Recaps

Song Wen met Kurong at the Rat Race ruins, where Kurong used a killing formation to trap Crimson-Scaled King, the Rat King, and Towering Rat. As Kurong attacked them with corpse-qi chains, the two rats shielded Crimson-Scaled King while she prepared a powerful move to break the formation.

• Song Wen claimed he had come to the ruins seeking treasures and asked Kurong how he had trapped the three demons.
• Kurong questioned the demons, but Crimson-Scaled King refused to cooperate and challenged him to watch her break the formation.
• Kurong activated the formation, sending countless corpse-qi chains at the demons as Crimson-Scaled King summoned a Soaring Serpent phantom.
• Crimson-Scaled King asked the Rat King and Towering Rat to hold off the chains while she prepared her attack, and both rats vowed to protect her.
• Crimson-Scaled King's scales strengthened the phantom as its roar shook the barrier, while Towering Rat was pierced by a chain but kept fighting.

Song Wen watched the Crimson-Scaled King break Kurong’s formation, then seized the opening to attack Kurong and the Divine Blood Sect cultivators. He captured Kurong and killed the witnesses, leaving his plans with Ying Wu concealed for now.

• The Crimson-Scaled King completed the Soaring Serpent phantom, whose golden beams shattered Kurong’s formation and injured him with the backlash.
• Song Wen rushed at Kurong while firing a thunderbolt at the Crimson-Scaled King and hurling the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword at Kurong.
• Kurong used two Integrated Body Realm Cultivators as shields, but Song Wen’s sword pierced his defenses and wounded him severely.
• Song Wen swallowed Kurong in Blood Tide, while his sword and Blood Tide captured the two wounded cultivators.
• Xin Qi and the remaining male cultivator begged Song Wen for mercy, but he killed them to keep his actions from being exposed.

Song Wen revealed himself as Extreme Yin and confronted the Crimson-Scaled King, who blamed him for stealing the Jadeglow Lotus and ruining her chance to reach the ninth rank. Their battle left the Rat King dead and Towering Rat destroyed, while the Crimson-Scaled King survived and the Rat King died believing she had been tainted by a human.

• The Crimson-Scaled King accused Song Wen of betraying her clan, stealing the Jadeglow Lotus and its root, and causing her failed breakthrough to the ninth rank.
• Song Wen admitted he was Extreme Yin and taunted the Crimson-Scaled King before challenging her to fight.
• Song Wen's Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword broke through the Crimson-Scaled King's wind blades, but she prepared a golden beam to stop it.
• The Rat King and Towering Rat rushed up to shield the Crimson-Scaled King, and the sword pierced both, destroying Towering Rat and mortally wounding the Rat King.
• The Rat King asked whether the Crimson-Scaled King had mated with Song Wen; she said she was willing, and the Rat King condemned her before dying.

Song Wen escaped the Crimson-Scaled King, devoured Kurong and five other cultivators, and broke through to the peak of the Mahayana Realm. Kurong revealed how he had created his protective Profound Turbid Yin Baleful Energy before Song Wen left him behind.

• Song Wen used the Blood Tide to seize Towering Rat and the Rat King's corpses and souls, then fled before the injured Crimson-Scaled King could pursue him.
• Song Wen devoured the spiritual power in four corpses and then drained Kurong, breaking through to the peak of the Mahayana Realm.
• Song Wen told Kurong that he planned to return to the Eastern Profound Continent through the Spatial Projection near Southern Cinnabar City, revealing that he was Gou Jun.
• Kurong explained that he had refined Profound Turbid Yin Baleful Energy by using yin corpses made from newly born profound yin girls.
• Song Wen burned Kurong and the other corpses to ashes and continued on his way.

Song Wen spent forty years cultivating, empowering Shadow Void and the Blood Sea Imperial Seal while advancing his divine sense to peak Mahayana, then revealed the destructive power of his Annihilation Yang Thunder. The Crimson-Scaled King tracked him down and attacked, believing Song Wen had exhausted his mana.

