Recaps

Song Wen defeated Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin and captured them alive with Jiang Wanyue’s help. He revealed that he had targeted them to learn the secret of the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art, which let its cultivators devour one another’s cultivation.

• Song Wen used lightning and the Startling Wind Sword to injure Ji Jinglun, then bound him with a Blood Tide tentacle.
• Song Wen attacked Corpse Daoist Yin with the Soul-Slaying Spike and captured him alive while Jiang Wanyue watched.
• Jiang Wanyue asked Song Wen why he had gone to such lengths to capture the two men alive.
• Song Wen explained that cultivators of the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art could devour one another’s cultivation to grow stronger.

Song Wen revealed that the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art could only help its own cultivators devour one another, then returned Xiao Yuankui's soul to Jiang Wanyue. She explained her old rivalry with Yi Runan and asked Song Wen to help her take Yuan Yuze's body for her son, claiming she had a way to conceal his identity.

• Song Wen told Jiang Wanyue that the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art's secret was useless to her because she cultivated a different method.
• Jiang Wanyue challenged Song Wen's honesty, and he gave her Xiao Yuankui's soul in a Soul Bottle as an apology for destroying his body.
• Jiang Wanyue recounted how she and Yi Runan had competed since their time in the Purple Star Immortal Sect, including over their husbands and sons.
• Jiang Wanyue asked Song Wen to help Xiao Yuankui possess Yi Runan's son, Yuan Yuze, and have Yuan Yuze's soul destroyed.
• Song Wen warned that the Cloud Pill Sect would pursue Xiao Yuankui, but Jiang Wanyue said a secret art could erase Yuan Yuze's appearance and aura.

Song Wen questioned Jiang Wanyue about her plan to target Yuan Yuze and learned that Yuan Yuze’s guard Xu Hai cultivated the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art. After devouring Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin’s Immortal Essence, Song Wen failed to break through and decided to pursue Xu Hai instead.

• Song Wen questioned Jiang Wanyue about Yi Runan, Yuan Zhe, Xu Hai, and her plan to deal with Yuan Yuze.
• Jiang Wanyue said Xu Hai was a late Lingxu Dao Immortal who cultivated the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art, then left to return to the Xiao Household.
• Song Wen devoured Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin’s Immortal Essence and tried to break through to the peak of the Lingxu Dao Immortal realm.
• Song Wen failed to break through, suffered minor injuries, and collapsed the cavern during the backlash.
• Song Wen pulverized Ji Jinglun and Corpse Daoist Yin’s remains and left the cavern, setting his sights on Xu Hai.

Song Wen reunited with Jiang Wanyue in Ink Wind City, learned that Xiao Wenyan had returned, and discussed the Nine-Thunder Profound Lord and their plan to reach Pill Hill City. The chapter left Song Wen proposing that they use Yuan Yuze’s acquaintances to draw him and his bodyguard Xu Hai out discreetly.

• Song Wen met Jiang Wanyue in Ink Wind City and learned that Xiao Wenyan had returned but entered seclusion without asking about Xiao Yuankui’s destroyed body or recovered soul.
• Song Wen spent the next half month with Jiang Wanyue, drank Greenwood Spirit Liquid, and confirmed he had devoured Ji Jinglun’s and Corpse Daoist Yin’s cultivation.
• Jiang Wanyue said she had not reported the deaths of Ji Jinglun, Corpse Daoist Yin, and Gou Yi to the Nine-Thunder Profound Lord, and explained how she could conceal that she had recovered Kui’er’s soul.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue discussed targeting Yuan Yuze, who rarely left the Cloud Pill Sect, and Jiang Wanyue proposed publicizing a reward for completing an incomplete ancient pill formula.
• Song Wen objected that a public reward would attract too much attention and suggested letting Yuan Yuze hear about the formula through people close to him, so they could lure him and Xu Hai out discreetly.

Song Wen approached Wu Liu, Yuan Yuze’s senior martial sister, after learning she was searching for Wangshu Grass. He bought ten thousand-year-old soul-guiding flowers, then followed Wu Liu to a tea room at the Cloud Pill Sect’s Azure Tea House to discuss the herb.

