Recaps

Song Wen parted ways with Rong Shao, then traveled to Cangwu Province and settled in Blood Radiance City under the alias Ye Hua. He bought rare materials and asked a Divine Blood Sect shop manager to help him obtain two tightly controlled items.

• Song Wen said he planned to go to Cangwu Province, while Rong Shao planned to head to Yujiang Province's Northern Region and seek revenge on the Rong Clan after reaching the Mahayana realm.
• Song Wen and Rong Shao bid farewell, and Song Wen spent years stabilizing his cultivation before traveling to Cangwu Province.
• Thirteen years later, Song Wen had spent two months in Blood Radiance City, posing as the sixth-rank alchemist Ye Hua.
• Song Wen collected a three-thousand-two-hundred-year-old Blood Jade Ginseng from Manager Wang at Immortal Herb Lodge and paid the remaining spirit stones.
• Song Wen asked Manager Wang to find Azure Glazed Fruit and Great Yin Netherfire, then sold him Spirit-Melting Pills and Heaven-Returning Pills.

Song Wen sought rare spirit items and other poisons to prepare for breaking through to Mahayana, then returned to the Immortal Herb Lodge to ask Wang Qi for help reaching powerful Divine Blood Sect members. There, he recognized the departing honored guest as Qiluo, whom he had once briefly been involved with on Qicang Island.

• Gu Que explained that the Azure Glazed Fruit could help Song Wen temper his physical body and that Great Yin Netherfire could temper his spiritual power for a Mahayana breakthrough.
• Song Wen decided to search for other poisons and spirit items, and bought treatises on spirit medicines and poison cultivation around Blood Radiance City.
• Song Wen returned to the Immortal Herb Lodge, hoping Wang Qi could introduce him to higher-ranking Divine Blood Sect members.
• After waiting for more than an hour, Song Wen saw Wang Qi escort a woman from the rear courtyard.
• Song Wen recognized the woman as Qiluo, with whom he had once shared a brief affair on Qicang Island.

Song Wen met Qiluo in Blood Radiance City while disguised as Alchemist Ye Hua, then privately revealed his identity and spun a tale of enduring love to regain her trust. Qiluo eagerly asked to meet him, while Song Wen hoped to use her connections to the Divine Blood Sect to investigate the Azure Glazed Fruit and Great Yin Netherfire.

• Song Wen bought alchemy herbs from Wang Qi and encountered Qiluo, who recognized his name but did not realize who he was.
• After Qiluo left, Wang Qi warned Song Wen not to provoke her because she had powerful people backing her.
• Song Wen followed Qiluo's movements with his divine sense and sent her a message identifying himself as Ye Hua.
• Song Wen claimed he had crossed the Source-Qi Death Domain and traveled for years to find Qiluo, explaining that his changed appearance and aura came from cultivation and disguise.
• Qiluo replied that she wanted to meet Song Wen and asked where he was.

Song Wen reunited with Qiluo, but she left because her master, Xuan Li, forbade her from meeting him and might endanger him. After a month without progress finding the Azure Glazed Fruit or Great Yin Netherfire, Song Wen decided to lure their owners out with a treasure.

• Song Wen met Qiluo at his courtyard, and they spent three days together.
• Qiluo revealed that Xuan Li was her master and said she had to leave to protect Song Wen.
• Song Wen let Qiluo go, and she told him it would be better if they never met again.
• Over the next month, Song Wen searched texts for a poison matching the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body but found no useful clues, and Qiluo did not return.
• Song Wen decided to stop relying on others and planned to use a treasure as bait to draw out whoever possessed the Azure Glazed Fruit and Great Yin Netherfire.

Song Wen bought a multicolored wild fruit from a stall in Blood Radiance City to use as a convincing counterfeit life-restoring fruit. He left the city and began recording the fruit in a jade box, preparing to carry out his plan.

