Recaps

Song Wen lured Li Jiuyuan into a trade for forty-nine lightning-aspect flood dragon corpses, only to find that Li Jiuyuan had prepared an ambush with Lu Quan and six Mahayana cultivators. While the disguised Song Wen was trapped in their formation, the real Song Wen attacked Lu Quan from underground and sent him crashing toward the ground.

• Song Wen hid underground near Upper Water City and waited while Li Jiuyuan arrived to call out Sect Master Extreme Yin.
• Song Wen emerged from a distant river, exchanged the Corpse King Reincarnation Art for forty-nine lightning-aspect flood dragon corpses, and inspected the bodies.
• Li Jiuyuan revealed his plan to seize the Divine Blood Sect's treasures and summoned Lu Quan and six Mahayana cultivators to surround Song Wen.
• The six cultivators began forming the Six Directions Heaven-Sealing Formation as Song Wen appeared unable to respond.
• Song Wen's hidden self launched nine crimson transparent blades at Lu Quan, whose bone flute weakened the attack but failed to prevent it from striking his forehead.
• Lu Quan screamed in pain, lost control of his flight, and fell toward the ground.

Song Wen revealed that the Extreme Yin trapped by Li Jiuyuan was only an incarnation and turned the battle against Li Jiuyuan and six Mahayana cultivators. After Song Wen’s lightning destroyed their formation and Li Jiuyuan’s natal corpse coffin fell into the Blood Sea, Li Jiuyuan tried to flee, but twelve walls of blood rose to trap everyone within forty thousand miles.

• Li Jiuyuan ordered the six Mahayana cultivators to attack the apparent Extreme Yin, only for their target to burst into wood chips as Song Wen’s blood wave swallowed Lu Quan.
• Song Wen appeared above the expanding Blood Sea and attacked Li Jiuyuan and the six cultivators as they formed a new barrier and sent a giant corpse coffin against him.
• Song Wen’s Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder shattered the six cultivators’ formation, while Li Jiuyuan escaped the lightning and continued attacking Song Wen with his Soul-Breaking Awl and corpse coffin.
• Song Wen’s withered yellow aura repelled the Soul-Breaking Awl, and his lightning drove Li Jiuyuan’s natal corpse coffin into the Blood Sea.
• Li Jiuyuan lost the will to fight and attempted to escape, but Song Wen raised twelve walls of blood to seal the vast battlefield.

Song Wen returned to the Divine Blood Sect after capturing Li Jiuyuan, Lu Quan, and six other cultivators, then devoured their magical power and strengthened his cultivation. Qing Yuan and Youye arrived with a larger force and threatened to attack unless Song Wen surrendered the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and the sect’s treasures, leaving the Divine Blood Sect’s resolve wavering.

• Li Jiuyuan failed to escape the closing blood lotus, and Song Wen sealed him, Lu Quan, and six Mahayana-stage cultivators inside blood cocoons.
• Song Wen returned to the Divine Blood Sect, dismissed Xuan Li’s report of rogue cultivators, and devoured the magical power of all eight prisoners.
• Shadow Void told Song Wen he was about to break through to the middle of the ninth tier, and Song Wen agreed to supply him with soul source essence.
• Mo You warned Song Wen that Qing Yuan and his allies had returned with two more Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.
• Qing Yuan and Youye demanded that Song Wen surrender the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and the Divine Blood Sect’s secret arts and treasures, threatening to attack after an incense stick’s time.

Song Wen refused to surrender the Divine Blood Sect and ordered its array masters to reinforce the sect-protecting array as No Thought and the five Tribulation Transcendence cultivators worked to break it. The siege continued for weeks, and No Thought began preparing a giant inscribed metal mirror to attack the barrier.

• Song Wen rejected Youye and Qing Yuan’s demands, declaring that he would protect the Divine Blood Sect and its members.
• Patriarch Fakong sent No Thought to study the sect-protecting array, while Qing Yuan and Youye supplied him with help and array masters.
• Song Wen ordered Xuan Li to gather the sect’s array masters and provide whatever spiritual materials they needed to maintain the barrier.
• Kong Dang organized the array masters to monitor and reinforce the barrier as No Thought gradually increased his attacks over several weeks.
• Yuan Rong brought No Thought a storage ring, and No Thought melted a huge piece of dark blue metal into a giant mirror for the array masters to inscribe.

