Recaps

Song Wen survived Extreme Yin’s deadly experiments, used his ability to absorb essence blood to grow stronger, and killed his master after the Blood Qi Pill weakened him. He then killed Tang Liang and left Tang Yinian gravely wounded, while remaining with the Heavenly Baleful Gang.

• Song Wen joined the Heavenly Baleful Gang, secretly cultivated the Longevity Art, and became Extreme Yin’s disciple after pretending to draw qi into his body.
• Extreme Yin’s Blood Qi Pills killed Second Ox and Zhang Cheng, but Song Wen survived one through mysterious energy and was forced to take the Seven-Day Heartbreak Pill.
• Song Wen killed Brother Biao and the little beggar, discovered that absorbing their blood essence replenished his qi, and later killed Gou Hang and two of his men.
• Song Wen survived another Blood Qi Pill and broke through to Qi Refining Second Layer while Extreme Yin’s attempt to refine the same pill left him severely depleted.
• Song Wen stabbed Extreme Yin, absorbed his remaining essence blood, and took an antidote to the Seven-Day Heartbreak Pill from his storage bag.
• Song Wen learned about cultivation and talismans from Extreme Yin’s belongings, then resolved to stay with the gang until he killed Tang Liang.
• Song Wen lured Tang Yinian and Tang Liang to his building and set a trap with fierce oil and steel needles.
• Tang Yinian killed the badly wounded Tang Liang with Song Wen’s fireball, then Song Wen blocked his attack with a shield and struck him with a second fireball talisman.

Song Wen joined the Corpse Demon Sect and built up his cultivation, wealth, and Beetle Gu while working in the Corpse Dissection Cave. After a year, he prepared for a dangerous Seven-Colored Grass mission with an expanding arsenal and a refined Corpse Puppet, though he still lacked details about the assignment.

• Song Wen survived Tang Yinian’s attack on the Heavenly Baleful Gang and accepted Shi Shou’s offer to join the Corpse Demon Sect.
• Song Wen learned the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art, endured Wu Sheng’s cave-dwelling intimidation, and chose corpse dissection as his sect assignment.
• Song Wen advanced his cultivation by absorbing blood qi from corpses, traded for supplies, and acquired the Soul-Banishing Technique and Ghost Corpse Technique.
• Song Wen secretly found Blood Gu Art and Beetle Gu eggs in an old woman’s corpse, then hatched and bred Beetle Gu, including stronger black-spotted ones.
• Song Wen dissected a hundred children’s corpses and impressed Wu Sui, who invited him to join Yin Fiend Hall if he advanced to Late Qi Refinement within six years.
• Song Wen reached Qi Refining Fourth Layer while concealing his cultivation, received a Seven-Colored Grass mission in Poison Miasma Swamp, and prepared for it.
• Song Wen bought the Ghost Head Shield, Heavenly Thunder Talismans, Heaven-Burning Fire, Flying and Swift Movement Talismans, and Thunderclap Bombs before returning to his cave without learning more about the mission.

Song Wen uncovered the Yan Family’s theft of Seven-Colored Grass, survived their attempt to silence him, and exposed their betrayal to the Corpse Demon Sect. As he struggled with worsening zombification, he joined an expedition seeking Sky Cicada Wood.

• Song Wen and Guo Tao traveled to the Poison Miasma Swamp to inventory the Yan Family’s Seven-Colored Grass, but Song Wen discovered that the supposedly old herbs had been dyed to disguise their true age.
• Ghost Three attacked the Yan Family and exposed its secret sales to the Nine Palaces Sect, prompting Yan Zhengping to turn against Song Wen as the fighting erupted.
• Song Wen escaped the battlefield, killed Yan Feng and five pursuing Yan Family cultivators, and evaded further searchers while fleeing toward the Corpse Demon Sect.
• Song Wen returned to the sect and accused Guo Tao of helping the Yan Family, leading Elder Shen to have Guo Tao arrested and confine Song Wen during the investigation.
• The Corpse Demon Sect exterminated the Yan Family, while Yan Yiwen escaped to the Nine Palaces Sect and remained a potential threat to Song Wen.
• Song Wen acquired the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body and began cultivating it, but later realized the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art was driving his loss of control and transformation into a zombie.
• Song Wen learned that Sky Cicada Wood could temporarily counter his zombification and joined a Ghost Market expedition with Niu Ding, Xuan Ye, Lao Chun, and Zi Yi to seek it and other ingredients.

Song Wen survived the Ancient Battlefield, secured the Sky Cicada Wood, and strengthened his cultivation and Black Armor Gu while concealing his gains from the Corpse Demon Sect. He entered the Withered Blood Secret Realm seeking Heavenly Spirit Fruit and approached Wu Sui after witnessing his brutal killings.

• Song Wen joined Xuan Ye and Niu Ding in searching the Ancient Battlefield, helped obtain a Snake-Scale Fruit, and fought through ghosts and White Bone Worms while pursuing the Sky Cicada Wood.
• Song Wen escaped with the Sky Cicada Wood after the dwarf ghost transformed into a powerful bone ghost, then evaded Xuan Ye and returned to the Corpse Demon Sect.
• Song Wen made a Qi Refining Level Six corpse puppet his substitute, refined the Sky Cicada Wood, and ended his corpse-transformation crisis.
• Song Wen fed White Bone Worm crystals to his Beetle Gu, evolved one into a Black Armor Gu, and secretly gathered more crystals while avoiding sect scrutiny.
• Song Wen reached the peak of the ninth Qi Refining layer and boarded the flying ship to the Withered Blood Secret Realm, rejecting Qiu Li’s advances and threats.
• Song Wen entered the secret realm alone and went to an island where giant pythons attacked Wu Sheng and Mysterious Yin Sect cultivators.
• Song Wen killed Wu Sheng, the two Mysterious Yin Sect cultivators, and the pythons, then watched Wu Sui kill three Crimson Blood Gate cultivators and approached him as Extreme Yin.