Recaps

Song Wen found Ye Bing after centuries apart, helped her avenge the Ye Family, and brought her to Jade Spirit Palace. He then entered the Kunxu Secret Realm, explored its connected regions with Feng Zhongli, obtained the Nine-Heavens Thunder Astral Stone, and killed Zhu You, leaving with Feng Zhongli as his ally.

• Song Wen returned to Qicang Island, learned the Ye Family had been destroyed, and eventually reunited with Ye Bing at Gou Jun’s grave.
• Song Wen and Ye Bing destroyed Moon-Covering Hall and avenged the Ye Family by killing Ink-Robed Dao Lord, Zen Master Guang Hui, and Zhu Tui.
• Song Wen guided Ye Bing through the Source-Qi Death Domain and arranged for her to join Jade Spirit Palace under Wang Qiuyue.
• Song Wen entered the Kunxu Secret Realm with other Mahayana cultivators and found himself trapped in a snowfield filled with regenerating monsters.
• Song Wen escaped the snowfield and learned from Geng Qian that the Pure Land, Ghost Domain, and Snowfield were connected regions within a vast array.
• Song Wen and Feng Zhongli fought the ghosts in a nest, killed the Black-Scaled Ghost Serpent, and recovered the Nine-Heavens Thunder Astral Stone and Nether-Tide Voidwater.
• Song Wen and Feng Zhongli traveled through a node into another region, where they found Zhu You hiding in an underground lair.
• Feng Zhongli helped Song Wen break Zhu You’s formation, and Song Wen killed Zhu You and collected his soul and possessions.

Song Wen joined the struggle for the Purple-Rhyme Profound Tree and was trapped with Yuan Rong and the others in a formation tied to a flood dragon palace. After the group entered the inner hall and learned of a True Dragon Spirit, their fight with the Flood Dragon King left Song Wen and Yuan Rong battling together as Feng Zhongli called for Yang Yu.

• Song Wen killed Xuan Gu, broke through to mid-Mahayana, and joined Yuan Rong’s group at the Purple-Rhyme Profound Tree as they fought the flood dragons.
• Song Wen harvested the tree, but the Confinement Formation trapped the group, and he awakened Xuan Li before they fought the emerging eighth-rank flood dragons.
• Song Wen refused Ji Yue’s demand for all four fruits and escaped into the ghostly mist as the formation forced everyone toward the palace beneath the cold pool.
• The Flood Dragon King revealed that flood dragon blood could weaken the inner hall’s restrictions, and Yuan Rong opened the hall despite the trapping formation remaining active.
• Ji Yue attacked Song Wen over the Purple-Rhyme Fruit, and Song Wen fought her and Yuan Rong until Feng Zhongli intervened and the Flood Dragon King killed Ji Yue.
• The Flood Dragon King turned on Yuan Rong, then fought Song Wen, Feng Zhongli, and Xuan Li, and Feng Zhongli held it back while Song Wen carried Xuan Li away.
• Song Wen and Yuan Rong joined forces against the Flood Dragon King, targeting its injured lower jaw and spine, while Ghost Fox died trying to protect it.
• Song Wen escaped briefly with Xuan Li, returned to help Yuan Rong, and attacked from within his sword formation as Feng Zhongli called out to Yang Yu.

Song Wen and his allies defeated the Flood Dragon King, discovered the True Dragon Spirit beneath Dragon-Breath Profound Ice, and gathered souls to break through the ice. After clashes with Pagoda Temple monks and Yi Ji’s group, the exposed dragon corpse fell into the darkness during a fight over its division.

• Song Wen, Yuan Rong, and Feng Zhongli shattered the Confinement Formation, killed the weakened Flood Dragon King, and learned that human souls could weaken the ice sealing the True Dragon Spirit.
• Song Wen and his companions tested the Dragon-Breath Profound Ice with Ji Yue’s soul, then agreed to search the secret realm for passages and souls that could help break through it.
• Xuan Li recognized Song Wen’s Nine Nether Void-Piercing Eye, and Yuan Rong identified him as Jian Xiao before Song Wen told the group to call him Extreme Yin.
• After crossing a node passage, Song Wen and his allies fought Pagoda Temple monks, killed Jikong and Cizhou, and captured Jikong’s divine soul.
• Song Wen and his companions returned to the Burial Dragon Abyss, where Yi Ji’s Burning Moon Sect group proposed joining forces to retrieve the dragon corpse, but the groups fought and Yi Ji escaped.
• Song Wen’s group consumed captured souls to weaken the ice until the dragon’s head appeared, and Yi Ji returned with He Ying and Shi Qingcang.
• Yi Ji proposed dividing the dragon corpse, Feng Zhongli rejected her offer, and the ensuing battle cracked the mystic ice and sent the corpse falling into the darkness.

Song Wen survived the sealed abyss by turning its captors against one another, then found a way through the Snowfield exit and escaped the Kunxu Secret Realm. After returning to Great Passage Lake, he investigated Zhou Siyi’s strange resonance and accompanied Ying Wu into the Source-Qi Death Domain to test her Void Dragon Vine.

• A strange force sealed the group’s spiritual power and cast Song Wen and the others into an abyss, where they found a stone dragon corpse and failed to climb the cliffs.
• After three years trapped and starving, Song Wen learned that the True Dragon remnant soul had lured cultivators there to devour their divine souls, and he killed Shi Qingcang when Shi threatened him.
• When Venerable Yun Chan arrived, Song Wen helped lure the group’s souls out of their bodies to attack the dragon soul, then seized control of the dragon soul and killed Yun Chan.
• Song Wen learned that the restrictions at the Li-Nan position briefly failed every twelve years, and he attacked Yi Ji when the group attempted to escape, killing her before fleeing with Feng Zhongli and Xuan Li.
• Song Wen and his companions killed He Ying True Person, but Yuan Rong escaped, after dividing their captured treasures, they found a moving passage to the Snowfield.
• Song Wen discovered that the Snowfield exit’s ice weakened when powerful cultivators were far away, and Xuan Li’s Moon Wheel shattered it, though the renewed ice and attacking snow demons forced the group to leave the realm.
• Song Wen, Xuan Li, Feng Zhongli, Geng Qian, and the women escaped the secret realm, and Song Wen then reunited with Zhou Siyi and learned she had helped Ying Wu fuse with a Void Dragon Vine.
• After cultivating for three years, Song Wen met Ying Wu, who invited him into the Source-Qi Death Domain to witness what happened when she summoned her newly fused eighth-rank Void Dragon Vine.