yuyan apologized for their past conflict, and the two continued their journey together, reminiscing about how their circumstances had changed.

Song Wen followed Rong Shao's plan to approach the Lin Clan for Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans, while secretly seeking information in Heavenly Mountain City. At the Ghost Market, he discovered that the stall owner who had directed him there was waiting for someone else to emerge from the mist.

• Rong Shao said he would secretly visit Lin Feng to try to purchase Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans, and Song Wen warned him to keep the meeting discreet.
• After Rong Shao left, Song Wen disguised himself and traveled to Heavenly Mountain City without Yan Yuyan or Zhu Mei.
• Song Wen paid a Rogue Cultivator stall owner for directions to the Ghost Market, then confirmed the directions with another stall owner.
• Song Wen evaded any possible pursuers, waited until night, changed his appearance, and entered the Ghost Market through a mist-covered valley.
• Song Wen recognized the first stall owner among the Ghost Market guards, where the man watched the path through the mist for someone else.

Song Wen captured Lin Mu and the stall owner after discovering they had reported his inquiries to the Lin Clan. He extracted information about the Lin Clan’s Rune Hall and treasure vault, then killed Lin Mu and turned toward the terrified stall owner.

• Song Wen left the Ghost Market, circled back, and watched its entrance until the stall owner emerged with Deacon Lin Mu.
• Song Wen ambushed the two men with Soul-Slaying Spikes and carried them more than three hundred thousand li away.
• Song Wen questioned Lin Mu and learned that Kong Ling led the Rune Hall and Elder Lin Haocang managed the treasure vault.
• Song Wen forced Lin Mu to record the appearances of those men and their closest associates, then killed Lin Mu when he demanded to be released.
• Song Wen burned Lin Mu’s corpse and approached the stall owner as he begged for his life.