Monk No Thought completed an array disk and thirty-six Formation Flags, then used them to bombard the sect-protecting grand array. Song Wen tried to sow distrust among Youye’s group, but the attack on the barrier continued as Kong Dang ordered Dan Ran to monitor its array patterns for damage.

• Monk No Thought finished refining the array disk and began making thirty-six Formation Flags while Song Wen and the others watched from inside the grand array.
• Song Wen questioned Yan'e’s loyalty and revealed that Bi Jing possessed the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art; Bi Jing showed the group the art and offered Youye a Taiqing Foundation-Consolidating Pill.
• Monk No Thought gave the Formation Flags to thirty-six cultivators, including Yuan Rong, and directed them to activate the flags alongside his array disk.
• Monk No Thought formed a deep-blue pillar of light that struck the sect-protecting grand array, which shook as its black runes gathered to resist the attack.
• Kong Dang told Dan Ran to watch the array patterns at the formation-eye nexus and report any cracks or dimming.

Song Wen and the Divine Blood Sect’s elders struggled to hold off No Thought, Youye, and the other attackers as they battered the sect’s protective formation. With the barrier under mounting pressure, Song Wen ordered Xuan Li to secretly prepare to abandon the sect, but rejected her suggestion to evacuate its elites by teleportation.

• Dan Ran poured spiritual power into the formation hub, while No Thought’s group expended high-grade spirit stones to strengthen their assault and forced a deep depression into the barrier.
• Kong Dang reinforced the formation hub, and Youye, Yan'e, Qing Yuan, Fakong, and Bi Jing joined the attack, but their combined strikes could not break through the barrier.
• Song Wen took Dan Ran’s place at the hub and stabilized the barrier, though he realized his spiritual power and the formation’s components could not endure the assault for long.
• Song Wen secretly ordered Xuan Li to gather the contents of the treasure vault, Transmission Hall, and Classics Pavilion.
• Xuan Li proposed evacuating the sect’s elites through the teleportation formation, but Song Wen refused, fearing that repeated teleportations would expose their plan and invite a more relentless attack.

With the Divine Blood Sect close to falling, Song Wen prepared to flee with Xuan Li and Qiluo to Qicang Island. Ying Wu and Zhou Siyi arrived unexpectedly, and Ying Wu charged out to confront the besieging cultivators while Song Wen went after him.

• Song Wen agreed to take Xuan Li and Qiluo through the Teleportation Array and left Dan Ran to maintain the sect-protecting array.
• Song Wen met Xuan Li and Qiluo at the Myriad Paths Pavilion and prepared the array for their escape.
• The Teleportation Array activated before Song Wen could start it, and Ying Wu and Zhou Siyi appeared inside the hall.
• Xuan Li told Ying Wu that five Tribulation Transcendence cultivators were besieging the Divine Blood Sect, including two at the late stage.
• Ying Wu burst out of the hall to face the attackers, and Song Wen told Xuan Li to activate the array before pursuing him.

Ying Wu arrived as the Divine Blood Sect's protective formation collapsed and faced the invading Tribulation Transcendence cultivators. As Youye attacked her, Song Wen intervened, and Ying Wu revealed a ninth-rank Kui Bull, leaving Song Wen stunned by its familiar aura.

• The protective formation shattered before Ying Wu could replace Dan Ran, and the dark-blue pillar's shockwave struck the formation nexus.
• Ying Wu arrived, ordered Kong Dang and the elders to protect the disciples, and confronted Youye and the other invaders.
• Ying Wu used a sword wheel formed from 108 top-grade spirit treasure flying swords to stop Bi Jing's attack, drawing Qing Yuan's interest.
• Youye summoned a mountain of deathly pale mist to crush Ying Wu, but Song Wen's Blood Sea swept in to shield her.
• Ying Wu summoned a ninth-rank Kui Bull, and Song Wen recognized its aura from their past encounter in the Annihilation Abyss of Scarlet Firmament Province.

