Recaps

Song Wen watched the Immortal Affinity Pavilion after suspecting Rong Luan was holding her birthday banquet there, then provoked the silent pavilion through his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar. A cultivator named Geng You arrived and identified the pavilion as belonging to Daoist Wangji, leaving Song Wen to consider the significance of the powerful cultivator’s involvement.

• Leng Qingying reported that the Immortal Affinity Pavilion had been booked for half a month, and Song Wen ordered her to watch its entrances.
• Song Wen found that Rong Luan was absent while the other guests, including Madam Jade Bone, had entered the pavilion, and he continued monitoring it.
• Leng Qingying reported that the pavilion had stopped sending attendants out for supplies, prompting Song Wen to suspect something had happened inside.
• Song Wen sent Leng Qingying away and used his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to demand entry and strike the pavilion’s protected doors, but no one responded.
• Geng You arrived and told the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar that the pavilion belonged to his master, Daoist Wangji, whom Song Wen recalled as an Integrated Body Late Stage cultivator.

Song Wen used the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to persuade Geng You to open the Immortal Affinity Pavilion, hoping to uncover what had happened to Jade Bone and the others. After finding the pavilion deserted, Song Wen collected garments that might help him track the missing cultivators and used them to begin the Ten-Thousand-Mile Breath-Tracking Technique.

• The Heaven-and-Earth Avatar convinced Geng You that Wangji might be in danger and urged him to open the Immortal Affinity Pavilion.
• Geng You used Wangji’s token to open the gates, revealing an empty pavilion and a ruined courtyard.
• Integrated Body Realm Cultivators arrived and questioned Geng You about the Mahayana Realm guest who had been with Wangji.
• Song Wen noticed discarded men’s garments, suspected they belonged to one of the invited Divine Blood Sect Void Refinement Realm cultivators, and took them.
• The Heaven-and-Earth Avatar threatened the assembled cultivators, then left the city; Song Wen departed by another route and later reunited with it.
• Song Wen put away the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar and used the garments to perform the Ten-Thousand-Mile Breath-Tracking Technique.

Song Wen tracked Rong Luan to a cavern hidden behind an eighth-rank high-grade formation and used Gu Que’s advice to strike its ten directions. The formation became transparent instead of breaking, revealing Rong Luan draining the blood and life of more than a thousand captives and ten Divine Blood Sect disciples.

• Song Wen followed the Ten-Thousand-Mile Breath-Tracking Technique to a mountain region and discovered a concealed cavern a hundred li underground.
• Song Wen sent the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar into the cavern, where it encountered a barrier that distorted divine sense and blocked its way.
• Gu Que identified the barrier as Jing Chen’s Ten-Directions Annihilation Formation and explained that its ten directions had to be attacked simultaneously.
• Song Wen’s ten blood tentacles struck the formation from different directions, making the barrier transparent without destroying it.
• Song Wen saw Rong Luan operating a formation disk while a blood serpent drained the captives, killing them and growing as it moved between them.

Song Wen found Rong Luan using the Ten-Directions Annihilation Formation to extend her lifespan by sacrificing captives, but he could not break the powerful barrier. Rong Luan rejected his intervention and threatened to kill him if he did not retreat.

• Rong Luan recognized Song Wen as Gu Huang and angrily challenged him, while Song Wen realized the formation contained a Devouring Essence Array.
• Song Wen saw Jade Bone and four other Divine Blood Sect disciples alive among the bodies of Daoist Wangji and the Immortal Affinity Pavilion’s servants.
• Rong Luan admitted she had stolen lifespan-extending medicines and planned to kill the surviving disciples after completing her scheme, while Jade Bone urged Song Wen to seek help from the Divine Blood Sect.
• Rong Luan offered to wipe away her grudge with Song Wen if he withdrew, but he refused and used the Blood Spirit Sacrifice to empower the Blood Sea Imperial Seal.
• Song Wen’s crimson tentacles struck the formation barrier, but it only shook, and Rong Luan warned him that she would kill him if he did not retreat.

