Recaps

Xiao Lin stormed Yellow Springs Pavilion and demanded accountability for Kunwu’s actions against the Qi Household. Yellow Springs Venerable confronted him but hesitated to fight, leaving them in an awkward standoff.

• Yellow Springs Venerable sensed an intruder and emerged from seclusion to confront the disturbance at his pavilion.
• He found Xiao Lin surrounded by fallen disciples and elders, holding the badly injured Kunwu in a giant hand of starlit Dou Qi.
• Xiao Lin explained through his actions that he had brought Kunwu to Yellow Springs Pavilion to prevent further retaliation over the Qi Household.
• Yellow Springs Venerable threatened Xiao Lin, but after seeing how easily he had defeated the pavilion’s people, he refused to attack.

Xiao Lin pressured Yellow Springs Venerable while quietly analyzing Yellow Springs Pavilion’s protective formation. Yellow Springs Venerable chose to save himself by killing Kunwu, leaving the pavilion’s disciples and elders frightened and distrustful.

• Xiao Lin tightened the Starry Hand around Kunwu to force Yellow Springs Venerable to act, while Yellow Springs Venerable weighed the danger of confronting him.
• Yellow Springs Venerable stripped Kunwu of his position and expelled him, then claimed he would punish Kunwu to apologize to Xiao Lin.
• Yellow Springs Venerable used Shadow Soul Devour on Kunwu after Xiao Lin released him from the Starry Hand, draining his blood and annihilating his soul.
• Yellow Springs Pavilion’s disciples and elders grew fearful and uncertain after witnessing their pavilion master kill Kunwu.
• Yellow Springs Venerable decided that killing Kunwu had protected the pavilion, while Xiao Lin watched the aftermath with a meaningful look.

Xiao Lin forced Yellow Springs Venerable to take responsibility for Kunwu’s actions against him, while avoiding destroying the Yellow Springs Pavilion. Yellow Springs Venerable apologized and offered his Storage Ring as compensation, leaving the dispute close to being settled.

• Yellow Springs Venerable executed Kunwu and asked Xiao Lin to spare the remaining members of the Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Xiao Lin denied fault for injuring the pavilion’s disciples and elders, and Yellow Springs Venerable punished those who had attacked him.
• Xiao Lin introduced himself as Lin Xiao, then explained that Kunwu had pursued him after Xiao Lin avenged his daughter-in-law’s family in Baiting City.
• Yellow Springs Venerable condemned Kunwu, apologized on the Yellow Springs Pavilion’s behalf, and handed Xiao Lin his Storage Ring as compensation.

Xiao Lin accepted Yellow Springs Venerable's compensation, including Lightning-Struck Wood and a Heavenly Demon Pill, and declared their dispute settled. After Xiao Lin left Yellow Springs Pavilion, Yellow Springs Venerable privately considered revenge and ordered the incident kept secret.

• Xiao Lin inspected Yellow Springs Venerable's Storage Ring and found Lightning-Struck Wood, medicinal pills including a Tier 8 Heavenly Demon Pill, and gold coins.
• Xiao Lin accepted the compensation and said he would no longer pursue Kunwu's matter or Yellow Springs Pavilion's offenses.
• Yellow Springs Venerable toured the pavilion with Xiao Lin, who accepted his invitation to visit again before departing.
• After Xiao Lin left, Yellow Springs Venerable vowed to seek revenge if an opportunity arose and ordered that the day's events not be spread outside.

After Lin Xiao attacked Yellow Springs Pavilion, news of Yellow Springs Venerable’s humiliation spread across the Central Plains and ruined the pavilion’s reputation. Yellow Springs Pavilion sealed itself for ten years, while Lin Xiao became famous throughout the region and attracted Soul Hall’s interest.

• Rumors spread that Yellow Springs Venerable had killed Second Elder Kunwu and given Lin Xiao a Storage Ring to apologize after the attack on Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Yellow Springs Venerable punished disciples, but the news grew more sensational and smaller factions began considering leaving Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Yellow Springs Venerable recalled the pavilion’s outside disciples and announced that Yellow Springs Pavilion would be sealed for ten years.
• Danta, Soul Hall, Starfall Pavilion, and other major factions discussed Lin Xiao’s attack, and Soul Hall considered recruiting him as a Heavenly Venerate.
• Lin Xiao’s reputation spread throughout the Central Plains, and young people began regarding him as an idol.

