Recaps

Song Wen used his newly refined Five Decays Yellow Springs Qi and a peak seventh-rank blood corpse to overpower Yu Hua and capture her. At Leng Qingying’s urging, he killed Yu Hua and imprisoned her soul in her severed head.

• Yu Hua attacked Song Wen with her natal flying sword, but he caught it with his withered hand protected by Five Decays Yellow Springs Qi.
• Yu Hua sent three more flying swords at Song Wen, but he summoned a corpse coffin and released a peak seventh-rank blood corpse that drove her back.
• Trapped inside the Leng Residence’s defensive formation, Yu Hua pleaded with Song Wen and tried to hinder the blood corpse, but it tore off her arm and sealed her meridians and dantian.
• Song Wen asked Leng Qingying how to deal with Yu Hua, and Leng Qingying advised killing her to prevent future trouble.
• Song Wen beheaded Yu Hua with a blade of corpse qi and imprisoned her soul in her head.

Song Wen questioned Yu Hua’s captured soul about the secret realm and the motives of Floating Dust Ridge’s rogue cultivators, then devoured her soul. Three days later, Mie Chan arrived at the Leng Residence, and Song Wen went to meet him.

• Song Wen told Leng Qingying to keep the day’s events secret and sent her to recover from her injuries.
• Song Wen devoured Yu Hua’s essence blood and divine soul, then questioned her about the secret realm, rogue cultivators, and the Divine Blood Sect.
• Yu Hua revealed that Mie Chan was her longtime secret lover and that their apparent hostility had concealed their alliance.
• Song Wen resumed cultivating, tempering his magical power with the Great Yin Netherfire.
• Leng Yuer told Song Wen that Mie Chan had come to visit, and Song Wen flew to the mountain gate to meet him.

Song Wen denied killing Yu Hua when Mie Chan confronted him at the Leng Residence, then discovered Mie Chan wanted a map fragment from Yu Hua’s belongings. Mie Chan threatened him over the fragment, and Song Wen rejected his demand, leaving a fight imminent.

• Mie Chan accused Song Wen of keeping Yu Hua at the Leng Residence or killing her, but Song Wen claimed she had left safely.
• Mie Chan revealed that Yu Hua’s life or death did not concern him and demanded a map fragment she had carried.
• Song Wen found the fragment in a storage ring and learned from Mie Chan that it was part of a map to the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm.
• Mie Chan warned Song Wen that keeping the fragment would anger Lord Yin Zhuang and other Body Integration Realm Rogue Cultivators, then threatened him when he refused to hand it over.
• Song Wen told Mie Chan he would not tolerate his demands, setting the two against each other.

Song Wen surrendered the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm map to Yin Zhuang, who ordered him to join an expedition as punishment, while Song Wen secretly planned to turn the tables. The next day, Song Wen went to Blood Radiance City to collect the Azure Glazed Fruits and learned that Madam Jade Bone had prepared them.

• Song Wen and Mie Chan prepared to fight, but Yin Zhuang arrived and questioned Song Wen about Yuan Ta's death.
• Mie Chan accused Song Wen of killing Yu Hua and possessing her fragmentary map, and Yin Zhuang demanded the map.
• Song Wen handed over the map, and Yin Zhuang spared his life but ordered him to enter the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm with an expedition.
• Song Wen pretended to accept Yin Zhuang's command while privately resolving to make Yin Zhuang the one who became cannon fodder.
• The next day, Song Wen went to Blood Radiance City and contacted Mo You about the three Azure Glazed Fruits Madam Jade Bone had promised him.
• Mo You told Song Wen that Madam Jade Bone had prepared the fruits more than a year earlier and had been waiting for him to collect them.

Song Wen arranged to collect the Azure Glazed Fruits from Madam Jade Bone in Peaceful Old City, where his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar met her and Mo You. After receiving the fruits, he questioned them about the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm and learned that the Divine Blood Sect planned to let Rogue Cultivators explore it first.

