Recaps

Ying Wu successfully broke through to Tribulation Transcendence after ten years, and the Heavenly Dao unexpectedly bestowed ninety-nine strands of immortal spiritual qi upon him. Proud of his newfound strength, Ying Wu offered Song Wen the three strands of immortal spiritual qi he had received from Xugeng.

• Song Wen ordered the Divine Blood Sect to keep away from Cloud-Severing Peak and halt breakthroughs while Ying Wu advanced, then arranged for Dan Ran to establish a Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Song Wen guarded Cloud-Severing Peak as Ying Wu's breakthrough continued for ten years, during which Song Wen stabilized his own cultivation.
• Ying Wu reached Tribulation Transcendence, and the Heavenly Dao sent down radiant light and ninety-nine strands of immortal spiritual qi for him to absorb.
• Ying Wu greeted Song Wen and boasted that his cultivation might now make him the strongest cultivator in the Divine Blood Sect.
• Ying Wu gave Song Wen the three strands of immortal spiritual qi that Xugeng had previously given him, saying they could help Song Wen refine them.

Song Wen learned from Gu Que that immortal spiritual qi could strengthen him for his heavenly tribulations, then subdued the suspicious Myriad Corpses Ancestor and asked how else he could improve his chances of survival. He left the Ancestor sealed in a blood cocoon and considered further ways to prepare for his first tribulation.

• Song Wen accepted three wisps of immortal spiritual qi from Ying Wu after Gu Que explained their benefits, then went with Ying Wu to his cave abode.
• Fifteen days later, Song Wen returned to his cave abode and found the Myriad Corpses Ancestor questioning why Song Wen had made him cultivate the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
• Song Wen claimed the Azure Billow Realm secret realm would open decades later, but the Myriad Corpses Ancestor accused him of pursuing something within him connected to the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
• Song Wen entered the Confinement Formation and overwhelmed the Myriad Corpses Ancestor with his Blood Tide, trapping him in a blood cocoon.
• Song Wen asked Gu Que how to improve his odds of surviving his first heavenly tribulation, and Gu Que suggested strengthening his cultivation, body, soul, and other abilities.

Song Wen secluded himself to refine Immortal Spiritual Qi but made no progress until Ying Wu used transformed magical power to help him. After refining three wisps and gaining improvements to his magical power, body, meridians, and soul, Song Wen offered Ying Wu innate primordial qi to repay him.

• Song Wen sealed his Sea of Consciousness and spent a year circulating one wisp of Immortal Spiritual Qi through his body, but it remained unchanged.
• Song Wen visited Ying Wu and asked how he had refined the Immortal Spiritual Qi he absorbed.
• Ying Wu transferred transformed magical power into Song Wen, and together they refined the first wisp over a month.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu spent another two months refining the remaining two wisps of Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• Song Wen noticed the benefits of refining the three wisps and offered Ying Wu innate primordial qi to help replenish his strength.

After fifty years cultivating the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body, Song Wen had to stop because the Divine Blood Sect could not find a crucial spiritual item. He decided to attempt a breakthrough to the middle Tribulation Transcendence stage within the sect, and Ying Wu stayed to protect him.

• Song Wen gave Xuan Li a list of spiritual materials, and she gathered most of them through the Divine Blood Sect’s resources.
• Song Wen cultivated the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body for fifty years, growing much stronger before halting when a crucial spiritual item could not be found.
• Song Wen saw the Myriad Corpses Ancestor trapped in a blood cocoon and decided it was time to devour his cultivation.
• Ying Wu told Song Wen she planned to return to Southern Nether Province, but he declined to go and asked her to check on his confidantes.
• Song Wen revealed that he intended to attempt a breakthrough to the middle Tribulation Transcendence stage within the next few days.
• Ying Wu postponed her journey and agreed to protect Song Wen during his tribulation.

After cultivating for a month, Song Wen devoured Myriad Corpses Ancestor’s cultivation and triggered his first heavenly tribulation. He faced the opening bolt with the Thunder Kui Wings, which greatly weakened it, while eight increasingly powerful bolts remained.