Xiao Lin reached Purple Extremity City while searching for the last primary material he needed for forging, but learned he might have to wait for an upcoming auction. Three Mid-Level Dou Venerables followed him there, and the chapter ended when they asked to meet him.

• Xiao Lin traveled east through the Central Plains, wary of provoking powerful experts or hidden sects.
• Xiao Lin arrived in Purple Extremity City and searched its material shops, but did not find the final forging material he needed.
• Xiao Lin learned that an auction would be held in three days and decided to stay in the city until then.
• Xiao Lin heard that news of his attack on Yellow Springs Pavilion had reached Purple Extremity City and speculated that hostile factions had spread it.
• Three Mid-Level Dou Venerables entered the inn and sent word that they had come to call on Xiao Lin.

Xiao Lin received a visit from three powerful experts representing the Three Hidden Sects. They invited him to attend the Space Trading Assembly a year later, including its central trading venue.

• An innkeeper told Xiao Lin that three visitors had come to see him, and Xiao Lin agreed to meet them.
• Xiao Lin assessed the three visitors as two Five-Star Dou Venerables and one Six-Star Dou Venerable, then asked who they were.
• Bei Fengyan and Jian Xuan identified themselves as representatives of Empty Profound Sect and Treasure Mirror Mountain, while the third man represented Earthwalker Sect.
• Jian Xuan invited Xiao Lin to the Space Trading Assembly, and Xiao Lin recognized the three sects as the assembly's organizers.

Xiao Lin accepted an invitation to the Three Hidden Sects’ Space Trading Assembly, hoping to find the refining material he still needed, and decided to leave Purple Extremity City after its auction disappointed him. On his way out, Shaluo, Soul Hall’s Sixth Heavenly Venerable, intercepted him, leaving Xiao Lin facing an unexpected threat from Soul Hall.

• Yan Lu, Bei Fengyan, and Jian Xuan invited Xiao Lin to the Space Trading Assembly a year later, and he accepted their token for entry to its core area.
• Xiao Lin considered waiting in Purple Extremity City, since he wanted the Assembly but could not rush his cultivation after recently reaching Nine-Star Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Lin attended Purple Extremity City’s auction three days later, found nothing worthwhile, and left the city.
• A spatial passage opened ahead of Xiao Lin as he traveled, and he stopped warily.
• Shaluo emerged from the passage, introduced himself as Soul Hall’s Sixth Heavenly Venerable, and confronted Xiao Lin.

Xiao Lin judged that fighting Shaluo, the Soul Hall's Sixth Heavenly Venerable, would bring unwanted trouble, so he fled before Shaluo could finish making his invitation. Shaluo did not consider Xiao Lin an enemy, and Xiao Lin escaped far enough to believe he had shaken him off.

• Xiao Lin assessed Shaluo's strength and decided against attacking him because he wanted to avoid provoking the Soul Hall.
• Shaluo began to invite Xiao Lin on behalf of the Soul Hall, but Xiao Lin interrupted him and escaped through a spatial passage.
• Shaluo was left baffled, then realized Xiao Lin wanted to avoid both offending the Soul Hall and joining it.
• Shaluo returned to the Soul Hall and reported what happened, leading the organization to mark Xiao Lin for observation rather than as an enemy.
• Xiao Lin opened several spatial passages and erased his traces before stopping to check whether he had escaped Shaluo.

After the Soul Hall targeted him, Xiao Lin returned to the Northwest Continent to lie low and inspect his arrangements. Back at the Xiao Household, he met his two-year-old grandson, Xiao Ding, for the first time.

• Xiao Lin decided to leave the Central Plains and hide from the Soul Hall for a year before returning for the Space Trade Fair.
• Xiao Lin returned to the Northwest Continent, checked that his spirit formation and embryonic Heavenly Flame were developing as planned, and went back to the Xiao Household.
• Xiao Lin met a toddler in the courtyard and felt an unexpected sense of familiarity with him.
• Yang Xiyue arrived, and Xiao Lin learned that the child was her son with Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding.
• Xiao Ding called Xiao Lin Grandpa, and Xiao Lin happily picked him up.

