Recaps

Xiao Yi killed Yun Shan and exposed a Misty Cloud Sect elder’s lies, leaving the sect in ruins and Nalan Yanran overwhelmed with regret. After Yun Yun arrived and learned that Yun Shan had been killed, she drew her sword and charged at Xiao Yi.

• Xiao Yi crushed Yun Shan with a crimson palm, killing him in an instant.
• Hai Bodong and the others witnessed Xiao Yi’s strength, while Nalan Yanran regretted the Xiao Clan’s broken engagement.
• Yun Yun arrived at the ruined Misty Cloud Sect, and Nalan Yanran embraced her in tears.
• A Misty Cloud Sect elder blamed Xiao Yan for the conflict and claimed Xiao Yi had killed Yun Shan; Xiao Yi killed the elder for lying.
• Xiao Yan recognized Yun Yun as the woman he had met in the desert, and Yun Yun charged at Xiao Yi despite knowing she was no match.

Xiao Yi overpowered Yun Yun and rejected Nalan Yanran’s pleas for mercy, reminding them of the Xiao Clan’s humiliation three years earlier. He seized Protector Wu, revealed his knowledge of the Soul Hall, and captured the protector’s soul to pursue the Soul Hall branch.

• Xiao Yi used his Dou Zun aura to force Yun Yun from the air as she attacked him.
• Nalan Yanran knelt and apologized for breaking off her engagement three years earlier, begging Xiao Yi to spare Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yi challenged Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun over their past reliance on the Misty Cloud Sect’s power to intimidate the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yi sensed Protector Wu trying to escape from the Misty Cloud Sect’s back mountain and dragged him through a crack in space.
• Protector Wu threatened Xiao Yi with the Soul Hall, but Xiao Yi crushed his body and sealed his soul in a jade bottle.

Xiao Yi destroyed the Misty Cloud Sect, crippled Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, and spared their lives. He then prepared to return to the Xiao Clan with Xiao Yan, while Hai Bodong asked about the promised pill.

• Nalan Yanran begged Xiao Yi to spare Yun Yun and the Misty Cloud Sect, but he rejected her offer to become his servant.
• Xiao Yi killed every Misty Cloud Sect member above the Da Dou Shi level except Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, crippling the sect.
• Xiao Yi shattered Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran’s meridians, stripped them of their cultivation, and left them alive among the ruins.
• Xiao Yi ordered the remaining Misty Cloud Sect disciples to flee, and Jia Xing Tian and the others departed.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan agreed to return to the Xiao Clan, and Hai Bodong reminded Xiao Yan of the promised Purple Spirit Recovery Pill.

After Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan following the Misty Cloud Sect’s destruction, Xiao Zhan welcomed them home and reminded them that home would always be open to them. He then asked Xiao Yi to come to the ancestral hall, where he prepared to entrust something to him.

• Xiao Yi thanked Hai Bodong for helping Xiao Yan and promised him a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill and help advancing to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan left the Misty Cloud Sect, leaving the crippled Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran behind.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan, where Xiao Zhan embraced them and arranged a celebratory banquet.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan sat together in the back mountain, and Xiao Zhan told them to remember that home would always welcome them.
• Xiao Zhan took Xiao Yi to the ancestral hall and began entrusting him with something from a wooden brocade box.

Xiao Zhan entrusted the Tou She Ancient God Jade to Xiao Yi, who promised to lead the Xiao Clan’s rise. At the Xiao Clan Back Mountain, Xiao Yi protected Xiao Yan from Queen Medusa, and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python absorbed energy from Xiao Yi’s Fallen Heart Flame before falling asleep.

• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yi the Tou She Ancient God Jade and asked him to safeguard it, and Xiao Yi promised the Xiao Clan would rise.
• Xiao Yi sensed a Dou Zong aura at the back mountain and found Queen Medusa threatening Xiao Yan over the Spirit Fusion Pill.
• Xiao Yi blocked Medusa’s attack and sent her flying, making her realize she could not defeat him.
• Medusa left but the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python took control of her body and returned to the back mountain, where Xiao Yan explained their need for the pill to Xiao Yi.
• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python rubbed against Xiao Yi, who offered it the Fallen Heart Flame; it absorbed the flame’s energy and fell asleep.

