Recaps

Zhu Li learned Lin Ming’s secrets and ordered Hei Qing to stop asking about Zi Yan, who was safe in seclusion. Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect to handle its affairs, where Xiao Yi Xian presented him with a scroll.

• Zhu Li emerged from the secret room and told Hei Qing that Zi Yan was safe but forbade him from asking for details.
• Hei Qing protested that Zi Yan’s Dragon Emperor Bloodline concerned the clan, but Zhu Li ordered him to forget the matter.
• Lin Ming declined to discuss Zi Yan further and left with Zhu Li and Hei Qing to return to the Five Elements Sect.
• Lin Ming entered the repaired main hall, where Xiao Yi Xian, Elder Yao, and Qing Lin were waiting for him.
• Xiao Yi Xian approached Lin Ming and presented him with a scroll, her voice carrying restrained hatred.

Lin Ming reviewed intelligence on Soul Hall’s strongholds and promised to avenge the Five Elements Sect’s dead while supporting survivors and their families. After the other core members left, Xiao Yi Xian told him the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony would take place in roughly two and a half months, leaving him to consider the short timeline.

• Xiao Yi Xian gave Lin Ming a detailed map of confirmed and suspected Soul Hall strongholds, defenses, and routes across the Middle Continent.
• Lin Ming vowed that Soul Hall would repay its blood debts and accepted responsibility for being absent during the attack on the Five Elements Sect.
• Lin Ming ordered doubled compensation for the fallen’s families, permanent recognition on the Monument of Heroic Souls, and rewards for surviving sect members.
• Lin Ming dismissed most of the core members, then asked Xiao Yi Xian for news about the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony.
• Xiao Yi Xian reported that the ceremony would be held in the Ancient Realm in roughly two and a half months, with the Ancient Eight Clans and other Top Factions expected to attend.

Lin Ming learned that the Hun Clan would attack the Ling Clan during the Heaven Tomb’s opening, leaving the Soul Hall vulnerable, and planned to exploit the opportunity for revenge. He set out with Zhu Li, Qing Lin, Xiong Zhan, and Hei Qing to unify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and prepare for the attack.

• Lin Ming concluded that the Hun Clan’s assault on the Ling Clan would leave the Soul Hall’s Branch Halls and Main Halls with weakened defenses, making it the ideal time to strike.
• Lin Ming decided he needed the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s strength and proposed leaving immediately for East Dragon Island to begin unifying the clan with the Dragon Emperor’s Inverse Scale.
• Lin Ming invited Qing Lin to come so she could use the Dragon Qi at Ancient Dragon Island to weaken and refine the Nine-Headed Ancient Heavenly Snake’s soul within her.
• Lin Ming also invited Xiong Zhan, and Zhu Li agreed to take both companions to East Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Elder Yao urged Lin Ming to stay safe as he departed with Qing Lin, Xiong Zhan, Zhu Li, and Hei Qing for East Dragon Island.

Lin Ming and his companions traveled through the dangerous void under Elder Zhu Li’s guidance and arrived at East Dragon Island. Lin Ming returned as the Dragon Emperor’s spokesman, carrying the Reverse Scale token and intending to reunify the divided Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Elder Zhu Li opened a stable passage through the void and led Lin Ming and the others toward East Dragon Island.
• The group reached East Dragon Island, where Elder Zhu Li opened its spatial barrier for them to pass through.
• Lin Ming reflected on how his strength and purpose had changed since he first visited the island three years earlier.
• Qing Lin, Xiong Zhan, and Hei Qing reacted to the Dragon Might and rich energy of their clan land.
• Lin Ming looked toward the island’s grand palace complex with a firm gaze.

Lin Ming and Elder Zhu Li went to the main hall to seek support for unifying the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. Zhu Li awakened Great Elder Qing Shan and Second Elder Qing Mu, whose arrival left the fate of Lin Ming’s proposal unresolved.