• Song Wen decided to find a fruit that could pass for a life-restoring fruit and searched the rogue cultivators' market in Blood Radiance City.
• Song Wen spotted a multicolored fruit at Xiaoling's stall and recognized that it resembled a life-restoring fruit despite lacking its aura and radiance.
• Song Wen rejected Xiaoling's claim that the fruit improved comprehension and bargained her down from two hundred superior spirit stones to ten mid-grade spirit stones.
• Song Wen left Blood Radiance City, flew to a secluded cave, and had Shadow Void watch the surroundings.
• Song Wen placed the fruit in a ten-thousand-year-old warm jade box and began recording it with an Image-Recording Stone.

Song Wen asked Myriad Affairs House to spread news that he would trade a Life-Restoring Fruit for ten Azure Glazed Fruits and a split flame of Great Yin Netherfire. The branch manager accepted the deal, but he could not determine whether the fruit was genuine.

• Song Wen visited Myriad Affairs House in East Min Market and asked manager Chen Ming to arrange a deal through the main shop in Blood Radiance City.
• Song Wen offered a Life-Restoring Fruit in exchange for ten Azure Glazed Fruits and a split flame of Great Yin Netherfire, asking Chen Ming to notify Divine Blood Sect elders who needed more lifespan.
• Song Wen gave Chen Ming an Image-Recording Stone showing the fruit, five communication jade slips, and ten thousand high-grade spirit stones as payment.
• Chen Ming accepted the business but remained unsure whether the fruit was real after viewing only its image.
• Song Wen gave his name as Gou Jun and left, while Chen Ming speculated about his motives and mistakenly believed the fruit could extend a mortal's life.

After leaving the Myriad Affairs House, Song Wen hid in a tavern and negotiated with Blood Skeleton Lord for Azure Glazed Fruits and Great Yin Netherfire in exchange for a Life-Restoring Fruit. He secured Blood Skeleton Lord’s agreement to distribute evidence of the goods through the Myriad Affairs House, but still could not tell whether the offer was genuine.

• Song Wen changed routes and hid in a tavern instead of returning to Ye Hua’s rented courtyard, wary that his identity could be exposed.
• Blood Skeleton Lord contacted Song Wen and claimed to possess ten Azure Glazed Fruits and an offshoot flame of Great Yin Netherfire.
• Song Wen refused to meet or provide further proof, while Blood Skeleton Lord repeatedly messaged him and raised his offer to fifteen Azure Glazed Fruits.
• Song Wen agreed to trade on the condition that Blood Skeleton Lord record himself with the goods and have the Myriad Affairs House distribute copies to its major branches.
• Blood Skeleton Lord agreed and inferred that Song Wen was a peak Integrated Body Realm corpse cultivator, leaving Song Wen uncertain whether the promised goods were real.

Song Wen agreed to trade with the Blood Skeleton Lord for the Azure Glazed Fruits and Great Yin Netherfire, while keeping the location secret until the appointed time. After learning that Daoist Hongyi of the Myriad Affairs House had sealed information about him, Song Wen traveled to Rockshade City and chose Mistveil Lake as the trade site.

• Song Wen reviewed the Blood Skeleton Lord’s recording and wondered why no other Divine Blood Sect cultivators had contacted him about the Life-Restoring Fruit.
• The Blood Skeleton Lord pressured Song Wen to trade and revealed that Daoist Hongyi of the Myriad Affairs House had agreed to conceal information about Song Wen and the fruit.
• Song Wen agreed to trade in Rockshade City three days later but withheld the exact time and location until then.
• Song Wen left Blood Radiance City by a circuitous route and traveled to Rockshade City to avoid being followed.
• Song Wen examined a map and selected the secluded, mist-covered Mistveil Lake as the trade location.

Song Wen prepared a decoy exchange at Mistveil Lake and discovered that Yu Bi, not Blood Skeleton Lord, had been impersonating his contact. Yu Bi offered five Azure Glazed Fruits first, while Song Wen’s avatar continued to demand the promised treasures before revealing the Life-Restoring Fruit.

