Recaps

Song Wen watched Wan Liang refine an elixir intended to help ghosts break through the ninth rank, and Shadow Void sensed that the pill could greatly benefit the Void Demon Clan. When Wan Liang ordered his reluctant contracted ghost to swallow it, Song Wen stopped the pill, and Wan Liang objected to his interference.

• Ghost Bone introduced Song Wen to Wan Liang, who explained that his elixir used living souls and was meant to help ghosts break through the ninth rank.
• Wan Liang agreed to demonstrate his alchemy and worked with several Mahayana cultivators to refine the elixir from living souls, green liquid, and medicinal ingredients.
• Wan Liang successfully refined a black pill and presented it to his early ninth-rank contracted ghost for testing.
• Shadow Void told Song Wen that consuming the pill would bring it immense benefits.
• Song Wen stopped the pill before the ghost could swallow it, and Wan Liang asserted his right to decide how to use his elixir and contracted creature.

Song Wen took Wan Liang’s pill and alchemy notes, then gave the pill to Shadow Void, whose breakthrough began after consuming it. He contacted Bai Jinge in Azure Purity City and explained how he survived the battle, while keeping Li Hunsheng’s death a mystery.

• Song Wen demanded Wan Liang’s pill and alchemy notes, then accepted them and ended the matter.
• Shadow Void consumed the pill through a tentacle and began a breakthrough, prompting Song Wen to send it more Soul Source Essence.
• Song Wen decided he needed Bai Jinge’s help with the Great Sun Golden Flame and travel to Central Mu City, then went to Azure Purity City.
• Song Wen contacted Bai Jinge, who said Profound Lord Yuanheng had arrived with reinforcements and saved the Radiant Light Hall.
• Song Wen told Bai Jinge that Li Hunsheng had killed Profound Lord Danyang, pursued him underground, and suddenly abandoned the chase before Song Wen escaped.

Song Wen and Bai Jinge discussed meeting, his journey to Central Mu City, and how to fuse the spiritfires he had gathered. Bai Jinge arranged to travel to Great Granary City under escort, but Profound Lord Yuanheng’s plan to allow no outsiders aboard left Song Wen without an obvious way to accompany her.

• Bai Jinge thanked Song Wen for risking himself to save her and urged him not to endanger his life again.
• Song Wen declined to meet Bai Jinge while Profound Lord Yuanheng remained suspicious, and they discussed her possible trip to Great Granary City.
• Song Wen asked Bai Jinge how to fuse Scarlet Sun Golden Flame, Purple Sun Spiritfire, and Eight Desolations Astral Fire into Great Sun Golden Flame; she suggested discussing it in person.
• Bai Jinge asked Profound Lord Yuanheng to let her return to Central Mu City, but he waited for her father’s instructions before arranging an escort.
• Song Wen searched Azure Purity City for poisons and spiritual items to improve his cultivation and transformations, but found little.
• Bai Jinge told Song Wen that her father had ordered Profound Lord Yuanheng to escort her to Great Granary City on a White Rainbow Sky-Patrolling Boat that would admit no outsiders.

Song Wen sought out ghost cultivators to impersonate Evil Spirit Cultivators and found the Luofeng Four Ghosts in a remote Rift Valley. He captured them and wiped out the people in their valley, then left with the four prisoners.

• Song Wen learned that Bai Jinge planned to depart in about half a month and decided he did not need her to postpone it.
• Unable to get help from Shadow Void, who was nearing a breakthrough, Song Wen searched beyond the city for ghost cultivators to use in his plan.
• Song Wen attacked the Luofeng Four Ghosts’ barrier, accused them of being Evil Spirit Cultivators, and shattered the barrier with a lightning spear.
• Song Wen subdued the four ghosts as they fled, while the black-robed Daoist tried to use Third Sister as a shield.
• Song Wen found people torturing and killing in the valley, swept them all into his Blood Tide, and departed with the Luofeng Four Ghosts.

