Recaps

Song Wen had the Taiqing Foundation-Consolidating Pills refined and prepared to reforge the Thunder Kui Wings, while the Divine Blood Sect stayed peaceful for several years. When Xuan Li and Yang Xi were abducted and their captors demanded the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art, Song Wen summoned Qingxuanzi to discuss a response, then asked him to go to Floating Dust Ridge.

• Song Wen asked You Xiao to recommend an artifact refiner to fuse the Nine-Heavens Thunder Astral Stone into the Thunder Kui Wings, and You Xiao recommended Elder Baleful Devourer.
• Xiao Yu delivered two Taiqing Foundation-Consolidating Pills to Song Wen, who sent one to Qingxuanzi.
• After five peaceful years, You Xiao reported that Xuan Li and Yang Xi had been captured at Floating Dust Market and that their captors demanded the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
• Song Wen examined the elders' soul lamps and decided against tracking them immediately, fearing a trap.
• Qingxuanzi arrived after converting his cultivation with the Taiqing Foundation-Consolidating Pill, and Song Wen asked him to go to Floating Dust Ridge.
• Qingxuanzi hesitated, saying his spiritual power was still sluggish and that fighting could harm his future cultivation.

Qingxuanzi dismissed his old obligations to the Divine Blood Sect, while Song Wen prepared to investigate the kidnapping of Xuan Li and Yang Xi. Song Wen left to pursue a rescue plan and warned Ying Wu to guard against Qingxuanzi and You Xiao.

• Qingxuanzi rebuffed You Xiao’s criticism, declared that strength reigned supreme, and flew away, leaving You Xiao worried that he might seize control of the Divine Blood Sect.
• Song Wen failed to locate Xuan Li and Yang Xi through their soul lamps, then ordered You Xiao to spread word at Floating Dust Ridge and arrange a Nine Nether Locking Heaven Formation near Blood Radiance City.
• Song Wen learned from You Xiao that Dan Chen managed Floating Dust Ridge from the Dan Estate in Floating Dust Market.
• Ying Wu joined Song Wen in his cave abode and offered to accompany him to rescue Xuan Li, but Song Wen chose to go alone.
• Song Wen warned Ying Wu to beware of Qingxuanzi and You Xiao while he was away, and Ying Wu said she planned to attempt Tribulation Transcendence after further cultivation.

Song Wen, disguised as Zhang Cheng, visited the Dan Estate to ask Rong Shao about the missing Divine Blood Sect elders Xuan Li and Yang Xi. After revealing that he was the Tribulation Transcendence cultivator Extreme Yin and the sect master, he learned the elders had likely been lured into a trap and decided to monitor Floating Dust Market for clues.

• Song Wen waited outside the Dan Estate until Dan Chen emerged and recognized him as Rong Shao, an old acquaintance.
• Song Wen revealed his identity as Gu Huang, then disclosed his true Daoist title, Extreme Yin, and his position as Sect Master of the Divine Blood Sect.
• Rong Shao said Xuan Li and Yang Xi had visited him seeking Mysterious Yin Condensation Dew before disappearing, and suspected the rumors had been spread to lure them into a trap.
• Rong Shao reported signs of battle near an unnamed lake one hundred thousand li west of the market, where a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator had likely acted.
• Song Wen ruled out investigating the lake and asked Rong Shao to deploy people throughout Floating Dust Market to watch for anyone asking about or spreading rumors of the matter.

Song Wen investigated the abduction of Xuan Li and Yang Xi while keeping Rong Shao and the Floating Dust Market under surveillance. After the Divine Blood Sect announced that the exchange had to take place in Blood Radiance City, Song Wen marked departing high-level cultivators to track anyone who might alert the kidnapper.

• Song Wen told Rong Shao to investigate the kidnapper’s possible underlings and instructed him to meet by a river, while warning him to keep Song Wen’s arrival secret.
• Song Wen concealed his aura far from the meeting place and used Shadow Void to watch the market, the Dan Estate, and Rong Shao because he did not fully trust Rong Shao.
• Song Wen observed Rong Shao order subordinates to monitor the market, then follow an underground passage from the Star Mansion to Rong Shao’s cave abode.
• After two days of calm, news reached the market that Xuan Li and Yang Xi could be exchanged for the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art in Blood Radiance City, prompting widespread discussion and an exodus of cultivators.
• Song Wen marked more than a hundred departing cultivators at the Void Refinement Realm or above so he could track them.

