Recaps

Xiao Ze helped the Alchemist Tower repel the Soul Hall’s attacks, then returned to the Northwest Continent as the Misty Cloud Sect expanded under Soul Hall influence. After reuniting with Xiao Yi Xian and the Xiao Family, he joined Queen Medusa in rescuing the Snake People Race and headed with her toward the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Ze reached Five-Star Dou Venerate, helped seal the berserk Three Thousand Starry Sky Burning Flame, and joined the Alchemist Tower’s effort to investigate the Soul Hall’s attacks.
• Xiao Ze killed Old Freak of the Azure Sea, discovered the Spirit Devouring Life Extinguishing Array beneath Tian Huo City, and helped the Alchemist Tower organize allies against the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Ze destroyed the Soul Hall forces attacking Ye City, killed Black Heavenly Venerate, and drove White Heavenly Venerate into a spatial rift.
• Xiao Ze returned to the Northwest Continent with Queen Medusa and Azure Scales, where Xiao Yi Xian joined forces with Xiao Yan and Jia Nan Academy against the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Ze arrived during Han Feng’s assault on the Dark Alliance, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, and killed Han Feng and the Black Alliance fighters.
• Xiao Ze reunited with Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Xiao Yan, then agreed to accompany Queen Medusa to the Snake People Empire while Azure Scales and Xiao Yi Xian organized resistance to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Queen Medusa and Xiao Ze rescued the Snake People from Misty Cloud Sect forces, killed Yun Tu and the other attackers, and set off toward the Misty Cloud Sect to avenge the Snake People Race.

Xiao Ze destroyed the Soul Devouring Body Technique’s hold over the Misty Cloud Sect and organized the Heaven Alliance to pursue its surviving practitioners across the Northwest Continent. The arc ended with Xiao Ze confronting rival powers at the Sect Assembly and asserting the alliance’s claim to dominance.

• Queen Medusa and Xiao Ze attacked the Misty Cloud Sect, killed its Soul Devouring Body Technique practitioners, and freed Yun Yun to judge the surviving disciples.
• Xiao Ze and Queen Medusa pursued Yun Shan to the Black Corner Region, where the Dark Alliance defeated the Misty Cloud Sect’s forces and drove its remnants into retreat.
• Xiao Ze helped Xiao Yi Xian gather her Calamity Poison Power into a rune, enabling her breakthrough to Dou Venerate, then founded the Heaven Alliance with Jia Nan Academy’s support.
• Xiao Ze reorganized the Dark Alliance as the Heaven Alliance, unified the Black Corner Region, and ordered campaigns against Misty Cloud Sect remnants in neighboring empires.
• Xiao Ze publicly refined pills to reward alliance members and recruit alchemists, while Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales led the alliance’s expanding campaigns.
• Xiao Ze rejected Heavenly Snake Mansion’s proposal to remain independent, secured its submission to the Heaven Alliance, and learned that the Sect Assembly could establish the alliance as the Northwest’s overlord.
• Xiao Ze emerged from cultivation to stop Shi Tian at the Sect Assembly, declared the Heaven Alliance’s intention to dominate the Northwest, and defeated Lei Qiao with a single attack.

Xiao Ze united the Northwest Continent under the Heaven Alliance, then returned to the Central Plains to lead the Pill Gathering and secretly eliminate Elder Mu Gu. The gathering ended with Xiao Yan crowned champion and chosen to attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Xiao Ze defeated Lei Qiao and won the Northwest Continent factions’ cooperation in tracking practitioners of the Soul Devouring Body Technique.
• Yun Shan persuaded Shi Tian to cultivate the Soul Devouring Body Technique, and the Lion Underworld Sect slaughtered rival factions until Xiao Ze arrived and destroyed Shi Tian and Yun Shan.
• Green Heart, Lei Qiao, and the other faction leaders joined the Heaven Alliance, which expanded to control most of the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Ze left Green Heart in charge of the alliance, gave the Xiao Family jade pendants and protective puppets, and departed for the Central Plains.
• The three presidents appointed Xiao Ze Pill Tower Vice President and tasked him with presiding over the Pill Gathering after he demonstrated his ability to refine a Thunder Tribulation Pill.
• Xiao Ze secretly killed Elder Mu Gu in the Pill Realm while Xiao Yan gathered ingredients for the Pill Gathering’s final round.
• Xiao Ze oversaw the final pill-refining contest, where Xiao Yan produced a pill that summoned Three-Colored Pill Thunder.
• Xiao Ze declared Xiao Yan the champion, awarded him the Taiyi Soul Art, and named him among the top ten contestants qualified to attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Xiao Ze led his companions into the Dou Saint Ruins, where Zi Yan absorbed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the group claimed treasures and cultivation gains. After battling the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan, they reached Ancient Dragon Island, where Zhu Li promised the clan’s aid and provided Ancient Void Dragon blood essence.

• Xiao Ze completed a Ninth Pill of the Nine Mixed Origin Pills, then traveled with Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Azure Scales to the Beast Region, where Zi Yan joined them at the entrance to the Dou Saint Ruins.
• Xiao Ze guided the group through the ruins and helped Zi Yan absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, then shared Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Bone Marrow with his companions.
• Xiao Ze defeated the awakened Dou Saint Skeleton, claimed the Great Heaven Creation Palm from its ribs, and gathered Dou Saint Bone Marrow before leading the group out of the ruins.
• After Azure Scales killed a Nine Serene Deepground Python youth and captured an elder, Xiao Ze’s group hunted the clan and its affiliates until a Half-Saint pursued him.
• Xiao Ze defeated the Third Elder of the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan and used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control him and refine his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Ze and his companions traveled to Ancient Dragon Island, where Zhu Li recognized the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit mark on Zi Yan’s palm and promised the clan’s help.
• Zhu Li went to research how to refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, while Hei Qing delivered five drops of Ancient Void Dragon Dou Saint blood essence to Xiao Ze as a reward.