Recaps

Song Wen settled into Bamboo-Hidden Ravine, where Bai Jinge gifted him a Heaven and Earth Treasure Hall and other cultivation supplies. Bai Jinge wanted to stay and cultivate there, but Hu Rui’s orders and Song Wen’s suggestion led her to leave with Hu Rui.

• Song Wen, Bai Jinge, and Hu Rui entered Bamboo-Hidden Ravine, where Song Wen admired its Purple Qi Bamboo and abundant Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• Bai Jinge expanded her Heaven and Earth Treasure Hall above the ravine and gave it to Song Wen as a gift.
• Bai Jinge furnished the cave abode, gave Song Wen cultivation aids and immortal-tier spirit medicine seeds, and heard his plans to study the formation and cultivate in seclusion.
• Bai Jinge asked Hu Rui to return to the sect so she could attempt to become a Lingxu Dao Immortal, but Hu Rui refused because of the sect master’s orders.
• Song Wen suggested Bai Jinge return to the Purple Star Immortal Sect, and she left angrily with Hu Rui and the six beautiful women.

Song Wen received intelligence on the Fengdu Poison Sea and decided to visit it if its dangers proved manageable. After three months of cultivating and expanding the formation at Bamboo-Hidden Ravine, he inspected the Purple Qi Bamboo and planted spirit medicines, lamenting that he had no subordinates to handle the work.

• Bai Jinge sent Song Wen a Jade Slip containing intelligence on the Fengdu Poison Sea and reminded him to visit her in Central Mu City.
• Song Wen reviewed the dangers and resources of the Fengdu Poison Sea, decided to consider a trip there, and restored the fog around Bamboo-Hidden Ravine.
• Three months later, Song Wen expanded the Grand Void Sealing Heaven Restriction Formation to cover the ravine's areas containing Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• Song Wen found and harvested five ten-thousand-year-old Purple Qi Bamboo stalks, then cut down more than a thousand stalks infested with Ming Insects.
• Song Wen cleared the spirit fields, planted Bai Jinge's Immortal-Rank Spirit Herb Seeds, and left for Ink Wind City.

Song Wen met Jiang Wanyue and agreed to travel with her to the Fengdu Poison Sea when its miasma weakened in twenty-three years. After returning to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine, he spent ten years stabilizing his cultivation, but failed to fuse the Azure Firmament True Fire with the Great Sun Golden Flame.

• Song Wen met Jiang Wanyue away from Ink Wind City, and she revealed that she had visited Yi Runan after Yuan Yuze's death to enjoy her grief.
• Song Wen agreed to accompany Jiang Wanyue to the Fengdu Poison Sea, and they planned to travel in twenty-three years using the Teleportation Array from Central Mu City.
• After half a month together, Song Wen refused to tell Jiang Wanyue where his cave abode was and returned to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine.
• Song Wen spent ten years stabilizing his Lingxu Dao Immortal Peak cultivation and refining the Azure Firmament True Fire.
• Song Wen tried several times to fuse the Azure Firmament True Fire with the Great Sun Golden Flame, but they repelled each other and the attempts caused him minor internal injuries.

Song Wen spent four years refining Death-Substitute Puppets and cultivating the myriad poisons primordial body before visiting Bai Jinge, who had advanced to a Lingxu Dao Immortal. When she revealed that she had told her father about their relationship, Song Wen feared her father might discover his identity and kill him, so he resolved to keep Bai Jinge devoted to him.

• Song Wen ran out of the deadly poisons needed for his cultivation and decided to visit Bai Jinge in Central Mu City.
• Bai Jinge revealed that she had become a Lingxu Dao Immortal through years of cultivation.
• Bai Jinge told Song Wen that she had informed her father they loved each other but had withheld Song Wen's identity because her father disapproved.
• Song Wen panicked at the thought that Bai Jinge's father might be watching them and planning to harm him.
• Bai Jinge said she had threatened to take her own life if her father harmed Song Wen, and Song Wen reassured her that he trusted her and her father.