Ying Wu and the Kui Bull destroyed the Mist Mountain and trapped the attackers who had besieged the Divine Blood Sect. As Ying Wu moved to kill them, Bi Jing accused Extreme Yin of orchestrating the crisis, and the lightning assault began despite Ying Wu’s furious denial.

• Ying Wu and the Kui Bull struck the Mist Mountain with azure lightning, shattering it and erasing its pale mist.
• Youye rallied the fleeing attackers, but only eight survived and gathered behind Bi Jing’s lotus barrier and Qing Yuan’s sword formation.
• Ying Wu accused the eight of attacking the Divine Blood Sect and ordered the lightning pythons to kill them.
• Bi Jing claimed the attackers had been lured by rumors and incomplete copies of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, then accused Extreme Yin of being the true culprit.
• Ying Wu defended Extreme Yin and unleashed thousands of lightning pythons against the eight, whose defenses began to weaken.

Bi Jing accused Extreme Yin of spreading the incomplete Corpse King Reincarnation Art so he could devour cultivators who practiced it, but Ying Wu denied the accusation and revealed her own rapid rise through orthodox cultivation. As the Kui Bull overwhelmed Youye’s group with lightning, Youye and Yan'e sacrificed companions to strengthen themselves and broke through the encirclement.

• Bi Jing told Ying Wu that Extreme Yin had leaked the incomplete Corpse King Reincarnation Art to turn its practitioners into fuel for his cultivation.
• Ying Wu rejected Bi Jing’s accusation, revealed that she had risen from the Integrated Body Realm through orthodox cultivation, and ordered the Kui Bull to kill everyone.
• The Kui Bull unleashed countless lightning serpents, shattered Qing Yuan’s sword formation and the white jade lotus’s barrier, and trapped Youye’s group.
• Youye crushed No Thought into flesh and absorbed him, while Yan'e did the same to a nearby female cultivator, boosting both of their auras.
• Youye and Yan'e reclaimed their magical treasures and charged through the lightning serpents, tearing open a gap.

As lightning pythons trapped the fleeing cultivators, Youye and Yan'e killed Patriarch Fakong and absorbed his blood and power to restore their strength. Their auras then triggered a heavenly tribulation, which Song Wen watched form overhead.

• Yuan Rong begged Ying Wu for his life, and the lightning pythons bypassed him as Ying Wu’s Kui Bull forced him to crash onto a mountaintop.
• Song Wen ordered Yang Xi to chain Yuan Rong and take him away.
• Youye and Yan'e pressed through the lightning domain while Patriarch Fakong, Qing Yuan, and Bi Jing claimed they could not help them.
• Qing Yuan slowed down as Youye and Yan'e appeared to weaken, while Patriarch Fakong caught up to them.
• Youye and Yan'e attacked Patriarch Fakong, pierced his chest with a mourning banner, and tore him apart.
• Youye and Yan'e absorbed Patriarch Fakong’s flesh and blood, regaining their strength as dark clouds gathered and Song Wen recognized a heavenly tribulation.

Ying Wu pursued Qing Yuan and Bi Jing while Youye and Yan'e used a false heavenly tribulation to escape, then turned to fight him when he caught up. Their clash with Ying Wu and the Kui Bull endangered the Divine Blood Sect, and Song Wen fell after shielding its disciples with a blood sea.

• Youye and Yan'e raised the aura of a heavenly tribulation, allowing Ying Wu to disperse the lightning domain and chase Qing Yuan and Bi Jing.
• Ying Wu and the Kui Bull struck Qing Yuan and Bi Jing with lightning, shattering their defenses and leaving Qing Yuan as a soul and Bi Jing severely injured.
• Ying Wu realized Youye and Yan'e had used the apparent tribulation to flee, but pursued them on the Kui Bull as they prepared to fight back.
• Youye and Yan'e sent the Funeral Banner and Ghost-Head Long Saber at Ying Wu, and the Kui Bull met their attack with a torrent of lightning.
• Song Wen raised a blood sea to shield the Divine Blood Sect from the battle's residual force, but the blood sea shattered and he fell to the ground.