• Zhu Li led Lin Ming, Qing Lin, Xiong Zhan, and Hei Qing through East Dragon Island to the main hall.
• Zhu Li explained that the clan’s reunification required the Dragon Emperor’s token and the support of Great Elder Qing Shan and Second Elder Qing Mu.
• Lin Ming agreed that the two elders should be consulted, and Zhu Li used a bloodline ritual at the altar to awaken them.
• The elders’ immense auras spread across East Dragon Island, and Qing Shan and Qing Mu emerged from their cave mansions.
• Qing Shan and Qing Mu scrutinized Lin Ming, Qing Lin, and Xiong Zhan as outsiders, making the hall’s atmosphere tense.

Zhu Li told the East Dragon Island elders that Zhu Kun was alive, Zi Yan was refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit under his protection, and Lin Ming carried the Dragon Emperor's Inverse Scale. The elders demanded proof, and Lin Ming stepped forward to show them.

• The Great Elder and Second Elder questioned Zhu Li about why he had awakened them, and Zhu Li said the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had a chance to reunite.
• Zhu Li explained that Zi Yan was safely cultivating the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and that Lin Ming had met the missing Dragon Emperor, Zhu Kun.
• Zhu Li claimed Zhu Kun was trapped but expected to escape within a hundred years, and that he had given Lin Ming his inverse scale.
• The two elders reacted with shock and demanded to know whether Lin Ming truly possessed the Dragon Emperor's Inverse Scale.
• Lin Ming affirmed Zhu Li's account and said he would provide proof, asking the elders to forgive any offense.

Lin Ming revealed the Dragon Emperor’s Inverse Scale and unleashed its overwhelming bloodline authority across East Dragon Island. The Great Elder and Second Elder accepted him as the Dragon Emperor’s representative, formally placing the island behind his effort to reunite the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Lin Ming manifested the Dragon Emperor’s Inverse Scale, summoning a colossal dragon phantom and unleashing its pressure over East Dragon Island.
• The island’s dragon clan members fell to their knees, while Elder Zhu Li bowed and Hei Qing struggled before submitting.
• Lin Ming restrained the pressure and asked the Great Elder and Second Elder whether they believed the Dragon Emperor would return and Zi Yan would inherit the throne.
• The Great Elder and Second Elder bowed to Lin Ming and declared that East Dragon Island would obey the Dragon Emperor’s token.

After East Dragon Island accepted Lin Ming’s authority, he revealed a plan to unify the Ancient Dragon clan without a costly war. He proposed luring the Three Great Dragon Kings to East Dragon Island and using a Dragon Emperor Avatar to subdue them all at once.

• The Great Elder pledged East Dragon Island’s loyalty to Lin Ming and asked how he would confront the Three Great Dragon Kings.
• Lin Ming said the kings would not submit through persuasion alone and argued that strength would be needed to make them obey.
• Lin Ming revealed two drops of Dragon Emperor Essence Blood, explaining that one could create an hour-long avatar rivaling a Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Lin Ming insisted they preserve one drop for emergencies and use the other only once against all three kings.
• Lin Ming proposed inviting the Three Great Dragon Kings to East Dragon Island and suppressing them together with the Dragon Emperor Avatar.

Lin Ming devised a plan to lure the Three Great Dragon Kings to East Dragon Island by claiming Zi Yan was trapped and promising that whoever rescued her could rule the island. The elders accepted the scheme and set out to deliver the message, while Lin Ming prepared Dragon Emperor Essence Blood for the coming confrontation.

• Zhu Li and the other elders questioned how East Dragon Island could persuade the suspicious Three Great Dragon Kings to enter a trap.
• Lin Ming proposed claiming that Zi Yan had been trapped after an accident while refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, then offering East Dragon Island to whichever king rescued her.
• The Great Elder, Second Elder, and Zhu Li approved the plan and agreed to deliver the urgent plea to the three rival islands within a month.
• The Second Elder departed for North Dragon Island, Zhu Li for West Dragon Island, and the Great Elder for South Dragon Island.
• Lin Ming remained in the hall with Qing Lin, Xiong Zhan, and Hei Qing as he prepared the Dragon Emperor Essence Blood for the coming battle.

