Recaps

Song Wen and Rong Shao discussed how to obtain Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans after Lin Feng refused to sell them. Song Wen proposed using Kong Ling’s childhood sweetheart, Jiang Linger, as leverage, but Rong Shao questioned whether Kong Ling still cared about her after nearly a thousand years apart.

• Rong Shao told Song Wen that Lin Feng had refused to sell the four Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans they needed.
• Song Wen gave Rong Shao intelligence about Kong Ling and Lin Haocang, then rejected Rong Shao’s suggestion to target Lin Haocang’s mistress Ji Qiu and his children.
• Song Wen identified Jiang Linger, Kong Ling’s childhood sweetheart, as a possible bargaining chip because he believed Kong Ling had spent centuries trying to become strong enough to reclaim her.
• Rong Shao doubted that Kong Ling still cared for Jiang Linger after nearly a thousand years and speculated that Kong Ling might be unable to perform as a man or might prefer men.

Song Wen disguised himself as Gu Huang and entered the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect with the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to approach its sect master, Lao Jian. After presenting a fourth-tier Spirit-Devouring Formation, Song Wen claimed he possessed stronger versions, leaving Lao Jian intrigued but wary.

• Song Wen told Rong Shao he would destroy the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect and abduct Jiang Linger while Rong Shao sought a way to contact Kong Ling.
• Song Wen traveled alone to the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect, disguising himself as a late Void Refinement cultivator and bringing the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar as his masked guard.
• Lao Jian welcomed Song Wen into the sect after learning that his silent guard was an Integrated Body Realm cultivator whom Song Wen called Mute Slave.
• Song Wen praised Lao Jian's taste in beauties, and the two discussed how cultivators should enjoy life while pursuing immortality.
• Song Wen claimed to be a core disciple of the Divine Blood Sect and showed Lao Jian a fourth-tier Spirit-Devouring Formation.
• Lao Jian regretted that the formation extended life only briefly, so Song Wen hinted that he possessed higher-tier formations.

Song Wen, posing as Gu Huang of the Divine Blood Sect, tested the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect’s strength while pressing Lao Jian to summon his Twelve Golden Flowers. Lao Jian finally agreed, though the standoff left the sect’s intentions uncertain.

• Song Wen refused Lao Jian’s offer of one million high-grade spirit stones and instead enjoyed a lavish banquet with beautiful women.
• Song Wen asked to meet the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect’s three other Body Integration Realm Cultivators, and Lao Jian summoned them to the stone hall.
• After drinking and exchanging praise, Song Wen demanded to see Lao Jian’s concubines, especially the Twelve Golden Flowers.
• Lao Jian refused at first, while Song Wen pushed away the women around him and challenged whether the sect could serve the Divine Blood Sect wholeheartedly.
• Lao Jian’s ghostlike smile returned, and he agreed to summon the Twelve Golden Flowers for Song Wen’s amusement.

Song Wen posed as Young Master Gu Huang to gain Lao Jian’s trust, then ambushed the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect’s four Integrated Body Realm Cultivators. He captured Jiang Linger and Lao Jian and destroyed every soul lamp in the sect’s Soul Lamp Pavilion.

• Lao Jian presented the Twelve Golden Flowers, including Jiang Linger, whose changed appearance made Song Wen doubt whether Kong Ling would still want her.
• Song Wen persuaded Lao Jian to dismiss the women before discussing the Divine Blood Sect’s task, then revealed the meeting was a trap and struck the four cultivators with nine transparent blades.
• Song Wen used the Blood Sea Seal to devour three cultivators, left Lao Jian alive, and captured Jiang Linger as the Twelve Golden Flowers departed.
• Song Wen placed Lao Jian and Jiang Linger in separate corpse coffins and headed through the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect without being challenged.
• Song Wen broke into the Soul Lamp Pavilion and shattered all the soul lamps inside.

