Recaps

Xiao Yan formed an alliance of the continent’s major factions and led a surprise attack on the Spirit Clan in the Heavenly Tomb. The Spirit Clan’s defenders called on the Soul Clan for help as the battle continued.

• Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion with the Bodhi Life-Blood Pill for Xun Er, and the alliance began formal talks under Yao Lao’s guidance.
• The factions selected Xiao Yan as alliance leader after Qing Lin arrived and backed his candidacy.
• Xiao Yan persuaded the alliance to attack the Spirit Clan, whose support for the Soul Clan and possession of a Tou She Ancient God Jade made it a threat.
• Xiao Yan and Yan Jin led the alliance’s Dou Sheng experts into the Spirit Realm, where Mu Wei helped them breach its protective formation.
• The alliance divided its forces against the Spirit Clan’s Dou Sheng experts, while Xiao Yan fought the third elder, Ling Qingbai.
• A crimson strike shattered the Spirit Clan’s formation and killed more than twenty Half-Saints, but the clan activated its bloodline markings and renewed its attacks.
• Ling Yuan called for aid after unleashing a powerful technique, and Hun Mang arrived with another Soul Clan expert to support the Spirit Clan.

Xiao Yan and the alliance battled the Spirit Clan, defeated Ling Yuan and destroyed the Spirit Emperor’s remnant soul, while Hun Mang revealed his Soul Clan mission and tried to seize its power. Ling Yuan’s self-destruction devastated the clan, but Yan Jin contained the blast, captured Hun Mang, and kept the Spirit Realm sealed as the alliance began clearing the battlefield.

• Hun Mang and Hun Wu failed to break the Spirit Clan’s formation, so Ling Yuan ordered them to attack Yao Lao and draw out the formation’s controller while Qing Lin summoned her Nine Serene Deepground Python puppet and python souls.
• Xiao Yan joined Huo Zhi’s power through the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, then they and the others killed Ling Qingbai and weakened Ling Xuanmo as Ling Yuan called forth the Spirit Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul.
• Yan Jin fought the remnant soul while Xiao Yan and Zi Yan combined their strength to kill Ling Xuanmo, and Qing Lin froze the remnant soul before Xiao Yan and Yan Jin destroyed it with their Heavenly Flame attacks.
• Hun Mang revealed his Soul Clan mission and gathered remnant-soul fragments, then raised his strength to the Five-Star Dou Sheng level and wounded Yao Lao as Xiao Yan tried to lead their group to safety.
• Qing Lin exposed Hun Mang inside his Black Mist while Xiao Yan and the Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flame fought him over a large remnant-soul fragment, with Yao Ming and Yao Su joining the battle.
• Ling Yuan attacked Xiao Yan and Hun Mang as they seized the remnant soul, but the soul split between them, and Ling Yuan then triggered his own destruction alongside several Spirit Clan Dou Shengs.
• Qing Lin embraced Xiao Yan as Yao Ming and Yao Su shielded them from the blast, which shattered the Spirit Clan’s protective formation before Yan Jin sealed the breach and limited further deaths.
• Yan Jin destroyed Hun Mang’s body and sealed his soul, recovered remnant-soul fragments, and confirmed Xiao Yan was safe as the alliance declared its attack successful and began clearing the sealed Spirit Realm.

After defeating the Spirit Clan, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian organized the surviving factions into Origin Return Manor while preparing for the growing threat from the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan. As Xiao Yan turned toward long-term cultivation, a squad of young disciples encountered a dangerous soul in a mine and struggled to survive its attack.

• Ling Yuan’s explosion killed He Ning and Yao Su, badly wounded Yao Ming and Yao Lao, and left Ling Cang as the Spirit Clan’s surviving elder as the alliance took control of the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yan promised to honor Fire Cloud Ancestor’s wishes, while Qing Lin gave Yao Ming a cultivation method and secured his willingness to serve her.
• Xiao Yi Xian presented a plan to purge the Spirit Clan’s leadership, control its survivors, and reorganize the alliance as Origin Return Manor with nine pavilions.
• Ling Cang gave Xiao Yan the Spirit Clan’s knowledge and resources in exchange for sparing ordinary descendants, then chose to die after helping the Manor take control of the realm.
• Xiao Yan focused on the Manor’s affairs and alchemy as Elder Lin refined a ninth-tier pill, Xun Er reached one-star Dou Sheng, and news arrived that the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan had attacked the Stone Realm.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er consulted Xiao Xuan, who explained Xiao Yan’s unusual connection to Ancient Void Dragon power and gave him a powerful Heaven Class Dou Technique before Xiao Yan began planning a long seclusion.
• Seven young Origin Return Manor disciples entered a Blazing Sun Iron vein to investigate Soul Hall activity and released a powerful soul from an ancient box, which possessed Yan Xiwen.
• Yan Yu fought the escaped soul to buy time for his companions to alert headquarters, but the soul overwhelmed the squad and left them pinned or thrown from the mine.

Xiao Yan helped Lei Jingxiao claim the Thunder Clan heir position, while Wang Yun’s resurrection method restored many souls from the Heavenly Tomb. After learning the truth about his mother, Lei Jingxiao chose to leave the Thunder Clan for Origin Return Manor, and Xiao Yan won the clan tattoo in a duel.

• Xi Wen took control of his body and seized the teleportation talisman, but Lei Qingyue defeated him and revealed he was from the Thunder Clan.
• Lei Qingyue brought Lei Jingxiao home, and Lei Jingxiao returned to Jiang Yunyan with a Bodhi Seed from Xiao Yan that had helped him advance to Two-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb, reached Late-Stage Three-Star Dou Sheng, and agreed to attend the Yao Clan Medicine Ceremony with Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan forced Wang Yun to cooperate, helped him resurrect himself, and watched him restore Xiao Le and thirty other Heavenly Tomb experts to new bodies.
• Xiao Yan and his companions traveled to the Thunder Realm, where Lei Jingxiao defeated Lei Dong with the Fallen Heart Flame to claim the heir position.
• Lei Ying told Lei Jingxiao that his power at birth had fatally injured his mother, and Lei Jingxiao confronted his father before seeking comfort from Jiang Yunyan.
• Lei Jingxiao decided to leave the Thunder Clan and join Origin Return Manor, while Jiang Yunyan stayed behind and supported his choice.
• Xiao Yan defeated Lei Miao’s challenge with his War Puppet and traded two Bodhi Seeds for the Thunder Clan tattoo.