• Song Wen rejected Kurong's Profound Turbid Yin Baleful Energy, devoured Kurong's divine soul, and fled far from Bi Wu before beginning secluded cultivation.
• Song Wen supplied Shadow Void with Soul Source Essence and, over forty years, hunted demon beasts while strengthening the Blood Sea Imperial Seal and advancing his divine sense to peak Mahayana.
• Song Wen demonstrated Annihilation Yang Thunder, using it to erase a great river and tear open the land, though the attack nearly exhausted his mana.
• The Crimson-Scaled King arrived after tracking Song Wen through the traces he left while hunting demon beasts.
• The Crimson-Scaled King declared that Song Wen would die, summoned a Soaring Serpent phantom, and fired two golden beams at him.

Song Wen and Crimson-Scaled King fought with their strongest abilities, leaving the land around them devastated. After Crimson-Scaled King shattered Song Wen’s Blood Sea, his Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword and black lightning broke through the Soaring Serpent phantom’s scales and struck toward her.

• Song Wen used the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword to counter Crimson-Scaled King’s golden beams, and their attacks met in a draw.
• Crimson-Scaled King unleashed dense wind blades from the Soaring Serpent phantom, while Song Wen expanded his Blood Tide into a vast sea that endured her assault.
• Crimson-Scaled King armored the Soaring Serpent phantom with her scales and swept apart the blood sea as Song Wen closed in and tried to encircle her with blood droplets.
• Crimson-Scaled King escaped the Blood Sea Prison, and Song Wen challenged her to sustain the phantom with her remaining demonic essence.
• Crimson-Scaled King’s golden beams destroyed the blood sea, but Song Wen’s Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword and black lightning shattered the phantom’s scales and pierced toward her.

Song Wen defeated Crimson-Scaled King with Annihilation Yang Thunder and left him near death. Qing Lian arrived to plead for her brother’s life and tried to heal him with the Floating Life Grass.

• Crimson-Scaled King used his essence blood and demonic qi to resist Song Wen’s black lightning, but the attack struck him and destroyed the Soaring Serpent phantom.
• Song Wen found Crimson-Scaled King near death in a pit and held the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword to his brow.
• Crimson-Scaled King accepted his defeat and worried about his clansmen and younger sister, while Song Wen sensed someone approaching from the west.
• Song Wen identified the approaching rescuer as Qing Lian, and Crimson-Scaled King begged him not to harm her.
• Qing Lian arrived, pleaded with Song Wen to spare Crimson-Scaled King, and tried to feed him the Floating Life Grass.

Song Wen stabilized the Crimson-Scaled King’s soul and brought him and Qing Lian to safety to continue treatment. After the Crimson-Scaled King began recovering, Qing Lian confessed how deeply she had missed Song Wen and thanked him for saving them both.

• Qing Lian forced the Floating Life Grass into the mortally wounded Crimson-Scaled King, but it healed his body without stopping his soul from dissipating.
• Song Wen used his spiritual consciousness to stabilize the Crimson-Scaled King’s soul, then took him and Qing Lian away from the battlefield.
• Qing Lian told Song Wen that Venerable Biwu was near death and that the Willow Snake Clan’s treasures were under her brother’s control; Gu Que told Song Wen a Willow Snake Spirit might remain after Venerable Biwu died.
• The next day, Song Wen told Qing Lian that the Crimson-Scaled King’s remaining injuries would heal with rest and spirit medicines.
• Qing Lian recounted how she had tracked Song Wen for forty years, explained why she had followed her brother, and thanked Song Wen for saving the person she loved and her brother.

Song Wen and Qing Lian reunited and began to grow intimate, but the Crimson-Scaled King woke and forbade them from being together. After learning that he too had been intimate with Song Wen, Qing Lian proposed that all three remain together, leaving Song Wen astonished.