• Wu Liu searched Pill Hill City for Wangshu Grass and learned that an Alchemist had bought up the city’s entire supply.
• Song Wen entered a spirit herb shop and bought ten thousand-year-old soul-guiding flowers while pursuing Wu Liu, whom Jiang Wanyue had identified as close to Yuan Yuze.
• Song Wen told Wu Liu he had information about Wangshu Grass and asked to discuss it after completing his purchase.
• Wu Liu chose the Cloud Pill Sect’s Azure Tea House for their conversation and led Song Wen to its A-3 Tea Room.

Song Wen offered Wu Liu his Wangshu Grass in exchange for help consulting an immortal-grade Alchemist about a damaged ancient pill formula. Wu Liu agreed to approach her junior fellow disciple Yuan Yuze and left to find him after he failed to answer her messages.

• Song Wen met Wu Liu in a tea room and offered to give her his Wangshu Grass if she examined a damaged pill formula.
• Wu Liu recognized the Mysterious Origin Spirit-Concentrating Pill formula as an immortal-grade recipe for strengthening Lingxu Dao Immortals' souls and doubted she could complete it.
• Song Wen admitted he wanted Wu Liu to introduce him to a trustworthy immortal-grade Alchemist in the Cloud Pill Sect, and she accepted his Wangshu Grass.
• Wu Liu named Yuan Yuze as the Alchemist she could approach and sent him a message, but he did not reply after they waited for over an hour.
• Wu Liu decided to return to the sect to find Yuan Yuze in person, promising Song Wen she would come back with news.

Song Wen learned that Yuan Yuze had left the Cloud Pill Sect and gone northwest after visiting Blood Owl Dao Lord, so he and Jiang Wanyue went to investigate. They reached Blood Owl Dao Lord’s river cave abode, but he did not answer Song Wen’s call, and Jiang Wanyue urged an attack.

• Wu Liu told Song Wen that Yuan Yuze had left two days earlier with his guard Xu Hai and headed northwest.
• Song Wen gave Wu Liu a storage pouch, and she revealed that Yuan Yuze had visited Blood Owl Dao Lord before leaving.
• Song Wen met Jiang Wanyue in a mountain ravine, and she shared information about Blood Owl Dao Lord and his cave abode.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue flew to the cave abode beneath a broad river and called for Blood Owl Dao Lord to appear.
• When no one answered, Jiang Wanyue proposed attacking Blood Owl Dao Lord.

Jiang Wanyue and Song Wen confronted Blood Owl about Yuan Yuze’s visit and learned that Yuan Yuze had obtained a method for refining living people. Jiang Wanyue then attacked Blood Owl, saying she was killing him because he had displeased her lover, and the sword pierced his weakened defenses.

• Jiang Wanyue summoned her flying sword and demanded to know whether Blood Owl had met Yuan Yuze, and Blood Owl confirmed the visit but refused to reveal what Yuan Yuze wanted.
• Jiang Wanyue attacked Blood Owl, but his blood pillar resisted her sword and shattered the ice formed by her taiyin cold qi.
• Song Wen stopped Jiang Wanyue and used his Blood Tide to batter Blood Owl’s cave formation until Blood Owl surrendered and agreed to answer their questions.
• Blood Owl revealed that Yuan Yuze had obtained a rudimentary method for refining living people and suspected he planned to make a blood pill.
• Blood Owl said he did not know which city Yuan Yuze might target, and Jiang Wanyue attacked him again, saying he had displeased her lover.
• Jiang Wanyue’s strengthened flying sword pierced Blood Owl’s weakened blood pillar as her taiyin cold qi froze the shattered blood into ice fragments.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue searched northwest for Yuan Yuze, who was suspected of refining large numbers of mortals. A report of a massacre in Northwind City gave them a possible lead, and they set off to investigate.

