Recaps

Song Wen bought the Scarlet Sun Golden Flame from Ma Li for two hundred thousand Supreme-grade Spirit Stones and received a Fire-Suppressing Furnace with it. As he and Bai Jinge tried to leave, the white-haired old Daoist challenged them to reveal their faces, and Bai Jinge warned the gathered cultivators not to covet their treasures.

• Ma Li announced that he would sell the Scarlet Sun Golden Flame for two hundred thousand Supreme-grade Spirit Stones, defending the price despite the white-haired old Daoist's objections.
• Song Wen agreed to buy the flame and paid Ma Li the full price.
• Ma Li gave Song Wen a Fire-Suppressing Furnace, and Song Wen stored the Scarlet Sun Golden Flame inside it.
• Song Wen and Bai Jinge prepared to leave, but the white-haired old Daoist stopped them and demanded that they reveal their concealed appearances.
• Bai Jinge refused and warned the gathered cultivators that she would respond ruthlessly if they tried to seize their treasures.

Ma Tianji defied his father to defend Wei Xuan and Gu Ling, while Bai Jinge faced seven Tribulation Transcendence cultivators in the Ma Estate. She repelled their opening attacks, but the seven regrouped and prepared to wear her down.

• Ma Li yielded to the white-haired old Daoist and refused to intervene against Wei Xuan and Gu Ling.
• Ma Tianji defied Ma Li and vowed to help the two guests, while Song Wen teased Bai Jinge about Ma Tianji's devotion to her.
• Bai Jinge launched an ice-spike barrage, prompting the white-haired old Daoist and six other cultivators to attack her and Song Wen.
• Bai Jinge used Phoenix Dance Across the Nine Heavens to repel all seven attackers and disrupt their spiritual power.
• The white-haired old Daoist warned the others that Bai Jinge was dangerous and ordered them to attack together and exhaust her.

Song Wen rescued Bai Jinge from seven attackers, then left with her after collecting the enemies’ corpses and souls. As they prepared to depart, Ma Tianji confessed that he was drawn to Wei Xuan, leaving Song Wen stunned and Bai Jinge delighted.

• After Bai Jinge’s secret technique weakened her, the white-haired old Daoist and six others attacked her together.
• Song Wen destroyed the seven attackers’ moves with lightning and sent them crashing to the ground.
• Bai Jinge killed the white-haired old Daoist and collected all seven corpses and souls for Song Wen.
• Ma Li told Song Wen that the Purple Sun Spiritfire had been found in the Burning Heaven Fire Region centuries earlier, but he knew nothing of the Eight Desolations Astral Fire.
• As Song Wen and Bai Jinge prepared to leave, Ma Tianji stopped them and asked whether they would meet again.
• Ma Tianji confessed that he had been drawn to Wei Xuan from their first meeting, freezing Song Wen’s smile and delighting Bai Jinge.

Song Wen escorted Bai Jinge back to Azure Purity City and helped her enter secretly, wary that an enemy spy might reveal her return. After Bai Jinge reunited with Profound Lord Danyang, he thanked Song Wen but warned him against harboring improper thoughts about her.

• Song Wen knocked Ma Tianji away and left, while Bai Jinge followed him and teased him during their journey toward Azure Purity City.
• Near the city, Song Wen warned Bai Jinge that entering openly could expose her return to the Evil Spirit Immortals, and she agreed to disguise herself.
• Song Wen disguised himself and Bai Jinge, and they entered Azure Purity City without incident before contacting Profound Lord Danyang.
• Profound Lord Danyang arrived at the restaurant, confirmed Bai Jinge was safe, and thanked Song Wen for rescuing her.
• Profound Lord Danyang cautioned Song Wen not to let his lifesaving favor lead him to improper thoughts about Bai Jinge.

Song Wen clarified that he and Bai Jinge had made a transaction, securing access to a Thunder Arts manual and spiritfire assistance from Profound Lord Danyang. After learning that Old Xu and Qu Hai had died and that the Jade Purity Sect and Heavenly Sword Sect were suspected of leaking Bai Jinge’s route, Bai Jinge prepared to seek revenge, but Song Wen urged her to stay hidden and questioned why the Evil Spirit Immortals had wanted her alive.