Xiao Lin reunited with Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue, met his grandson Xiao Ding, and discovered Yang Xiyue was pregnant with their second child, Xiao Li. He also told her that he had destroyed the Qi Household and avenged her family, leaving Yang Xiyue relieved and ready to move forward as part of the Xiao Household.

• Xiao Lin played with Xiao Ding until the boy fell asleep, and Yang Xiyue carried him inside.
• Xiao Lin learned that Yang Xiyue had been pregnant with Xiao Ding when he left and discovered she was now nearly two months pregnant with their second child, Xiao Li.
• Yang Xiyue told Xiao Lin that Yun Shan had provided medicinal pills during her first pregnancy and that Xiao Zhan planned to ask his master for more.
• Xiao Lin told Yang Xiyue that he had avenged her family and that the Qi Household no longer existed.
• Yang Xiyue thanked Xiao Lin and cried with relief as Xiao Zhan comforted her.

Xiao Lin told Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue that he planned to return to the Central Plains after a year because the Xiao Household still lacked the strength to protect itself. After hearing about a caravan’s difficult route through the Tagor Desert, he considered the Snake-People Tribe problem.

• Xiao Lin told Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue that he would return to the Central Plains in a year to settle unfinished matters.
• Xiao Zhan accepted that Xiao Lin was keeping some matters secret, and Yang Xiyue promised to help her husband support the Xiao Household.
• Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue told Xiao Lin about the household’s recent affairs, including Xiao Ding’s birth and the child in Yang Xiyue’s womb.
• Xiao Zhan explained that the Xiao Household’s caravan needed to cross the Tagor Desert for a medicinal herb deal, but the Snake-People Tribe’s hostility made the route dangerous and alternatives costly.
• Xiao Lin raised an eyebrow when Xiao Zhan mentioned the Tagor Desert and the Snake-People Tribe.

Xiao Lin learned that the Snake-People Tribe had seized the Xiao Household's medicinal caravan and decided to visit Queen Medusa in the Tagor Desert to negotiate. After spending several days with his grandson Xiao Ding, he flew toward the desert, eager to meet Medusa, whom he already considered his future granddaughter-in-law.

• Xiao Zhan explained that the Snake-People Tribe had detained the Xiao Household's medicinal caravan, taken its money, and demanded a ransom for its people.
• Xiao Lin announced that he would travel to the Tagor Desert to speak with Queen Medusa, and Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue reluctantly agreed after he assured them he would return safely.
• Xiao Lin spent the next few days playing with his grandson Xiao Ding and taking him flying on his Dou Qi Wings.
• Xiao Lin set off for the Tagor Desert, thinking happily about meeting Medusa as his future granddaughter-in-law.

Xiao Lin entered the Tagor Desert and sought an audience with Queen Medusa to negotiate with the Snake-People Tribe. Yan Ci intercepted him and refused to grant him access, leaving Xiao Lin weighing how to proceed without fighting his way in.

• Xiao Lin traveled to the Tagor Desert, reflecting on why the Snake-People Tribe had settled there and resented humans.
• Xiao Lin flew openly into Snake-People territory to draw the attention of one of the tribe’s commanders.
• Yan Ci intercepted Xiao Lin and threatened him for trespassing.
• Xiao Lin introduced himself as head of the Xiao Household and asked Yan Ci to announce his visit to Queen Medusa.
• Yan Ci distrusted humans and refused to let Xiao Lin meet the queen, so Xiao Lin hesitated to force his way in.

Xiao Lin provoked Yan Ci, then persuaded him that bringing a human to meet Queen Medusa posed little risk and could earn him merit. Yan Ci agreed and escorted Xiao Lin into the Snake-People Tribe's Holy City, where the curious residents watched them as they headed toward the queen.

