Recaps

Song Wen, using the alias Jian Xiao, joined a group of cultivators discussing spatial rifts at the Mystic Inquiry Gathering and met Xuan Li of the Divine Blood Sect. Xuan Li asked whether anyone had found new stable rifts, leaving Song Wen wondering what she sought beyond the world.

• Song Wen learned from Li Yao that Xuan Li was known for her knowledge of spatial rifts and continued attending small gatherings with her.
• Song Wen arrived at the Mystic Inquiry Gathering aboard the Immortal Spirit Inn’s enormous flying ship and found nine cultivators discussing spatial rifts.
• The cultivators began discussing Xuan Li, and Mao Cang awkwardly explained that he had been praising her accomplishments when she appeared above them.
• Xuan Li joined the group and asked whether anyone had recently discovered a stable spatial rift, but Mao Cang said they had not.
• Song Wen wondered why Xuan Li sought undiscovered stable rifts if she already knew of others.

Song Wen learned that the Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye could reveal spatial fissures, and Xuan Li offered to teach it in exchange for finding a stable fissure within a hundred years. Mao Cang accepted under threat of a soul lamp, and Song Wen also agreed to the bargain.

• Mao Cang explained that spatial fissures were rare, unstable weak points in spatial barriers that cultivators could easily overlook.
• Xuan Li revealed that the Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye could directly observe spatial fissures and offered to teach it if each recipient found her one stable fissure within a hundred years.
• Xuan Li required Mao Cang to stake his soul aura in a soul lamp and warned him that breaking his promise would cost him his life.
• Mao Cang gave Xuan Li his soul aura, received the eye technique on a jade slip, and promised not to pass it on.
• Song Wen agreed to Xuan Li's terms, earning her rare approval while the others regarded him as foolish.

Song Wen traded a trace of Cui Qiao’s soul aura for an eye technique from Xuan Li, then asked her for locations of stable spatial fissures. Xuan Li sensed something familiar about him but gave him a Jade Slip bearing three fissure locations, secretly marking it to monitor him, and asked why he was interested in fissures.

• Song Wen surrendered Cui Qiao’s soul aura to Xuan Li and received the eye technique Jade Slip.
• Song Wen asked Xuan Li for the locations of stable spatial fissures, and she demanded to know who he really was after sensing something familiar about him.
• Song Wen denied having met Xuan Li before and suggested his ordinary aura might resemble another cultivator’s.
• Xuan Li gave Song Wen a Jade Slip with three remote spatial fissure locations and left a spiritual sense imprint on it.
• Xuan Li asked Song Wen why he was interested in spatial fissures, and he claimed he only wanted to see one.

Xuan Li showed Song Wen a hidden space fissure and explained that the void beyond it contained Eternal Night Cinnabar. She asked him to enter the void and retrieve it, offering him half the find and a powerful weapon, but Song Wen remained wary of her claims.

• Xuan Li led Song Wen away from Blood Radiance City and used a crescent blade to expose a hidden space fissure.
• Xuan Li revealed that the void contained Eternal Night Cinnabar, a rare material that could not be detected by divine sense.
• Xuan Li asked Song Wen to cross the fissure and search the void, claiming spatial storms would carry him safely to a lower world plane.
• Xuan Li offered to split any Eternal Night Cinnabar with Song Wen and have a master artificer forge him a powerful weapon.
• Song Wen suspected Xuan Li was trying to persuade him to risk his life for her.

Song Wen agreed to cultivate the Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye for Xuan Li in exchange for her help gathering the rare materials it required. After a secret seven-day reunion with Qiluo, he received the materials, traveled far from Blood Radiance City, and completed the eye technique, which let him perceive changes in space.

• Song Wen asked Xuan Li to provide the rare materials needed to cultivate the Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye, and she agreed to deliver them within half a month.
• Qiluo visited Song Wen at his inn, and they spent seven days together before she left to avoid being caught away from the sect.
• Xuan Li returned early with Qiluo and gave Song Wen the gathered materials, while Qiluo studied him with suspicion.
• Song Wen left Blood Radiance City, set up the Ten-Directions Annihilation Formation in a remote valley, and studied the eye technique.
• Song Wen refined the materials into his eyes, gained a keen perception of spatial changes, and left the valley.

Song Wen traveled to Jinggao Market to find Yan Yuyan and recruit her to rescue Zhou Siyi's soul from the lower realm. He learned that Yan Yuyan had left the market more than sixty years earlier, and her current whereabouts remained unknown.