• Song Wen explained that he had escorted Bai Jinge to Azure Purity City in exchange for an Immortal-Tier Thunder Arts manual and help finding two spiritfires, and Profound Lord Danyang agreed to provide a manual and search for the fires.
• Bai Jinge learned that Old Xu and Qu Hai’s life plaques had shattered, and she grieved their deaths before resolving to find the traitor responsible.
• Profound Lord Danyang said the Jade Purity Sect and Heavenly Sword Sect were suspected of secretly dealing with Evil Spirit cultivators and had lost no members in the attack.
• Bai Jinge urged Profound Lord Danyang to surround the two sects and kill their members, and he agreed to let her join the retaliation.
• Song Wen warned Bai Jinge not to reveal herself and asked why the Evil Spirit Immortals had gone to such lengths to capture her alive.

Song Wen persuaded Profound Lord Danyang to conceal Bai Jinge’s whereabouts and escort her to Radiant Light Hall, where she would remain until the sect sent someone to receive her. Profound Lord Danyang arranged for Song Wen to watch over her and gave him access to the promised rewards.

• Song Wen warned Profound Lord Danyang that revealing Bai Jinge’s return could invite another ambush, and Bai Jinge agreed to keep her whereabouts secret.
• Profound Lord Danyang used Mirage Cloud to conceal Song Wen and Bai Jinge, then carried them toward Radiant Light Hall.
• Profound Lord Danyang asked Song Wen to keep Bai Jinge from leaving their secluded lodgings and promised him the Immortal-Tier Thunder Arts, purple sun spiritfire, eight desolations astral fire, and fifty thousand immortal spirit stones.
• Song Wen accepted the task, and the three entered Radiant Light Hall and traveled to a secluded mountain.
• Profound Lord Danyang assigned Bai Jinge a place to stay, let Song Wen choose a courtyard, and gave him an identity token that allowed him to enter the Profound Arts Pavilion and select Thunder Arts.

Song Wen tested his newly comprehended World-Annihilating Divine Thunder, then received the Purple Sun Spiritfire from Profound Lord Danyang. A report revealed that Gu Xing had unknowingly helped the evil spirit cultivators ambush Bai Jinge’s vessel, but the mastermind remained unknown, and the report also said there were no leads on the ascended cultivator.

• Song Wen tested World-Annihilating Divine Thunder and judged it only slightly stronger than ninth-tier thunder arts.
• Profound Lord Danyang and Bai Jinge arrived, and Danyang offered Song Wen the position of deputy hall master in the Radiant Light Hall.
• Profound Lord Danyang delivered the Purple Sun Spiritfire to Song Wen and said his people had found leads on the Eight Desolations Astral Fire.
• Profound Lord Danyang told Bai Jinge that evil spirit cultivators and their associates had been executed, but the traitor within the Radiant Light Hall remained undiscovered.
• Profound Lord Danyang shared a report stating that Gu Xing had unknowingly carried a spirit stone with Yinshan Wanderer’s soul imprint aboard the White Rainbow Sky-Patrolling Boat, enabling the ambush.
• Song Wen noticed the report’s final remark that there were still no leads on the ascended cultivator.

Song Wen learned that Immortal Emperor Xi Ling was searching across the Immortal Realm for someone who ascended on the same day he did, and suspected he might be the target. After three months of cultivation at Radiant Light Hall, he saw a powerful force arrive with the seven surviving evil spirit immortals who had ambushed Bai Jinge.

• Song Wen questioned Profound Lord Danyang and Bai Jinge about Radiant Light Hall’s search, and learned that Immortal Emperor Xi Ling had ordered factions across the Immortal Realm to find an unknown ascender.
• Song Wen realized he might be the person Immortal Emperor Xi Ling sought because he had ascended from the Profound Realm on the specified date, but he hid his suspicions.
• Bai Jinge praised Immortal Emperor Xi Ling, and Profound Lord Danyang departed before Song Wen returned to his courtyard to cultivate the myriad poisons primordial body.
• Over the next three months, Profound Lord Danyang reported on the campaign against evil spirit cultivators, while the ambushers and spies remained unfound and Bai Jinge stayed on the mountain.
• A fleet of enormous black flying ships arrived above Radiant Light Hall, led by a man whose oppressive presence shook Song Wen.
• Song Wen recognized the seven surviving evil spirit immortals who had ambushed Bai Jinge among the figures behind the fleet’s leader.

