Recaps

Xiao Yan learned from Old Yao that the lion's roar came from a Dou Wang, then continued training beneath the waterfall. Lin Ming returned to the valley, reassured Xiao Yi Xian about her constitution, and shared a meal with her.

• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao whether the lion's roar came from a person, and Old Yao explained that it was a Dou Technique with a human undertone.
• Old Yao described cultivation realms and told Xiao Yan that the roar's creator had reached at least the Dou Wang level.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether encountering two Dou Wangs in a few months made him lucky or unlucky, then began training in the lake beneath the waterfall.
• Lin Ming judged his lion's roar imperfect and flew back to the valley, where he smelled Xiao Yi Xian's cooking.
• Xiao Yi Xian became despondent about her constitution, but Lin Ming promised he could help control it and encouraged her to hope for marriage and children.
• Lin Ming and Xiao Yi Xian sat down and shared a warm meal.

Lin Ming watched Yun Yun fight the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King after she came to borrow its Purple Spirit Crystal. As the battle continued, he detected Xiao Yan nearby and resolved to prevent him from getting close to Yun Yun.

• Lin Ming sensed the arrivals and left the valley to watch Yun Yun confront the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Yun Yun asked to borrow the Purple Spirit Crystal, but negotiations failed and the two began fighting.
• Yun Yun’s Tornado Storms clashed with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s purple flames, unleashing powerful explosions.
• Lin Ming detected a concealed fluctuation of Soul Power and recognized that Xiao Yan had arrived.
• Yun Yun struck the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King with Wind Blades, but its crystal armor showed only faint marks that quickly disappeared.

Yun Yun battled the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King through the afternoon, dodging its attacks while trying to obtain the Purple Spirit Crystal. As sunset weakened the beast, it unleashed its Purple Crystal Seal, which shattered Yun Yun’s counterattack and continued toward her.

• Yun Yun evaded the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s attacks and blocked its purple fire pillar with Wind Push Stance.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King pursued Yun Yun through the sky, but neither fighter could gain the upper hand.
• As sunset approached and the beast’s power began to wane, Yun Yun calmly renewed her request for the Purple Spirit Crystal.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King gathered energy and launched its Purple Crystal Seal at Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun countered with Rending Wind Swirl Dance, but the Purple Crystal Seal shattered her spiraling wind blade and kept flying toward her.

Lin Ming rescued the severely injured Yun Yun after the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King defeated her in battle. He brought her to Xiao Yi Xian for treatment, then revealed that Yun Yun was the Misty Cloud Sect’s Dou Emperor Sect Master and that a Tier 6 Magical Beast had wounded her.

• Yun Yun’s attack broke the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s horn, but the beast struck her and its Purple Crystal Seal began freezing her meridians.
• Lin Ming followed Yun Yun as she fell toward a river and caught her before she hit the water.
• Lin Ming carried the unconscious Yun Yun to Xiao Yi Xian and gave her medicine and instructions for treating her wounds.
• Xiao Yi Xian finished treating Yun Yun, and Lin Ming told her that the injured woman was Yun Yun, Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Lin Ming identified the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King as the Tier 6 Magical Beast that had injured Yun Yun.

Lin Ming and Xiao Yi Xian spoke with the recovering Yun Yun, who learned that Lin Ming was the young Dou Wang from the Mittel Family and that Xiao Yi Xian had treated her injuries. After Yun Yun explained that she still needed the Purple Spirit Crystal for Nalan Yanran, Lin Ming offered to help her obtain it.

• Yun Yun woke and asked Lin Ming who he was, and he gave her his real name.
• Yun Yun recognized Lin Ming as the Mittel Family genius and was surprised that he had already become a Dou Wang.
• Lin Ming introduced Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun thanked them and asked them to call her by her name.
• Lin Ming explained that Yun Yun's external injuries would heal quickly, while the Purple Crystal Seal's internal damage would take time to clear.
• Yun Yun told Lin Ming she still intended to obtain the Purple Spirit Crystal for Nalan Yanran, and Lin Ming offered to help.

After recovering from her injuries and sealed cultivation, Yun Yun joined Lin Ming in a plan to retrieve the Purple Spirit Crystal from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave. Yun Yun lured the beast into battle while Lin Ming moved toward its cave to search for the crystal.

