Recaps

Flowing Cloud took control of the Dragon Islands and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, strengthening the Heaven and Earth Alliance while dispatching allies to the Central Region. He returned to the Alliance headquarters as Ice River Valley emerged as a growing threat and the Hall of Souls’ plans remained unknown.

• Zhang Daquan revealed that Yun Liu led the Heaven and Earth Alliance, prompting Jia Nan Academy’s elders to fear that the Hall of Souls would target the academy and seal the Inner Court.
• Xiao Yan escaped the Inner Court with Old Yao’s help and left for the Central Plains after Su Qian let him go.
• Flowing Cloud defeated and controlled the West and South Dragon Island forces, then captured the North Dragon King and secured the Dragon Islands’ submission.
• Flowing Cloud melted Zi Yan’s Dragon Phoenix Crystal Layer, and Zi Yan awoke as a Three-star Dou Sheng Dragon Emperor who pledged to unite the Dragon Islands.
• Flowing Cloud strengthened the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, then brought its fifty new Dou Sheng experts to the Tian Niu Realm as Heavenly Fire Venerable broke through to One-star Dou Sheng.
• Flowing Cloud warned his alliance that the Soul Clan posed a greater threat than the Hall of Souls, then sent Chu Donghai, Hai Bodong, and their companions to the Central Region.
• Flowing Cloud gave the Yellow Springs Demon Saint a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill and promised him a chance to break through after recovering his strength.
• Flowing Cloud learned that Ice River Valley’s three Dou Sheng experts had destroyed Heavenly Nether Sect, while the Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables he questioned knew nothing about the Hall of Souls’ response.

Flowing Cloud unified the Dragon Islands, restored Jia Nan Academy, expanded the Tian Niu Realm, and prepared the Heaven and Earth Alliance to face the Hall of Souls. The stretch ended with Hai Bodong unleashing the Yellow Springs Cold Pill and destroying the Hall of Souls force around him.

• Flowing Cloud secured the submission of the three Dragon Kings and their clans, then used Puppet Seeds to control North Dragon Island’s four great elders as Zi Yan unified the Dragon Islands.
• Zi Yan defended Jia Nan Academy from Hun Miesheng and the Hall of Souls, while the North Dragon King and four great elders killed the two Heavenly Venerables and forced Hun Miesheng to flee.
• Flowing Cloud helped revive Jia Nan Academy’s dead and displaced souls, installed protective arrays, and reached Five-star Dou Sheng before bringing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Dou Shengs to the Tian Niu Realm.
• After Hun Miesheng turned the Hall of Souls’ attention toward the Heaven and Earth Alliance, Flowing Cloud gathered and strengthened Hai Bodong and the alliance’s other experts to defend its cities.
• The Hall of Souls attacked across the Northern Region, and a white-haired Grand Elder destroyed Po Tianzun’s vanguard at Tianxuan City.
• Hai Bodong ambushed the Hall of Souls army, killed Third Heavenly Venerable, and froze thousands of troops before three Soul Clan Dou Shengs arrived.
• Hai Bodong revealed his Peak Four-star Dou Sheng strength, killed Hun Xi and Hun He, then detonated the Yellow Springs Cold Pill and wiped out the old woman, Blood River, and the entire Hall of Souls force within forty miles.

The Heaven and Earth Alliance and its allies crushed the Hall of Souls’ campaign, exposing its mass soul harvests and drawing the Ancient Emperor Clans into the conflict. As the Alliance prepared an auction, Flowing Cloud turned two Soul Clan envoys into spies, and Xiao Yan reunited Yao with Wind Venerable at Starfall Pavilion.

• Hun Miesheng learned that his forces had been wiped out, while Hai Bodong froze his Soul Avatar and Tianxuan City’s experts collected the battlefield spoils.
• Xiao Xun'er learned that Jia Nan Academy had been attacked and set out for the Central Plains, while Xiao Yan discovered that the Hall of Souls was massacring cities and framing the Heaven and Earth Alliance.
• Flowing Cloud enlisted Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan to strike the Hall of Souls, and Hai Bodong and the North Dragon King killed Heavenly Venerables and seized evidence of the soul harvests.
• The Heaven and Earth Alliance and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan defeated the Hall of Souls across the Northern Region, freed captured souls, and exposed the Hall’s atrocities to the Central Plains.
• Gu Yuan and the other Ancient Emperor Clans began monitoring the Soul Clan, while Hun Miesheng regrouped and Hun Xia and Hun Xi sought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s help locating the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Huang Tian led Hun Xia and Hun Xi into the Tian Niu Realm, where Flowing Cloud subdued both envoys, planted Puppet Seeds in their souls, and learned about Nihility Devouring Flame’s influence within the Soul Clan.
• The Heaven and Earth Alliance announced an auction in Bone Melting City, while Old Yao brought Xiao Yan through Starfall Pavilion’s hidden formation to reunite with Wind Venerable.
• Yao told Wind Venerable and Mu Qingluan that Han Feng had betrayed him and that he needed a pill to restore his body, and Wind Venerable offered to seek one through his Pill Tower connections.

Xiao Yan obtained a body for Old Yao and faced the contempt of the imperial clans, while Flowing Cloud prepared for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence. Inside the Flame’s domain, Flowing Cloud led the surviving factions through its illusions and traps, and the arc ended with them forming an uneasy alliance against the Flame and its Fire Slaves.

• Old Yao returned as Starfall Pavilion’s Pavilion Master, and he, Xiao Yan, and Wind Venerable traveled to Bone Melting City to seek a Bone Growing Blood Fusing Pill.
• At the auction, Xiao Yan recognized Hai Bodong as the Ice Emperor, while Wind Venerable and Xiao Yan secured a pill for Old Yao.
• Yao Tian and others insulted Xiao Yan and the Northwest Continent, so Flowing Cloud intervened, punished Yao Tian, and offered Old Yao a body from the alliance’s vault.
• Old Yao chose a Peak Dou Zun body, and Xiao Yan left for Sacred Pill City with his companions while Flowing Cloud returned to the Jia Ma Empire and announced Tian Niu Academy’s admissions.
• When the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame broke its seal, Flowing Cloud led Hai Bodong, Chu Donghai, Qu Ming, and Yao Tianhuo to its domain, where they joined forces with the ancient clans.
• Flowing Cloud guided the group through Nightmare Sky Mist and the Fire Slave armies, revealing that most of their attacks were illusions.
• Flowing Cloud stopped Xiao Chen from attacking and freed him from the Flame’s control, then broke the Nightmare Illusion Realm and confronted the real Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame trapped the experts and killed many of them, then summoned ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves as Hun Miesheng and the surviving factions formed a coalition with Flowing Cloud.