Recaps

Venerable Yellow Spring pressured Venerable Wind into wagering valuable treasures on the pavilion rankings, and Venerable Lei joined with a Lightning Storage Pearl while Venerable Sword declined. Venerable Yellow Spring planned to target Starfall Pavilion for the Purple Blood Pill, unaware that Venerable Wind had arranged a gift for Xiao Yan.

• Venerable Wind accepted Venerable Yellow Spring's wager, offering Starfall Pavilion's resources if it lost and asking for an equal stake if it won.
• Venerable Yellow Spring invited Venerable Lei and Venerable Sword to join, and Venerable Lei contributed a Lightning Storage Pearl while Venerable Sword chose to witness the wager.
• Venerable Yellow Spring offered a Heartblood Clay Puppet, and Venerable Wind warned that its resentment could harm whoever used it.
• Venerable Wind put up a Purple Blood Pill and an Azure Cloud Awakening Wind Art, drawing greedy looks from Venerable Yellow Spring and Venerable Lei.
• Venerable Yellow Spring resolved to focus Yellow Spring Pavilion's strength on suppressing Starfall Pavilion to claim the Purple Blood Pill.
• Venerable Wind privately told Xiao Yan that his meeting gift was ready, and Xiao Yan vowed not to disappoint him.

Xiao Yan joined Starfall Pavilion’s team for the Four Pavilions Conference, where Venerable Wind introduced him to Mu Qingluan and asked him to protect her. The competition began with Mu Qingluan challenging Feng Qing'er, while Xiao Yan noticed a powerful participant secretly watching him.

• Venerable Wind introduced Mu Qingluan to Xiao Yan and asked him to protect her from the other pavilions.
• Xiao Yan concealed his identity with a ghost mask and gave Mu Qingluan a seventh-tier Transformation Pill.
• The Four Pavilions Conference began, and the young contestants gathered on Wind Lightning Pavilion’s competition platform.
• Mu Qingluan challenged Feng Qing'er and attacked her with wind-attributed Dou Qi.
• Feng Qing'er countered Mu Qingluan with claw-shaped Dou Qi and Three Thousand Lightning Movement as they fought at high speed.
• Xiao Yan moved through the melee and noticed a quasi-Dou Zong secretly watching him.

Xiao Yan concealed his strength while Mu Qingluan fought Feng Qing'er fiercely at the Four Pavilions Conference. As Mu Qingluan struggled against Feng Qing'er's Wind-Killing Finger, Wang Chen launched a sneak attack that left her unable to defend herself.

• Xiao Yan secretly assessed the fighters and continued to hide his true strength while the Venerables watched him.
• Mu Qingluan attacked Feng Qing'er relentlessly, forcing her to use the Wind-Killing Finger after Mu Qingluan shattered her hair ribbon.
• Mu Qingluan summoned Whirling Wind Blades to block Feng Qing'er's attack, but the Wind-Killing Finger tore through the vortex.
• Wang Chen of Yellow Spring Pavilion seized the opening and rushed toward Mu Qingluan with two icy daggers as she remained occupied resisting Feng Qing'er's attack.

Xiao Yan stopped Wang Chen from sneak-attacking Mu Qingluan and overwhelmed him in the arena, prompting Venerable Yellow Spring to intervene. After Venerable Wind blocked the attack and defended Starfall Pavilion, Yellow Spring Pavilion conceded the conference, while the other competitors turned against Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan as the match resumed.

• Xiao Yan caught Wang Chen's attack on Mu Qingluan, then dislocated his jaw, shattered his breastbone, and pinned him to the arena platform.
• Venerable Yellow Spring attacked Xiao Yan from the stands, but Venerable Wind blocked the strike and challenged him for interfering in the contest.
• Venerable Wind argued that Xiao Yan had not seriously injured Wang Chen, and Venerable Yellow Spring conceded the Four Pavilions Conference before taking Wang Chen away.
• Venerable Wind returned to the stands with Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan, while Venerable Yellow Spring and Venerable Lei suspected Xiao Yan's apparent age was a trick.
• The arena match resumed, and the other competitors surrounded Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan; Xiao Yan assured her they would win.

