Recaps

Song Wen healed Bai Wei, pursued his cultivation, and returned to find his valley looted and the Nether Fox and Gu insects missing. He used captives to pressure the Li Clan into searching for the rogue cultivator who had taken them.

• Song Wen rescued Mo Yexue, learned Ji Lin had caused Pei Ningxuan’s death, and bought True Yang Grass from Pei Ningxuan.
• Song Wen cultivated for twenty years, advanced his cultivation, and searched for Six Baleful Hall by capturing and questioning its members.
• Song Wen witnessed the battle between the righteous-path cultivators and Six Baleful Hall, saved Bai Wei, and healed her damaged divine soul.
• Song Wen killed Xuan Qu, learned about his lightning escape art, and later met Bai Wei and Qiao Mengyu in Taitan City.
• Song Wen finished healing Bai Wei’s sea of consciousness, received True Yang Grass from her, and advanced the Shadow King Gu to the fifth tier.
• Song Wen returned to find his valley looted and learned from Guan Lin that a black-robed cultivator had taken the Nether Fox, four Gu insects, and spirit herbs.
• Song Wen seized Young Master Ming and used his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to fight Li Clan cultivators, taking Li Rui, Li Zhengqing, and Young Master Ming captive.
• Song Wen sealed Blood Luo Pills inside the captives and forced Li Tianhe to search for the rogue cultivator, then had his avatar send Li Tianhe away.

Song Wen recovered his stolen possessions, turned a Beauty Serpent hunt against Six Baleful Hall, and reached the peak of the Void Refinement stage before escaping Gu Huang. His search for help with a rebellious Gu insect led him to seize the Gu Divine Scripture and interrogate the Gu Evolution Sect's last survivors.

• Song Wen evaded Li Tianhe, tracked down Azure Nether Hermit, recovered the Nether Fox and four dying Gu insects, and learned where Six Baleful Hall was stationed.
• Song Wen healed his Gu insects and joined Shopkeeper Yin, Bu Ren, Yan Tong, and Feng Youyou on a Beauty Serpent hunt in the Source-Qi Death Domain.
• Song Wen seized Yan Tong's black cloth bag after Bu Ren betrayed Yan Tong, then had Shadow Void subdue the Beauty Serpent and used Nether Fox to lure the pursuers toward Six Baleful Hall.
• Song Wen lured a corpse cultivator away after he killed Shopkeeper Yin and Bu Ren, then killed and devoured him with Shadow Void's help to reach the peak of the Void Refinement stage.
• Song Wen escaped Gu Huang with a substitute puppet, hid in Chu'an City, and later retrieved Nether Fox before returning to Cloud Creek Valley.
• Song Wen sealed a newly advanced Gu insect that attacked its own kind, cultivated for ten years, and sought Bai Wei's advice on reaching the Integrated Body Realm.
• Song Wen attended a Gu masters' gathering through Mi Man, sought Feng Mu's help with the rebellious insect, and seized Bi Xiaoyu and Mutu when their confrontation erupted.
• Song Wen interrogated Bi Xiaoyu and Mutu about repairing the insect's foundation and found the Gu Divine Scripture in Mutu's Gu Cauldron.

Song Wen healed Qiao Mengyu, pursued his own cultivation plans, and entered the Turbid Spirit Realm in search of Pure Origin Heavenly Dew. After finding clues to the dew and reaching the Astral Qi Abyss, he joined Leng Zhi, Heng Ziping, and Xue Cong to explore it.

• Song Wen healed Qiao Mengyu with Bai Wei’s help, received the promised payment, and learned that Pure Origin Heavenly Dew could aid his path to Body Integration.
• Song Wen coerced Kang Ling into completing the Blood Refinement Gu Sacrifice Formation and used it to advance his Shadow King Gu.
• Song Wen met Mi Man to purify her weak water, then tracked Jing Bei and killed him and Fu Kaiyu after discovering Jing Bei’s plans and threat to Mi Man.
• Song Wen studied the Divine Blood Sect’s breakthrough insights and joined Bai Wei’s expedition into the Turbid Spirit Realm.
• After entering the realm, Song Wen searched the Nine Heavens Gale Winds, seized Pure Origin Heavenly Dew, and defeated Ying Deng, who revealed that he had killed villagers for two drops.
• Song Wen rescued a native village from giant birds, learned that the dew fell when astral winds calmed and reversed, and followed the clue to the Astral Qi Abyss.
• Song Wen joined Leng Zhi, Heng Ziping, and Xue Cong to descend into the abyss using Leng Zhi’s wind-binding formation.
• Leng Zhi retrieved a drop of Pure Origin Heavenly Dew sensed by Song Wen, and the group agreed that Song Wen would receive the first find, followed by Leng Zhi, Heng Ziping, and Xue Cong.

Song Wen survived the Turbid Spirit Realm, escaped Fan Kang’s inspection, and returned to Cloud Creek Valley with the treasures he had gathered. He then sought Netherworld Sand in Pingxi City, but his deal with Wen Hua and her associates exposed his identity and ended with them captured.

• Leng Zhi expelled Song Wen, Xue Cong, and Heng Ziping from the tornado, but the reversing astral winds dragged them toward the abyss as she fell injured.
• Song Wen descended to the abyss floor, collected Pure Origin Heavenly Dew, killed Leng Zhi, and followed Heng Ziping into the Immortal's Tomb when their route out was blocked.
• Song Wen entered a burial chamber with Wang Qiuyue, Jian Xiao, Gu Huang, Tang He, and Heng Ziping, then destroyed the Bronze Corpse Coffin to break the Soul-Devouring Blood Sacrifice Formation.
• Song Wen captured the mutilated corpse’s soul and escaped the tomb, then fought Gu Huang in the astral gale and fled toward the Turbid Spirit Realm’s exit.
• Song Wen and Hong Yi left the Turbid Spirit Realm with a native man, but Fan Kang searched Song Wen’s belongings and discovered he had been using a wooden clone.
• Song Wen returned to Cloud Creek Valley, learned from Bai Wei that Gu Huang had survived, and arranged with Wang Qiuyue to exchange techniques and information about Netherworld Sand.
• Song Wen paid Ke Feng a deposit for a large shipment of Netherworld Sand and visited the mine, where he saw the harsh conditions imposed on its mortal workers.
• Wen Hua, Ke Feng, and Di Cang brought the real Guan Liang to confront Song Wen’s avatar, but Song Wen knocked all four unconscious and demanded their Netherworld Sand and information about Fan Kang.