Recaps

Xiao Yan inherited the Xiao Clan’s bloodline from Xiao Xuan while Flowing Cloud joined forces with him to defeat the Heavenly Tomb Soul. After Flowing Cloud took control of the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan returned to the Gu Clan and began recounting how he had met Xiao Xuan.

• Flowing Cloud carved through the Energy Crystal Wall, and Xiao Yan and Xun Er escaped the Ancient Devouring Worms into the third level, where Xiao Xuan welcomed Xiao Yan as a descendant of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan how the Xiao Clan had fallen and transferred its bloodline power to him, then gave Xiao Yan the inheritance as Xiao Yan endured the painful blood replacement and broke through to Eight-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan mastered the nine-stroke clan mark, while Xiao Xuan agreed to help Flowing Cloud defeat the Heavenly Tomb Soul after Flowing Cloud swore not to attack the Xiao Clan unless its members acted against him.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that Origin Emperor Qi was needed to become Dou Di and asked Flowing Cloud to protect the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade, then led the Energy Bodies in a revolt against the Heavenly Tomb Soul.
• Xiao Xuan restrained the Heavenly Tomb Soul while Flowing Cloud and his projections drained its Soul Power, and the Energy Bodies shattered its weakened body.
• Flowing Cloud claimed the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s Soul Origin and refined it into an Emperor Realm soul, gaining control of the Heavenly Tomb as Xiao Xuan vanished from his tomb residence.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er were expelled from the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Yan faced Yao Xinghan over the deaths of the Yao Clan brothers and refused to return the Nine Nether Wind Flame.
• Gu Yuan, Xiao Chen, and Gu Lie asked Xiao Yan and Xun Er about the Heavenly Tomb’s early closure, and Xiao Yan’s account of Flowing Cloud taking him to meet Xiao Xuan shocked them.

Flowing Cloud expanded the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s influence, retrieved the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and attended the Yao Clan’s Pill Codex alongside Xiao Yan. The contest began with Xiao Yan facing powerful rivals, while Flowing Cloud and three other masters advanced toward Ninth-grade Profound Pills.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that Flowing Cloud had refined the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s Soul Origin, and Gu Yuan ordered the secret kept as Xiao Chen took Xiao Yan back toward the Jia Ma Empire.
• After the Stone Clan vanished, the Three Clans Alliance formed, and Gu Yuan sent Gu Dao to seek clues from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Gu Dao failed to find Dragon Island and entered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territory, where Huang Tian turned him away and later told Flowing Cloud of the visit.
• Flowing Cloud brought the Bodhi Ancient Tree out of the Barbaric Ancient Region and planted it in the Tian Niu Realm, then killed Hun Yu and the Soul Clan experts who came to rescue him.
• Two years later, Xiao Yan and Old Yao traveled to the Yao Clan’s Pill Codex, where Xiao Yan confronted Yao Wan Gui before Xiao Chen and Yao Wanhuo intervened.
• Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yan joined the Pill Codex contest alongside Hun Xuzi, Old Man Shen Nong, and Elder Wan Huo, as Hun Xuzi announced the Soul Clan’s intent to claim Heavenly Flames and a flame-devouring method.
• The five alchemists began refining pills, and Flowing Cloud finished extracting his herbs before the other contestants while Xiao Yan struggled amid the energy storms.

Flowing Cloud won the alchemy contest before the Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan for its Imperial Jade. With Flowing Cloud and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s help, the Yao Clan survived, and its leaders sought an alliance with the Gu Clan against the Soul Clan.

• Flowing Cloud refined a Ninth-grade Profound Pill by combining his pill embryo with those of Old Man Shen Nong and Elder Wan Huo, then defeated Hun Xuzi’s challenge to his victory.
• Hun Xuzi revealed his peak Seven-star Dou Sheng strength, sealed the Medicine Realm, and unleashed Nihility Devouring Flame against the Yao Clan and its guests.
• The Yao Clan Progenitor’s remnant soul failed to stop Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Soul Clan forces arrived as Yao Clan members began sacrificing themselves to resist.
• Hun Yan injured Xiao Chen, but Flowing Cloud intervened and summoned Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, turning the battle against the Soul Clan.
• Huang Tian and the allied forces drove back the Soul Clan, though the Yao Clan lost nearly half its strength before Nihility Devouring Flame opened a passage for the survivors to escape.
• The Yao, Yan, and Lightning Clan leaders discussed the Soul Clan’s attacks and agreed to seek the Gu Clan’s support, then brought their armies to Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan challenged the arriving armies, and Yao Dan explained that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Ling and Shi Clans and nearly destroyed the Yao Clan.

The Soul Clan stole the Gu Clan’s Ancient Jade and threatened the other clans, while Flowing Cloud’s interventions protected the Lightning and Yan Clans and drew Ice River Valley into the conflict. After spending time with Yun Yun and the others, Flowing Cloud explored beneath the magma sea and encountered Zhu Kun at the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion, without the Ancient Jade Zhu Kun demanded.

• Gu Yuan formed an alliance against the Soul Clan and welcomed the weakened Yao Clan into the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Yan defeated Lei Dong in a sparring match with his Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, and Hun Tiandi arrived with the Soul Clan to confront the clan leaders.
• The Soul Clan stole the Gu Clan’s Ancient Jade through Gu Yang, who revealed that Lord Void had fused his soul with him before self-destructing and tearing open the Ancient Realm’s barrier.
• Hun Tiandi took the Gu Clan’s jade and threatened the allied clans, while the Lightning and Yan Clans recovered their own Ancient Jades through Flowing Cloud’s intervention.
• Hun Tiandi learned that Soul Clan experts had died in the failed jade thefts and in Jia Ma Empire, while Flowing Cloud reinforced the seal at the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s ancestral land.
• Hun Sha confronted Ice River Valley over Bing Ji, fought Bing Fu, and gave the valley half a month to produce him.
• Flowing Cloud spent time with Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ya Fei, then left two Falling Heart Flames at Jia Nan Academy and sealed them beneath its tower.
• Flowing Cloud descended beneath the magma sea, found the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, and faced Zhu Kun, who attacked after Flowing Cloud said he had not brought the Ancient Jade.