Lin Ming sent Qing Lin and Xiong Zhan to cultivate with Hei Qing, then began refining the three inscribed ribs from the complete Dou Saint Remains to unlock the Creation Saint’s Heaven Tier inheritance. By dusk, the ribs had turned dark gold and their characters began moving, showing that the seal was finally responding.

• Lin Ming asked Hei Qing to take Qing Lin to the Dragon Tomb and find Xiong Zhan a suitable place to cultivate.
• After the others left, Lin Ming brought the complete Dou Saint Remains out of his Storage Ring and identified three inscribed ribs holding the Creation Saint’s inheritance.
• Lin Ming carefully removed the three ribs and stored the rest of the skeleton.
• Lin Ming used the New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame to temper the ribs for nearly three hours.
• At dusk, the ribs turned dark gold, their characters began to move, and the bones showed signs of softening.

Lin Ming fused the Gold Spirit Saliva into his right hand and entered a memory inheritance left by the creator of the Great Heaven Creation Palm. The inheritance began explaining the Heaven Tier technique and revealed its unique meridian circulation, leaving Lin Ming poised to study its method.

• Lin Ming plunged his hand into the dark gold liquid, endured its painful reshaping, and absorbed it into his skin, flesh, blood, and bones.
• The fusion triggered a vision that transported Lin Ming into a memory space, where he recognized the ordinary figure as a recorded imprint of the Creation Saint.
• The Creation Saint’s voice identified the technique as a Heaven Tier Low-grade Dou Technique and explained that Gold Spirit Saliva prepared Lin Ming’s palm to withstand its backlash.
• The inheritance began demonstrating the technique’s distinctive energy circulation as the figure’s transparent body revealed its meridians and a dark gold stream surged from its dantian.

Lin Ming witnessed Creation Saint’s final demonstration and memorized the Great Heaven Creation Palm’s meridian route before awakening in East Dragon Island’s main hall. He began cultivating the technique, discovered its immense Dou Qi consumption and destructive power, and carefully dispersed the unstable energy, leaving him with a formidable new trump card.

• Creation Saint demonstrated the Great Heaven Creation Palm’s meridian circulation route and unleashed its destructive black ring before revealing his name and vanishing.
• Lin Ming awoke in the main hall with the inheritance imprinted in his mind and began guiding his Dou Qi through the technique’s complex meridian route.
• After completing one cycle, Lin Ming’s right palm absorbed his Dou Qi and formed a walnut-sized black light that radiated terrifying destructive energy.
• Lin Ming stopped the energy flow and dispersed the black light before it could destroy the main hall.
• Lin Ming recognized the Great Heaven Creation Palm as a powerful new trump card.

Lin Ming triggered a terrifying energy phenomenon on East Dragon Island while practicing the Great Heaven Creation Palm, then examined two scrolls he had won in the Ancient Ruins. He discovered that one contained a fist technique that could reach Quasi-Heaven Tier with Gold Spirit Saliva, while the other held a versatile leg technique.

• Lin Ming's attempt to circulate the Great Heaven Creation Palm stirred a massive energy vortex and destructive storm over East Dragon Island.
• Hei Qing and the other Ancient Dragon Clan members sensed the phenomenon near the main hall, and Hei Qing reassured Xiong Zhan that Lin Ming's Energy Core remained stable.
• Lin Ming opened the profound-colored scroll and learned the Earth Tier Peak-grade Creation Fist could reach Quasi-Heaven Tier when tempered with Gold Spirit Saliva.
• Lin Ming realized the Gold Spirit Saliva he had already merged into his right palm met the fist technique's requirement and celebrated his good fortune.
• Lin Ming opened the green scroll and learned the Earth Tier High-grade Profound Green Leg, a technique that combined attacks with movement and escape.

