Recaps

Extreme Yin survived Youye’s attack with a Death-Substitution Spell and used his Blood Sea giant to wear down the Phantom Illusion Sect’s defenders. After restoring his magical power, he overwhelmed the Eight-Armed Fiendish Deity and battered the sect’s barrier, leaving its defenders ready to flee.

• Song Wen reappeared unharmed after using a Death-Substitution Spell, then refused Ying Wu’s offer of help.
• Ying Wu attacked Youye with 109 flying swords, while Youye used his Funeral Banner’s mist to stop the swords from forming a formation.
• Song Wen summoned a vast Blood Sea giant that fought the Eight-Armed Fiendish Deity to a stalemate and steadily drained the Phantom Illusion Sect’s four Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.
• Song Wen replenished his nearly exhausted magical power, and Yu Sheng faltered as the Eight-Armed Fiendish Deity was knocked aside.
• Song Wen’s blood giant battered the green barrier while Yu Sheng and the other supreme elders stopped supporting the deity and prepared to flee.

Song Wen pursued Youye after defeating his forces and devoured the captives’ power to strengthen himself. He found Youye surrounded by Ying Wu and her ninth-rank spirit beasts, just as Youye tried to detonate his Nascent Soul.

• Song Wen killed or captured the four fleeing Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, including Yu Sheng, and discovered that Youye had escaped westward.
• Song Wen drained the cultivators trapped in his Blood Sea, rapidly increasing his cultivation before continuing the pursuit.
• Song Wen found Ying Wu and her spirit beasts surrounding a weakened Youye, who realized he was trapped.
• Youye attempted to detonate his Nascent Soul, but Song Wen struck first with nine Soul-Slaying Spikes as the others attacked.

Song Wen stopped Youye from self-detonating and devoured his remaining cultivation, pushing himself to the brink of the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. He suppressed his magic power enough to make the tribulation clouds disperse temporarily, then set out with Ying Wu and Kui Bull toward the Phantom Illusion Sect to take its treasures.

• Song Wen pierced Youye's dantian and seized his Nascent Soul, devouring his magic power as Youye's cultivation collapsed.
• Song Wen's cultivation surged toward completion of Tribulation Transcendence, summoning the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Song Wen tempered and suppressed his magic power with the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, causing the tribulation clouds to disperse.
• Song Wen warned Ying Wu that using even a little magic power might summon the tribulation again, and they set off on Kui Bull with Youye's corpse.
• Song Wen redirected them to the Phantom Illusion Sect to take its treasures before returning.

Ying Wu and Song Wen forced the Phantom Illusion Sect and Qilin Transformation City to surrender their treasures, then returned through the Scarlet Sun Sect’s Teleportation Array. After Ying Wu killed the Zhan Clan’s four patriarchs, she and Song Wen continued toward Cangwu Province.

• Ying Wu demanded the Phantom Illusion Sect and Qilin Transformation City hand over their treasures and announced that Youye was dead.
• The two powers lowered their defensive arrays and gave Ying Wu their treasures, which she passed to Song Wen along with Youye’s Heavenly Law Bell.
• Song Wen hesitated to refine the bell because it might draw a Heavenly Tribulation and its ability to withstand one was unknown.
• Ying Wu and Song Wen traveled through the Scarlet Sun Sect’s Teleportation Array to the Zhan Clan’s underground lake in Falling Star Province.
• Ying Wu revealed her Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivation and killed Zhan Ji and the Zhan Clan’s other three Mahayana stage cultivators.
• Ying Wu and Song Wen left the Zhan Clan and rode the Kui Bull toward Cangwu Province.

Song Wen returned to the Divine Blood Sect and prepared for the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, which he expected within a few years. He summoned his old acquaintances to witness it, then entered seclusion to prepare.

