Recaps

Song Wen watched Zheng Liyan promote Void Demon spirit beast bags, then returned to Cloud Creek Valley and cultivated while waiting for the Source-Qi Death Domain to settle. After obtaining the reforged Thunder Kui Wings, he crossed the domain to Qicang Island, where he found no sign of Ye Bing at their old meeting place.

• Zheng Liyan subdued two seventh-tier Void Demons, paid Song Wen and Wang Qiuyue, and revealed that he had been entrusted to buy the beasts.
• Song Wen saw Zheng Liyan's shop advertising Void Demon spirit beast bags and realized the spectacle had been staged to promote their sale.
• Song Wen returned to Cloud Creek Valley, found the Nether Fox's aura had become impossible to read, and resumed cultivating while Shadow Void grew stronger.
• Eight years later, Song Wen obtained the Thunder Kui Wings after Daoist Lord An Yi reforged them into a top-grade spirit treasure, but he delayed entering the Source-Qi Death Domain while high-tier Void Demons gathered there.
• After the domain calmed and Song Wen waited two more years, he crossed the undersea tunnel and reached Qicang Island in less than a month.
• Song Wen emerged from the Source-Qi Death Domain at the place where he had parted from Ye Bing, but found no trace of her.

Song Wen searched for Ye Bing and went to the Ye Family’s stronghold, where he learned Moon-Covering Hall had destroyed the family after Ye Bing was not handed over to its hall master. He left uncertain whether Ye Bing survived and learned the Ink-Robed Dao Lord was only a late Void Refinement cultivator.

• Song Wen searched the surrounding area for Ye Bing, found no trace of her, and traveled toward the Ganchang Wasteland, believing she might have taken refuge with the Ye Family.
• Song Wen reached Shangchu City and found the Ye Family’s stronghold reduced to ruins while the Chi Family and Jiang Clan remained prosperous.
• Song Wen confronted Chi Hefeng and demanded to know why the Ye Family had fallen and where its people were.
• Chi Hefeng revealed that Moon-Covering Hall had destroyed the Ye Family more than three hundred and seventy years earlier after Ye Bing was not delivered to the Ink-Robed Dao Lord.
• Song Wen asked whether Ye Bing had died and learned that her fate was unknown, while the Ink-Robed Dao Lord’s cultivation was late Void Refinement.

Song Wen learned that the Chi Family could not identify whether Ye Bing had survived the Ye Family’s massacre, then destroyed the Chi and Jiang Families and directed Shangchu City’s residents to hunt down their remnants. He traveled to Moon-Covering Hall and killed a gate guard, beginning his confrontation with the sect.

• Song Wen accused Chi Hefeng and the Chi Family of helping Moon-Covering Hall destroy the Ye Family, then offered to spare them if Chi Hefeng revealed Ye Bing’s whereabouts.
• Chi Hefeng said the battle’s chaos made it impossible to know whether Ye Bing had died or escaped, leaving Song Wen with hope that she might still be alive.
• Song Wen destroyed the Chi Family and Jiang Clan with corpse qi hands, then told Shangchu City’s residents they could keep the treasures of surviving family members they eliminated.
• Song Wen traveled to Cloud-Hidden City and went to Moon-Covering Hall, where he killed a guard who challenged him at the gate.

Song Wen confronted the Ink-Robed Dao Lord about the destruction of the Ye Family and learned that Ye Bing had likely left before the massacre. He searched their former homes in the Withered Marsh, found the grave Ye Bing had made for him, but could not locate her.

• Song Wen threatened the Moon-Covering Hall and questioned the Ink-Robed Dao Lord about Ye Bing and the Ye Family's slaughter.
• The Ink-Robed Dao Lord admitted destroying the Ye Family but said Ye Bing had not been there; Song Wen concluded she had probably left beforehand.
• Song Wen refused to kill the Ink-Robed Dao Lord, saying Ye Bing would claim his life, and left for the Withered Marsh.
• Song Wen searched Ye Bing's former cave on Ice-Crystal Island but found no one, then went to Wu Yuan Island.
• Song Wen found a grave Ye Bing had built for her Dao companion, Gou Jun, and realized she had visited it often.
• Song Wen searched the surrounding ten thousand li but found no trace of Ye Bing.