• Song Wen captured Blood Owl, learned he did not know Yuan Yuze’s whereabouts, and absorbed Blood Owl’s essence blood.
• Song Wen used Jiang Wanyue’s map to guide their search toward the mortal cities northwest of Pill Hill City.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue questioned Zhou Feibai in Clear River City, but he knew of no recent cultivator sightings or mass deaths.
• A goateed cultivator told Song Wen that Northwind City had reportedly been massacred two days earlier, with all one million inhabitants dead.
• Song Wen rewarded the goateed cultivator with spirit stones, then departed with Jiang Wanyue for Northwind City.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue tracked Yuan Yuze to a city where he and Xu Hai were sacrificing mortals, then attacked them. Yuan Yuze unleashed the Azure Firmament True Fire in the form of a Blue Luan, and the confrontation continued as it charged Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue.

• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue found Northwind City deserted after a blood ritual and deduced Yuan Yuze would target the larger Yuecang City.
• Song Wen detected a faint scent of blood, and the pair found Yuan Yuze and Xu Hai sacrificing mortals in a vast formation.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue attacked Yuan Yuze and Xu Hai, who brought out their magic treasures to defend themselves.
• Jiang Wanyue's Jade-White Flying Sword shattered Xu Hai's corpse-qi chains, but Yuan Yuze's Blue Luan knocked back Song Wen's three swords.
• Jiang Wanyue formed an ice shield against the Blue Luan and warned Song Wen that its Azure Firmament True Fire surpassed his own; Song Wen wanted to claim the flame.

Jiang Wanyue and Yuan Yuze fought as Song Wen searched for a chance to use the Soul-Slaying Spike against him. Jiang Wanyue trapped Yuan Yuze’s azure luan in a net of taiyin cold qi, while Song Wen closed to within a thousand miles of Yuan Yuze and Xu Hai.

• Song Wen recognized that Yuan Yuze’s weak Divine Sense made him vulnerable to the Soul-Slaying Spike, but decided to wait until he was close enough to prevent Yuan Yuze from using a soul-defense treasure.
• Jiang Wanyue and Yuan Yuze exchanged attacks, and her giant flying sword broke through the luan’s flames before Xu Hai used the Bone Spear to force the sword back.
• Xu Hai urged Yuan Yuze to flee, but Yuan Yuze reluctantly agreed and vowed to seek revenge after returning to the Cloud Pill Sect.
• Jiang Wanyue bound the luan with a net woven from taiyin cold qi, preventing it from escaping or burning through the cords.
• Song Wen circled around the trapped luan and approached Yuan Yuze and Xu Hai to within a thousand miles.

Song Wen fought Yuan Yuze and Xu Hai as they tried to escape, and the Bronze Furnace briefly slowed his pursuit. Xu Hai betrayed Yuan Yuze to save himself, but Song Wen defeated and captured Xu Hai while Yuan Yuze fell from the sky in chaos.

• Xu Hai’s Bone Spear failed to stop Song Wen’s three flying swords, so Yuan Yuze used the Bronze Furnace to block them.
• Song Wen transformed into a giant ape and punched the Bronze Furnace away, burning his fist as Yuan Yuze struggled to regain control of it.
• Song Wen launched nine Transparent Blades at Yuan Yuze, but Xu Hai threw Yuan Yuze into their path and escaped.
• The blades struck Yuan Yuze, disrupting his Immortal Essence and sending him plummeting toward the ground.
• Song Wen transformed into a gray roc, caught up with Xu Hai, and seized him in a lightning-charged talon, leaving him unable to resist.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue captured Yuan Yuze and Xu Hai, then fled Northwind City after Song Wen left a false account of Yuan Yuze’s crimes on a stone stele. On a remote island, Jiang Wanyue prepared Yuan Yuze’s body for her son Kui’er while Song Wen devoured Xu Hai and broke through to the peak of the Lingxu Dao Immortal stage.

• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue captured Yuan Yuze and Xu Hai, then Song Wen carved a stele blaming Yuan Yuze’s killing of Northwind City’s inhabitants on the immortal Gu Que.
• Song Wen captured Yuan Yuze’s Azure Firmament True Fire in the Bronze Furnace, and he and Jiang Wanyue fled the city without disturbing the blood pool or its souls.
• After traveling millions of li, Jiang Wanyue chose a secluded island and prepared formations for Kui’er to possess Yuan Yuze’s body.
• Song Wen erased Yuan Yuze’s soul without damaging his body and handed the corpse to Jiang Wanyue.
• Song Wen inspected Yuan Yuze’s storage ring, then entered the lake and began devouring Xu Hai’s cultivation.
• Song Wen drove his immortal essence against the bottleneck and shattered the barrier between the late and peak Lingxu Dao Immortal stages.