Song Wen destroyed the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect, rescued Jiang Linger, and contacted Kong Ling to negotiate her release. Kong Ling admitted he still had feelings for her, and Song Wen demanded four Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans in exchange for her life.

• Song Wen looted the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect's treasury and left as the sect descended into chaos.
• Rong Shao told Song Wen that the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect had been destroyed and gave him Kong Ling's communication Jade Slip.
• Song Wen contacted Kong Ling in Heavenly Mountain City and revealed that he had Jiang Linger and had destroyed the Ten-Thousand Suns Sect.
• Kong Ling denied caring for Jiang Linger at first, but admitted he had killed her parents and had planned to kill Lao Jian.
• Song Wen demanded four Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans from Kong Ling in exchange for saving Jiang Linger.

Song Wen tried to force Kong Ling to provide four Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans in exchange for Jiang Linger, offering Lao Jian as proof that he had captured her. He moved Jiang Linger to Jinggao Market and summoned Zhu Mei and Yan Yuyan, leaving the story with Jiang Linger awakening before them.

• Song Wen refused to release Jiang Linger without four Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans, and Kong Ling asked for time to consider.
• Song Wen told Kong Ling that Lao Jian was alive in Ancient River City and agreed to provide an Image-Recording Stone of Jiang Linger a month later.
• Song Wen moved Jiang Linger from a hidden cavern to Jinggao Market and contacted Yan Yuyan, who said Zhu Mei was away on an errand.
• Song Wen waited for Zhu Mei, then took her and Yan Yuyan away from the market aboard his flying ship.
• Song Wen opened Jiang Linger's corpse coffin and awakened her before Zhu Mei and Yan Yuyan.

Song Wen ordered Zhu Mei and Yan Yuyan to make Jiang Linger appear sane before his transaction with Kong Ling, but their training produced little progress. Near the deadline, Jiang Linger seemed calm until she saw Song Wen and became obsessed with him again, leaving him to plan how to present her to Kong Ling.

• Song Wen tasked Zhu Mei and Yan Yuyan with changing Jiang Linger’s outward behavior within a month, offering each fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones and permission to use harsh methods.
• Jiang Linger repeatedly lunged at Song Wen, who struck her and then suppressed her with his aura.
• After more than twenty days of training in a valley, Zhu Mei told Song Wen that Jiang Linger had returned to normal.
• Jiang Linger appeared calm by the window but rushed at Song Wen as soon as she saw him, calling herself his servant.
• Yan Yuyan and Zhu Mei confirmed Jiang Linger had shown no abnormality before Song Wen arrived, and the three suspected that seeing a man triggered her behavior.
• Song Wen promised Zhu Mei and Yan Yuyan their reward and decided he might immobilize Jiang Linger during the transaction if training failed.

Song Wen arranged a trade with Kong Ling, exchanging Jiang Linger for four Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans at Yellow Stone Mountain. After Kong Ling freed Jiang Linger from Song Wen’s seal, her gaze turned fervent and infatuated, leaving her true condition unclear to him.

• Song Wen left Jiang Linger with Rong Shao, then went to Heavenly Mountain City and used an Image-Recording Stone to prove to Kong Ling that she was safe.
• Song Wen and Kong Ling negotiated the exchange and agreed to meet at Yellow Stone Mountain.
• Song Wen planted the Shadow Gu at the mountain, hid himself far away, and sent his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar with Jiang Linger in the corpse coffin.
• Kong Ling handed over four Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans, and the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar returned Jiang Linger to him.
• Kong Ling removed Song Wen’s seal from Jiang Linger, whose eyes grew fervent and infatuated as she addressed him as her master.

Song Wen and Rong Shao traveled to Demonfall Valley to seek the Yin Spring where Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma grew. After learning that the spring was believed to lie near Entrance Number Three, they prepared to enter the valley.

