Recaps

Song Wen, Yuan Rong, and Feng Zhongli broke the Flood Dragon King's scale Confinement Formation, triggering backlash that severely weakened it. They launched a joint assault as the injured Flood Dragon King tried to flee.

• Song Wen and Yuan Rong reached Feng Zhongli at the Confinement Formation, and Feng Zhongli summoned her giant ape to attack its barrier.
• Song Wen confronted the pursuing Flood Dragon King while Yuan Rong and Feng Zhongli joined forces to break the formation, with Song Wen using the Substitute Death Technique to evade the dragon's claw.
• The Confinement Formation shattered, and the backlash caused the Flood Dragon King's aura and defenses to collapse.
• Yuan Rong, Feng Zhongli, and Song Wen attacked the weakened Flood Dragon King as it fled, and their strikes sent it plunging toward the ground.

Song Wen and the others killed the Flood Dragon King and tortured its demon soul until it revealed the supposed location of the True Dragon Spirit. Song Wen grew suspicious of the black stone tablet’s claims, but the group still planned to travel to the Burial Dragon Abyss.

• Song Wen killed the Flood Dragon King, then bound its demon soul while Feng Zhongli and Yuan Rong threatened it for information.
• Song Wen used the Golden Broth Curse to torment the Flood Dragon King until it agreed to talk.
• The Flood Dragon King said the True Dragon Spirit lay beneath Dragon-Breath Profound Ice in the Burial Dragon Abyss, about a hundred thousand li east.
• The Flood Dragon King revealed that human living souls could weaken the ice and admitted it had gathered Ji Yue’s soul and encouraged infighting for that purpose.
• Song Wen suspected the stone tablet was misleading them but decided the group would still go to the Burial Dragon Abyss.

Song Wen and the others secured Ji Yue’s soul, stored the Flood Dragon King’s soul, and divided its corpse. They chose to wake Xuan Li rather than kill her, leaving Song Wen to free her from the illusion.

• Song Wen retrieved Ji Yue’s divine soul from the Flood Dragon King’s corpse, and Yuan Rong agreed to leave her in Song Wen’s care.
• Song Wen told Ji Yue that Zhu You was dead and sealed her soul in a vial.
• Song Wen stored the Flood Dragon King’s soul, and he, Yuan Rong, and Feng Zhongli divided its corpse.
• Yuan Rong asked what to do with the unconscious Xuan Li, and Feng Zhongli chose to have Song Wen wake her.
• Song Wen and Yuan Rong thanked Feng Zhongli for breaking the scale trapping array that helped them defeat the Flood Dragon King.

Song Wen awakened Xuan Li from Ghost Fox’s illusion, and the group learned about Burial Dragon Abyss and Dragon-Breath Profound Ice. After recovering, the four reached the abyss but found its depths hidden behind chilling mist that blocked spiritual sense.

• Song Wen used Soul-Slaying Spikes to awaken Xuan Li, who briefly lunged at him while still delirious before regaining her senses.
• Feng Zhongli explained that Song Wen had rescued Xuan Li from the Flood Dragon King and Ghost Fox’s illusion, and Xuan Li thanked him.
• Yuan Rong told Xuan Li about Burial Dragon Abyss and Dragon-Breath Profound Ice, and she agreed to join the others on the journey.
• The four rested for half a month, then traveled east to Burial Dragon Abyss and found dense, freezing mist blocking their view of its depths.
• Yuan Rong asked whether they should enter the valley to investigate or seek another way.

Song Wen, Yuan Rong, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li descended into the mist-filled Rift Valley and found an extraordinarily cold, nearly unbreakable ice sheet. After Song Wen’s attack barely dented it and the ice instantly healed, they began surveying its surface for a way forward.

