Recaps

Fang Yu prepared to marry Xiao Yixian while helping Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family, then traveled across the empire to gather allies and pursue Queen Medusa’s evolution. The stretch ended with Queen Medusa beginning her transformation and Fang Yu strengthening Hai Bodong after the Mo Clan’s destruction.

• Xiao Yixian refused Fang Yu’s proposal but agreed to stay with him, and he took her to the Xiao Family, where the wedding preparations began.
• Fang Yu reconciled Xiao Yan somewhat with Xiao Xun’er, promised Xiao Yan cultivation support, and arranged for the Xiao Family’s young people to join Canaan Academy.
• Fang Yu settled the imperial family’s objections by promising a Sect-Breaking Pill and Yaoye’s marriage, then gathered resources and explored the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Fang Yu subdued the Amethyst Winged Lion King, refused Yun Yun’s request for a Purple Spirit Crystal, and traveled to find Qing Lin, whose Jade Serpent Three-Flower Eyes he recognized.
• Fang Yu found Queen Medusa wounded and agreed to help her evolve in exchange for her conditions, including relocating her people and his reaching the Dou Sect realm.
• Fang Yu subdued the Green Lotus Core Flame, prepared an evolution pill for Queen Medusa, and left her to begin evolving under the tribe’s guard.
• Fang Yu removed Hai Bodong’s seal in exchange for the Pure Lotus Demon Flame map pieces, then ordered him to destroy the Mo Clan of Salt City.
• Hai Bodong wiped out the Mo Clan and returned its spoils, and Fang Yu gave him powerful cultivation methods while planning to handle Sky Serpent Palace.

Fang Yu strengthened the Xiao Family’s position in the Jia Ma Empire, won the Alchemist Convention, and helped Xiao Yan defeat Nalan Yanran in their three-year duel. He then secured Yun Yun’s cooperation, freed Yun Shan from the Soul Hall, and began preparing the empire for war against the Chu Yun Empire.

• Fang Yu reunited with Mittel Ya Fei, killed those who threatened her, healed Nalan Jie, and demanded that the Nalan Clan submit or face destruction.
• Fang Yu gave Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran pills that made them Dou Kings, then won the Alchemist Convention with extraordinary pill refining.
• Fang Yu met Yun Yun, proposed uniting the empire and invading the Chu Yun Empire, and warned her that Yun Shan was tied to the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their duel, and Fang Yu asked Yun Shan for Yun Yun’s hand in marriage while offering the Misty Cloud Sect powerful rewards.
• Fang Yu revealed Yun Shan’s connection to the Soul Hall, then worked with Yun Yun to draw out and kill the Soul Hall Protector.
• Fang Yu revived Yun Shan, gave the Protector’s soul force to Yao Lao, and urged Xiao Yan to grow stronger so Yao Lao could be restored.
• Fang Yu sent Yun Shan to gather intelligence in the Chu Yun Empire and ordered the empire’s leaders to prepare for invasion and help him make powerful puppets.

Fang Yu built up Jia Ma, then traveled to the Black-Corner Region, where he seized territory, gathered allies and resources, and prepared to oppose Soul Hall. The arc ended with him secretly turning a Soul Clan youth into a servant while Yun Yun gathered ingredients for his next pill refinements.

• Fang Yu strengthened Jia Ma’s forces with pills and puppets, crushed the invading coalition, and secured the surrender of the hostile nations before leaving Queen Medusa in charge.
• Fang Yu and Yun Yun reached the Black-Corner Region, where Fang Yu intervened in the Sky Serpent Palace’s fight with the Blood Sect and helped Xiao Yan kill Han Feng and take the Sea Heart Flame.
• Fang Yu refined pills for the region’s factions, claimed Maple City, and went to the Inner Academy, where he found the infant Fallen Heart Flame and met Skyfire Venerable.
• Fang Yu took Zi Yan with him to gather resources, then killed Sect Master Mo and used the Black Emperor Sect’s collapse to draw factions under his control as Soul Hall-backed Demon Flame Valley gained influence.
• Fang Yu agreed to revive Venerable Yao and Skyfire Venerable, gathering the ingredients and materials while preparing for Soul Hall to attack during the refinements.
• A Soul Hall Protector summoned Fang Yu to meet Elder Sun and threatened the Xiao Family, but Fang Yu refused to go until he had dealt with the remaining preparations.
• Fang Yu poisoned a Soul Clan youth, drained and examined his bloodline, then taught him to devour bloodlines and sent him away as a secret servant.
• Fang Yu returned to Yun Yun, who asked him to refine the ingredients she had gathered, and he promised to deliver the pills by the day after tomorrow.

Fang Yu manipulated the Soul Clan’s campaign against the other clans while expanding his own alliance, then killed Soul Heavenly Emperor after he reached Dou Emperor. He kept the Dou Qi Emperor Origin and made its use conditional on protecting the continent, leaving Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er to compete for their futures through cultivation and choice.

• Fang Yu resurrected Skyfire Venerable and Yao Lao, secured Xiao Yan’s support, and began unifying the Black-Corner Region and nearby empires.
• Fang Yu warned the Ancient and Gu Clans about the Soul Clan’s plans, exposed Gu Yang as a spy, and urged the clans to prepare for war.
• Fang Yu revealed to Soul Heavenly Emperor that he intended to use the Soul Clan to destroy his rivals before defeating it and claiming the continent as its savior.
• As the Soul Clan destroyed the Spirit and Medicine Clans, Fang Yu refused Xiao Xun'er’s repeated pleas to intervene and instead urged her to survive and grow stronger.
• Fang Yu gave Soul Heavenly Emperor a copy of Battle Through the Heavens and let him continue his campaign, while directing his allies to expand across the other continents.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor reached Dou Emperor after massacring the clans and sects, but Fang Yu overwhelmed him, accepted his submission, and then killed him after he handed over authority.
• Fang Yu claimed the Dou Qi Emperor Origin and told the peak experts he would grant it only to someone able to protect the continent.
• Fang Yu promised Xiao Yan the Origin if he reached peak Nine-Star Dou Saint, then refused Xiao Xun'er unless she could persuade Xiao Yan to give it to her.