Recaps

Bai Xiaowen strengthened White Phoenix Fief’s defenses while Great Tang Domain threatened to locate it, then returned to the Shaoding Plane and broke a Black Heaven Cult trap at Ironblood Cliff. He formed a Martial Alliance and led its fighters east to help the Supreme Clarity Sect, which remained under attack.

• Lord Xia Feng defeated Lord Kenneth and claimed the Five-Finger Mountain Spirit Vein for Great Xia.
• Bai Xiaowen built the Five Elements Formation, activating White Phoenix Territory’s shield and gaining new authorities.
• Fu Jing suspected Bai Xiaowen was Lu Wang, and Taizong threatened to locate West River Territory unless Bai Xiaowen revealed its coordinates.
• Bai Xiaowen trained, learned Array Deployment, and returned alone to the Shaoding Plane after Chen Rong reported the Supreme Clarity Sect’s crisis.
• At Ironblood Cliff, Bai Xiaowen exposed himself as Lu Wang, destroyed the formation trapping the martial wanderers, and rallied them against the Black Heaven Cult’s Netherdemon Army.
• Bai Xiaowen used formations and command skills to lead the martial artists through the battle, then rescued fighters from the undead army’s self-destruction.
• The surviving heroes pledged to Bai Xiaowen’s Martial Alliance, and he organized them into ten banners.
• After using an Insight Orb to advance his command skills, Bai Xiaowen led his forces east to rescue Chen Rong as Qiu Zhenli and Li Feng continued their attack on the Supreme Clarity Sect.

Bai Xiaowen helped Chen Rong defeat the Black Heaven Cult’s forces, rescued the hostage families, and trained the Five Elements Banners. As Chen Rong led the allied forces in an assault on Black Heaven Peak, Bai Xiaowen took a secret passage toward its rear mountain.

• Bai Xiaowen joined forces with Chen Rong, drew the Black Heaven Cult’s leaders into an ambush, and helped the Supreme Clarity Sect defeat the cult’s forces at its eight camps.
• Chen Rong became acting Sect Master and appointed Bai Xiaowen as a guest elder, while news arrived that the Black Heaven Cult Leader had attacked Penglai Pavilion.
• Bai Xiaowen accepted quests to destroy the cult and rescue the banner leaders’ families, then infiltrated the cult and ambushed Li Chun and Li Yan’s Netherdemon Army.
• Bai Xiaowen’s forces killed Li Chun, captured Li Yan, and rescued the hostages, while the allied coalition prepared to attack Black Heaven Peak.
• Bai Xiaowen trained the Five Elements Banners and learned from Li Yan that Chen Zhihe had reportedly jumped from Sea-Watching Cliff.
• Chen Rong led the allied army in a frontal assault on Black Heaven Peak as Bai Xiaowen took the Five Elements Banners and two hundred Giant Savage Soldiers through a secret passage.
• Bai Xiaowen’s group encountered Vampire Bats at the passage entrance, and he burned them with Orochi Nagi.

Bai Xiaowen destroyed Black Heaven Cult, recruited martial artists, and strengthened White Phoenix Fief while preparing it for war with Great Tang Domain. The arc ends as Taizong’s forces land to attack the fief after Bai Xiaowen deliberately lets them believe they have breached its shield.

• Bai Xiaowen led the assault on Black Heaven Palace, killed Snake Princess, and helped the Immortal Sect Alliance defeat the Black Heaven Cult Master.
• Bai Xiaowen claimed the Origin Martial True Scripture and recruited martial artists to move to White Phoenix Fief, while Chen Rong offered him support and lent him the Seven Strategies of Jiran.
• Bai Xiaowen brought 314 martial artists and nearly twenty thousand Spirit Crystals back to White Phoenix Fief, then organized its residents, army, and mining operations.
• Bai Xiaowen and his companions advanced their cultivation and strengthened the fief’s defensive formations as he prepared for conflict with Great Tang Domain.
• Taizong declared war on White Phoenix Fief, while Bai Xiaowen rejected offers of protection that required giving up mining rights.
• Great Tang Domain’s army arrived near White Phoenix Fief, and Gui Yuan tested its shield before Bai Xiaowen allowed a powerful strike to drain its energy.
• Taizong ordered his forces to land and attack in waves, while Fu Jing stayed behind with him, uneasy about divinations concerning Lu Wang.

Bai Xiaowen defeated Li Weichen, annexed the Great Tang Domain, and uncovered the Death God's Hand Bone and its connection to his father’s plans. After stabilizing the enlarged territory and forming ties with Candice, he prepared his team for the Crowfang Secret Realm while they trained to overcome the mid-tier bottleneck.

• Bai Xiaowen used the Five Elements Banners and controlled Gui Yuan to defeat Great Tang Domain’s forces, then captured Li Weichen and took the fight into the enemy territory.
• Fu Jing fled with his family as Great Tang Domain collapsed, and Han Xu killed Li Weichen so Bai Xiaowen could claim the Boundary Stele.
• Bai Xiaowen annexed Great Tang Domain, learned from Bai Yuantang that Hua Xueli had ruled Snow Li Fief, and heard that the Death God's Hand Bone might help revive his sister.
• Bai Xiaowen reassured Chang'an’s residents, searched the Underground Palace, and found the Death God's Hand Bone and the Bone Hill Formation.
• Bai Xiaowen devoured the hand bone with Death God's Visage, gained the Black Book, and used the Unfinished Grievance Spirit Banner to restore the formation and create Ghost Spirit Workers.
• Bai Xiaowen defended the annexation in the Lords’ Group and signed a mutual trust agreement with Candice, who explained the Star Alliance and invited him to the Blackfang Domain Secret Realm.
• Queen Bee warned Bai Xiaowen about the secret realm’s dangers and described its opening schedule, so Bai Xiaowen and his companions began preparing to enter it as Mid-Tier Evolvers.
• Bai Xiaowen trained his Meditation and Fighting Specializations while Zhen Mi managed the territory, and Li Shuyi announced that the middle volume of her Flower-Washing Collection had appeared.