• Yuan Rong formed the Void Sword Formation, and the four cultivators descended together through mist that compressed their divine senses and drained their strength with intense cold.
• Xuan Li spotted a vast, transparent ice sheet below them, whose chill threatened to freeze the sword formation and their magical power.
• Song Wen rejected Feng Zhongli’s suggestion to ask the Flood Dragon King about the ice and struck it with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Song Wen’s Profound Heaven spirit treasure made only a shallow pit in the ice, which swiftly refroze and returned to a smooth surface.
• Xuan Li agreed with Song Wen’s plan to inspect the ice sheet, and Yuan Rong guided the formation along it until all four were shocked by what they saw.

Song Wen and the others discovered a True Dragon sealed beneath the ice in Burial Dragon Abyss, but the Dragon-Breath Profound Ice resisted the giant ape’s blows. Hoping that a living human soul could weaken the ice, Song Wen released Ji Yue’s soul and sent it into the ice, where she screamed in agony.

• Song Wen identified the dragon beneath the ice as likely dead, and Feng Zhongli grew eager to claim its flesh and blood.
• The thousand-zhang giant ape struck the ice repeatedly, but the ice remained intact and froze the ape into shards.
• Song Wen recognized the ice as Dragon-Breath Profound Ice and proposed testing the claim that living human souls could weaken it.
• Song Wen left Yuan Rong’s sword formation with Xuan Li and Feng Zhongli, while Yuan Rong stayed behind and narrowed the formation.
• Song Wen released Ji Yue’s soul and sent it toward the ice; it sank inside, and Ji Yue screamed and begged to be spared.

After Ji Yue’s soul vanished into the Dragon-Breath Profound Ice, Song Wen and the others confirmed that it weakened the ice, but their combined attacks could only excavate a pit about one li deep. Yuan Rong proposed searching for other cultivators’ souls to weaken the remaining ice, leaving the group with a possible plan to reach the dragon corpse.

• Ji Yue’s soul fragments spread through the Dragon-Breath Profound Ice and disappeared, and Song Wen tested the ice with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Song Wen, Xuan Li, Feng Zhongli, and Yuan Rong attacked together and carved a pit into the ice, but its depth stalled at about one li as the ice grew harder and repaired itself.
• Song Wen struck the pit with lightning at Feng Zhongli’s suggestion, but the attack made only a small dent.
• Yuan Rong concluded that more living souls were needed to weaken the ice, and Feng Zhongli questioned how they could obtain enough powerful souls.
• Yuan Rong proposed finding the other cultivators in the secret realm and using their souls to break through the ice.

After the four cultivators agreed to protect the secret of the Burial Dragon Abyss, Xuan Li paired with Yang Yu to search for passages through the secret realm. She led him to a flower-filled basin and began to disrobe, leaving her intentions unclear.

• Xuan Li, Yuan Rong, Feng Zhongli, and Song Wen agreed not to betray one another or reveal the Burial Dragon Abyss before retrieving the dragon corpse and True Dragon Spirit.
• The four decided not to conceal the abyss with a formation and agreed to search for node passages in pairs, meeting again in ten days.
• Xuan Li volunteered to travel with Yang Yu, while Feng Zhongli and Yuan Rong headed north together and Xuan Li and Yang Yu flew south.
• After flying more than a hundred thousand miles, Xuan Li stopped in a flower-filled basin and invited Yang Yu to rest with her.
• Xuan Li asked Yang Yu whether he found her beautiful and loosened her sash, letting her outer robe fall open.

Song Wen and Xuan Li reunited with Feng Zhongli and Yuan Rong after spending ten days together, but a revelation about Song Wen’s Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye exposed his past disguises. Yuan Rong recognized him as Gou Jun and accused him of killing Jian Xiao, leaving Song Wen’s identities and crimes exposed.

• Xuan Li asked Song Wen to be intimate with her, and Song Wen eventually agreed.
• Ten days later, Song Wen and Xuan Li returned to meet Feng Zhongli and Yuan Rong, but Song Wen reported that he had not found the node passage.
• Feng Zhongli revealed that Song Wen could use an eye technique to see node passages, and Xuan Li recognized it as the Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye.
• Xuan Li questioned how Song Wen had learned the technique and reasoned that he was likely Jian Xiao, one of the four people she had taught it to.
• Yuan Rong identified Song Wen as Gou Jun and accused him of killing Jian Xiao and stealing other people’s names.