Lin Ming refined the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix’s bone wings and fused them with his Sky Demon Phoenix Wings, creating a far more powerful flying skill. While awaiting the three elders and the Three Great Dragon Kings, he began studying the Creation Fist and Profound Green Leg to strengthen his hand for the coming gathering.

• Lin Ming examined the Profound Green Leg scroll and learned it offered both high-speed movement and powerful kicking attacks.
• Lin Ming removed the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix’s bone wings from its remains and crushed the remnant soul inside them, absorbing the scattered soul energy.
• Lin Ming refined the bone wings with the New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame for ten hours, turning them into multicolored purple liquid.
• Lin Ming fused the refined liquid with his Sky Demon Phoenix Wings, transforming them into the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Wings and testing their increased power.
• Lin Ming began studying the Creation Fist and Profound Green Leg while waiting for the three elders to return with the bait and for the Three Great Dragon Kings to arrive.

In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi ordered the Hun Clan to invade the Ling Clan’s Spirit Realm and exterminate its people. Nihility Devouring Flame led the army through a massive Space Passage, setting a war against the Ancient Races in motion.

• Hun Tiandi appeared before the Hun Clan’s gathered forces as their cross-dimensional Space Passage to the Spirit Realm took shape.
• Hun Tiandi declared that the Ling Clan would be destroyed for its resources and ordered the Hun Clan to leave no survivors or evidence.
• The Hun Clan’s experts answered Hun Tiandi’s command, and Nihility Devouring Flame transformed into human form.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered the army to move out and entered the stabilized passage to the Spirit Realm.
• Hun Clan forces poured through the passage toward the Ling Clan, beginning their invasion.

The Great Elder, Second Elder, and Zhu Li separately persuaded the North, West, and South Dragon Kings that Zi Yan was trapped in Dragon Burial Abyss and promised East Dragon Island’s submission to whoever rescued her. All three Dragon Kings agreed to come to East Dragon Island in three days, unaware that the elders’ story was a calculated trap.

• The Great Elder told the North Dragon King that Zi Yan was trapped in Dragon Burial Abyss and offered East Dragon Island’s submission to whoever saved her.
• The North Dragon King accepted the offer and promised to lead his forces to East Dragon Island in three days.
• The Second Elder provoked the West Dragon King with the same rescue offer, and the West Dragon King agreed to arrive in three days.
• Zhu Li carefully described Zi Yan’s supposed danger to the South Dragon King, who agreed to visit East Dragon Island in three days.
• The three elders’ deception drew all three Dragon Kings toward East Dragon Island as their trap began to close.

Lin Ming finished half a month of training in the Creation Fist and Profound Green Leg as the three Dragon Kings arrived at East Dragon Island, believing they had come to secure its submission and the Dragon Emperor Bloodline. He revealed himself on the Dragon Emperor Throne and welcomed them as traitors to their execution.

• Lin Ming spent another half month refining the Creation Fist and Profound Green Leg, while the evolved wing tattoo stirred when he pushed his speed to its limits.
• The South Dragon King, West Dragon King, and North Dragon King arrived with the Great Elder, Second Elder, and Elder Zhu Li at East Dragon Island.
• The Great Elder urged the Dragon Kings to hurry inside, pretending that Zi Yan was trapped in the Dragon Burial Abyss and in immediate danger.
• The elders led the three Dragon Kings through the island's barrier, where staged signs of weakness convinced them that East Dragon Island was desperate for help.
• As the Dragon Kings entered the main hall, Lin Ming appeared on the Dragon Emperor Throne and called them traitors, announcing their execution.

Lin Ming revealed that Zi Yan was safe and that the Dragon Burial Abyss crisis was a pretext to lure the Three Dragon Kings to East Dragon Island. Invoking Zhu Kun’s authority through the Dragon Emperor’s Inverse Scale, he demanded they surrender their islands and reunite the Ancient Dragon Clan, but the kings resisted and attacked him.

