Recaps

Song Wen rescued Xuan Li and Yang Xi, strengthened his authority over the Divine Blood Sect, and later pursued the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow. He uncovered Qingxuanzi’s coup, killed the conspirators, and returned as Ying Wu prepared to attempt Tribulation Transcendence.

• Song Wen tracked Myriad Corpses Ancestor to his hideout, rescued Xuan Li and Yang Xi, and defeated him with Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder before capturing him alive.
• Song Wen exposed Rong Shao’s betrayal, killed him and Myriad Corpses Ancestor’s three subordinates, then displayed Myriad Corpses Ancestor’s captured head over Floating Dust Market and proclaimed the Divine Blood Sect’s strength.
• Song Wen offered Myriad Corpses Ancestor freedom, the complete Corpse King Reincarnation Art, a Taiqing Foundation-Consolidating Pill, and the Vice Sect Master position in return for retrieving a spiritual medicine, then imprisoned him while he converted his cultivation.
• Song Wen led You Xiao and Qingxuanzi to Soul-Severing Ridge to seek the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow, while learning that Wu Jin had disappeared after investigating it.
• Song Wen and Qingxuanzi fought the Blood-Eyed Nether Vulture in Fallen God Abyss, and Song Wen seized the Lightning-Avoiding Divine Willow with his blood tide.
• Qingxuanzi revealed that he had used the willow as bait to seize control of the Divine Blood Sect, but Song Wen’s hidden true body defeated him and exposed Fu Qing and the three elders as conspirators.
• Song Wen devoured Qingxuanzi and killed the conspirators, then returned to the sect, appointed Xuan Li as grand elder, and arranged memorial rites for the fallen elders.
• After two years of meditation, Song Wen sensed spiritual energy gathering around Ying Wu’s cave abode and realized she was about to attempt Tribulation Transcendence.

Song Wen refined his power, survived a tribulation, and uncovered conspiracies surrounding the Corpse King Reincarnation Art. With Qing Yuan and his allies threatening the Divine Blood Sect, Song Wen left in disguise to meet Li Jiuyuan over the promised flood dragon corpses.

• Ying Wu reached Tribulation Transcendence and gave Song Wen three wisps of immortal spiritual qi, which they later refined together.
• Song Wen drained the Myriad Corpses Ancestor’s cultivation and survived a ninth tribulation bolt to reach the mid Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• Li Jiuyuan traded a Life-Restoring Fruit for the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and agreed to gather forty-nine eighth-order lightning-element flood dragon corpses.
• Song Wen traced the illicit spread of the Corpse King Reincarnation Art to Pagoda Temple and investigated the massacres at Upper Water City and White Crow City.
• Song Wen defeated Yin Jiu and learned that Patriarch Fakong, Yuan Rong, and Qing Yuan had conspired against the Divine Blood Sect.
• Qing Yuan, Bi Jing, Yuan Rong, and Patriarch Fakong confronted Song Wen and demanded the sect’s arts, techniques, and treasures within a month.
• Ying Wu returned with Zhou Siyi while Song Wen weighed help from Youye and Yan'e and considered the threats gathering around the sect.
• After receiving word that Li Jiuyuan had the forty-nine flood dragon corpses, Song Wen disguised himself and left for Upper Water City to investigate their planned exchange.

Song Wen defended the Divine Blood Sect from a coalition of Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, then pursued Yan'e across the Western Rong Continent and captured him. Yan'e revealed his plans and led Song Wen to a mountain-moving ant colony rich in Seven-Leaf Stargrass.

• Song Wen defeated Li Jiuyuan and his Mahayana allies, then returned to the Divine Blood Sect as Qing Yuan and Youye arrived with more cultivators demanding the Corpse King Reincarnation Art and the sect’s treasures.
• No Thought and the invaders attacked the sect-protecting grand array while Song Wen and the array masters struggled to hold it, until Ying Wu arrived and joined the defense.
• Ying Wu and her Kui Bull broke the attackers’ formations and drove them back, while Youye and Yan'e escaped after absorbing No Thought and Patriarch Fakong, and Song Wen later killed Bi Jing and captured Qing Yuan’s soul.
• After the Divine Blood Sect expanded its control and Song Wen developed the Blood Leech Pill, he traced Yan'e’s aura to Southern Cinnabar City and pursued him with Ying Wu.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu followed Yan'e into the Source-Qi Death Domain and across the Western Rong Continent, where Yan'e used the Black Stone Mountains’ natural restriction to weaken their lightning attacks.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu overcame Yan'e’s ghostly attacks and pagoda barrier, then trapped him alive within Song Wen’s Blood Tide.
• Yan'e explained that he had adopted the Corpse King Reincarnation Art to improve his chances against heavenly tribulation and revealed that he had raised mountain-moving ants for their resources.
• Yan'e led Song Wen, Xuan Li, and the Kui Bull to the ant colony’s queen valley, where Song Wen found nearly a thousand Seven-Leaf Stargrass plants, including a hundred that were three thousand years old.

Song Wen reunited with the Willow Snake Clan, helped the Crimson-Scaled King defeat Venerable Biwu, and advanced to the late Tribulation Transcendence stage. When Void Beetles destroyed Mountain-Crushing City, Song Wen and Ying Wu fought their swarm and discovered that Origin Qi could wound the Insect Mother’s forces, but the invasion remained unresolved.

• Song Wen harvested the ancient seven-leaf stargrass, traveled with Ying Wu to the Willow Snake Clan, and reunited with Qing Lian and the Crimson-Scaled King.
• The Crimson-Scaled King lured Venerable Biwu into a trap, where Song Wen killed her and helped the Crimson-Scaled King claim her true spirit.
• Song Wen returned to the Divine Blood Sect, later absorbed Ying Wu’s tribulation spiritual qi, and overcame the Double Nine Heavenly Tribulation to reach the late Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• After Song Wen began secluded cultivation, Xuan Li reported that Mountain-Crushing City and the Divine Blood Sect outpost had gone silent, and the Lu Clan confirmed that poisonous insects had destroyed the city.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu investigated the ruins, identified the attackers as the Void Carapace Race, and learned that the beetles had come to the Profound Realm for fresh blood.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu lured out the Insect Mother and fought her with the Kui Bull, but a vast swarm rescued her before they could finish her.
• Song Wen followed the wounded Insect Mother to a ruined city, where the beetles formed a giant phantom and drew strength from their nest.
• Ying Wu used a Void Dragon Vine to produce Source Qi, which wounded the phantom before it healed, while Song Wen learned that the beetles’ Heaven-Destroying Divine Light could counter lightning, divine-sense attacks, and heavenly tribulation.