• Song Wen removed the trapping array and revealed Myriad Corpses Ancestor, then drained his cultivation and tore away his soul.
• Song Wen’s cultivation surged to a bottleneck, and the approaching heavenly tribulation forced him to leave his cave abode.
• Ying Wu warned the Divine Blood Sect and accompanied Song Wen’s tribulation audience to the former site of Xugeng’s tribulation.
• Song Wen met the first lightning bolt with the Thunder Kui Wings, whose purple electric net weakened the strike.
• Spirit-Stripping Venerable questioned the wings, and Ying Wu realized they had reduced the first bolt’s power by more than fifty percent.

Song Wen faced the ninth and most powerful bolt of heavenly tribulation after surviving the first eight with his spirit treasures and Blood Sea Imperial Seal. The ninth bolt shattered his defenses and struck toward him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Song Wen used the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword and Thunder Kui Wings to weaken and repel the first six bolts of tribulation lightning.
• The seventh bolt overwhelmed Song Wen's defenses, but his blood sea stopped it while blood mist restored his weakened body.
• The eighth bolt tore apart Song Wen's blood sea, which he then expanded into a vast ocean as the spectators retreated.
• Song Wen prepared for the slow-gathering ninth bolt, but it destroyed the purple lightning net and knocked the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword into the blood sea.
• The ninth bolt split apart the blood sea and descended directly toward Song Wen.

Song Wen survived the Heavenly Tribulation and advanced to the mid Tribulation Transcendence stage after receiving the Heavenly Dao's blessing. He ordered the Divine Blood Sect to celebrate publicly, hoping his rapid advancement would draw more Tribulation Transcendence cultivators to the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.

• Song Wen resisted summoning the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow, endured the tribulation lightning, and counterattacked with Annihilation Yang Thunder and the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword.
• Song Wen fell into the pit, and the spectators waited anxiously until the Heavenly Dao's radiance appeared and revealed that he had survived.
• The Heavenly Dao's blessing healed Song Wen's injuries and strengthened his body, magical power, soul, Root Bone, and affinity for spiritual energy.
• Ying Wu, Xuan Li, Yang Xi, and the other cultivators congratulated Song Wen on entering the mid Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• Song Wen ordered rewards for the Divine Blood Sect and instructed the sect to announce his breakthrough, intending to entice more cultivators to adopt the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.

Song Wen celebrated his advancement and endured Ying Wu’s departure, then welcomed Li Jiuyuan, who revealed that Su Wei had lied about cultivating at Scarlet Cloud Ridge. Song Wen was left questioning what else his supposed acquaintance had deceived him about.

• Song Wen accepted the Divine Blood Sect’s praise after reaching the mid Tribulation Transcendence stage, and the sect celebrated for a month.
• Ying Wu left for Southern Nether Province and offered to bring Song Wen’s senior sister, Zhou Siyi, back to the sect.
• After Ying Wu departed, Xuan Li visited Song Wen and said she had also notified Qiluo.
• Mo You reported that Li Jiuyuan, a mid Tribulation Transcendence cultivator from Heavenly Gate Province, had come to meet Song Wen.
• Song Wen asked Li Jiuyuan about Daoist Nun Suwei, and Li Jiuyuan denied that any such cultivator lived at Scarlet Cloud Ridge, his own place of cultivation.
• Song Wen realized that Su Wei had deceived him about where she cultivated.

Song Wen learned that Su Wei was actually Bi Jing, then negotiated with Li Jiuyuan, who wanted the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art. Song Wen agreed to provide it if Li Jiuyuan brought him the intact corpses of forty-nine eighth-rank lightning flood dragons.