• Song Wen swallowed the Heavenly Law Bell to attempt to refine it, and no tribulation or other disturbance followed.
• Song Wen told Ying Wu that his Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation was near and asked her to bring his old acquaintances to the Divine Blood Sect.
• Three months later, Ying Wu brought Bai Wei, Lan Chen, Ye Bing, Qiao Mengyu, Wang Qiuyue, Mo Yexue, and Yan Yuyan to meet Song Wen and the others.
• Song Wen announced that he would soon undergo the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, prompting his guests to react with shock, excitement, and concern.
• Song Wen invited the women to stay at the sect while he entered seclusion, promising to celebrate with them if he survived the tribulation.

Three years after reaching the peak of Tribulation Transcendence, Song Wen faced the three-nines heavenly tribulation outside the Divine Blood Sect. He survived the first nine bolts, but the tenth struck with far greater force and overwhelmed his defenses.

• Song Wen went to a remote lake to undergo the tribulation while Ying Wu, Zhou Siyi, Bai Wei, and others watched from a distance, with powerful guards sealing off the surrounding area.
• Song Wen released his accumulated magical power, drawing a vast storm of tribulation clouds over the wilderness.
• Song Wen used the Thunder Kui Wings and corpse qi to neutralize the first bolt, then relied on the wings and the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword to withstand the next eight.
• Song Wen seized a brief pause before the tenth bolt as the pressure in the clouds intensified.
• Song Wen's Thunder Kui Wings weakened the tenth bolt by less than twenty percent, and the bolt blasted the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword into the lake, drying it up and carving a trench across its bed.

Song Wen endured the twenty-sixth bolt of tribulation lightning after exhausting several treasures and techniques. As the final bolt gathered in the sky, he prepared to face its immense power.

• Song Wen used the Heavenly Law Bell to redirect the remaining force of the tenth through eighteenth bolts into the earth, but the bell cracked after blocking nine strikes.
• Song Wen deployed the forty-nine Flood Dragon Banners and the Celestial Dipper Unfading Formation against the nineteenth through twenty-fourth bolts, but the barrier broke and the banners were badly damaged.
• Song Wen activated the Blood Spirit Sacrifice and used the Blood Sea to withstand the twenty-fifth bolt, then combined the purple lightning net, the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, and a head-on punch to stop the twenty-sixth.
• Ying Wu reassured Zhou Siyi that Song Wen was fine after he emerged from the Blood Sea with only his clothes destroyed.
• Song Wen renewed the Blood Spirit Sacrifice and prepared Heaven-Destroying Divine Light and Five Decays Yellow Springs Qi as the tribulation clouds gathered into a vortex and formed the final bolt.

Song Wen survived all twenty-seven lightning tribulations and entered his heart tribulation, where he found himself in a hellish world surrounded by the souls of those he had killed. He rejected their accusations and prepared to fight them again.

• The Blood Sea giant attacked the tribulation lightning, but the lightning shattered its body before Song Wen rose from underground to confront it.
• Song Wen used the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, the Heavenly Law Bell, a willow tree, and the Ghost-Head Long Saber to withstand the remaining lightning, though his body was repeatedly destroyed and injured.
• Song Wen blocked all twenty-seven lightning bolts, then sat down to heal as heavenly light descended upon him.
• Ying Wu explained to Zhou Siyi that the heart tribulation varied from person to person, while Zhou Siyi said Song Wen's desire for immortality was unwavering.
• Song Wen was transported to a dark-red world that he suspected was his heart tribulation, where the dead he had killed appeared and demanded their lives back.
• Song Wen called the apparitions defeated foes and vowed to kill them again.

Song Wen overcame his Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and celebrated with his companions before ascending to the Immortal Realm. He arrived safely and encountered the mayor of a small Human Race town, who asked whether he had just ascended from the lower realm.

