Recaps

Song Wen and Qing Shuang captured Gou Yi and Xiao Yuankui, and Qing Shuang confronted Xiao Yuankui over how he had ruined her cultivation. Song Wen identified himself to Xiao Yuankui and questioned Gou Yi, learning that Jiang Wanyue had given her the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art and assigned her to protect Xiao Yuankui; the source of Jiang Wanyue’s art remained unknown.

• Song Wen took Gou Yi and Xiao Yuankui to a beast’s cave in the Spirit-Devouring Mountains and questioned them about their capture.
• Qing Shuang revealed her identity to Xiao Yuankui and tried to kill him to avenge his theft of her yin essence, but Song Wen stopped her before she could finish him.
• Song Wen revealed himself as Gu Huang to Xiao Yuankui, then sent Qing Shuang outside and sealed the cave against spies.
• Song Wen asked Gou Yi where she had obtained the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art, and she said Jiang Wanyue had given her an incomplete version.
• Gou Yi explained that Jiang Wanyue had required her to join the Xiao Household and protect Xiao Yuankui, leaving Song Wen to wonder who had supplied Jiang Wanyue with the art.

Song Wen questioned Gou Yi and Xiao Yuankui about the Xiao Household's cultivators and their techniques, then decided to use Xiao Yuankui to draw out Jiang Wanyue. He killed Gou Yi and left Xiao Yuankui to Qing Shuang.

• Song Wen learned from Gou Yi that few Xiao Household members practiced the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art and that she could not identify the other Profound Immortals Yuxiao's cultivation arts.
• Xiao Yuankui told Song Wen that Xiao Wenyan practiced the Blazing Sun True Scripture and warned that killing him would transfer Jiang Wanyue's Soul Remnant to Song Wen.
• Xiao Yuankui offered to help Song Wen get close to his mother, but Song Wen slapped him and rejected him as an unfilial son.
• Song Wen killed Gou Yi by draining her soul, essence blood, and cultivation, then called Qing Shuang over.
• Song Wen handed Xiao Yuankui to Qing Shuang, who attacked him despite his attempt to threaten her with his mother's Soul Remnant.

Song Wen killed Xiao Yuankui and secretly confirmed that Jiang Wanyue’s Soul Remnant was hidden within Qing Shuang, then took her to seek a Seven-Colored Lotus. At the valley, a powerful flood dragon attacked them, and Song Wen’s lightning failed to stop it.

• Song Wen sealed Xiao Yuankui’s voice, killed him, captured his soul, and burned his body after Qing Shuang struck the corpse in anger.
• Song Wen examined Qing Shuang and discovered that Jiang Wanyue’s Soul Remnant was hidden around her Nascent Soul.
• Jiang Wanyue learned that Xiao Yuankui had died, summoned her subordinates, and ordered them to investigate his recent encounters and call the clan leader.
• Song Wen took Qing Shuang toward the valley to find a Seven-Colored Lotus, intending to keep her close and use her to draw Jiang Wanyue out.
• Song Wen sensed unusual Immortal Spiritual Qi at the valley’s deep pool, where his divine sense could not penetrate the icy water.
• A huge flood dragon emerged from the river and attacked Song Wen and Qing Shuang, but it charged through Song Wen’s Lightning Sphere unharmed.

Song Wen killed the flood dragon and recovered the Seven-Colored Lotus, giving it to Qing Shuang to repair her Foundation. Fearing pursuit by the Xiao Household, he took her deeper into the Spirit-Devouring Mountains and left her hidden in an underwater formation while he went to investigate.

• Song Wen transformed into a giant ape, wounded the flood dragon with Nine Transparent Blades, and killed it after dragging it from the river.
• Song Wen sealed the flood dragon's body and found the Seven-Colored Lotus growing in a deep pool.
• Song Wen gave the Seven-Colored Lotus to Qing Shuang and suggested she use its seeds and roots to repair her Foundation.
• Qing Shuang warned that the Xiao Household might pursue them, so Song Wen took her deeper into the Spirit-Devouring Mountains.
• Song Wen hid Qing Shuang in an underwater cave protected by an immortal-grade concealment formation and went out to investigate.