• Lin Ming arranged for Xiao Yi Xian to stay in his room while Yun Yun recovered, and the three later shared breakfast together.
• After three days, Yun Yun's wounds had healed, and she told Lin Ming her sealed cultivation would soon recover; they agreed she would distract the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King while he retrieved the Purple Spirit Crystal.
• Yun Yun recovered her cultivation, gave Lin Ming a crystal that could locate the Purple Spirit Crystal, and flew with him toward the beast's cave.
• Lin Ming stopped near the cave as Yun Yun went ahead to lure out the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, which roared that it would avenge its broken horn.
• As Yun Yun and the beast clashed in the sky, Lin Ming headed toward the cave in shadow.

Lin Ming sneaked into the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave while Yun Yun kept the beast occupied and obtained the Purple Spirit Crystal. He then returned to the fork in search of the rare Companion Purple Crystal Source to strengthen his Purple Crystal Wings.

• Lin Ming avoided alerting the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and slipped past the two guards at the cave entrance.
• Lin Ming found the sleeping Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, knocked it unconscious, and moved it aside without killing it.
• Lin Ming uncovered the Purple Spirit Crystal beneath the cub and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Lin Ming decided to search the other passage for the Companion Purple Crystal Source, hoping to use it to improve his Purple Crystal Wings.

Lin Ming stole the Companion Purple Crystal Source using the Purple Spirit Crystal, but the Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King awakened and ran to summon its mother. As Lin Ming raced for the exit, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s roar sounded nearby, and he seized the cub as it waited at the cave entrance.

• Lin Ming pierced the Companion Purple Crystal Source’s protective shell with the Purple Spirit Crystal and collected the source in a Jade Bottle.
• The Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King awoke through its connection to the source and ran toward the cave entrance to summon its mother.
• Lin Ming noticed an energy fluctuation, realized the cub had escaped, and sprinted toward the exit.
• Lin Ming heard the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King roar and pushed himself to race out of the cave before it returned.
• As the cub waited at the entrance, Lin Ming lifted it into the air with one hand.

Lin Ming escaped the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave by threatening it with its captured cub, then returned the cub and fled with Yun Yun. He stunned the pursuing Lion King with Roaring Lion's Chant, leaving it to catch its falling child.

• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King confronted Lin Ming at the cave entrance and retreated when he threatened its cub with Flame Gold Earth Heart Fire.
• Lin Ming flew out of the cave with the cub, and Yun Yun apologized for the Lion King rushing back while she fought it.
• The Lion King demanded its cub back, and Lin Ming restrained the cub's flight and hurled it into the sky.
• Lin Ming used Roaring Lion's Chant to stun the Lion King, then flew away with Yun Yun.
• The Lion King recovered and rushed to catch its falling cub.

Lin Ming reunited with Xiao Yan in the Monster Mountain Range and concealed that he knew Xiao Yan’s teacher was hiding in his ring. He explained Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy, leaving Xiao Yan eager to learn more about it.

• Lin Ming gave Yun Yun the Purple Spirit Crystal and another crystal, then told her to return to the valley while he handled other matters.
• Xiao Yan discussed Lin Ming with his teacher, who sensed Lin Ming’s arrival and withdrew into Xiao Yan’s ring.
• Lin Ming found Xiao Yan by a river, and Xiao Yan pretended his teacher was absent while Lin Ming played along.
• Xiao Yan told Lin Ming he planned to keep training before resolving his matter with Nalan Yanran and going to Jia Nan Academy.
• Lin Ming described Jia Nan Academy’s Outer and Inner Academies, and Xiao Yan became eager to attend.

Lin Ming confronted Xiao Yan about the Soul Body and Heavenly Flame he sensed around him, and Xiao Yan admitted that his absent teacher possessed a Heavenly Flame. Lin Ming planned to force Old Yao to help him, relying on Yun Yun’s nearby presence to protect him if a fight broke out.

• Lin Ming told Xiao Yan that Jia Nan Academy’s records described the powerful Dou Qi experts and Alchemists of Middle Continent.
• Lin Ming questioned Xiao Yan about an unusual Soul aura and the Heavenly Flame he had sensed from him and his Qi Gathering Powders.
• Xiao Yan admitted that his teacher possessed a Heavenly Flame but claimed he did not know where the teacher had gone.
• Lin Ming decided to confront Old Yao while Yun Yun was nearby, intending to obtain pill refining, pill formulas, and Xiao Yi Xian’s Poison Pill Method.