• Song Wen fought the figures manifested by his heart tribulation until they were all dead, and the illusion dissolved.
• Song Wen returned to the tribulation site, received immortal spiritual qi, and was congratulated by Ying Wu, Bai Wei, and the others.
• Song Wen celebrated with the Divine Blood Sect and spent the following decades preparing for ascension.
• Sixty years later, Song Wen entered his personal ascension passage and left for the Immortal Realm after bidding farewell to his companions.
• Song Wen emerged into a peaceful land rich in immortal spiritual qi and flew toward a Human Race settlement.
• The town's mayor flew out to meet Song Wen and asked whether he had just ascended from the lower realm.

Song Wen accepted Zhu Mingyuan’s offer to serve as Peaceful Township’s Attendant Immortal, settled there, and became Zhu Yue’s Dao companion. After her death and more than a hundred thousand years of wandering the Immortal Realm, he longed to return to the Azure Planet and finally found a way home.

• Zhu Mingyuan asked Song Wen to protect Peaceful Township from demonic beasts in exchange for immortal scriptures, secret arts, and Immortal Spirit Stones, and Song Wen agreed.
• Song Wen met Zhu Yue and stayed in Peaceful Township, gradually trusting its residents as Zhu Mingyuan delivered the promised resources.
• Song Wen converted his magical power into immortal essence, entered the Lingxu Dao Immortal realm, and later became Dao companions with Zhu Yue.
• Song Wen killed beast hordes that threatened the township and nearby villages, but Zhu Yue eventually died beneath the Two-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Song Wen left Peaceful Township, wandered the Immortal Realm for more than a hundred thousand years, and decided to return to the Azure Planet.
• After ten thousand years of searching, Song Wen found a way back to the Azure Planet.

After passing the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, Song Wen realized that his reunion with his parents had been a heart tribulation, though it felt like he had spent hundreds of thousands of years in the Immortal Realm. An ascension passage opened immediately, and Song Wen understood that the Immortal Spiritual Qi he had absorbed was likely forcing him to ascend.

• Song Wen dreamed that he returned to the Azure Planet, reunited with his parents, and was pushed away by them to return where he belonged.
• Song Wen awoke from his heart tribulation after sitting motionless for a month, and Ying Wu told him he had passed it.
• Song Wen examined himself and realized that the experience had been a heart tribulation because nothing connected to his Sea of Consciousness had appeared in it.
• Auspicious clouds healed Song Wen after the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and he resolved to prepare carefully for ascension.
• A vast rift opened in the sky, Immortal Spiritual Qi descended, and Song Wen began ascending despite Ying Wu urging him to conceal his aura.
• Song Wen realized that he was ascending because he had refined and absorbed over a hundred wisps of Immortal Spiritual Qi.

Song Wen ascended to the Immortal Realm after bidding farewell to his companions, leaving Ying Wu to care for them. Feng Zhongli arrived too late to stop him and questioned how Bai Wei had reached Cangwu Province ahead of her.

• Song Wen told Ying Wu and the others that the ascension passage was pulling him away, and they exchanged farewells.
• Ying Wu gave Song Wen the late ninth-rank Void Dragon Vine, which he carried with him into the ascension passage.
• Feng Zhongli arrived as Song Wen ascended, but her attempt to reach him failed, and the passage closed behind him.
• Feng Zhongli learned from Bai Wei that Song Wen had passed the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and ascended immediately afterward.
• Feng Zhongli realized Bai Wei had arrived in Cangwu Province before her despite having a much lower cultivation, and asked how she had done so.

Bai Wei and Ying Wu learned that Feng Zhongli had crossed the provinces for decades hoping to confess her love to Extreme Yin, only to arrive too late. As Song Wen ascended, he killed Gu Que to protect his secrets, and two Immortal Realm cultivators awaited the newcomer at the Ascension Platform.