Song Wen hid near Qing Shuang and Xiao Yuankui’s soul while Jiang Wanyue and two Xiao Household cultivators arrived at the lake. After Elder Xu warned her against entering a possible trap, Jiang Wanyue followed Xiao Qiuhe’s plan to drain the lake.

• Song Wen concealed Xiao Yuankui’s soul in a Soul Bottle, then hid underground where he could watch both the bottle and Qing Shuang.
• Jiang Wanyue arrived with Elder Xu and Xiao Qiuhe and declared that her son’s killer was beneath the lake.
• Elder Xu warned Jiang Wanyue that the killer might have help and urged her to wait for Xiao Wenyan, who was away at the Sword-Seeking Sect.
• Xiao Qiuhe suggested draining the lake, and Jiang Wanyue agreed.
• Jiang Wanyue used her Jade-White Longsword to cleave a vast fissure in the earth, causing the lake water to drain into it.

Song Wen emerged from hiding to confront Jiang Wanyue, admitting he had killed Xiao Yuankui and displaying his soul to force her to negotiate. After confirming no other Xiao Household experts were nearby, he asked Jiang Wanyue to dismiss her companions so he could question her privately.

• Jiang Wanyue and her companions drained the Lake and discovered a Cave where she sensed Qing Shuang was hiding.
• Song Wen emerged from underground with the Soul Bottle after sensing no movement from the Cave.
• Song Wen admitted to Jiang Wanyue that he had killed Xiao Yuankui and held his soul in the Soul Bottle.
• Jiang Wanyue stopped her sword attack when Song Wen threatened the Soul Bottle and offered to meet his demands to save her son’s soul.
• Song Wen asked Jiang Wanyue to dismiss Xiao Qiuhe and Elder Xu before he questioned her, and she told them to leave.

Song Wen confronted Jiang Wanyue over her connection to the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art and learned that the Purple Star Immortal Sect’s Nine-Thunder Profound Lord had given it to her. Jiang Wanyue named two other Xiao Household cultivators who practiced the art, and Song Wen reacted with keen interest.

• Elder Xu broke Song Wen’s concealment formation, exposing Qing Shuang, and Jiang Wanyue seized her to bargain for Xiao Yuankui’s soul.
• Song Wen dismissed Qing Shuang as a pawn and demanded that Elder Xu and Xiao Qiuhe leave; Jiang Wanyue sent them away.
• Song Wen questioned Jiang Wanyue about the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art, and she admitted that she had obtained the incomplete text from the Nine-Thunder Profound Lord of the Purple Star Immortal Sect.
• Jiang Wanyue said she had taught the art to several dozen people, including Ji Jinglun and the Corpse Daoist Yin, both late lingxu dao immortals, and Song Wen’s eyes lit up.

Song Wen refused to give Jiang Wanyue Xiao Yuankui’s soul unless she captured Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin alive, so Jiang attacked him. Elder Xu joined the battle, and Jiang’s sword cut off Song Wen’s Vermilion Bird head after his body was struck by a Wooden Nail.

• Song Wen demanded that Jiang Wanyue capture Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin alive before he would hand over Xiao Yuankui’s soul, and Jiang attacked when he refused to yield it.
• Jiang’s enormous sword and Song Wen’s Vermilion Bird form clashed in a stalemate until Elder Xu arrived alone to help her.
• Elder Xu sent six Wooden Nails at the Vermilion Bird while Jiang’s sword forced Song Wen to defend himself on two fronts.
• Song Wen knocked aside five Wooden Nails, but the last grazed his left wing and made his body stiffen.
• Jiang’s sword shrank back to normal size as the Vermilion Bird remained rigid, and it swept through his neck, sending his head flying.

Song Wen escaped Jiang Wanyue and Elder Xu’s attacks, purged the poison in his wound, and killed Elder Xu. He then threatened to destroy Xiao Yuankui’s soul unless Jiang Wanyue negotiated, leaving her pleading for terms that would spare her son.

