Recaps

Xiao Yan united the major factions under an alliance and led a surprise attack on the Spirit Clan. After the alliance overwhelmed the Spirit Clan’s defenders, Soul Clan reinforcements arrived and attacked the barrier sealing the realm.

• Zi Yan and Elder Qing Shan traveled with Xiao Yan to Starfall Pavilion, where the alliance delegates gathered and Xiao Yan reunited with his family.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er discussed their future, then joined the delegates as Yao Lao presented Xiao Yi Xian’s alliance plan.
• After Yan Jin declined leadership and Yao Huang nominated Qing Lin, Qing Lin arrived, affirmed her loyalty to Xiao Yan, and backed him as alliance leader.
• Xiao Yan proposed attacking the Spirit Realm, and the delegates agreed to strike before the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan learned of the alliance.
• Yan Jin, Xiao Yan, and Mu Wei breached the Spirit Realm’s protective formation, allowing the alliance’s Dou Sheng experts to enter and confront the Spirit Clan.
• The alliance fought the Spirit Clan’s Dou Shengs while a crimson strike destroyed the Spirit Clan’s formation and killed its assembled Half-Saints.
• Ling Yuan ordered the Spirit Clan to activate its clan marks, then summoned Soul Clan aid as the alliance continued pressing its attack.
• Hun Mang and Hun Wu unleashed Myriad Soul Calamity and Black Soul Annihilation Ray against the formation separating the Spirit Clan from the outside world.

Xiao Yan and the alliance launched a surprise attack on the Spirit Clan, defeated its leaders, and destroyed the Spirit Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul. Ling Yuan’s final explosion left the Spirit Realm devastated, and the alliance took control while Xiao Yan recovered.

• Qing Lin summoned powerful allies as the alliance fought the Spirit Clan, and Xiao Yan joined Huo Zhi to defeat Ling Qingbai.
• Ling Yuan summoned the Spirit Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul, but Yan Jin confronted it while Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Huo Zhi defeated Ling Xuanmo.
• Qing Lin froze the remnant soul as Xiao Yan and Yan Jin struck it with their Heavenly Flames, destroying it in the blast.
• Hun Mang revealed his Soul Clan mission and fought Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, Huo Zhi, and Qing Lin to seize fragments of the remnant soul.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Mang contested the remaining remnant soul until it split between them, and Ling Yuan attacked them before detonating himself with other Spirit Clan Dou Shengs.
• Yao Ming and Yao Su shielded Xiao Yan and Qing Lin from the explosion, while Yan Jin sealed the breach in the clan-protecting formation.
• Yan Jin captured Hun Mang’s soul, and the alliance confirmed Ling Yuan, Ling Xuanmo, and the remnant soul were destroyed while the Spirit Realm remained sealed.
• Ling Cang surrendered, Mu Wei and Yan Jin helped govern the devastated Spirit Realm, and Xiao Yi Xian and Xuan Yi arrived as Xiao Yan was ordered to rest.

Xiao Yan helped establish Origin Return Manor, secured the Spirit Clan’s surrender, and prepared for a wider conflict with the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan. As the great clans mobilized, a young Manor squad exploring a mine released a powerful soul that possessed Xi Wen, only for Lei Qingyue to reveal himself as a Thunder Clan member and stop him.

• Fire Cloud Ancestor died after refusing Xiao Yan’s offer of a Bodhi Seed, and Xiao Yan promised not to favor Burning Flame Valley, and Qing Lin gave Yao Ming a cultivation technique and bound him to serve her.
• Xiao Yan and the alliance leaders founded Origin Return Manor, approved Xiao Yi Xian’s plan for the Spirit Clan’s descendants, and organized the Manor into nine pavilions.
• Ling Cang gave Xiao Yan the Spirit Clan’s secrets and resources in exchange for sparing ordinary descendants, then took his own life, and Xiao Yan cremated him and placed his remains in the ancestral shrine.
• Elder Lin refined a ninth-tier medicinal pill, while Xiao Yan considered the strength and alchemy needed to repair the gap in the Douqi Continent, and Xun Er emerged from seclusion as a one-star Dou Sheng.
• After the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan destroyed the Stone Clan and seized its Tou She Ancient God Jade, Xiao Yan’s allies considered joining the Three Emperor Clans Alliance and negotiating with the Thunder Clan.
• Xiao Xuan explained Xiao Yan’s unusual connection to Ancient Void Dragon power and gave him a high-grade Heaven Class Dou Technique, while Xiao Yan planned a long seclusion.
• Xiao Yu and six young Dou Zuns explored a Blazing Sun Iron vein, where a released soul possessed Xi Wen and attacked the squad, and Yan Yu fought it but was overwhelmed.
• Xi Wen took control of his body and tried to escape, but Lei Qingyue struck him unconscious and told Yan Yu that he was from the Thunder Clan.

Xiao Yan helped Lei Jingxiao win the Thunder Clan succession battle, then backed him as he chose to leave the clan for Origin Return Manor. After clashing with the Thunder Clan over its tribal mark, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao prepared to enter the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, where Yao Lao hoped to earn a place for his parents in the ancestral hall.

• Lei Qingyue brought Lei Jingxiao back to the Thunder Clan, while Xiao Yan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb stronger and learned of the strange soul possessing Yan Xiwen.
• Xiao Yan forced Wang Yun to cooperate, helped him restore his body, and brought him to the Heavenly Tomb, where Wang Yun revived Xiao Le and thirty other experts.
• Lei Jingxiao returned to challenge Lei Dong for the Thunder Clan heir position, carrying a Bodhi Seed from Xiao Yan and the strength he had gained with Jiang Yunyan’s help.
• Lei Jingxiao defeated Lei Dong in the succession battle by unleashing the Fallen Heart Flame, and the Thunder Clan celebrated him as its future leader.
• Lei Ying told Lei Jingxiao that his birth had fatally harmed his mother, and Lei Jingxiao confronted his father before seeking comfort from Jiang Yunyan.
• Lei Jingxiao chose to leave the Thunder Clan and join Origin Return Manor, while Jiang Yunyan stayed behind and he promised to return for her once he became powerful.
• Xiao Yan defeated Lei Miao’s challenge with his War Puppet and traded two Bodhi Seeds for the Thunder Clan’s tribal mark.
• Yao Lao prepared to demonstrate his alchemy at the Yao Clan Medicine Ceremony in hopes of securing a place for his parents in the ancestral hall, as the clan’s formation neared activation.