Song Wen reached the peak of the Lingxu Dao Immortal Realm, then reunited with Jiang Wanyue and Xiao Yuankui after Xiao Yuankui possessed Yuan Yuze’s body. As they fled the area, Jiang Wanyue treated Song Wen as family and ordered Xiao Yuankui to call him Uncle Gu, leaving Xiao Yuankui wondering whether his old plea calling Song Wen “Father” had become reality.

• Song Wen reached the peak of the Lingxu Dao Immortal Realm and considered the lack of a cultivation method beyond Profound Immortal Yuxiao.
• Song Wen urged Jiang Wanyue to leave because the Cloud Pill Sect might trace them to their location, and Xiao Yuankui emerged from the cave in Yuan Yuze’s altered body.
• Xiao Yuankui recognized Song Wen as Gu Huang and accused him of causing his former body’s destruction, but Jiang Wanyue called Song Wen his Uncle Gu and told him to let the grudge go.
• Jiang Wanyue rebuked Xiao Yuankui for questioning her closeness with Song Wen and ordered him to pay Song Wen his respects.
• Song Wen summoned a flying ship, and Xiao Yuankui saw Jiang Wanyue nestled in Song Wen’s embrace as they headed toward a room.

Song Wen traveled with Jiang Wanyue and Xiao Yuankui toward Ink Wind City while Xiao Yuankui grew resentful of his mother’s closeness with Song Wen. Jiang Wanyue proposed that they explore the Fengdu Poison Sea together in twenty-five years to seek ingredients for the Grand Clarity Soul-Nourishing Pill, and Song Wen began asking questions about her offer.

• After half a month aboard the flying ship, Song Wen emerged from a room with Jiang Wanyue, while Xiao Yuankui watched with anger and resentment.
• Jiang Wanyue rebuked Xiao Yuankui for criticizing her conduct and ordered him to rest; he stormed into a room and shut the door.
• Song Wen concealed that he had reached the Lingxu Dao Immortal peak when Jiang Wanyue asked how much his cultivation had advanced.
• Jiang Wanyue told Song Wen that the Fengdu Poison Sea would become accessible in twenty-five years and offered to explore it with him for ingredients needed to refine the Grand Clarity Soul-Nourishing Pill.
• Song Wen showed interest but expressed doubt and asked Jiang Wanyue to answer several questions.

Song Wen considered Jiang Wanyue’s invitation to explore the Fengdu Poison Sea, then remembered Qing Shuang and went to check on her recovery. Qing Shuang emerged with her foundation restored and offered to serve him, but Song Wen urged her to focus on cultivation, and she insisted on repaying him by attending to him for a few days.

• Jiang Wanyue explained the Fengdu Poison Sea’s shifting poisonous miasma and gave Song Wen twenty-five years to decide whether to join her.
• After three days aboard the flying ship, Jiang Wanyue and Xiao Yuankui departed for the Xiao Household, while Song Wen planned to stabilize his cultivation and investigate the Fengdu Poison Sea.
• Song Wen remembered that Qing Shuang was still in seclusion and had been trapped inside a formation he had set up.
• Song Wen reached Qing Shuang’s cave, found that she had refined the Seven-Colored Lotus and restored her foundation, and removed the formation.
• Qing Shuang thanked Song Wen and offered to serve him, but he advised her to pursue cultivation; she then offered to attend to him for a few days.

Song Wen parted from Qing Shuang after giving her cultivation resources, then went to Central Mu City to seek information about the Fengdu Poison Sea. He contacted Bai Jinge for help, but her suggestion that he join the Purple Star Immortal Sect left him wary of her father and the scrutiny that might expose his lies.