• Song Wen arranged for Madam Jade Bone to deliver the Azure Glazed Fruits in Peaceful Old City and went there while hiding nearby.
• Song Wen sent his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to meet Madam Jade Bone and Mo You in a teahouse.
• Madam Jade Bone gave the Avatar the three Azure Glazed Fruits she had promised.
• Song Wen asked Madam Jade Bone and Mo You about the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm in Floating Dust Ridge.
• Mo You explained that the Divine Blood Sect's Mahayana elders were interested but planned to let Rogue Cultivators scout the secret realm before the sect acted.
• Song Wen judged Mo You's account credible and recognized his insight into the Divine Blood Sect's affairs.

Song Wen learned that the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm was more dangerous than he had expected and decided to wait near its exit rather than enter with Yin Zhuang. He left Leng Residence and hid nearby, where he learned Yin Zhuang’s party was preparing to depart for the secret realm.

• The Heaven-and-Earth Avatar paid Mo You two hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones for information, and Madam Jade Bone confirmed that she and Mo You had become Dao companions.
• Song Wen gave Mo You two supreme-grade spirit stones as a wedding gift, then recalled the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar and decided not to enter the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm with Yin Zhuang.
• Song Wen returned to Leng Residence, retrieved his formations, and left the Leng sisters behind so Yin Zhuang’s people would not realize he had gone.
• Song Wen staged a departure, secretly returned to the vicinity of Leng Residence, and waited in a cave for six months.
• Bu Min arrived to summon Senior Yinshuo to meet Yin Zhuang at Cloudway Market, but Leng Qingying told him Yinshuo had left half a year earlier and had not returned.

Song Wen followed Bu Min to Cloudway Market and learned that Yin Zhuang was assembling cultivators for the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm. After Yin Zhuang killed Bu Min and led the assembled group toward the realm, Song Wen remained hidden nearby, watching their departure.

• Bu Min confronted Leng Qingying about Yinshuo’s disappearance, and Song Wen secretly followed Bu Min toward Cloudway Market.
• Bu Min reported Yinshuo’s disappearance to Yin Zhuang, who revealed his plans to use Leng Qingying to refine a Profound Yin Baleful Soul Pearl.
• Yin Zhuang drained Bu Min’s life and ordered the cultivators to gather in three days for the journey to the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm.
• Song Wen stayed concealed beneath a pool near Cloudway Market as high-level cultivators gathered for the expedition.
• Yin Zhuang led six Integrated Body Realm cultivators, eighteen Void Refinement cultivators, and more than thirty Spirit Transformation cultivators northwest toward the secret realm.

Song Wen followed Yin Zhuang’s group to the entrance of the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm and learned that they had entered. Yu Bi arrived to guard the fissure, while Song Wen hid nearby and wondered how Yu Bi had regained his vitality.

• Song Wen tracked Yin Zhuang’s group from a great distance and hid in a tree after Shadow Void reported that they had stopped at a valley.
• Yin Zhuang opened the entrance to the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm, warned his followers to regroup using their Breath-Sharing Bone Jade, and led them inside.
• Yin Zhuang appointed Wu Feng to guard the valley before entering the secret realm himself.
• Yu Bi arrived and told Wu Feng he would guard the fissure; Wu Feng abandoned his loyalty to Yin Zhuang and eagerly pledged to follow Yu Bi.
• Song Wen learned from Shadow Void that Yu Bi’s aged appearance and air of approaching death had changed, and wondered whether Yu Bi had extended his lifespan.

Yu Bi and Wu Feng guarded the secret realm entrance until Yin Zhuang and three injured cultivators fled from a horde of corpse demons. Yu Bi destroyed the first wave with his Corpse-Suppressing Nails, but an eighth-rank Earth Fiend Corpse emerged and proved powerful enough to repel them.

• After more than a month of guarding the valley, Yu Bi and Wu Feng saw the rift erupt with black light and corpse qi.
• Yin Zhuang and three battered Integrated Body Realm Cultivators emerged, warning Yu Bi that corpse demons were pursuing them.
• A giant ape corpse demon attacked, and Yu Bi destroyed it with a corpse-qi dragon before more demons poured from the rift.
• Yu Bi summoned his nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails and wiped out nearly a hundred corpse demons, including several as strong as seventh-rank Blood Corpses.
• An eighth-rank Earth Fiend Corpse emerged and resisted the nails, leading Yu Bi to judge its strength comparable to a late Great Ascension cultivator.