Song Wen reunited with Bai Jinge and left Central Mu City, only to be intercepted by her father, Bai Zhengli. Bai Zhengli questioned Song Wen’s motives and beliefs, and the chapter ended with him probing Song Wen’s views on those who ignored or aided the Evil Spirit Cultivators and Void Demon Clan.

• Bai Jinge reluctantly said goodbye to Song Wen, who returned openly toward Bamboo-Hidden Ravine while searching for Purple Star Immortal Sect spies.
• Bai Zhengli appeared in Song Wen’s path and identified himself as the Purple Extremity True Lord, forcing Song Wen to halt and bow.
• Bai Zhengli asked why Song Wen had pursued Bai Jinge, and Song Wen explained how they had met while she was being hunted by Evil Spirit Cultivators.
• Bai Zhengli questioned Song Wen about his cultivation, his name, and whether he could truly give his heart to a woman; Song Wen defended his convictions and his opposition to Evil Spirit Cultivators.
• Bai Zhengli observed that many people ignored or colluded with the Evil Spirit Cultivators and Void Demon Clan for personal gain.

Song Wen survived Bai Zhengli's attack and returned to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine with a Divine Sense Mark secretly planted in his Dantian. When Bai Jinge arrived worried about his injuries, Song Wen pretended they came from a cultivation mishap and stopped her from confronting her father.

• Bai Zhengli warned Song Wen not to betray Bai Jinge, struck him with a blast of power, and ordered him to keep their meeting secret.
• Song Wen realized Bai Zhengli had placed a Divine Sense Mark in his Dantian, then healed enough to return to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine.
• Song Wen considered fleeing but chose to stay for the time being and began treating his injuries.
• Bai Jinge and Hu Rui arrived, and Song Wen made his injuries look worse when Bai Jinge saw him.
• Bai Jinge blamed her father for hurting Song Wen and tried to leave to demand justice, but Song Wen stopped her and insisted Bai Zhengli would not attack him again.

Song Wen persuaded Bai Jinge not to defy her father and asked her to find a method for fusing his True Fires and several poisonous spirit medicines for his cultivation. Bai Jinge left with Hu Rui to return to the sect, promising to visit Song Wen again in a few days.

• Song Wen urged Bai Jinge not to confront her father and promised to grow stronger until her father accepted their relationship.
• Song Wen told Bai Jinge that he had failed to fuse Great Sun Golden Flame with Azure Firmament True Fire, and she agreed to search the Heavenly Secrets Hall and Merit Transmission Hall for a method.
• Song Wen listed seven or eight poisonous spirit medicines he needed for a body-tempering technique, and Bai Jinge agreed to look for them at the sect.
• Bai Jinge and Song Wen left the side room hand in hand, and Bai Jinge said she would return to see him in a few days.
• Hu Rui interrupted their prolonged farewell and urged Bai Jinge to leave for the sect.

Bai Jinge returned to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine with the items Song Wen had requested, but he refused her advances because he suspected someone was watching them. Their suspicion proved correct when Profound Lord Guyun revealed herself as Bai Jinge's father's observer, and Bai Jinge confronted her.

• Bai Jinge returned after half a month and gave Song Wen the Storage Bag containing everything he had asked her to gather.
• Song Wen stopped Bai Jinge from becoming intimate, explaining that he feared her father might have someone spying on them.
• Bai Jinge called out the suspected watcher, and Song Wen deactivated the Grand Void Sealing Heaven Restriction Formation to reveal Profound Lord Guyun.
• Guyun admitted that Bai Jinge's father had ordered her to watch Song Wen and ensure his safety, prompting Bai Jinge to attack her with her ice-crystal spear.
• Song Wen stopped Bai Jinge and invited Guyun into Bamboo-Hidden Ravine, but Bai Jinge objected and insisted they still had to settle the matter of her spying.

Guyun left after compensating Song Wen, and Bai Jinge later gave him the Purple Star Immortal Sect’s Nine Luminaries Fire-Controlling True Scripture. Song Wen decided to remain near Bai Jinge for now, and the chapter left him with a method suited to combining his yang-attribute true fires.