• Song Wen used a death-substitution spell to escape the Vermilion Bird’s destruction, but discovered that Elder Xu’s wooden spike had poisoned him with Immortal-Eroding Powder.
• Song Wen purged the poison with his withered-yellow spiritual glow, transformed into a Thunder Roc, and charged at Elder Xu while Jiang Wanyue blocked his path with an ice shield.
• Song Wen used the Thunder Roc’s destruction as a feint, appeared behind Elder Xu, and struck him with the Five-Foot Bone Sword and Nine Transparent Blades.
• Song Wen absorbed Elder Xu completely with his blood, leaving no bones or soul, and announced that he would kill Jiang Wanyue too.
• Jiang Wanyue offered to exchange Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin for Xiao Yuankui’s soul, but Song Wen threatened to destroy the soul if she fled.
• Jiang Wanyue asked Song Wen to name other conditions, as long as he left her son a chance to live.

Song Wen refused Jiang Wanyue’s attempts to delay him and set off with the rescued Qing Shuang, but stopped when Jiang Wanyue offered to seal her cultivation. She revealed that she wanted both her son’s soul and the secret behind the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art, then activated a Soul-Concealing Talisman.

• Song Wen pulled the badly injured Qing Shuang from the mud, cleansed her, and helped her recover with a pill and Immortal Essence.
• Jiang Wanyue tried to delay Song Wen by offering herself, but he rejected her advances and prepared to leave with Qing Shuang.
• Jiang Wanyue pursued Song Wen and offered to capture Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin alive in exchange for her son’s soul, then stopped him by offering to seal her cultivation.
• Jiang Wanyue admitted she wanted to learn the secret of the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art, hoping it could help her break through her cultivation bottleneck.
• Song Wen confirmed that Jiang Wanyue had guessed much of the truth but refused to explain further, and Jiang Wanyue activated a Soul-Concealing Talisman.

Song Wen took Jiang Wanyue aboard his flying ship and spent days with her while Qing Shuang recovered. After Jiang Wanyue removed the soul remnant from Qing Shuang, she invited Song Wen back to their room and offered to include Qing Shuang.

• Jiang Wanyue reversed her immortal essence into her dantian, and Song Wen carried her and Qing Shuang aboard his flying ship.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue spent fifteen days together in the Ship Pavilion while the ship traveled away from the Spirit-Devouring Mountains.
• Song Wen checked on Qing Shuang, who thanked him for helping her avenge her blood feud and giving her the Seven-Colored Lotus.
• Qing Shuang offered to attend to Song Wen, then asked him to remove the mark Jiang Wanyue had placed on her.
• Jiang Wanyue erased the soul remnant from Qing Shuang and proposed ending the grudge between Qing Shuang and Xiao Yuankui.
• Jiang Wanyue invited Song Wen back to the room and said Qing Shuang could join them.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue planned to capture Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin, while Jiang Wanyue prepared to leave for Ink Wind City. After she departed, Song Wen offered Qing Shuang a protected place to consume the Seven-Colored Lotus, and they chose a cave for her seclusion.

• Jiang Wanyue discussed two ways to capture Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin, and Song Wen agreed to lure them out together.
• Jiang Wanyue gave Song Wen a communication Jade Slip and left for Ink Wind City, while Song Wen stayed behind with Qing Shuang.
• Qing Shuang revealed she had been awake and said she would leave, but Song Wen asked when she planned to consume the Seven-Colored Lotus.
• Song Wen offered to protect Qing Shuang in seclusion with an Immortal-Tier Concealment Formation, and she accepted.
• Song Wen put away the flying ship and chose a spacious natural cave in a valley for the formation.

Song Wen set up formations for Qing Shuang, then left her in the cave as part of a test of Jiang Wanyue’s intentions. While waiting in Ink Wind City, he learned that Corpse Daoist Yin was absent and that Jiang Wanyue had no immediate way to locate him.

• Song Wen placed Qing Shuang in a cave protected by a Spirit-Gathering Formation and a concealed defensive formation, warning her to wait until her injuries healed before taking the Seven-Colored Lotus.
• Song Wen revealed that he had marked Qing Shuang and altered the formation to keep her confined, using her safety to test whether Jiang Wanyue would bring the Xiao Household after him.
• Song Wen disguised himself as a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator and spent seven days in Ink Flight City without detecting trouble at Qing Shuang’s cave.
• Jiang Wanyue told Song Wen that Ji Jinglun was at the Xiao Household but Corpse Daoist Yin had been gone for half a month, so they agreed to wait rather than risk searching for his life tablet.
• Jiang Wanyue said Xiao Wenyan had shown little concern for her disappearance or their son’s death, and Song Wen declined to meet her in person.
• After ending the conversation, Song Wen looked at the Greenwood Spirit Liquid Jiang Wanyue had given him.