Song Wen shattered the Ten-Directions Annihilation Formation, unleashing a devastating blast that wrecked the Devouring Essence Array and ruined Rong Luan’s plan to extend her lifespan. Rong Luan suffered severe backlash as the blast killed many of the trapped cultivators, and she was left mad with rage over her failed scheme.

• Song Wen ignored Rong Luan’s threats and repeatedly battered the Ten-Directions Annihilation Formation until its barrier began to fail.
• Jade Bone urged Song Wen to break the formation, while Rong Luan attacked the helpless Jade Bone and four Divine Blood Sect disciples with a corpse qi dragon.
• The Ten-Directions Annihilation Formation collapsed, unleashing an enormous blast that destroyed the Devouring Essence Array and killed more than a thousand Rogue Cultivators and the ten Void Refinement Stage cultivators.
• Jade Bone survived by sheltering inside a corpse coffin, but the four other restrained disciples were torn apart by the blast.
• Rong Luan suffered the formation’s backlash, rapidly aged, and went mad as she realized Song Wen had ruined her years-long plan to extend her lifespan.

Rong Luan unleashed the forbidden Ancient Demon True Baleful Intent and destroyed Song Wen’s blood sea, apparently killing him before turning her spear on Jade Bone. Just as Jade Bone faced certain death, Xing Chang—revealed as Gu Huang—reappeared amid the blood rain.

• Rong Luan attacked Song Wen with her bone whip, but Song Wen’s blood sea absorbed the blow and mocked her.
• Rong Luan burned her soul and ruined body to summon Ancient Demon True Baleful Intent, transforming her bone whip into a black spear.
• The spear shattered Song Wen’s blood sea and struck him, blowing his body apart.
• Rong Luan turned the spear toward Jade Bone, who was hiding underground and could neither flee nor defend herself.
• Xing Chang reappeared amid the blood rain as Gu Huang, and Jade Bone cried out for him to save her.

Song Wen used a Blood Shadow Clone to trick Rong Luan and wound her with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword. As Rong Luan’s forbidden art reached its fatal limit, she launched one last attack at Gu Huang, then fell into the abyss with her black spear.

• Rong Luan attacked Song Wen, but he reappeared after each strike, revealing that one apparent Gu Huang had been a Blood Shadow Clone.
• Gu Huang lunged from behind and sliced away much of Rong Luan’s right hand with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, forcing her to retreat.
• Rong Luan tried to attack Song Wen again, but her body faltered as the forbidden Ancient Demon True Baleful Intent brought her near death.
• Song Wen gathered the blood rain into a giant Blood Sea Seal and sent it crashing down on Rong Luan.
• Rong Luan ignored the seal and sent her black spear at Gu Huang, but he exploded into minced flesh without spilling blood, breaking her fighting spirit.
• The blood seal overwhelmed Rong Luan’s failing corpse qi, and she and her black spear fell into the abyss.

Song Wen used Shadow Void’s soul attack to delay Rong Luan, who survived her fall and turned on Jade Bone as she tried to escape. Rong Luan killed Jade Bone after Song Wen refused to save her, leaving Rong Luan and Song Wen facing each other.

• Gu Que warned Song Wen that Rong Luan’s soul would take time to collapse, so Song Wen used Shadow Void’s sound attack to torment her rather than pursue her.
• Rong Luan used a bone token to defend her soul, crashed into the abyss, and emerged still alive with Mahayana strength.
• Jade Bone weighed fleeing against helping Song Wen, then used an Earth-Escape Talisman to escape underground when Rong Luan looked her way.
• Rong Luan sent her black spear after Jade Bone, which destroyed Jade Bone’s blood corpse and drove her to plead with Song Wen for help.
• Rong Luan demanded that Song Wen sever an arm to spare Jade Bone, but Song Wen refused and disowned any concern for her.
• Rong Luan declared that Jade Bone would die with her and thrust the spear through Jade Bone, whose body exploded.