• Song Wen decided to send Yan Yuyan to the lower realm because he trusted her and she knew the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Song Wen traveled north for more than two years and searched Jinggao Market with his spiritual sense, but found neither Yan Yuyan nor Zhu Mei.
• Song Wen entered an intelligence shop and demanded information about Zhou Siyi, then used her likeness to ask the shopkeeper about her.
• The shopkeeper gave Song Wen records showing that Yan Yuyan had left Jinggao Market more than sixty years earlier and had not been seen since.
• Song Wen asked where Yan Yuyan had gone, but the shopkeeper did not know.

Unable to find Yan Yuyan, Song Wen decided to search for her while also seeking someone else to descend to the lower realm. In Heavenly Mountain City, he encountered Che Jing and used his old identity as Lei Yue to approach her, leaving her poised to hear his story.

• Song Wen failed to find further clues about Yan Yuyan and decided to pursue her search while looking for another suitable person to descend.
• Song Wen went to Heavenly Mountain City and spotted Kong Ling dining with Che Jing, whose cultivation had advanced to early Void Refinement.
• Song Wen withdrew, changed his appearance and cultivation to match Lei Yue, then returned to greet Che Jing as an old friend.
• Song Wen apologized to Kong Ling for interrupting, and Kong Ling departed after arranging for Che Jing to bring the agreed spirit stones to the Lin Clan in a month.

Song Wen learned that Qiao Mengyu was in Heavenly Mountain City and pleaded with Che Jing to let him see her. Qiao Mengyu arrived and joyfully recognized him, but Che Jing restrained her and dragged her away as Song Wen pursued them.

• Song Wen apologized to Che Jing for interrupting her conversation with Kong Ling, and Che Jing accused him of abandoning Qiao Mengyu.
• Che Jing told Song Wen that Qiao Mengyu was in Heavenly Mountain City, but refused to take him to her.
• Qiao Mengyu spotted Song Wen and rushed toward him, crying out that she had finally seen him again.
• Che Jing caught Qiao Mengyu, reminded her of the pain Song Wen had caused, and dragged her away despite her protests.
• Song Wen pursued them and asked Che Jing for a chance to explain why he had left, while she threatened to kill him if he came closer.

Song Wen reunited with Qiao Mengyu in Heavenly Mountain City and explained how Cui Qiao had captured and tortured him after ascending to the Profound Realm. He revealed that he eventually escaped and fled to Yujiang Province, while his senior sister remained trapped and tormented in the lower realm.

• Che Jing brought Qiao Mengyu and Song Wen to her residence and kept watch while Qiao Mengyu and Song Wen reunited.
• Song Wen began explaining his disappearance, and Che Jing insisted that he give Qiao Mengyu a full account.
• Song Wen revealed that he had ascended from the Heavenly Origin Realm and had once been enemies with Cui Qiao.
• Song Wen said Cui Qiao had joined the Divine Blood Sect under the Blood Skeleton Lord, captured him with the Lord's help, and tortured him for more than thirty years.
• Song Wen disclosed that Cui Qiao had destroyed his senior sister's body and imprisoned her soul in a ghost cave in the lower realm.
• Song Wen said he escaped Cui Qiao with a hidden Earth-Escape Talisman and eventually reached the Northern Region of Yujiang Province.

Song Wen told Qiao Mengyu that he planned to descend to the lower realm to rescue Senior Sister Che Jing’s soul, despite the danger of being erased by the Heavenly Dao. He rejected Qiao Mengyu’s suggestion to send a Spirit Transformation cultivator instead, leaving his resolve to go himself unchanged.

• Song Wen reunited with Qiao Mengyu but said he could not stay with her because he needed to save Senior Sister Che Jing’s soul.
• Song Wen explained that he had found a way to descend through a spatial rift and promised to return to Qiao Mengyu if he survived.
• Song Wen revealed that his Void Refinement cultivation would make the lower realm’s rules reject him, and that he could be forced to ascend or erased if he leaked his aura.
• Qiao Mengyu urged Song Wen not to descend and suggested that a Spirit Transformation cultivator could rescue Che Jing without risking erasure.
• Song Wen rejected the plan, explaining that a stranger might distrust the journey and could not use spiritual power to defend themselves in the lower realm.

Song Wen, posing as Lei Yue, tried to persuade Qiao Mengyu to descend to the lower realm to save his senior sister, but Che Jing accused him of manipulating her and tried to stop her. The chapter ended with Qiao Mengyu breaking free and choosing to go with him.

