Recaps

Song Wen and Feng Zhongli encountered Yuan Rong and the injured Ji Yue, Xuan Li, and Xuan Gu, who had been defeated in a battle over an unknown opportunity to the southwest. Feng Zhongli joined their secret plan while Song Wen left, though Ji Yue warned that he might return and should have been eliminated.

• Song Wen and Feng Zhongli found Yuan Rong hiding with Ji Yue, Xuan Li, and Xuan Gu, who had suffered injuries in a recent battle.
• Yuan Rong invited Feng Zhongli into the cave to discuss a matter privately, and Song Wen suspected they planned to pursue a valuable treasure southwest.
• Feng Zhongli left the cave and told Song Wen their journey together was over because Yuan Rong needed her help.
• Song Wen warned Feng Zhongli to be cautious, then flew east after she advised him not to go southwest.
• Feng Zhongli returned to the cave, where Ji Yue argued that they should have killed Song Wen to prevent him from interfering.

Song Wen intercepted Xuan Gu and learned why Yuan Rong, Feng Zhongli, Ji Yue, and Xuan Li had left him behind. Xuan Gu revealed the location of four ripe Purple-Rhyme Fruits and seethed over Xuan Li’s betrayal, while Song Wen positioned himself to pursue the opportunity with him.

• Song Wen waited in hiding until Yuan Rong, Feng Zhongli, Ji Yue, and Xuan Li passed, then spotted Xuan Gu following them.
• Song Wen approached Xuan Gu and proposed joining forces to seize the opportunity ahead, persuading him that he had no intention of ambushing him.
• Xuan Gu revealed that a Purple-Rhyme Profound Tree bearing four ripe fruits grew beside a cold pool guarded by a powerful flood dragon clan.
• Xuan Gu explained that his first attack with Yuan Rong, Ji Yue, and Xuan Li had failed, costing him his Corpse-Nurturing Coffin and a middle eighth-rank Steel Corpse.
• Xuan Gu said the others had excluded him after Feng Zhongli joined their group, and angrily blamed his fellow disciple Xuan Li for agreeing to abandon him.

Song Wen learned that the Purple-Rhyme Fruit could help a Mahayana cultivator break through a minor bottleneck, then used the prospect of stealing it to lower Xuan Gu’s guard. Song Wen attacked Xuan Gu and ran him through with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, leaving him gravely wounded.

• Song Wen asked Xuan Gu about the Purple-Rhyme Fruit and learned of its value to Mahayana cultivators.
• Song Wen proposed waiting for Yuan Rong’s group and the flood dragons to clash, then using an Earth-Escape Talisman to steal the Purple-Rhyme Profound Tree.
• Xuan Gu sensed that Yuan Rong’s group had engaged the flood dragons, and Song Wen urged him to seize the opportunity.
• Song Wen closed in on Xuan Gu and attacked with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Song Wen deflected Xuan Gu’s Corpse-Suppressing Nails, pierced his corpse coffin, and stabbed him through the chest before he could use his Minor Teleportation Talisman.

Song Wen killed Xuan Gu and advanced to mid-Mahayana before reaching the battlefield where Yuan Rong and the others fought the flood dragons. He warned Feng Zhongli about the danger, but Yuan Rong attacked him as the chapter ended.

• Song Wen crushed Xuan Gu, absorbed his cultivation to break through to mid-Mahayana, and collected his treasures.
• Song Wen arrived near the battlefield and saw Yuan Rong, Ji Yue, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li fighting six flood dragons near the Purple-Rhyme Profound Tree.
• Yuan Rong and Ji Yue demanded that Song Wen leave, while Feng Zhongli also urged him to go.
• Song Wen warned Feng Zhongli that the flood dragons near the pool could ambush her, and Ji Yue accused him of sowing discord.
• Yuan Rong freed one hand, formed a sword seal, and launched a streak of sword light at Song Wen.

Song Wen returned to the battle between Yuan Rong's group and the Flood Dragon Clan after two eighth-rank flood dragons fell, only for dense ghost qi to erupt from the cold pool. Feng Zhongli recognized the Red-Furred Ghost Fox within the spreading qi, but its illusion art struck Xuan Li before she could warn the others.