Xiao Yan defeated Tang Ying of the Ten Thousand Sword Pavilion with ease, further establishing the Starfall Pavilion’s dominance at the Four Pavilions Conference. With the other contestants hesitating and Feng Qing’er uncertain of his strength, Xiao Yan challenged everyone to remain on the fighting platform for ten breaths or claim victory for the Starfall Pavilion.

• Tang Ying challenged Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan agreed to fight him.
• Tang Ying unleashed the Ten Thousand Sword Art, but Xiao Yan saw through its true attack, caught his greatsword, and sent him off the platform.
• Tang Ying acknowledged Xiao Yan’s restraint and left the match, while spectators marveled at Xiao Yan’s victories over the Yellow Spring Pavilion and Ten Thousand Sword Pavilion geniuses.
• Venerable Sword praised Xiao Yan to Venerable Wind, and Feng Qing’er wondered who the masked fighter was as the contestants looked to her as their last hope.
• Xiao Yan declared that the Starfall Pavilion would concede if anyone remained standing on the fighting platform for ten breaths.

Xiao Yan attacked the remaining competitors at the Four Pavilions Conference, eliminating nearly everyone in just a few breaths. Feng Qing'er was the only opponent left besides Mu Qingluan, and she protected herself inside a massive Demon Phoenix Bell as Xiao Yan prepared to strike it.

• Xiao Yan stomped the arena and used Octane Blast to knock down nearly a third of the competitors, while Mu Qingluan swept them off the stage.
• Xiao Yan swung his Dou Qi ruler three times and sent the remaining competitors flying, prompting Venerable Wind to protect the weaker fighters.
• Feng Qing'er summoned a black phoenix and formed the defensive Demon Phoenix Bell around herself.
• Xiao Yan smiled beneath his mask and punched the Demon Phoenix Bell.

Xiao Yan shattered Feng Qing’er’s Demon Phoenix Bell, defeated her, and secured the Four Pavilions Conference championship alongside Mu Qingluan as the only contestant left standing. After Venerable Yellow Spring challenged Venerable Wind over Xiao Yan’s strength, Xiao Yan tossed Feng Qing’er to Venerable Lei and challenged Venerable Yellow Spring to fight.

• Xiao Yan’s punch and Wild Desolation Ruler shattered Feng Qing’er’s Demon Phoenix Bell, leaving her badly injured and defeated.
• Xiao Yan kicked Feng Qing’er to the ground and drove his ruler into the arena beside her, leaving only himself and Mu Qingluan standing.
• Feng Qing’er tried to claw Xiao Yan in a sneak attack, but Xiao Yan caught her wrist and crushed it when she refused to back down.
• Venerable Lei demanded that Xiao Yan release Feng Qing’er, while Venerable Yellow Spring confronted Venerable Wind about Xiao Yan’s high cultivation.
• Xiao Yan tossed Feng Qing’er toward Venerable Lei, then pointed his ruler at Venerable Yellow Spring and challenged him to fight.

Xiao Yan openly challenged Venerable Yellow Spring, and Venerable Wind allowed the Dou Zun to discipline him. Venerable Yellow Spring attacked, but Xiao Yan used his strange ability and the Red Lotus Change to withstand the first strikes before Yellow Spring pressed his assault.

• Xiao Yan provoked Venerable Yellow Spring, while Mu Qingluan and Feng Qing'er reacted with shock.
• Venerable Wind told Venerable Yellow Spring that he could discipline Xiao Yan, leaving Venerable Sword and Venerable Lei baffled by his confidence.
• Xiao Yan insulted Venerable Yellow Spring, who gathered natural energy and declared that he would not let the provocation go unanswered.
• Venerable Yellow Spring struck Xiao Yan, but a black vortex absorbed most of the force and left Yellow Spring suspicious.
• Xiao Yan activated the Red Lotus Change and threw the Wild Desolation Ruler at Venerable Yellow Spring, then retreated after the ruler shattered.
• Venerable Yellow Spring pursued Xiao Yan and swept his left hand toward Xiao Yan's head.