Song Wen met Rong Shao, who reported that the Treasure Gathering House was investigating the exchange for Xuan Li and Yang Xi, and identified Azure Crane Daoist as a possible ally of the bandit cultivator. Suspecting Rong Shao’s meeting had concealed another departure, Song Wen tracked an elderly Integrated Body Realm cultivator to a remote lake, where an unseen force blocked his spiritual sense.

• Shadow Void told Song Wen that Rong Shao had made a move, and Song Wen met Rong Shao at their agreed riverside location.
• Rong Shao told Song Wen that Treasure Gathering House attendants were investigating the proposed exchange for Xuan Li and Yang Xi, and gave him intelligence identifying Azure Crane Daoist as the shop’s owner.
• Song Wen thanked Rong Shao and left for Heavenly Revelation Mountain, but then suspected Rong Shao might have distracted him while an accomplice escaped the market.
• Shadow Void reported that three high-level cultivators had left the market during the meeting, and Song Wen followed the Integrated Body Realm cultivator heading southwest.
• Song Wen tracked the elderly cultivator through repeated changes of direction to a remote lake, where the old man submerged and an invisible force blocked Song Wen’s spiritual sense.

Song Wen discovered Myriad Corpses Ancestor holding Xuan Li and Yang Xi captive and learned that the ancestor planned to force Extreme Yin to surrender the Corpse King Reincarnation Art. Song Wen attacked to intervene, but Myriad Corpses Ancestor repelled his strike and drove him into flight.

• Song Wen hid near the water and watched Myriad Corpses Ancestor emerge with Xuan Li and Yang Xi bound by corpse qi.
• Myriad Corpses Ancestor accused Xuan Li of misleading him about Extreme Yin’s willingness to trade the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, and Xuan Li argued that the Divine Blood Sect’s elders had blocked the exchange.
• Myriad Corpses Ancestor said he would publicly execute Xuan Li and Yang Xi at noon the next day unless Extreme Yin came with the complete art, and he boasted that Extreme Yin could not defeat him.
• As Myriad Corpses Ancestor carried the two women toward Floating Dust Market, Song Wen launched a Soul-Splitting Blade attack from the trees.
• Myriad Corpses Ancestor blasted the Soul-Splitting Blade aside with corpse qi and sent a dragon of corpse qi into the forest, forcing Song Wen to flee toward the mountain ridges.

Song Wen rescued Xuan Li and Yang Xi from Myriad Corpses Ancestor and fought him with his reforged Thunder Kui Wings and Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder. The divine thunder disrupted Myriad Corpses Ancestor’s killing formation, but the ancestor stabilized it and continued advancing.

• Myriad Corpses Ancestor chased a black figure, only to discover it was Song Wen’s Heaven-and-Earth Avatar, while Song Wen freed Xuan Li and Yang Xi.
• Song Wen revealed himself as Extreme Yin, Sect Master of Divine Blood Sect, and Myriad Corpses Ancestor summoned thirty-six Bronze Corpse Coffins to attack him with corpse qi wrath dragons.
• Song Wen used his reforged Thunder Kui Wings to destroy the wrath dragons with silver lightning.
• Myriad Corpses Ancestor formed the Myriad Corpses Bury Heaven Killing Formation from Killing Intent corpse puppets and claimed ordinary lightning could not harm it.
• Song Wen summoned Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder, cracking the corpse puppets and disrupting their formation, but Myriad Corpses Ancestor stabilized it and drove it toward Song Wen.

Song Wen defeated the Myriad Corpses Ancestor’s attacks and captured him in a blood cocoon, intending to force him to cultivate the Corpse King Reincarnation Art. A green pillar of light then shot toward the cocoon, interrupting the capture.

• Song Wen used purple-red lightning to break the Myriad Corpses Ancestor’s killing formation and shield Xuan Li and Yang Xi from a rain of spears.
• Song Wen expanded his lightning shield into a spherical net as the Myriad Corpses Ancestor tried to escape with his Bronze Corpse Coffins.
• Song Wen pursued the Myriad Corpses Ancestor while the Blood Tide swept Xuan Li and Yang Xi to safety.
• Nine transparent blades struck the Myriad Corpses Ancestor’s glabella, and Song Wen’s scarlet tentacles captured him in a blood cocoon.
• A green pillar of light shot toward the blood cocoon.