Song Wen, now openly calling himself Extreme Yin, joined Xuan Li, Feng Zhongli, and Yuan Rong in searching for a node passage. After they crossed one, they found Feng Zhongli fighting six Blood Moon Temple monks.

• Yuan Rong revealed that Song Wen was Jian Xiao, but Xuan Li instead confronted Song Wen over his past deception and demanded Ji Yue’s soul-defense bell as compensation.
• Song Wen gave Xuan Li the bell, then told the group to call him Extreme Yin.
• Xuan Li proposed that she and Song Wen search for node passages while Feng Zhongli and Yuan Rong assisted, and the four traveled together.
• After three days, the group found a node passage hidden in an azure stone and crossed through it.
• Song Wen arrived in a new world and saw Feng Zhongli fighting six Blood Moon Temple monks led by a peak Mahayana cultivator.

Song Wen halted his allies’ assault on the Pagoda Temple monks and proposed a truce after Xuan Li explained the temple’s growing power. The monks remained suspicious as Song Wen asked Jikong to release Feng Zhongli and let them leave.

• Yuan Rong, Xuan Li, and Song Wen attacked the Buddhist barrier around Feng Zhongli, but their weapons failed to break through.
• Jikong claimed Feng Zhongli had attacked the monks first, while Xuan Li identified herself as a member of the Divine Blood Sect and threatened the Pagoda Temple monks.
• Xuan Li told Song Wen that Pagoda Temple had expanded under the Tribulation Transcendence Realm Venerable Yun Chan.
• Song Wen asked Yuan Rong to withdraw the sword formation, and Xuan Li backed his order despite Feng Zhongli’s protest.
• Song Wen offered Jikong a truce and asked him to release Feng Zhongli, but Jikong questioned whether Song Wen was sincere.

Song Wen feigned a retreat to draw Jikong and Cizhou away from Feng Zhongli, then pursued them and ambushed the four Body Integration Realm monks before they could restore their formation. With the formation broken, the two groups began fighting, leaving Song Wen facing Cizhou as the battle continued.

• Song Wen persuaded Jikong and Cizhou to withdraw, and Xuan Li and Yuan Rong retreated with him while Feng Zhongli remained confined.
• After both groups had moved ten thousand li apart, Jikong and the others released Feng Zhongli and fled, but Song Wen's group immediately gave chase.
• When Jikong and Cizhou stopped to reform their Buddhist grand formation, Song Wen's group attacked, and Song Wen appeared behind the monks and engulfed the four Body Integration Realm monks in a Blood Tide.
• With the formation broken, Feng Zhongli and Xuan Li engaged Jikong while Yuan Rong tried to trap the two monks with his flying swords.
• Song Wen attacked Cizhou with a blood pillar, and Cizhou countered by expanding his prayer beads into a golden barrier.

Song Wen and the others battered Jikong and Cizhou’s World Purification Lotus Formation until Jikong transformed it with the Blood Buddha Method. Song Wen withdrew his attacks, adopted a righteous aura, and condemned the monks’ slaughter, leaving everyone stunned.

• Jikong and Cizhou completed the World Purification Lotus Formation while their damaged kasaya bought them time.
• Song Wen, Xuan Li, Yuan Rong, and Feng Zhongli attacked the formation, which began to falter under the strain of only two monks sustaining it.
• Jikong activated the Nirvana Blood Realm and used the Karmic Fire Blood Lotus to turn the lotus and its barrier blood-red, making the formation withstand the attacks.
• Xuan Li explained that Pagoda Temple’s Blood Buddha Method enhanced a cultivator’s strength by tempering Zen with blood and Sha.
• Song Wen withdrew his Blood Tide and attacks, took on a righteous aura, and accused Jikong and Cizhou of acting like demons before declaring that he would cleanse their sins.