Xiao Yan withstood Venerable Yellow Spring’s first three attacks, impressing the other pavilion leaders and drawing Venerable Lei’s suspicions. Venerable Yellow Spring unleashed his signature technique, and Xiao Yan used a mysterious black flame to meet the full-force attack with one hand, disappearing inside its energy pillar.

• Xiao Yan blocked Venerable Yellow Spring’s attacks for three exchanges, earning Venerable Sword’s praise and strengthening his resolve to maintain ties with Starfall Pavilion.
• Venerable Lei suspected Xiao Yan might be the same person who had fallen out with Wind Lightning North Pavilion but lacked proof.
• Venerable Yellow Spring recognized Xiao Yan’s strategy and began treating him as an equal opponent.
• Venerable Yellow Spring used the Yellow Spring Blood Art to disrupt Xiao Yan’s blood and lock onto him.
• Venerable Yellow Spring launched Yellow Spring Blood Strangle, and Xiao Yan gathered energy into his blackened arm as a mysterious black flame appeared across his back.
• Xiao Yan received the attack with one hand and was swallowed by its black pillar, though the strike had not actually reached his body.

Xiao Yan swallowed Venerable Yellow Spring’s full-force attack with the Nihility Devouring Flame and used the stolen Dou Qi to unleash the Wild Desolation Ruler’s Sovereign’s Descent. He wounded Venerable Yellow Spring, whose fury grew as the fight continued.

• Venerable Yellow Spring struck Xiao Yan with a full-force attack, but Xiao Yan absorbed it and emerged unharmed.
• Xiao Yan gathered the stolen Dou Qi and formed a massive ruler as figures of armored troops appeared behind him.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Wild Desolation Ruler, Sovereign’s Descent, and its ruler shadows pierced Venerable Yellow Spring’s defenses.
• Venerable Yellow Spring distorted space and turned transparent to evade the attack, but Xiao Yan used soul power to pin him briefly.
• The ruler shadows struck Venerable Yellow Spring and left him injured, prompting him to abandon reason and grow more determined to make Xiao Yan pay.

Xiao Yan injured Venerable Yellow Spring, but Yellow Spring retaliated with his hidden technique, Yellow Spring Corpse Rot. As the attack engulfed Xiao Yan, an unfamiliar Dou Zun aura emerged from the explosion, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Xiao Yan and Venerable Yellow Spring faced off while Xiao Yan weighed the cost of using his remaining trump card.
• Venerable Wind stayed seated as Venerable Sword and Venerable Lei questioned whether he would intervene.
• Venerable Yellow Spring unleashed Yellow Spring Corpse Rot, sending a gray figure to explode around Xiao Yan.
• Venerable Yellow Spring realized his attack might kill Xiao Yan and rushed toward the explosion, while Venerable Wind still did not move.
• A powerful, unfamiliar aura spread from the corpse rot, and Venerable Sword and Venerable Lei cried out that it belonged to a Dou Zun.

Xiao Yi Xian arrived to protect Xiao Yan and faced Venerable Yellow Spring in a duel between Dou Zun experts. She steadily suppressed him, while Xiao Yan noticed something strange about Venerable Yellow Spring’s performance.

• Xiao Yi Xian appeared before Xiao Yan and cut through Venerable Yellow Spring’s corrosive energy, revealing herself as a Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan withdrew with Mu Qingluan and left Venerable Yellow Spring to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Venerable Yellow Spring questioned Xiao Yi Xian about her identity and her connection to Starfall Pavilion, but she said she intended to defeat him.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s poisonous Dou Qi dissolved Venerable Yellow Spring’s attacks, and he drew his short blade to fight her.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s rapid attacks and stronger Dou Qi forced Venerable Yellow Spring to repeatedly detonate his corpse-rotting aura to escape her grasp.
• Mu Qingluan watched Xiao Yi Xian with admiration, while Xiao Yan noticed something unusual about Venerable Yellow Spring’s performance.