Song Wen reunited with Ye Bing after returning from the Eastern Profound Continent, and she recounted how she escaped the Ye Family’s destruction. Ye Bing revealed her vow to avenge her clan by killing Ink-Robed Dao Lord and destroying Moon-Covering Hall, the Chi Family, and the Jiang Clan.

• Song Wen waited beside Ye Bing’s cenotaph, and Ye Bing arrived less than half a month later.
• Ye Bing recognized Song Wen, rushed into his arms, and wept as she recalled waiting for him for hundreds of years.
• Song Wen explained that Void Demons had driven him through the Source-Qi Death Domain to the Eastern Profound Continent, and Ye Bing forgave him.
• Song Wen asked how Ye Bing had escaped the Ye Family’s destruction, and she said she had stolen her soul lamp and fled rather than become Ink-Robed Dao Lord’s concubine.
• Ye Bing revealed that she had sworn to kill Ink-Robed Dao Lord, overthrow Moon-Covering Hall, and destroy the Chi Family and the Jiang Clan to avenge the Ye Family.

Song Wen reassured Ye Bing that she was not responsible for the destruction of her family and revealed that he had already exterminated the Chi Family and Jiang Clan. He took her to Cloud-Hidden City to confront Black Robe Dao Lord, where Zen Master Guang Hui arrived to defend Moon-Covering Hall.

• Ye Bing asked Song Wen whether she had been heartless for saving herself at the cost of Ye Family, and Song Wen told her the family’s fate was not her fault.
• Song Wen revealed that he had exterminated the Chi Family and Jiang Clan, then took Ye Bing to Moon-Covering Hall to settle their blood debt.
• Black Robe Dao Lord appeared behind Moon-Covering Hall’s reinforced barrier and taunted Ye Bing and Song Wen.
• Zen Master Guang Hui arrived and defended Moon-Covering Hall, while Song Wen recognized him and threatened to kill him.

Song Wen revealed his Mahayana-stage cultivation, subdued Zhu Tui and Zen Master Guang Hui, and destroyed Moon-Covering Hall with a sea of blood. He captured Ink-Robed Dao Lord as the three were brought before him and Ye Bing.

• Zhu Tui arrived to recruit Song Wen into the Divine Blood Sect, but Song Wen rejected him and warned that he would die.
• Zen Master Guang Hui attacked Song Wen and Ye Bing with his blood-qi prayer beads while Zhu Tui waited to assess Song Wen.
• Song Wen revealed his Mahayana-stage aura, stopped Guang Hui's attack, and captured both Guang Hui and Zhu Tui as Ink-Robed Dao Lord fled into Moon-Covering Hall.
• Song Wen used a vast sea of blood to shatter Moon-Covering Hall's defensive formation and destroy the sect and its disciples.
• Song Wen seized Ink-Robed Dao Lord and brought him, Guang Hui, and Zhu Tui before himself and Ye Bing.

Ye Bing avenged her family by killing the Ink-Robed Dao Lord, Zen Master Guang Hui, and Zhu Tui with Song Wen’s help. Song Wen then took Ye Bing to Withered Zen Temple and demanded its treasury in exchange for sparing the monks.

• Ye Bing stabbed the Ink-Robed Dao Lord and the other two captives in the eyes, refusing their pleas for mercy.
• Song Wen extracted the three men’s divine souls and tortured them with the Golden Broth Curse, while Zhu Tui recognized Song Wen’s Divine Blood Sect techniques.
• Ye Bing destroyed the weakened souls and declared that she had avenged Ye Gaozhuo, Ye Yangshu, and her other clansmen.
• Song Wen collected the soul fragments and brought Ye Bing to Withered Zen Temple, where he offered to spare the monks if they surrendered every spiritual item in the treasury.
• A Void Refinement monk praised Song Wen for killing Guang Hui and offered all the temple’s treasures.