Lin Ming revealed that he knew Old Yao was hiding in Xiao Yan’s ring and brought him out to discuss a Heavenly Flame. Old Yao mistook Lin Ming’s offer for a demand to trade for his own flame, but Lin Ming clarified that he meant to sell information about another Heavenly Flame.

• Lin Ming deduced that Old Yao was hiding in Xiao Yan’s ring, and Old Yao emerged from it.
• Lin Ming offered to make a deal involving a Heavenly Flame, and Old Yao demanded five Tier 9 Medicinal Pill formulas in exchange for his own flame.
• Lin Ming acted as though Old Yao had offered him the flame for nothing, angering Old Yao and Xiao Yan.
• Old Yao unleashed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Lin Ming clarified that he wanted to trade information about a Heavenly Flame he knew of.
• Old Yao asked Lin Ming to repeat himself, unable to believe he would sell information about a Heavenly Flame.

Lin Ming offered Old Yao and Xiao Yan information about the Green Lotus Core Flame in exchange for three conditions. Old Yao accepted Lin Ming’s first two demands, but the final condition remained undisclosed.

• Lin Ming confirmed that he wanted to trade information about a Heavenly Flame, and Old Yao questioned his motives before asking which flame he meant.
• Lin Ming described the flame’s origins, and Old Yao identified it as the Green Lotus Core Flame, ranked nineteenth among the twenty-three Heavenly Flames.
• Old Yao explained that the Green Lotus Core Flame would suit Xiao Yan, who eagerly anticipated obtaining a Heavenly Flame.
• Lin Ming demanded that Old Yao refine a Tier 6 Medicinal Pill with a Heavenly Flame and provide a Tier 6 or higher formula for subduing Heavenly Flames.
• Old Yao agreed to refine the pill using materials and a formula provided by Lin Ming, and agreed to give him the medicinal formula after verifying the information.
• Lin Ming warned Old Yao that reneging on the agreement could bring trouble for Xiao Yan’s family, darkening Xiao Yan’s expression.

Lin Ming negotiated with Old Yao for three things, including a method to control his friend’s Calamity Poison Body, in exchange for information about the Green Lotus Core Flame. After Lin Ming revealed the flame’s history and produced its Azure Lotus Pedestal, Old Yao offered the requested items and asked to borrow the pedestal for a year.

• Lin Ming asked Old Yao about the Calamity Poison Body, and Old Yao explained its rapid growth through poison and the fatal backlash it caused.
• Lin Ming asked to exchange his third condition for a method to control the Calamity Poison Body, and Old Yao agreed after learning Lin Ming’s friend possessed it.
• Lin Ming told Old Yao and Xiao Yan that Queen Medusa had taken the Green Lotus Core Flame but could not refine it because of her Snake People bloodline.
• Lin Ming produced the Azure Lotus Pedestal, confirming his account, and Old Yao offered the three requested things in exchange for borrowing it for a year.

Lin Ming and Old Yao completed a trade involving the Calamity Poison Body scrolls and the Green Lotus Lotus Pedestal, with Old Yao agreeing to find Sand Mandara and refine a pill. As Lin Ming prepared to leave, Old Yao offered rare sixth-grade pill formulas in exchange for medicinal materials, and Lin Ming froze at his request.

• Lin Ming offered Old Yao use of the Lotus Pedestal for a year in exchange for Sand Mandara from the Snake People Race's core territory.
• Old Yao handed Lin Ming two scrolls, which Lin Ming inspected and accepted despite the difficult conditions for controlling the Calamity Poison Body.
• Lin Ming gave Old Yao the Lotus Pedestal, a scroll, and a map directing him to the person who needed the pill refined.
• Old Yao stopped Lin Ming from leaving and offered fifth- and sixth-grade Medicinal Formulas for medicinal materials.
• Old Yao named the Swift Breath Pill, Dou Emperor Pill, and Sect Breaking Pill formulas, then asked whether Lin Ming could provide the required medicinal materials, leaving Lin Ming frozen.