• Xiao Lin called Yan Ci timid and mocked the Snake-People Tribe's eight great commanders until Yan Ci grew furious but hesitated to attack.
• Xiao Lin praised Queen Medusa and argued that an audience could benefit the Snake-People Tribe, convincing Yan Ci to take him to her.
• Yan Ci warned Xiao Lin that the Snake-People Tribe would take revenge on the Xiao Household if his claims proved false, then led him toward the Holy City.
• Xiao Lin entered the Snake-People Tribe's Holy City with Yan Ci and calmly observed its inhabitants as they whispered about the human visitor.

Xiao Lin accompanied Yan Ci to the Snake-People Tribe's palace and met Queen Medusa. Medusa was impressed by his respectful gaze, while Xiao Lin privately considered her his future granddaughter-in-law.

• Yan Ci brought Xiao Lin to the royal palace and went inside to ask whether Queen Medusa would receive him.
• Yan Ci returned and led Xiao Lin into the palace, asking his name again along the way.
• Xiao Lin greeted Queen Medusa in the throne hall and admired her beauty while maintaining a respectful demeanor.
• Medusa warned Xiao Lin that she would have taken his eyes if he had looked at her disrespectfully.
• Medusa thought more favorably of Xiao Lin because he had shown no lecherous intent, while Xiao Lin privately imagined Xiao Yan teaching her a lesson after she married into the Xiao Household.

Xiao Lin proposed that the Xiao Household share half its caravan profits with the Snake-People Tribe in exchange for safe passage through the Tagor Desert. Medusa was tempted by the offer but remained wary because humans had repeatedly deceived her people.

• Medusa questioned what Xiao Lin wanted and doubted a human could offer meaningful cooperation.
• Xiao Lin explained that his Xiao Household caravan had been captured before and that rerouting it would cost the household time and profit.
• Xiao Lin offered the Snake-People Tribe half the profits in exchange for allowing the caravan to cross the Tagor Desert freely.
• Medusa considered the proposal favorable but asked how the Snake-People Tribe could trust Xiao Lin.
• Xiao Lin argued that both sides needed repeated cooperation and had little to gain from cheating each other.

Xiao Lin persuaded Medusa to let the Snake-People Tribe cooperate with the Xiao Household’s caravan by sharing half its profits and having the tribe provide protection. Medusa agreed on the condition that her people participate in the caravan’s affairs throughout the process, and Xiao Lin accepted.

• Medusa questioned why Xiao Lin was offering the Snake-People Tribe half the caravan’s profits just to use a route through its territory.
• Xiao Lin said the Xiao Household sought the Snake-People Tribe’s friendship and explained that he wanted its experts to guard the caravan.
• Medusa accepted that the Snake-People Tribe would provide guards but required her people to participate in the caravan’s affairs throughout the process.
• Xiao Lin agreed to Medusa’s condition, bringing the cooperation between the two sides close to completion.

Xiao Lin and Medusa agreed to cooperate, though his inexplicable fatherly affection left her irritated and confused. When she asked what happy thing he had been thinking about, Xiao Lin said his daughter-in-law was about to have her second child.

• Xiao Lin asked Medusa whether their cooperation could be fruitful, and she agreed after reviewing his proposal.
• Xiao Lin looked at Medusa with fatherly affection, which made her uncomfortable and irritated.
• Medusa pressed Xiao Lin to explain what happy thing he had been thinking about.
• Xiao Lin said his daughter-in-law was about to have her second child, leaving Medusa bewildered.

Xiao Lin returned from negotiating an alliance between the Xiao Household and the Snake-People Tribe, then the two sides established a profitable trade route. Back at the Xiao Household, he began making high-level Formation Disks to trade at the upcoming Space Trading Assembly.

• Yan Ci warned Xiao Lin to honor his agreement with the Snake-People Tribe, and Xiao Lin invited Yan Ci to visit the Xiao Household.
• Xiao Lin returned safely, and Xiao Zhan, Yang Xiyue, and the Xiao Household elders welcomed him with concern for his safety.
• Xiao Lin assigned Xiao Li to finalize cooperation, and the Snake-People Tribe later agreed to guard the Xiao Household's caravans in exchange for half their net profits.
• After the first trading run, the Snake-People Tribe's complaints about the alliance subsided, and cooperation entered a stable phase.
• Xiao Lin began crafting fourth-level and fifth-level Formation Disks to use as trade goods at the Space Trading Assembly.

