Recaps

Song Wen pursued the Soul-Concentrating Spike technique through his dealings with the Xing Family, using Xing Xinxin and Xing Chang to draw Shan Yue into his trap. Shan Yue left the cave under pressure to obtain the secret art, while Song Wen kept Xing Chang and Xing Xinxin captive.

• Song Wen attended the Treasure Gathering, traded pills for spiritual materials, and learned that Xing Liren was recruiting alchemists to refine Holy Spirit Pills.
• Song Wen completed his Void-Breaking Blade and advanced his silver corpse, while Xing Chang’s reckless use of thunder arts led to a destructive fight with Xing Xinxin.
• Song Wen tried to exchange the Golden Core portion of the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art for the Soul-Concentrating Spike technique, but Granny Jin’s attack forced him to flee.
• Song Wen followed Xing Xinxin to Poison Old Ghost’s cave, where Poison Old Ghost inhaled the Illusory Desire Flower and Xing Xinxin killed him.
• Song Wen defeated Xing Xinxin and discovered she had never learned the Soul-Concentrating Spike, then used her condition to lure Xing Chang to the cave and imprisoned them both.
• Song Wen trapped Shan Yue with Xing Chang and Xing Xinxin, wounded Xing Chang through the formation, and demanded that Shan Yue obtain the Soul-Concentrating Spike.
• Shan Yue succumbed to the Illusory Desire Flower after lowering her shield, then left the cave with one day to deliver the secret art and considered how to gain strength of her own.

Song Wen killed Xing Xinxin and Xing Liren, then became trapped in the secret realm as Xing Yixuan and Jing Lie pursued him. After surviving the wraiths in Corpse Dissection Cave and improving his Soul-Concentrating Spike, Song Wen escaped while the Xing, Jing, and Yinshuo factions opened the mountain’s ninth bronze gate.

• Song Wen obtained the first two levels of the Soul-Concentrating Spike, gave them to Shan Yue, and forced her to kill Xing Xinxin before he took Xing Xinxin’s soul and corpse.
• Song Wen learned Xing Liren planned to refine Heavenly Spirit Pills using nine cultivators with Soul-Origin Physiques, and agreed to hunt a Tidal Demon in exchange for Shan Yue’s information.
• Song Wen killed the Tidal Demon, escaped Xing Yixuan’s pursuit, and learned that Xing Liren would conduct his pill refinement at Treasure Peak.
• Masked attackers disrupted the refinement at Treasure Peak, and a blood-colored formation transported Song Wen and the others into the Nether God Mountain secret realm.
• Xing Gaohan confronted Yinshuo over Xing Xinxin’s death, while Song Wen hid his immunity to the ghostly mist and Xing Yixuan and Jing Lie turned against the Rogue Cultivators.
• Song Wen killed Xing Liren with the help of his Shadow Gu, evaded Xing Yixuan and Jing Lie, and reached Corpse Dissection Cave, where he was besieged by powerful wraiths.
• Song Wen spent half a year cultivating the second level of the Soul-Concentrating Spike, found a Blood Brick, and defeated the wraiths guarding the passage before leaving the cave.
• Xing Wenyao opened the ninth bronze gate as Xing Gaohan, Jing Wuming, and Yinshuo gathered at the summit, and two cloaked figures appeared and denounced human rule over the sea region.

Song Wen escaped the collapsing secret realm with a blood-colored token, settled on an island near Limitless Island, and built his resources through cultivation, alchemy, and hunting. A mission then brought him to Sheep Island, where he and Zhu Yin began investigating the Bloodthirsty Bees.

• Yuan Hao entered the bronze gate to reclaim the Holy Demon's corpse while the Xing family pursued Jing Wuming through the maze toward the Demon Soul Spirit-Breaking Pill.
• Xing Yixuan, Niu Ying, and Ma Qi discovered a corpse pit filled with Baleful Crystals, but Jing Lie attacked them and killed Ma Qi as the platform began to rise.
• Xing Gaohan and Xing Wenyao fought Yuan Hao and Wind Eagle over the pill furnace, while Jing Wuming and Yinshuo joined the struggle for the Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast's corpse and pill.
• The Wind-Thunder Golden-Eyed Beast escaped with the pill furnace, then the collapsing secret realm forced the cultivators to flee, and Song Wen escaped with a blood-colored token and evaded Xing Yixuan.
• Song Wen learned that the token contained instructions for refining the Blood Sea Seal, traveled to Limitless Island, and registered a Heaven-grade island as Extreme Yin Island.
• Song Wen recovered Origin-Returning Sha Qi and valuable texts from a tomb, then developed his island and earned spirit stones through alchemy and Shadow Gu hunts.
• After eight years on Limitless Island, Song Wen accepted a mission to make Demon-Luring Incense and help Zhu Yin investigate Bloodthirsty Bees on Sheep Island.
• Song Wen and Zhu Yin watched as soldier bees summoned the Bloodthirsty Bees away from Shanfu City, while Jing Kai refused King Cui Zaishi's pleas for help.

Song Wen helped Zhu Yin eliminate the Bloodthirsty Bee queen, then survived the Life-Breath Pill refinement and killed Yu Jiao, Shi Bo, and Shi Zhong after they attacked him. He later searched for Five-Colored Gold and an Abyss Sea Butterfly, ending with Cui Qiao captive as leverage against the Cui Family.

• Song Wen helped Zhu Yin and Yuan Qing locate and kill the Bloodthirsty Bee queen, while secretly obtaining two sacs of Blood King Honey.
• Song Wen refined Foundation Establishment Pills for Chu Qian, then killed Yu Qi and concealed his guilt from Jing Kai.
• Song Wen assisted Ye Hua in refining the Life-Breath Pill from human ingredients, witnessing Ke Shuang's death and Xugeng's aid in completing the pill.
• Song Wen traded an offshoot of his Earthcore Smelting Flame to Le Liang for information about Five-Colored Gold in Rebirth Valley.
• Yu Jiao, Shi Bo, and Shi Zhong ambushed Song Wen, but he killed all three and advanced to the middle Golden Core stage by absorbing their essence.
• Song Wen learned that a wooden statue had vanished from Limitless Island, then traveled to the Reef Sea seeking an Abyss Sea Butterfly.
• Song Wen captured Cui Qiao with his Shadow Gu, searched her memories, and hid her in a seabed formation to use as leverage against the Cui Family.