• Song Wen used lightning to repel Yuan Rong's sword strike, revealing mid-stage Mahayana cultivation, then withdrew while the others continued fighting.
• After hearing two mournful dragon roars, Song Wen flew back and found Feng Zhongli and Xuan Li had killed their two opponents and joined the siege of four remaining flood dragons.
• Dense ghost qi erupted from the cold pool and spread beyond the barrier, while Yuan Rong and the others reconsidered their plans.
• Feng Zhongli spotted the Red-Furred Ghost Fox in the ghost qi and recognized its danger, but the fox's illusion art left Xuan Li's eyes vacant.

Feng Zhongli, Yuan Rong, and Ji Yue were trapped fighting the flood dragons as Yang Yu used a Death-Substitute Puppet to slip toward the cold pool and the Purple-Rhyme Fruit. Song Wen encountered the Ghost Fox and a Black Jade Flood Dragon, both of which fled instead of attacking, but he pressed on despite suspecting a danger near the Purple-Rhyme Profound Tree.

• Feng Zhongli, Yuan Rong, and Ji Yue abandoned their attempt to hold the flood dragons back and tried to retreat, but the flood dragons and a barrage of ice spikes trapped them in battle.
• Feng Zhongli discovered that Xuan Li had been carried away without Yang Yu, and realized Yang Yu had left a headless low-rank corpse puppet behind.
• Yang Yu emerged from the ghostly qi and used a Death-Substitute Puppet to cross the battlefield toward the cold pool and the Purple-Rhyme Fruit.
• Song Wen encountered the Ghost Fox in the ghostly mist, but it fled without attacking him.
• Song Wen then saw the mid-stage eighth-rank Black Jade Flood Dragon firing ice spikes, and it also fled instead of fighting.
• Song Wen suspected that the Purple-Rhyme Profound Tree concealed a greater danger, but continued descending toward the cold pool.

Song Wen took the Purple-Rhyme Profound Tree but was trapped inside a vast formation made from Netherworld power and flood dragon demonic essence. After the cultivators failed to break it, they agreed to cooperate, and Song Wen awakened Xuan Li.

• Song Wen harvested the Purple-Rhyme Profound Tree and tried to escape, but a formation spanning ten thousand li stopped him.
• Song Wen and then Yuan Rong, Ji Yue, and Feng Zhongli attacked the formation, but its barrier withstood their combined power.
• Ji Yue demanded the Purple-Rhyme Fruits from Song Wen, who warned that Yuan Rong and Feng Zhongli might side with him; Feng Zhongli urged everyone to cooperate instead.
• At Feng Zhongli’s request, Song Wen used three gentle Soul-Slaying Spikes to awaken Xuan Li.
• Xuan Li thanked Song Wen, and he credited Feng Zhongli with protecting her while she was trapped in the illusion.

Yuan Rong and the others attacked the formation while Ghost Fox’s illusion disrupted Xuan Li, but Ji Yue’s soul-defense treasure protected the group. Five eighth-rank flood dragons then emerged, and Song Wen fought the weakest while conserving his strength as Feng Zhongli battled a stronger one head-on.

• Yuan Rong urged the group to break the formation, and the five attacked it with their strongest methods, making its barrier buckle and dim.
• Song Wen considered using the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword but held back to avoid revealing his connection to Gou Jun or drawing suspicion from Xuan Li.
• Ghost Fox’s illusion briefly disrupted Xuan Li’s attack, so Ji Yue summoned a supreme-grade soul-defense spirit treasure to shield everyone.
• Five eighth-rank flood dragons emerged from the ghostly qi, and the group prepared to fight them one-on-one.
• Song Wen chose the early eighth-rank flood dragon and relied on the Thunder Kui Wings to wear it down while conserving spiritual power.
• Feng Zhongli fought a mid-eighth-rank flood dragon in close combat, striking its scales with powerful blows.

Song Wen and the others killed four dragons, but the Dragon King revealed that he had used them to eliminate his own clansmen while the formation forced the humans toward the cold pond. The formation’s defenses strengthened as it shrank, leaving the group unable to escape unless they killed the Dragon King.