Song Wen confronted Su Wei, who demanded the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, and tried to recruit her into the Divine Blood Sect before agreeing to hand over the technique. Su Wei accepted his offer of an alliance and revealed that she lived at Scarlet Cloud Ridge in Heavenly Gate Province.

• Song Wen recognized Su Wei's attack and used his Thunder Kui Wings to destroy it as she approached.
• Su Wei demanded the Corpse King Reincarnation Art in exchange for ending their grievances, and Song Wen invited her to join the Divine Blood Sect.
• Song Wen offered Su Wei a Taiqing Foundation-Consolidating Pill, but she refused to join and said she had already gathered the herbs needed to make one.
• Song Wen sent Su Wei a jade slip containing the cultivation method, which she examined and found complete.
• Song Wen proposed an alliance, and Su Wei agreed while explaining that she would eventually return home to Scarlet Cloud Ridge in Heavenly Gate Province.

Song Wen parted from Su Wei after she asked how he had broken her Blood Contract Soul-Devouring Curse, then rescued Xuan Li and Yang Xi and learned that the Myriad Corpses Ancestor had captured them. The three headed for Floating Dust Market, where Song Wen planned to confront Dan Chen for betraying the sect.

• Su Wei asked Song Wen how he had broken her curse, but he refused to reveal the secret before departing.
• Song Wen revealed Xuan Li and Yang Xi from the blood cocoon after confirming Su Wei had not followed him.
• Xuan Li explained that she had accompanied Yang Xi to Floating Dust Ridge to search for mysterious yin condensation dew, where the Myriad Corpses Ancestor captured them.
• Song Wen told the women that the Myriad Corpses Ancestor was trapped in the blood cocoon, and they discussed how capturing him could strengthen Song Wen's authority as sect leader.
• Song Wen led Xuan Li and Yang Xi toward Floating Dust Market to confront Dan Chen, whom he suspected of leaking their whereabouts.

Song Wen confronted Rong Shao over his betrayal, learned that Myriad Corpses Ancestor had three subordinates in Floating Dust Market, and killed them and Rong Shao. He then displayed Myriad Corpses Ancestor above the market and warned the rogue cultivators not to oppose the Divine Blood Sect.

• Song Wen accused Rong Shao of betraying him, and Rong Shao admitted he had worked for Myriad Corpses Ancestor and supplied false information to both sides to protect himself.
• Rong Shao revealed that Myriad Corpses Ancestor had three subordinates in Floating Dust Market and sketched their portraits for Song Wen.
• Song Wen located and seized the three subordinates from across the market, then killed and devoured them.
• Song Wen crushed Rong Shao to death and took his storage ring.
• Song Wen appeared over Floating Dust Market with Myriad Corpses Ancestor's head exposed from the blood cocoon and warned the rogue cultivators against making an enemy of the Divine Blood Sect.

Song Wen returned to the Divine Blood Sect with Xuan Li and Yang Xi rescued and the Myriad Corpses Ancestor captured, then turned the homecoming into a public display of the Sect’s power. Back at his cave abode, he told Qingxuanzi that lightning arts had overcome the Ancestor’s corpse-path techniques.

• Song Wen encountered You Xiao on the way to the Divine Blood Sect, and Xuan Li revealed that he had captured the Myriad Corpses Ancestor alive.
• You Xiao gathered hundreds of thousands of Divine Blood Sect members to welcome Song Wen, while cultivators across Blood Radiance City witnessed the spectacle.
• Song Wen proclaimed the Divine Blood Sect’s strength and promised protection for Cangwu Province, drawing fervent cheers from the crowd.
• Song Wen returned to his cave abode with Ying Wu and the Myriad Corpses Ancestor, where Qingxuanzi asked how he had captured the powerful cultivator.
• Song Wen claimed his lightning arts, especially the Divine Blood Sect’s Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts, had countered the Myriad Corpses Ancestor’s corpse-path techniques.