• Guyun gave Song Wen a hundred thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones and departed, warning that the sect master might send someone else to watch them.
• Song Wen questioned why Guyun had revealed herself, but Bai Jinge argued that she feared future retaliation from them and then led him into the Heaven and Earth Treasure Hall.
• Bai Jinge and Song Wen spent ten days together, after which he urged her to keep cultivating at the sect while he remained in Bamboo-Hidden Ravine.
• Bai Jinge showed Song Wen the poisonous spiritual materials she had gathered, including Fire Toad Venom, and gave him the Nine Luminaries Fire-Controlling True Scripture.
• Song Wen learned that the scripture could control or fuse up to nine compatible true fires, and Bai Jinge dismissed his concern that sharing the sect secret might get her in trouble.

Song Wen met Bai Jinge in Central Mu City, where Bai Zhengli confronted them after seeing them together. Song Wen declared his sincere feelings for Jinge, leaving Bai Zhengli furious and demanding an answer.

• Song Wen visited Central Mu City and met Bai Jinge, then spent the day strolling through shops with her.
• Steward Li of the Heavenly Secrets Hall approached them, and Bai Jinge grew irritated as sect members repeatedly tried to curry favor.
• Bai Zhengli trapped Song Wen and Bai Jinge in a gray, misty space and angrily confronted them for holding hands.
• Bai Jinge defended her relationship with Song Wen and insisted she was willing to be deceived by him for life.
• Song Wen stepped forward and asked Bai Zhengli to grant them his blessing.

Bai Zhengli reluctantly accepted Song Wen and Bai Jinge’s relationship after warning Song Wen not to hurt her. Later, Bai Jinge revealed that the Source-Qi Death Domain had reached the Fengdu Poison Sea, and Song Wen learned that the High-Heaven Immortal Domain lay south of the Purple Star Immortal Domain and could be reached by a protected array at the Purple Star Immortal Sect.

• Bai Zhengli threatened Song Wen but relented because Bai Jinge stood by him, then vanished from the street.
• Song Wen comforted Bai Jinge, and the two continued browsing before renting an inn courtyard for the night.
• Bai Jinge told Song Wen that the Source-Qi Death Domain had swallowed the Endless Desert and was advancing toward the Purple Star Immortal Domain.
• Song Wen learned that the High-Heaven Immortal Domain bordered the Purple Star Immortal Domain and had lost half its territory to the Void Demon Clan.
• Bai Jinge explained that the Purple Star Immortal Sect possessed the only Teleportation Array leading to the High-Heaven Immortal Sect, but rarely activated it.

Song Wen asked Bai Jinge about reaching the High-Heaven Immortal Domain to find the next part of his cultivation method, but learned that the Teleportation Array was difficult to use. He then concluded that the Purple Star Immortal Sect's Nine-Thunder and Dust-Slaying Profound Lords likely practiced the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art and asked Bai Jinge to introduce him to them.

• Song Wen asked whether outsiders could use the Teleportation Array to the High-Heaven Immortal Domain, hoping to obtain the continuation of his cultivation method.
• Bai Jinge explained that the array could not be activated without authorization, though she offered to ask her father; Song Wen declined.
• Song Wen asked whether anyone could cultivate both righteous and evil paths, and Bai Jinge said she knew of no such cultivator or method.
• Bai Jinge described Nine-Thunder and Dust-Slaying as foremost corpse cultivators, leading Song Wen to suspect they practiced the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art rather than the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.
• Song Wen asked Bai Jinge to introduce him to the two profound lords, and she agreed despite his refusal to explain his reasons.

Song Wen met Nine-Thunder Profound Lord through Bai Jinge and asked about the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art, hoping to obtain its later portions. Nine-Thunder admitted he cultivated the art and said he would consider his conditions, while Song Wen’s final question about the Corpse King Reincarnation Art left their meeting unresolved.