Song Wen took the treasures of Withered Zen Temple and Moon-Covering Hall, then brought Ye Bing across the Source-Qi Death Domain to Southern Nether Province. He arranged for her to join Jade Spirit Palace under Wang Qiuyue and asked her to keep his true name, Gou Jun, secret.

• Song Wen collected the treasures from Withered Zen Temple and Moon-Covering Hall, then shared some suitable items with Ye Bing.
• After a month together, Song Wen led Ye Bing safely through the Source-Qi Death Domain to Southern Nether Province.
• Song Wen proposed that Ye Bing join Jade Spirit Palace under Wang Qiuyue, while he continued traveling alone as Extreme Yin.
• Ye Bing agreed to keep Song Wen's true name and their relationship secret from outsiders.
• At Immortal Fate Restaurant in Taitan City, Wang Qiuyue agreed to help Ye Bing enter Jade Spirit Palace and told Song Wen he owed her a favor.

Song Wen waited for the Kunxu Secret Realm to open to Mahayana cultivators, then joined a group of powerful cultivators gathered at its entrance. As they prepared to enter, Daoist Yun Hua urged them to confirm the entrance was stable, while Xuan Gu resisted introductions and pressed to proceed.

• Song Wen returned to Cloud Creek Valley after Ye Bing became Wang Qiuyue’s disciple at Jade Spirit Palace.
• Song Wen waited on an island near the Kunxu Secret Realm entrance for more than a month.
• The entrance flared and expanded, signaling that Mahayana cultivators could enter the realm.
• Song Wen arrived with the other cultivators and recognized Xuan Li, Xuan Gu, Yuan Rong, Ji Yue, and Zhu You among them.
• Daoist Yun Hua proposed introductions, but Xuan Gu dismissed the idea and urged everyone to enter.
• Daoist Yun Hua asked the group to verify that the entrance had stabilized and could accommodate Mahayana cultivators.

Song Wen and the other Mahayana cultivators entered the mystic realm after Xuan Gu tested its entrance with low-level cultivators. They arrived in a vast, empty snowfield and began to suspect that something had happened to everyone who entered before them.

• Xuan Gu swept more than twenty low-level cultivators into the entrance, confirming that it had stabilized.
• Daoist Yun Hua asked Song Wen, who revealed his name as Yang Yu, to test whether the entrance could admit Mahayana cultivators.
• Feng Zhongli volunteered to enter first, and the other Mahayana cultivators followed after she passed through safely.
• Song Wen entered last and endured more than a quarter hour of weightlessness before arriving in a frozen snowfield.
• Song Wen and the others found no signs of life, spiritual herbs, demon beasts, or the tens of thousands of cultivators who had entered earlier.

Thirteen Mahayana cultivators entered a snowbound area of the secret realm and encountered monsters, including one powerful enough to injure Feng Zhongli. They discovered the entrance had been frozen shut, leaving them trapped in what might be a formation.

• Xuan Gu and Xuan Li refused to travel with the other cultivators, but strange snow began falling and interfered with divine sense.
• White monsters emerged from beneath the snow and attacked the low-level cultivators, who fought them to a standstill.
• Feng Zhongli went ahead alone, then returned injured and warned that a gigantic white monster rivaled her strength.
• A defeated monster shattered into ice crystals and vanished into the snow, leading Yun Hua and Ji Yue to suspect the area was a formation.
• Song Wen pointed out that the secret realm entrance had been sealed beneath a massive block of ice, trapping everyone inside.

Yun Hua persuaded the thirteen cultivators to join forces against the snow domain’s giant monsters, but after they destroyed one, thirteen more appeared and forced them into separate battles. As Song Wen struggled to evade his opponent, he produced a silver talisman while considering how to escape the worsening situation.