Song Wen persuaded the defeated Myriad Corpses Ancestor to submit by offering him a chance to live and promising rewards if he retrieved a spiritual medicine from the Immortal's Tomb. He gave Myriad Corpses Ancestor ten years to master the Corpse King Reincarnation Art before entering the Azure Billow Realm.

• Qingxuanzi left after Song Wen explained that the Divine Blood Sect's Heavenly Thunder secret arts had countered Myriad Corpses Ancestor.
• Ying Wu told Song Wen she planned to attempt Tribulation Transcendence within ten years, then returned to her cave abode.
• Song Wen released Myriad Corpses Ancestor's head from the blood plasma and offered him freedom, the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art, a Taiqing Foundation-Consolidating Pill, and the Vice Sect Master position in exchange for retrieving a spiritual medicine.
• Myriad Corpses Ancestor accepted Song Wen's offer and received the jade slip and pill, while Song Wen swore a Heavenly Dao oath to honor his promise.
• Song Wen took Myriad Corpses Ancestor's storage ring and instructed him to convert his cultivation art before the Azure Billow Realm opened in ten years.

Song Wen replaced the Blood Sea Imperial Seal’s unstable prison with a ninth-tier confinement formation and spent years cultivating while keeping the Myriad Corpses Ancestor captive. After Qingxuanzi visited to chat, You Xiao brought news of a lightning-avoiding divine willow at Soul-Severing Ridge, a treasure that could protect Song Wen during a Heavenly Tribulation.

• Song Wen mastered a ninth-tier confinement formation and used it to imprison the Myriad Corpses Ancestor, then spent six years cultivating and attending to sect affairs.
• Qingxuanzi visited Song Wen, asked about the captive Myriad Corpses Ancestor, and discussed his lack of progress with the Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder.
• Song Wen advised Qingxuanzi to keep using the Thunder-Commanding Divine Control Ritual Altar or seek a beast with pure lightning-type divine bloodline.
• You Xiao told Song Wen that someone had reported a lightning-avoiding divine willow in Soul-Severing Ridge along Cangwu Province’s southeastern border.
• Song Wen recalled that the willow could weaken or nullify tribulation lightning, and asked whether the report was reliable.

Song Wen learned of a possible Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow in Soul-Severing Ridge and decided to investigate in person, prioritizing anything that could help him survive his first Heavenly Tribulation. As he prepared to leave, he realized Qingxuanzi could threaten the sect while he was away.

• You Xiao told Song Wen that rogue cultivators had spotted a possible Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow guarded by a ninth-tier demonic beast in Soul-Severing Ridge.
• Song Wen asked Gu Que about his chances of surviving a Heavenly Tribulation, and Gu Que estimated them at sixty or seventy percent while admitting he could not know for certain.
• Song Wen decided to travel to Cold Moon City and ordered You Xiao to select several Mahayana elders to accompany him.
• You Xiao asked to join the journey in hopes of finding a chance to advance to Tribulation Transcendence, and Song Wen agreed.
• Song Wen appointed Xuan Li as acting grand elder and arranged for her to support Ying Wu and watch over the Myriad Corpses Ancestor, then worried that Qingxuanzi might exploit his absence.

Song Wen traveled with Qingxuanzi and three Mahayana elders to Cold Moon City to investigate Wu Jin’s disappearance. Wu Jin’s soul lamp showed no abnormality but could not locate him, and Ji Shao reported that Wu Jin had grown withdrawn before leaving alone.

• Qingxuanzi told Song Wen that he had learned of the trip to Soul-Severing Ridge from You Xiao and asked to accompany him.
• Song Wen agreed to Qingxuanzi joining the trip, and three months later the Divine Blood Sect’s flying ship arrived above Cold Moon City.
• You Xiao summoned Ji Shao aboard the ship, where Song Wen asked him about Wu Jin’s whereabouts.
• Ji Shao said Wu Jin had left alone more than a month earlier and had not returned, while his soul lamp remained undamaged but could not locate him.
• Ji Shao recalled that Wu Jin had become more withdrawn about three months before disappearing, but did not know why he had left.

Song Wen investigated rumors of a Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow near Cold Moon City and grew suspicious of Qingxuanzi’s eagerness to enter the dangerous Fallen God Abyss. He summoned the black-market intelligence shop managers to investigate how the rumor had been verified, while Wu Jin’s disappearance remained unexplained.