Song Wen defeated Rong Luan after her power collapsed and revealed that he had recorded her confession to murdering Divine Blood Sect disciples. He began crushing her with the Blood Tide while threatening to expose the recording and bring the sect’s wrath upon the Rong Clan.

• Rong Luan’s aura weakened below the Mahayana realm, and Song Wen sent the Blood Tide cascading into the abyss.
• Rong Luan’s bone whip failed to stop the Blood Tide, which engulfed and restrained her.
• Song Wen revealed an Image-Recording Stone containing Rong Luan’s confession to Jade Bone about killing Divine Blood Sect disciples to extend her life.
• Song Wen threatened to deliver the recording to the Divine Blood Sect and described the consequences for the Rong Clan, provoking Rong Luan.
• Song Wen compressed Rong Luan with the Blood Tide, leaving her to endure the pain without crying out.

Song Wen concealed his role in Rong Luan’s death while the Divine Blood Sect investigated the battle and suspected her of killing Jade Bone and the others. After Song Wen circulated evidence of Rong Luan’s crimes, the sect slaughtered the Rong Clan and installed another sect to govern Yujiang Province.

• Song Wen devoured Rong Luan’s soul, took her storage ring, and returned to the Leng Residence, where he sent Leng Qingying to gather news.
• Leng Qingying reported that the Divine Blood Sect had sent Xuan Li to investigate the battle, and Song Wen stayed in seclusion to avoid the turmoil.
• Song Wen met Mo You, learned that the sect suspected Rong Luan and had sent people to Yujiang Province, and accepted the proceeds from Mo You’s sale of spiritual materials.
• Song Wen copied an Image-Recording Stone and circulated it in nearby cities before returning to cultivate in seclusion.
• Over the next fifty years, the Divine Blood Sect obtained the recording and slaughtered nearly one hundred million members of the Rong Clan, then appointed another sect to administer Yujiang Province.

Song Wen told Leng Qingying and Leng Yuer that he was leaving Leng Residence and refused their request to accompany him. After giving Leng Qingying one million high-grade spirit stones, he departed, leaving the sisters watching from their mountain peak.

• Song Wen summoned Leng Qingying and Leng Yuer and announced that he was leaving without a set destination.
• Leng Qingying asked to travel with Song Wen, but he refused and offered her one million high-grade spirit stones in compensation for breaking his promise to help her reach the peak of Void Refinement.
• Leng Yuer challenged Song Wen over his treatment of her sister, and Song Wen insisted their relationship had only ever been a transaction.
• Leng Qingying accepted the spirit stones, thanked Song Wen, and left with Leng Yuer after bidding him farewell.
• Song Wen dismantled the courtyard formations and flew out through the mountain gate of Leng Residence.
• Leng Qingying watched Song Wen depart with a cool, resolute expression while Leng Yuer remained resentful.

Song Wen sought a seventh-tier formation grandmaster to help establish the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation for his breakthrough to the Mahayana Realm. After learning about Su Zhixi and Master Shang, he lured Su Zhixi to a meeting in Azure Mist City with part of the formation, and she arrived accompanied by an early Mahayana Realm old man.

• Song Wen told Mo You he was leaving Blood Radiance City and asked where he could find a seventh-tier formation grandmaster.
• Mo You named Su Zhixi of the Su Clan and the elusive Master Shang, warning that both would be difficult to recruit.
• Song Wen bought enough materials for two sets of the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation and traveled west to the Su Clan's territory.
• At the Su Clan's mountain gate, a guard refused to arrange a meeting with Su Zhixi, so Song Wen left him a Jade Slip containing part of the formation and invited her to the Moon-Embracing Pavilion.
• Song Wen waited at the inn in Azure Mist City, where Su Zhixi arrived with an old man at the early Mahayana Realm.