Xiao Yi showed Xiao Yan his two Heavenly Flames and explained that Xiao Xuan's soul cultivation method let him control them. He gave Yao Chen Han Feng's soul to deal with, and Han Feng revealed he still felt no remorse for betraying his former teacher.

• Xiao Yi showed Xiao Yan the Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame, explaining that strong soul power let him control both.
• Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Yan's progress, urged Yao Chen to guide him, and noted that Xiao Yan had good talent but lacked opportunities.
• Xiao Yi handed Yao Chen a jade bottle containing Han Feng's soul, which Xiao Xuan had captured after killing him.
• Yao Chen released Han Feng's soul, rejected his pleas for forgiveness, and told him he had brought his fate upon himself.
• Han Feng stopped pretending to regret his betrayal and accused Yao Chen of deserving his suffering.

Yao Lao destroyed Han Feng's soul with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, then Xiao Yi restrained Wu Protector to interrogate him about the Soul Hall. Wu Protector began describing the organization's reach and hierarchy, leaving Xiao Yi with information to pursue its branch in the Northwestern Continent.

• Yao Lao admitted his mistake in taking Han Feng as a disciple and annihilated Han Feng's soul with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yi released Wu Protector's soul from a jade bottle, and Wu Protector begged for his life by offering the Soul Hall's friendship.
• Xiao Xuan recognized the Soul Clan's influence behind the Soul Hall and nearly destroyed Wu Protector, but Xiao Yi stopped him so they could question the captive.
• Xiao Yi seized Wu Protector with the Fallen Heart Flame and demanded that he answer questions about the Soul Hall.
• Wu Protector explained that the Soul Hall had branches across the Dou Qi Continent and ranked its Protectors as Heaven, Earth, and Human, identifying himself as a Human Protector.

Xiao Yi learned that the Soul Hall’s Northwestern Branch was in Heaven Burial Ravine and resolved to destroy it with Xiao Xuan. Meanwhile, the Xiao Clan prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial capital, and Xiao Yi set out for the Heavenly Heart Empire.

• Wu Protector revealed the Northwestern Branch’s location in Heaven Burial Ravine and was killed by Xiao Yi after answering his questions.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yi to protect the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Xiao Yi vowed to restore the clan’s greatness.
• Xiao Yi proposed that Xiao Zhan move the Xiao Clan to the imperial capital, and Xiao Zhan agreed.
• Xiao Yi left Xiao Yan with the Xiao Clan and asked Xiao Xuan to join him in attacking the Soul Hall branch.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Xuan set out for the Heavenly Heart Empire, with Xiao Yi traveling through shattered space.

Xiao Yi reached Heaven Burial Ravine and attacked the Soul Hall branch, revealing his Dou Zun strength as he overwhelmed its Protectors. After killing Iron Protector, he left the Heaven-tier Protector realizing Xiao Yi had come deliberately to destroy the branch.

• Xiao Yi followed Wu Protector’s map to Heaven Burial Ravine and located the Soul Hall branch with his soul power.
• Xiao Yi killed the branch’s Dou Emperor guards by snapping his fingers and engulfing them in colorless flame.
• The Heaven-tier Protector attacked Xiao Yi with soul-mist chains, but Xiao Yi caught them and revealed his Dou Zun aura.
• Iron Protector tried to flee, but Xiao Yi dragged him back and killed him with Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Heaven-tier Protector realized Xiao Yi had come to take revenge on the Northwest Branch Hall.

Xiao Yi killed the Heaven-tier Guardian and faced Venerable Qing Hai, who offered him a place in the Soul Hall or death. Xiao Xuan appeared and easily eliminated the other Guardians, then restrained Venerable Qing Hai so Xiao Yi could fight him.