• Song Wen showed Li Jiuyuan Su Wei's likeness, and Li Jiuyuan identified her as Bi Jing, a cultivator from Northern Cang Province who nourished herself by harvesting others' vitality.
• Li Jiuyuan revealed that he had secretly switched to the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and asked Song Wen for the complete version.
• Li Jiuyuan offered a Life-Restoring Fruit and ten thousand years of service in exchange for the complete art.
• Song Wen demanded that Li Jiuyuan find and bring back forty-nine intact eighth-rank lightning flood dragon corpses as the price for the art.

Li Jiuyuan secured Extreme Yin’s promise to exchange the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art for forty-nine eighth-order lightning-element flood dragon corpses. He returned to his hidden allies, who began pooling their leads to meet the condition and lure Extreme Yin into their trap.

• Song Wen took the Life-Restoring Fruit from Li Jiuyuan and agreed to provide the cultivation art if Li gathered forty-nine eighth-order lightning-element flood dragon corpses.
• Li Jiuyuan fled far from the Divine Blood Sect and joined six Mahayana cultivators and the early Tribulation Transcendence cultivator Lu Quan at a concealed residence.
• Li Jiuyuan explained that Extreme Yin had accepted the exchange and argued that he was unlikely to care about the art becoming public or leave the sect for long.
• Li Jiuyuan revealed that Ying Wu had left for distant Qicang Island, and the group concluded Extreme Yin would be easier to target without her nearby.
• Li Jiuyuan and his allies agreed to gather the flood dragon corpses, sharing their known sightings until they found that their combined leads came close to forty-nine.

After six years of refining the Undying Blood Sea Yama Emperor Seal, Song Wen learned that a rogue cultivator had acquired the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and been recruited to spy on the Divine Blood Sect. He suspected a powerful figure was secretly gathering rogue cultivators and planned to investigate.

• Song Wen continued refining the Undying Blood Sea Yama Emperor Seal, increasing the range of blood sea he could control to nearly fifty thousand li.
• Mo You brought a chained rogue cultivator to Song Wen, explaining that she had cultivated the Divine Blood Sect's Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
• The woman told Song Wen she had bought an incomplete version of the art on the black market for a hundred thousand superior spirit stones.
• Song Wen learned that the seller had promised her the remaining stages in exchange for carrying out tasks, including gathering information about the Divine Blood Sect and Song Wen.
• Mo You suspected someone was distributing the art to recruit low-level rogue cultivators, and Song Wen decided to trace the scheme to its mastermind.

Song Wen ordered the Divine Blood Sect to kill anyone practicing the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and secretly investigate the person spreading it. Months later, Xuan Li reported that the Pagoda Temple was likely involved, leaving Song Wen puzzled about its motive.

• Song Wen ordered Mo You to announce the ban on the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and have the sect's Mahayana elders investigate its hidden disseminator.
• Song Wen let Mo You take the captured woman as a maidservant, and she thanked him for sparing her life.
• The sect's crackdown sparked panic and bloodshed across Cangwu Province, especially among rogue cultivators.
• Xuan Li summoned Song Wen and the sect's Mahayana elders to report that their investigation pointed to the Pagoda Temple.
• Xuan Li revealed that the Pagoda Temple had a new Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, Patriarch Fakong, and Song Wen wondered why the temple was targeting the Divine Blood Sect.

Song Wen and the Divine Blood Sect elders debated how to respond to Pagoda Temple’s provocations, and Song Wen ordered them to capture monks for questioning while avoiding a reckless war. After Pagoda Temple massacred Upper Water City, Song Wen suspected it was bait meant to draw him out and decided to investigate alone in disguise, leaving Xuan Li to protect the sect and Blood Radiance City.

• Spirit-Stripping Venerable urged the Divine Blood Sect to attack Pagoda Temple, while Baleful Devourer warned that an expedition would be dangerous and leave the sect vulnerable.
• Song Wen stopped the elders’ argument and ordered Xuan Li to capture Pagoda Temple monks alive and uncover their purpose.
• Song Wen warned the elders to keep their whereabouts secret and returned to his cave abode.
• Xuan Li reported that Pagoda Temple had massacred nearly all the cultivators in Upper Water City and displayed their corpses across the ruins.
• Song Wen concluded that Pagoda Temple was provoking the Divine Blood Sect to lure him out, possibly with allies behind it.
• Song Wen decided to investigate alone in disguise and ordered Xuan Li to keep his departure secret and guard the sect and Blood Radiance City.