• Song Wen used the Soul-Slaying Spike to stun a dragon, then killed it with lightning aimed at its eyes.
• Song Wen’s attacks helped Feng Zhongli, Xuan Li, and Ji Yue kill their opponents, leaving Yuan Rong to face the Dragon King alone.
• The Dragon King admitted that he had manipulated the humans into killing his clansmen and then retreated as Yuan Rong pursued him.
• Xuan Li warned Yuan Rong not to chase the Dragon King, and the shrinking formation’s dense ghost qi obscured the Dragon King from their senses.
• The five attacked the formation barrier, but it repelled them, and Yuan Rong concluded that they had to kill the Dragon King to escape.

After suspecting the Flood Dragon King had deliberately allowed the eighth-rank flood dragons to die, the group prepared to confront it, but Ji Yue demanded Song Wen surrender the Purple-Rhyme Fruits. Song Wen escaped using Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions, leaving the others to head for the cold pool as the Confinement Formation continued shrinking.

• Song Wen judged that the Flood Dragon King had deliberately let the group kill the eighth-rank flood dragons, and Xuan Li proposed they go to the cold pool and eliminate it.
• Ji Yue demanded Song Wen hand over all four Purple-Rhyme Fruits, while Yuan Rong and Xuan Li urged him to surrender some.
• Song Wen agreed to hand over three fruits, but Ji Yue insisted he give up all four and accused him of sowing discord.
• Song Wen revealed a blood-red crystal and used Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions to create decoys, escaping into the ghostly mist.
• Xuan Li, Yuan Rong, and Ji Yue failed to catch Song Wen, then set off with Feng Zhongli toward the cold pool as the formation shrank.

Song Wen discovered that the Flood Dragon King was forcing everyone into a palace beneath the cold pool, which served as the Confinement Formation’s core. The Flood Dragon King gathered its clan’s corpses there and revealed that they were bound to the formation, leaving Song Wen and the others facing an unknown ritual.

• Song Wen reasoned that the Flood Dragon King had another purpose and entered the cold pool to investigate as the Confinement Formation pressed everyone downward.
• Song Wen found a black-stone plaza and palace at the bottom of the pool, identified the palace as the source of the ghostly qi, and found its gate protected by a barrier.
• Yuan Rong’s group of four arrived after battling the Flood Dragon King, and Feng Zhongli explained that the king’s true strength matched all four of them together.
• The Flood Dragon King descended with the Ghost Fox in its claw and forced the formation’s barrier to its limit above the pool bottom.
• The Flood Dragon King dropped the corpses of its flood dragon clansmen before the palace, and their blood flowed through the plaza toward it.
• When Yuan Rong threatened to destroy the corpses, the Flood Dragon King claimed they had become one with the formation and could not be harmed.

The Flood Dragon King revealed that it had lured Yuan Rong, Song Wen, Ji Yue, and the others to the palace so they could help break the inner hall’s restrictions. It promised to release them from the Confinement Formation in return, but warned that refusing could leave them trapped until the secret realm closed.

• Song Wen tested the Flood Dragon King’s claim by striking an eighth-order flood dragon corpse with lightning, but a black barrier blocked the attack.
• The Flood Dragon King explained that the formation had forced them to the palace and asked them to open the inner hall’s gates, then used demon essence to open the outer hall.
• Yuan Rong and the others entered the hall and saw an empty jade bottle; the Flood Dragon King said it had taken the bottle’s treasure long ago.
• The Flood Dragon King showed them a stone tablet describing how flood dragon blood could weaken the inner hall’s restrictions and how a formation expert could break them.
• Yuan Rong asked what treasure lay inside, but the Flood Dragon King claimed not to know; Ji Yue demanded a reward, and the Flood Dragon King warned that they would all remain trapped if they refused.

Yuan Rong broke the inner hall doors after the Flood Dragon King revealed it had consumed the True Dragon blood in the outer hall. Song Wen and Feng Zhongli entered after the others, only to find a lush, open landscape where the records had promised an inner hall and the spirit of a True Dragon.