Yu Bi and the Blood Skeleton Lord joined forces to trap an eighth-rank giant ape demon corpse, but the fissure erupted again and released three more eighth-rank demon corpses. As the new corpses attacked, Yin Zhuang fled while Yu Bi and the Blood Skeleton Lord prepared to fight.

• Yu Bi agreed to give the Blood Skeleton Lord half the secret realm’s proceeds and all its information in exchange for help dealing with the giant ape demon corpse.
• The Blood Skeleton Lord struck the giant ape demon corpse with his Bronze Corpse Coffin, and Yu Bi used his nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails to restrain it.
• Yu Bi and the Blood Skeleton Lord trapped the giant ape demon corpse inside the Bronze Corpse Coffin and began planning to extract its source of corpse Sha.
• The fissure erupted with black light and corpse qi, releasing three more eighth-rank demon corpses that attacked Yu Bi, Yin Zhuang, and the Blood Skeleton Lord.
• The Blood Skeleton Lord returned Yu Bi’s nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails, while Yin Zhuang quietly withdrew and fled.

Yu Bi and Blood Skeleton Lord struggled against the demon corpses as Yin Zhuang fled, and Song Wen intercepted Yin Zhuang while escaping underground. Yin Zhuang repelled Song Wen’s sword with his ancient mirror and summoned an Ox-Head Ghost, which charged toward him.

• Yu Bi tried to stop three demon corpses with his Corpse-Suppressing Nails and offered the Integrated Body Realm Cultivators help breaking through to the Mahayana Realm if they stopped Yin Zhuang, but none responded.
• Blood Skeleton Lord sent a corpse qi dragon after Yin Zhuang, who used his ancient mirror to dissolve much of it before the collision injured him and propelled him farther away.
• Song Wen learned from Shadow Void that Yin Zhuang was fleeing nearby, masked himself, and used a fifth-order Earth-Escape Talisman to travel underground.
• Yin Zhuang passed over Song Wen without recognizing him, but Song Wen burst from the forest and launched the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword at him.
• Yin Zhuang turned his ancient mirror’s dark side toward the sword, summoned an Ox-Head Ghost that knocked it away, and sent the ghost charging at Song Wen.

Song Wen used Vast Extremity Divine Thunder to restrain the Ox-Head Ghost, then ambushed Yin Zhuang with death-substitute techniques and the Blood Sea Imperial Seal. Yin Zhuang countered the blood sea with his Severing-Yang Mirror, while Song Wen remained confident that Shadow Void would secure his victory.

• Song Wen summoned dark golden Vast Extremity Divine Thunder, trapping the Ox-Head Ghost long enough to rush toward Yin Zhuang.
• Yin Zhuang attacked Song Wen with his ghost-headed saber, but Song Wen used a death-substitute technique to appear beside him and strike with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Song Wen's sword clashed with Yin Zhuang's saber, shredding Song Wen's body, but he appeared again above Yin Zhuang and released a vast Blood Tide.
• Yin Zhuang used the yang side of his Severing-Yang Mirror to push back the Blood Tide and expose the Ox-Head Ghost.
• Song Wen stayed confident that Shadow Void, rather than his sword, lightning, or Blood Sea Imperial Seal, would let him defeat Yin Zhuang.

Song Wen used Shadow Void’s divine-sense attack to disrupt Yin Zhuang and destroy his cultivation before absorbing his blood essence and soul. He left the battlefield with Yin Zhuang’s corpse and the Severing-Yang Mirror while the battle near the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm continued.