• Song Wen ordered Ji Shao to increase the search for the missing Wu Jin and asked what Wu Jin knew about the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow.
• Ji Shao said rumors placed the willow in Soul-Severing Ridge, where rogue cultivators had supposedly seen it near ninth-rank demonic beasts, and that Wu Jin had failed to identify them.
• Qingxuanzi reacted with unusual excitement to the rumor and urged Song Wen to enter the Fallen God Abyss with him after Ji Shao provided a map marking the dangerous location.
• Song Wen declined to rush into the abyss and ordered Ji Shao to summon the black-market intelligence shop managers because he doubted how they had verified the rogue cultivators’ report.

Song Wen questioned seven black-market shop managers about reports of the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow and confirmed the tree was real, though Wu Jin’s disappearance remained suspicious. He agreed to travel with Qingxuanzi to Soul-Severing Ridge, while Ji Shao took the managers into custody.

• Song Wen learned that the Divine Blood Sect’s intelligence shops had not handled the willow reports and sent Gu Shou with Ji Shao to summon the other shop managers.
• The seven managers confirmed that masked Rogue Cultivators had sold them information about the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow four months earlier, and Song Wen challenged their account.
• An Image-Recording Stone showed the silver-white willow amid blue-gray miasma, and Song Wen found that all seven managers’ recordings were identical copies.
• Song Wen concluded that the willow existed and that Wu Jin had investigated it, but he remained uncertain why Wu Jin had disappeared.
• Qingxuanzi proposed that they claim the willow together, and Song Wen agreed to depart for Soul-Severing Ridge at once.
• Song Wen ordered Ji Shao to guard the seven managers, while Gu Shou immobilized them with corpse qi; the flying ship then left the city.

Song Wen’s party entered Fallen God Abyss aboard their flying ship to search for the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow. After Song Wen’s Blood Sea Imperial Seal dealt with the dangers along the cliffs, a Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture appeared and Qingxuanzi attacked it with his Corpse-Suppressing Nails.

• Song Wen ordered You Xiao to descend into Fallen God Abyss and search the southern cliff for the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow, choosing the flying ship to protect the group from the ninth-rank Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture.
• A swarm of bats attacked the ship, and Song Wen used his Blood Sea Imperial Seal to repel them while telling the four Mahayana Elders to conserve their spiritual power.
• As poisonous miasma weakened the ship’s barrier and restricted divine sense, Song Wen’s seal consumed attacking beasts, insects, and vines as You Xiao guided the ship laterally along the cliff.
• A gigantic Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture appeared overhead, and Qingxuanzi warned the group not to look into its eyes before launching eighteen Corpse-Suppressing Nails at it.

Song Wen and Qingxuanzi confronted the Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture, whose strength overwhelmed their initial attacks. After Song Wen wounded it with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, the beast unleashed Nether Poison, and Qingxuanzi revealed he had a way to neutralize it while watching Song Wen closely.

• The Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture's gale repelled the Corpse-Suppressing Nails and battered the flying ship, until Song Wen stabilized its defensive barrier.
• Qingxuanzi urged Song Wen to leave the ship and fight, then attacked the beast with his giant Bronze Corpse Coffin and Corpse-Suppressing Nails as the ship and You Xiao's group were swept away.
• The Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture deflected the nails, but Song Wen struck it with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, tearing away many feathers and wounding its wings.
• The Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture fired Nether Poison beams at Song Wen and Qingxuanzi.
• Qingxuanzi's pale flames weakened and dispelled the beam aimed at him, and he watched Song Wen with a sinister gleam.

Song Wen was struck by nether poison, but the poison caused him no harm, and he raced to seize the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow. He swallowed the willow and the boulder it grew on into his blood tide, leaving a deep cavern in the cliff.

• Song Wen’s withered yellow aura collapsed, allowing the nether poison to strike his chest and send him flying as Qingxuanzi fought the Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture.
• Qingxuanzi burned the Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture with ghastly white flames and attacked it with eighteen Corpse-Suppressing Nails, but the wounded bird escaped.
• Song Wen discovered that the nether poison had condensed harmlessly in his Sea of Consciousness Black Hole, then flew toward You Xiao’s group and the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow.
• Song Wen tore through the poisonous-insect swarm and used scarlet tentacles to reach for the willow, but its lightning-charged branches shredded the tentacles.
• Song Wen engulfed the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow and its boulder with his blood tide, then drew them away and left a cavern dozens of li deep in the cliff.

