Chapter Summaries

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue arrived at the Fengdu Poison Sea and tested how its miasma affected them. As they traveled along the sea’s edge toward the southern region, they found that its poison varied drastically in strength over short distances.

• Jiang Wanyue took Song Wen aboard her flying ship and kept him with her for three months before they reached the Fengdu Dead Sea.
• Song Wen probed the poison sea with his Divine Sense and discovered high-tier venomous insects near its edge.
• Jiang Wanyue tested the miasma and found that spiritual light could repel it at the cost of Immortal Essence, while Song Wen’s withered-yellow Qi resisted it more effectively.
• Song Wen said he wanted to inspect the southern side, where the poison sea had merged with the Source-Qi Death Domain, and Jiang Wanyue agreed to travel with him.
• As the ship followed the sea’s boundary, the miasma grew dense enough to appear black, then abruptly thinned to pale green within fewer than ten thousand li.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue encountered Yu Qing and her clan inside the Source-Qi Death Domain, where Song Wen deliberately boarded their ship and attacked her. Yu Qing trapped them in a Confinement Formation, leaving the pair surrounded by hostile cultivators.

• Shadow Void sensed eight Evil Spirit Cultivators bound by Blood Servant Contracts approaching through the Source-Qi Death Domain, and Song Wen told Jiang Wanyue to retreat and wait for them.
• Yu Qing approached with seven Yu Household cultivators and claimed they were hunting Void Demons while exploring the region.
• Yu Qing invited Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue aboard her ship, and Song Wen accepted despite Jiang Wanyue's confusion.
• Once aboard, Song Wen attacked Yu Qing with a dart, but she raised a barrier that trapped him and Jiang Wanyue.
• Jiang Wanyue summoned her flying sword and prepared to break the formation with Song Wen, while Yu Qing angrily threatened them.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue defeated Yu Qing and her seven followers, discovering that they were Evil Spirit Cultivators seeking to bind them with Blood Servant Contracts. Yu Qing revealed that her Void Demon master had sent her to recruit powerful cultivators heading to the Fengdu Poison Sea, leaving Song Wen to consider how widespread the plan was.

• Song Wen disrupted Yu Qing’s formation with an unseen technique, allowing Jiang Wanyue to break the barrier and wound Yu Qing.
• Song Wen stopped Jiang Wanyue from killing Yu Qing and identified her followers as Evil Spirit Cultivators.
• Yu Qing admitted that she had attacked to use Blood Servant Edicts to turn Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue into Evil Spirit Cultivators.
• Yu Qing explained that her Late Lingxu Dao Immortal Stage Void Demon master had given her eight Blood Servant Edicts capable of controlling cultivators up to the Lingxu Dao Immortal Peak.
• Yu Qing confirmed that her master had sent her to recruit Lingxu Dao Immortals traveling to the Fengdu Poison Sea, and Song Wen asked whether other Void Demons had the same plan.

Song Wen had Yu Qing lead him and Jiang Wanyue deep into the Source-Qi Death Domain to meet her master, Lord Formless, a Beauty Serpent of the Void Demon Clan. Along the way, Song Wen captured several Void Demons and Wraiths, and he revealed that Lord Formless had already noticed their arrival.

• Song Wen learned that Yu Qing's master was Lord Formless, a Void Demon of the Bone Serpent lineage, and decided to visit her.
• Jiang Wanyue insisted on accompanying Song Wen into the dangerous Source-Qi Death Domain, despite his offer to let her wait outside.
• Song Wen used Shadow Void's warning to capture a hidden Giant Wolf Void Demon, surprising Jiang Wanyue and Yu Qing's group.
• Song Wen captured more than a dozen Void Demons and several Wraiths as the flying ship traveled nearly ten million li into the domain.
• Yu Qing pointed out Lord Formless's mountain cave, and Song Wen said he had found her and that she had already noticed them.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue captured the Void Demon Beauty Serpent alive in the Source-Qi Death Domain and took the unconscious Yu Qing and her companions with them. After they escaped the domain, Yu Qing woke and rejoiced that the beast was dead and she was free.