• Song Wen inspected four possible exchange sites, chose Mistveil Lake, and mapped its underground rivers before returning to Rockshade City.
• Song Wen left a poisoned, restricted jade box at an inn, sent Blood Skeleton Lord the false location, and flew to Mistveil Lake to hide while his avatar waited on an island.
• Shadow Void warned Song Wen that Yu Bi had arrived alone, leading Song Wen to suspect that Yu Bi had impersonated Blood Skeleton Lord and that the recorded treasures might also be fake.
• Yu Bi demanded the Life-Restoring Fruit, but Song Wen’s avatar refused to hand it over until Yu Bi produced the Azure Glazed Fruit and Great Yin Netherfire.
• Song Wen’s avatar claimed the Life-Restoring Fruit was hidden elsewhere and that he had already consumed one, prompting Yu Bi to reveal five Azure Glazed Fruits and offer them as proof of sincerity.

Song Wen used the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to bargain with Yu Bi for the Life-Restoring Fruit, accepting five Azure Glazed Fruits while demanding the rest of Yu Bi’s promised treasures. Yu Bi grew suspicious when the Avatar claimed the fruit was hidden beneath the lake, and prepared to attack.

• Song Wen inspected Yu Bi’s five jade boxes for traps, then had the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar accept them into its storage ring.
• The Heaven-and-Earth Avatar showed Yu Bi a jade box and demanded the remaining ten Azure Glazed Fruits and the Great Yin Netherfire in exchange for the Life-Restoring Fruit.
• Yu Bi demanded to inspect the fruit, but the Avatar refused and threatened to destroy it if Yu Bi attacked.
• Song Wen suspected Yu Bi had no more Azure Glazed Fruits or Great Yin Netherfire and tried to calm him while planning to transfer the five fruits to his main body.
• The Avatar claimed the Life-Restoring Fruit was with a concealed friend beneath the lake, but Yu Bi called the claim a lie and prepared to kill him.

Song Wen revealed himself as the black-robed man beneath the lake, reclaimed his avatar and the Life-Restoring Fruit, and deceived Yu Bi with a worthless wild fruit. He then attacked Yu Bi with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, nearly killing him before Yu Bi recognized him as Gu Huang.

• Song Wen emerged from the lake and told Yu Bi that the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar was his friend, then revealed that the avatar was his own.
• Song Wen tossed Yu Bi two jade boxes, one empty and the other containing a worthless wild fruit disguised as the Life-Restoring Fruit.
• Yu Bi realized he had been deceived and charged Song Wen, whose body appeared to explode under Yu Bi's ghost-claw strike.
• Song Wen appeared behind Yu Bi and used a bloody giant hand to stall him before slashing his neck with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Yu Bi survived with a wound on his neck, recognized Song Wen as Gu Huang, and vowed to extract his soul and refine his spirit.

Yu Bi attacked Song Wen with the Corpse-Suppressing Nails, but Song Wen escaped using Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions. After fleeing millions of li, Song Wen hid in a cave and asked Gu Que how to use the Azure Glazed Fruits to cultivate the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body.

• Yu Bi’s Corpse-Suppressing Nails struck a dried corpse after Song Wen used a Death-Substitute Puppet to escape his attack.
• Yu Bi pursued Song Wen, who shattered five blood-red crystals and created countless fleeing copies with Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions.
• Yu Bi engulfed more than four hundred copies in corpse qi, but they burst into blood baleful qi without revealing Song Wen’s true body.
• Yu Bi pursued the five copies he had seen flee in one direction while Song Wen escaped millions of li and hid in an underground cave.
• Song Wen asked Gu Que about cultivating the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body, and Gu Que explained that five Azure Glazed Fruits would barely suffice and could be consumed at any time.