Song Wen arranged for Bai Jinge to divert the White Rainbow Sky-Patrolling Boat toward Moonheart Lake, where he staged a battle against the Luofeng Four Ghosts. After killing three of them, he drew the surviving black-robed Daoist toward the vessel, and Elder Li ordered Lü Xuan to intercept him alive.

• Song Wen told Bai Jinge to guide the White Rainbow Sky-Patrolling Boat toward Moonheart Lake, and she agreed.
• Bai Jinge persuaded Elder Li to slow the vessel near Moonheart Lake, where they spotted a mountain exploding in the distance.
• Song Wen released the Luofeng Four Ghosts and pretended to fight them as Daoist Wan Liang, killing two with black lightning.
• Song Wen pursued the fleeing survivors, destroyed Third Sister, and left only the black-robed Daoist alive.
• Bai Jinge urged the escort to stop the last Evil Spirit Cultivator, and Elder Li ordered Lü Xuan to capture him alive.

Song Wen killed the black-robed Daoist despite Lü Xuan ordering him to stop, then persuaded Bai Jinge that he had not acted to destroy evidence. After Song Wen claimed severe injuries and asked to travel with the group to Great Granary City, Bai Jinge agreed, but Elder Li objected.

• Lü Xuan tried to stop Song Wen's lightning attack, but it shattered the black-robed Daoist's chain shield and killed him.
• Lü Xuan threatened Song Wen, who denied deliberately defying her and argued the dead men were Evil Spirit Cultivators.
• Song Wen spat blood and pretended his meridians were badly injured, prompting Bai Jinge to urge Lü Xuan to let the matter go.
• Bai Jinge offered Song Wen healing pills but said the group could not take him to Great Granary City.
• Song Wen revealed he wanted to reach Great Granary City to prepare for his third Heavenly Tribulation and asked to join them; Bai Jinge agreed, while Elder Li objected.

Song Wen persuaded Bai Jinge to let him travel with the Purple Star Immortal Sect group to Great Granary City, despite Elder Li’s suspicions. After eight months aboard the ship, he arrived safely and headed into the city, intending to reach Central Mu City.

• Bai Jinge overruled Elder Li’s objections and allowed Song Wen, who called himself Wan Liang, to board the flying ship to Great Granary City.
• Song Wen offered Elder Li the Annihilation Yang Thunder cultivation method, but Elder Li continued questioning him about his origins.
• Song Wen spent eight months traveling with Bai Jinge and the others, during which their suspicions of him gradually faded.
• The flying ship stopped less than a hundred li from Great Granary City, and Bai Jinge gave Song Wen a token before leaving for Vast Righteous Hall with Elder Li and the others.
• Song Wen headed toward Great Granary City, planning to use the Big Dipper Trading House’s teleportation array to reach Central Mu City.

Song Wen confirmed he was not being followed, learned that the Big Dipper Trading House’s Teleportation Array to Central Mu City would cost three hundred thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones, and met Bai Jinge in Great Granary City. After spending several weeks together, they faced her impending return to the Purple Star Immortal Sect, and Bai Jinge proposed that Song Wen travel with her and meet her father.

• Song Wen traveled far from Great Granary City to make sure no one was following him, then changed his appearance and returned.
• Song Wen learned that the Big Dipper Trading House’s Teleportation Array opened in about a year and required three hundred thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones for a pass.
• Bai Jinge contacted Song Wen, met him at an inn, and asked him to change back to his real appearance before embracing him.
• Song Wen and Bai Jinge spent several weeks together before she explained that her father had ordered her to return to the Purple Star Immortal Sect.
• Song Wen promised to contact Bai Jinge after reaching Central Mu City, and she suggested that he accompany her and meet her father at the Vast Righteous Hall.

Song Wen reassured Bai Jinge rather than agree to meet her father, then accepted the Great Sun Golden Flame Fusion Method she brought him. After escaping the city and studying the method in seclusion, he prepared to attempt the dangerous fusion.

