Recaps

Xu Xiaoshou mastered Peaceful Lake Little Azure Flower, entered the Royal City Trial, and turned its contestants into the Xu Gang through force and recruitment. As the trial shifted toward Law Source Stones, he set his sights on a Space Source Stone while Ba Zunan and Storyteller entered Void Island.

• Xu Xiaoshou accepted an honorary vice president position and secured the Royal City Alchemist Association as an exclusive buyer of the Red-Gold Elixir and Spirit-Refining Liquid, then received Mu Lin’s invitation to return to the Holy Palace and refused.
• Xu Xiaoshou swallowed Peaceful Lake Little Azure Flower, subdued it with his other flames and sword thoughts, and gained its power as it stabilized his Celestial Phenomenon cultivation.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered the Royal City Trial with Xin Gugu and Liu Changqing, and the Trial Officers began hunting people who had entered illegally or exceeded the rules.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Hidden Pain to defeat contestants gathered at a Cloud Orb, forced them into the Xu Gang, and led the growing group to hunt for points and treasures.
• Xu Xiaoshou defeated Rong Dahao’s forces at Falling Cloud Peak, destroyed the Cloud Beast with Illusion Annihilation Finger, and accepted Rong Dahao’s submission as the Xu Gang’s sixth squad leader.
• Xu Xiaoshou consumed the Cloud Beast’s Origin-Granting Essence and comprehended spatial rules while Rao Yaoyao investigated Liu Changqing and Yu Zhiwen watched Xu Xiaoshou from the Heavenly Secrets Formation.
• Ba Zunan and Storyteller entered Void Island, while Xu Xiaoshou organized the Xu Gang to collect points and decided to pursue a Space Source Stone after source stones appeared in the inner region.

Xu Xiaoshou built the Little Xu Gang around the Fire Source Stone, then joined Mu Zixi and his companions in the fight over the Space Source Stone. After defeating Duo'er and the Blackheart Mother Parasite, Xu Xiaoshou took the stone and confronted Jiang Xian.

• Mu Zixi subdued Rong Dahao’s Xu Gang and made its members follow her, while Xu Xiaoshou challenged Yu Lingdi’s suspicion of Liu Changqing and revealed his own Heavenly Secrets Art.
• Xu Xiaoshou seized the Fire Source Stone from Xiao Jing, plundered more than two hundred Grandmasters, and founded the Little Xu Gang with Xiao Jing as its captain.
• Xu Xiaoshou advanced to the Master Celestial Phenomenon realm, evolved Illusion Annihilation Finger, awakened Soul Reading, and used it to explore a giant bear’s memories.
• Su Qianqian defended Xiao Wanfeng and the Space Source Stone from Jiang Xian, Tang Zheng, and other trial participants, but Gu Qing'san’s attack on the trial officials brought enforcers to the scene.
• Mu Zixi led the Xu Gang against the attackers, trapping them in a life-draining forest, while Xu Xiaoshou’s Little Xu Gang captured those who escaped.
• Xu Xiaoshou stopped Duo’er’s Blackheart Parasites, drove her mad, and swallowed the remaining swarm, but a Blackheart Mother Parasite emerged from her body.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Soul Reading on the Blackheart Mother Parasite and confronted Half-Saint Zang Ren through Duo’er’s memories, as Ba Zunan’s sword image appeared to defend him.
• Xu Xiaoshou severed the Blackheart Mother Parasite, eliminated Duo’er, accepted the Space Source Stone from Xiao Wanfeng, and greeted Jiang Xian after sensing a hidden observer leave.

Xu Xiaoshou rescued Mu Zixi from Aberrant, but her hidden identity as Lei Xier emerged along with the God-Devil Pupils. With Lei Shuangxing’s help, Xu Xiaoshou killed Aberrant and learned that Lei Xier remained a target because of her Supreme Life Demon Body.

• Xu Xiaoshou discovered Mu Zixi had been taken into Aberrant’s hidden domain and found her badly injured beside Liu Changqing.
• Xu Xiaoshou froze the domain and struck Yi down, but Mu Zixi awakened as Lei Xier and revealed that she and Mu Zixi were the same person.
• Aberrant attacked Xu Xiaoshou and Lei Xier, prompting Xu Xiaoshou to transform into the Two-Winged Black Demon Berserk Giant and battle him.
• Xu Xiaoshou breached Aberrant’s soul space and took Mimicry and other treasures while Lei Xier restrained Aberrant with her God-Devil Seals.
• Aberrant tried to escape through the Escape God Coin, but Lei Shuangxing trapped him in the Ancient Books World and killed him with the Heart Sword Technique.
• Lei Shuangxing gave Xu Xiaoshou the Escape God Coin, and Lei Xier revealed that Lei Shuangxing was her brother.
• Xu Xiaoshou learned that Aberrant had targeted Lei Xier’s Supreme Life Demon Body and told her to return to her former appearance.

Xu Xiaoshou impersonated Mu Xiaogong, secured the Fourth Dragon Vein for the Xu Gang, and helped turn the Holy Spirit Hall’s investigation toward Storyteller. As treasures and then a Saint Emperor Dragon Scale erupted from the Void Island Rift, Rao Yaoyao faced a growing crisis that drew in the demonic sword Myriad Weapons Devil Lord.

• Xu Xiaoshou disguised himself as Mu Zixi to conceal Lei Xier’s disappearance, while the Holy Spirit Hall investigated Aberrant’s death and Rao Yaoyao suspected Storyteller and a powerful insider were involved.
• Xu Xiaoshou returned to the Xu Gang camp with Liu Changqing and fooled a trial officer’s mental interrogation, while the Holy Spirit Hall’s investigators identified him as a likely participant in Aberrant’s death.
• Xu Xiaoshou sent a painted-avatar Storyteller into the Yunlun Mountain Range to mislead the enforcers, then led the Xu Gang in an assault on the Fourth Dragon Vein.
• Xu Xiaoshou poisoned the defenders with planted herbs, forced Luo Yin to surrender the Dragon Guard Flags, and became Dragon Lord of the Fourth Dragon Vein as the Xu Gang began capturing more veins.
• Xu Xiaoshou arranged for Storyteller’s portrait avatar to be spotted, while Rao Yaoyao returned from the inner island and reported that Demon Emperor Black Dragon had driven her back.
• The Void Island Rift poured out treasures, and Rao Yaoyao organized the Enforcers and conscripted Sovereigns to guard against Ghost Beasts as Xu Xiaoshou wondered about Ba Zunan’s intentions.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s allies claimed the Third, Eighth, and Second Dragon Veins, while a second treasure torrent ended with Teng Shanhai catching a scale from Demon Emperor Black Dragon.
• The Saint Emperor Dragon Scale broke free and drove Path-Cutters to their deaths, until Ai Cangsheng fired his Evil Sin Bow and the scale formed the demonic sword Myriad Weapons Devil Lord.