Venerable Wind revealed that Starfall Pavilion’s masked Dou Zun expert was only twenty-three, proving his eligibility for the Four Pavilions Conference. He then identified the expert as Xiao Yan and exposed his face, leaving Venerable Lei to face the fallout from Xiao Yan’s past conflict with Wind Lightning Pavilion.

• Venerable Wind used a Ten Thousand Longevity Spirit Leaf to test the masked expert’s age while the crowd and the other Venerables watched.
• The leaf’s image showed three branches, with the third only one-third grown, revealing that Xiao Yan was twenty-three years old.
• The crowd reacted with shock, while Venerable Yellow Spring, Tang Ying, and Feng Qing'er recognized Xiao Yan’s extraordinary talent.
• Venerable Wind named the masked expert as Starfall Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan removed his mask.
• The revelation made Venerable Lei’s response crucial because Xiao Yan had previously clashed with Fei Tian of Wind Lightning North Pavilion.

At the Four Pavilions Conference, Venerable Lei publicly accused Xiao Yan of abducting Fei Tian and demanded that Xiao Yan take three of his moves. As Venerable Wind and Venerable Lei prepared to clash, Xiao Yi Xian stepped forward and offered to fight in Xiao Yan’s place.

• Venerable Lei recognized Xiao Yan as the one who had taken Fei Tian and decided he could not let the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s dignity go unanswered.
• Venerable Lei accused Xiao Yan before the conference and claimed the Starfall Pavilion had captured Fei Tian.
• Venerable Wind countered that the Wind Lightning North Pavilion had attacked Starfall Pavilion members first and challenged Venerable Lei’s account.
• Venerable Lei proposed that Xiao Yan take three of his moves or return Fei Tian and the items taken.
• Venerable Wind defended Xiao Yan, and the two pavilion leaders summoned their Dou Qi in a tense standoff.
• Xiao Yi Xian removed her veil and declared that she had defeated Fei Tian and would fight Venerable Lei.

Xiao Yan recovered from the strain of using the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire after the Four Pavilions Conference, while Venerable Lei learned that Xiao Yi Xian was a Dou Zun and had to face her. With the conference victory drawing attention across the Central Plains, Xiao Yan hoped Huo Zhi and Zi Yan would learn that he was at the Starfall Pavilion, though he worried about the pressure his fame would bring to the sect.

• Xiao Yi Xian challenged Venerable Lei, and their clash revealed that she was a Dou Zun.
• Venerable Wind stopped the gale eagle so Xiao Yan could safely expel the violent Dou Qi left by his secret technique.
• Xiao Yan regained control of his body, and Xiao Yi Xian checked him by circulating her Dou Qi through him.
• Venerable Wind said Xiao Yan’s conference victory and fight with Venerable Yellow Spring would spread word of his whereabouts to Huo Zhi and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan worried that his new fame would place greater pressure on the Starfall Pavilion.

Xiao Yan and Venerable Wind discussed the danger Soul Hall posed now that Xiao Yan’s identity had been exposed, and the need to build ties with the Flame Clan. Venerable Wind arranged for Xiao Yan to seek an eighth-rank Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core from the Heavenly Luan Clan while Starfall Pavilion searched for his friends and prepared to spread news of Yao Lao’s return.

• Xiao Yan worried that Soul Hall would target Starfall Pavilion after learning he was there, and Venerable Wind reassured him that Yao Lao’s reputation and other powerful allies could help.
• Mu Qingluan learned that Xiao Yan’s teacher was Venerable Yao, Starfall Pavilion’s true Pavilion Master and Venerable Wind’s longtime friend.
• Venerable Wind explained that the Flame Clan rivaled Soul Hall in strength and that Xiao Yan needed ties with hidden forces to advance.
• Venerable Wind warned Mu Qingluan not to reveal Xiao Yan’s relationship to Yao Lao to Soul Hall, since doing so could provoke a stronger attack.
• Xiao Yan told Mu Qingluan he needed an eighth-rank Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core, and she agreed to take him to the Heavenly Luan Clan.
• Venerable Wind sent Starfall Pavilion to search for Xiao Yan’s two friends and planned to spread news of Yao Lao while Xiao Yan traveled with Mu Qingluan.

