Recaps

Xiao Bai built the Bright Cult into a major power by taking over rival factions, controlling their leaders, and establishing White City. After uncovering and recruiting the assassins sent against him, he prepared a campaign to capture key fighters across the Black Corner Region.

• Xiao Bai founded the Bright Cult, recruited Hai Bodong, and began taking over nearby factions, starting with Golden Gate and the Hungry Wolf Gang.
• Hai Bodong captured and recruited leaders from the Black Skull Tomb, and Xiao Bai defeated Black Skeleton, took Skeleton City, and renamed it White City.
• Xiao Bai controlled Black Skeleton and his subordinates with a Life and Death Talisman, then realized he wanted to share his happiness with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Fan Ling hired Black and White Impermanence to assassinate Xiao Bai, while Xiao Bai advanced to the Dou Ling realm and prepared to receive visiting factions in White City.
• Black and White Impermanence infiltrated the Bright Cult as recruits, where White Impermanence excelled in the tests and gained an opportunity to meet Xiao Bai.
• Xiao Bai exposed White Impermanence and Black Impermanence as assassins, controlled them with Life and Death Talismans, renamed them White Ghost and Black Ghost, and learned Fan Ling had hired them.
• Xiao Bai tried to improve his alchemy furnace with Brother Gua, then ordered the elders to begin the Fishing Operation by secretly capturing key fighters from the Eight Fan Gate, the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and the Blood Sect.

Xiao Bai led the Bright Cult in taking the Blood Sect and Black Seal City, then returned to Jia Ma Empire as Xiao Yan faced Nalan Yanran and sought help rescuing Xiao Zhan. The arc ended with Xiao Bai and the Bright Cult marching on Misty Cloud Sect while Jia Xing Tian waited to see how the conflict unfolded.

• Xiao Bai’s coordinated operations expanded until the Bright Cult captured the Blood Sect, and Fan Lao escaped before Xiao Bai tracked him down and forced him to become a spy.
• Fan Lao joined the Eight Fan Gate, but Xiao Bai used the Blood Sect’s wealth to strengthen his resources and launched an attack on Black Seal City.
• Xiao Bai’s agents turned Black Seal City against Yuan Yi, while Hai Bodong and the Bright Cult defeated and captured Green Snake, White Snake, and the city’s defenders.
• Xiao Bai claimed Black Seal City and drew the crowd into his ritual, then traveled to Jia Ma Empire with Hai Bodong and the snake sisters.
• At the Alchemist Convention, Xiao Bai killed Mu Zhan after he threatened him, then spoke with Xiao Yan about the Xiao Family and the Three Year Pact.
• Xiao Bai attended Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s duel at Misty Cloud Sect, where Xiao Yan won and stopped Nalan Yanran from taking her own life.
• After Xiao Yan reported the attack on the Xiao Family and asked for help rescuing Xiao Zhan, Xiao Bai agreed to assist and prepared the Bright Cult’s forces.
• Yao Chen explained a way to control Xiao Bai’s Calamity Poison Body, then Xiao Bai and the Bright Cult marched toward Misty Cloud Sect as Jia Xing Tian chose to wait and see.

Xiao Bai destroyed the Misty Cloud Sect, brought the Jia Ma Empire and Snake People under the Bright Cult, and led the campaign against the Chu Yun Empire. He reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and prepared to strike the Ten Scorpion Gate after identifying Soul Hall’s involvement.

• Xiao Bai and Xiao Yan confronted Yun Leng at the Misty Cloud Sect, and Xiao Bai’s forces defeated the sect after Yun Shan summoned Protector Wu.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Zhan was headed to the Central Continent, while Xiao Bai revealed the Xiao Family’s connection to the Xiao Clan and the Soul Clan’s conflict with it.
• Xiao Bai absorbed the Misty Cloud Sect into the Bright Cult, secured the Jia Ma Empire’s submission, and forced Medusa to surrender the Snake People.
• After breaking through to the Dou Emperor realm, Xiao Bai organized an invasion of the Chu Yun Empire and recruited the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to guard the Snake People.
• Xiao Bai reunited with Xiao Yi Xian on the battlefield, helped her control her Calamity Poison Body, and used captured Poison Masters to stir up conflict across the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Bai that the Scorpion Sect had allied with the Golden Goose Sect and Mu Lan Valley under mysterious black-robed figures, whom Xiao Bai identified as Soul Hall.
• Xiao Bai explained his Xiao Clan identity to Xiao Yi Xian and decided to use the ancient jade and Gu Clan ties to protect himself and the other Xiao Family members.
• Xiao Bai and Hai Bodong headed toward Tian Du City to target the Ten Scorpion Gate, while Xiao Bai revealed that he planned to blow it up.

Xiao Bai helped Xiao Yi Xian crush the Ten Scorpion Gate and its allies, then maneuvered Han Feng into helping him seize the Fallen Heart Flame. After three years of cultivation, Xiao Bai returned to lead the Bright Cult’s growing influence and went to aid Aililan in the Southern Region.

• Xiao Bai revealed himself as the Bright Cult Master, defeated the Poison Sect’s deputy sect master, and helped Xiao Yi Xian put down the Poison Sect’s traitors.
• Xiao Bai used the Pumpkin to devastate the Ten Scorpion Gate, then exposed and killed Wu Ya while capturing the Soul Hall’s Iron Protector.
• Xiao Bai helped Xiao Yi Xian contain her poison and formed a united alliance of four nations, while Iron Protector’s report led the Soul Hall to target Xiao Yan and Yao Chen.
• The Soul Hall Venerable Elder tried to capture Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, but Xiao Xun'er and an Ancient Clan elder helped them escape.
• Xiao Bai lured Han Feng into accepting a breakthrough pill, took the Sea Heart Flame from him, and fused it with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Bai led masked Dou Zong experts to Jia Nan Academy and took the mature Fallen Heart Flame, while Xiao Yan refined a newborn flame left behind.
• After three years of cultivation, Xiao Bai returned to a Bright Cult that had established eight cities and become the Black Corner Region’s strongest power.
• Xiao Bai learned that Aililan had become Queen of the Cat Race but faced opposition from the Fox Race and other Southern Region peoples, so he went to help her.