• Song Wen gave Rong Shao two Blazing-Fire Purifying Talismans, and the two set off for Demonfall Valley.
• Song Wen declined to visit Yan Yuyan before leaving.
• At the valley, Song Wen tested the poisonous miasma and used Five Decays Yellow Springs Qi to drive it from his corroded hand.
• Rong Shao said he had heard the Yin Spring lay near Entrance Number Three, about a hundred thousand li to the west.
• Song Wen and Rong Shao agreed to enter Demonfall Valley at once.

Song Wen and Rong Shao crossed Demonfall Valley’s poisonous miasma with the help of Song Wen’s Thunder Arts, then encountered a swarm of Ghost-Miasma Demon Mosquitoes in the ghostly qi. After the insects’ venom damaged Rong Shao’s flying sword, Song Wen prepared to test it against his Blood Sea.

• Song Wen used repeated Lightning Spheres to clear a passage through the poisonous miasma, and he and Rong Shao descended into the ghostly qi beyond it.
• Song Wen sent Shadow Void to scout while he and Rong Shao continued deeper into the valley.
• Song Wen and Rong Shao heard a buzzing swarm approaching and readied their defensive treasures as Shadow Void identified the creatures as poisonous insects.
• Rong Shao recognized the swarm as Ghost-Miasma Demon Mosquitoes and attacked them with Sword Qi, but their venom contaminated his flying sword.
• Song Wen proposed using his Blood Sea against the demon mosquitoes’ venom.

Song Wen and Rong Shao descended into Demonfall Valley searching for the Yin Spring, only to discover that the supposed bottom was a vast platform above an even deeper drop. Gu Que offered Song Wen a method to sense yin qi by refining a ghost puppet, but Song Wen lacked the required Soul Infant Jade and was reluctant to leave the valley.

• Song Wen used the Blood Sea Imperial Seal to engulf the Ghost-Miasma Demon Mosquitoes, and the surviving swarm fled.
• Song Wen and Rong Shao descended tens of thousands of li and believed they had reached the bottom after Shadow Void detected solid ground nearby.
• Rong Shao led Song Wen west in search of the Yin Spring, but Song Wen's thrown boulder fell for half an hour without reaching the ground, revealing they stood on a platform above a deeper cliff.
• Song Wen proposed tracking changes in yin qi, and Gu Que taught him the Profound Baleful Ghost Puppet Record, which could refine a puppet that sensed yin nether ghost qi.
• Song Wen found that he had every required material except Soul Infant Jade and worried that leaving the valley would expose him to its poisonous miasma with only one Blazing-Fire Purifying Talisman remaining.

Song Wen and Rong Shao searched Demonfall Valley for Soul Infant Jade and encountered a highly intelligent ghostly rat that guided them toward a cave where it had seen the jade. As they neared the cave, a Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent attacked, and the two men struck back.

• Song Wen and Rong Shao descended into the gorge to search for Soul Infant Jade and powerful ghosts suitable for refining ghost puppets.
• They captured a talking giant rat, which explained that it had once been a sixth-rank spirit beast belonging to the Divine Blood Sect cultivator Tu You and had become a ghost after dying in Demonfall Valley.
• Song Wen learned that Tu You entered the valley about nine years earlier, then showed the rat an image of Soul Infant Jade.
• The rat said it had seen Soul Infant Jade near the entrance to a cave about a hundred thousand li away and led Song Wen and Rong Shao there.
• As Rong Shao noted they were nearing Entrance Number Three, a Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent lunged from the ghost qi, and Rong Shao and Song Wen attacked it.

Song Wen and Rong Shao fought the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent, whose pure True Dragon bloodline strengthened its poison, body, and soul. After Song Wen’s attacks failed to defeat it, he carved a passage into the rock wall and led Rong Shao inside.