Song Wen reassured the Divine Blood Sect after the battle while Ying Wu and the Kui Bull fought Youye and Yan'e. The pair escaped using a feint, and Song Wen stopped Ying Wu from pursuing them as the Kui Bull returned to the sect.

• Song Wen emerged from the crater and accepted the elders' thanks for protecting the sect.
• Youye and Yan'e attacked Ying Wu and the Kui Bull, targeting Ying Wu with Yan'e's ghost-headed saber.
• Youye and Yan'e used the Corpse-Release Method to flee, and Ying Wu sent the Kui Bull after them.
• Song Wen warned Ying Wu not to chase a cornered foe and recovered Yan'e's abandoned saber.
• Ying Wu ordered the reluctant Kui Bull to stop, then returned with it to the Divine Blood Sect cultivators.

Ying Wu and the Kui Bull returned in time to save the Divine Blood Sect, and Ying Wu gave Song Wen the captured Bi Jing and Qing Yuan. After the battle, Song Wen dealt with Yuan Rong and ordered the sect to attack Pagoda Temple, then reunited with Zhou Siyi.

• Ying Wu arrived with the late ninth-rank Kui Bull and handed the wounded Bi Jing and Qing Yuan over to Song Wen.
• Ying Wu left Yuan Rong’s fate to Song Wen, who consumed him with the scarlet tide.
• Song Wen praised Ying Wu and the Kui Bull before ordering the Divine Blood Sect to march on Pagoda Temple and avenge the attack.
• Xuan Li brought Zhou Siyi to Song Wen, and she praised how far he had risen.

Song Wen reunited with Ying Wu, who brought back a Source-Qi sphere for Dragon Void Vine, then turned his attention to the captive souls Bi Jing and Qing Yuan. He rejected Bi Jing’s offer to serve him and began absorbing her magic power.

• Song Wen arranged a separate cave dwelling for Zhou Siyi, and Ying Wu joined him after settling Venerable Kui Bull in a valley.
• Ying Wu gave Song Wen a black sphere from the Source-Qi Death Domain and planned to feed it to Dragon Void Vine, while Song Wen warned that growing too quickly might cause trouble if it had to undergo tribulation.
• Song Wen checked on Shadow Void, which was still breaking through by devouring Soul Source Essence.
• Song Wen freed Bi Jing and Qing Yuan from their blood cocoons but kept them immobilized with blood plasma.
• Bi Jing offered to serve Song Wen and warm his bed, but he declared that he was devoted to pursuing the Dao and pressed his clawed hand onto her head.

After killing Bi Jing and absorbing her cultivation, Song Wen consolidated the Divine Blood Sect’s power and sought new ways to advance his own cultivation. The chapter left him cultivating poisons and arranging further preparations while the sect pursued the Pagoda Temple and refined powerful resources.

• Song Wen killed Bi Jing, seized Qing Yuan’s soul, and cultivated in seclusion after the battle left Qing Yuan, Bi Jing, and Patriarch Fakong dead while Youye and Yan'e escaped.
• Six years later, Xuan Li reported that the Divine Blood Sect controlled Cangwu Province and Yujiang Province, while its campaign against the Pagoda Temple had yet to reach its destination.
• Song Wen gave Leng Ling and Xiao Yu alchemy insights and ordered Baleful Devourer to forge forty-nine Flood Dragon Banners from eighth-tier lightning flood dragons.
• Song Wen ordered Mo You to have the Blood Shadow Hall discreetly watch black markets for anyone seeking the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
• Song Wen cultivated with poisons as Shadow Void reached the middle of the ninth tier, then ordered Xuan Li to refine his remaining Tribulation Transcendence cultivator corpses into corpse puppets.

Song Wen tested the newly refined Blood Leech Pill and used it to accelerate his cultivation, then learned that the sect had run out of the rare Blood-Tear Flower needed to make more. As he sought a new supply, Mo You reported that someone in Southern Cinnabar City was asking about Red-Tear Fungus.