• Xiao Yi gravely wounded the Heaven-tier Guardian and prepared to devour him with Fallen Heart Flame.
• Venerable Qing Hai arrived with five Guardians, but Xiao Yi killed the Heaven-tier Guardian with Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame before he could intervene.
• Venerable Qing Hai offered Xiao Yi a choice between joining the Soul Hall and dying, and Xiao Yi insulted him and refused.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from Xiao Yi's storage ring and killed the five Guardians with his aura.
• Xiao Xuan caught Venerable Qing Hai as he tried to flee, then released him at Xiao Yi's request so Xiao Yi could test himself against a fellow Dou Zun.

Xiao Yi overwhelmed Venerable Qing Hai after revealing he was a Xiao Clan member, but Qing Hai attempted to kill them both by self-destructing. Xiao Xuan intervened, protected Xiao Yi, and erased Qing Hai’s remaining soul, leaving no Soul Hall survivor behind.

• Xiao Yi used the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame to rise to four-star Dou Zun strength and overpower Venerable Qing Hai.
• Xiao Yi revealed that he was Xiao Yi, a Xiao Clan member the Soul Hall had been monitoring, and attacked Qing Hai with Myriad Phenomena Converging Finger.
• Venerable Qing Hai triggered a self-destruction and charged into Xiao Yi’s attack, trapping Xiao Yi inside the blast barrier.
• Xiao Yi struck the barrier with Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame, but only managed to crack it.
• Xiao Xuan shattered the barrier, moved Xiao Yi to safety, calmed the explosion, and erased Venerable Qing Hai’s remaining soul.

Xiao Xuan explained how the Soul Clan destroyed the Xiao Realm after his failed attempt to become a Dou Di, and warned Xiao Yi that the clan’s ambitions still threatened the continent. After destroying the Soul Hall’s Northwest Branch Hall, Xiao Yi returned to the Xiao Clan in the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial capital and arranged a meeting with the empire’s major factions.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi that the battle between the Xiao Clan and the Soul Clan had taken place in the Xiao Realm after Hun Tiandi invaded while Xiao Xuan was weakened by his failed breakthrough.
• Xiao Xuan warned that the Soul Clan remained ambitious and proposed returning to the Xiao Realm’s ruins, while Xiao Yi stressed the need to secure the Xiao Clan’s position.
• Xiao Yi used the Fallen Heart Flame to destroy the Soul Hall’s Northwest Branch Hall and then left for the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial capital.
• Xiao Yi returned to the Xiao Clan’s new residence, where Xiao Yan described the reactions of the empire’s major factions.
• Xiao Yi asked Xiao Yan and Elder Hai to gather the empire’s powerful families at the Xiao Clan that night.

Xiao Yi gathered Jia Ma Empire’s major factions and established the Nine Harmonies Alliance under the Xiao Clan’s leadership. He rewarded Hai Bodong for his loyalty and promised to help him reach the Dou Zong realm within a year.

• Xiao Yi challenged the faction leaders’ reluctance to accept the Xiao Clan’s return and asked whether they would join an alliance after the Misty Cloud Sect’s destruction.
• Xiao Yi warned the leaders that the Xiao Clan was offering them a place in the alliance, and Nalan Jie, Mu Chen, Fa Ma, and Jia Xing Tian agreed to follow the Xiao Clan.
• Gu He offered to join the alliance if Xiao Yi let him take Yun Yun away, but Xiao Yi refused and reaffirmed that Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran must remain on the mountain for life.
• Xiao Yi established the Nine Harmonies Alliance, named himself its leader, and made the attending faction leaders elders.
• Xiao Yi gave Hai Bodong the Purple Spirit Recovery Pill and promised to help him break through to the Dou Zong realm within a year.