• Song Wen confessed that he had missed Qing Lian but feared returning to the Willow Snake Clan because he had stolen its treasure and harmed the clan.
• Qing Lian asked Song Wen to return with her, but he worried that Venerable Biwu would still pose a threat; she vowed to stay by his side, and they embraced.
• Qing Lian transformed her tail into legs as she and Song Wen began kissing, but the Crimson-Scaled King woke and interrupted them.
• The Crimson-Scaled King thanked Song Wen for saving him but told him to stop associating with Qing Lian, citing the clan's hostility and Venerable Biwu.
• Qing Lian argued that she would leave the clan rather than separate from Song Wen, and the Crimson-Scaled King revealed that he had also been intimate with him.
• Qing Lian said she was glad they could stay together and urged the embarrassed Crimson-Scaled King to demonstrate intimacy with Song Wen; he eventually agreed.

Song Wen urged Crimson-Scaled King to kill her dying master, Venerable Biwu, and take her true spirit to aid a breakthrough, but Crimson-Scaled King rejected the idea and weighed the Willow Snake Clan’s future. Song Wen then gave Qing Lian Hundred Blossom Dew and revealed that he had returned to the Eastern Profound Continent, prompting her to ask how.

• Song Wen asked Crimson-Scaled King about trying again to reach the ninth rank, and she said she needed centuries of preparation after her previous failure.
• Song Wen proposed that Crimson-Scaled King kill Venerable Biwu and seize her true spirit, but Crimson-Scaled King angrily defended her master and warned Song Wen not to speak against her.
• Song Wen apologized, then argued that the Willow Snake Clan would be vulnerable when Venerable Biwu died and needed Crimson-Scaled King to become a Ninth Realm Demon Venerable.
• Crimson-Scaled King fell silent as Song Wen made spirit tea, while Qing Lian joined him and received a bottle of Hundred Blossom Dew.
• Song Wen told Qing Lian he had returned to the Eastern Profound Continent and brought back the honey, and Qing Lian asked how he had managed it.

Song Wen left the Western Rong Continent for the Eastern Profound Continent, reassuring Qing Lian that they would reunite while she cultivated. Five years later, he reached Blood Radiance City and tried to contact Ying Wu, then explained his return route to Xuan Li, who connected it to his identity as Gou Jun.

• Song Wen told Qing Lian he could not take her to the Eastern Profound Continent, but persuaded her to cultivate and wait for their reunion.
• After spending several more days with Qing Lian and the Crimson-Scaled King, Song Wen departed for the Source-Qi Death Domain, carrying soul source essence for himself and Shadow Void.
• Song Wen returned to Blood Radiance City five years later and received no response when he tried to contact Ying Wu.
• Song Wen contacted Xuan Li, who suspected he was involved in the deaths of Kurong and the others and questioned how he had returned from the Western Rong Continent.
• Song Wen said he had returned through Spatial Projection, and Xuan Li recalled that Gou Jun had once appeared by the same method.

Song Wen returned to Blood Radiance City and contacted Xuan Li to pass a message to Ying Wu, then spoke with Ying Wu about her situation in the Divine Blood Sect and the plan for Xugeng’s ascension. He arranged to meet Xuan Li and Qiluo in a distant market town.

• Song Wen persuaded Xuan Li to pass a message to Ying Wu while keeping his return secret from outsiders.
• Ying Wu told Song Wen that Xugeng was keeping her under watch and that she had contacted him from a shop’s secret chamber in Blood Radiance City.
• Song Wen told Ying Wu he had reached the peak of the Mahayana realm, and learned that she had advanced to the late Mahayana realm.
• Ying Wu said she was delaying cultivation of the Void Dragon Vine and would try to persuade Xugeng to ascend outside the Divine Blood Sect.
• Song Wen arranged to meet Xuan Li and Qiluo in a market town nearly a million li from Blood Radiance City.

After twenty-five years of secluded cultivation, Shadow Void began its breakthrough to the ninth rank, consuming vast amounts of Soul Source Essence. Song Wen concealed the breakthrough with a powerful formation, but as the essence ran low, he faced the need to acquire many souls without attracting attention.

• Song Wen cultivated the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body in a remote cave while Shadow Void grew stronger but remained below the ninth rank.
• Shadow Void announced that it was about to break through and absorbed a torrent of Soul Source Essence.
• Song Wen and Gu Que discussed the possible disturbance as pressure from Shadow Void’s breakthrough began to spread beyond the cave.
• Song Wen erected the Ten-Directions Annihilation Formation across ten thousand li to conceal the phenomenon and keep outsiders away.
• Shadow Void’s breakthrough continued as Song Wen’s supply of Soul Source Essence dwindled, leaving him needing to obtain many souls without visiting a major city himself.