• Song Wen persuaded Bai Jinge to stop doubting his feelings and put off telling her father about their relationship.
• Bai Jinge gave Song Wen a Jade Slip containing the Great Sun Golden Flame Fusion Method and warned him not to attempt the fusion without understanding it.
• After Bai Jinge left, Song Wen disguised himself and slipped out of the city to avoid anyone Vast Righteous Hall might have sent to follow her.
• Song Wen found a secluded underwater ravine, set up a defensive formation, and studied the fusion method.
• Over several months, Song Wen learned the runes, practiced forming the fire bridges, and mentally rehearsed the final step.
• Song Wen decided that he had thoroughly comprehended the method and wondered whether he could try the fusion.

Song Wen risked his life merging three spirit flames into the Great Sun Golden Flame. After swallowing the newly formed flame, he left the devastated lake to recover elsewhere.

• Song Wen restrained the three spirit flames and drew them together with rune bridges, despite their violent resistance and the rapid loss of his Immortal Essence and divine sense.
• Song Wen forced the three flames into a single fireball and used Blood Spirit Sacrifice to replenish his dwindling Immortal Essence as the blazing-white chains began to crack.
• The chains shattered, and the fireball erupted, blasting Song Wen away, destroying the array and ravine, and boiling the lake.
• The flames condensed into the Great Sun Golden Flame, which Song Wen controlled and swallowed into his dantian.
• Song Wen lamented that he needed an immortal-grade Blood-Burning Secret Art, swallowed a medicinal pill, and left the area.

Song Wen bought the last teleportation token to Central Mu City and settled into lodging provided by the Big Dipper Trading House. The next day, Xiao Yuankui confronted him and demanded the token, offering two hundred thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones.

• Song Wen arrived in Great Granary City under the name Gu Huang and paid three hundred thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones for the last token to Central Mu City.
• A Big Dipper Trading House attendant led Song Wen to a guarded courtyard and showed him how to enter a cabin where he could wait for the teleportation array to open.
• The following day, Xiao Yuankui and a middle-aged cultivator visited Song Wen's cabin, claiming they wanted to discuss cultivation.
• Song Wen tried to refuse them by citing his injuries and lack of time, but Xiao Yuankui introduced himself as the son of the Mo Mountain Xiao Household's head.
• Xiao Yuankui demanded Song Wen's teleportation token and offered him two hundred thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones in exchange.

Song Wen refused Xiao Yuankui's demand for his Teleportation Token and endured his threats while waiting for the Teleportation Array to open. The array was activated, and Song Wen joined the other token holders inside the hall as they prepared to enter the formation.

• Song Wen rejected Xiao Yuankui's offer, and Xiao Yuankui threatened him before his attack on the house was stopped by its barrier.
• Yanzong persuaded Xiao Yuankui to leave when guards arrived, and Song Wen waited several days without further trouble.
• Xiao Yuankui confronted Song Wen again and threatened to kill him near Central Mu City, but Song Wen refused to hand over the token.
• A cyan-robed woman opened the hall and activated the Teleportation Array.
• Song Wen and the other nine token holders entered the hall, and the cyan-robed woman told them to enter the formation.

Song Wen arrived at Central Mu City with the teleportation group and wondered why Bai Jinge had not come to meet him. Xiao Yuankui’s mother confronted Song Wen after Xiao attacked him, leaving Song Wen facing a stronger opponent near the city.

• Song Wen and the others teleported to a mountain outside Central Mu City, where Li Bei guided them down through the trading house’s restricted grounds.
• Song Wen noticed Bai Jinge was absent from the people waiting beyond the barrier and wondered why she had not come.
• Xiao Yuankui’s mother welcomed him back, then asked why Yanzong had not returned with him.
• When Gu Huang flew away, Xiao Yuankui accused Song Wen of offending him and attacked with nine fan ribs.
• Song Wen repelled the fan ribs with white-gold True Fire, and Xiao Yuankui’s mother drew her Jade-White Longsword to fight him.
• Song Wen recognized that she was at Lingxu Dao Immortal Peak and worried that a battle near Central Mu City could provoke powerful forces.