• Song Wen attacked the Beauty Serpent with golden lightning after it questioned him and Jiang Wanyue, while it triggered the Blood Servant restrictions on Yu Qing and her companions.
• Jiang Wanyue severed the Beauty Serpent's tentacles with her flying sword and sealed it in ice, and Song Wen stored it and the severed tentacles in a spirit beast bag.
• Song Wen chose not to seek out more Void Demons, and he and Jiang Wanyue took Yu Qing and the surviving companions aboard Jiang Wanyue's flying ship.
• Song Wen kept Yu Qing's abandoned flying ship, and the group left the Source-Qi Death Domain.
• Yu Qing woke outside the domain and celebrated her freedom from the Void Race and her life as an Evil Spirit Cultivator.

Song Wen killed Yu Qing after deciding her claims could not be trusted, then traveled with Jiang Wanyue into the Fengdu Poison Sea to wait for its miasma to weaken. He let the Void Dragon Vine devour the Beauty Serpent, and Jiang Wanyue misunderstood what he had done before offering to disguise herself as a half-demon.

• Yu Qing begged Song Wen to kill the captured Void Demon and free her from the Blood Servant Contract, but Song Wen killed her and absorbed the bodies on the deck with his Blood Tide.
• Song Wen offered Jiang Wanyue a share of the Immortal Spirit Stones, but she declined, and they agreed to settle in the Fengdu Poison Sea while waiting for the miasma to weaken.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue traveled northwest for a month and chose a valley, where Jiang Wanyue carved a cave and Song Wen set up a concealment array.
• Song Wen summoned the Void Dragon Vine, which said refining the Primordial Chaos Qi Embryo could raise its cultivation, and gave it the frozen Beauty Serpent to devour.
• Jiang Wanyue entered Song Wen's array after the Void Dragon Vine returned to its spirit beast pouch and mistook the shattered ice for evidence of an unusual predilection.
• Song Wen told Jiang Wanyue he had refined the Void Demon, and she offered to disguise herself as someone half human and half demon.

One year later, Jiang Wanyue and Song Wen entered the Fengdu Poison Sea as its miasma weakened, seeking spirit medicines for the Grand Clarity Soul-Nourishing Pill. They found a spring-fed ravine with three ripe Glazed Immortal Fruits, but Song Wen stopped Jiang Wanyue, suspecting a powerful beast was guarding the place.

• Jiang Wanyue and Song Wen confirmed that the Fengdu Poison Sea's miasma was weakening and waited until it reached a low concentration before entering.
• Jiang Wanyue and Song Wen followed a map toward the place where the Purple Star Immortal Sect had found a Glazed Immortal Fruit, fending off poisonous insects along the way.
• Jiang Wanyue and Song Wen reached a miasma-free ravine filled with Spiritual Qi, spirit medicines, and a spiritual spring.
• Jiang Wanyue recognized three ripe Glazed Immortal Fruits and moved toward them, but Song Wen pulled her back, warning that a powerful exotic beast might be nearby.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue took the three Glazed Immortal Fruits and the Glazed Immortal Tree, then fled when the White Glazed Viper emerged. They ran into three Purple Star Immortal Sect cultivators, who accused them of stealing the sect’s treasures, while Ye Hongyi drove the injured viper back into its spirit spring.

• Jiang Wanyue froze the spirit spring with Taiyin Cold Qi while Song Wen used his tentacles to collect the three fruits and uproot the Glazed Immortal Tree.
• The White Glazed Viper broke free and attacked with venom, damaging Jiang Wanyue’s flying sword before she and Song Wen tried to escape.
• Qingwei, Dao Lord Rending Cloud, and Ye Hongyi arrived and accused Jiang Wanyue and Song Wen of taking the fruits and ruining the sect’s tree.
• The viper shattered Jiang Wanyue’s iceberg, and Qingwei counterattacked with a silver-white fire dragon.
• Ye Hongyi struck the viper with a gigantic fist shadow, forcing it to retreat into the spirit spring.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue lured Qingwei into dense miasma and launched a coordinated ambush, but Qingwei countered with the Nine Luminaries-Sky Patrol. As their attacks struck almost simultaneously, Song Wen protected Jiang Wanyue by transforming into a Vermilion Bird and taking the full force of Qingwei’s eight remaining blazing suns.

• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue decided to kill Qingwei, Dao Lord Rending Cloud, and Ye Hongyi to prevent them from reporting the encounter to a Profound Immortal Yuxiao.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue led Qingwei into dense miasma, where the poison suppressed Divine Sense and weakened her protective spiritual light.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue attacked Qingwei with the Jade-White Flying Sword, golden lightning, and nine transparent Divine Sense blades.
• Qingwei summoned the Nine Luminaries-Sky Patrol and sent nine blazing suns toward Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue while the Divine Sense blades struck her.
• Song Wen flung Jiang Wanyue away, transformed into a thousand-zhang Vermilion Bird, and shattered Qingwei’s eight remaining blazing suns, becoming engulfed in their sea of fire.

Song Wen killed Qingwei and joined Jiang Wanyue in pursuing Dao Lord Rending Cloud and Ye Hongyi. After Jiang Wanyue engaged Ye Hongyi, Song Wen defeated Dao Lord Rending Cloud, who warned that Profound Lord Guyun would seek revenge if all three of them died.

• The Vermilion Bird killed Qingwei, and Song Wen absorbed her remains with the Blood Tide before taking her lamp and storage ring.
• Jiang Wanyue thanked Song Wen for saving her, and the two prepared to confront Dao Lord Rending Cloud and Ye Hongyi.
• Dao Lord Rending Cloud and Ye Hongyi fled when they found Qingwei gone, so Jiang Wanyue attacked Ye Hongyi while Song Wen pursued Dao Lord Rending Cloud.
• Dao Lord Rending Cloud used his bell and azure Gang winds to block Song Wen's attacks, but Song Wen transformed into a giant ape and smashed him into a crater.
• Song Wen seized the badly injured Dao Lord Rending Cloud, who revealed that Profound Lord Guyun would retaliate if the three Lingxu Dao Immortals died.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue killed Dao Lord Rending Cloud and Ye Hongyi, then traveled into the Fengdu Poison Sea to search for Biluoqingxin Leaves. As they followed an underground river where the leaves had been found, an ape-like Yin Soul suddenly attacked them.

• Song Wen crushed Dao Lord Rending Cloud and absorbed Ye Hongyi with Blood Tide after Jiang Wanyue defeated him.
• Song Wen gave Jiang Wanyue two Glazed Immortal Fruits and kept the remaining treasures and spoils.
• Song Wen chose a distant location where the Purple Star Immortal Sect had found Biluoqingxin Leaves, hoping to avoid Profound Lord Guyun.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue entered a cavern maze beneath the Fengdu Poison Sea and reached an underground river where the leaves had once grown.
• An ape-like Yin Soul burst from the river and charged at Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue, and Song Wen struck its head with golden lightning.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue followed an ape Yin Soul to a lake where it claimed Biluoqingxin Leaves grew, then clashed with the flood dragon Yin Souls living there. Song Wen struck two of the dragons with Thunder Methods and sent his tentacles after them as they fell toward the lake.

• Song Wen subdued an ape Yin Soul with lightning and learned it could speak and had seen Biluoqingxin Leaves.
• The ape Yin Soul led Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue over a hundred li to a vast lake and pointed out an island where the leaves grew.
• Song Wen questioned the ape Yin Soul about the lake’s inhabitants, then struck the water with Primordial Chaos Divine Thunder.
• A flood dragon Yin Soul attacked, and Jiang Wanyue severed its claw with her Jade-White Flying Sword before four more dragons emerged.
• Song Wen unleashed golden lightning at the flood dragons, badly wounding two, and sent scarlet tentacles after them as they fell.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue defeated the lake’s Yin Souls and found Biluoqingxin Leaf plants on an island. Before Song Wen could devour the captured Yin Souls, one revealed human ruins beneath the lake, raising Song Wen’s suspicions.