• The Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent’s poisonous gas corroded Rong Shao’s flying sword and Song Wen’s blood tentacles, then it lunged at them.
• Song Wen used Blood Tide to block the serpent’s head, but it broke free and smashed Blood Tide apart with its tail.
• Gu Que explained that the serpent’s pure True Dragon bloodline had strengthened its physical body to near eighth-tier demon-beast strength.
• Song Wen struck the serpent with Vast Extremity Divine Thunder and nine Soul-Slaying Spikes, but it endured both attacks and remained dangerous.
• Song Wen declined Shadow Void’s offer to intervene, pierced the nearby rock wall with a Blood Tide tentacle, and led Rong Shao into the opening.

Song Wen and Rong Shao fled the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent through the rock and into a vast underground cavern, where they found a dense yin aura and mountains of bones. Song Wen suspected the remains had been gathered by human hands and that the Yin Spring might be hidden there, as the serpent pursued them into the cavern.

• Song Wen used silver-white lightning from his black wings to disperse the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent’s poisonous mist, then led Rong Shao deeper underground.
• Song Wen and Rong Shao entered a cavern filled with a much denser yin aura and wondered whether it contained the Yin Spring.
• The Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent caught up, and Song Wen and Rong Shao dove roughly ten li to the cavern floor.
• Song Wen and Rong Shao landed on heaps of demonic-beast and human bones, and Song Wen concluded the remains were likely gathered by human hands and that the Yin Spring might be nearby.

Song Wen and Rong Shao encountered Tu You, a Divine Blood Sect cultivator, in Yin Spring Cave and learned that Lord Lü Ling was nearby. Song Wen decided to lead the pursuing Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent toward Lü Ling, striking the serpent to buy time before chasing Tu You.

• A Divine Blood Sect cultivator named Tu You confronted Song Wen and Rong Shao, and the Shadow-Escape Rat recognized him as the one who had abandoned it to die.
• Tu You warned them that Lord Lü Ling would punish their trespass, then fled; Song Wen questioned the Shadow-Escape Rat and learned that Lü Ling was a powerful Integrated Body Peak Stage cultivator.
• Song Wen chose to follow Tu You and draw the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent toward Lü Ling, using his Dream-Floating True Eye to track Tu You through the ghost qi.
• As the serpent closed in, Song Wen halted and struck it with nine transparent blades, slowing it before retreating to Rong Shao.
• Song Wen and Rong Shao resumed their pursuit of Tu You.

Song Wen and Rong Shao pursued Tu You through the Yin Spring Cave, where Lü Ling intervened and revealed that he wanted Rong Shao as a longevity medicine. As Lü Ling attacked Rong Shao, Song Wen struck the blood chain with silver lightning.

• Song Wen destroyed Tu You’s seventh-rank blood corpse with the Soul-Splitting Blade, and Rong Shao joined the attack with his flying sword.
• Lü Ling deflected both weapons with his blood-colored chain and rescued Tu You, who accused Song Wen and Rong Shao of infiltrating Demonfall Valley.
• Song Wen told Rong Shao to escape while he tried to make the pursuing Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent fight Lü Ling.
• Lü Ling recognized Rong Shao’s Longevity Art cultivation and attacked him, declaring that he would capture him as a precious medicine for Vice Sect Master Wu Xing.
• Lü Ling knocked Rong Shao’s flying sword aside, but Song Wen’s silver lightning struck the blood chain and disrupted its corpse Killing Intent.

Song Wen lured the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent into Lü Ling’s attack and escaped a pincer assault with a silver talisman. The serpent then turned on Lü Ling and Tu You as Song Wen vanished.

• Rong Shao caught the Shadow-Escape Rat that Gu Huang had thrown to him and fled.
• Song Wen attacked Lü Ling with lightning to keep him from noticing the approaching Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent.
• Song Wen’s Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword pierced Lü Ling’s Vast Extremity Divine Thunder but failed to harm the serpent, which knocked the sword away.
• Lü Ling thrust his chain spear at Song Wen as the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent charged him from the other side.
• Song Wen used a silver talisman to vanish, causing Lü Ling’s chain to strike the serpent’s fangs instead.
• The Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent turned its attack toward Lü Ling and Tu You.

