Recaps

After defeating Soul Hall assassins and helping Qing Lin suppress an ancient snake soul, Xiao Ling sought a Sky Demon Phoenix Monster Core to help Zi Yan. With Feng Qing'er’s aid, he infiltrated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and entered its hidden Phoenix Mausoleum, where he reached an ancient altar.

• Xiao Ling defeated Demonic Flower Evil Lord, and Han Yue became the Flower Sect Master with Xiao Ling’s support.
• Xiao Ling spent time with Han Yue and Han Xue, then reforged their seals so they could control Flower Granny’s stored Dou Qi.
• Xiao Ling ambushed the Soul Hall’s Heavenly Venerates, captured two as Banner Slaves, and killed the Black and White Heavenly Venerates.
• Xiao Ling returned to Starfall Pavilion, where he suppressed the Ancient Nine-Headed Sky Snake King’s Remnant Soul inside Qing Lin.
• Zhu Li told Xiao Ling that Zi Yan needed a high-rank Sky Demon Phoenix Monster Core, and Xiao Ling enlisted Feng Qing'er to help him search the Phoenix Mausoleum.
• Xiao Ling and Feng Qing'er entered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan territory, and Xiao Ling planted an Ancient Void Dragon scale to distract the clan’s leaders.
• While the clan searched for the scale, Xiao Ling found the hidden space of the Phoenix Mausoleum and broke through its barrier.
• Xiao Ling crossed the spatial turbulence, navigated the mausoleum’s deadly restrictions, and reached an altar bearing a Heaven Demon Phoenix statue and an ancient tombstone.

Xiao Ling stole the Ninth Order Sky Demon Phoenix Monster Core, escaped the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and used the core to help Zi Yan balance the Dragon Phoenix energies within her. After reaching Half-Saint and concealing Zi Yan’s cultivation, he entered the Void Lightning Pool, rescued Mang Tianchi, and received an ancient Ring of rare treasures.

• Xiao Ling escaped the Phoenix Mausoleum with Yao Chen’s help, taking the Sky Demon Phoenix Monster Core while the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan blamed the Ancient Void Dragon Clan for the theft.
• Xiao Ling gave the Monster Core to Zi Yan’s elders and used Heavenly Flames to guide its energy into her Heavenly Phoenix phantom, balancing it with her Ancient Void Dragon power.
• Zi Yan’s transformation began, and she transferred some of her overwhelming energy to Xiao Ling before withdrawing to cultivate in a purple-gold cocoon.
• Xiao Ling settled on Ancient Dragon Island, reached the Half-Saint realm, and refined Ninth-grade Treasure Pills from the island’s medicinal ingredients.
• As the Four Directions Dragon Island’s convergence threatened to disrupt Zi Yan’s cultivation, Xiao Ling placed three concealing formations around her hall.
• Xiao Ling entered the Void Lightning Pool to temper his Spiritual Power, controlled its lightning with the Destiny Talisman, and awakened a terrifying presence in its depths.
• Xiao Ling rescued Mang Tianchi from pursuing Black Demon Lightnings, and Mang Tianchi confirmed Xiao Ling’s identity as a Jia Nan Academy student.
• Mang Tianchi recovered with Xiao Ling’s pill and gave him an ancient Ring containing rare medicinal ingredients and lightning-attributed techniques and skills.

Xiao Ling helped protect East Dragon Island while Zi Yan absorbed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and emerged as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor. When the Three Great Dragon Kings challenged her, Zi Yan defeated them and prepared to purge the clan’s traitors, but Huang Tian intervened to save them.

• Xiao Ling left the Void Lightning Pool after hunting Black Demon Lightnings, then joined Mang Tianchi on East Dragon Island as the Four Directions Dragon Island gathering approached.
• The forces of West, South, and North Dragon Island invaded East Dragon Island, but Mang Tianchi and Xiao Ling helped defeat their vanguard and drive the survivors away.
• Zi Yan summoned Xiao Ling to help fuse the opposing bloodline energies within her, then emerged as the Supreme Dragon Phoenix and was acclaimed Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan declared her intent to reunite the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, reached the early Five-star Dou Saint realm, and prepared East Dragon Island for the other islands’ arrival.
• When the Three Great Dragon Kings brought their armies against her, Zi Yan revealed her Supreme Dragon Phoenix power and overwhelmed the kings while Xiao Ling protected East Dragon Island’s forces.
• Zi Yan continued battering the Three Great Dragon Kings and exposed the North Dragon King’s secret connection to Huang Tian as a powerful aura approached.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings used Dragon Emperor Bell to resist Zi Yan’s spear, but she shattered their defense before Huang Tian arrived and repelled her attack.
• Huang Tian identified himself as the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan leader and acknowledged Zi Yan’s Supreme Dragon Phoenix bloodline, while Zi Yan declared herself the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s new leader and vowed to purge its traitors.

Zi Yan defeated Huang Tian and the Three Great Dragon Kings, reunited the Four Directions Dragon Islands, and began rebuilding the Ancient Dragon clan. Xiao Ling later subdued the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, brought Xiao Yan to the Ancient Realm, and entered the Heavenly Tomb journey with him.

• Huang Tian challenged Zi Yan over the stolen remains of a Ninth Order ancestor, and their battle ended when Zi Yan defeated the Three Great Dragon Kings and drove Huang Tian away.
• Zi Yan reunited the Four Directions Dragon Islands into Ancient Dragon Island, then welcomed Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin as she began restoring the clan.
• Xiao Ling returned to Starfall Pavilion, learned that the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire was in the Blazing Vault Ancient Domain, and set out to find it.
• Xiao Ling resisted the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire’s assault and sealed its origin in an ice crystal before returning to Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Ling refined the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, advanced to advanced Half-Saint, and received an invitation to the Ancient Clan’s Heavenly Curtain trial.
• Xiao Ling took Xiao Yan to Ancient Saint City, where they encountered Soul Clan members and prepared to face Hun Ya in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Ling and Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Realm, met Huo Xuan aboard the Shuttle Void Boat, and learned how Energy Cores and the Heavenly Tomb’s slower time worked.