Song Wen searched for the Great Yin Netherfire and attended a high-level Rogue Cultivator exchange meet near Blood Radiance City. A masked late-stage Void Refinement cultivator privately offered to help him find the fire.

• Song Wen nourished his soul with Soul Source Essence, then decided to travel to Blood Radiance City in search of the Great Yin Netherfire and other spiritual medicines.
• After three months of fruitless inquiries, Song Wen attended an exchange meet outside Blood Radiance City, disguised in a mask and black cloak.
• Song Wen asked a group of five cultivators about the Great Yin Netherfire, and their late-stage Void Refinement companion stopped him to request a private conversation.
• Song Wen followed the cultivator tens of thousands of li to a secluded forest and formed a soundproof barrier at his request.
• The masked cultivator told Song Wen that he could help him with the Great Yin Netherfire.

Song Wen, calling himself Xing Chang, agreed to help Mo You obtain a Heavenly Dipper Body Integration Pill in exchange for assistance finding the Great Yin Netherfire. They planned to kill Huo Ming and exploit Huo Wuqi’s absence, though Song Wen withheld the pill until they secured the flame.

• Mo You revealed he was a Divine Blood Sect inner disciple in Mars Hall and offered to help Song Wen find the Great Yin Netherfire.
• Mo You asked Song Wen to kill Huo Ming, who would travel to Rockshade City within seven days, and take the Heavenly Dipper Body Integration Pill he carried.
• Mo You explained that Huo Ming’s death would draw Huo Wuqi away, giving Madam Jade Bone an opportunity to steal a branch flame from Mars Hall.
• Song Wen rejected capturing Huo Ming to ransom the flame after Mo You warned that Huo Wuqi could rally Mahayana allies.
• Song Wen agreed to follow Mo You’s plan but said he would not hand over the pill until they obtained the Great Yin Netherfire; he introduced himself as Xing Chang, and Mo You gave his name.

Song Wen remembered Mo You as Gou Jun’s former master and learned that he was helping locate Huo Ming. After Mo You reported Huo Ming’s route, Song Wen attacked his flying ship, and Fierce Nightmare identified himself and Huo Ming while asking the hidden attacker to appear.

• Song Wen met Mo You, exchanged messaging jade slips with him, and later learned from an intelligence shop that Mo You had once led the Corpse Demon Sect.
• Qiluo warned Song Wen that Yu Bi was hunting Gu Huang over Azure Glazed Fruit and Great Yin Netherfire, but Song Wen did not reply.
• Mo You told Song Wen that Huo Ming was traveling toward Rockshade City aboard a Divine Blood Sect flying ship with Fierce Nightmare.
• Song Wen followed the ship to an isolated region and destroyed it with Vast Extremity Divine Thunder.
• Fierce Nightmare escaped with Huo Ming and called on the attacker to reveal himself, identifying Huo Ming as Huo Wuqi’s son.

Song Wen killed Huo Ming and Fierce Nightmare, took the Heavenly Dipper Body Integration Pill, and coordinated with Mo You as Madam Jade Bone stole the Great Yin Netherfire. The chapter ended with Huo Wuqi returning to the Divine Blood Sect and Mo You expecting Madam Jade Bone to leave soon to refine the spirit fire.

• Song Wen killed Huo Ming, burned his corpse, and took the Heavenly Dipper Body Integration Pill from his storage ring.
• Song Wen tracked down Fierce Nightmare after his escape and killed him, then devoured his essence blood and soul.
• Song Wen contacted Mo You, who reported that Madam Jade Bone had entered the Great Yin Netherfire Grotto and likely stolen the spirit fire.
• Mo You later told Song Wen that Huo Wuqi had returned to the Divine Blood Sect alone, while the twelve people sent with him continued investigating outside.
• Mo You predicted that Madam Jade Bone would soon leave the sect to refine the Great Yin Netherfire.

Song Wen followed Mo You to a remote valley, where they confronted Madam Jade Bone over the Great Yin Netherfire. Mo You revealed that he had used his former relationship with her to track her, then identified Song Wen as Gu Huang as the confrontation began.

