Recaps

Song Wen destroyed Rong Luan’s lifespan-extending scheme, killed her, and spread evidence that brought the Divine Blood Sect’s retaliation upon the Rong Clan. He then abducted Su Zhixi to obtain a breakthrough formation, released her after its completion, and advanced into the Mahayana Realm.

• Song Wen tracked the missing Immortal Affinity Pavilion guests to Rong Luan’s underground formation, where she drained captives to extend her lifespan.
• Song Wen shattered Rong Luan’s formation and defeated her after she burned her soul to summon Ancient Demon True Baleful Intent and killed Jade Bone.
• Song Wen devoured Rong Luan’s soul and circulated her recorded confession, after which the Divine Blood Sect slaughtered nearly one hundred million members of the Rong Clan.
• Song Wen compensated Leng Qingying before leaving Blood Radiance City and approached Su Zhixi under the pretense of commissioning a formation.
• Song Wen feigned romantic interest in Su Zhixi, lured her outside Azure Mist City with a Nishang Sparrow, and abducted her to inscribe the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation.
• Su Zhixi secured Song Wen’s Heavenly Dao oath, completed the portable formation with Gu Que’s guidance, and departed after Song Wen released her.
• Song Wen refined the Azure Glazed Fruits and Blood Jade Ginseng, then used the formation and Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma to break through into the Mahayana Realm.
• Song Wen confronted Zhao Xuanming after his seclusion, crushed the rat demon responsible for the plague, and spread a Blood Tide over the region he had shrouded in corpse qi.

Song Wen gathered souls and wealth, then lured Yu Bi into a trap and killed him before confronting Cui Qiao over Zhou Siyi’s fate. After confirming Zhou Siyi’s soul still survived in the Heavenly Origin Realm, Song Wen sought knowledge of spatial rifts that might let him reach her.

• Song Wen reunited with Qiluo, learned Yu Bi had taken Cui Qiao as his disciple, and used Cui Qiao’s communication jade slip to investigate Yu Bi.
• Song Wen secretly followed Patriarch Youquan’s demon-soul dealings, then killed Wang E, Xuanming, Youquan, and the ghost cultivators and took their riches and souls.
• Song Wen refined his treasures during eight years of seclusion, then arranged with Cui Qiao to lure Yu Bi toward Ten-Thousand Silence Ridge by planting false information about Nine-Heavens Star Dew.
• Song Wen trapped Yu Bi’s party in the Ten-Directions Annihilation Formation, defeated Yu Bi, and killed Chi Yuan and the three Void Refinement cultivators.
• Song Wen tortured Yu Bi’s soul and learned that the Divine Blood Sect held Cui Qiao’s soul lamp, then tracked Cui Qiao after she left the sect.
• Song Wen revealed himself to Cui Qiao and learned that she had tortured Zhou Siyi until her body died, then killed Cui Qiao’s body and tortured her soul.
• Cui Qiao revealed that Zhou Siyi’s soul remained in the Yin Soul Cave on Jade Terrace Island, and Song Wen confirmed the claim through soul search.
• Song Wen attended a Mystic Dao Inquiry gathering disguised as a rogue cultivator and learned that Xuan Li had extensively researched spatial rifts.

Song Wen used Xuan Li’s knowledge of spatial fissures to send Qiao Mengyu to the lower realm to rescue Zhou Siyi, then reunited with her and brought Zhou Siyi back. After settling Zhou Siyi’s vengeance against Cui Qiao, Song Wen returned to Ying Wu, who revealed a possible body for his old friend.

• Song Wen learned the Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye from Xuan Li and received the locations of three spatial fissures after giving her Cui Qiao’s soul aura.
• Song Wen cultivated the eye technique, searched for Yan Yuyan, and reunited with Qiao Mengyu in Heavenly Mountain City, where he explained his plans to rescue Senior Sister Che Jing’s soul.
• Qiao Mengyu insisted on descending to the lower realm in Song Wen’s place, and Song Wen opened a spatial rift for her before arranging access to the Primordial Origin Sect’s Teleportation Array.
• Song Wen teleported to the Azure Flame Sect and tracked Qiao Mengyu, who had escaped danger and waited in a sealed cavern with Zhou Siyi’s rescued soul.
• Song Wen disguised himself as Lei Yue to reunite with Qiao Mengyu, then fought his Heaven-and-Earth Avatar and let her flee while he held off its attack.
• Song Wen escorted Qiao Mengyu to a cultivator city, restored Zhou Siyi’s soul, and helped her punish Cui Qiao until Cui Qiao’s soul scattered.
• Song Wen returned to Ying Wu with nearly a thousand demonic beasts, and they revealed their Great Ascension Realm cultivation to each other.
• Ying Wu showed Song Wen her Void Dragon Vines and presented an ice coffin containing a beautiful woman with no vitality or soul as a possible body for his old friend.

Song Wen reunited with his companions, traded blows with Ji Yue to obtain Evil-Banishing Thunderwood, and hunted Void Demons in the Source-Qi Death Domain. He returned with a live demon and found Zheng Liyan publicly presenting his and Wang Qiuyue’s transaction in Hundred-Forging City.

• Ying Wu gave Jian Yun’s preserved body to Song Wen, and Zhou Siyi possessed it before joining the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion as Ying Wu’s disciple.
• Song Wen returned to Cloud Creek Valley, found Guan Lin’s remains and farewell letter, and buried her outside the valley.
• Song Wen reunited with Wang Qiuyue, Bai Wei, and Lan Chen, then reconciled with Bai Wei and revealed his Mahayana cultivation while asking her to arrange a reforging of his Thunder Kui Wings.
• Song Wen challenged Ji Yue for her Evil-Banishing Thunderwood, fought her and her allies, and escaped after using his Blood Sea, Death-Substitute Puppets, and divided incarnations.
• Song Wen accepted Wang Qiuyue’s commission to capture a live seventh-tier Void Demon and negotiated with Zheng Liyan for spirit beast pouches and a public exchange.
• Song Wen entered the Source-Qi Death Domain, captured Void Demons, and sent Nether Fox to investigate a cavern, where it swallowed a mysterious black sphere and was badly injured by Shadow Void.
• Song Wen and Shadow Void fought through pursuing eighth-rank Void Demons and escaped the domain, while the demons stopped at its edge.
• Song Wen delivered a live seventh-tier Void Demon to Wang Qiuyue and then Zheng Liyan, who publicly presented their transaction alongside Wang Qiuyue in a crowded square.