• Yin Zhuang drove back the blood sea and attacked what he believed was Song Wen, only to discover he had struck a blood-sea incarnation.
• Shadow Void attacked Yin Zhuang and the Ox-Head Ghost with a divine-sense assault, leaving both in agony and disrupting Yin Zhuang’s control of his treasures.
• Song Wen drove the Soul-Splitting Blade through Yin Zhuang’s dantian and destroyed his Nascent Soul, ending his cultivation.
• Shadow Void pulled the Ox-Head Ghost into Song Wen’s sea of consciousness, where the black hole swallowed it.
• Yin Zhuang recognized Song Wen as Yinshuo before Song Wen drained his blood essence and soul, then collected his corpse and the ancient mirror.
• Song Wen sensed that the battle near the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm was still underway and departed to avoid getting involved.

Song Wen questioned Yin Zhuang in his Sea of Consciousness and learned that a Mahayana breakthrough could require far more spirit stones than he possessed. Yin Zhuang offered to help him control Floating Dust Ridge in exchange for a chance to be reborn, and Song Wen decided to inspect Yin Zhuang’s vault before considering the offer.

• Yin Zhuang offered Song Wen his treasures and control of Floating Dust Ridge if Song Wen spared his soul and helped him seize a new body.
• Gu Que told Song Wen that the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation could help him break through to Mahayana, but might require ten million superior spirit stones and over a hundred Supreme-grade Spirit Stones.
• Song Wen discovered that he had only 4.2 million superior spirit stones and thirty-five Supreme-grade Spirit Stones, while Yin Zhuang claimed to have eight hundred thousand superior spirit stones in his ring and two million more plus over forty Supreme-grade Spirit Stones in his vault.
• Yin Zhuang explained that he had gained a Six-Yin Flesh Fungus and a Geng Metal Pearl from the Corpse Ancient Secret Realm, and Gu Que advised Song Wen to refine the pearl after reaching Mahayana.
• Song Wen asked Yin Zhuang to take him to the vault before he decided whether to help him be reborn.

Song Wen broke into Yin Manor after Yin Zhuang’s death, killed the guards, and plundered the treasury before escaping. As he left, Yin Zhuang revealed that Leng Qingying’s yin essence might help Song Wen break through a realm, and Song Wen became interested.

• Song Wen reached Yin Manor, killed the gate guards, and used Yin Zhuang’s identity token to pass through the formation barrier.
• Song Wen entered Yin Zhuang’s treasury, collected its spirit materials, pills, jade slips, and spirit stones, then headed for the gate as the manor raised the alarm.
• Song Wen ignored the panicked residents and questioned Yin Zhuang about why his manor had no women; Yin Zhuang said a secret art had left him unable to perform as a man.
• Yin Zhuang told Song Wen that Leng Qingying could be used to refine a Profound Yin Baleful Soul Pearl, but Gu Que explained that the treasure was of little use to Song Wen.
• Yin Zhuang suggested that harvesting Leng Qingying’s yin essence could help Song Wen break through a realm, and Song Wen considered it a heaven-sent opportunity.

Song Wen returned to the Leng Residence and reassured Leng Qingying and Leng Yuer that Yin Zhuang would not take revenge. He proposed dual cultivation with Leng Qingying to nourish his body, and Leng Yuer revealed that she also cultivated the Ice Soul Profound Art.

• Song Wen decided to return to the Leng Residence, where Leng Qingying and Leng Yuer had remained under the protection of its defensive formation.
• Leng Yuer and Leng Qingying pleaded with Song Wen to take them away from Yin Zhuang's expected retaliation.
• Song Wen told the sisters that the danger from Yin Zhuang had been resolved and they could remain at the Leng Residence.
• Song Wen asked Leng Qingying to dual cultivate with him, offering resources to help her advance to the peak of Void Refinement, and she agreed.
• As Song Wen led Leng Qingying into his courtyard, Leng Yuer said that she also cultivated the Ice Soul Profound Art and could dual cultivate too.

Song Wen turned down Leng Yuer and asked Leng Qingying to prepare for dual cultivation, then searched Yin Zhuang's treasury for a suitable technique and assessed its value toward his future breakthrough. Yin Zhuang again offered to help Song Wen dominate Floating Dust Ridge in exchange for a new body, but Song Wen's response left him alarmed.