• Bai Jinge told Song Wen that Nine-Thunder Profound Lord had agreed to meet him, while Dust-Slaying Profound Lord was in seclusion.
• Nine-Thunder Profound Lord visited Song Wen with Bai Jinge, and Song Wen suspected the elder was a corpse cultivator.
• Song Wen asked Nine-Thunder about the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art and explained that he wanted it to resist Origin Qi corrosion.
• Nine-Thunder suspected Song Wen had another reason for seeking the art, then admitted he practiced it and offered to discuss the later portions after considering his conditions.
• Nine-Thunder warned Song Wen that the cultivation method could harm him, then prepared to leave.
• Song Wen asked Nine-Thunder whether he had also heard of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art.

Song Wen questioned the Nine-Thunder Profound Lord about the Corpse King cultivation methods and learned that True Lord Yun He of the High-Heaven Immortal Sect had taught the art to Nine-Thunder and Dust-Slaying. After Nine-Thunder left, Bai Jinge gave Song Wen the materials he needed to fuse True Fire, and they decided to go to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine.

• Song Wen asked the Nine-Thunder Profound Lord about the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and the origins of his and Dust-Slaying’s cultivation methods.
• Song Wen pointed out a remote lake on Nine-Thunder’s map, concealing that its underwater cave held a Teleportation Array.
• The Nine-Thunder Profound Lord revealed that True Lord Yun He of the High-Heaven Immortal Sect had taught him and Dust-Slaying the cultivation art.
• After Nine-Thunder left, Song Wen told Bai Jinge he was curious about methods of resisting Origin Qi erosion.
• Bai Jinge gave Song Wen the materials she had collected for fusing True Fire, and they agreed to go to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine.

Song Wen successfully merged the Great Sun Golden Flame and the Azure Firmament True Fire into a new blaze he named the Crimson Firmament True Fire. After emerging from seclusion, he reunited with Bai Jinge and learned that the Nine-Thunder Profound Lord had left the sect six months earlier.

• Song Wen used a formation, spiritual materials, and the Moonlight Frost Flame to fuse the Great Sun Golden Flame with the Azure Firmament True Fire over eight months.
• Song Wen named the resulting crimson blaze the Crimson Firmament True Fire and met Bai Jinge, who had waited for him in the Purple Qi Bamboo grove.
• Song Wen, Bai Jinge, and Hu Rui left Bamboo-Hidden Ravine to test the new fire in an area with thinner Spiritual Qi.
• Bai Jinge told Song Wen that the Nine-Thunder Profound Lord had left the sect alone six months earlier, around the time the teleportation array opened.
• Song Wen suspected the Nine-Thunder Profound Lord had gone to the little lake and asked Bai Jinge to keep watching for news.

After testing the Crimson Firmament True Fire and cultivating for two and a half years, Song Wen learned that Nine-Thunder Profound Lord had returned badly injured and might seek revenge. Song Wen decided to leave the Purple Star Immortal Sect, and Bai Jinge gave him a Great Teleportation Talisman before they parted.

• Song Wen tested the Crimson Firmament True Fire, returned to Bamboo-Hidden Ravine with Bai Jinge, and began cultivating the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body after she departed.
• Two and a half years later, Bai Jinge warned Song Wen that Nine-Thunder Profound Lord had returned with severe injuries and lingering Origin Qi.
• Bai Jinge offered to stay with Song Wen or ask her father to kill Nine-Thunder Profound Lord, but Song Wen explained that he would leave instead.
• Song Wen reassured Bai Jinge that he could disguise himself and visit her, and she gave him a precious Great Teleportation Talisman to help him escape danger.

Song Wen left Bai Jinge and traveled to Ink Wind City to remove Bai Zhengli’s Divine Sense Mark without alerting anyone who might be watching him. Afterward, he settled on a remote island and began refining venom with the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body.

• Song Wen accepted Bai Jinge’s Great Teleportation Talisman, entrusted her safety to Hu Rui, and flew away from Bamboo-Hidden Ravine.
• Song Wen entered a protected teahouse in Ink Wind City, changed his appearance, and absorbed Bai Zhengli’s Divine Sense Mark into the Black Hole in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Song Wen left the teahouse without finding a tail and flew out of the city, keeping the unused Great Teleportation Talisman in his storage ring.
• Song Wen found an unoccupied island more than ten million li from Ink Wind City, dug a cave, and set up a formation.
• Song Wen drank the dark green venom and cultivated the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body while using Immortal Spirit Stones to supply Immortal Spiritual Qi.