Song Wen and his allies broke Jikong and Cizhou’s blood-powered array and cornered the two monks. Jikong escaped with the Brahma-Blood Burning Escape Token by sacrificing Cizhou, who was killed by the attackers.

• Song Wen used lightning arts with help from Xuan Li, Yuan Rong, and Feng Zhongli to destroy the blood-colored barrier, leaving Jikong and Cizhou injured by the backlash.
• Jikong and Cizhou raised a talisman barrier while Jikong prepared his Brahma-Blood Burning Escape Token.
• As Song Wen’s group broke through the barrier and attacked, Jikong asked Cizhou to hold them off, then struck him forward and fled using the token.
• Cizhou sent his eighteen prayer beads to block the attacks, but Xuan Li’s Moon Wheel cut him in two.

Song Wen pursued Jikong through a drained lake but lost his trail, then encountered Daoist Yunhua and Min Shuiyun fighting a Mountain Prison beast. He sought information about the monk, but Yunhua accused him of trying to steal the spoils and threatened him as the confrontation began.

• Song Wen used Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions to pursue Jikong, leaving illusions as trail markers for Yuan Rong, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li.
• Song Wen followed Jikong's spiritual traces to a lake, drained it with Blood Tide, and searched its underground rivers, but found no sign of him.
• Song Wen detected a distant battle and discovered Daoist Yunhua and Min Shuiyun besieging a Mountain Prison beast.
• Song Wen recognized Mountain Prison's poison sac as an ingredient for cultivating the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body and asked whether the two had seen a monk.
• Daoist Yunhua accused Song Wen of seeking a share of the spoils and threatened to kill him, while Min Shuiyun pointed out that Song Wen was at the mid-Mahayana stage.
• Daoist Yunhua and Min Shuiyun continued attacking Mountain Prison, but its scales repelled Yunhua's mountain-shaped seal and blocked Min Shuiyun's blades.

Song Wen and his allies arrived as Daoist Yunhua and Min Shuiyun weakened Mountain Prison, then attacked the two cultivators and drove them from the battlefield. Yuan Rong trapped Daoist Yunhua in a sword formation and asked whether he had seen two monks from Pagoda Temple.

• Song Wen waited while Daoist Yunhua and Min Shuiyun fought Mountain Prison, then Yuan Rong, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li arrived.
• Yuan Rong and Feng Zhongli approached the battle as Daoist Yunhua offered to share Mountain Prison’s scales, but Yuan Rong declined to take what they had found.
• Daoist Yunhua and Min Shuiyun killed Mountain Prison, and Song Wen, Yuan Rong, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li immediately launched a coordinated attack.
• Song Wen and Feng Zhongli gravely wounded Min Shuiyun, while Yuan Rong and Xuan Li trapped Daoist Yunhua in a sword formation.
• Yuan Rong asked Daoist Yunhua whether he had seen Jikong and Cizhou of Pagoda Temple, and Daoist Yunhua confirmed that he had.

Song Wen and Xuan Li flushed Jikong out from underground and joined Yuan Rong and Feng Zhongli in defeating him. Jikong’s divine soul was captured after he warned that Venerable Yun Chan would avenge him.

• Xuan Li killed Min Shuiyun and took her divine soul while Song Wen identified Jikong’s hiding place underground.
• Xuan Li tried to lure Jikong out by announcing that he was nearby, then attacked the surrounding ground when he did not appear.
• Song Wen spread the Blood Sea Imperial Seal underground, forcing Jikong to emerge and flee.
• Xuan Li, Feng Zhongli, and Song Wen attacked Jikong as Yuan Rong joined them after killing Daoist Yunhua.
• Yuan Rong trapped Jikong in his sword formation, destroying his body and Nascent Soul while leaving his divine soul intact.
• Jikong warned that Venerable Yun Chan would seek revenge, but Feng Zhongli captured his divine soul in a soul bottle.

