Recaps

White Phoenix defeated Jingwu and secured the right to explore the New Treasure Ground Space, where the team was separated and confronted by ghosts that copied their appearances. Bai Xiaowen reunited with Han Xu and Qiao Rui and began testing the doubles while Li Shuyi remained locked in a duel with hers.

• Bai Xiaowen enhanced the team’s equipment, and the White Phoenix Squad prepared for Competition Month while working toward level eight.
• Bai Xiaowen challenged Wu Chonglian to wager Jingwu’s expedition slot against an item from his shop, and Wu Chonglian accepted.
• White Phoenix defeated Jingwu in two matches, with Han Xu named MVP in the first and Bai Xiaowen’s intervention against Jingwu’s airship helping win the second.
• White Phoenix finished December tied for first in its division, and Bai Xiaowen took Xiao Jun shopping before deciding she should wait to attempt her Awakening Quest.
• Bai Xiaowen led White Phoenix into the New Treasure Ground Space at North Hill Sands, where the team was separated and he encountered strange children, a ghostly old woman, and hostile spirits.
• Bai Xiaowen fought Possessing Ghosts and collected their fragments while Qiao Rui, Han Xu, and Li Shuyi encountered ghostly doubles.
• Bai Xiaowen reunited with Han Xu and followed Qiao Rui’s Falcon Spirit, while Han Xu and Qiao Rui faced apparent doubles of themselves and Li Shuyi.
• Bai Xiaowen used Cecilia’s summoning to establish that he was real, then ordered one of the two Li Shuyis to use Tether on one of the two Han Xus to expose the ghosts.

Bai Xiaowen led the White Phoenix Team through Locust King Village, freed Hua Yurong, and claimed the Pale Netherstone to create the Netherwhite Ghost Domain. After opening it to other Awakened and negotiating its entry terms, the team trained for a month and prepared to return to the Spirit Realm.

• Bai Xiaowen exposed and defeated two Transformation Ghosts, then led the White Phoenix Team through the fog into Liu Family Hamlet to investigate its diary pages and missing bride.
• Bai Xiaowen discovered that Hua Yurong had been forced into a wedding with Liu Fu’s son and jumped into a well, then accepted her blood ritual so the team could fight the villagers who protected the Pale Netherstone.
• Bai Xiaowen and his teammates killed Liu Fu and Uncle Liu Si, disrupting the village ritual and allowing Hua Yurong to join the halves of the Pale Netherstone and purify Locust King Village.
• Hua Yurong returned the team’s blood and passed on, while Bai Xiaowen used the Pale Netherstone’s administrator privileges to reshape the village into the Netherwhite Ghost Domain.
• Bai Xiaowen signed a cooperative development agreement with the Awakened Association, set the entry terms, and promoted the new Treasure Ground to Awakened and guilds.
• Bai Xiaowen negotiated entry exchanges with guilds and bought the Titan Guild’s Medium Psionic Training Ground, renaming it White Phoenix I.
• Hua Yurong’s awakening drove out several elite teams that targeted the Hua Family Old Residence, while Bai Xiaowen arranged publicity to counter their negative reports.
• The White Phoenix Team won twenty-seven consecutive matches and trained for over a month, improving their skills before Bai Xiaowen decided to return to the Spirit Realm.

Bai Xiaowen led the White Phoenix Team into the Black Tide Plane, where they infiltrated the Wogata Tribe, rescued captives, and rallied freed laborers into the Freedom Legion. The team sailed toward the Bonus Archipelago, and Bai Xiaowen reunited with Lord Alexei Ahan to learn that the nations were competing to find the Seven Sacred Artifacts.

• Bai Xiaowen entered the Black Tide Plane with Li Shuyi, Qiao Rui, and Han Xu, chose his old identity, and rerolled his ticket to gain more quest time.
• Bai Xiaowen accepted a quest to kill an Abyss Faction figure and chose to awaken Pack Leader Angerclaw by raising one of its attributes above 100.
• Bai Xiaowen foresaw a raid on The Advance, but the Wogata Tribe captured him and his teammates after its raiders boarded the ship.
• Bai Xiaowen escaped Sasha, rescued Han Xu from a transformation ritual, and led the team through battles that killed Napa, General Deke, Polba, and Priest Naitu lu.
• Bai Xiaowen and his allies destroyed the Wogata altars, freed the captives, and sent the survivors to clear the tribe’s hatchery and armory.
• Bai Xiaowen discovered that the Snakefolk planned to reinforce their forces at the Bonus Archipelago, then led the freed laborers aboard two Ghost Ships as the Freedom Legion.
• Bai Xiaowen persuaded the Freedom Legion to fight the Snakefolk and met Lord Alexei Ahan, who explained that the nations sought the Seven Sacred Artifacts while the Snakefolk had joined the search.

Bai Xiaowen lured Vazhatas into a battle at the Scorchflow Sea Eye, seized the Snakefolk flagship, and killed their lord. He then tried to unite the kingdoms and prepared the allied fleets to destroy the Snakefolk bases, ending as the Snakefolk attacked his bait ship.

• Bai Xiaowen used Ahan and the allied leaders to lure the Snakefolk toward Axon Island while the White Phoenix Team entered the Scorchflow Sea Eye.
• Bai Xiaowen summoned Kolorios to draw Vazhatas away, then boarded the Ghost Dreadnought and fought to seize control of it.
• Bai Xiaowen’s team escaped the sea eye with the captured Ghost Dreadnought and accepted the S-Tier Scavenger mission.
• Bai Xiaowen tracked down the wounded Vazhatas and killed him after helping Rageclaw meet the damage requirement for his Awakening Skill quest.
• Bai Xiaowen presented Vazhatas’s head to the allied leaders, earned Merit Points, and received the mission to unite the seven kingdoms.
• Bai Xiaowen trained Camelot’s mages to operate the Ghost Dreadnought’s Magic Crystal Cannons and used the ship as bait to lure the Snakefolk into a surface battle.
• Bai Xiaowen’s Doom Bracelet warned of an attack, and Ahan led the allied fleets east as Yi-Yi guided them toward the fight.
• The Snakefolk attacked the Ghost Dreadnought, and Bai Xiaowen ordered the mages to fire its Magic Crystal Cannons.