Recaps

Song Wen and Ying Wu confronted the Void Beetles, traveled to Central Profound Province, and drew the Phantom Illusion Sect into a fight over Youye. The arc ended with Song Wen apparently struck down by the Eight-Armed Fiendish Deity while Youye offered Ying Wu a chance to submit.

• Song Wen tracked the Insect Mother’s nest as it ravaged cities, then Ying Wu arrived and used his Void Dragon Vine to help defeat the Sacred Insect Phantom and bring the Void Beetles under his control.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu traveled to Central Profound Province, where Ying Wu battled the Scarlet Sun Sect and held its leaders captive to lure out the Phantom Illusion Sect.
• Li Chen and Ku Yan brought reinforcements against the Void Beetle, but Song Wen and Ying Wu defeated them and learned about the Phantom Illusion Sect’s strength and formations.
• Song Wen and Ying Wu went to Qilin Transformation City, where Youye trapped them and nearby cultivators in a formation.
• Ying Wu and Song Wen broke the first barrier and fought Youye and his allies, while four Tribulation Transcendence cultivators summoned the Eight-Armed Fiendish Deity.
• Song Wen cracked the green barrier with Annihilation Yang Thunder, but the fiendish deity struck him down, and Youye told Ying Wu that Extreme Yin was dead and offered to spare her if she submitted.

Song Wen survived the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and ascended to the Immortal Realm, where he escaped his pursuers and sought a foothold in Azure Purity City. After intervening in the Shi Family’s battle against the Blood Corpse Sect, he killed Ye Pi, gained the Shi Family’s trust, and began recovering at Thousand Crane Mountain.

• Song Wen killed Youye and captured the Phantom Illusion Sect’s treasures, then returned to the Divine Blood Sect and underwent the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, surviving all twenty-seven bolts and his heart tribulation.
• After decades of preparation, Song Wen ascended to the Immortal Realm, escaped two Immortals by using a substitute-death technique and the Shattered Star Sandstorm, and evaded his pursuers.
• Song Wen reached Azure Purity City, learned about its factions and scarce affordable residences, and chose to seek an opportunity with the Shi Family.
• Song Wen followed Shi Sanniang and Shi Min as the Blood Corpse Sect attacked the Shi Family, then intervened when Ye Pi used an immortal treasure to overwhelm Shi Sanniang.
• Song Wen incapacitated Ye Pi with his Thunder Arts and Soul-Slaying Spikes, but Ye Pi died when a hidden restriction scattered his soul, and Song Wen released Shi Sanniang’s captured soul and claimed to have killed him.
• Song Wen, under the name Yan'e, accompanied Shi Sanniang to the Shi Family, where Shi Min reunited with her and thanked him for saving her grandaunt and defeating Ye Pi.
• The Shi Family welcomed Song Wen to Thousand Crane Mountain, where he reinforced his courtyard and began refining Immortal Spiritual Qi, and Shi Min later brought him rare ninth-tier spirit medicines.

Song Wen entered the Return-to-Ruins Cave Secret Realm with Shi Wuwei, fought the Gai Family and the Qishan Three Evils, and learned how evil spirit cultivators refined Origin Qi. After finding Immortal Spirit Marrow and encountering the Shi Family’s hunt for an Ink Viper, he escaped the vipers and followed Yin Ling.

• Song Wen joined Shi Wuwei’s expedition into the Return-to-Ruins Cave Secret Realm after Shi Sanniang offered him treasures and a share of its resources.
• Song Wen pursued a captured Evil Spirit Cultivator through Dusk Ravine Abyss, then killed Guang Xing’s companions and fought the Gai Family alongside the Qishan Three Evils.
• Song Wen killed Gai Ci, Wangchen, and the Qishan Three Evils, then learned from the Evil Spirit Cultivator that a Blood Servant Contract let its holder refine Origin Qi under a Void Demon’s control.
• Song Wen used the Spirit-Seeking Treasure Eyes to find buried spirit stone fragments, then obtained Zhuang Qiu’s Divine Illumination Light-Splitting Art and Immortal Spirit Marrow.
• Song Wen followed Shi Qi and discovered the Shi Family’s Tribulation Transcendence cultivators were pursuing an Ink Viper in league with the Purple Star Immortal Sect.
• Song Wen found a female Ink Viper guarding Immortal Spirit Marrow and an egg, collected the marrow, and provoked the returning male viper after the egg was destroyed.
• Song Wen disguised himself as Yan'e to escape the Shi Family and the pursuing vipers, while Ling Xu’s group fought the vipers and Ye Kuang was killed.
• Song Wen watched the vipers chase Ling Xu and Yin Ling, then used an Earth-Escape Talisman to follow Yin Ling.

Song Wen killed Yin Ling and escaped the secret realm, then advanced and entered the Gai Family under the name Yang Yu. During an expedition against Evil Spirit Cultivators, Chen Yi was nearly killed before Guangfa’s intervention led to a confrontation with Luo Tu and Xue Qianjue.

• Song Wen killed Yin Ling, destroyed the male Ink Viper, and left the secret realm disguised as a rogue cultivator while the Shi Family survivors were detained.
• Song Wen used the Gai Family’s pursuit of a ghost cultivator to kill Guang Xing and the other pursuers, then secluded himself for twenty years to refine Immortal Spirit Marrow and advance to the Spirit Void Dao Immortal realm.
• Song Wen met Chen Yi after her Scarlet Cloud Sect was destroyed, and she killed the two senior brothers who had murdered her sect and master.
• Chen Yi brought Song Wen to the Gai Family with Suchén’s token, and Guangfa took her under his care while Song Wen joined Qu Feng’s medicinal garden as an alchemist.
• Guangfa sent the Gai Family cultivators to investigate Evil Spirit Cultivator activity near Star Net Market, and Qu Feng’s group confronted Wu Qi and the evil cultivator Shibi at the Embracing Simplicity Sect.
• Shibi’s forces attacked the flying ship, Gui Li killed the sect’s disciples, and Chen Yi charged at Gui Li to give Song Wen a chance to escape.
• A golden prayer bead killed Gui Li and the other attackers, but Luo Tu and Xue Qianjue arrived to confront Guangfa and revealed their plan to lure and surround the Gai Family’s Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.