After the Misty Cloud Sect fell, Xiao Yi brought Xiao Yan to its hidden Life-and-Death Gate, a dangerous inheritance ground that could rapidly increase a cultivator’s strength. They entered the gate, where Xiao Yi noticed time passed more slowly than in the outside world.

• Jia Xing Tian regretted not helping Xiao Yi and Hai Bodong, then focused on preserving the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s standing in the alliance.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yi about his plans, and Xiao Yi said he would keep traveling after exploring opportunities left at Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Xiao Yi used his soul power to find a concealed cave and explained that the Life-and-Death Gate had served as the Misty Cloud Sect’s inheritance ground.
• Xiao Yi broke the seal on the bronze gate, causing a pillar of light to rise as Yun Yun watched helplessly from hiding.
• Xiao Yi led Xiao Yan into the Life-and-Death Gate, where he sensed that time moved more slowly than outside.

Xiao Yi explored the ninth level of the Life-and-Death Gate and encountered the remnant soul of Yun Potian, the Misty Cloud Sect’s founder. Yun Potian accepted the sect’s destruction and began revealing why he founded it in the Jia Ma Empire, hinting that the Life-and-Death Gate was only part of the reason.

• Xiao Yan entered the Life-and-Death Gate with Yao Lao while Xiao Yi went to investigate the ninth level.
• Xiao Yi found seven stone coffins and awakened the remnant soul of Yun Potian, who asked whether the Misty Cloud Sect had been destroyed.
• Xiao Yi admitted he had destroyed the sect because it had grown corrupt and colluded with the Soul Hall.
• Yun Potian recounted how he had risen to Dou Zun as an independent cultivator and founded the Misty Cloud Sect in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Yun Potian offered to reveal the Life-and-Death Gate’s secrets and opportunities, then confirmed that the gate was one reason he chose the Jia Ma Empire.

After Yun Potian's remnant soul vanished, Xiao Xuan confirmed that the Life-and-Death Gate concealed high-level Half-Saint ruins. Xiao Yi entered the ruins with Xiao Xuan and encountered a group of Dou Zun-level puppets.

• Yun Potian told Xiao Yi that a greater opportunity lay beneath the Life-and-Death Gate before his remnant soul dissipated.
• Xiao Xuan sensed the hidden opportunity and identified it as the ruins of a high-level Half-Saint.
• Xiao Xuan shattered the seven stone coffins and revealed the ruins' entrance behind a wall of golden forbidden runes.
• Xiao Xuan dispelled the runes' suppression, and Xiao Yi followed him into the Half-Saint ruins.
• Xiao Yi saw rows of dried corpses, which Xiao Xuan identified as puppets, and evaded attacks from dozens of Dou Zun-level puppets.

Xiao Yi destroyed the first wave of Dou Zun puppets in the ruins, then faced the Puppet Refining Saint and eight Eight-Star Dou Venerable puppets. After Xiao Yi's enhanced spear attack failed to harm them, the puppets formed an Eight Trigrams Formation around him.

• Xiao Yi used his Dragon Abyss Formation-Breaking Spear and two Heavenly Flames to destroy dozens of One-Star Dou Zun puppets.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yi that stronger guardians awaited, and the Puppet Refining Saint appeared on a throne with high-level puppets behind him.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that the Puppet Refining Saint had turned himself into a puppet, while the elder sent eight Eight-Star Dou Venerable puppets to attack Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi activated the second transformation of the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame, raising his strength to the peak of Five-Star Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Yi's spear strike failed to damage the resilient puppets, and the Puppet Refining Saint directed them to surround Xiao Yi in an Eight Trigrams Formation.

Xiao Xuan defeated the Puppet Refining Saint and preserved a bone containing his puppet-refinement research. Xiao Yi accepted the chance to learn Living Human Puppet Refinement, despite its cruel reputation.

