Recaps

Song Wen seized the secret realm’s treasures, killed Wu Sui, and hid his gains before breaking through to Foundation Establishment. As he sought access to the sect’s techniques, Shi Shou abducted him for a blood-devouring ritual, which Song Wen disrupted.

• Wu Sui abandoned Chen Xiuming to the giant apes, stole the Heavenly Spirit Fruits, and later seized Gui Xun’s Jade Marrow Fungus before Song Wen killed Gui Xun and Qiu Li and took their loot.
• Song Wen tracked Wu Sui to a cave, killed him after defeating his corpse puppet, and decided to kill the wounded Ying Ni to protect his secrets.
• Song Wen hid his treasures inside his body, left the secret realm, and evaded Wu Ren’s search despite Wu Ren discovering his grandson’s storage pouch with another survivor.
• Song Wen captured and killed Du Qiu after learning that Shi Shou had ordered him to watch Song Wen and had cultivated the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art.
• Song Wen used three Heavenly Spirit Fruits and five thousand spirit stones to reach Foundation Establishment, then sought an elder’s token by befriending Chen Feihe under the name Zhang Cheng.
• Shi Shou abducted Song Wen and bound him among cultivators he had trained as sacrifices, revealing that he planned to devour their blood essence to advance his cultivation.
• Wanrou revealed that she was pregnant, but Shi Shou activated the Nine-Turn Spirit-Devouring Formation, which killed seven captives while leaving Song Wen unharmed.
• Song Wen broke free and shattered the formation disk with the Cold Moon Blade, stopping the ritual as Shi Shou summoned a second-order corpse puppet and found Wanrou barely alive.

After escaping the Corpse Demon Sect’s collapse, Song Wen survived by impersonating a rescued cultivator and settled near East Birch Market. He mourned Chen Yi, pursued new cultivation methods, and began refining Blood Qi Pills as disappearances troubled the market district.

• Song Wen killed Shi Shou, absorbed his soul and blood, and stole the complete Corpse King Blood Refinement Art before impersonating him to obtain four techniques.
• As righteous sects attacked the Corpse Demon Sect, Song Wen fled the battlefield, killed the wounded Wu Ren, and escaped downstream before posing as Chen Feihe to the Mysterious Heaven Sword Sect.
• Song Wen watched Chen Yi die at Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Chan’s hands, then buried her near Wang Family Village and visited Senior Brother Xu’s father.
• Song Wen settled near East Birch Market, studied Wu Ren’s Blood Escape Technique, and began exploring the Longevity Art, pill-making, and the Palm Thunder technique.
• Song Wen met Ai Kun and learned about Lei Tianyu and Kou Chang, while Sun Ru successfully cultivated Palm Thunder and Zhu Mei resisted Zhao Dapeng’s attempt to force her into marriage.
• Song Wen agreed to make Flying Talismans for Ai Kun, who warned that Rogue Cultivators were disappearing, and Song Wen finally refined two Blood Qi Pills and swallowed them.

Song Wen uncovered the Lei Clan’s method of stealing lightning talent, killed Lei Hong and Lei Tianyu, and used the altar to absorb the Azure Bull’s power. Back in East Birch Market, he cultivated a Sacred Beetle Gu and learned that the Silverhorn Grass needed to produce another was controlled by the Beast Taming Sect.

• Song Wen followed Lei Tianyu to an underwater cave, where he watched Lei Tianyu use an altar to extract Sun Ru’s thunder talent and later found her corpse and the altar’s formation.
• Song Wen entered the Mountain Ravine Ghost Market and secretly watched thirteen cultivators attack the Heavenly River Li Clan, then killed Li Chenggu and took his Profound Yin Stones and ghost banners.
• Song Wen refined Wu Ren into a pseudo-third-rank corpse puppet, combined the ghost banners into a spirit artifact, and returned to East Birch Market.
• At the auction, Lei Tianyu bought Kou Chang a Thunder-Pattern Stone and took her to the Lei Clan, where Lei Hong revealed their plan to seize the Azure Bull and kill Kou Chang.
• Song Wen killed Lei Hong, used the altar to absorb the Azure Bull’s lightning spirituality, then placed Lei Tianyu on it and devoured his lightning talent.
• Song Wen evaded Lei Yue’s search, returned to East Birch Market, rented Courtyard Number Thirty-Six under the name Guo Tao, and discovered that Ji Ruxue concealed Foundation Establishment-level power.
• Song Wen fed Silverhorn Grass and Beast Brocade Pills to his Black Armor Gu, producing a Sacred Beetle Gu, but learned he needed more Silverhorn Grass and that only the Beast Taming Sect possessed it.
• Deacon Qin visited the Blissful Union Spring Night Tower, learned Qin Ge had sent Hu Yun’s daughter to Elder Huang and fed Hu Yun to his Green Wolf, then returned to the sect with the family’s proceeds.

Song Wen established his foundation, escaped the Su Clan’s attempt to capture him, and infiltrated Clearpeace Mountain to uncover its plans for Longevity Art cultivators. He watched a raid on the Su Clan’s mine turn into a struggle over a sealed Ghost King, ending with Jing Lu caught in a storm of resentment.

• Song Wen killed Heng Cheng after exposing Jing Yu’s scheme, then used Rong Jingyun’s pill-refining insights to perfect Blood Qi Pills and advance his cultivation.
• Song Wen established his foundation with a Heavenly Spirit Fruit, but the Su Clan tried to capture him for its Devouring Essence Array, forcing him to escape from Daoist Nun Qingyan.
• Song Wen learned that Ai Kun had betrayed his identity to the Su Clan for pills, killed Ai Kun and Su Axiu, and entered Clearpeace Mountain as an alchemist.
• Song Wen investigated the Su Clan and its Crimson Blood Spirit Crystal mine, where he discovered a group of Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivators preparing to attack.
• Jing Lu led the Rogue Cultivators against the mine, while Su Jingtong helped Su Yi flee with a storage ring and drew the attackers after her with a claim about Crimson Blood Crystal Marrows.
• The Rogue Cultivators killed Su Yi and looted the mine, while Su Jingtong told his companions that the Su Clan had released a sealed Ghost King to use the attackers as sacrifices.
• Su Jingtong and four Su Clan cultivators trapped the Ghost King in a banner, but Jing Lu attacked them as they exhausted their spiritual power.
• Su Jingtong hurled a skull at Jing Lu, and its explosion unleashed a black hurricane that swallowed Jing Lu and his Ghost General.