• Yun Hua and Ji Yue convinced Song Wen and the others to travel together through the snow toward the monster Feng Zhongli had encountered.
• The cultivators shattered a thousand-zhang monster’s attacks, but its limbs repeatedly regenerated until they unleashed their full strength and destroyed its body.
• The snow domain responded with thunderous roars, and thirteen thousand-zhang monsters charged at the thirteen cultivators.
• Yun Hua ordered each cultivator to fight one monster, but they found that their separate attacks could not destroy the regenerating creatures as quickly as their combined assault had.
• Yun Hua proposed setting up a defensive formation, but no one dared divide their attention during the battle.
• Song Wen evaded his monster with the Thunder Kui Wings and took out a silver talisman as he considered whether moving away might prevent further monsters from appearing.

Song Wen escaped the snowy formation with a Minor Teleportation Talisman and discovered a settlement in the Kunxu Secret Realm. He met Geng Qian, an Integrated Body Early Stage cultivator, and prepared to learn whether other people lived there.

• Song Wen teleported away from the eighth-rank demonic beasts, prompting Xuan Gu and Xuan Li to escape with their own Minor Teleportation Talismans.
• Song Wen fled across the snowfield and suddenly emerged into a lush landscape, which Gu Que suspected lay beyond a powerful formation.
• Song Wen found signs of recent activity in a cave and searched the area for other living cultivators.
• Song Wen located a valley of crude pavilions, entered a building, and met Geng Qian, who introduced himself as a junior cultivator.

Song Wen learned that the Pure Land, the snowfield, and the ghost domain were parts of a vast array and that Geng Qian knew a route between the Pure Land and the dangerous ghost domain. With the secret realm’s entrance due to close in seventy years and no other route found, Song Wen faced the prospect of searching the ghost domain for a way back.

• Song Wen questioned Geng Qian and learned that he and five women had entered the secret realm decades earlier and reached the Pure Land by fleeing snow demons or passing through a ghost domain.
• Geng Qian explained that the Pure Land looped back on itself and that he had found no way back to the snowfield, though he knew how to travel between the Pure Land and the ghost domain.
• Song Wen concluded that the snowfield, ghost domain, and Pure Land were likely regions within the same vast array, rather than places outside it.
• Geng Qian and one of the women described how their group had defeated the snow demons and failed to break the ice sealing the secret realm’s exit.
• Geng Qian said the ghost domain might offer their only route out, but warned that its ghosts were too powerful for him and that the entrance would close in seventy years.

Song Wen followed Geng Qian into the Ghost Domain, an eerie ancient battlefield within the Kunxu Secret Realm, and learned how to return to the Pure Land. After letting Geng Qian leave, Song Wen set out to search for the Nine-Heavens Thunder Astral Stone despite doubting that lightning-attributed materials could form in such dense yin qi.

• Song Wen used the Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye to identify an array node in a cliff and entered the Ghost Domain after Geng Qian.
• Geng Qian led Song Wen through the ghost-qi-filled battlefield, where Song Wen destroyed several ghost creatures with lightning from his Thunder Kui Wings.
• Geng Qian showed Song Wen the dead tree that served as the node leading back to the Pure Land and asked him to help find a route out of the secret realm.
• Song Wen gave Geng Qian the name Yang Yu and let him return through the dead-tree node.
• Song Wen set off through the Ghost Domain to find the Nine-Heavens Thunder Astral Stone, questioning whether it could exist amid the dense yin qi.

Song Wen encountered Feng Zhongli while she fled a ghost, then learned that a ghost lair held powerful spirits and a rare lightning treasure. He agreed to investigate after claiming it was his duty to eliminate the ghosts.

• Song Wen avoided a deep Rift Valley after his black hole dispelled an illusion and he sensed a powerful ghost hidden below.
• Song Wen spotted Feng Zhongli fleeing, but she pursued him and struck at him to make him stop.
• Feng Zhongli injured the bull-headed ghost chasing her, and Song Wen slowed down after seeing it retreat.
• Feng Zhongli explained that she had fled a ghost lair containing two stronger eighth-order ghosts and several weaker ones.
• Feng Zhongli revealed that she had sensed faint lightning power in the lair, and Song Wen asked where it was before claiming he wanted to destroy the ghosts.