• Bai Wei explained the faster routes she had taken, and Feng Zhongli regretted spending more than fifty years traveling across provinces without knowing about a Teleportation Array.
• Feng Zhongli revealed that she had loved Extreme Yin since their time in the Kunxu Secret Realm and had sought him out to confess, but he had already left.
• Ying Wu wondered how many women in Extreme Yin's life he had never heard about.
• During his ascent, Song Wen told Gu Que he could not let him live because Gu Que knew too many of his secrets and might bring the High-Heaven Immortal Domain's attention.
• Song Wen used the Sea of Consciousness Black Hole to devour Gu Que as Gu Que warned him about the dangers of the Immortal Realm.
• At the Ascension Platform, two blue-green-robed Immortal Realm cultivators watched the strange signs heralding a new arrival.

After ascending to the Immortal Realm, Song Wen was ambushed at the Ascension Platform by a woman and an Immortal who tried to capture him. He escaped a killing blow with a substitute-death technique, but the Immortal caught up and closed a giant hand around him.

• Song Wen adapted to the Immortal Realm’s stronger gravity and fled from the two figures pursuing him from the Ascension Platform.
• The Immortal struck Song Wen with a giant hand, destroying his body, but Song Wen used a substitute-death technique to reappear five thousand li away.
• Song Wen resumed his escape as the woman’s flying sword attacked him, and he repelled it with lightning from his Thunder Kui Wings.
• The Immortal pursued Song Wen again with a giant hand, while Song Wen’s lightning failed to stop it.
• The giant hand closed around Song Wen’s position as he continued to resist with lightning.

Song Wen escaped the man pursuing him by taking Yin Ling hostage and refusing an offer to join Azure Purity City. As he fled across the Shattered Star Desert, he approached a deadly Shattered Star Sandstorm, hoping to use it to lose his pursuer.

• After Song Wen survived the man’s attack, he struck Yin Ling with transparent blades and seized her as a hostage.
• Song Wen refused the man’s offer to recruit him for Azure Purity City and demanded safe passage in exchange for Yin Ling.
• The man held back as Song Wen fled, though Song Wen stayed alert for a pursuit beyond his divine sense.
• Song Wen reached the Shattered Star Desert and spotted a vast sandstorm rolling toward him.
• Yin Ling regained consciousness and warned Song Wen that the Shattered Star Sandstorm could kill even Immortals.

Song Wen escaped into the Immortal Realm’s sandstorm after throwing Yin Ling into its deadly currents, then hid underground to evade her pursuer. Meanwhile, Immortal Emperor Xi Ling learned that someone she had awaited for 1,187 years had ascended and ordered an urgent search across the realm.

• Song Wen ignored the pursuer’s demands and entered the sandstorm with Yin Ling, using her as a hostage to stop his attack.
• Song Wen threw Yin Ling into the storm’s rotation and filled her with corpse qi, leaving her unable to defend herself as the sand carried her away.
• The pursuer went after Yin Ling and attacked Song Wen, who destroyed his own head to reappear a hundred li away and flee.
• Song Wen traveled against the storm, then burrowed underground and continued in the direction of its rotation to avoid the pursuer.
• Immortal Emperor Xi Ling sensed that the person she had awaited for 1,187 years had ascended to the Immortal Realm.
• Immortal Emperor Xi Ling ordered the woman in green to search for every person who had ascended that day, insisting the search take priority over unrest in the Eastern Region and Nine Nether Immortal Domain.

After emerging in the Purple Star Immortal Domain, Song Wen found that Immortal Spiritual Qi was scarce and Azure Purity City lay tens of millions of li away. He freed the souls trapped by a ghost cultivator’s banner, then turned his finger toward the cultivator despite having said he would not kill him.

• Song Wen used his Earth-Escape Talismans to travel far underground, then emerged disguised as an elderly Body Integration Realm cultivator in a forested region lacking Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• Song Wen passed villages and cities before spotting a ghost cultivator stealing the souls of an isolated village’s inhabitants.
• Song Wen confronted the Nascent Soul ghost cultivator and learned that they were in the Purple Star Immortal Domain and Azure Purity City was tens of millions of li to the west.
• The ghost cultivator told Song Wen that places with Immortal Spiritual Qi were generally controlled by clans, sects, or rogue cultivators, and offered to introduce him to Lord Black Bone, a Mahayana Realm expert.
• Song Wen rejected the offer, snapped the ghost cultivator’s soul banner, and released its trapped souls.
• The injured ghost cultivator begged Song Wen to spare him as Song Wen pointed at him.