• Qiao Mengyu offered to descend to the lower realm in Song Wen’s place, but Song Wen initially refused to let her take the risk.
• Che Jing arrived, pulled Qiao Mengyu behind her, and accused Song Wen of plotting to make Qiao Mengyu descend in his stead.
• Che Jing challenged Song Wen’s story and warned Qiao Mengyu that returning to the Profound Realm could put her in danger.
• Song Wen turned to leave, and Qiao Mengyu begged him to stay, declaring she would rather die than be separated from him again.
• When Che Jing refused to release her, Qiao Mengyu attacked her, broke free, and confirmed that she would go with Song Wen.

Song Wen defeated Che Jing and left with Qiao Mengyu, while Che Jing died after they departed. He headed north toward a spatial fissure near Yujiang Province, avoiding the locations Xuan Li might be guarding.

• Che Jing attacked Song Wen, but he repelled her with lightning and left her gravely injured.
• Song Wen agreed to spare Che Jing after Qiao Mengyu pleaded with him, then departed with Qiao Mengyu.
• After the courtyard gates closed, Che Jing's body burst apart under the influence of corpse qi, and her soul vanished.
• Song Wen took Qiao Mengyu north aboard a flying vessel, aiming for the spatial fissure near Yujiang Province's Northern Region.
• Song Wen had erased Xuan Li's divine-sense mark from the jade slip and used the Myriad Transformations Incantation on Cui Qiao's soul every three days to foil Xuan Li's soul lamp.

Song Wen prepared Qiao Mengyu to descend to the lower realm to rescue his senior sister, giving her protective items and promising they would become Dao companions when she returned. After summoning his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to pose as a Mahayana senior, Song Wen watched as it propositioned Qiao Mengyu.

• Song Wen told Qiao Mengyu that a senior would arrive to open the spatial rift and reassured her that the senior was trustworthy.
• Qiao Mengyu reaffirmed that she would descend to the lower realm in Song Wen’s place to save his senior sister.
• Song Wen gave Qiao Mengyu a sack containing a Light-Tracing Shuttle, Hundred-Souls Pearls, and talismans for protection and escape.
• Song Wen promised to become Dao companions with Qiao Mengyu when she returned safely, and she agreed before meditating for several days.
• Song Wen summoned his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar, which appeared disguised as a senior and propositioned Qiao Mengyu.

Qiao Mengyu stood by Song Wen when the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar tested their devotion, then believed he had protected Lei Yue. After obtaining ways to track Qiao Mengyu, the avatar learned how she and Che Jing had traveled to Yujiang Province and why they had come.

• The Heaven-and-Earth Avatar claimed he wanted Qiao Mengyu, but Song Wen refused to surrender her, and Qiao Mengyu declared she would have only Lei Yue as her Dao companion.
• The avatar engulfed Song Wen in corpse qi while leaving Qiao Mengyu unharmed, then emerged with him and reassured her that he had not been hurt.
• The Heaven-and-Earth Avatar asked Qiao Mengyu for a magical treasure, a wisp of her soul's aura, and permission to place a divine sense mark so he could locate her later.
• Qiao Mengyu explained that she and Che Jing had traveled through Teleportation Arrays from the Azure Flame Sect to the Primordial Origin Sect, then went to Yujiang Province's Northern Region to trade with the Lin Clan.

Song Wen opened a spatial rift so Qiao Mengyu could travel to the Heavenly Origin Realm and retrieve Senior Sister’s soul. After Qiao Mengyu entered, he asked Gu Que about Teleportation Arrays and learned that their construction required extraordinary formation skill.

• Song Wen used the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword to tear open a spatial rift and warned that it would not remain open for long.
• Qiao Mengyu overcame her fear, entered the rift, and promised to bring Senior Sister’s soul back safely.
• Song Wen retrieved the wooden statue that had been posing as Lei Yue and waited for Qiao Mengyu’s return.
• Song Wen asked Gu Que about the Teleportation Array between the Azure Flame Sect and the Primordial Origin Sect, then asked whether the Divine Blood Sect had a route to Southern Nether Province.
• Gu Que explained that Teleportation Arrays were exceptionally difficult to construct and that Jing Chen, who had since ascended, had built the Divine Blood Sect’s arrays.

Song Wen traveled to the Primordial Origin Sect to arrange access to its Teleportation Array, hoping to reach Scarlet Firmament Province quickly if Qiao Mengyu ascended nearby. He negotiated with Sect Master Hongyun and secured future use of the array for four million superior spirit stones.