• The Three Dragon Kings discovered Lin Ming and East Dragon Island’s elders had trapped them, then demanded to know where Zi Yan was and why Lin Ming occupied the Dragon Emperor’s seat.
• Lin Ming called the kings traitors, revealed Zi Yan was refining the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and admitted he had invented the crisis to draw them out.
• Lin Ming invoked Zhu Kun’s order, declared he would reclaim the three Dragon Islands and reunite the Ancient Dragon Clan, and unleashed the Dragon Emperor Pressure from the Inverse Scale.
• The Three Dragon Kings briefly faltered under the pressure, but the West Dragon King rejected Lin Ming’s claim and the other kings resolved to kill him and seize the Inverse Scale.
• The Three Dragon Kings unleashed their power and charged at Lin Ming.

Lin Ming used the Dragon Emperor Essence Blood and Reverse Scale to summon Zhu Kun’s Seven-Star Dou Saint avatar, which overwhelmed the Three Great Dragon Kings and crushed their resistance. The Dragon Kings were left battered and terrified as Lin Ming intended to force them into obedience and use their forces against the Soul Hall.

• The Three Great Dragon Kings attacked Lin Ming, but he calmly activated the Dragon Emperor Essence Blood with the Reverse Scale at his brow.
• Zhu Kun’s purple-gold Dragon Emperor Avatar appeared, nullified the attacks, and suppressed the Dragon Kings with its bloodline authority and control over space.
• Lin Ming ordered the avatar to punish the Dragon Kings, and it battered all three despite their attempts to defend themselves or escape.
• Zhu Li, the other East Dragon Island elders, and Hei Qing watched with shock and joy as the Dragon Kings were overwhelmed.
• Lin Ming let the beating continue so the Dragon Kings would fear him and obey his plans against the Soul Hall.

Lin Ming forced the North Dragon King, West Dragon King, and South Dragon King to choose between submission and death, then used Zhu Kun’s survival and Zi Yan’s coming transformation to pressure them into reuniting the Ancient Dragon Clan. The three battered Dragon Kings faced Lin Ming’s final demand, but their answer was not revealed.

• Lin Ming stopped the Dragon Emperor Avatar after it battered the three Dragon Kings and mocked them for their earlier threats.
• Lin Ming demanded that the North Dragon King, West Dragon King, and South Dragon King submit or die.
• Lin Ming revealed that Zhu Kun had given him the Dragon Emperor’s Inverse Scale and Essence Blood and suggested Zhu Kun was pursuing the Dou Di Realm.
• Lin Ming warned the Dragon Kings that their rebellion violated clan law and that Zhu Kun and Zi Yan would soon be able to punish them.
• Lin Ming offered the Dragon Kings a chance to live and eventually become Elders if they reunited the Ancient Dragon Clan and redeemed themselves through service.
• Lin Ming demanded that the three Dragon Kings make their choice, leaving their response unknown.

Lin Ming forced the North, West, and South Dragon Kings to submit to the Dragon Emperor and surrender wisps of their Life Dragon Souls, giving him control over them. With the Four Great Dragon Islands united under his authority, he prepared to turn the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s strength against the Soul Hall.

• The North Dragon King submitted first, and the West and South Dragon Kings followed, reuniting the Ancient Dragon Clan in name.
• Lin Ming demanded that the three Dragon Kings surrender wisps of their Life Dragon Souls as proof of repentance and a condition of survival.
• When the Dragon Kings protested, Lin Ming threatened them with the Dragon Emperor Avatar’s overwhelming power until they each surrendered a wisp of their Dragon Soul.
• Lin Ming drew the three Dragon Souls into the Dragon Emperor’s Inverse Scale, placing the Dragon Kings’ lives under his control.
• Lin Ming promised to speak on their behalf if they remained loyal, and the Dragon Kings accepted their defeat.
• The Four Great Dragon Islands’ forces gathered under Lin Ming’s authority, with the Soul Hall as their first target.