Song Wen escaped Lü Ling and discovered a Yin Spring cultivating six Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma, though the oldest still needed another one or two hundred years to mature. Rong Shao joined him at the hidden site, where they now stood beside the valuable spiritual plants.

• Song Wen used a Minor Teleportation Talisman to escape the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent and found a strange stalagmite forest where his spiritual sense could not reach.
• Song Wen entered the forest’s center and found a Yin Spring surrounded by six Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma, none of which had yet reached ten thousand years.
• Song Wen found dried blood and concealed array patterns, and deduced that the Yin Spring’s energy and sacrificed flesh were being used to accelerate the ganoderma’s growth.
• Song Wen decided Lü Ling might be useful and considered intervening in his battle with the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent.
• Rong Shao arrived at the stalagmite forest, accepted Song Wen’s invitation to enter, and recognized the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma.

Song Wen and Rong Shao discovered Lü Ling's Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma and confronted him after he returned from fighting the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent. Lü Ling feigned weakness to spring a trapping formation, leaving Song Wen and Rong Shao caught inside as Song Wen tried to break out.

• Song Wen told Rong Shao that the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma had not yet reached ten thousand years, and explained that he had sent Lü Ling to fight the Ghost-Faced Demon Serpent.
• Song Wen warned Rong Shao that Lü Ling was approaching and led him out of the stone stalagmite forest to avoid a possible formation.
• Lü Ling returned with Tu You, discovered Song Wen and Rong Shao had visited the Ganoderma, and attacked Song Wen with his blood-colored chain.
• Song Wen blocked Lü Ling's attack and used the Vast Extremity Divine Thunder to destroy the chain, badly wounding Lü Ling.
• Lü Ling revealed a blood-colored formation disk and used the chain fragments to trap Song Wen and Rong Shao in a vast formation.
• Song Wen thrust the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword toward the forming cage in an attempt to break through.

Song Wen was trapped by Lü Ling’s Blood Prison Rakshasa Formation and struggled to attack it while searching for a way to escape. After Lü Ling’s spear was absorbed by the Blood Sea Seal, Song Wen claimed to be a secret agent of the Divine Blood Sect, but Lü Ling demanded a Heavenly Dao oath to verify his identity.

• Lü Ling caught Song Wen’s Soul-Splitting Blade and explained that the Blood Prison Rakshasa Formation could restrain even the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Song Wen asked Shadow Void to kill Lü Ling, but Shadow Void said the formation’s interference with divine sense made it difficult.
• Gu Que identified the chains as the Scarlet Nether Blood-Drinking Chain he had forged, but could not explain how to break the formation.
• Lü Ling launched a blood-red spear, which Rong Shao weakened with his flying sword before Song Wen stopped it with the Blood Sea Imperial Seal.
• Lü Ling recognized the Blood Sea Seal and questioned Song Wen’s identity, so Song Wen falsely claimed he was a hidden agent sent by Sect Master Xugeng.
• Lü Ling rejected Song Wen’s story and demanded that he swear a Heavenly Dao oath.

Song Wen stalled Lü Ling while Gu Que searched for the true formation bases of the Blood Prison Rakshasa Formation. With Gu Que's help, Song Wen and Rong Shao struck one base together, shattering the formation and ending Lü Ling's attack.

• Song Wen asked Gu Que to identify the formation's true bases while he pretended to be a covert agent of the Divine Blood Sect to buy time.
• Lü Ling challenged Song Wen to swear a Heavenly Dao oath and prepared three blood-colored spears to kill Song Wen and Rong Shao.
• Gu Que located a formation base, and Song Wen interrupted his oath to signal Rong Shao to attack.
• Song Wen used the Law-Breaking Divine Eye as he and Rong Shao launched their strongest attacks at the chain fragment.
• The fragment lost its connection to Lü Ling, and Song Wen and Rong Shao struck it, shattering the formation and dissolving the three spears.