Song Wen fled the beautiful woman after surviving her first strike, using lightning and flame to hold off her relentless pursuit. In the uninhabited Gobi Desert, he transformed into a Vermilion Bird and gained the upper hand against her Jade-White Flying Sword.

• Song Wen escaped the beautiful woman's beheading strike with the Death-Substitution Spell, and she pursued him after recognizing he was still alive.
• The beautiful woman’s Taiyin cold qi froze and knocked away Song Wen’s Five-Foot Bone Sword, while her Jade-White Flying Sword pierced his fiery dragon.
• Song Wen used golden lightning and great sun golden flame to weaken the flying sword and keep fleeing as the beautiful woman pursued him for millions of li.
• In the empty Gobi Desert, Song Wen stopped and transformed into a Vermilion Bird, whose stronger flame pinned down and began burning away the Jade-White Flying Sword.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue fought fiercely, each destroying the other's defenses before Song Wen's Lightning Sphere damaged her inner armor. They agreed to stop fighting, but remained wary as Song Wen put away his Bone Sword.

• Jiang Wanyue enlarged the Jade-White Flying Sword and repeatedly attacked the Vermilion Bird, then formed an Ice Crystal Giant Sword to trap him between the two weapons.
• The Vermilion Bird shattered the Ice Crystal Giant Sword, but Jiang Wanyue's Jade-White Flying Sword struck his back and destroyed him.
• Song Wen, restored to human form, attacked Jiang Wanyue with his Bone Sword and broke her ice shield before she could retreat.
• Song Wen hit Jiang Wanyue with a Lightning Sphere, but her inner armor helped her survive the blast.
• Jiang Wanyue proposed ending the fight, and Song Wen agreed while asking her name and complimenting her beauty.
• Jiang Wanyue challenged Song Wen to put away his weapon, and he made the Bone Sword vanish.

Song Wen drove Jiang Wanyue away with a soul attack, then gathered information and explored Central Mu City while considering his next move. He decided to head to the Mo Mountain Xiao Household to seek revenge on Xiao Yuankui.

• Song Wen struck Jiang Wanyue with nine transparent blades, broke through her bronze bell barrier, and forced her to flee.
• Song Wen chose not to pursue Jiang Wanyue and left after taunting her about meeting again.
• Song Wen returned to Central Mu City in disguise and bought a map and public information about the Xiao Household, including details about Jiang Wanyue and Xiao Yuankui.
• Song Wen learned that the intelligence shop would not provide information about the Dust-Slaying Profound Lord and spent several days exploring Central Mu City.
• Song Wen weighed settling in the city against going to the Mo Mountain Xiao Household, then chose to pursue revenge on Xiao Yuankui.

Song Wen investigated Xiao Yuankui and sought out Qing Shuang, one of the women Xiao had ruined, hoping to use her to lure him into a trap. Qing Shuang agreed that she hated Xiao but doubted she could draw him out, and Song Wen proposed a risky plan.

• Song Wen learned that Xiao Yuankui preyed on women, discarded them, and carefully avoided serious consequences, making him difficult to approach.
• Song Wen decided to lure Xiao Yuankui with a peerless beauty and went to Cold River Gate to find Qing Shuang.
• Song Wen told Qing Shuang that Xiao Yuankui had destroyed her cultivation path and offered to help her take revenge.
• Song Wen revealed that he was in the Immortal Realm and asked Qing Shuang to draw Xiao Yuankui out alone.
• Qing Shuang said she hated Xiao Yuankui but doubted he would pursue her again, and Song Wen said his plan could work if she accepted some hardship and risk.