After forcing the Three Great Dragon Kings to submit, Lin Ming united the Ancient Void Dragon Clan at East Dragon Island and prepared to strike Soul Hall. He assigned teams to destroy fifteen branch halls and led the clan’s Dou Sheng experts toward the Human Hall.

• Lin Ming ordered Zhu Xu, Zhu Jin, and Zhu You to bring every member of their Dragon Islands to East Dragon Island within half a month.
• Zhu Xu, Zhu Jin, and Zhu You accepted Lin Ming’s command and returned to their islands, while the East Dragon Island elders celebrated the coming unification.
• The four Dragon Islands gathered at East Dragon Island, assembling eleven Dou Sheng experts, more than fifteen Half Sages, and a vast force of other clan members.
• Lin Ming proclaimed the Ancient Dragon Clan reborn and ordered Half Sage-led teams to destroy fifteen Soul Hall Branch Halls and retrieve their Soul Origins.
• Lin Ming named the Human Hall as the main target and led the Dragon Clan’s Dou Sheng experts to attack it.

Lin Ming and the Ancient Dragon Clan sealed off Soul Hall’s Human Hall and attacked its forces. After Lin Ming incinerated the first wave of Puppets, a powerful voice roared from the Black Giant Hall.

• Lin Ming ordered Zhu Xu, Zhu Feng, and Zhu You to surround the Human Hall with layered spatial barriers.
• Lin Ming led the Dragon Clan experts through the barrier and found the Black Giant Hall, where Soul Hall’s chains gathered Black Mist and souls.
• Several Hall of Souls Venerates headed out to collect souls, but the Dragon Kings’ spatial power crushed them before they could escape.
• Lin Ming and his companions tore through the barrier, triggering an alarm that sent hundreds of black figures rushing at them.
• Lin Ming released a sea of violet flames that erased the attacking Puppets, and an angry voice boomed from the Black Giant Hall.

Lin Ming led his group to Human Hall to avenge the Five Elements Sect, and an Ancient Dragon Dou Sheng killed the Soul Hall defenders who confronted them. Lin Ming challenged the Great Heavenly Venerate, who finally emerged from the hall as the bloodbath began.

• Lin Ming’s Sea of Fire devoured the Soul Bodies guarding Human Hall, prompting a furious order from inside the palace to capture the intruders.
• More than a dozen Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates appeared, but an Ancient Dragon Elder sealed them in space and crushed them to death with one clench of his hand.
• Third Heavenly Venerate and Bone Ghost Saint confronted Lin Ming, who declared that he had come to avenge the Five Elements Sect and that Human Hall would be bathed in blood.
• Lin Ming called out the Great Heavenly Venerate, and the Soul Hall’s Mid-stage Two-star Dou Saint emerged from the Black Giant Hall.

Lin Ming confronted the Great Heavenly Venerate at the Soul Hall and revealed that the Hun Clan could not send reinforcements. With eight Ancient Void Dragon Clan Dou Saints backing him, Lin Ming ordered an attack; the Great Heavenly Venerate confirmed that a space barrier had sealed them in and launched a deadly assault against Lin Ming.

• Lin Ming taunted the Great Heavenly Venerate and pointed out that the Hun Clan was occupied with a secret mission against the Ling Clan.
• Eight Ancient Void Dragon Clan Dou Saints, including five Two-Star Dou Saints, revealed themselves and overwhelmed the Soul Hall trio with their numbers.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate threatened the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, but Zhu Mu and Lin Ming challenged him to call for immediate reinforcements.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate crushed a Spatial Communication Jade Slip, discovered that a space barrier blocked outside help, and prepared to fight.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate attacked Lin Ming with bone spurs, which an Ancient Dragon Clan elder dissolved with golden light, then summoned a huge Bone Blade and brought it down toward Lin Ming.