• Mo You told Song Wen that Madam Jade Bone had left the sect, and Song Wen followed him south while questioning how he could track her.
• Mo You showed Song Wen a jade bottle containing tracking smoke and admitted that he was one of Madam Jade Bone's male favorites, easing some of Song Wen's suspicions.
• Song Wen and Mo You traveled to a remote valley, where Song Wen cast the Vast Extremity Divine Thunder and trapped Madam Jade Bone beneath a transparent barrier.
• Mo You demanded the Great Yin Netherfire and accused Madam Jade Bone of treating him like a servant; she questioned how they knew she possessed it.
• Mo You called Song Wen Senior Xing Chang and urged him to kill Madam Jade Bone, revealing that he knew Song Wen was Gu Huang.

Song Wen broke Madam Jade Bone’s Myriad Bones Paying Homage Formation and prepared to kill her for the Great Yin Netherfire. Madam Jade Bone offered the fire and then herself to win her life, and Song Wen left the decision to Mo You.

• Song Wen used blood light, the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, and dark-golden lightning to shatter Madam Jade Bone’s formation, injuring her with its backlash.
• Madam Jade Bone offered Song Wen the Great Yin Netherfire and swore not to seek revenge, but Song Wen said he would kill her to prevent future trouble.
• Madam Jade Bone offered to become Mo You’s Dao companion and promised to obtain an Azure Glazed Fruit for Song Wen.
• Song Wen kept the lightning poised above them and let Mo You decide whether Madam Jade Bone would live.

Song Wen spared Madam Jade Bone after Mo You asked, collected the Great Yin Netherfire, and left to find a secluded cave abode for his coming Mahayana breakthrough. He chose the weakened Leng Family’s residence in Floating Dust Ridge as a target, but a young woman there mistook him for one of Yuan Ta’s men.

• Song Wen accepted Madam Jade Bone’s oath to spare him and Mo You and obtain three Azure Glazed Fruits, then took the Great Yin Netherfire and gave Mo You the promised pill and spirit stones.
• Song Wen left and searched a map for a secluded cultivation site, choosing Floating Dust Ridge for its spiritual energy and distance from the Divine Blood Sect.
• Song Wen learned that Yin Zhuang controlled the central region and that the Leng Family had collapsed after Leng Mu’s death, leaving its residence mostly deserted.
• Song Wen arrived at Leng Residence and learned from Shadow Void that only two people remained in the Leng Family.
• Song Wen struck the defensive formation with corpse qi, and a young woman appeared, accusing him of being one of Yuan Ta’s people.

Song Wen rescued Leng Qingying and Leng Yuer from Yuan Ta’s surveillance and entered the Leng Family’s treasury with them. He found little of value, left the treasures to the sisters, and took them as his maidservants.

• Song Wen questioned Leng Qingying, who explained that Yuan Ta had trapped her and Leng Yuer in the Leng Residence while coveting their family treasury.
• Song Wen proved he was not Yuan Ta’s ally by capturing the cultivators watching the residence, and Leng Qingying opened the defensive formation.
• Song Wen killed the captured watchers and introduced himself as Yinshuo before ordering the sisters to take him to the treasury.
• Leng Qingying opened the treasury with her essence blood, and Song Wen inspected its spirit stones and spiritual objects.
• Song Wen let the sisters keep the treasury’s modest contents as a reward, and Leng Qingying pledged their service.

Song Wen settled into seclusion at Leng Residence, setting up formations and learning how to refine the Great Yin Netherfire. Yuan Ta arrived to attack the Leng Family, and Song Wen went out to confront him and his nine Void Refinement subordinates.