• The Flood Dragon King admitted that the jade bottle had contained True Dragon blood, which it consumed to reach the peak of the eighth rank.
• Yuan Rong studied the stone slab for a month and agreed to break the inner hall restriction in exchange for the Flood Dragon King deactivating the trapping formation.
• Yuan Rong opened the doors, and the Flood Dragon King, Yuan Rong, Ji Yue, and Xuan Li rushed into the darkness beyond them.
• Song Wen noticed that the trapping formation remained active, then entered the inner hall with Feng Zhongli.
• Song Wen found himself in a lush landscape with the Flood Dragon King and the others, and the Flood Dragon King reacted in disbelief because the black stone slab had promised a True Dragon spirit inside the inner hall.

Song Wen learned that the True Dragon Spirit could help him nurture an innate true spirit, but he questioned the Flood Dragon King's claims and motives. After Ji Yue ambushed him over the Purple-Rhyme Fruit, Yuan Rong began probing Song Wen about his connection to Extreme Yin and Gou Jun.

• Gu Que explained the True Dragon Spirit's value to cultivators and the Flood Dragon King, and Song Wen decided it was worth pursuing while doubting the Flood Dragon King's story.
• Song Wen sensed danger and used the Death-Substitute Art to escape Ji Yue's transparent blade, which destroyed his puppet.
• Ji Yue demanded that Song Wen hand over the Purple-Rhyme Fruit and urged Yuan Rong, Xuan Li, and Feng Zhongli to help stop him.
• Song Wen offered the three a Purple-Rhyme Fruit each if they joined him against Ji Yue; Feng Zhongli questioned Ji Yue's sneak attack, while Xuan Li retreated.
• Yuan Rong asked Song Wen about his relationship to Extreme Yin and Gou Jun, and Song Wen denied knowing them closely.

Yuan Rong uncovered that Yang Yu was Gou Jun, also known as Extreme Yin and Gu Huang, and accused him of killing someone he loved. Yuan Rong and Ji Yue attacked Song Wen, who revealed his true power and met their attacks head-on.

• Yuan Rong linked Yang Yu to Gou Jun after Xuan Li described Gu Huang's history and his rapid rise to the Mahayana Realm.
• Yuan Rong revealed that Yang Yu had stolen the name Gu Huang and killed the person dearest to him, then summoned thirty-six swords to form a Void Sword Formation.
• Ji Yue joined Yuan Rong's attack, sending his short halberd toward Song Wen.
• Song Wen released his corpse qi, drew the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, and launched a black sword strike that collided with Ji Yue's halberd, sending both weapons flying back.
• Song Wen's blood tentacles clashed with Yuan Rong's Void Sword Formation, regenerating faster than the swords could cut them apart and keeping the formation at bay.

Song Wen tried to recruit the Flood Dragon King against Ji Yue and Yuan Rong, but it refused to join the human conflict and retreated. Feng Zhongli intervened on Song Wen’s behalf, and as the fight reached a stalemate, Yuan Rong unleashed the Nether Epiphyllum Sword and its flower-shaped sword attacks against him.

• Song Wen offered to join forces with the Flood Dragon King, which denied any interest in human disputes and moved farther away.
• Ji Yue taunted Song Wen and attacked, but Feng Zhongli blocked her halberd and declared that neither she nor Yuan Rong would harm him.
• Ji Yue challenged Feng Zhongli while Yuan Rong’s flying swords remained unable to break through Song Wen’s blood tentacles.
• Xuan Li withdrew and watched Song Wen, showing no surprise when he used the Blood Sea Imperial Seal.
• Yuan Rong summoned the Nether Epiphyllum Sword, whose spinning flower phantoms shredded Song Wen’s tentacles and continued toward him.

Song Wen used a Death-Substitute Puppet to evade Yuan Rong’s sword attack and reappeared behind Ji Yue, attempting to kill her. Ji Yue’s desperate counterattack was interrupted when Feng Zhongli damaged her Thunderclap Halberd, leaving her suffering severe backlash as Song Wen pressed on.