Song Wen tested the Greenwood Spirit Liquid by forcing Bai Jun to consume a diluted drop. Bai Jun suffered no apparent harm but was overwhelmed by arousal, and Song Wen resolved to confront Jiang Wanyue over her urging him to drink a whole bottle.

• Song Wen left Ink Wind City and intercepted Bai Jun, a mid Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, to test the Greenwood Spirit Liquid.
• Song Wen diluted the spirit liquid with Thousand-Year Spirit Marrow and ordered Bai Jun to swallow a drop while promising to intervene if anything went wrong.
• Bai Jun absorbed most of the ordinary spiritual qi and dispersed most of the immortal spiritual qi without suffering apparent injury.
• Bai Jun reported intense heat and an urgent need for release, leading Song Wen to conclude that the spirit liquid’s side effects were pronounced.
• Song Wen gripped the bottle and resolved to make Jiang Wanyue answer for urging him to drink an entire bottle.

Song Wen learned that Corpse Daoist Yin had gone to the newly emerged ruins in Withered Glory Valley and coordinated with Jiang Wanyue to pursue him. Jiang Wanyue confirmed Yin's location, lured Ji Jinglun into the expedition, and told Song Wen he would join them disguised as expendable cannon fodder.

• Song Wen gave Bai Jun a globule of mixed spiritual liquid and a thousand Supreme-grade Spirit Stones, and Bai Jun told him about the Elder Ancient Palace in Withered Glory Valley.
• Song Wen suspected Corpse Daoist Yin had suppressed news of the palace and might be inside, so he paid Bai Jun ten thousand Supreme-grade Spirit Stones to keep the information secret.
• Song Wen contacted Jiang Wanyue, who checked Corpse Daoist Yin's Life Token and confirmed he was headed toward Withered Glory Valley.
• Song Wen suggested luring Ji Jinglun to the ruins so they could target both him and Corpse Daoist Yin.
• Jiang Wanyue persuaded Ji Jinglun to join the expedition and told him Song Wen would come along as a rogue cultivator serving as cannon fodder.

Song Wen joined Jiang Wanyue and Ji Jinglun under the alias Gu Huang to search for Elder Ruins in Withered Glory Valley. The three reached the valley, where Song Wen warned Ji Jinglun not to enter recklessly and offered to scout ahead.

• Song Wen left the city and met Jiang Wanyue and Ji Jinglun outside it, concealing his face and aura.
• Ji Jinglun challenged Song Wen’s secrecy, but Jiang Wanyue persuaded them both to agree to cooperate in the ruins.
• Song Wen recognized that Jiang Wanyue and Ji Jinglun had staged their exchange to lower his guard, though he hid his suspicions.
• Ji Jinglun summoned a flying ship, and the three traveled to Withered Glory Valley in the Spirit-Devouring Mountains.
• The three found the rift valley filled with dense corpse qi, and Song Wen stopped Ji Jinglun from rushing in and offered to scout ahead.

Song Wen, Jiang Wanyue, and Ji Jinglun descended into a corpse-filled rift, where Gloom Vines and a Corpse Moth Swarm attacked them. After Ji Jinglun drove off the moths, the group found a cave that might contain the underground palace and sent Song Wen’s Golden Steel Corpse inside to scout.

• Song Wen sent his Golden Steel Corpse ahead as the three companions descended through the rift and avoided its corpse-feeding creatures.
• Gloom Vines attacked the Golden Steel Corpse, drawing out a swarm of poisonous Corpse Moths that threatened the three companions.
• Jiang Wanyue shielded the group with Taiyin Cold Qi, while Ji Jinglun used a Bone Banner’s black mist to kill the moths and drive the swarm away.
• Ji Jinglun remarked on the Golden Steel Corpse’s damage but refused to explain the killing intent in his black mist when Song Wen asked about it.
• Jiang Wanyue spotted a large cave entrance behind the severed Gloom Vines, and the companions suspected it led to the underground palace.
• Song Wen sent his Golden Steel Corpse into the cave to scout ahead.