• The three uninjured Flood Dragon Yin Souls protected their wounded companions, but Song Wen immobilized all five and captured them with his tentacles.
• Song Wen questioned the flood dragons and confirmed that Biluoqingxin Leaf plants grew on an island and that no stronger Yin Souls lived in the lake.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue flew to the island and found seven Biluoqingxin Leaf plants, including four old enough to refine Grand Clarity Soul-Nourishing Pills.
• Jiang Wanyue collected two mature plants, while Song Wen took the remaining five; Song Wen then prepared to devour the six captured Yin Souls.
• One Flood Dragon Yin Soul asked Song Wen to spare it and its clan brothers in exchange for information about human ruins in a cave beneath the lake.
• The flood dragon said the cave held a small coffin, and Song Wen wondered how the Yin Souls knew human customs and language.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue found a sealed underwater ruin and broke into the resting place of a Profound Immortal Yuxiao. When Jiang Wanyue opened the coffin, a shadow possessed Song Wen, leaving her threatening the intruder while hesitating to harm his body.

• Jiang Wanyue split and froze the lake to reveal the cave, then followed Song Wen and the Yin Souls inside.
• Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue broke the weakened barrier protecting the dry cavern and destroyed its four ordinary stone statues.
• Jiang Wanyue opened the Bronze Corpse Coffin, revealing a jade-white skeleton and a storage ring hidden in its mouth.
• A shadow burst from the skeleton and entered Song Wen between the brows after his lightning dispersed.
• Jiang Wanyue pressed her sword to Song Wen's brow and demanded that the old ghost leave, while the bound Yin Souls watched excitedly.

Song Wen survived Youquan’s attempt to possess him, defeated the six Yin Souls, and captured Youquan inside his Sea of Consciousness. After learning Youquan’s history and hearing that Yin Jade Zhi may grow in the cave labyrinth, Song Wen prepared to investigate while warning Youquan not to deceive him.

• Jiang Wanyue waited as Youquan tried to possess Song Wen, but Song Wen soon reassured her that he was safe and Youquan’s soul had scattered.
• Song Wen used Blood Tide to devour the Ape Yin Soul and five Flood Dragon Yin Souls, then left the lake cave with Jiang Wanyue.
• Song Wen confronted the captured Youquan in his Sea of Consciousness, where the Black Hole suppressed him and scorching golden liquid forced him to answer.
• Youquan revealed that he was a Rogue Cultivator of the Ghost Dao who had been trapped in the Fengdu Poison Sea for six or seven thousand years.
• Song Wen asked about ingredients for the Grand Clarity Soul-Nourishing Pill, and Youquan said Yin Jade Zhi might still grow in the cave labyrinth.
• Song Wen warned Youquan not to harbor ill intentions or deceive him.

Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue explored the Absolute Yin Land, collected Yin Jade Zhi, and searched the soul’s storage ring for useful treasures. After they discussed their next destination, Dao Lord Wuya, Yao Jun, and Shao Geng arrived in a panic.

• Song Wen led Jiang Wanyue to five Yin Jade Zhi, took them all after she offered them to him, and learned from Youquan where Huitian Grass might grow and about a lost Teleportation Array.
• Youquan offered Ghost Dao Secret Methods and information about the Teleportation Array, so Song Wen spared him for the moment and returned to the outside world.
• Jiang Wanyue said she still needed a Nine-Leaf Jadeblood Vine and proposed searching the soul’s storage ring; the pair divided its useful Immortal Spirit Stones and Ghost Dao Immortal Artifact.
• As Song Wen and Jiang Wanyue studied a map for their next search, Dao Lord Wuya, Yao Jun, and Shao Geng approached them in apparent flight.