Li Hunsheng led an Evil Spirit Cultivator force against Radiant Light Hall, and Profound Lord Danyang used the Mystic Zenith Array’s thunder to attack them. As the lightning overwhelmed the fleet’s defenses, the array’s operators discovered that the earth-vein qi powering it had been cut off, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Song Wen and Bai Jinge saw Li Hunsheng’s forces attack Radiant Light Hall, and Bai Jinge recognized the Evil Spirit Cultivators who had murdered Old Xu.
• Profound Lord Danyang confronted Li Hunsheng, who claimed his people had infiltrated Radiant Light Hall and announced his intention to destroy it.
• Profound Lord Danyang activated the Mystic Zenith Array, which formed a prison of lightning and struck the attackers’ ships.
• Li Hunsheng ordered his Evil Spirit Immortals to board the ships and strengthen their defensive arrays as the lightning battered the fleet.
• Su Dian and the other five Lingxu Dao Immortals operating the array discovered that the earth-vein qi had been cut off, and the array’s lightning immediately vanished.

Li Hunsheng revealed that a Primordial Chaos Qi Embryo had contaminated the earth vein beneath Azure Purity City, crippling Radiant Light Hall’s defensive array. Profound Lord Danyang’s attempt to stall for time ended with the discovery that the contamination had spread nearly twenty thousand miles and was reaching the surface.

• Li Hunsheng explained that he had arranged for a Primordial Chaos Qi Embryo to contaminate the earth vein, cutting off the qi that powered the Mystic Zenith Array.
• Profound Lord Danyang sent three Lingxu Dao Immortals underground to inspect and contain the contamination while Li Hunsheng ordered his forces to attack Radiant Light Hall.
• Li Hunsheng revealed Shi Min as the former disciple who had secretly buried the embryo, and Shi Min admitted she had joined the Evil Spirit Cultivators after failing her tribulation.
• Li Hunsheng admitted he had arranged the attempt to capture Profound Lord Danyang’s junior sister Bai Jinge and said a collaborator in the Purple Star Immortal Sect had revealed her identity and whereabouts.
• The three Lingxu Dao Immortals returned and reported that the origin qi had contaminated nearly twenty thousand miles of earth vein and was beginning to spread toward the surface.

Origin qi escaped from beneath the Radiant Light Hall, weakening its defenses and threatening to turn the surrounding region into a Source-Qi Death Domain. Profound Lord Danyang led the hall’s disciples into battle against Li Hunsheng’s evil spirit cultivators, while Song Wen waited for a chance to escape with Bai Jinge and then fled southwest with her.

• Li Hunsheng revealed that origin qi was escaping from underground, and Profound Lord Danyang realized the defensive array could no longer hold indefinitely.
• Song Wen warned Bai Jinge that the evil spirit cultivators were waiting for origin qi to spread before attacking, and Profound Lord Danyang privately asked Song Wen to protect her and gave him one hundred thousand immortal spirit stones.
• Profound Lord Danyang rallied the Radiant Light Hall disciples, ordered Su Dian and the other array controllers to dismantle the Mystic Zenith Array, and led the charge against Li Hunsheng.
• Li Hunsheng ordered the evil spirit cultivators to attack as the array shattered, and the two sides clashed while origin qi drained the land of its vitality.
• Song Wen stayed out of the fighting, watched the battle and the spreading origin qi, then grabbed Bai Jinge and fled southwest.

Profound Lord Danyang battled Li Hunsheng and learned that Du Hun had betrayed Radiant Light Hall, leaving him gravely wounded. As Li Hunsheng’s claw closed in on Bai Jinge, Song Wen pushed her away and faced the attack himself.

• Profound Lord Danyang and Li Hunsheng exchanged attacks, and Li Hunsheng summoned a thousand-foot ghost creature refined from hundreds of millions of human souls.
• Profound Lord Danyang’s nine golden streaks pinned down the ghost creature, but Li Hunsheng sent a giant claw toward Bai Jinge and the others.
• Du Hun betrayed Profound Lord Danyang by striking him with a Blood Fiend Immortal Talisman, shattering his shield and grievously wounding him.
• Profound Lord Danyang realized Du Hun was the spy within Radiant Light Hall and called his sword back to defend himself from Li Hunsheng’s chains.
• Song Wen saw Bai Jinge could not stop the claw, pushed her away, and turned to face it.

Song Wen saved Bai Jinge from the enormous claw but suffered severe injuries, and the two escaped underground. Meanwhile, Li Hunsheng pursued the wounded Profound Lord Danyang as Origin Qi spread through the earth veins, leaving Danyang close to expelling the killing intent but worried the contamination had become too widespread.