Song Wen, Jiang Wanyue, and Ji Jinglun followed the Corpse Puppet through a cave and discovered signs that a corpse cultivator had passed ahead of them. They reached the Nether Womb Palace, where a powerful corpse-path restriction repelled Song Wen’s Golden Steel Corpse, leaving them to wonder what the palace was.

• Ji Jinglun found a fresh fissure in the cave wall and deduced that a corpse cultivator had recently passed through.
• Jiang Wanyue could not explain how she had learned about the Underground Palace, and Ji Jinglun suspected someone had deliberately lured them there.
• Ji Jinglun refused to retreat, and the three continued onward with Song Wen’s Corpse Puppet ahead of them.
• The group reached a sealed stone door marked Nether Womb Palace, and Song Wen’s Golden Steel Corpse was thrown back by its restriction.
• Jiang Wanyue asked whether they knew the palace’s name, and Song Wen speculated that someone might have buried themselves there to be reborn through a secret art.

Song Wen, Ji Jinglun, and Jiang Wanyue forced open the stone door and entered the Underground Palace, where murals revealed its connection to the underworld and a strange form of reincarnation. The chapter ended with Jiang Wanyue interpreting a sequence of images that showed a slain figure reborn as a child and later killing his former enemy.

• Ji Jinglun, Jiang Wanyue, and Song Wen agreed to break the stone door by striking it together.
• Jiang Wanyue froze the door's protective light, Ji Jinglun shattered the ice with his killing intent, and Song Wen's Golden Steel Corpse split the door with Startling Wind.
• Ji Jinglun, Song Wen, and Jiang Wanyue entered the passage and discussed its eroded murals of ghosts and underworld punishments.
• The three reached an empty circular chamber, where Jiang Wanyue noticed eight well-preserved ceiling murals depicting a yellow-robed figure's death, rebirth as a child, growth in power, and revenge.
• Jiang Wanyue suggested the murals showed that the figure gained great strength through reincarnation and rebirth.

Jiang Wanyue, Ji Jinglun, and Song Wen descended into the Underground Palace and found Corpse Daoist Yin beside a coffin suspended above a stone platform. Ji Jinglun triggered the platform’s gravity restriction, and he accused Yin of failing to warn him.

• Jiang Wanyue and Ji Jinglun speculated that the Underground Palace might contain a method to reconstruct the flesh and increase strength after rebirth, while Song Wen doubted the idea.
• Ji Jinglun, Jiang Wanyue, Song Wen, and the Golden Steel Corpse traveled through a narrow passage and leaped down a deep cliff into an immense underground cavern.
• Song Wen heard a faint clattering sound, and the group followed it to a stone platform ringed by nine golden dragon pillars, where chains suspended a Bronze Corpse Coffin above Corpse Daoist Yin.
• Jiang Wanyue recognized Corpse Daoist Yin, and he told the group that he had found nothing since arriving at the ruins.
• Ji Jinglun approached the platform and fell onto it when its gravity restriction activated; he then demanded to know why Corpse Daoist Yin had not warned him.

Corpse Daoist Yin revealed that Ji Jinglun and he were trapped on the stone platform, so Jiang Wanyue proposed they cooperate with her and Gu Huang to break the restrictions. After Gu Huang destroyed one golden dragon’s head and dispelled the gravitational restriction, the other eight dragons awakened and targeted him.

• Ji Jinglun tried to leave the stone platform but found an azure Confinement Formation blocking his way, and its backlash injured his palm.
• Corpse Daoist Yin explained that he was trapped by the gravitational restriction, and Jiang Wanyue persuaded him and Ji Jinglun to cooperate with her and Gu Huang.
• Corpse Daoist Yin proposed that he and Ji Jinglun attack the platform while Jiang Wanyue and Gu Huang struck the stone pillars.
• Jiang Wanyue and Gu Huang attacked a pillar, but its golden dragon fired rays that knocked away Gu Huang’s Startling Wind Sword and forced Jiang Wanyue to shield him.
• Gu Huang redirected the Startling Wind Sword toward the golden dragon’s neck and severed its head, causing the gravitational restriction to collapse and the Bronze Corpse Coffin to sway.
• The other eight golden dragons awakened and fixed their glowing eyes on Gu Huang.