Xiao Yan fought Fei Tian, who summoned the Wind Lightning North Pavilion’s Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation to overpower him. The chapter ended with Fei Tian’s lightning fist striking Xiao Yan, leaving his fate unclear.

• Xiao Yan pierced Fei Tian’s attack with a purplish-red strike from the Heavy Profound Ruler and forced him back.
• Fei Tian ordered the Heavenly Gang Hall and the North Pavilion’s forces to form the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation around Xiao Yan.
• The formation boosted Fei Tian’s strength as he attacked Xiao Yan with lightning, and Xiao Yan dodged while devouring one bolt with a void vortex.
• Fei Tian unleashed the formation’s Wrath of the Thunder God, and its colossal lightning fist struck Xiao Yan.
• A muffled thunderous sound came from the impact site as Xiao Yan invoked the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire, Red Lotus Change.

Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan traveled toward the Heavenly Luan Clan to obtain a Magic Core, while Xiao Yi Xian returned with Venerable Wind to Starfall Pavilion. In the Gu Realm, a young woman learned that Xiao Yan had appeared and immediately ordered her departure.

• Xiao Yan parted ways with Venerable Wind and Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yi Xian returned to Starfall Pavilion after Xiao Yan urged her to help protect it.
• Venerable Wind gave Xiao Yan a letter for the Heavenly Luan Clan before Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan set off together.
• Mu Qingluan asked about Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, then accepted a Transformation Pill from Xiao Yan as a gift.
• An elderly man informed a young woman in the Gu Realm that Xiao Yan had won the Four Pavilions Conference and possessed strength comparable to a Dou Zun.
• The young woman confirmed Xiao Yan's identity and ordered that she leave the Gu Realm.

Xiao Yan tempered his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body with lightning and Heavenly Flames, then bonded with the Heartblood Clay Puppet. The puppet unexpectedly fused with his avatar, leaving Xiao Yan to watch as the strange union developed.

• Xiao Yan used the Lightning Storage Pearl and Heavenly Flames to raise his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body to the Major Achievement realm.
• Xiao Yan realized the avatar could help it carry a three-colored Buddha Fury Fire Lotus without risking his true body.
• Xiao Yan bonded with the Heartblood Clay Puppet by smearing his blood on it, and the puppet's frigid energy invaded his meridians.
• Xiao Yan used the Red Lotus Core Flame to melt the cold energy and cleared the puppet of impurities with a black vortex.
• Xiao Yan's Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body emerged, and the Heartblood Clay Puppet entered its chest and began fusing with it.

Xiao Yan merged the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body with the Heartblood Clay Puppet, but could not tell what the fusion had changed. He recalled the phantom body and left his room, where Mu Qingluan was operating the Space Ship.

• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flames to merge the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body with the Heartblood Clay Puppet over the course of a day.
• Xiao Yan tested the fused phantom body and found its strength remained at the eight-star Dou Zong level.
• Xiao Yan channeled lightning force from the Lightning Storage Pearl into the phantom body, but stopped when it became unstable.
• Xiao Yan found no visible changes or trace of the clay puppet's aura, then recalled the phantom body and left his room.
• Xiao Yan saw that Mu Qingluan had been operating the Space Ship while he cultivated.

Xiao Yan accompanied Mu Qingluan to the Heavenly Luan Clan to seek its help in obtaining an eighth-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core. They reached the clan’s secluded mountain home, where its members recognized Mu Qingluan and asked why she had returned.

• Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan discussed the Heavenly Luan Clan’s low profile and its plan to wait for an opportunity.
• Xiao Yan guarded their Space Ship through an unstable stretch of passage, and they emerged near the Heavenly Luan Clan’s territory.
• Mu Qingluan guided Xiao Yan through the clan’s formation into the Heavenly Luan Five Peaks, where he saw its wind-rich valleys, rare herbs, and Azure Luan birds.
• Five clan members arrived on Azure Luan birds, and their leader recognized Mu Qingluan and asked why she had returned from studying under Venerable Wind at the Starfall Pavilion.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Heavenly Luan Clan with Mu Qingluan and was welcomed as an honored guest by Mu Jin. After settling into Mu Xinyuan’s pavilion, he met Qingluan’s grandfather, who was impressed by Xiao Yan’s strength.