• Song Wen transformed into a Demon Ape, endured the enormous claw, and crashed into a crater with severe injuries.
• Bai Jinge found Song Wen alive, and he used an Earth-Escape Talisman to take her underground.
• Li Hunsheng sent his thousand-zhang ghost to attack Profound Lord Danyang, whose flying sword became trapped among the ghost’s heads.
• Profound Lord Danyang unleashed Nine Luminaries Evil-Slaying to free his sword, but Li Hunsheng struck him with a dark-red chain and forced him to flee underground.
• Li Hunsheng pursued Profound Lord Danyang with chains while Danyang dodged them and neared the end of suppressing the killing intent in his body.
• Profound Lord Danyang sensed Origin Qi spreading densely through the earth veins and feared it might be too late to stop the contamination.

Song Wen and Bai Jinge fled underground with Profound Lord Danyang while Li Hunsheng pursued them with chains of Killing Intent. In a cavern saturated with Origin Qi, Song Wen sent the Vine Demon deeper underground as he prepared for Li Hunsheng to follow.

• Song Wen and Bai Jinge encountered the fleeing Profound Lord Danyang, who warned that Li Hunsheng was close behind them.
• Bai Jinge used an Immortal-Tier Earth-Escape Talisman powered by Song Wen’s Immortal Essence to take them deeper underground, while Profound Lord Danyang held off Li Hunsheng’s chains.
• Profound Lord Danyang revealed that he had eradicated the Blood-Killing Qi and stayed behind to fight as Song Wen led Bai Jinge into a vast cavern filled with dense Origin Qi.
• Bai Jinge feared Li Hunsheng would have the advantage in the cavern, but Song Wen claimed he could make the pursuer never return.
• Song Wen summoned the Vine Demon, which drilled through the cavern floor and burrowed deeper underground.

Song Wen sent Bai Jinge away and watched as Profound Lord Danyang fought Li Hunsheng in the underground cavern. Profound Lord Danyang unleashed a hidden sword formation and a decisive strike, which Li Hunsheng met with a claw of Origin Qi and Killing Intent.

• Song Wen urged Bai Jinge to flee while he stayed behind to help Profound Lord Danyang, and she reluctantly left after making him promise to find her.
• Song Wen used Shadow Void to observe Li Hunsheng overpowering Profound Lord Danyang, whose bonded flying sword was unavailable in the dense Origin Qi.
• Li Hunsheng knocked Profound Lord Danyang into the cavern wall and wounded him, but Profound Lord Danyang activated a concealed sword formation.
• Profound Lord Danyang gathered the formation’s power into a sword wheel and launched a blazing sword shadow at Li Hunsheng.
• Li Hunsheng gathered Origin Qi and Killing Intent into a red-and-black claw to meet Profound Lord Danyang’s attack.

Song Wen intervened in Profound Lord Danyang and Li Hunsheng’s battle, but Danyang betrayed him and used him as a distraction. Song Wen survived Li Hunsheng’s attack and disrupted Danyang’s defenses, leaving Danyang slowed by Origin Qi and calling for help.

• Li Hunsheng survived Profound Lord Danyang’s sword strike and charged at him, while Danyang tried to flee.
• Song Wen appeared and struck Li Hunsheng with golden lightning, but Danyang grabbed Song Wen and hurled him at Li Hunsheng.
• Li Hunsheng shattered Song Wen’s body and resumed attacking Danyang, who used his shield and three flying swords to hold him back.
• Song Wen transformed into a Mysterious Tortoise and rammed Danyang’s shield, disrupting the flying swords’ formation.
• Li Hunsheng broke through the encirclement and drove Danyang backward, while Song Wen’s Origin Qi pressure slowed Danyang and prompted him to call for help.

Profound Lord Danyang unleashed a blood-arrow secret art that destroyed his body as he tried to escape, but Song Wen captured and devoured his Immortal Nascent Infant. Song Wen then used Shadow Void’s interference to defeat the wounded Li Hunsheng and turned his attention to his Sea of Consciousness.

• Profound Lord Danyang shattered his body into blood arrows, wounding Li Hunsheng as his Immortal Nascent Infant fled.
• Song Wen intercepted Profound Lord Danyang with the Blood Tide and devoured the soul within his Immortal Nascent Infant.
• Li Hunsheng claimed he would kill Song Wen, but Shadow Void disrupted his mind and caused his Origin Qi attack to collapse.
• Song Wen struck Li Hunsheng with golden lightning, captured his soul with a blood-red tentacle, and made it vanish.
• Song Wen collected the storage rings, flying swords, and shield, then sank his consciousness into his Sea of Consciousness.