• Xiao Yi gathered power for the Myriad Phenomena Converging Finger while the eight Dou Zun puppets trapped him and attacked with blood-red chains and a dragon.
• Xiao Xuan shattered the formation, immobilized the puppets, and revealed his Dou Sheng strength to the Puppet Refining Saint.
• Xiao Xuan crushed the Puppet Refining Saint, a High-Level Half-Saint, while preserving a bone that contained his inheritance.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the bone held the Living Human Puppet Refinement technique and warned Xiao Yi that it was cruel and considered evil.
• Xiao Yi eagerly accepted the technique, seeing high-level puppets as a direct way to increase his combat strength.

Xiao Yi discovered that the Half-Saint Ruins held more than the eight Eight-Star Dou Venerable puppets: the Puppet Refining Saint had also left behind a powerful Qi-Absorbing Ring. After exploring its abilities, Xiao Yi left with a valuable tool for cultivation, combat, concealment, and puppet storage, though he found no powerful Dou Techniques.

• Xiao Yi put away the Puppet Refining Saint’s skeleton and asked Xiao Xuan whether the ruins held any other opportunities.
• Xiao Xuan pointed out the eight Eight-Star Dou Venerable puppets and revealed that another hidden opportunity awaited Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Xuan opened a concealed spatial gate, and Xiao Yi entered a small world to find the Puppet Refining Saint’s Cosmic Qi-Absorbing Ring.
• Xiao Yi explored the ring’s independent space, where a Spirit-Gathering Formation produced highly pure spiritual energy and a reinforced area could store puppets and isolate the laws of time.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the ring could replenish and refine Xiao Yi’s Dou Qi, conceal his aura, and provide a safe space for alchemy.
• Xiao Yi lamented that the ruins contained no powerful Dou Techniques beyond the puppet technique and the ring.

Xiao Yi learned that Xiao Xuan would teach him Heaven Class techniques and decided to secure the Life-and-Death Gate for the Xiao Clan. After arranging for Xiao Yan to receive help and leaving a message through Yao Lao, Xiao Yi returned to the Xiao Residence, where Zi Yan demanded the pills he had promised.

• Xiao Xuan promised to teach Xiao Yi a Heaven Class Dou Technique and the Xiao Clan’s Heaven Class Cultivation Method once he mastered his existing arts.
• Xiao Yi realized the Life-and-Death Gate could rapidly strengthen the Xiao Clan and asked Xiao Xuan to restrict entry to Xiao Clan members.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Xuan met Xiao Yan on the seventh floor of the Life-and-Death Gate, where Yao Lao agreed to stabilize Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi and pass along Xiao Yi’s message about the Central Plains.
• Xiao Xuan sealed the Life-and-Death Gate so only those with Xiao Clan blood could enter, then returned to the Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yi returned to the Xiao Residence, where Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan greeted him, and Zi Yan demanded the pills he had promised.

Xiao Yi entered the Cosmic Qi-Absorbing Ring, admired its vast space, and prepared to claim the eight high-level Dou Zun puppets by learning the Puppet Refining Saint’s technique. The Saint’s soul imprint tried to turn Xiao Yi into a puppet, but Xiao Yi escaped its first attack and faced the remnant soul in a battle of Heaven Realm souls.

• Xiao Yi examined the Cosmic Qi-Absorbing Ring as Xiao Xuan explained that its space could expand with its owner's soul power.
• Xiao Yi decided to learn the Living Human Puppet Refinement Technique to activate the eight eight-star Dou Zun puppets, despite Xiao Xuan's warning about the Saint's soul imprint.
• The Puppet Refining Saint's imprint attacked Xiao Yi's soul with the Soul Devouring Curse, attempting to refine him into a living puppet.
• The Fallen Heart Flame protected Xiao Yi's soul, allowing him to break free of the abyss and return his body's eyes to normal.
• Xiao Yi challenged the Puppet Refining Saint and began condensing crimson soul threads around himself.

Xiao Yi defeated the Puppet Refining Saint with the Fallen Heart Flame and learned his Living Human Puppet Refinement Technique. He used it to bring eight Dou Venerable puppets under his control, giving him powerful allies without needing Xiao Xuan to intervene.