Song Wen and Feng Zhongli agreed to cooperate to raid a ghost nest, with Feng Zhongli engaging its strongest ghosts while Song Wen used lightning arts to kill the ghost fox. They reached the nest and drew out its three eighth-rank guardians, and Feng Zhongli's giant ape phantom lunged at the fox.

• Feng Zhongli offered to split the ghost nest's spiritual materials with Song Wen and described its ghost fox, serpent, and Ox-Head Ghost.
• Song Wen proposed that Feng Zhongli hold off the ghosts while he attacked the illusion-wielding fox with his Void-Shattering Divine Thunder.
• Song Wen demonstrated his lightning arts, and Feng Zhongli agreed to the plan despite lacking her soul-calming talisman.
• Feng Zhongli led Song Wen to the ghost nest and smashed its caves with her giant ape phantom, killing many weaker ghosts.
• The Ox-Head Ghost, red-furred ghost fox, and black-scaled ghost serpent emerged, and Feng Zhongli's phantom charged at the fox.

Feng Zhongli and Song Wen joined forces against the three eighth-rank ghosts, with Song Wen’s lightning repeatedly breaking the Ghost Serpent’s defenses. Feng Zhongli pierced the Black-Scaled Ghost Serpent through with her Heaven-Splitting Staff, while the Red-Furred Ghost Fox and Azure-Faced Ox-Head Ghost remained threats.

• The Black-Scaled Ghost Serpent and the phantom giant ape collided, and Feng Zhongli charged the ghosts with her staff.
• The Red-Furred Ghost Fox dazed Feng Zhongli long enough for the Azure-Faced Ox-Head Ghost to retreat, but Feng Zhongli quickly recovered and avoided the Serpent’s counterattack.
• Song Wen summoned heavenly lightning that broke through the Serpent’s ghostly-energy shield, though it failed to inflict serious injury.
• Feng Zhongli and the phantom giant ape attacked the Black-Scaled Ghost Serpent while Song Wen’s next lightning strike shattered its shield again.
• The Serpent knocked the phantom giant ape apart, but Feng Zhongli pressed forward and pierced its body with the Heaven-Splitting Staff.

Song Wen helped Feng Zhongli escape an illusion after the Black-Scaled Ghost Serpent exploded, while the Red-Furred Ghost Fox and Azure-Faced Ox-Head Ghost fled into the caves. Feng Zhongli thanked him but asked why her soul hurt so badly.

• Feng Zhongli's attack faltered when an illusion clouded her consciousness, allowing the Black-Scaled Ghost Serpent to break free and lunge at her.
• Song Wen's lightning struck the ghost serpent's wound, and the lightning and Killing Intent inside it collided, causing it to explode.
• The Red-Furred Ghost Fox and Azure-Faced Ox-Head Ghost fled toward the caves; the fox sacrificed its tail to block Song Wen's lightning and escape.
• Feng Zhongli, still trapped in an illusion, rushed toward Song Wen, who struck her with nine Soul-Slaying Spikes to restore her clarity.
• Feng Zhongli thanked Song Wen for saving her and promised to repay him, then asked why her soul felt painfully scraped raw.

Song Wen and Feng Zhongli entered the Ghost Nest to seek the treasures whose auras they had sensed deep inside. They found the Nine-Heavens Thunder Astral Stone and a chained platform sealing another source of savage energy, and Song Wen asked Gu Que what lay within it.

• Song Wen told Feng Zhongli that the Black-Scaled Ghost Serpent had died while the Red-Furred Ghost Fox and Azure-Faced Ox-Head Ghost had fled into the Ghost Nest.
• Feng Zhongli led Song Wen into the Ghost Nest, where they found few ghosts and no sign of an ambush as they descended.
• Song Wen and Feng Zhongli sensed two powerful auras in a vast cavern and cautiously advanced toward them.
• Song Wen recognized the purple crystal on one platform as the Nine-Heavens Thunder Astral Stone after Gu Que identified it.
• Feng Zhongli rushed toward the other chained platform as Song Wen used his magical power to draw the jade box toward him and asked Gu Que what the platform sealed.