• Mu Jin greeted Mu Qingluan and Xiao Yan, invited Xiao Yan to attend the clan’s ceremony in three days, and explained that Mu Xinyuan was occupied with discussions about the Young Luan Pool.
• Mu Qingluan led Xiao Yan to her grandfather’s pavilion, where Xiao Yan noticed signs of other humans in the clan and wondered whether they would interfere with obtaining the magic core.
• Mu Qingluan served Xiao Yan specially cultivated Green Autumn Fruits, and Xiao Yan praised their flavor and unusual quality.
• Mu Xinyuan arrived, greeted Mu Qingluan affectionately, and probed Xiao Yan’s strength before marveling at the talent Venerable Feng Xian had kept hidden.

Xiao Yan impressed Mu Xinyuan with his age and strength, and Venerable Wind’s letter persuaded the elder to help him obtain a magic core. As Mu Xinyuan brought Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan into the Heavenly Luan Clan’s treasure mountain, Tang Qiying blocked them, insisting a human could not enter.

• Mu Qingluan told Mu Xinyuan that Xiao Yan was only twenty-three, and Mu Xinyuan was astonished to learn he was an eight-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan gave Mu Xinyuan Venerable Wind’s letter, which revealed he was an old friend’s disciple and warned Mu Xinyuan not to try to recruit him.
• Mu Xinyuan agreed to take Xiao Yan to the treasure vault for a magic core and led Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan into the mountain’s protected interior.
• Two guards directed Mu Xinyuan toward the fifth chamber, where the clan stored magic cores and items related to magical beasts.
• Tang Qiying confronted Mu Xinyuan and objected to Xiao Yan entering the treasure mountain because he was human.
• Mu Xinyuan challenged Tang Qiying’s objection, and Tang Qiying invoked his authority as Chief Inspector and prepared to enforce the rules.

Mu Xinyuan and Tang Qiying nearly fought at the Heavenly Luan Clan’s entrance before Mu Zi’er intervened and allowed Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan to enter. Mu Xinyuan then explained Tang Qiying’s origins and his bitter rise to becoming Chief Inspector.

• Mu Zi’er stopped Mu Xinyuan from attacking Tang Qiying and told Tang Qiying that the clan chief had approved the visitors’ entry.
• Tang Qiying obeyed the clan chief’s order to stand aside, and Mu Qingluan greeted Mu Zi’er before introducing Xiao Yan.
• Mu Zi’er asked whether Venerable Wind had sent her anything, and Mu Qingluan defended her teacher when Xiao Yan said he had brought no message.
• As they entered, Xiao Yan asked why Tang Qiying bore the Tang surname, and Mu Xinyuan explained that Tang Zhen had rescued him as an abandoned child of mixed human and luan blood.
• Mu Xinyuan recounted how Tang Qiying had endured bullying, won the Chief Inspector selection, and crippled several clansmen he resented.

Xiao Yan accompanied Mu Xinyuan through the Heavenly Luan Clan’s stores in search of an eighth-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast core. In the third chamber, they found that two cores remained and had already been claimed by visiting alchemists, leaving Xiao Yan to stop Mu Xinyuan from escalating the dispute.

• Mu Xinyuan led Xiao Yan and Mu Zi'er through the clan’s chambers of magical beast cores and materials, but they found no suitable core in the first two.
• In the third chamber, Xiao Yan recognized Mu Jin among six people, including five human seventh-tier alchemists.
• Mu Xinyuan asked Mu Jin for an eighth-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast core and learned the two remaining cores had already been chosen by the alchemists.
• Mu Xinyuan asked Master Bai to spare a core and offered to replace it later, but a fat alchemist accused the clan of reneging on its agreement.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward and told Mu Xinyuan to leave the matter for another day.