• Song Wen gave Qing Shuang enough resources to support her cultivation and left after she asked him not to break his promise to visit her at the Cold River Gate.
• Song Wen decided to investigate the Fengdu Poison Sea in Central Mu City because Jiang Wanyue was waiting for news from him.
• Song Wen visited several information shops but learned nothing useful about the Fengdu Poison Sea beyond its deadly reputation.
• Song Wen contacted Bai Jinge at the Xianfu Teahouse, and she eagerly offered to come help him after learning he was in the city.
• Bai Jinge suggested Song Wen join the Purple Star Immortal Sect, but Song Wen worried her father might investigate his past and expose his lies.

Song Wen reunited with Bai Jinge in Central Mu City, where they spent seven days together and discussed his plans to settle there. Bai Jinge offered to find him a rentable blessed land and help gather information about the Fengdu Poison Sea, then grew wary about the identity of his supposed fellow Daoist.

• Bai Jinge came alone to the Xianfu Teahouse and reunited with Song Wen in Earth Room Thirty-Six.
• Bai Jinge told Song Wen she had recently survived her third Heavenly Tribulation and reached the peak of Tribulation Transcendence.
• After spending seven days together, Song Wen told Bai Jinge he planned to stay in Central Mu City but did not want to join the Purple Star Immortal Sect.
• Bai Jinge offered to find Song Wen a suitable blessed land to rent, and he accepted her help.
• Song Wen asked Bai Jinge to gather information about the Fengdu Poison Sea for a supposed fellow Daoist, and she asked whether that person was a man or a woman.

Song Wen and Bai Jinge went to the Purple Star Immortal Sect’s External Affairs Hall to rent a blessed land for him. After Bai Jinge revealed her status to the branch steward, Pan Ming suggested a Xuan-grade residence, but she demanded at least an Earth-grade one.

• Bai Jinge said she would ask the Heavenly Secrets Hall to investigate the Fengdu Poison Sea and the External Affairs Hall to arrange a blessed land.
• Song Wen and Bai Jinge left the Xianfu Teahouse and went to the External Affairs Hall branch outside the city.
• When a maid told Bai Jinge to join the queue, Bai Jinge showed her token, prompting the maid to fetch the branch steward, Pan Ming.
• Bai Jinge told Pan Ming that Song Wen, whom she called Extreme Yin, needed a suitable blessed land for a Lingxu Dao Immortal.
• Pan Ming began recommending a Xuan-grade grotto-heaven and blessed land, but Bai Jinge interrupted and insisted on an Earth-grade residence or better.

Song Wen chose Bamboo-Hidden Ravine as a nearby mystic-grade blessed land, and Bai Jinge negotiated its rent down to an exceptionally low price. The chapter ended with Bai Jinge instructing Pan Ming to conceal her involvement and keep the discounted rent out of the official accounts.

• Pan Ming explained why an earth-grade blessed land would be impractical for Song Wen, so Song Wen agreed to consider a mystic-grade one.
• Pan Ming showed Song Wen and Bai Jinge three available blessed lands, and Song Wen favored nearby Bamboo-Hidden Ravine for its purple qi bamboo and cultivation conditions.
• Pan Ming quoted Bamboo-Hidden Ravine's rent at ten thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones per year, and Bai Jinge rejected his discounts as too small.
• Bai Jinge asked Hall Master Li to lower the rent to one thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones per year, and Hall Master Li agreed.
• Bai Jinge told Pan Ming to keep her visit secret from her father and record Bamboo-Hidden Ravine's rent at the normal rate.

Song Wen leased Bamboo-Hidden Ravine from Pan Ming, who warned him about a rogue cultivator and gave him the formation’s control disc. After Bai Jinge’s guard Hu Rui found her, Bai Jinge sent Hu Rui away to gather supplies and went shopping in Central Mu City with Song Wen.