• Song Wen withdrew the Blood Tide, let Yuan Rong’s Nether Epiphyllum Sword destroy his apparent body, and used a Death-Substitute Puppet to appear behind Ji Yue.
• Yuan Rong spotted Song Wen’s reappearance and warned Ji Yue, but Song Wen had already thrust the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword at her.
• Ji Yue unleashed the Annihilating Thunder Sun, a destructive lightning art that Gu Que recognized as carrying the aura of heavenly tribulation.
• Feng Zhongli seized and twisted Ji Yue’s Thunderclap Halberd, damaging her natal treasure and triggering backlash that interrupted her lightning art.

Song Wen fatally wounded Ji Yue, but the Flood Dragon King intercepted her fleeing Nascent Soul and consumed her divine soul for its own purposes. The chapter ended with Song Wen, Feng Zhongli, Xuan Li, and Yuan Rong suspecting the Flood Dragon King’s motives as Ji Yue’s soul remained imprisoned inside it.

• Song Wen struck Ji Yue with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, but her divine soul escaped with her Nascent Soul from her ruined body.
• Ji Yue called to Yuan Rong for help, but he hesitated and considered withdrawing instead of confronting Song Wen.
• The Flood Dragon King used its pale azure scales to block Song Wen’s sword and cage Ji Yue’s Nascent Soul.
• The Flood Dragon King shattered Ji Yue’s Nascent Soul, then swallowed her still-living divine soul.
• Yuan Rong questioned the Flood Dragon King, while Song Wen, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li watched it warily.

The Flood Dragon King turned on Yuan Rong and blocked his escape after claiming it would not interfere in human grudges. Song Wen, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li chose to withdraw rather than fight, leaving Yuan Rong to urge them to unite against the dragon and learn its secrets about the spirit of the True Dragon.

• The Flood Dragon King refused Yuan Rong’s demand to return Ji Yue’s divine soul and questioned what he would do if it refused.
• Song Wen warned Feng Zhongli that the Flood Dragon King might attack them, and Feng Zhongli agreed to join forces with Xuan Li.
• Yuan Rong tried to retreat, but the Flood Dragon King attacked him and battered his sword formation with its claws and tail.
• Yuan Rong called for Xuan Li, Feng Zhongli, and Song Wen to help, but the three withdrew from the battlefield.
• Yuan Rong warned the three that the Flood Dragon King would not spare them and urged them to join forces against it for the secret of the spirit of the True Dragon.

Song Wen, Xuan Li, Feng Zhongli, and Yuan Rong attacked the Flood Dragon King to learn about the True Dragon spirit, wounding it and provoking it to spread a frost mist that disrupted divine sense. Song Wen, Xuan Li, and Feng Zhongli regrouped inside the mist and prepared to face its charge.

• Song Wen, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li attacked the Flood Dragon King, giving Yuan Rong a chance to join the fight.
• Yuan Rong struck the Flood Dragon King's back with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, breaking several scales and enraging it.
• The Flood Dragon King spread frost mist that disrupted divine sense and caused Feng Zhongli's Heavenly Ape True Body to disperse.
• Song Wen told Feng Zhongli and Xuan Li to stay together, while Yuan Rong kept away from the mist.
• Song Wen, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li gathered their defenses as the Flood Dragon King charged, then launched attacks at its abdomen, back, eyes, and rear weak point.

Song Wen, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li failed to defeat the Flood Dragon King after Ghost Fox disrupted Xuan Li with an illusion, so Feng Zhongli stayed behind to hold it off. Song Wen fled with Xuan Li, encountered Yuan Rong, and urged him to help Feng Zhongli, but Yuan Rong refused and chose to withdraw instead.

• The Flood Dragon King resisted the three cultivators' attacks, but Song Wen's blood wall restrained it long enough for Xuan Li's Moon Wheel to wound its unprotected lower jaw.
• Ghost Fox's divine-sense attack disoriented Xuan Li, allowing the Flood Dragon King to expel her Moon Wheel and drive off Song Wen's sword.
• Feng Zhongli charged the Flood Dragon King to cover Song Wen and Xuan Li's escape, and Song Wen carried Xuan Li away with her Moon Wheel.
• Song Wen left the battlefield's range but, despite Feng Zhongli's instructions, neither woke the confused Xuan Li nor harmed her.
• Yuan Rong met Song Wen in the cold mist, and Song Wen told him that Feng Zhongli was holding off the Flood Dragon King and asked him to help her.
• Yuan Rong refused to return to the battle, saying the cold mist weakened his sword formation, and decided to leave with Song Wen.