Song Wen arranged for a Spirit Transformation cultivator to deliver a message to Xuan Li, who brought him demon souls to help resolve his crisis. After repaying her, Song Wen asked about Patriarch Xugeng and when he would ascend, as he had missed his agreed contact with Ying Wu.

• Song Wen threatened a middle-aged Spirit Transformation cultivator into delivering a jade slip to Xuan Li in exchange for a hundred thousand superior spirit stones.
• Xuan Li arrived eight days later with the middle-aged cultivator and delivered demon souls she had gathered from shops in Blood Radiance City.
• Song Wen pulled the soul bottles through the formation and paid Xuan Li six million five hundred thousand superior spirit stones.
• Xuan Li released the middle-aged cultivator, and he hurried away after promising to keep the encounter secret.
• Song Wen asked Xuan Li how Patriarch Xugeng was doing and when he would ascend, wondering whether Ying Wu had finished cultivating the Void Dragon Vine.

Song Wen emerged from four years of secluded cultivation with power that astonished Xuan Li, then learned that Xugeng would soon ascend. Disguised among the crowd at Starfall Lake, Song Wen watched Xugeng arrive and address the cultivators before his ascent.

• Xuan Li agreed to guard Song Wen while he cultivated, and four years later she felt a terrifying pressure burst from his formation before he emerged.
• Song Wen thanked Xuan Li and spent ten days with her before heading to Blood Radiance City, where Ying Wu told him the Void Dragon Vine had succeeded and Xugeng would soon announce his ascension.
• Ying Wu said Xugeng would not let him leave the Divine Blood Sect before the event, so Song Wen and Ying Wu agreed to follow their previous plan.
• The Divine Blood Sect announced that Xugeng would ascend in half a year at Starfall Lake, southwest of Blood Radiance City.
• Song Wen arrived at Starfall Lake disguised as a Golden Core corpse cultivator and watched Xugeng arrive with a hundred enormous flying ships.
• Xugeng recounted his long cultivation, warned the gathered cultivators against reckless advancement, and said he hoped to meet them again in the Immortal Realm.

Xugeng ascended to the Immortal Realm after Song Wen revealed that he had a daughter, but Xugeng attacked Song Wen before leaving. Ming Yuan recognized Song Wen as Extreme Yin and pursued him with Divine Blood Sect cultivators.

• Xugeng descended in golden light, gave Ying Wu three wisps of immortal spiritual energy, and announced that his true name was Qiao Sanming as he prepared to ascend.
• Song Wen asked Xugeng whether he knew of the woman and daughter he had left in Southern Nether Province, provoking Xugeng into attacking him.
• Xugeng's strike destroyed Song Wen's body, but Song Wen reappeared thousands of li away using the Life-Substitution Technique as the pull of the rift carried Xugeng into the Immortal Realm.
• After Xugeng vanished, Ming Yuan questioned Song Wen, who revealed his identity as Extreme Yin.
• Song Wen fled while taunting Ming Yuan, and Ming Yuan pursued him with more than a dozen Mahayana cultivators from the Divine Blood Sect.

Song Wen fled from Ming Yuan using Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions and Death-Substitute Puppets while Ming Yuan pursued him far from Starfall Lake. Ying Wu joined the chase, and the chapter ended with him intercepting Ming Yuan's attack as Song Wen faced the spreading corpse qi.

• Song Wen shattered five blood-red crystals and sent five hundred illusory figures fleeing in every direction, but Ming Yuan's corpse qi rage pythons destroyed the fakes and continued the pursuit.
• Ying Wu rode his Azure Luan Sword ahead of the pursuing Great Ascension cultivators, while Xuan Li urged the group to return to Starfall Lake in case the chase was a diversion; the others followed her.
• Ming Yuan spotted Song Wen after another Death-Substitute Puppet was destroyed and released corpse qi from his Bronze Corpse Coffin to seal off the surrounding region.
• Song Wen prepared to use the Life-Substitution Technique again, but Ying Wu arrived on his azure luan and attacked Ming Yuan.
• Ming Yuan's black qi dragon collided with Ying Wu's Azure Luan Sword; both attacks scattered, and Ying Wu caught his sword unharmed.