Song Wen, posing as Jiang Yushan, met Su Zhixi and Su Deyuan to persuade the renowned formation master to examine an incomplete formation. Su Zhixi recognized its value, and Su Deyuan became interested in its potential, leaving Song Wen to judge whether she was skilled enough to help him.

• Song Wen welcomed Su Zhixi and Su Deyuan into his courtyard, concealed that he recognized Su Deyuan, and endured the elder’s intimidating aura.
• Song Wen asked Su Zhixi to craft a Hundred Baleful Reversal Formation in exchange for the diagram of an incomplete ancient formation.
• Su Zhixi examined Song Wen’s Jade Slip and recognized that the formation could help cultivators overcome bottlenecks, though crucial details were missing.
• Su Deyuan questioned Song Wen about where he had found the formation, and Song Wen claimed he had discovered it in a cultivator’s tomb.

Song Wen agreed to take Su Deyuan and Su Zhixi to a distant ancient tomb in exchange for Su Zhixi inscribing a formation, then plotted to lure her out alone. He tried to appeal to her interests with flattering messages and an offer of soup, but she rebuffed him.

• Song Wen told Su Deyuan the ancient cultivator's tomb was in the Dragon-Dry Desert, and Su Deyuan agreed to have Su Zhixi inscribe the formation if Song Wen took them there.
• Song Wen obtained Su Zhixi's communication jade slip by claiming he wanted to ask about formations.
• Song Wen considered how to abduct Su Zhixi and chose a colorful sixth-tier bird from his spirit beast pouches as a possible lure.
• Song Wen sent Su Zhixi flattering messages, but she accused him of using honeyed words and told him not to disturb her again.
• The next morning, Song Wen offered to send Su Zhixi Iceheart Jade Lotus Soup, but she said she had lost interest in food and rejected his effort.

Song Wen repeatedly sent food to Su Zhixi despite her objections, cultivating a public reputation as her devoted pursuer before leaving Azure Mist City. He returned injured and resumed bringing food to the Su Clan, then learned the guards had been eating his earlier offerings.

• Song Wen arranged for food to be delivered to Su Zhixi and paid the Su Clan guards to take it to her.
• Su Zhixi reprimanded Song Wen for sending food and warned him not to do it again, but he continued bringing meals and messaging her.
• For nine days, Song Wen kept showing up at the Su Clan with food, and rumors spread throughout Azure Mist City that he was infatuated with Su Zhixi.
• On the tenth day, Song Wen left Azure Mist City; he returned three days later with a severe, unhealed wound and bought healing and detoxifying pills.
• After spending three days in seclusion, Song Wen brought another food box to the Su Clan, where the guard captain admitted that the guards had eaten most of his previous offerings.
• Song Wen left the food with the guard captain anyway, saying Su Zhixi could decide what to do with it.

Song Wen manipulated Su Zhixi into agreeing to meet him by claiming he had risked his life to capture a rare spirit beast for her. When Su Zhixi arrived at Moon-Embracing Pavilion with Su Ming, Song Wen tried to lead her outside the city, but Su Ming revealed that Patriarch Su Deyuan had ordered him to keep her from being alone with Senior Jiang.

• Song Wen told Su Zhixi that he had captured a strange spirit beast in the dangerous Endless Beast Domain specifically for her.
• Song Wen threatened to kill the beast when Su Zhixi refused his gift, prompting her to hurry to Moon-Embracing Pavilion.
• Song Wen waited outside the pavilion and greeted Su Zhixi when she arrived with her clan cousin, Su Ming.
• Song Wen suggested that he and Su Zhixi go outside the city to view the beast in private.
• Su Ming objected and explained that Patriarch Su Deyuan had ordered him to stay with Su Zhixi and prevent her from being alone with Senior Jiang.