Song Wen completed the portion of the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body technique he possessed and contacted Jiang Wanyue to arrange their journey to the Fengdu Poison Sea. They agreed to travel together by teleportation in seven days, while keeping their plans hidden from the Xiao Household.

• Song Wen killed three cultivators who demanded tribute at Starfall Lake with his Five Decays Yellow Springs Qi, then continued cultivating undisturbed for twelve years.
• Song Wen exhausted the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body techniques available to him and left seclusion after collecting his Formation Flags.
• Song Wen contacted Jiang Wanyue in Ink Wind City, and she reproached him for not visiting during the twenty-three years since their agreement.
• Jiang Wanyue told Song Wen that the Xiao Household would also send a group to the Fengdu Poison Sea, led by Xiao Chang, an Early Profound Immortal Yuxiao Stage cultivator.
• Jiang Wanyue said she had reserved two places on the Big Dipper Trading House's Teleportation Array from Central Mu City to Southern Tomb City, which would open in seven days.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue agreed not to meet before departure and to disguise Jiang Wanyue to avoid drawing the Xiao Household's attention.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue traveled to Central Mu City to use the Big Dipper Trading House’s Teleportation Array to Southern Tomb City. As the array’s operators prepared to activate it, Song Wen saw Bai Jinge still grieving his departure.

• Song Wen left Ink Wind City for Central Mu City and agreed to meet Jiang Wanyue outside the city after she said she had important information about their journey.
• Jiang Wanyue met Song Wen in disguise, but postponed discussing her supposed information until they reached Southern Tomb City.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue traveled separately to the Teleportation Array, where Song Wen spotted Bai Jinge aboard a White Rainbow Sky-Patrolling Boat lamenting that she had let Extreme Yin leave alone.
• Jiang Wanyue and Song Wen showed their iron tokens, entered the mountain barrier, and reached the array platform with the other travelers.
• A middle-aged woman from the Big Dipper Trading House proposed activating the Teleportation Array before noon because all ten guests had arrived.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue arrived in Southern Tomb City and left for the Fengdu Poison Sea after rejecting Dao Lord Wuya’s invitation to travel with a group. Jiang Wanyue recognized that Song Wen’s map and intelligence likely came from Bai Jinge, and pressed him to explain their relationship.

• The teleportation array brought Song Wen and nine other guests from Central Mu City to Southern Tomb City, where an old man led them out of the Big Dipper Trading House compound.
• Dao Lord Wuya invited the travelers to join him on an expedition to the Fengdu Poison Sea, but several departed and Jiang Wanyue refused to cooperate with strangers.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue left the city, and Song Wen showed her a map and intelligence about the poison sea’s northwestern region.
• Jiang Wanyue connected the intelligence to the Purple Star Immortal Sect and asked whether Song Wen knew Bai Jinge.
• Jiang Wanyue recalled Song Wen watching Bai Jinge before the teleportation and confronted him about their relationship.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue arrived at the Fengdu Poison Sea and tested how its miasma affected them. As they traveled along the sea’s edge toward the southern region, they found that its poison varied drastically in strength over short distances.

• Jiang Wanyue took Song Wen aboard her flying ship and kept him with her for three months before they reached the Fengdu Dead Sea.
• Song Wen probed the poison sea with his Divine Sense and discovered high-tier venomous insects near its edge.
• Jiang Wanyue tested the miasma and found that spiritual light could repel it at the cost of Immortal Essence, while Song Wen’s withered-yellow Qi resisted it more effectively.
• Song Wen said he wanted to inspect the southern side, where the poison sea had merged with the Source-Qi Death Domain, and Jiang Wanyue agreed to travel with him.
• As the ship followed the sea’s boundary, the miasma grew dense enough to appear black, then abruptly thinned to pale green within fewer than ten thousand li.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue encountered Yu Qing and her clan inside the Source-Qi Death Domain, where Song Wen deliberately boarded their ship and attacked her. Yu Qing trapped them in a Confinement Formation, leaving the pair surrounded by hostile cultivators.