Ying Wu defied Ming Yuan to protect Extreme Yin, and their battle escalated as she used a sword array to withstand the Bronze Corpse Coffin. Song Wen joined Ying Wu inside the array, while Ming Yuan recognized him as possibly Gou Jun and prepared a more powerful attack.

• Ying Wu refused to obey Ming Yuan’s order to kill Extreme Yin and challenged him to a fight.
• Ying Wu formed a sword array with 108 flying swords and blocked Ming Yuan’s first strike with the Bronze Corpse Coffin.
• Ming Yuan enlarged the coffin and drove Ying Wu and her array toward the ground with a stronger blow.
• Song Wen used a sea of blood to slow the coffin, then entered the sword array through an opening Ying Wu made.
• Ming Yuan suspected Extreme Yin was Gou Jun and drew corpse qi into the coffin as green flames and a powerful force emerged.

Song Wen and Ying Wu lured Ming Yuan into destroying their apparent sword formation while hiding a second formation in the Blood Sea’s mist. Ming Yuan realized he had fallen into their trap, but with the new formation completed, he had to break through it to escape.

• Song Wen let Ming Yuan’s corpse coffin pass through the Blood Sea, then moved the Blood Sea and the sword formation far to the southwest.
• Song Wen shaped the Blood Sea into a giant palm, which scattered when it collided with the corpse coffin and filled the area with blood mist.
• Ming Yuan drove the weakened corpse coffin into Ying Wu’s sword formation and destroyed it, while Song Wen’s body was reduced to ash and Ying Wu escaped.
• Ying Wu revealed a formation of one hundred and eight top-grade spirit treasure flying swords around Ming Yuan, concealed within the blood mist.
• Ming Yuan realized that he and Ying Wu had used the destroyed formation and blood mist to conceal their trap, leaving him forced to break the completed formation.

Ying Wu’s sword formation broke Ming Yuan’s defenses and wounded him, forcing him to reveal his corpse-like form and unleash the Netherworld Soul-Devouring Banner. The chapter ended with its black mist surging toward the formation as Ying Wu’s strength waned.

• Ming Yuan found that the sword formation interfered with his control of the corpse coffin and summoned eight blood-rune banners instead.
• Ying Wu split her flying swords, using thirty-six to destroy Ming Yuan’s scarlet rune and the rest to attack his protective barrier.
• Ying Wu merged all one hundred and eight swords into a giant blade that shattered Ming Yuan’s barrier and injured him.
• Ming Yuan transformed into a ten-thousand-year dried corpse, then recalled the eight banners and expanded them into the Netherworld Soul-Devouring Banner.
• Ming Yuan sent the banner’s black mist toward the sword formation while Ying Wu’s aura weakened from exhausting her magic power.

Ying Wu unleashed her sword formation against Ming Yuan, then merged with the three-legged firebird in magma to gain greater power. She severed Ming Yuan’s right arm with a scorching sword strike, while he remained alive and struggling to contain the flames.

• Ying Wu used a pill to restore her spiritual power and unleashed Myriad Swords Exterminate Evil against Ming Yuan’s Residual Calamity Baleful Intent.
• Ying Wu combined her sword lights into one, and the clash shattered the sword formation and Ming Yuan’s black sphere.
• Ming Yuan charged at the exhausted Ying Wu, who merged with the three-legged firebird surrounded by magma.
• Ying Wu’s Azure Luan Sword clashed with Ming Yuan’s banner and sent a crimson sword light toward him.
• The crimson sword light severed Ming Yuan’s right arm and burned it to ash, while Ming Yuan cut away flesh to remove the flame on his wound.

Ying Wu escaped Ming Yuan’s attack and joined Song Wen in the Blood Sea Seal, which resisted Ming Yuan’s repeated assaults. Song Wen then claimed the Divine Blood Sect was under attack to make Ming Yuan worry about Starfall Lake, leaving Ming Yuan torn between pursuing them and returning to his sect.