Song Wen investigated the ruins of Upper Water City, then visited a Blood Shadow Hall outpost in a Ghost Market to ask about the massacre. He learned that the killers had headed northeast but gained no useful lead, and he asked whether Blood Shadow Hall had uncovered any intelligence.

• Song Wen secretly left the Divine Blood Sect and traveled to Upper Water City, stopping well outside the ruins to search them with his divine sense.
• Song Wen found no traces of the killers or evidence of an ambush and left the area.
• Song Wen entered a daytime Ghost Market and showed a dark-red Blood Shadow Token to gain entry to a hidden shop.
• Song Wen met Steward Wei An and asked what Blood Shadow Hall knew about Upper Water City's destruction.
• Wei An reported that two Mahayana bald monks and seven or eight Rogue Cultivators had massacred the city and fled northeast, with no later suspicious visitors detected.
• Song Wen asked whether Blood Shadow Hall had uncovered any useful intelligence.

Song Wen traveled to White Crow City after the Blood Shadow Hall reported suspected Pagoda Temple monks nearby. As the monks began slaughtering the city, Song Wen searched for hidden attackers and discovered someone underground who seemed to be Yuan Rong.

• Song Wen ordered Wei Ding and the dwarf to keep his visit secret, then went to White Crow City and searched it with his divine sense.
• After finding no monks, Song Wen rented a courtyard and waited until nightfall.
• Nine Pagoda Temple monks, including two Mahayana Realm cultivators, surrounded White Crow City and began killing its inhabitants with wooden poles.
• Song Wen scanned the surrounding area for additional monks and discovered a concealed cultivator in an underground cavern east of the city.
• Song Wen recognized the hidden cultivator’s build as resembling Yuan Rong’s, despite the person’s different appearance and concealed aura.

Song Wen killed nine Pagoda Temple monks and pursued Yuan Rong, only for Yin Jiu of the Jade Clarity Sect to intervene and save him. Yin Jiu confronted Song Wen, leaving their conflict poised to begin.

• Song Wen revealed his Tribulation Transcendence cultivation and drowned the nine Pagoda Temple monks in his Blood Tide.
• Song Wen pursued Yuan Rong underground, where Yuan Rong used Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions to scatter hundreds of copies of himself.
• Song Wen identified the real Yuan Rong, but Yin Jiu arrived and severed Song Wen's blood tentacles with his executioner's blade.
• Yin Jiu's blade clashed with Song Wen's Blood Tide, and Yuan Rong escaped while thanking Yin Jiu for saving him.
• Yin Jiu identified himself as the master of the Jade Clarity Sect in Zhu Ling Prefecture, and Song Wen demanded to know why he had come.

Yin Jiu demanded the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art, revealing that he wanted to use it to find a path to ascension. Song Wen refused and fought Yin Jiu, whose colossal blade halted the expanding Blood Sea.

• Yin Jiu threatened Song Wen, explaining that he wanted the Corpse King Reincarnation Art to improve his cultivation and pursue the Great Dao.
• Song Wen realized Yin Jiu and Patriarch Fakong had schemed against the Divine Blood Sect to obtain the art, while wondering whether Li Jiuyuan had gathered forty-nine eighth-order lightning-attributed flood dragons.
• Song Wen refused to surrender the sect’s foundational technique, and Yin Jiu attacked him with his guillotine blade.
• Song Wen met Yin Jiu’s blade with the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, then submerged himself in the Blood Sea as Yin Jiu’s blade phantoms struck.
• Song Wen’s Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder distracted Yin Jiu, allowing a crimson torrent to repel the blade phantoms and knock away the guillotine blade.
• Yin Jiu enlarged his guillotine blade to a colossal size and slashed down, splitting the Blood Sea and forcing it to recede.