• Shadow Void sensed eight Evil Spirit Cultivators bound by Blood Servant Contracts approaching through the Source-Qi Death Domain, and Song Wen told Jiang Wanyue to retreat and wait for them.
• Yu Qing approached with seven Yu Household cultivators and claimed they were hunting Void Demons while exploring the region.
• Yu Qing invited Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue aboard her ship, and Song Wen accepted despite Jiang Wanyue's confusion.
• Once aboard, Song Wen attacked Yu Qing with a dart, but she raised a barrier that trapped him and Jiang Wanyue.
• Jiang Wanyue summoned her flying sword and prepared to break the formation with Song Wen, while Yu Qing angrily threatened them.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue defeated Yu Qing and her seven followers, discovering that they were Evil Spirit Cultivators seeking to bind them with Blood Servant Contracts. Yu Qing revealed that her Void Demon master had sent her to recruit powerful cultivators heading to the Fengdu Poison Sea, leaving Song Wen to consider how widespread the plan was.

• Song Wen disrupted Yu Qing’s formation with an unseen technique, allowing Jiang Wanyue to break the barrier and wound Yu Qing.
• Song Wen stopped Jiang Wanyue from killing Yu Qing and identified her followers as Evil Spirit Cultivators.
• Yu Qing admitted that she had attacked to use Blood Servant Edicts to turn Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue into Evil Spirit Cultivators.
• Yu Qing explained that her Late Lingxu Dao Immortal Stage Void Demon master had given her eight Blood Servant Edicts capable of controlling cultivators up to the Lingxu Dao Immortal Peak.
• Yu Qing confirmed that her master had sent her to recruit Lingxu Dao Immortals traveling to the Fengdu Poison Sea, and Song Wen asked whether other Void Demons had the same plan.

Song Wen had Yu Qing lead him and Jiang Wanyue deep into the Source-Qi Death Domain to meet her master, Lord Formless, a Beauty Serpent of the Void Demon Clan. Along the way, Song Wen captured several Void Demons and Wraiths, and he revealed that Lord Formless had already noticed their arrival.

• Song Wen learned that Yu Qing's master was Lord Formless, a Void Demon of the Bone Serpent lineage, and decided to visit her.
• Jiang Wanyue insisted on accompanying Song Wen into the dangerous Source-Qi Death Domain, despite his offer to let her wait outside.
• Song Wen used Shadow Void's warning to capture a hidden Giant Wolf Void Demon, surprising Jiang Wanyue and Yu Qing's group.
• Song Wen captured more than a dozen Void Demons and several Wraiths as the flying ship traveled nearly ten million li into the domain.
• Yu Qing pointed out Lord Formless's mountain cave, and Song Wen said he had found her and that she had already noticed them.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue captured the Void Demon Beauty Serpent alive in the Source-Qi Death Domain and took the unconscious Yu Qing and her companions with them. After they escaped the domain, Yu Qing woke and rejoiced that the beast was dead and she was free.

• Song Wen attacked the Beauty Serpent with golden lightning after it questioned him and Jiang Wanyue, while it triggered the Blood Servant restrictions on Yu Qing and her companions.
• Jiang Wanyue severed the Beauty Serpent's tentacles with her flying sword and sealed it in ice, and Song Wen stored it and the severed tentacles in a spirit beast bag.
• Song Wen chose not to seek out more Void Demons, and he and Jiang Wanyue took Yu Qing and the surviving companions aboard Jiang Wanyue's flying ship.
• Song Wen kept Yu Qing's abandoned flying ship, and the group left the Source-Qi Death Domain.
• Yu Qing woke outside the domain and celebrated her freedom from the Void Race and her life as an Evil Spirit Cultivator.