• Xiao Yu presented Song Wen with the Blood Leech Pill and its refining notes, explaining that it poisoned lower-level beings but could convert a Mahayana cultivator’s blood essence into magical power.
• Song Wen named it the Blood Leech Pill, set aside developing a ninth-rank version, and ordered Leng Ling and Xiao Yu to refine more.
• Song Wen swallowed one pill, endured its pain, and concluded that a steady supply could bring him to the peak of mid Tribulation Transcendence in two or three thousand years; he then took two more at once.
• Two years later, Xiao Yu told Song Wen that the sect had run out of Blood-Tear Flowers, so Song Wen ordered his subordinates to seek supplies and offer a bounty for anyone who could cultivate them.
• Song Wen summoned Mo You, who reported that Blood Shadow Hall had found no leads on the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, but someone in Southern Cinnabar City had been seeking Red-Tear Fungus.

Song Wen traced Yan'e to Southern Cinnabar City after learning that someone there had obtained Red-Tear Fungus, then sought Ying Wu's help before confronting her. He confirmed Yan'e was nearby and returned to meet Ying Wu, preparing to pursue her with support.

• Song Wen used Yan'e's aura on the Ghost-Head Long Saber to trace it north toward Southern Cinnabar City and asked Ying Wu to accompany him.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu traveled to the outskirts of Southern Cinnabar City, where he concealed Ying Wu and entered the city disguised as a Void Refinement Rogue Cultivator.
• At Myriad Phenomena Pavilion, Song Wen learned from Mu Mei that an unidentified person had obtained Red-Tear Fungus a year earlier.
• Song Wen used a wisp of gray qi to confirm Yan'e was nearby, warned Mu Mei to evacuate with her subordinates, and watched her leave the city.
• Song Wen left Southern Cinnabar City and returned to Ying Wu, intending to confront Yan'e only after joining forces with her.

Song Wen and Ying Wu returned to Southern Cinnabar City but found its defenses up because a Spatial Projection had opened, bringing resentful spirits from the Western Rong Continent. After the formation suddenly collapsed and Yan'e disrupted the city's defenders, Song Wen and Ying Wu flew to confront him.

• Song Wen explained the Spatial Projection and warned Ying Wu about the dangers of the Western Rong Continent's Source-Qi Death Domain.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu withdrew to avoid drawing attention, but resentful spirits poured toward Southern Cinnabar City.
• The city's defensive grand formation shattered, and the resentful spirits invaded as the mid-Mahayana cultivator organized the city's defense.
• Yan'e appeared and released a crushing pressure, allowing the resentful spirits to overwhelm the cultivators and kill two Integrated Body Realm Cultivators.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu recognized Yan'e, flew toward him, and Yan'e recognized them in turn.

Song Wen and Ying Wu pursued Yan'e through the Source-Qi Death Domain toward the Western Rong Continent, but Yan'e’s deliberate route suggested he had planned to come here. They followed his aura southeast and prepared to continue the chase with the Kui Bull.

• Yan'e escaped through the Spatial Projection, and Song Wen and Ying Wu followed after him as Song Wen destroyed the wraiths threatening Southern Cinnabar City.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu arrived in the Source-Qi Death Domain, where Shadow Void could not locate Yan'e because he had fled beyond its range.
• Song Wen used the aura in a transparent jade vial to track Yan'e east out of the Death Domain and then southeast across the Western Rong Continent.
• Ying Wu observed that Yan'e seemed to be following a planned route, and Song Wen agreed that they should stay cautious.
• Ying Wu summoned the Kui Bull and invited Song Wen to ride with him as they continued the pursuit.

Song Wen and Ying Wu pursued Yan'e across the Black Stone Mountains, where Yan'e revealed that the land itself could counter their lightning attacks. Song Wen realized the region had a natural restriction that weakened lightning and wondered whether it could also lessen the power of a heavenly tribulation.

• Ying Wu scolded the Kui Bull for threatening Song Wen, and the bull let Song Wen ride with her.
• Song Wen noticed the jade bottle reacting as they crossed the barren Black Stone Mountains, and the pair found Yan'e waiting ahead.
• Yan'e taunted Ying Wu and claimed he could borrow the great might of heaven and nature to defeat them.
• The Kui Bull's thunder and Song Wen's lightning dispersed soon after they left their bodies, leaving both attacks unable to reach Yan'e.
• Song Wen deduced that the Black Stone Mountains had a natural restriction that weakened lightning, and he considered using it to reduce the force of a heavenly tribulation.