Song Wen, using the name Extreme Yin, took Qing Shuang with him to prepare her as bait for Xiao Yuankui. He bought her three powerful enchanted garments and left her to learn makeup and hairstyling while he waited.

• Qing Shuang agreed to risk her life to help kill Xiao Yuankui, and Song Wen told her to pack and say farewell to her fellow disciples.
• Song Wen brought Qing Shuang aboard his airship, gave her a veil to conceal her face and aura, and said she needed better clothes.
• Song Wen took Qing Shuang to a clothing shop in Northwind City and rejected its ordinary garments as inadequate.
• The shop manager showed them three prized enchanted garments, and Song Wen bought all three for Qing Shuang.
• Qing Shuang followed the manager to learn hairstyling and makeup while Song Wen waited in a tearoom.

Song Wen brought Qing Shuang to Ink Wind City disguised as a powerful old servant accompanying a veiled young woman, then rented a lavish courtyard at the Looking-Immortal Inn. Qing Shuang withdrew to the quiet room while Song Wen remained outside, and their plan was set to begin.

• Song Wen approved Qing Shuang's appearance in the Flowing Cloud Raiment and paid the alluring man to keep her beauty secret.
• Song Wen and Qing Shuang left Northwind City by flying ship and traveled to Ink Wind City.
• Song Wen arrived disguised as an Early Lingxu Dao Immortal Stage cultivator, with Qing Shuang posing as his young mistress and him as her servant, Wang.
• Song Wen rented Heaven-class Courtyard Six at the Looking-Immortal Inn for ten days and received the courtyard's control token.
• Qing Shuang entered the quiet room, while Song Wen sat beside the courtyard's stone table like a loyal old servant.

Qing Shuang and Song Wen posed as a wealthy young miss and her guard while exploring Ink Wind City, where Zhu Yanqiu invited them to dine. Qing Shuang claimed she needed a rare treasure to heal an injured friend, leaving Zhu Yanqiu an opening to offer help.

• Qing Shuang shopped around Ink Wind City while Song Wen followed in disguise as her guard, and the pair became familiar to locals.
• At the Drunken Star Tower, Zhu Yanqiu approached Qing Shuang, but Song Wen stepped between them until Qing Shuang allowed the young sect master to join them.
• Zhu Yanqiu introduced his companion, Yuan Hua, and Qing Shuang claimed to be from the powerful Leng Family of Boundless City.
• Qing Shuang said she had traveled to Ink Wind City to broaden her horizons, while Zhu Yanqiu explained that he accompanied Yuan Hua on a transaction mission to the Xiao Household.
• Qing Shuang told Zhu Yanqiu that a female friend had been gravely injured and that she was searching for a rare treasure to restore the friend's foundation.

Song Wen and Qing Shuang used the promise of a foundation-repairing treasure to draw Xiao Yuankui toward them. Zhu Yanqiu revealed a Seven-Colored Lotus in the Spirit-Devouring Mountains, and the chapter left Qing Shuang face-to-face with Xiao Yuankui, who had not recognized her.

• Qing Shuang asked Zhu Yanqiu about treasures that could repair a damaged foundation, and he promised to find one for her.
• Two days later, Zhu Yanqiu told Qing Shuang that a Seven-Colored Lotus had been spotted in a valley in the Spirit-Devouring Mountains, guarded by a powerful flood dragon.
• Zhu Yanqiu gave Qing Shuang a jade slip marked with the valley's location as someone knocked at the courtyard gate.
• Song Wen opened the gate to Xiao Yuankui, who ignored him and focused on Qing Shuang.
• Qing Shuang invited Xiao Yuankui into the courtyard and introduced herself as Leng Shuang of the Leng Family in Boundless City.

Qing Shuang rejected Xiao Yuankui’s offer to gift her a Foundation-repairing treasure and planned to seek a Seven-Colored Lotus in the Spirit-Devouring Mountains. Xiao Yuankui joined the expedition and threatened Zhu Yanqiu, leaving Qing Shuang asking Zhu Yanqiu to withdraw.