Song Wen traveled to Azure Purity City, learned about the city and its powerful factions, and discovered that cultivating amid immortal spiritual qi would be far beyond his means. The chapter left him regretting that he had ascended before taking the Divine Blood Sect’s spirit stones.

• Song Wen disguised himself as a Nascent Soul Cultivator and traveled west, learning at Flowing Spring Market that he was in the impoverished far west of the Purple Star Immortal Domain.
• After changing his appearance again, Song Wen reached Azure Purity City and found that its air held both spiritual energy and immortal spiritual qi.
• Song Wen learned that Su Dian was suspected to be an early lingxu dao immortal and that Profound Lord Danyang was a middle-stage jade firmament profound immortal.
• Song Wen bought supplies, compared prices, and asked an inn maid about lodging with abundant immortal spiritual qi.
• Song Wen learned that the cheapest suitable cave residences cost more than he could afford and regretted leaving behind the Divine Blood Sect’s treasury.

Song Wen chose the Shi Family of Thousand Crane Mountain as a possible faction to join and followed its members after learning the family was under pressure. He watched as the Shi Family’s elders rushed to confront the Blood Corpse Sect over a besieged spirit stone mine.

• Song Wen studied Azure Purity City’s factions and selected the struggling Shi Family as his leading option, while keeping two alternatives in mind.
• After exploring Azure Purity City, Song Wen traveled to Jinping City and waited for a chance to infiltrate the Shi Family.
• Half a month later, Song Wen spotted Shi Family members leaving their estate and secretly followed them.
• Shi Min condemned the Blood Corpse Sect for attacking a Shi Family spirit stone mine, while her grandaunt warned that another faction might be backing them.
• Shi Min’s grandaunt told her to prioritize survival over the mine and urged her to grow into the hope of the Shi Family.

Shi Sanniang and Shi Min led the Shi Family into the Blood Corpse Sect’s mountain stronghold and fought its cultivators. Shi Sanniang unleashed the Nine-Phoenix Nirvana Sword against Ye Pi, whose shield’s ghostly shadow was burned away by her fire phoenix.

• Shi Sanniang led Shi Min and the Shi Family through the corpse qi, where they destroyed hidden needle attacks and found corpse puppets besieging a barrier beside Blood Corpse Sect cultivators.
• Ye Pi blocked Shi Sanniang’s sword with his bare, scaled hand and taunted her, while her blade failed to wound him.
• Shi Min attacked another Blood Corpse Sect cultivator, who summoned a ninth-rank Baleful Corpse to stop her icy spear.
• Shi Sanniang summoned all nine Nine-Phoenix Nirvana Swords and sent a fire phoenix at Ye Pi.
• Ye Pi raised a giant shield and sent a ghostly shadow to meet the fire phoenix, but the flames made it vanish.

Song Wen watched Ye Pi use Origin Qi to repel a giant seal and wondered whether Immortal Realm cultivators had learned to refine it. Ye Pi then revealed an immortal treasure and unleashed a black finger at Shi Sanniang, who sent Shi Min away and charged to meet it.

• An old man and three Mahayana cultivators arrived to aid Shi Sanniang, turning the battle against the Blood Corpse Sect into a chaotic melee.
• Ye Pi stopped the old man's mountain-like seal with his bare hands, using Origin Qi to hurl it away.
• Song Wen asked Shadow Void whether humans could absorb and refine Origin Qi, and Shadow Void said no known method existed.
• Ye Pi revealed an immortal treasure and admitted that he had lured out Shi Family Tribulation Transcendence cultivators to kill them.
• The black finger shattered Shi Sanniang's fire phoenix and sent her nine Crimson Flying Swords flying backward.
• Shi Sanniang knocked Shi Min away and charged at the black finger, ordering her to return alive.