Song Wen appeared to die in Yin Jiu’s scarlet vortex, but he survived and killed Yin Jiu with the Soul-Slaying Spike and Nether Poison. He then discovered that Yuan Rong had escaped and resolved to eliminate him if they met again.

• Song Wen battled Yin Jiu, whose blood-sacrificed guillotine blade unleashed a scarlet vortex that destroyed Song Wen’s lightning sphere and swept him away.
• Yin Jiu believed he had killed Song Wen and began recovering from the enormous cost of his attack.
• Song Wen’s nine Soul-Slaying Spikes pierced Yin Jiu’s sea of consciousness, while Nether Poison corroded his soul.
• Song Wen’s Blood Sea engulfed Yin Jiu, who realized that the hunt had turned against him and that he had lost to Extreme Yin.
• Song Wen searched for Yuan Rong after Yin Jiu fell but found that Yuan Rong had escaped, and he vowed to kill him if they met again.

Song Wen interrogated Yin Jiu and the surviving monks in his sea of consciousness about the slaughter of the Divine Blood Sect’s cities. He learned that Patriarch Fakong, Yin Jiu, Qing Yuan, and Yuan Rong had conspired against the sect, while Qing Yuan remained at large.

• Song Wen tortured Li Ku with the Golden Broth Curse and questioned the monks about why they had slaughtered the cities.
• An elderly monk said Patriarch Fakong had ordered the slaughter after Yuan Rong persuaded Pagoda Temple to join Yin Jiu and Qing Yuan against the Divine Blood Sect.
• The monks confirmed the elderly monk’s account, and Yin Jiu said they were telling the truth.
• Yin Jiu revealed that Qing Yuan was a powerful sword cultivator whose whereabouts he did not know, and that Yuan Rong served Qing Yuan rather than him.
• Yin Jiu said he had come to White Crow City seeking intelligence, then intervened to save Yuan Rong when he saw Song Wen pursue him.

Song Wen returned to the Divine Blood Sect after killing Yin Jiu and learned that Qing Yuan and Patriarch Fakong remained threats. The next morning, Qing Yuan, Patriarch Fakong, Bi Jing, and Yuan Rong appeared over Blood Radiance City, and Qing Yuan demanded an explanation for Yin Jiu’s death.

• Song Wen questioned Yin Jiu, devoured the souls of Yin Jiu and nine monks, and left the ruined White Crow City for the Divine Blood Sect.
• Song Wen told Xuan Li and the elders that Yin Jiu had plotted to destroy the sect, warned them about Qing Yuan and Patriarch Fakong, and ordered Blood Radiance City’s formation activated.
• At dawn, Qing Yuan and three companions appeared over Blood Radiance City, their pressure forcing cultivators to the ground and silencing the city.
• Song Wen recognized Yuan Rong, Qing Yuan, Bi Jing, and Patriarch Fakong outside the sect’s mountain gate and invited them to enter.
• Qing Yuan told Song Wen that Yin Jiu had been his close friend and demanded an explanation for Song Wen’s killing of him.

Song Wen tried to fracture Qing Yuan’s alliance by exposing Bi Jing’s hidden identity and Yuan Rong’s grudge, but Qing Yuan remained committed to taking the Divine Blood Sect’s treasures and arts. Qing Yuan gave Song Wen one month to comply before threatening to destroy the sect’s holdings and slaughter its people.

• Song Wen accused Qing Yuan and Bi Jing of coveting the Divine Blood Sect’s arts and secrets, then suggested Bi Jing had concealed her true identity from Qing Yuan.
• Song Wen revealed that Yuan Rong was an old acquaintance, prompting Qing Yuan to question whether Yuan Rong had manipulated him into attacking Song Wen for revenge.
• Yuan Rong admitted he had hoped Qing Yuan would kill Song Wen, while explaining that Song Wen had advanced from the Body Integration Realm to the mid Tribulation Transcendence stage in a few hundred years.
• Song Wen challenged Patriarch Fakong’s certainty that he had killed Venerable Yun Chan, then warned that Fakong might be used by others before Qing Yuan cut him off.
• Qing Yuan threatened to overcome the Divine Blood Sect’s formation and destroy its outlying holdings, then gave Song Wen one month to hand over the sect’s arts, techniques, and treasures.