Xiao Lin waited with Xiao Zhan and Xiao Ding as Yang Xiyue gave birth to a boy, Xiao Li. After Xiao Zhan rushed inside to check on his wife, Xiao Lin held the newborn while Xiao Ding met his younger brother.

• Xiao Lin reflected on the Xiao Household’s growing friendship with the Snake-People Tribe and his preparations for the Space Trading Assembly.
• Xiao Zhan, Xiao Lin, and Xiao Ding waited anxiously in the courtyard while Yang Xiyue gave birth.
• A woman announced that Yang Xiyue had given birth to a boy, and Xiao Zhan rushed into the room to see his wife.
• Xiao Lin held the newborn Xiao Li and introduced him to Xiao Ding.
• Xiao Ding gently poked Xiao Li’s cheek, and the baby grasped his elder brother’s finger before letting go.

Xiao Li was born, and Xiao Lin spent time with his family before secretly returning to the Central Plains for the upcoming Space Trading Assembly. He headed toward the gathering’s entrance in a northeastern desert as experts across the continent converged there.

• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Lin and Xiao Ding that Yang Xiyue was well and asleep after giving birth to Xiao Li.
• Xiao Zhan explained that he and Yang Xiyue had chosen the name Xiao Li before Xiao Lin returned from the Central Plains, while Xiao Lin anticipated Xiao Yan’s future birth.
• After Yang Xiyue recovered, Xiao Lin spent more time with his family and then announced another long period of seclusion before leaving.
• Xiao Lin secretly opened a spatial passage and returned to the Central Plains, hoping Soul Hall would not seek him out again.
• Experts of Peak Dou Zong and above began traveling toward the northeastern desert where the Space Trading Assembly would be held, and Xiao Lin flew there too.

Xiao Lin entered the Space Trading Assembly through its desert gateway and explored the vast marketplace in its Subspace. With the core auction still more than ten days away, he began browsing the outer stalls for treasures.

• Xiao Lin arrived in the Desolate Desert and noticed numerous powerful Dou Venerables gathering there.
• Xiao Lin followed the spatial power to the vortex entrance and entered the Space Trading Assembly.
• Xiao Lin inspected the venue and concluded that a Half-Saint had created and maintained its Subspace.
• Xiao Lin decided not to enter the core area yet because the auction was more than ten days away.
• Xiao Lin explored the outer marketplace, where experts sold and traded rare techniques, pills, monster cores, and treasure maps.

Xiao Lin encountered Ji Li, a mysterious Nine-Star Dou Venerable selling array diagrams, and sensed that he was a formidable rival. They exchanged introductions, and Xiao Lin proposed sparring with him in the future.

• Xiao Lin browsed the stalls but rejected the overpriced goods and items that did not suit his needs.
• Xiao Lin noticed Ji Li’s array diagrams and sensed a threat from the Nine-Star Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Lin and Ji Li introduced themselves, and Ji Li recognized Xiao Lin as the man who had attacked Yellow Springs Pavilion.
• Ji Li claimed he was a little stronger than Xiao Lin, and Xiao Lin suggested they spar if they got the chance.

Xiao Lin and Ji Li agreed to spar and discovered a mutual interest in formations. Ji Li hoped Xiao Lin might be the Formation Grandmaster he needed for a future undertaking, while Xiao Lin began examining the diagrams at Ji Li’s stall.

• Ji Li agreed to spar with Xiao Lin, and the two set aside discussing when they would meet.
• Xiao Lin examined the formation diagrams at Ji Li’s stall, prompting Ji Li to ask whether he studied formations.
• Xiao Lin said he could read, set up, and repair formations, and Ji Li concluded that this skill helped explain why Xiao Lin threatened him.
• Ji Li invited Xiao Lin to inspect the diagrams, hoping to attract a Formation Grandmaster for his future undertaking.
• Xiao Lin eagerly accepted, explaining that he collected formation diagrams while traveling.