Yan'e attacked Ying Wu, Song Wen, and Kui Bull with his corpse qi and seven-tiered tower while the natural restriction weakened lightning arts. He trapped Song Wen inside a giant ghostly figure, and Song Wen's scream faded, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Yan'e sent a black chain at Ying Wu, Song Wen, and Kui Bull, but Kui Bull headbutted it away while Ying Wu's flying sword struck Yan'e's barrier.
• Ying Wu summoned 108 flying swords as Yan'e used his chain to disrupt the sword formation and deflect Song Wen's attacks.
• Yan'e sent a thousand-zhang ghostly figure after Song Wen, who wounded it with his sword but could not stop it.
• The ghostly figure swallowed Song Wen, and his weakened lightning arts failed to free him as Ying Wu cried out in grief.

Song Wen and Ying Wu coordinated their attacks to shatter Yan'e’s defensive barrier and drive him into Song Wen’s Blood Tide. Yan'e escaped into an opening in the blood wall, but it closed behind him and left him struggling to break through its immense depths.

• Yan'e believed Extreme Yin had died and turned his ghost and chain against Ying Wu, but Song Wen reappeared and struck Yan'e with poisoned Nine Transparent Blades.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu coordinated attacks that repeatedly battered Yan'e’s pagoda barrier while the soul injuries left him unable to defend it effectively.
• The Azure Luan Sword shattered the barrier, but Yan'e split his body apart and fled before Song Wen’s and Ying Wu’s weapons could finish him.
• Song Wen spread a vast Blood Tide across Yan'e’s escape route, forcing him to reassemble and cut an opening through the blood wall with his chain and pagoda.
• When Ying Wu and the Kui Bull approached, Yan'e rushed into the opening, which closed behind him as the Blood Tide pursued him deeper into the wall.

Yan'e was trapped and captured alive by Song Wen and Ying Wu, who planned to devour his cultivation later. While questioning Yan'e about his motives for coming to the Western Rong Continent, Song Wen learned that he had come to harvest Seven-Leaf Stargrass and feed his Mountain-Moving Ants.

• Yan'e lost his fighting spirit, and the blood wall swallowed him along with his spirit treasures.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu revealed that they had captured Yan'e alive, and Song Wen said he intended to devour Yan'e's cultivation when prepared.
• Yan'e explained that he had changed to the Corpse King Reincarnation Art to improve his chances of surviving heavenly tribulation, inspired in part by Xugeng's tribulation.
• Song Wen questioned whether the land could weaken heavenly tribulation, but Gu Que and the Kui Bull said it could not.
• Yan'e disclosed that he had raised Mountain-Moving Ants in the Western Rong Continent and came to harvest Seven-Leaf Stargrass and feed them.

Song Wen learned that Yan'e had raised a mountain-moving ant colony on the Western Rong Continent, where it produced rare seven-leaf stargrass, and questioned him about Youye. They reached the ants' nest and found nearly a thousand stargrass plants, including a hundred that were three thousand years old, leaving Yan'e lamenting that Song Wen would benefit from his efforts.

• Yan'e told Song Wen how he had crossed between the continents, subdued a mountain-moving ant queen, and cultivated the colony using treasures from the Western Rong Continent.
• Yan'e said he had met Youye while exploring a secret realm and revealed that Youye's lair was in Central Profound Province and that he had recruited several Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.
• Song Wen had Yan'e guide him, Xuan Li, and the Kui Bull to the mountain-moving ants' nest, where the colony's tunnels had hollowed out the mountains and ruined nearby earth veins.
• Yan'e led the group to the queen's valley, where Song Wen saw nearly a thousand seven-leaf stargrass plants growing from dead ant eggs, including a hundred that were three thousand years old.
• Song Wen teased Yan'e about the resources he had invested in the colony, and Yan'e felt rueful that Song Wen would reap the benefits.