• Pan Ming explained that a rogue cultivator occupied Bamboo-Hidden Ravine’s neglected outskirts and gave Song Wen the control disc for its Grand Void Sealing Heaven Restriction Formation.
• Song Wen paid ten thousand low-grade Immortal Spirit Stones for ten years’ rent, and he and Bai Jinge left the pavilion.
• Hu Rui found Bai Jinge, questioned her absence and Song Wen’s identity, and heard Bai Jinge insist that he was her longtime friend who had saved her life.
• Bai Jinge gave Hu Rui her identity token and instructed her to collect spirit medicine seeds, a Heaven and Earth Treasure Hall, and other cultivation supplies.
• Bai Jinge and Song Wen strolled through Central Mu City, where she bought them robes, wine, and honey nectar, including ten Immortal-grade Daoist Robes for him.

Bai Jinge, Song Wen, and Hu Rui traveled to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine to furnish the blessed land Song Wen had rented and confront the Rogue Cultivators occupying it. The group discovered the intruders had prepared a possible killing formation, and their leader, Juezhao, demanded that they share the ravine.

• Hu Rui returned with the requested spiritual items, and Bai Jinge had her take them and Song Wen to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine aboard a White Rainbow Sky-Patrolling Boat.
• As they surveyed the ravine, Bai Jinge asked Hu Rui to kill the Rogue Cultivators who had usurped the blessed land.
• The group found Juezhao and more than twenty followers waiting near the mist-shrouded heart of Bamboo-Hidden Ravine.
• Song Wen noticed disturbed soil and residences protected from Divine Sense, warning Bai Jinge and Hu Rui that the intruders might have laid a killing formation.
• Juezhao asked Song Wen to let his group enter the ravine and share the blessed land, and Song Wen refused to accept the proposal.

Song Wen rejected Juezhao’s proposal to jointly manage Bamboo-Hidden Ravine, and Juezhao’s side revealed a trap array. Song Wen remained outside the barrier and mocked Juezhao, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Juezhao threatened Song Wen after Song Wen refused to cooperate, but an old subordinate proposed joint management and presented six women as gifts.
• Bai Jinge ordered Hu Rui to attack, and Hu Rui used her Bronze Hammer against Juezhao’s group.
• Juezhao blocked the hammer with his kasaya while his subordinates activated an array that raised a barrier around them.
• The barrier blocked Divine Sense, severing Hu Rui’s connection to her Life-Bound Treasure and allowing Juezhao to repel the hammer.
• Song Wen pointed out that Juezhao’s group had trapped themselves and refused to negotiate.

Song Wen negotiated a truce with Juezhao, agreeing to share Bamboo-Hidden Ravine despite Bai Jinge and Hu Rui’s objections. Juezhao withdrew the Four Symbols Spirit-Locking Grand Formation, but kept Hu Rui’s Life-Bound Treasure and proposed that they establish separate defenses and manage the ravine together.

• Song Wen rejected Juezhao’s threats and proposed waiting for the Purple Star Immortal Sect’s enforcement squad while Juezhao’s subordinates exhausted their magical power.
• Song Wen agreed to let Juezhao’s group cultivate in the outer reaches if they helped tend his spiritual field, and Juezhao accepted the terms.
• Bai Jinge and Hu Rui objected to Song Wen’s agreement, but he insisted that managing the ravine was his decision and said cooperation would help defend it.
• Juezhao agreed to withdraw the formation but refused to return Hu Rui’s bronze hammer yet, then ordered his subordinates to withdraw their magical power.
• After the formation vanished, Juezhao proposed that he and Song Wen maintain separate defensive formations and manage Bamboo-Hidden Ravine together.

Song Wen and Hu Rui killed Juezhao and his followers, then spared six women who had been held captive at Bamboo-Hidden Ravine. Song Wen opened the Grand Void Sealing Heaven Restriction Formation, revealing the ravine’s purple Qi bamboo.

• Song Wen lured Juezhao into lowering the formation and attacked him, while Hu Rui struck him down with her saber.
• Hu Rui killed Juezhao’s remaining followers, and the three divided the spoils.
• Six women emerged from a courtyard and begged Song Wen to spare them; he agreed to take them to the Purple Star Immortal Sect.
• Song Wen used Pan Ming’s formation plate to open the Grand Void Sealing Heaven Restriction Formation.
• The mist cleared and revealed Bamboo-Hidden Ravine, where purple Qi bamboo grew along the ravine.