• Xiao Yuankui offered Qing Shuang a treasure to repair her Foundation, but she insisted she would only buy it with Spirit Stones.
• Qing Shuang thanked Zhu Yanqiu for information about the Seven-Colored Lotus and agreed to travel with him to the Spirit-Devouring Mountains the next morning.
• Xiao Yuankui announced that he would join them, claiming his experience in the mountains would help them find the lotus.
• Xiao Yuankui insulted Zhu Yanqiu and threatened to keep him from leaving Ink Wind City, prompting Qing Shuang to ask Zhu Yanqiu to withdraw from the trip.

Song Wen and Qing Shuang drove Zhu Yanqiu away and prepared to travel with Xiao Yuankui to the Spirit-Devouring Mountains, where Song Wen planned to kill Xiao. Xiao brought Dao Lord Gou Yi, whose Corpse King Blood Refinement Art gave Song Wen an unexpected target, while her questions tested Qing Shuang’s claimed identity. The group set off together, with Song Wen steering the flying ship.

• Qing Shuang sent Zhu Yanqiu away to avoid involving him in the plan against Xiao Yuankui, and Song Wen believed this had saved Zhu’s life.
• Xiao Yuankui tried to persuade Qing Shuang to remove her veil, but backed down when Song Wen moved closer; Qing Shuang then sent him away to prepare for their departure.
• The next morning, Song Wen and Qing Shuang left Ink Wind City aboard their flying ship, and Xiao Yuankui arrived with Dao Lord Gou Yi, a guest elder of the Xiao Household.
• Song Wen recognized that Gou Yi cultivated the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art and saw her arrival as an unexpected opportunity.
• Gou Yi asked Qing Shuang about Leng Wuji to test her claimed identity, but Qing Shuang calmly denied knowing him.
• Song Wen steered the ship toward the Spirit-Devouring Mountains as Qing Shuang, Xiao Yuankui, and Gou Yi sat together on deck.

Song Wen, Qing Shuang, Xiao Yuankui, and Gou Yi entered the Spirit-Devouring Mountains, where Xiao Yuankui’s pursuit of Qing Shuang provoked Gou Yi into revealing her affair with him. The group remained divided as Gou Yi turned her anger toward Qing Shuang and Qing Shuang warned her against harming a member of the Leng Family.

• Song Wen stored the large flying ship, and Xiao Yuankui offered to carry Qing Shuang while Gou Yi agreed to guard the rear.
• Qing Shuang refused Xiao Yuankui’s offer and said she trusted Song Wen, prompting Gou Yi to accuse her of manipulating him.
• Xiao Yuankui ordered Gou Yi to stop, but Gou Yi confessed that she had slept with him and repeated his private claims about his feelings for her.
• Xiao Yuankui severed his ties with Gou Yi, who pleaded with him and offered to help him get rid of Song Wen so he could have Qing Shuang.
• Qing Shuang warned Gou Yi that the Leng Family of Boundless City would retaliate if she harmed her.

Song Wen lured Xiao Yuankui and Gou Yi away from Ink Wind City, then used his hidden soul attack and lightning arts to defeat them. He captured both Dao Immortals and left Qing Shuang astonished.

• Gou Yi dismissed Qing Shuang’s claim of being from the Leng Family and sent her Golden Steel Corpse to attack Song Wen.
• Song Wen fought the corpse with a lightning spear, then revealed nine transparent blades that struck Gou Yi and Xiao Yuankui with a soul attack.
• Gou Yi fell from the sky, and Song Wen dragged her into a blood pool while Xiao Yuankui escaped on a flying boat.
• Song Wen struck Xiao Yuankui’s boat with a golden Lightning Sphere and used tentacles to retrieve him and the boat.
• Qing Shuang flew over and expressed surprise and delight that Song Wen had captured both Dao Immortals.