Song Wen learned that Li Hunsheng had corrupted Radiant Light Hall’s earth veins to create a Source-Qi Death Domain, but the Void Dragon Vine devoured the Origin Qi and thwarted his plan. Song Wen then headed for Radiant Light Hall’s treasury, where he found two people waiting outside its barrier and learned that Du Hun could also enter.

• Song Wen questioned Li Hunsheng and Profound Lord Danyang about Radiant Light Hall’s treasury, and Profound Lord Danyang said it lay in a Cave beneath Crane-Cry Peak, guarded by powerful formation restrictions.
• Li Hunsheng revealed that he had contaminated the earth veins to destroy the Purple Star Immortal Domain, but Song Wen showed him that the Origin Qi had weakened.
• The Void Dragon Vine emerged and told Song Wen it had devoured the Origin Qi in the main vein and its branches, leaving only remnants that would naturally dissipate.
• Song Wen left the cavern, disguised himself as a Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivator, and traveled through the ongoing battle toward Crane-Cry Peak.
• Song Wen found two people waiting outside the treasury’s transparent barrier and learned from Profound Lord Danyang that Du Hun could enter the treasury too.

Song Wen pursued Du Hun after he emerged from the treasure vault and exposed him as a traitor to the Radiant Light Hall. Du Hun was gravely wounded by the Hall’s immortals and begged Jing Xun to save him, claiming he carried every treasure from the vault.

• Steward Zhang and two Mahayana cultivators attacked Song Wen, but he deflected their assault and pursued Du Hun as he left the treasure vault with two concealed allies.
• Du Hun fled toward the fierce aerial battle, and Song Wen struck him with golden lightning before alerting the Radiant Light Hall that Du Hun had betrayed the sect and ambushed Profound Lord Danyang.
• Three Radiant Light Hall immortals attacked Du Hun, while Jing Xun ignored his plea for help.
• Du Hun’s bronze bell was battered aside, and the mountain attack left him badly mangled but alive.
• Du Hun begged Jing Xun to save him, revealing that he carried every treasure from the Radiant Light Hall’s treasure vault.

Song Wen killed Du Hun and escaped Radiant Light Hall's assault as reinforcements from the Purple Star Immortal Sect turned the battle against the evil spirit cultivators. After Profound Lord Yuanheng killed Jing Xun, he learned that Profound Lord Danyang's life tablet had shattered and ordered a search for Bai Jinge.

• Song Wen pierced Du Hun's dantian with the Soul-Withering Dart, absorbed his body into the Blood Tide, and fled using phantoms to evade Radiant Light Hall's attacks.
• A warship bearing the Purple Star Immortal Sect's banners arrived, and its middle-aged leader swept through the evil spirit cultivators with a sword strike.
• Profound Lord Yuanheng led the sect's disciples into battle and killed Jing Xun after rejecting his plea for mercy.
• A woman told Yuan Heng that Profound Lord Danyang had lured Li Hunsheng underground while Bai Jinge fled below with an unfamiliar Lingxu Dao Immortal.
• Yuan Heng discovered that Profound Lord Danyang's life tablet had shattered and ordered his followers to find Bai Jinge.

Yuan Heng discovered that the Origin Qi contaminating the Earth Veins had been mysteriously cleansed and began searching for whoever had done it. After Bai Jinge reported that Wei Xuan had vanished following the battle that killed Profound Lord Danyang and likely Li Hunsheng, Yuan Heng suspected the Rogue Cultivator might be connected to the cleansing.

• Yuan Heng slaughtered most of the Evil Spirit Cultivators and led Radiant Light Hall underground to search for Bai Jinge.
• Yuan Heng and Li Hunsheng found that the Earth Veins had been cleansed of Origin Qi, and Yuan Heng hoped to locate the person responsible.
• A Radiant Light Hall disciple reported that Bai Jinge had been found, and Yuan Heng went to meet her.
• Bai Jinge told Yuan Heng that Wei Xuan had saved her and gone to help the injured Profound Lord Danyang before disappearing.
• A Radiant Light Hall immortal reported that Profound Lord Danyang and Li Hunsheng were likely dead and that Wei Xuan was missing.
• Yuan Heng wondered whether Wei Xuan had cleansed the Earth Veins and questioned whether he had truly gone to help Profound Lord Danyang.