Feng Zhongli, Yuan Rong, Xuan Li, and Song Wen returned to the Burial Dragon Abyss, hoping to weaken the Dragon-Breath Profound Ice, but found three unfamiliar Mahayana cultivators waiting there. The beautiful woman recognized the group and mistook Song Wen for Yang Yu.

• Feng Zhongli and Yuan Rong discussed returning to the Burial Dragon Abyss, and the four agreed to search for passages through the Kunxu Secret Realm.
• After five teleportations, Yuan Rong recognized a vast body of water and led the group through an underwater ravine back to the Hidden Dragon Domain.
• Song Wen raised the problem of finding a route out of the secret realm, but no one knew how to return to the Snowfield.
• The four searched for Xuan Gu at the Lake and the cold pool, then passed through the stone hall into the Dragon-Burial Domain and hurried to the Burial Dragon Abyss.
• At the Burial Dragon Abyss, Feng Zhongli confronted three Mahayana cultivators, and their beautiful leader identified the group but mistook Song Wen for Yang Yu.

Song Wen proposed that his group and the Burning Moon Sect cooperate to break the profound ice encasing the True Dragon's corpse. He then asked Yi Ji whether she already had a Dao companion.

• Yi Ji introduced herself, He Ying, and Shi Qingcang as members of the Burning Moon Sect and proposed working together to retrieve the True Dragon's corpse.
• Feng Zhongli refused Yi Ji's proposal and threatened to drive the three newcomers away, bringing both groups close to battle.
• Song Wen stepped between his companions and Yi Ji's group, suggesting that fire and thunder spells might break the profound ice if both groups combined their efforts.
• Yi Ji revealed that her group had burned the ice with spirit flame for three days but had only melted a thin surface layer.
• Song Wen urged Feng Zhongli to cooperate rather than fight, and Yi Ji agreed that his reasoning was sound.
• Song Wen bashfully asked Yi Ji whether she already had a Dao companion.

Song Wen feigned romantic interest in Yi Ji to draw her attention before launching a surprise attack on Shi Qingcang. He gravely wounded Shi Qingcang but failed to destroy his dantian or Nascent Soul, leaving Yi Ji and He Ying True Person to face Song Wen, Xuan Li, Yuan Rong, and Feng Zhongli.

• Song Wen declared his love for Yi Ji, provoking her suspicion and drawing her focus onto him.
• Xuan Li recognized Song Wen’s words from her past conversation with him, and her spiritual power began to surge.
• Song Wen used a decoy that Yi Ji burned to ash, then appeared behind Shi Qingcang and broke through his shield with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Shi Qingcang blocked Song Wen’s sword with his guillotine blade, but Song Wen struck him with silver-white lightning and sent the Soul-Splitting Blade after him.
• Yi Ji and He Ying True Person attacked Song Wen, forcing him to return to Xuan Li and the others, while Shi Qingcang survived with severe injuries.
• Feng Zhongli celebrated Shi Qingcang’s incapacitation, leaving the four allies facing Yi Ji and He Ying True Person.

Song Wen and his allies struggled against Yi Ji and He Ying as they tried to establish a sword formation, but Yi Ji’s fire techniques kept them at bay. Feng Zhongli then led a risky close assault, and the chapter ended with her reaching Yi Ji while the fire phoenix’s wings had been severed.

• Yi Ji summoned a fire phoenix, and Song Wen, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li joined forces to block its attack.
• Yuan Rong tried to set up a formation with thirty-six flying swords, but He Ying’s chains and Yi Ji’s firebirds disrupted him.
• Song Wen used a lightning strike as a feint to damage He Ying’s chain net, giving Yuan Rong another chance to maneuver his swords.
• Yi Ji repelled the group’s attacks with a wall of fire and a second fire phoenix, leaving them at a disadvantage.
• Feng Zhongli led a direct assault with Yuan Rong and Xuan Li, whose weapons severed the fire phoenix’s wings.
• Feng Zhongli bypassed the fire phoenix and closed in on Yi Ji.