• Xiao Yi countered the Puppet Refining Saint's Soul Devouring Curse with the Fallen Heart Flame and destroyed the remnant soul after overcoming its soul puppets.
• A green scroll appeared, and Xiao Yi learned the Puppet Refining Saint's technique for creating Living Human Puppets with Puppet Cores.
• Xiao Yi returned to his body in the Cosmic Qi-Absorbing Ring, where Xiao Xuan confirmed that he had succeeded.
• Xiao Yi used the secret art on eight Dou Zun puppets, making their Puppet Cores respond to him and securing their loyalty.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Xuan recognized that the eight Eight-Star Dou Venerable puppets greatly strengthened Xiao Yi, who could now face powerful enemies without exposing Xiao Xuan's presence.

Xiao Yi refined a Sect-Breaking Pill for Hai Bodong and Gathering Qi Powder for Zi Yan as he prepared to leave the Jia Ma Empire. He invited Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to travel with him to Jia Nan Academy, promising Zi Yan answers about her father and suggesting Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body might be cured along the way.

• Xiao Yi refined a Sect-Breaking Pill and thirty or forty portions of Gathering Qi Powder inside the Cosmic Qi-Absorbing Ring.
• Xiao Yi gave Hai Bodong the Sect-Breaking Pill and asked him to support the Xiao Clan after Xiao Yi left the Jia Ma Empire.
• Zi Yan complained that Xiao Yi had given Hai Bodong a better pill, then accepted the Gathering Qi Powder he had promised her.
• Xiao Yi told Zi Yan they would go to Jia Nan Academy to find her father, leaving her confused about her identity.
• Xiao Yi invited Xiao Yi Xian to come along, saying the journey might resolve her Calamity Poison Body.

After arranging for the Xiao Clan’s safety, Xiao Yi went to Jia Nan Academy and trained in the Magma World under Xiao Xuan’s guidance. He mastered the Dragon Abyss Sky-Breaking Art’s forms and began learning the Xiao Clan’s High-Level Heaven Class techniques, starting with the Living Soul Heaven-Destroying Art.

• Xiao Yi left an Eight-Star Dou Venerable puppet to guard the Xiao Clan, then traveled to Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yi went alone to the Magma World to train, where Xiao Xuan taught him the Dragon Abyss Sky-Breaking Art’s second, third, and fourth forms.
• Xiao Yi demonstrated the Dragon Abyss Sky-Breaking Art, shaking the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and prompting Su Qian to complain about the disturbance.
• Xiao Xuan offered to teach Xiao Yi the High-Level Heaven Class techniques Living Soul Heaven-Destroying Art and Heavenly Dipper Annihilation Fist, explaining their power and difficulty.
• Xiao Xuan began teaching the Living Soul Heaven-Destroying Art and demonstrated its first form, Soul Origin Resonance, with Soul Threads powerful enough to destroy experts below Five-Star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Xuan taught Xiao Yi the Living Soul Heaven-Destroying Art, and Xiao Yi managed to perform all three forms on his first attempt, nearly destabilizing the Magma World. After warning that the technique could exhaust his soul power, Xiao Xuan offered to teach him another Heaven Class Dou Technique.

• Xiao Xuan demonstrated the Living Soul Heaven-Destroying Art’s Soul Origin Resonance, Life-and-Death Vortex, and Heaven-Annihilating Strike forms.
• Xiao Yi practiced under Xiao Xuan’s guidance and formed a vortex before unleashing the final form, which Xiao Xuan redirected to keep the Magma World from collapsing.
• Xiao Yi recovered from the technique’s severe drain on his soul power and decided to reserve it as a trump card.
• Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Yi’s comprehension and said he could now fight some High-Tier or Peak Dou Venerables with the technique.
• Xiao Yi accepted Xiao Xuan’s offer to learn the Low-Level Heaven Class Heavenly Dipper Annihilation Fist.