• After learning that Teleportation Arrays were difficult to maintain, Song Wen decided to seek the Primordial Origin Sect's array to reach Scarlet Firmament Province.
• Four months later, Song Wen arrived at the Primordial Origin Sect disguised as Wei Gu, a rogue cultivator, and displayed his Mahayana stage aura to gain an audience.
• Daoist Hongyun, the sect master, greeted Song Wen and invited him inside, but Song Wen declined and asked to discuss borrowing the Teleportation Array.
• Song Wen explained that he wanted to arrange possible future use of the array, and Daoist Hongyun said he might have to pay the full six-million-stone cost if traveling alone.
• Song Wen and Daoist Hongyun negotiated the fee and settled on four million superior spirit stones.

Song Wen sensed that Qiao Mengyu had returned far to the south and hurried to use the Primordial Origin Sect’s Teleportation Array. After paying Daoist Hongyun, he entered the array bound for Scarlet Firmament Province.

• Song Wen sold unused treasures in Cold Sun City to gather four million superior spirit stones, then spent five years cultivating his myriad poisons primordial body while monitoring Qiao Mengyu’s Soul Lamp and aura.
• The aura in Qiao Mengyu’s jade bottle tilted south, and her Soul Lamp confirmed she was alive and at least two or three provinces away.
• Song Wen left his secluded cave and asked Daoist Hongyun to activate the Teleportation Array, handing over the agreed four million superior spirit stones.
• Daoist Hongyun led Song Wen to a heavily guarded valley north of Cold Sun City, where the Primordial Origin Sect maintained an ancient Teleportation Array.
• Song Wen entered the activated array and vanished in a blaze of silver light.

Song Wen arrived alone at the Azure Flame Sect in Scarlet Firmament Province and asked Martial Aunt Liu to escort him out so he could find Qiao Mengyu. As they left, Martial Aunt Liu's powdered-faced martial nephew grew suspicious of Song Wen and urged her to capture him.

• Song Wen teleported alone to the Azure Flame Sect and concealed his aura while assessing the guards.
• Martial Aunt Liu questioned Song Wen, and he explained that urgent business had forced him to pay for a solo teleportation.
• Martial Aunt Liu agreed to escort Song Wen out of the sect, while her powdered-faced martial nephew followed them.
• The powdered-faced man secretly suggested that Song Wen might be a fugitive and urged Martial Aunt Liu to capture him for merit.

Song Wen killed a disciple at Azure Flame Sect’s gate, declared his identity as Dao Lord Yuan Rong, and left before the sect could respond. Meanwhile, Qiao Mengyu ascended into the Profound Realm, escaped a pack of powerful beasts, and hid in a cavern to await Lei Yue.

• Song Wen killed the powdered-faced man outside Azure Flame Sect and identified himself as Dao Lord Yuan Rong of Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion.
• Song Wen concealed his aura, confirmed Qiao Mengyu’s location, and hurried northwest toward her.
• Qiao Mengyu ascended above a remote mountain range and encountered three powerful feathered beasts.
• Qiao Mengyu used Song Wen’s Teleportation Talisman to escape ten thousand miles away.
• Qiao Mengyu found a cavern, sealed its entrance, set up an array, and decided to wait safely for Lei Yue.

Song Wen disguised himself as Lei Yue and reunited with Qiao Mengyu, who had returned from the lower realm with Zhou Siyi’s soul. As Qiao Mengyu began connecting Lei Yue to Song Wen’s other identities, a stranger arrived and threatened them.

• Song Wen found the Soul Bottle containing Zhou Siyi’s soul and decided to fake Lei Yue’s death rather than face Qiao Mengyu as himself.
• Song Wen disguised himself as Lei Yue, summoned an iron-masked Heaven-and-Earth Avatar, and approached Qiao Mengyu’s hiding place.
• Qiao Mengyu reunited with Lei Yue and told him she had rescued Zhou Siyi’s soul from the lower realm.
• Song Wen confirmed that the soul was Zhou Siyi’s and took the Soul Bottle.
• Qiao Mengyu asked whether Lei Yue had used the name Extreme Yin, but a stranger’s laughter interrupted them as he declared his intent to take her.

Song Wen fought the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to give Qiao Mengyu a chance to escape, using a blood sacrifice technique to hold back its ice mountain. Qiao Mengyu fled toward Taitan City, leaving Song Wen behind as the battle raged.