• Song Wen rejected Leng Yuer's request and entered the courtyard with Leng Qingying, who apologized for her sister's behavior.
• Song Wen asked Gu Que for a superior dual cultivation method, but Gu Que had none and explained the risks of practicing with an untrusted partner.
• Yin Zhuang revealed that a jade box in his treasury contained the Two Principles Heart-Unity Art, a renowned dual cultivation technique.
• Song Wen inspected Yin Zhuang's treasures and realized he could likely obtain most of the spirit stones needed for the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation, though Supreme-grade Spirit Stones would remain difficult to find.
• Yin Zhuang repeated his offer to help Song Wen control Floating Dust Ridge if Song Wen found him a suitable body, but Song Wen declined and addressed him as Senior Yin Zhuang, frightening him.

Song Wen killed Yin Zhuang, obtained the Two Principles Heart-Unity Art, and practiced dual cultivation with Leng Qingying. He then went to Floating Dust Market to sell treasures and found it deserted amid unrest following Yin Zhuang’s death.

• Song Wen devoured Yin Zhuang’s soul, leaving Gu Que and Shadow Void fearful that they might eventually share his fate.
• Song Wen examined the Two Principles Heart-Unity Art and gave the jade slip to Leng Qingying so she could study it.
• Song Wen reassured Leng Qingying that he would treat her well, and she took his words as a sincere promise.
• Song Wen and Leng Qingying comprehended the art, completed their first nine-day dual cultivation session, and harmonized the lingering yin energy in Song Wen’s body.
• Song Wen went to Floating Dust Market to sell treasures and learned that the market had grown quiet as rogue cultivators feared the turmoil after Yin Zhuang’s death and outsiders moved in to seize territory.

Song Wen sold spiritual materials in Blood Radiance City and discovered a rogue cultivator was stalking him to rob him. After learning the man acted alone, Song Wen sought a safer way to sell his more valuable treasures and met Mo You at Shuyu Pavilion to discuss business.

• Song Wen returned to Blood Radiance City in disguise and sold ordinary spiritual materials worth two hundred thousand superior spirit stones.
• Song Wen lured the rogue cultivator who had followed him out of the city, defeated him with the Soul-Splitting Blade, and captured him.
• Song Wen learned the rogue cultivator had targeted him out of greed after seeing him sell spiritual materials, then decided to sell his precious treasures more cautiously.
• Song Wen contacted Mo You about a business proposition and went to meet him at Shuyu Pavilion.
• Mo You welcomed Song Wen into his private courtyard and dismissed the women there so they could discuss business.

Song Wen met Mo You to entrust him with selling spiritual treasures and to ask him to find Supreme-grade Spirit Stones. Their conversation about Mo You’s marriage to Jade Bone was interrupted when she arrived and revealed she had summoned him to meet a powerful senior.

• Song Wen gave Mo You a storage ring of valuable treasures to sell for a twenty-percent commission and asked him to seek out Supreme-grade Spirit Stones.
• Mo You told Song Wen that Jade Bone continued to keep male favorites despite their marriage, but he stayed with her because the relationship benefited him within the sect.
• Mo You received a message from Jade Bone summoning him to the Heaven room at Shuyu Pavilion, and he reluctantly decided to go see her.
• Song Wen and Mo You encountered Jade Bone outside the courtyard, where she said she had come to take Mo You to pay respects to a senior from a subordinate faction.

Madam Jade Bone persuaded Song Wen to accompany her and Mo You to meet Rong Luan, despite his suspicions about her motives. At Rong Luan’s courtyard, she treated the group like a kindly senior offering cultivation advice, while Song Wen remained wary.

• Song Wen tried to leave rather than meet the senior, but Madam Jade Bone asked him to stay and join her and Mo You.
• Rong Luan’s divine sense arrived, and she agreed to meet Song Wen, leaving him no chance to avoid the visit.
• Madam Jade Bone led Song Wen and Mo You to Rong Luan’s courtyard, where Rong Luan lounged among six fawning young men.
• Rong Luan examined Mo You and Song Wen, and Song Wen noticed that her appearance had changed and suspected she had extended her lifespan.
• Rong Luan answered Madam Jade Bone’s and Mo You’s cultivation questions, while Song Wen stayed guarded and asked nothing.