Song Wen and Yuan Rong joined forces against the pursuing Flood Dragon King, but their attacks failed to stop it. As the Flood Dragon King pressed Yuan Rong, Song Wen's lightning struck again, and the chapter ended with the dragon countering it with a blast of cold mist.

• The Flood Dragon King caught up to Song Wen and Yuan Rong, forcing them to turn and fight together.
• Yuan Rong attacked with the Nether Epiphyllum Sword while Song Wen used the Blood Sea Imperial Seal and Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, but the Flood Dragon King repelled them and shattered Song Wen's blood wall.
• The Flood Dragon King endured Song Wen's tribulation lightning and attempted to use Ghost Fox's illusion, but Song Wen's black hole absorbed the invading divine sense.
• Yuan Rong warned Song Wen and sent his thirty-six flying swords at the Flood Dragon King, which disrupted the formation and turned to attack Yuan Rong.
• Song Wen's lightning struck again as the Flood Dragon King lunged at Yuan Rong, and the dragon shattered the bolt with a pillar of cold mist.

Yuan Rong and Song Wen joined forces to exploit the Flood Dragon King's injured spine and lower jaw. Yuan Rong's Origin-Breaking Nail wounded the beast, allowing Song Wen to drive the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword into its exposed flesh.

• Yuan Rong proposed targeting the Flood Dragon King's injured lower jaw, and Song Wen agreed to cooperate using his Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Yuan Rong used his flying swords to distract the Flood Dragon King while Song Wen restrained its tail with blood tentacles.
• Yuan Rong's Origin-Breaking Nail pierced the Flood Dragon King's spine and exploded inside it, severely weakening the beast.
• Song Wen struck the Flood Dragon King's lower jaw and shattered its scales with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Song Wen burned his vital blood to power the sword and plunged it into the Flood Dragon King's flesh.

Song Wen and Yuan Rong nearly killed the Flood Dragon King, but Ghost Fox sacrificed himself to save it, and the dragon launched a desperate counterattack. After it shattered Yuan Rong’s sword formation and destroyed Song Wen’s blood wall, Song Wen avoided its claws and struck toward its exposed spine with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.

• Ghost Fox unleashed ghost qi to repel the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, losing his life while the Flood Dragon King survived with its lower jaw destroyed.
• The enraged Flood Dragon King charged Song Wen and Yuan Rong, while Yuan Rong reinforced his Void Sword Formation and Song Wen strengthened a blood wall.
• The Flood Dragon King shed its scales into a torrent that battered Yuan Rong’s sword formation, then smashed through Song Wen’s blood wall.
• Song Wen chose not to use the Minor Teleportation Talisman and flew at the Flood Dragon King with Xuan Li wrapped in his tentacles.
• Song Wen evaded the Flood Dragon King’s claws with his Thunder Kui Wings and plunged the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword toward its exposed spine.

Song Wen was forced back into the battle with the Flood Dragon King after its scale formation blocked his escape, and he joined Yuan Rong inside the sword formation. As the Flood Dragon King battered the formation and Song Wen counterattacked, Feng Zhongli called out from afar.

• Song Wen's sword strike wounded the Flood Dragon King, but its tail sent him flying, and he used a Minor Teleportation Talisman to escape with Xuan Li.
• Yuan Rong faced the Flood Dragon King alone until Song Wen returned and struck it with a pillar of blood.
• Song Wen discovered that the Flood Dragon King's scales and cold Qi formed a barrier that blocked teleportation, forcing him to cooperate with Yuan Rong.
• Yuan Rong opened the sword formation to let Song Wen inside, and Song Wen attacked the Flood Dragon King with a mountain of blood and the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• The Flood Dragon King bit into the sword formation barrier, pushing it close to breaking as Song Wen renewed his attacks.
• Feng Zhongli called out to Yang Yu from afar, asking whether he was trapped within the scale formation.