Song Wen escaped Radiant Light Hall and investigated the treasures he had taken from Du Hun, learning that three rare ingredients could help him refine a pill for breaking through to the Profound Immortal Yuxiao realm. The chapter left Song Wen examining Du Hun’s pill formula and remaining ingredients.

• Profound Lord Yuanheng ordered a search for Wei Xuan while Bai Jinge chose to wait at Radiant Light Hall.
• Song Wen fled, concealed his aura, changed his appearance, and hid in a cave with the storage rings of Profound Lord Danyang, Li Hunsheng, and Du Hun.
• Song Wen questioned Du Hun and Profound Lord Danyang in his Sea of Consciousness about the small haul from Radiant Light Hall’s treasure vault.
• Du Hun explained that the vault’s treasures had individual restrictions and revealed that he had taken the Nine-Leaf Jadeblood Vine, Myriad Spirits Jade Essence, and Glazed Immortal Fruit.
• Du Hun said those treasures, along with other ten-thousand-year-old herbs in his storage ring, were ingredients for the Grand Clarity Soul-Nourishing Pill, which could help a Lingxu Dao Immortal break through to the Profound Immortal Yuxiao realm.

Song Wen questioned Du Hun and Profound Lord Danyang, learned where he might find Eight Desolations Astral Fire, and killed the three captives. After claiming their souls and valuables, he headed toward the Apricot Grove Sect to investigate the rumored fire.

• Song Wen confirmed that Du Hun had stolen the Grand Clarity Soul-Nourishing Pill recipe, six medicinal herbs, and five hundred thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones, then questioned Profound Lord Danyang about Eight Desolations Astral Fire and Profound Lord Yuanheng.
• Profound Lord Danyang asked Song Wen to torture Du Hun and Li Hunsheng with the Golden Broth Curse before killing them, and Song Wen agreed.
• Song Wen devoured the souls of Du Hun, Li Hunsheng, and Profound Lord Danyang, then gave Shadow Void soul source essence to help it advance.
• Song Wen examined the three storage rings and found Profound Lord Danyang's nine thousand mid-grade immortal spirit stones, a set of three azure flying swords, and the Five Sacred Mountains Shield.
• Song Wen left the cave and headed for the Apricot Grove Sect, which was rumored to possess Eight Desolations Astral Fire.

Song Wen arrived at Apricot Grove Sect seeking its Eight Desolations Astral Fire and forced Sect Master Ghost Bone to admit the sect possessed it. After Ghost Bone warned that the flame was too powerful for him to retrieve, Song Wen agreed to see it himself and ordered the sect-protecting array shut down.

• Song Wen found Apricot Grove Sect in a desolate, yin-filled land and revealed his Lingxu Dao Immortal aura to its guards.
• Ghost Bone met Song Wen, who requested the Eight Desolations Astral Fire, but initially denied that the sect had it.
• Song Wen threatened Ghost Bone with his deadly aura until Ghost Bone confessed the sect had nurtured the flame for ten thousand years.
• Ghost Bone explained that the flame was too powerful for ghost cultivators to approach, and Song Wen summoned his Golden Steel Corpse to pressure him.
• Song Wen agreed to accompany Ghost Bone to the flame, then ordered the sect-protecting grand array shut down.
• Ghost Bone relayed the order, and the barrier surrounding Apricot Grove Sect vanished.

Song Wen suppressed and captured the Eight Desolations Astral Fire at Apricot Grove Sect, rewarding Ghost Bone with spiritual items in exchange. Just as Song Wen prepared to leave, a pill furnace explosion drew his interest toward Elder Wan Liang, who was attempting to create a pill that could raise ghost creatures' cultivation.

• Ghost Bone explained that Apricot Grove Sect had over eight thousand members and that its formal disciples practiced alchemy alongside ghost cultivation.
• Song Wen used his Immortal Essence and bronze furnace to suppress and capture the Eight Desolations Astral Fire.
• Song Wen gave Ghost Bone several spiritual items as payment for the sect's spiritual fire.
• An explosion destroyed the peak near Elder Wan Liang's cave abode, and Ghost Bone said the elder's attempt to refine a cultivation-boosting pill for ghost creatures had likely caused it.
• Song Wen asked to meet Elder Wan Liang, and Ghost Bone agreed.