• Leng Qingying led Song Wen to her late father's courtyard, where Song Wen rejected her offer to serve him and sent her away.
• Song Wen replaced the courtyard's formation with spirit-gathering, concealment, and defensive formations, then asked Gu Que how to refine the Great Yin Netherfire.
• Gu Que taught Song Wen the Profound Yin Bloodflame Mantra and offered to help him understand it.
• Yuan Ta arrived at Leng Residence aboard a massive flying vessel and threatened Leng Qingying and her sister.
• Song Wen appeared beside Leng Qingying, identified himself as the one who killed Yuan Ta's men, and ordered Leng Qingying to open the mountain gate.
• Song Wen flew through the gate as Yuan Ta summoned nine cultivators who formed a battle formation around him.

Song Wen fought Yuan Ta and his nine subordinates while concealing his identity, using only corpse qi and a corpse coffin. He defeated them all and had Yuan Ta dragged into the coffin, where crunching sounds followed.

• Song Wen faced Yuan Ta and nine cultivators inside a ghost domain, limiting himself to corpse qi and corpse puppets to avoid exposing his identity.
• Song Wen's corpse-qi tentacles trapped Yuan Ta's seventh-rank ghostly creature, shocking Yuan Ta.
• Yuan Ta empowered his mourning banner with essence blood and sent it against Song Wen, but Song Wen's corpse coffin shattered the ghost domain and struck down Yuan Ta and his subordinates.
• Song Wen refused Yuan Ta's plea for mercy, and a blood-red arm dragged Yuan Ta into the corpse coffin.
• Crunching sounds came from inside the corpse coffin.

Song Wen refined Great Yin Netherfire to temper his meridians and mana, then learned that Yu Hua wanted him to explore an ancient secret realm. When she visited him in person, she asked to enter his residence, leaving Song Wen to respond to her invitation.

• Leng Qingying thanked Song Wen for killing Yuan Ta and gave him a token to enter and leave the Leng Residence, while the blood corpse devoured the remaining Void Refinement cultivators.
• Song Wen spent two years studying the Profound Yin Bloodflame Mantra and mastering Great Yin Netherfire, then began using it to temper his meridians and mana.
• Leng Qingying told Song Wen that Yu Hua had discovered an ancient secret realm and wanted him to join her exploration, but he initially refused.
• Yu Hua arrived at the Leng Residence's mountain gate, introduced herself to Song Wen, and asked him to invite her inside.

Yu Hua visited Song Wen at the Leng Residence and tried to recruit him for a dangerous ancient secret realm expedition. Song Wen refused, and Yu Hua pleaded for his help, but he continued to claim he was too weak to protect her.

• Song Wen welcomed Yu Hua into his courtyard, where they chatted about Floating Dust Ridge and the Divine Blood Sect.
• Yu Hua feigned romantic interest in Song Wen, then invited him to explore a newly appeared secret realm where every scout had died.
• Song Wen refused, explaining that he planned to cultivate and wanted to avoid the secret realm’s dangers.
• Yu Hua named several Integrated Body Realm Cultivators who might threaten her and tried to appeal to Song Wen’s sympathy.
• Song Wen suggested Yu Hua avoid the expedition, then declined her earnest request for help by saying he could not protect her.

Yu Hua offered to become Song Wen's Dao companion if he joined her secret-realm journey, but after ten days together, Song Wen refused to go. Their argument escalated when Yu Hua injured Leng Qingying, and Song Wen moved to stop her from leaving.

• Yu Hua promised to become Song Wen's Dao companion if they both returned safely from the secret realm, then embraced him and took him into the room.
• Ten days later, Song Wen refused to accompany Yu Hua into the secret realm and told her to seek help elsewhere.
• Yu Hua dressed and left, while Song Wen told her she could visit again; outside, she struck Leng Qingying and badly injured her.
• Song Wen confronted Yu Hua and demanded compensation for Leng Qingying, but Yu Hua revealed she had sought to use him as a disposable protector and threatened to kill him later.
• Yu Hua tried to leave, but Song Wen declared that she would not leave that day and let his killing intent rise.