Jade Bone brought Mo You to Rong Luan, who made him drink with her while Song Wen realized Jade Bone intended to curry favor by offering her husband. Rong Luan dismissed Song Wen and asked Jade Bone to deliver invitations to a gathering for handsome Void Refinement cultivators.

• Jade Bone urged Mo You to offer Rong Luan a toast, and Rong Luan had him sit beside her and drink with her.
• Song Wen realized Jade Bone had brought Mo You to satisfy Rong Luan and briefly feared she meant to offer him as well.
• Rong Luan told Jade Bone that she wanted to drink alone with Mo You and had another matter for her.
• Rong Luan gave Jade Bone a Jade Slip with a list of sect members to invite to her upcoming birthday celebration.
• Jade Bone examined the list and saw that it named more than a dozen handsome men at the Void Refinement stage.

Rong Luan invited cultivators to her birthday banquet, while Jade Bone lured Song Wen out of Blood Radiance City to negotiate for the Great Yin Netherfire. Song Wen agreed to return it after reaching Mahayana in exchange for Jade Bone’s support and help obtaining Supreme-grade Spirit Stones, then accepted her advances despite Mo You.

• Rong Luan told Jade Bone to invite cultivators to her birthday banquet at the Floating Dust Market, and she invited Song Wen as well.
• After leaving the Shuyu Pavilion, Jade Bone tried to keep Song Wen in the city, but he refused her invitation to spend the night together.
• Jade Bone revealed that she knew Song Wen wanted Rong Luan’s guest list and offered to share it in exchange for the Great Yin Netherfire.
• Song Wen and Jade Bone traveled far beyond Blood Radiance City, where she offered to support him within the Divine Blood Sect if he returned the fire after reaching Mahayana.
• Song Wen agreed and asked Jade Bone to exchange for thirty to fifty Supreme-grade Spirit Stones, and she promised to obtain at least ten or twenty.
• Jade Bone offered Song Wen the guest list and invited him to spend the night with her, and he embraced her despite his friendship with Mo You.

Song Wen investigated Rong Luan’s plans for her banquet and learned that she practiced a technique for harvesting yang to nourish yin. After Mo You described being drained by Rong Luan, Song Wen suspected the invited cultivators were her targets and asked Mo You to pass a message to Jade Bone.

• Song Wen parted from Jade Bone, then disguised himself and investigated the banquet guests in Blood Radiance City, discovering that ten of the fourteen cultivators practiced the Longevity Art.
• Song Wen wondered whether Rong Luan planned to use the Devouring Essence Array on the Longevity Art cultivators, but could not determine her true purpose.
• Leng Yuer asked to cultivate with Song Wen, but he refused and left her outside his courtyard’s protective formations.
• Nearly a month later, Mo You told Song Wen that Rong Luan had kept him in Shuyu Pavilion and repeatedly drained his yang energy.
• Song Wen told Mo You not to worry about his unfinished task and asked him to tell Jade Bone that Song Wen wanted to meet and discuss something.

Song Wen obtained twelve supreme-grade spirit stones from Jade Bone and learned that Rong Luan’s birthday banquet would be held at Floating Dust Market in three days. After encountering Xuan Li and Qiluo at the teahouse, he returned to Floating Dust Market and watched visitors gather at the Immortal Affinity Pavilion, where he sent Leng Qingying to investigate.

• Jade Bone gave Song Wen twelve supreme-grade spirit stones in exchange for one million superior spirit stones and said Rong Luan’s birthday banquet would take place in three days.
• Jade Bone said she planned to attend the banquet to keep an eye on Rong Luan and the fourteen people she had invited, then tried to draw Song Wen into a private encounter, but he left.
• Song Wen recognized Xuan Li, the Yin Puppet Hall master, and Qiluo, who sensed that Song Wen seemed familiar; Xuan Li summoned Qiluo away after scrutinizing him.
• Song Wen left Blood Radiance City with Leng Qingying and rented a private courtyard overlooking Floating Dust Market.
• Song Wen watched visitors arrive at the Immortal Affinity Pavilion, then ordered Leng Qingying to find out what had been happening there.