Song Wen pursued the wounded Lü Ling from Yin Spring Cave, tracking him through Demonfall Valley and catching up beneath the poisonous miasma. He attacked Lü Ling with Shadow Void as the bat demon beast reappeared, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lü Ling escaped Song Wen and Rong Shao with a Teleportation Talisman, abandoning Tu You, whom Rong Shao was left to capture alive.
• Song Wen used a chain fragment and the Ten-Thousand-Mile Breath-Tracking Technique to follow Lü Ling north through a passage and up a cliff.
• Song Wen raced toward Demonfall Valley’s third exit, evaded a late seventh-rank bat demon beast, and caught Lü Ling beneath the poisonous miasma.
• Lü Ling revealed a corpse puppet, but Song Wen sent Shadow Void’s sound attack at him, making him cry out in pain.
• The bat demon beast surged out of the yin qi below, and Song Wen prepared to confront it.

Song Wen captured Lü Ling after killing the bat demon beast, then returned to Yin Spring Cave and questioned the wounded Tu You about the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma. Lü Ling insisted that killing him would summon the Divine Blood Sect, but Song Wen said he could wait until the herbs matured before acting.

• Song Wen engulfed and killed the bat demon beast with the Blood Tide, then subdued Lü Ling and carried him back to Yin Spring Cave.
• Song Wen found Rong Shao guarding the maimed Tu You and bound both Tu You and Lü Ling.
• Tu You admitted that he and Lü Ling had guarded the cave for the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma, but claimed he knew little about how to ripen it.
• Song Wen revived Lü Ling and heard him laugh that his death would alert the Divine Blood Sect and bring Mahayana cultivators to the valley.
• Song Wen replied that he could wait for the ganoderma to mature before taking action.

Song Wen learned how to hasten the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma’s maturation and began feeding Lü Ling’s flesh to one of them. He left Rong Shao to continue the process while keeping both prisoners alive.

• Song Wen tricked Lü Ling into revealing that the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma would mature in twenty or thirty years, then ordered the Shadow-Escape Rat to torment Lü Ling and Tu You without killing them.
• Song Wen used healing pills to repair Tu You’s wounds and ordered the Shadow-Escape Rat to devour him, prompting Lü Ling to explain how to hasten the ganoderma’s maturation.
• Lü Ling revealed that powerful cultivators’ fresh flesh and blood could accelerate the ganoderma’s growth, and that he had intended to use Tu You as fertilizer.
• Song Wen cut a piece of flesh from Lü Ling and placed it at the roots of a nine-thousand-year ganoderma, whose fungal threads and openings immediately absorbed it.
• Song Wen told Rong Shao to speed up the ganoderma’s maturation without killing the prisoners, then sat beside a stone stalagmite.

Song Wen and Rong Shao cultivated two Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma to ten thousand years and each claimed one. Song Wen devoured Tu You and Lü Ling's cultivation, broke through to the Integrated Body Peak Stage, and escaped Demonfall Valley with Rong Shao.

• After five years of feeding the ganoderma with Tu You and Lü Ling's flesh, Rong Shao watched the first plant reach ten thousand years; months later, the second reached the same age.
• Song Wen and Rong Shao each took one ganoderma, and Song Wen told Rong Shao to leave while he dealt with Tu You and Lü Ling.
• Rong Shao released the Shadow-Escape Rat's ghost body, and Song Wen ordered him to kill it; Rong Shao destroyed its soul before leaving.
• Song Wen devoured Tu You and Lü Ling's magic power, broke through to the Integrated Body Peak Stage, and burned their corpses to ashes.
• Song Wen rejoined Rong Shao outside Yin Spring Cave, and they traveled beyond Entrance No. 3 before crossing the poisonous miasma and emerging above Demonfall Valley.