Song Wen and the others broke the restraints on the Bronze Corpse Coffin, revealing a living child nestled inside a skeleton. A phantom identifying himself as an emperor appeared and confronted them, accusing them of interrupting the secret art before his body had matured.

• Jiang Wanyue formed an ice shield and attacked a golden dragon while urging Song Wen to retreat.
• Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin severed the chains restraining the Bronze Corpse Coffin, and Jiang Wanyue's sword strike destroyed a golden dragon and its pillar.
• The coffin fell open, and a gale of corpse qi injured Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin while Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue escaped behind the ice shield.
• Song Wen, Jiang Wanyue, Ji Jinglun, and Corpse Daoist Yin saw a living infant lying inside the skeleton and recognized the scene from a mural.
• A phantom of a middle-aged man appeared above the coffin, called himself an emperor, and demanded to know why they had interrupted his secret art.

Song Wen suspected the phantom’s offer of a legacy was a trap and attacked the Living Infant, triggering a fight among the cultivators. Ji Jinglun and Jiang Wanyue revealed their alliance against Corpse Daoist Yin as Song Wen fled, while Yin countered Ji’s attack with a Blood-Red Chain.

• The phantom claimed to be a Great Encompassing Golden Immortal and offered his legacy to whoever killed the others.
• Song Wen doubted the phantom’s story, and Jiang Wanyue privately agreed that its intentions seemed suspicious.
• Jiang Wanyue began to withdraw, but Song Wen sent his Soul-Withering Dart toward the Living Infant, and Corpse Daoist Yin knocked it aside.
• Corpse Daoist Yin and Ji Jinglun attacked Song Wen, while Jiang Wanyue intercepted Yin’s saber and Song Wen fled toward the Vertical Tunnel.
• Ji Jinglun turned his killing intent against Corpse Daoist Yin and told Jiang Wanyue to kill Song Wen, revealing that he and Jiang had planned to cooperate.
• Corpse Daoist Yin accused Ji Jinglun of betrayal and summoned a Blood-Red Chain to meet the oncoming killing intent.

Ji Jinglun, Jiang Wanyue, and Corpse Daoist Yin fought over whether to trust the phantom's offer to choose an heir, while Song Wen realized the phantom showed no signs of consciousness. After Ji Jinglun shattered the Corpse Coffin and seized the Living Infant, Jiang Wanyue sent her sword to stop him.

• Ji Jinglun overwhelmed Corpse Daoist Yin with the Bone Banner, but Jiang Wanyue used her Jade-White Flying Sword to prevent him from finishing the wounded cultivator.
• Jiang Wanyue warned that the middle-aged man's promise might be a ploy to make them fight and suggested he could be waiting to possess their bodies.
• Corpse Daoist Yin offered himself to the middle-aged man in exchange for help, but the phantom did not respond to him or Song Wen.
• Song Wen and the others realized the phantom was likely lifeless, and Ji Jinglun attacked it with the Bone Banner.
• The Bone Banner passed through the phantom, shattered the Corpse Coffin, and caught the unharmed Living Infant.
• Jiang Wanyue sent her Jade-White Flying Sword after the Bone Banner as Ji Jinglun carried the Living Infant toward himself.

Song Wen and the others discovered that the underground palace’s apparent inheritance was a dead cultivator’s elaborate deception, and the Living Infant was only a wooden decoy. After Ji Jinglun attacked Song Wen over their earlier dispute, Song Wen revealed powerful Thunder Arts and countered the Bone Banner’s killing intent.

• Song Wen found a rounded stone beneath the ruined platform, and his immortal essence triggered the middle-aged man’s recording, which revealed that the underground palace contained no inheritance or treasures.
• Song Wen destroyed the stone, ending the recording, and Ji Jinglun broke the Living Infant apart to reveal that it was made of wood.
• Ji Jinglun proposed that the group forget their disputes and keep the events secret, but Song Wen refused because Ji Jinglun had treated him as cannon fodder.
• Jiang Wanyue declined to interfere as Ji Jinglun attacked Song Wen with the Bone Banner’s killing intent.
• Song Wen advanced into the killing intent and shattered it with a golden Lightning Sphere, startling Ji Jinglun, who questioned how a corpse cultivator could use Thunder Arts.