Recaps

Song Wen cultivated at Bamboo-Hidden Ravine with Bai Jinge's help while navigating her father's interference and seeking clues to his cultivation methods. After leaving to avoid Nine-Thunder Profound Lord, he joined Jiang Wanyue's expedition to the Fengdu Poison Sea and captured a Void Demon master in the Source-Qi Death Domain.

• Song Wen settled in Bamboo-Hidden Ravine, strengthened its formation, and agreed to explore the Fengdu Poison Sea with Jiang Wanyue in twenty-three years.
• Bai Zhengli injured Song Wen and placed a Divine Sense Mark in his Dantian, while Bai Jinge supplied medicines and a scripture for fusing true fires.
• Song Wen questioned Nine-Thunder Profound Lord about corpse cultivation and learned that True Lord Yun He had taught him and Dust-Slaying their cultivation art.
• Song Wen fused the Crimson Firmament True Fire, then left Bamboo-Hidden Ravine after Nine-Thunder Profound Lord returned severely injured with lingering Origin Qi.
• Song Wen removed Bai Zhengli's Divine Sense Mark, cultivated in isolation for twelve years, and reunited with Jiang Wanyue for their journey through Southern Tomb City.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue explored the Fengdu Poison Sea's boundary and defeated Yu Qing's attempt to enslave them with Blood Servant Edicts.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue followed Yu Qing into the Source-Qi Death Domain, where Song Wen captured Void Demons and Wraiths along the way.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue captured the Beauty Serpent and left the domain with Yu Qing and her surviving companions, freeing them from its control.