• Ming Yuan pursued Ying Wu, who used a silver talisman to escape ten thousand li west and called for Extreme Yin’s help.
• A blood-red tentacle pulled Ying Wu into Song Wen’s vast sea of blood, where Ming Yuan’s baleful mountain failed to destroy the Blood Sea Seal.
• Ming Yuan sensed that his Bronze Corpse Coffin was beneath the sea of blood, but the sea blocked him from activating it.
• Ming Yuan repeatedly smashed the sea with his baleful mountain, then stopped and noticed no Divine Blood Sect cultivators had come to assist him.
• Song Wen appeared atop a wave and told Ming Yuan that accomplices were attacking the Divine Blood Sect while its forces gathered at Starfall Lake.
• Ming Yuan wavered, worried about Starfall Lake but reluctant to abandon his revenge and his interest in Song Wen’s secrets.

Song Wen and Ying Wu fought Ming Yuan above the Blood Sea as Song Wen baited him into using a blood-burning secret art and launched a surprise attack. The Blood Sea was destroyed, leaving Ying Wu and Ming Yuan’s Bronze Corpse Coffin exposed at the bottom of the pit while the battle continued overhead.

• Ming Yuan rejected Song Wen’s story about the destruction of the Divine Blood Sect’s disciples and struck him down, but Song Wen re-formed from the Blood Sea.
• Ming Yuan used a blood-burning secret art to boost his cultivation, while Song Wen planned to outlast it and hoped Ming Yuan’s death would help him break through to Tribulation Transcendence.
• Song Wen taunted Ming Yuan over his severed arm and new position as sect master, prompting Ming Yuan to attack the Blood Sea with his mountain of residual calamity baleful intent.
• Song Wen used a Death-Substitute Puppet to appear behind Ming Yuan and sent the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword at him; Ming Yuan blocked it but suffered damage to his hand.
• Ming Yuan’s baleful-energy mountain shattered the Blood Sea, revealing Ying Wu with a Teleportation Talisman and Ming Yuan’s Bronze Corpse Coffin at the bottom of the pit.

Song Wen used repeated Death-Substitute Spells and devastating lightning techniques to hold Ming Yuan back while the sea of blood gathered below. The Blood-Burning Secret Art’s time limit expired just as Ming Yuan’s weakened attack descended toward Song Wen.

• Ming Yuan attacked Song Wen with his banner’s baleful energy, but Song Wen’s defenses failed and he was torn apart before appearing again overhead.
• Ming Yuan used a mountain of baleful energy to intercept Ying Wu’s Void-Shattering Divine Thunder, losing a significant portion of its power.
• Song Wen released black lightning that carried the aura of a lightning tribulation, frightening Ming Yuan into protecting himself rather than rushing forward.
• Song Wen struck Ming Yuan’s banner with Annihilation Yang Thunder, damaging its runes, then used a Death-Substitution Spell to escape the falling mountain of baleful energy.
• As the sea of blood deepened below, Ming Yuan’s aura and attack weakened when the Blood-Burning Secret Art reached its time limit.

Song Wen and Ying Wu drove Ming Yuan to flee, but two Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, Su Wei and Qingxuanzi, arrived and trapped him in a formation. Su Wei revealed that she and Qingxuanzi had come for Ying Wu and asked him about the Void Dragon Vine.

• Song Wen burned his blood essence to restore his magical power and evade Ming Yuan’s attack, then pursued him as Ming Yuan tried to escape.
• A mysterious spiritual sense and a mocking voice halted the fight, and Song Wen stopped Shadow Void from attacking the newcomer.
• Su Wei and Qingxuanzi appeared, revealed their Tribulation Transcendence cultivation, and announced their intention to kill Ming Yuan and seize the Divine Blood Sect.
• Ming Yuan used a silver talisman to flee, but Su Wei said their formation sealed off the surrounding tens of thousands of li.
• Ying Wu asked why Su Wei had come for him, and she questioned him about the Void Dragon Vine he had fused for Xugeng.