Recaps

Song Wen stole the Su Clan’s Yellow Essence Fungus, uncovered Su Gan’s plan to prolong his life by sacrificing a thousand Longevity Art cultivators, and set the Du Clan against him. As the Du Clan attacked Clearpeace Mountain, Su Gan turned on Daoist Qingyan to seize her cultivation, but she revealed a hidden Ironback Turtle and resisted him.

• Song Wen killed Jing Lu and Su Jingtong, took their corpses, and later captured the Black-Armored Ghost King with his refined banners.
• Song Wen discovered that the Su Clan was capturing Longevity Art cultivators and secretly harvested more than a thousand Yellow Essence Fungus plants from its corpse-filled cavern.
• Song Wen disguised himself as a Rogue Cultivator, lured out Su Xiuyong, captured him, and learned that Su Gan planned to use a Devouring Essence Array to prolong his life.
• Song Wen freed Su Shan and told Du Ruoyun that Su Gan planned to sacrifice a thousand cultivators, prompting her to consult the Du Clan’s Golden Core ancestor.
• Su Gan welcomed Daoist Nun Qingyan to his valley and explained how she could help activate the Devouring Essence Array, while Song Wen waited for the Du Clan to arrive.
• Du Tianhua led the Du Clan against Clearpeace Mountain as Du Ruoyun’s forces looted the Su Clan’s halls and herb gardens, and Daoist Qingyan fought Du Tianhua in the Spirit-Hiding Mist.
• After Du Tianhua wounded Qingyan and escaped, Su Gan activated the array on the thousand captives and confessed that he meant to plunder Qingyan’s cultivation.
• Qingyan escaped the array’s pressure with help from her hidden Ironback Turtle and demanded that Su Gan surrender, but he sealed the array and ordered Su Wenshi to trap the beast.

Song Wen survived the Devouring Essence Array conflict, settled in East Birch Market, and joined the Beast Taming Sect under the name Wu Sheng. Assigned to investigate Azure Jade Snake breeding, he uncovered Liu Jiang’s human-snake experiments and helped capture an escaped serpentman, just as two mysterious women intervened.

• Daoist Qingyan broke the Four Symbols Reversal Formation, but Su Anping and Su Wenshi captured her and prepared to use her and Su Gan in the Devouring Essence Array.
• Song Wen disrupted the array, killed Su Wenshi, Su Anping, Su Gan, Qingyan, and the fleeing Du Tianhua, then advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage by absorbing the blood serpent’s essence.
• Song Wen plundered the corpses and Clearpeace Mountain, killed the Ironback Turtle, and later left his cave for East Birch Market, where he rented a courtyard under a disguise.
• Song Wen learned that the Corpse Demon Sect had returned to power, removed a concealed mark left by the Eldest Senior Sister, and spent two years cultivating and researching pills in East Birch Market.
• After learning that Corpse Demon Sect cultivators were hunting suspected traitors, Song Wen joined the Beast Taming Sect as Wu Sheng and began alchemy training under Wei Ding.
• Wei Ding sent Song Wen and Zhou Siyi to investigate Azure Jade Snake breeding at the Spirit-Nurturing Workshop, where Song Wen sensed a concealed Foundation Establishment cultivator and tested a Beast Essence Pill on a snake.
• Liu Jiang showed Song Wen and Zhou Siyi his underground pools of human-snake hybrids and revealed that one intelligent, stable serpentman had escaped into the lake.
• After Zhou Siyi and Liu Jiang entered seclusion, Song Wen guarded the workshop as Beast Taming Sect disciples brought pregnant women there, then attacked a hidden figure approaching the serpent enclosure.
• The serpentman emerged and drove Song Wen and the disciples back, but Liu Jiang ensnared it in a giant spirit net and Zhou Siyi bound it with formation flags.
• Two black-cloaked women appeared, and one rang a bell that disoriented Zhou Siyi, prompting Liu Jiang to send his flying sword toward them.

Song Wen uncovered the Cheng Family’s role in the blood demon crisis, then was transported to Blood Cloud Cave, where he seized two jade slips and fought Blood Brow. He returned to Zuo Shuiyun with three Copper Corpses and learned the history of Blood Brow and her imprisonment.

• Song Wen and Zuo Shuiyun discovered that Cheng Ruidá had engineered the Cheng Family’s crisis to cultivate a blood demon, then killed him and divided the spoils.
• Song Wen traveled to the ruins from Cheng Ruidá’s memories and was transported into Blood Cloud Cave, where he encountered Tang Fu, Zhong Liang, Miaofa, and other cultivators.
• After the group explored the cave, Song Wen followed them into a hall guarded by dried corpses and watched Zhong Liang open the Bronze Corpse Coffin.
• Song Wen’s Silver Corpse guarded the hall’s exit as Zhong Liang fled with two Jade Slips, while Song Wen summoned the Black-Armored Ghost King to fight the cultivators and Copper Corpses.
• Blood Brow emerged from the wooden effigy and attacked the group, but Song Wen struck her with the Great Cavern Divine Thunder, damaging her soul and wooden body.
• Blood Brow possessed Song Wen’s Silver Corpse and escaped, while Song Wen subdued three Copper Corpses and left the underground ruins with the coffin and recovered treasures.
• Song Wen returned to Zuo Shuiyun’s cave, worked on refining the Copper Corpses, and learned from Blood Brow’s account that she had been a Blood Cloud Cave elder imprisoned after trying to steal the Divine Blood Sect’s cultivation art.

Song Wen rose within the Beast Taming Sect by refining Man-Snakes into Profound Corpses, while Wang Ming’s betrayal and the Spirit-Nurturing Workshop attack exposed larger conflicts among the sects. The arc ended with Song Wen witnessing Blood Year’s feeding and secretly sending his Sacred Beetle Gu into the beast, then returning to the Human-Snake Cavern without contact from them.

• Song Wen freed Blood Brow from the Soul Shackle, advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and began refining the Life-Saving Pill.
• Zhou Siyi and Liu Jiang brought Song Wen to the Human-Snake Cavern, where he found preserved corpses and began refining Man-Snakes under Rong Jingyun’s supervision.
• Song Wen’s refining earned him an executive elder appointment, while the Sacred Beetle Gu consumed thousands of spirit stones and entered slumber.
• Wang Ming robbed Song Wen’s cave of two Man-Snakes, but the Law Enforcement Hall captured him, returned the Man-Snakes, and sentenced him to death.
• Song Wen’s Man-Snakes developed Profound Qi, and Fang Pengyi appointed him Pavilion Guardian Elder and put him in charge of the Human-Snake Cavern.
• The investigation of an attack on the Spirit-Nurturing Workshop led Feng Qi and Leng Tianlu to Ji Ruxue, Mu Yunxin, Yan Yuyan, and Tu Lian, while Lan Chen and Yang Yu discussed the sects’ pursuit of the Spirit Transformation method.
• Song Wen and Zhou Siyi witnessed Blood Year being fed with mortals, then escaped as it attacked and destroyed the flying ships.
• Zhou Xuelin and Teng Jingshan calmed Blood Year and set a trap for Blood Kui Beasts, while Song Wen’s two Sacred Beetle Gu disappeared inside the formation.