Song Wen deceived Su Zhixi into leaving the city with him, then revealed his hostile intent by striking her with a silver rune. The rune entered her sea of consciousness as he caught her sword with a powerful claw.

• Song Wen accused Su Ming of secretly admiring Su Zhixi and openly declared his own feelings for her, prompting Su Zhixi to leave the city with him.
• Su Zhixi invited Su Ming to accompany them, but he did not follow because he could not keep up with them.
• Song Wen and Su Zhixi traveled to a remote wilderness, where Song Wen released the sixth-rank bird beast and Su Zhixi admired it as the Nishang Sparrow.
• While praising Su Zhixi, Song Wen secretly formed a silver rune and sent it into her forehead.
• Su Zhixi attacked Song Wen with her sword, but he caught the blade with a black claw as the rune entered her sea of consciousness.

Song Wen captured Su Zhixi and took her to a remote mountain valley, where he revealed he wanted her to inscribe the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation for his Mahayana breakthrough. Su Zhixi refused to believe his promises that he would let her go, and Song Wen warned her that she had no choice.

• Song Wen used the Myriad Transformations Incantation to hide Su Zhixi's soul fluctuations, subdued her with the Blood Tide, and captured her Nishang Sparrow.
• Song Wen used the nun statue to conceal their traces and carried Su Zhixi away, admitting he had approached her from the beginning to use her.
• After traveling tens of thousands of miles, Song Wen chose a remote mountain valley and established a concealment formation while considering where to enter seclusion.
• Song Wen gave Su Zhixi a jade slip containing the complete Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation and said he needed her to inscribe it for his Mahayana breakthrough.
• Su Zhixi rejected Song Wen's promise to release her after the formation was complete, and Song Wen insisted that she would have to comply.

Song Wen used a foul sludge cloud to torment Su Zhixi after she refused to cooperate, and her revulsion finally made her agree to draw the formation. He let her clean herself while keeping Blood Tide inside her body to suppress her spiritual power, then warned her not to insult him again.

• Song Wen threatened Su Zhixi with sexual torment, but she furiously rebuked him and demanded death.
• Song Wen produced a storage ring of putrid sludge and made a drop fall into Su Zhixi's mouth, causing her to retch and vomit.
• Song Wen threatened to make Su Zhixi bathe in the sludge, and she agreed to draw the formation.
• Song Wen let Su Zhixi rinse her mouth and wash her face while Blood Tide remained inside her body to hinder her spiritual power.
• Song Wen warned Su Zhixi not to insult him again as the sludge cloud churned above her.

Song Wen forced Su Zhixi to help him obtain the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation, but she negotiated for her freedom after it was completed. A year later, she finished comprehending the formation, and they prepared to inscribe it onto a rare spiritual material.

• Su Zhixi proposed using a complete piece of seventh-grade spiritual material as a portable carrier for the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation.
• Su Zhixi secured Song Wen’s Heavenly Dao oath to release her and refrain from improper acts once the formation was complete.
• Su Zhixi produced Hundred-Forged Azure Profound Gold, and Song Wen gave her the materials needed to inscribe the formation.
• Over the following year, Su Zhixi studied the formation while Song Wen relayed Gu Que’s guidance to her.
• Su Zhixi told Song Wen she had thoroughly comprehended the formation and was ready to attempt setting it up.

Su Zhixi completed the formation on the Hundred-Forged Azure Profound Gold, and Song Wen confirmed it had no flaws. After recovering, she left the valley, while Song Wen warned her to keep the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation secret to avoid drawing the Divine Blood Sect’s suspicion.

• Song Wen released the seal on Su Zhixi’s spiritual power, and she spent half a month recovering before beginning the formation inscription.
• Song Wen guarded Su Zhixi as she worked for six months to inscribe the formation, which lit up and was completed successfully.
• Song Wen asked Gu Que to inspect the formation, and Gu Que confirmed that Su Zhixi had inscribed it flawlessly.
• Su Zhixi meditated for a month to recover, then prepared to leave as Song Wen removed the concealment formation’s flags.
• Song Wen warned Su Zhixi not to reveal the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation, and she departed after saying goodbye.