Lin Ming traded Ice Attribute treasures and Eagle's Wing to Old Yao for the Sect Breaking Pill formula. After Lin Ming left, Old Yao told Xiao Yan that the Calamity Poison Body control method required three Heavenly Flames, then prepared to help him refine Eagle's Wing and the pills needed to devour the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Lin Ming offered Old Yao Ice Attribute treasures, but asked for the Sect Breaking Pill formula instead of the Swift Breath Pill formula.
• Lin Ming added the Profound Tier High-grade Flying Fighting Skill Eagle's Wing, and Old Yao agreed to trade the Sect Breaking Pill formula for both offers.
• Lin Ming received and checked the formula, handed over the treasures and scroll, then flew away with his Cyan Gold Wings.
• Xiao Yan worried that Lin Ming might use the Calamity Poison Body control method against them, but Old Yao explained that controlling it required three kinds of Heavenly Flames and said Lin Ming would eventually need their help.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan to refine Eagle's Wing while he prepared pills for devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Lin Ming and Yun Yun settled their disagreement and agreed to meet again in the Imperial City before she returned to the Misty Cloud Sect. After Yun Yun departed, Xiao Yi Xian offered Lin Ming the armor Yun Yun had given her, while elsewhere a black-robed youth refined the Purple Cloud Wings and tested his new flight ability.

• Lin Ming reassured Yun Yun that he held no grudge, and they joked before discussing their plans to leave the valley.
• Yun Yun said she would return to the sect the next day, and she and Lin Ming agreed to meet again in the Imperial City.
• At dawn, Yun Yun flew away, and Xiao Yi Xian offered Lin Ming the sea-blue scaled soft armor Yun Yun had given her; Lin Ming told her to keep it.
• In a cave in the Monster Mountain Range, a black-robed youth absorbed the Purple Cloud Wings from a scroll and summoned them from his back.
• The youth flew around the cave before his illusory teacher told him to land, and the wings shrank against his back.

Lin Ming gave Xiao Yi Xian a scroll containing a method to control her Calamity Poison Body, easing her fears and deepening her trust in him. He then used a Companion Purple Crystal Source to strengthen his Purple Crystal Wings, absorbing the energy they released.

• Lin Ming gave Xiao Yi Xian a scroll with a method for controlling her Calamity Poison Body, and she cried with relief as she realized he had truly been searching for a solution.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned the scroll unread, saying she trusted Lin Ming to help her, and Lin Ming promised he would control her constitution.
• Lin Ming took the Companion Purple Crystal Source to a high platform in the valley and summoned his Purple Crystal Wings beneath the sun.
• The purple source liquid poured onto the wings, and Purple Demon Fire melted their crystal layer as the wings expanded.
• Lin Ming felt pure fire-attributed energy flow from the wings into his body and sat down to refine it.

Lin Ming used the Companion Purple Crystal Source to break through to the Five-Star Dou King realm while greatly strengthening his Purple Crystal Wings. After testing their new speed, he found that he could fly as fast as a Dou Emperor and escape one if necessary.

• After months of stabilizing his Dou Qi and reaching the peak of the Three-Star Dou King realm, Lin Ming refined a surge of energy that raised him to the Five-Star Dou King realm.
• The Purple Crystal Wings absorbed most of the Companion Purple Crystal Source and grew nearly twice as large, developing bone spurs and dense crystal patterns.
• Lin Ming tested the transformed wings and found that they could fly at Dou Emperor speed, especially beneath the sun.
• Lin Ming confirmed that the wings' increased Dou Qi consumption remained manageable and could help him escape a Dou Emperor, then headed toward the lit wooden house.

Lin Ming finished preparing pills, transformed into a disguised middle-aged man, and arrived at the Xiao Family residence. He defeated Xiao Zhan and demanded the Ancient Jade Fragment, threatening Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family if Xiao Zhan refused.

• Lin Ming completed a month of pill refinement, then flew toward Wutan City using his new Wings of Dou Qi and changed his appearance beneath a black robe.
• Xiao Zhan worried about Xiao Yan before a black-robed stranger appeared in his room after the lamp went out.
• Xiao Zhan formed his Dou Qi Armor, but the stranger shattered it with a single attack and left him injured.
• The stranger recognized the Xiao Family's ancient origins and demanded the Ancient Jade Fragment passed down by the Xiao Clan.
• The stranger threatened to cripple Xiao Yan and harm the Xiao Family unless Xiao Zhan handed over the fragment.