After Qing Yuan and his companions left, Song Wen faced pressure from two more Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, Youye and Yan'e, who offered to eliminate Qing Yuan in exchange for the Divine Blood Sect’s cultivation methods and secrets. Song Wen asked for time to consider, while Qing Yuan’s one-month deadline remained in force.

• Xuan Li urged Song Wen to summon Supreme Elder Ying Wu, and Song Wen ordered the Six Baleful Hall to send word for Ying Wu to return.
• Song Wen sensed Youye and Yan'e waiting in a distant valley and learned that they were powerful corpse cultivators.
• Youye offered to help defeat Qing Yuan and his companions if Song Wen shared every cultivation method, secret art, and text in the Divine Blood Sect.
• Song Wen declined to decide immediately, and Youye reminded him that Qing Yuan would attack the sect after one month before departing with Yan'e.

Ying Wu visited Jade Spirit Palace with Zhou Siyi to tell Song Wen’s confidantes that he was safe. After meeting Bai Wei, she ordered her to summon the other women connected to Extreme Yin, leaving the meeting yet to come.

• Song Wen concealed the appearance of Youye and Yan'e from Xuan Li and the others while they waited for Ying Wu to return.
• Ying Wu and Zhou Siyi arrived at Jade Spirit Palace, where Ying Wu asked Ji E to take her to Bai Wei.
• Ying Wu examined Bai Wei’s concealed appearance and teased her about Extreme Yin’s devotion to her.
• Ying Wu sent Ji E away and told Bai Wei to summon all of Extreme Yin’s other confidantes in Jade Spirit Palace.

Ying Wu told Bai Wei, Ye Bing, and Lan Chen that Extreme Yin was safe in Blood Radiance City but did not want to see them, then left with Zhou Siyi to explore the Source-Qi Death Domain. Elsewhere, a peak Mahayana woman arrived at Taitan City searching for Extreme Yin, while two figures wrapped in corpse qi hurried toward Great Passage Lake.

• Ying Wu summoned Bai Wei, Ye Bing, and Lan Chen, revealed that Extreme Yin was in Blood Radiance City, and warned Ye Bing against questioning her.
• Ying Wu said Extreme Yin did not wish to see the women and introduced Zhou Siyi as his senior sister.
• Ying Wu and Zhou Siyi left Jade Spirit Palace and headed south so Ying Wu could explore the Source-Qi Death Domain.
• A peak Mahayana woman arrived above Taitan City and searched for Extreme Yin, wondering whether he would still remember her.
• Two figures shrouded in corpse qi raced toward Ying Wu's cultivation grounds at Great Passage Lake.

Song Wen received Li Jiuyuan’s message proposing an exchange of forty-nine eighth-tier lightning-attribute flood dragon corpses in Upper Water City, and suspected the meeting could be a trap set by their powerful enemies. He left the Divine Blood Sect in disguise and reached Upper Water City, where he searched the ruins before hiding underground a million li away.

• Mo You delivered an Image-Recording Stone showing Li Jiuyuan offering forty-nine flood dragon corpses and arranging an exchange with Song Wen in Upper Water City three days later.
• Song Wen considered whether Li Jiuyuan had joined forces with Qing Yuan, Bi Jing, Patriarch Fakong, Youye, and Yan'e, and weighed abandoning the Divine Blood Sect against investigating the meeting.
• Song Wen told Xuan Li he would leave the sect and advised her to escape through its Teleportation Arrays if powerful enemies attacked in his absence.
• Song Wen disguised himself, left the Divine Blood Sect, and traveled to Upper Water City to search its ruins for signs of a trap.
• Song Wen found no trace of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators or formations, flew a million li from the city, and used a talisman to sink underground.