Song Wen refined eight Azure Glazed Fruits in the Boundless Wasteland, strengthening his body as he prepared to temper his spiritual power and break through to the Mahayana realm. Shadow Void warned him that six mortal martial artists were approaching, possibly seeking immortality after detecting his cultivation.

• Song Wen used the Azure Glazed Fruits to temper his body, releasing poisonous qi that devastated life across the surrounding area.
• After five years, Song Wen finished refining all eight fruits and confirmed with Gu Que that his body was strong enough to challenge the Mahayana realm.
• Song Wen prepared to temper his spiritual power with Blood Jade Ginseng after years of refinement with Great Yin Netherfire.
• Shadow Void alerted Song Wen to six mortals approaching his secluded cultivation site.
• Shadow Void observed that the mortals had crossed a thousand miles of mountains without changing direction, leading Song Wen to wonder if they had come seeking immortality and the Dao.

Zhao Hou and five soldiers came to ask Song Wen to save the Heavenly Jade Dynasty from a devastating rat plague, but Song Wen refused and Shadow Void killed them. Song Wen returned to cultivation after the warning was carved into the cliff, consuming a Blood Jade Ginseng to refine his spiritual power.

• Song Wen asked Zhao Hou and the five soldiers why they had come, and Zhao Hou explained that a demon rat and its swarm threatened the Heavenly Jade Dynasty.
• Zhao Hou begged Song Wen to intervene, but Song Wen refused to involve himself in worldly affairs.
• Shadow Void crushed Zhao Hou and the soldiers with its pressure, killing all six.
• Shadow Void split the mountain, nailed the corpses to the cliff, and carved the warning, "Those who trespass shall die!"
• Song Wen swallowed the Blood Jade Ginseng, and its medicinal force tempered and refined his spiritual power.

After years of preparation, Song Wen used the ten-thousand-year Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma and the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation to break through the Mahayana bottleneck. He stabilized his new realm and emerged from secluded cultivation with the road ahead still long.

• Song Wen expanded the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation and used a million high-grade spirit stones to gather spiritual energy before consuming the Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma.
• Song Wen refined the surging spiritual energy until his Nascent Soul encountered the Mahayana bottleneck, then steadily battered the barrier with help from Gu Que's preparations.
• Song Wen replenished the formation with supreme-grade spirit stones, absorbed the spiritual rain it produced, and weakened the bottleneck until it cracked.
• A vast heavenly phenomenon appeared as Song Wen broke through into the Mahayana Realm, and his spiritual light dispersed the leaden clouds.
• Song Wen tempered his increased cultivation until his realm stabilized, then opened his eyes after an unknown number of years.

Song Wen returned to the Heavenly Jade Dynasty and found it devastated by a rat plague. After rejecting Emperor Zhao Xuanming’s plea for help, he revealed his demonic nature, killed the rat demon, and swept up the plague’s vast swarm with a Blood Tide.

• Song Wen tore away the roof of the dynasty’s grandest building and confronted Emperor Zhao Xuanming, learning that Zhao Tiancheng had been dead for fifty-five years and that Zhao Hou had sought immortals sixty-eight years earlier.
• Zhao Xuanming and the ministers begged Song Wen to accept them as disciples, then asked him to stop the rat plague; Song Wen refused and rebuked them for abandoning their people.
• An old minister accused Song Wen of acting like a demon, and Song Wen declared that he was a bloodthirsty demon by nature.
• Song Wen released corpse qi that restrained the rats across the eastern region and identified the enormous rat beside him as the plague’s culprit.
• Song Wen crushed the rat demon, then spread a Blood Tide that swallowed the entire region shrouded in corpse qi.