Xiao Zhan realized the Ancient Jade Fragment had drawn powerful families to the Xiao Family and surrendered it to Lin Ming to save his clan. Lin Ming took the Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment, intending to use it to prevent the Hun Clan from opening Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion until he was strong enough to claim its chance to become a Dou Di.

• Xiao Zhan feared the black-robed man would destroy the Xiao Family and considered how little chance Yan Er's master would have of resisting the man's family.
• Xiao Zhan concluded that Xun Er's father had likely brought her to the Xiao Family for the Ancient Jade Fragment and recognized that keeping it endangered his clan.
• Xiao Zhan reluctantly decided to surrender the fragment, believing the Xiao Family would otherwise be exterminated.
• Xiao Zhan took out the gleaming Ancient Jade Fragment, and Lin Ming grew visibly excited when he saw it.
• Lin Ming congratulated Xiao Zhan and planned to keep the fragment from the Hun Clan until he could grow strong enough to open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion himself.

Lin Ming confirmed that Xiao Zhan’s ancestral jade was a fragment of the Tou She Ancient God Jade, removed its Soul Imprint, and took it after testing its durability. He left Wutan City and flew toward the valley, while Xiao Zhan was left grieving the loss.

• Lin Ming told Xiao Zhan that the Xiao Family would be spared and demanded that he remove the Soul Imprint from the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Zhan erased the Soul Imprint and threw the Ancient Jade to Lin Ming, who tested it in an energy sphere and confirmed it was genuine.
• Lin Ming put away the fragment and vanished, leaving Xiao Zhan to realize that the ancestral jade was gone.
• Lin Ming left Wutan City, flew toward the Monster Mountain Range, and changed his Dou Qi before heading toward the valley.

Lin Ming sensed Xiao Yi Xian advancing to Dou Shi and waited as she gained control of her new power. With their time in the valley over, he offered to accompany her to revisit the places where she had lived before they left.

• Lin Ming sensed Calamity Origin Poison Gas leaking from the cabin and realized Xiao Yi Xian was advancing to Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yi Xian completed her advancement, gathered the poison gas around herself as a Dou Qi Gauze Robe, and felt grateful to Lin Ming for his support.
• Lin Ming decided they should leave the valley and return, since his tasks in the Monster Mountain Range were finished and Zi Yan's advancement was approaching.
• Xiao Yi Xian reluctantly agreed to leave the valley, and Lin Ming offered to take her to revisit the places where she had lived.
• Xiao Yi Xian was delighted by Lin Ming's offer.

Lin Ming and Xiao Yi Xian found the wounded Su Xue by a stream in the Monster Mountain Range and saved her. After Su Xue woke and ate with them at camp, Lin Ming recognized that she was no ordinary commoner.

• Xiao Yi Xian went to fetch water and screamed after spotting what looked like a woman's corpse in the stream.
• Lin Ming found Su Xue barely alive, revived her with Wood Attribute Dou Qi, and carried her back to camp.
• Lin Ming gave Xiao Yi Xian a pill, and she fed it to Su Xue until Su Xue woke.
• Su Xue introduced herself and thanked Lin Ming and Xiao Yi Xian for saving her.
• Lin Ming and Xiao Yi Xian gave Su Xue roast lamb, and Lin Ming noticed her etiquette and the aura of a Dou Master.

Lin Ming learned that Su Xue came from Huang Yan City in the Jin Huai State, which paid tribute to the Zong Lun Empire across the Monster Mountain Range from the Jia Ma Empire. Xiao Yi Xian asked why Su Xue had been badly injured so far from home, but Su Xue looked troubled and Lin Ming told her she did not have to answer.

• Lin Ming questioned whether Su Xue was from nearby after she failed to recognize the Monster Mountain Range.
• Su Xue said she came from Huang Yan City in the Jin Huai State, and told Lin Ming that the state paid tribute to the Zong Lun Empire.
• Lin Ming recalled that the Monster Mountain Range separated the Jia Ma Empire from the Zong Lun Empire and that the Barbarian Race lived north of the Zong Lun Empire.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked why Su Xue had been badly injured in the Monster Mountain Range so far from her home.
• Lin Ming reassured Su Xue that she did not have to explain if it was difficult to discuss.