Recaps

Song Wen joined Zhong Ren’s migration toward the Qicang Region, but a Purple Firmament Dove wrecked their vessel and scattered the passengers. He survived Rotting Miasma Ridge, clashed with its beasts and fellow travelers, and ended the journey by killing Xiao Ying before following Ye Bing east.

• Song Wen sold the Teleportation Token to Ye Xuan, then spent nineteen years cultivating and refining Death-Substitute Puppets before joining Zhong Ren’s group at the Dual Extremes Sect.
• The Cangyu Flying Vessel entered Rotting Miasma Ridge, where a Purple Firmament Dove attacked, exhausted its defenses, and forced Zhong Ren to sacrifice the vessel so the passengers could flee.
• Song Wen hid from the dove, later devoured Zhong Ren after an unknown attacker killed him, and crossed a canyon by wounding a Twin-Winged Centipede.
• Song Wen drew three Twin-Winged Centipedes toward Ye Bing, Wei Qian, Xiao Ying, and Yan He, then agreed to scout ahead with Yan He as the group traveled through the ridge.
• Song Wen and Yan He escaped a poisonous spider swarm and encountered Wei Qian, Ye Bing, and Xiao Ying amid attacks by a Blood-Eyed Giant Ape and an Earth Savage Bull.
• The group fought the Blood-Eyed Giant Ape, and Song Wen killed Wei Qian when Wei Qian tried to stop him from escaping.
• Ye Bing revealed that Xiao Ying carried Five-Viscera Spiritwood and offered Song Wen the Void-Merging Origin-Breaking Pill formula if he helped kill her, so Song Wen destroyed Xiao Ying’s Gu insects and killed her.
• Song Wen took Ye Bing’s Plum Blossom Fan and lured the ape away, then escaped and followed a stone character east until he found Ye Bing waiting on a hill.

Song Wen acquired the Earth-Escape Talisman method, secured Bodhi Spirit Stamens by abducting Hui Zhen, and arranged a hidden place with Ye Bing to cultivate rare herbs. The arc ended with Song Wen accompanying Shi Man and Wu Yuan to confront Shi Chang over Heart-Corroding Chill.

• Ye Bing gave Song Wen the Void-Merging Origin-Breaking Pill formula and her Earth-Escape Talisman method, and Song Wen spared her after she swore an oath and promised him talismans and a pill.
• Song Wen traveled with Ye Bing toward Cloud-Hidden City, joined a shipboard exchange gathering under the name Ye Hua, and obtained Tara's Heart after outbidding Shi Man.
• Song Wen rented a cave abode in Cloud-Hidden City and learned that the Withered Zen Temple and Moon-Covering Hall controlled the region’s Bodhi Spirit Stamens.
• Song Wen abducted Hui Zhen and demanded a thousand intact Bodhi Spirit Stamens from Du'e, then took them and escaped after Du'e’s messenger arrived.
• Song Wen met Shi Man again and helped her pursue Heart-Corroding Chill, while Ye Bing gave him a promised Earth-Escape Talisman and asked to buy his five-viscera spiritwood.
• Ye Bing traded Song Wen her Withered Marsh research for the spiritwood, and Song Wen entrusted her with a hundred Bodhi Spirit Stamens to cultivate on her hidden island.
• Song Wen searched for a suitable island and bought demon-luring powder, then worried that Shi Man had uncovered his identity when she summoned Gou Jun to the Moon-Covering Hall.
• Song Wen joined Shi Man and Wu Yuan to confront Shi Chang, but said he could not confirm that Shi Chang had sold the Heart-Corroding Chill.

Song Wen killed Wu Yuan, took his cultivation and secrets, and maneuvered through Moon-Covering Hall while pursuing his own aims. He joined Chi Pei’s search for the Blood-Eyed Divine Ape and ended the arc by giving the group a precise location in the Gloom Miasma Mountains.

• Wu Yuan killed Shi Chang, then Song Wen lured him into a canyon and killed him, learning Moon-Covering Hall’s secrets by devouring his soul.
• Song Wen used Wu Yuan’s remains to advance his cultivation, settled on Wu Yuan Island, and resumed contact with Shi Man and Qiluo.
• Song Wen followed Qiluo to Yuan Luo, killed Yuan Luo with lightning and his spear, and took the Yin-Sinking Water.
• Song Wen gave Qiluo Red-Dust Fragrance to help her seduce Chi Pei, then refined the Blood Sea Seal with the Yin-Sinking Water.
• Song Wen traveled with Chi Pei, Shi Man, Qiluo, Tang Gui, and Sang Bu toward Phoenix Plume City to search for the Blood-Eyed Divine Ape.
• Qiluo told Song Wen that Chi Pei’s use of Red-Dust Fragrance was damaging his sea of consciousness, while Shi Man proposed making Qiluo’s death look like a demon-beast attack.
• Song Wen arranged with Ye Bing to draw Jin Xun into an ambush, then met Shi Man and the others at their rendezvous with Chi Pei.
• Song Wen claimed to know where a giant ape had fought an Earth Savage Bull, showed the group a map pinpointing the Gloom Miasma Mountains, and received Chi Pei’s order to lead them there.

Song Wen killed Chi Pei, seized his knowledge and resources, then joined Ye Bing in luring Jin Xun into a trap to learn where rare herbs could be found. Song Wen used Jin Xiuqi and Ye Bing to draw Yun Xinghai into a meeting, where Yun confirmed Ye Bing was bound by a Soul-Burying Curse and focused on obtaining the Devouring Essence Array.

• Song Wen followed Chi Pei after the Blood-Eyed Divine Ape battle, killed him despite his escape attempts, devoured Chi Pei’s and his disciples’ cultivation, and learned about the Divine Blood Sect and the wider world.
• Song Wen spent twenty years strengthening his cultivation and divine sense, then found Ye Bing and learned that Jin Xun had acquired the earthfrost vine.
• Song Wen and Ye Bing lured Jin Xun to Gou Jun Island with a life-extending formation as bait, ambushed him, and trapped him in a Nether Corpse Purgatory Formation.
• Jin Xun revealed that the dying alchemist Yun Xinghai had Purple Spirit Ginseng and Heavenly Star Grass, but Song Wen killed Jin Xun before he could swear an oath.
• Song Wen disguised himself in Phoenix Plume City and persuaded Jin Xiuqi to bring Yun Xinghai and the required herbs to the Pure Spirit Market by claiming he had captured Li Yue.
• Yun Xinghai met Jin Xiuqi near the Pure Spirit Market, where Ye Bing arrived posing as Li Yue and warned Jin that a Soul-Burying Curse would destroy her if she did not return in time.
• Yun Xinghai examined Ye Bing, confirmed the curse was real, and said he could not break it, then urged them to discuss the transaction because he wanted the Devouring Essence Array.