Song Wen intervened as Ye Pi pursued Shi Sanniang’s fleeing divine soul, choosing to confront the Evil Spirit Cultivator instead of following Shi Min. Their first clash was evenly matched, but Ye Pi then attacked Shi Sanniang with source qi, leaving her escape in jeopardy.

• Shi Sanniang’s body was destroyed by the finger, but her divine soul escaped as Shi Min and the others fled in different directions.
• Ye Pi ordered Kui Jian to pursue Shi Min and chased Shi Sanniang, while Song Wen decided to follow and confront Ye Pi.
• Song Wen invoked the threat posed by Evil Spirit Cultivators and struck Ye Pi’s Ghost-Faced Shield with the Mountain-Crushing Mace.
• Ye Pi and Song Wen’s weapons clashed evenly, but Ye Pi sent streams of source qi after Shi Sanniang’s divine soul and caught her.

Song Wen revealed his peak Tribulation Transcendence cultivation and defeated Ye Pi, then tried to learn how Ye Pi refined Origin Qi. After Ye Pi died under a mysterious soul restriction, Song Wen pretended to be gravely wounded and released Shi Sanniang, claiming he had killed Ye Pi.

• Ye Pi captured Shi Sanniang's soul in a Soul Bottle while charging toward Song Wen.
• Song Wen revealed his Thunder Arts and peak Tribulation Transcendence cultivation, then struck Ye Pi with purple lightning.
• Song Wen used his Soul-Slaying Spikes to incapacitate Ye Pi and dragged him to a deserted cave for questioning.
• Ye Pi said that becoming an Evil Spirit Cultivator through a pact with the Void Demon Clan enabled him to refine Origin Qi, then died when a hidden restriction scattered his soul.
• Song Wen collected Ye Pi's belongings, burned his corpse, and made himself appear gravely injured on a mountaintop.
• Song Wen released Shi Sanniang's soul and claimed he had killed Ye Pi, but she doubted him.

Song Wen, calling himself Yan'e, convinced Shi Sanniang that he had killed Ye Pi and accepted her invitation to recover at the Shi Family in exchange for access to its tribulation records. Shi Sanniang led him to search for Shi Min first, but they reached the Shi Family without finding her, and Shi Sanniang asked whether she had returned safely.

• Song Wen showed Shi Sanniang Ye Pi's spirit treasures and explained that he had killed him with a ninth-tier lightning talisman.
• Song Wen revealed that Evil Spirit Cultivators had killed his blood relatives and that he sought to eradicate them; he gave Shi Sanniang the name Yan'e.
• Shi Sanniang invited Yan'e to the Shi Family, offering him access to its secret archive of Heavenly Tribulation accounts, and he agreed.
• Shi Sanniang led Yan'e toward Shi Min's last known location, explaining that Ye Pi had sent Kui Jian to hunt her, but they did not find her.
• Shi Sanniang and Yan'e reached the Shi Family mountain gate, where the cultivators reacted with shock to her soul form, and Shi Sanniang asked if Shi Min had returned.

After saving Shi Sanniang, Song Wen was welcomed into the Shi Family and began cultivating with the Immortal Spiritual Qi at Thousand Crane Mountain. Three days later, Shi Min interrupted his seclusion to bring him rare ninth-tier spirit medicines as thanks.

• Shi Min reunited with Shi Sanniang, learned that Song Wen had saved her soul and killed Ye Pi, and thanked him for his help.
• Shi Sanniang and the Shi Family members welcomed Song Wen into a secluded courtyard at Thousand Crane Mountain so he could recover.
• Song Wen reinforced the courtyard's protections and began refining Immortal Spiritual Qi into denser magical power.
• Shi Min visited Song Wen three days later and offered him a storage pouch of rare ninth-tier spirit medicines from the Shi Family.