Qingxuanzi revealed that he had lured Song Wen to the gorge to seize the Divine Blood Sect and trapped him in a formation controlled by Fu Qing. As Qingxuanzi attacked, Song Wen remained confident, and the chapter ended with chains and Corpse-Suppressing Nails closing in on him.

• Qingxuanzi confronted Song Wen, claimed his cultivation now surpassed the sect master’s, and announced he would take over the Divine Blood Sect.
• Qingxuanzi revealed that he had used the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow as bait, while Fu Qing activated a hidden formation that trapped Song Wen.
• You Xiao, Gu Shou, and Yuan Qi denied knowing about the plot, but Qingxuanzi threatened them with his Corpse-Suppressing Nails.
• You Xiao, Gu Shou, and Yuan Qi submitted to Qingxuanzi, who taunted the trapped Song Wen and ordered Fu Qing to attack.
• Fu Qing sent golden chains toward Song Wen as Qingxuanzi directed the eighteen Corpse-Suppressing Nails through the formation barrier at him.

Song Wen defeated Qingxuanzi with a surprise attack and reclaimed control of the Divine Blood Sect’s flying ship. He interrogated Fu Qing and Qingxuanzi about their betrayal, and Qingxuanzi admitted to plotting against him and imprisoning Wu Jin.

• Song Wen tricked Qingxuanzi with a wooden decoy, struck him with nine crimson blades, and subdued him with a wave of blood.
• Song Wen passed through the flying ship’s barrier and landed on its deck, where You Xiao, Gu Shou, and Yuan Qi begged him for mercy while Fu Qing explained her betrayal.
• Fu Qing told Song Wen that she had allied with Qingxuanzi a year earlier because he promised to help her reach the Tribulation Transcendence realm.
• Song Wen questioned Qingxuanzi about the Rogue Cultivators who had supplied intelligence about the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow, and Qingxuanzi admitted that he had arranged them.
• Qingxuanzi admitted that he had Wu Jin captured and imprisoned in an underground cave after Wu Jin uncovered clues about the scheme.

Song Wen revealed that he had long suspected Qingxuanzi, then devoured Qingxuanzi and captured You Xiao, Gu Shou, Yuan Qi, and Fu Qing. He returned to the Divine Blood Sect, where Xuan Li reported that the soul lamps of Qingxuanzi and the four elders had gone out.

• Song Wen explained that he had suspected Qingxuanzi since they left the sect and revealed that his true body had been hidden while a clone faced Fu Qing's formation.
• Song Wen devoured Qingxuanzi's soul, essence blood, and magical power, revealing why he had helped Qingxuanzi cultivate the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
• You Xiao, Gu Shou, Yuan Qi, and Fu Qing tried to escape with Teleportation Talismans, but Song Wen trapped and bound them before collecting the five corpses.
• Song Wen decided not to search Fallen God Abyss for the Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture and left, later returning directly to the Divine Blood Sect.
• Xuan Li greeted Song Wen and reported that the soul lamps of Qingxuanzi and the four elders who had accompanied him had gone out.

After returning from Soul-Severing Ridge, Song Wen mourned the deaths of Qingxuanzi and four elders, appointed Xuan Li as grand elder, and checked on the Myriad Corpses Ancestor and Ying Wu. Two years later, he sensed that Ying Wu was about to attempt a breakthrough to Tribulation Transcendence.

• Song Wen ordered memorial rites for Qingxuanzi and four fallen elders, and arranged support for their surviving relatives.
• Song Wen appointed Xuan Li as grand elder and ordered the sect to find a replacement for Fu Qing as its leading formation expert.
• Song Wen confirmed that the Myriad Corpses Ancestor had successfully begun cultivating the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and learned that Ying Wu remained in seclusion.
• Song Wen considered devouring the Myriad Corpses Ancestor's cultivation, but Gu Que warned that his unstable magical power would make an immediate Heavenly Tribulation dangerous.
• After two years of meditation, Song Wen sensed spiritual energy gathering around Ying Wu's cave abode and realized Ying Wu was about to attempt a breakthrough to Tribulation Transcendence.