Song Wen and Feng Zhongli collected Nether-Tide Voidwater and discussed why the ghost nest lacked high-ranking ghosts. Song Wen deduced that the Kunxu Secret Realm’s regions were connected by nodes and decided to find the one in the ghost nest and leave the Ghost Domain.

• Gu Que identified the substance sealed in the Profound Patterns as Nether-Tide Voidwater, which could strengthen the Blood Sea Imperial Seal.
• Feng Zhongli extracted the Nether-Tide Voidwater and stored it in a jade bottle.
• Song Wen questioned why the ghost nest had no high-ranking ghosts and where its lightning stone had come from, leaving Feng Zhongli unable to answer.
• Feng Zhongli explained that she had reached the Ghost Domain after being transported from the Snowfield while searching for Song Wen and the Divine Blood Sect cultivators.
• Song Wen proposed that nodes connected the secret realm’s regions and that the ghosts had escaped through a node in the nest.
• Song Wen chose to find the node and travel to another region rather than explore the Ghost Domain further.

Song Wen and Feng Zhongli agreed to explore the Kunxu Secret Realm together and followed Song Wen’s method through a node passage in a pool, leaving the Ghost Domain. They followed unusual spiritual energy fluctuations to a mountain, where a faint mark and a strangely undisturbed demonic beast suggested something was wrong.

• Feng Zhongli proposed that she and Song Wen travel together and divide any opportunities they found equally, and Song Wen agreed.
• Song Wen used the Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye to locate a node passage on the surface of a vast pool, and he and Feng Zhongli entered it together.
• Song Wen and Feng Zhongli arrived in another region of the secret realm, where the spiritual energy was denser than in the Pure Land, then headed southwest toward unusual fluctuations.
• Feng Zhongli sensed a seventh-rank demonic beast beneath a mountain and spotted a faint mark that Song Wen identified as likely caused by lightning arts.
• Feng Zhongli called out to nearby cultivators, but no one answered, and she and Song Wen wondered why the nearby demonic beast remained asleep despite their exposed Mahayana auras.

Song Wen and Feng Zhongli discovered Zhu You hiding beneath a mountain behind an eighth-rank formation. Song Wen revealed his old grudge against Zhu You and attacked, but his Void-Shattering Divine Thunder failed to break the barrier, leaving him to consider another method.

• Feng Zhongli destroyed the mountain and exposed an eighth-rank formation protecting a hidden underground lair.
• Zhu You revealed himself, explained that he was recovering from his Snowfield injuries, and said Ji Yue and Yuan Rong had gone to investigate.
• Song Wen asked about Ji Yue, then announced he intended to settle an old debt with Zhu You and told Feng Zhongli not to interfere.
• Zhu You recognized Song Wen as the black-robed man who had tricked Ji Yue and injured him and Qing Xu outside Thunder Marsh City.
• Song Wen struck Zhu You's formation with Void-Shattering Divine Thunder, but the barrier held, and Song Wen formed a plan after glancing at Feng Zhongli.

Song Wen persuaded Feng Zhongli to help him break Zhu You’s formation and kill him. After collecting Zhu You’s soul and storage ring, Song Wen left with Feng Zhongli, who asked only for half the spirit stones.

• Song Wen reminded Feng Zhongli that he had once risked his life to save her and argued that helping him kill Zhu You would keep Ji Yue from learning of her involvement.
• Feng Zhongli agreed and sent a baleful-qi dragon into Zhu You’s formation, shattering it and leaving Zhu You weakened by the backlash.
• Song Wen attacked Zhu You at close range, shattered his left hand, pierced his chest, and killed him with lightning.
• Song Wen collected Zhu You’s soul in a bottle and took the formation flags and storage ring before rejoining Feng Zhongli.
• Feng Zhongli declined Zhu You’s spirit items and asked for half the spirit stones, and Song Wen agreed.