• The Heaven-and-Earth Avatar attacked Song Wen and Qiao Mengyu with a corpse coffin, but Song Wen countered with lightning and charged at it.
• The Avatar unleashed azure Killing Intent that turned the coffin into an ice mountain, which struck Song Wen down and sent him crashing through several peaks.
• Song Wen pushed Qiao Mengyu away and urged her to flee, then burned his essence blood to hold the descending ice mountain at bay.
• Qiao Mengyu tearfully promised to wait for Song Wen in Taitan City and fled without looking back.

Song Wen rescued Zhou Siyi from the lower realm and helped her soul recover while escorting Qiao Mengyu safely out of demon territory. Three months later, Zhou Siyi awakened aboard Song Wen’s flying ship in the Profound Realm and learned how he had brought her there.

• Song Wen summoned Zhou Siyi’s badly wounded soul and used the silver light in his sea of consciousness to help it heal.
• After Qiao Mengyu fled, Song Wen destroyed the corpse, defeated three approaching demon beasts, and cleared a path for Qiao Mengyu through the demon-infested region.
• Song Wen escorted Qiao Mengyu for more than a million li until she reached a cultivator city, then departed as she entered it.
• Three months later, Gu Que told Song Wen that Zhou Siyi was about to awaken, and Song Wen brought her soul out of his sea of consciousness.
• Zhou Siyi recognized Song Wen aboard the flying ship, learned she was in the Profound Realm, and thanked him for rescuing her.
• Song Wen explained how he had sent someone to the lower realm to rescue Zhou Siyi, while leaving Qiao Mengyu out of his account.

Song Wen reunited with Zhou Siyi in the Profound Realm and helped her take revenge on Cui Qiao, whose soul he tortured until it vanished. With her hatred finally laid to rest, Zhou Siyi turned toward rebuilding her path to immortality.

• Zhou Siyi reunited with Song Wen, spoke with him at length, and left the choice of her rebirth to him.
• Song Wen restored Cui Qiao's muddled divine soul and released her so Zhou Siyi could confront her.
• Song Wen offered Zhou Siyi the choice of how to punish Cui Qiao, and she ordered him to burn her with yin fire.
• Song Wen used the Golden Broth Curse to torment Cui Qiao, and Zhou Siyi eventually told him to end her life.
• Song Wen tortured Cui Qiao until her divine soul scattered and vanished, freeing Zhou Siyi from her long-held hatred.
• Song Wen urged Zhou Siyi to look ahead and pursue the immortal path again.

Song Wen returned from the Western Rong Continent and reunited with Ying Wu, bringing him nearly a thousand exotic demonic beasts. Ying Wu revealed that he had reached the early Mahayana stage through cultivation, leaving Song Wen astonished.

• Song Wen met Ying Wu at Great Passage Lake and explained that he had returned through a natural Spatial Projection linking the continents.
• Song Wen gave Ying Wu more than a dozen spirit beast pouches containing nearly a thousand demonic beasts from the Western Rong Continent.
• Ying Wu eagerly took Song Wen to his cave abode, then left for four hours to settle the beasts.
• Ying Wu returned and told Song Wen to address him as Senior after revealing his early Mahayana cultivation.
• Ying Wu explained that he had advanced through ordinary cultivation while using the Beauty Serpent and coiling dragon vine to breed Void Dragon Vines, stunning Song Wen.

Song Wen and Ying Wu revealed that they had both reached the Great Ascension Realm, and Song Wen discovered that Ying Wu’s Dao aura had grown stronger. After showing him her thriving Void Dragon Vines, Ying Wu produced a lifeless woman’s body when Song Wen asked for help finding a vessel for his close friend’s soul.

• Ying Wu told Song Wen that she had recently broken through to the Great Ascension Realm and asked him to keep it secret, then Song Wen revealed that he had also advanced.
• Ying Wu recognized Song Wen as someone like herself and kissed him; more than ten days later, Song Wen noticed her Dao aura had become more intense.
• Ying Wu showed Song Wen her Void Dragon Vines, explaining that her Mother Vine had bred the others and that the Beauty Serpent and Bodhi Spirit Stamen had helped her succeed.
• Ying Wu asked what Song Wen planned to do as a Great Ascension Realm cultivator, and he sought a suitable body for an old friend whose soul remained after her physical body was destroyed.
• Ying Wu brought out a transparent ice coffin containing a beautiful woman with no vitality or soul.