Feng Zhongli risked everything to strike Yi Ji, while Song Wen and the others used the opening to attack He Ying True Person. Yi Ji saved He Ying True Person from the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, but the injured group was surrounded and Yi Ji fought defensively as Yuan Rong prepared a sword formation.

• Yi Ji sent a blazing white fire thread at Feng Zhongli, who took a severe shoulder wound but charged back with a devastating punch.
• He Ying True Person blocked Feng Zhongli's punch with his chain shield, leaving him vulnerable to the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• The sword broke through He Ying True Person's defenses and severed both his hands, but Yi Ji diverted it at the last moment with her fire thread.
• Yi Ji blocked the weakened punch, while Song Wen and the others pressed their attack against her and Yuan Rong began forming a sword formation.
• Yi Ji summoned the fire phoenix to protect herself, He Ying True Person, and Shi Qingcang, then vowed to repay Yang Yu, Feng Zhongli, Yuan Rong, and Xuan Li.

Yi Ji escaped Feng Zhongli, Song Wen, Xuan Li, and Yuan Rong using Golden Crow Rainbow Flight, and the group abandoned their search to return to Burial Dragon Abyss. There, they sacrificed eight captured divine souls to the profound ice sealing the dragon corpse and True Dragon Spirit.

• Feng Zhongli, Xuan Li, Song Wen, and Yuan Rong attacked Yi Ji and her two companions, but Yi Ji used Golden Crow Rainbow Flight to escape with them.
• Song Wen pursued Yi Ji but lost her trail when her residual aura vanished near a great river; the others joined him in searching the area without success.
• Yuan Rong urged the group to stop searching and retrieve the dragon corpse, and Song Wen and Feng Zhongli agreed to return to Burial Dragon Abyss.
• Xuan Li released eight divine souls from their Soul Bottles at the abyss floor, and Feng Zhongli explained that the dragon corpse and True Dragon Spirit lay sealed beneath the profound ice.
• Feng Zhongli placed the Soul Bottles on the ice, where a force pulled in and consumed all eight divine souls.

Song Wen and the others broke through the profound ice and exposed the dragon’s head, only for the ice to melt and the abyss’s fog to spread. Yi Ji arrived with He Ying True Person and Shi Qingcang, and the chapter ended with her acknowledging their way of breaking the ice.

• Song Wen and the others deepened the ice pit until Song Wen released the souls from his Soul Bottles, weakening the profound ice enough to expose a dragon horn.
• The Dragon-Breath Profound Ice melted into mist, revealing the dragon’s head and causing fog to spread beyond Burial Dragon Abyss.
• Yuan Rong, Feng Zhongli, Xuan Li, and Song Wen eyed one another warily as they debated the dragon corpse and their competing goals.
• Yi Ji ambushed Song Wen from the fog, but his blood cocoon protected him, and she arrived with He Ying True Person and Shi Qingcang.
• Yi Ji saw the exposed dragon corpse and told the others that they had found a way to break the profound ice.

Yi Ji confronted Yuan Rong and the others over the dragon corpse, and the two sides began fighting while Song Wen watched He Ying’s regenerated hands. Their battle shook the mystic ice until it shattered, sending the dragon corpse falling into the darkness below.

• Yi Ji explained that she had retreated to let He Ying and Shi Qingcang recover, then returned after Yuan Rong’s group broke through the mystic ice.
• Song Wen learned from Gu Que that He Ying’s hands had likely been restored using a Limb Regeneration Technique and took interest in acquiring one.
• Yi Ji proposed dividing the dragon corpse, but Feng Zhongli rejected her offer and attacked.
• Song Wen’s Blood Tide concealed Feng Zhongli as she dodged Yi Ji’s blazing white fire, while the two sides exchanged attacks.
• The fighting shook the mystic ice until it cracked apart, and the dragon corpse fell into the darkness below.