Recaps

Song Wen and Zhu Yin escaped the Demon Race assault on Four Symbols City and traveled to the Sea of Disorder. There, Zhu Yin helped Song Wen begin forming his Nascent Soul, and a vast spiritual-energy vortex marked his breakthrough’s approach.

• Song Wen trapped Yi Hong, searched Yun Cang’s soul, and crushed Yi Hong after learning how to disable the Star Raft Divine Ark’s tracking formation.
• Zhu Yin gave Song Wen the herbs to refine Infant Spirit Pills and offered to help him form a Nascent Soul in exchange for a pill, while revealing Yinshuo’s plan to use her as a cultivation cauldron.
• Song Wen left the Limitless Sect amid the war, refined pills for Zhu Yin and Purple Cloud, and refined Xing Mo into the Barrier-Breaking Pill he had promised Xing Shan.
• After Zhu Yin returned as a Nascent Soul cultivator, Song Wen helped her fight a Heaven-Burning Eagle, then joined her in defending Four Symbols City against the Demon Race.
• When Yunxu was trapped and the defense collapsed, Song Wen and Zhu Yin escaped south in the Star Raft Divine Ark and headed for the Outer Sea.
• On a remote island in the Sea of Disorder, Zhu Yin honored her family, and she and Song Wen prepared for dual cultivation before practicing the Yin-Yang Harmony Art for forty-nine days.
• Song Wen nurtured the embryonic Nascent Soul in his Golden Core while Zhu Yin cultivated nearby, and after years of seclusion a huge spiritual-energy vortex formed above the island.

After reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, Song Wen pursued the Longevity Hall’s cultivation arts and rescued Zhou Siyi from the Lei Clan. He killed Lei Yue with Mi He’s help, acquired the Longevity Art and other treasures, and obtained the Essence Sea Fruit for Zhou Siyi before revealing that Mi He had killed Lei Yue.

• Song Wen left the Sea of Disorder with the Nether Fox and traveled through the Endless Desert toward the Heavenly Origin Continent, where he sought information about Longevity Hall.
• Song Wen discovered that Zhou Siyi had been imprisoned by the Lei Clan, and Lei Weiyue helped him free her despite the damage to her dantian.
• Song Wen escaped with Zhou Siyi, hid her in East Birch Market, and began seeking the Essence Sea Fruit that could restore her dantian.
• Song Wen lured Lei Yue and the Lei Clan’s Golden Core cultivators into a confrontation, then killed Lei Mingxu and Lei Feiguang while demanding Longevity Hall’s texts.
• Mi He turned on Lei Yue after revealing her own plans, and she and Song Wen joined forces to kill him and destroy his Nascent Soul.
• Song Wen and Mi He divided Lei Yue’s treasures, and Song Wen obtained the Longevity Art, the advanced Devouring Essence Array method, and several Thunder Arts and Thunder Codex.
• Song Wen demanded the Essence Sea Fruit from Lei Jun in exchange for information about Lei Yue’s killer, and Lei Jun handed it over before Song Wen revealed that Mi He had killed Lei Yue.

Song Wen gathered allies and resources, pursued the Corpse King Reincarnation Art, and founded a sect in Forgotten World Ridge. The arc ended with him attacking Tai He at the founding ceremony while secretly offering to submit if Tai He allowed the Asura Sect to save face.

• Song Wen exposed Mi He’s role in the Lei Clan’s destruction, recovered in Azure Mountain, and later helped Zhou Siyi heal her dantian before they left East Birch Market.
• At Witch’s Resentment Market, Song Wen killed Fu Mei and took control of Azure Gauze Mountain, leaving Zhou Siyi there to manage its fields and develop alchemy.
• Song Wen advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, obtained a reforged lightning spear from Hao Kong, and drew Blood Brow out to learn about Divine Blood Hall and Shadow Soul Hall.
• Song Wen returned to Forgotten World Ridge and founded the Extreme Yin Sect with Zhou Siyi and six Golden Core Rogue Cultivators, choosing Azure Heaven Mountain as their base.
• Song Wen negotiated with Xiao Chan for Azure Heaven Mountain and an alliance with Primordial Unity Temple, paid for the Si Clan’s departure, and had Xiao Chen killed after his attempted betrayal.
• Song Wen renamed the group the Asura Sect, rebuilt Azure Heaven Mountain, and held its founding ceremony as envoys from most major sects attended.
• Tai He arrived to challenge the founding, and Song Wen transformed and attacked him while secretly offering to obey the Nine Palaces Sect if Tai He let the Asura Sect save face.

Song Wen secured Eastern Plain Mountain and gathered the missing ingredients for his new Blood Demon Pill through dealings with Chen Feihe and Zhang Xiaofan. After obtaining the Dead Man’s Vine and refining toxic pills, he traveled with Zhou Siyi toward the Pure Sea to find a test subject.

• Song Wen secured Tai He’s agreement, suppressed his spiritual-sense mark, and placed Eastern Plain Mountain under the Asura Sect’s control.
• Song Wen rescued Chen Feihe from the Gongsun Family’s frame-up, obtained forty aged mushrooms, and let Chen Feihe kill Gongsun Jian and the Sixth Elder.
• Song Wen agreed to help Zhang Xiaofan kill Lu Chan and Lu Cang in exchange for a transplantable Dead Man’s Vine and Chen Feihe’s soul lamp.
• Song Wen and Zhang Xiaofan ambushed Lu Cang and Lu Chan, and Zhang Xiaofan killed them before returning to the Corpse Demon Sect to blame Extreme Yin.
• Song Wen returned Chen Feihe’s soul lamp, captured Zhang Xiaofan and his pursuers, and killed them after forcing Miao Tong to obtain an uninfected Dead Man’s Vine.
• Song Wen returned to the Asura Sect, ordered Yu Wen to seize Boundary Mountain Market, and refined toxic Blood Demon Pills that required further testing.
• Song Wen captured Fang Pengyi after he demanded Zhou Siyi’s Man-Snake breeding method, learned that Yan Yuyan had ordered the theft, and killed him.
• Song Wen and Zhou Siyi continued toward the Pure Sea, watched Mu Yunxin harvest an Illusory Rainbow Pearl, and held back when two Golden Core monks from Primordial Unity Temple arrived.