Recaps

Song Wen joined the expedition to the Western Rong Continent, survived its monsters, and escaped Yuan Rong’s schemes with the help of his substitute-death puppets. He then sought the Willow Serpent Clan, rescued Qing Lian, and chose to meet her approaching brother rather than flee.

• Song Wen joined the expedition through the teleportation cavern, where the group encountered swarms of Ghost-Faced Spiders and lost many cultivators before reaching the surface.
• Yuan Rong and Yongcheng Daojun investigated the Azure-Faced Jade Foxes’ forbidden grounds, and Song Wen secretly killed Tian Ming and Shangguan Ren when three Azure Foxes approached.
• Song Wen escaped the Azure Foxes, used a substitute-death puppet to evade pursuit, and learned from Yuan Rong’s captive that they were on the Western Rong Continent.
• Song Wen seized a flood dragon and followed it to a spirit-stone vein, but an invisible demon beast killed the dragon and wounded his blood corpse before Song Wen escaped.
• Song Wen attacked the Willow Serpent party, captured Qing Lian, and brought her to safety after defeating the demon beast pursuing her.
• Qing Lian explained the Willow Serpent Clan’s strength and asked Song Wen, who introduced himself as Extreme Yin, to become her dao companion.
• Song Wen declined to travel with Qing Lian but chose to meet her approaching brother, the Crimson-Scaled King, and asked her to resume her half-human, half-serpent form.

Song Wen stayed with the Willow Snake Clan while pursuing the Jadeglow Lotus and a way back to the Eastern Profound Continent. Yuan Rong drew him into a plot against the Crimson-Scaled King, then launched an invasion that Song Wen used to steal the lotus and flee underground with Qing Lian as a terrifying Willow Snake entered the battle.

• The Crimson-Scaled King welcomed Song Wen to the Willow Snake Clan, where Qing Lian declared her desire to become his Dao companion, and Song Wen asked for time.
• Song Wen discovered that Qing Lian’s Purple Lotus Fruits were an aphrodisiac and began an affair with the Crimson-Scaled King, while continuing to encourage Qing Lian’s hopes.
• Song Wen learned from Xuanchengzi that ancient records mentioned the Jadeglow Lotus, then rejected the Silver Willow King’s offer of one in exchange for serving her for life.
• Qing Lian told Song Wen that Yuan Rong and seven female cultivators had arrived, and Yuan Rong later demanded that Song Wen help poison the Crimson-Scaled King before five subordinate clans attacked.
• Song Wen poisoned the Crimson-Scaled King with Bone-Bloom Flower, overpowered her when she retaliated, and left without using Yuan Rong’s warning talisman as the five clans invaded.
• Song Wen entered the Iridescent Water Spirit Field during the battle, broke its barrier, took the Jadeglow Lotus and eight other herbs, then found Qing Lian at the collapsed cave entrance.
• Song Wen saved Qing Lian from a falling stone spike and hid with her underground, where he saw Yuan Rong flee with stolen treasures and a badly mutilated Willow Snake arrive to terrify the invading Demon Kings.

Song Wen escaped Yuan Rong, joined Wang Qiuyue to seize the Myriad Phenomena Spirit Liquid, and learned the remnant soul Gu Que’s history and secrets. He crossed the Source-Qi Death Domain in search of the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss, then emerged through a spatial projection into a world where vengeful spirits besieged a human city.

• Venerable Biwu killed the foreign-clan Demon Kings with a blue-black scale, while Yuan Rong escaped her pursuit using a Teleportation Talisman.
• Song Wen fled the Green Jade King and became entangled in Yuan Rong’s pursuit, then helped the Green Jade King fight Yuan Rong before Yuan Rong killed her and continued hunting Song Wen.
• Song Wen reunited with Wang Qiuyue and helped her defeat Fan Kang at Poison Dragon Abyss, where they divided the Myriad Phenomena Spirit Liquid.
• Song Wen traveled west in search of the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss, awakened Gu Que, and learned of his Immortal Realm origins, the Divine Blood Sect, and the danger of the Source-Qi Death Domain.
• Song Wen entered the Source-Qi Death Domain with Shadow Void and the Nether Fox, evaded powerful Void Demons, and found reefs he believed marked the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss.
• After waiting two years, Song Wen used a spatial projection to leave the domain and emerged above a lake near Southern Cinnabar City as vengeful spirits besieged the city.
• Song Wen fled from three eighth-rank vengeful spirits while Old Man Bai and Rong Shao defended the city, and a human Mahayana cultivator pursued him.

Song Wen seized Peach Blossom Valley, raised his cultivation, and pursued the Rong Clan while concealing his identity. His hunt for Huang Yangshu ended in a battle with the Rongqi, where he exposed the possibility that the Rong Clan had exploited Rong Shao’s Longevity Art before Rong Luan arrived.

• Song Wen escaped three eighth-rank vengeful spirits, entered Southern Cinnabar City, and later went to Peach Blossom Valley, where he captured Peach Blossom True Person and Rong Shu and took control of the valley.
• Song Wen consumed the Jadeglow Lotus and Rong Shu’s essence blood, broke through his cultivation bottleneck, and later sent his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar into the Blood-Baleful Abyss under the name Fan Kang.
• Song Wen traveled with Rong Shao, fought Rong Caizhe’s group, and received Armor-Shedding Pills, then lured Rong Yiwen into an ambush and killed him, learning that Huang Yangshu was near Yijing City.
• Song Wen disguised himself as Jiang Yushan and pressured Xu Yan into revealing Zhu Mei’s connection to Huang Yangshu, then cultivated Zhu Mei’s interest while watching her movements.
• Song Wen followed Huang Yangshu aboard the Rongqi and attacked its defenses, then spread a vast sea of blood around the ship as Huang Yangshu tried to escape.
• Song Wen revealed his identity to Rong Shao, admitted killing Rong Yiwen, and accused the Rong Clan of using Rong Shao’s Longevity Art to steal cultivators’ vitality, while Huang Yangshu activated the ship’s escape formation.
• Song Wen trapped the Rongqi in the blood sea and urged Rong Shao to turn against Huang Yangshu, but Rong Luan arrived and broke open the sea long enough for the ship to escape.
• Rong Shao asked Rong Luan whether the Divine Blood Sect used the Longevity Art to extend another person’s life, and Rong Luan denied it before Huang Yangshu blamed Gu Huang and redirected her attack toward the blood sea.