Recaps

Xiao Zhan told Xiao Lin that the Xiao Household would leave the Jia Ma Imperial Capital to prove it could thrive independently, choosing Wutan City as its new center. Xiao Lin agreed to remain at the household’s main residence in the capital while the relocation began.

• The Xiao Household’s clansmen grew frustrated with outsiders crediting Xiao Lin for the household’s standing and urged Xiao Zhan to let them prove themselves.
• After discussing the matter with the elders, Xiao Zhan decided to move the household away from the Jia Ma Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Lin approved the move but asked that the household keep its main residence in the capital.
• Xiao Zhan said Xiao Lin and several other elderly members could stay behind, and Xiao Lin accepted the arrangement.
• Xiao Zhan named Wutan City as the household’s new center of development, and the Xiao Household began preparing to relocate.

The Xiao Household relocated from the Jia Ma Imperial Capital to Wutan City, while Xiao Lin chose to stay behind at the ancestral residence. The household left its Scripture Pavilion and advanced cultivation methods in the capital as a path for talented or deserving youngsters to return, leaving Xiao Lin hopeful that they would one day come back through their own efforts.

• The Xiao Household's move to Wutan City shocked the Jia Ma Empire, and Xiao Zhan handled the factions seeking an explanation.
• Xiao Lin reassured Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Xiao Yan as they struggled to part with him.
• Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue said goodbye to Xiao Lin and led about a thousand members of the household out of the capital.
• Xiao Lin and Xiao Zhan agreed to keep the ancestral residence and its Scripture Pavilion as a place for promising Wutan City youngsters to study advanced methods and techniques.
• Xiao Lin and the other elders watched the departing household disappear before returning to the ancestral residence, where Xiao Lin expressed hope that they would return one day.

Gu Xun’er’s exceptional bloodline made the Gu Clan place immense expectations on her, forcing her to study from infancy. After finding his exhausted daughter asleep over her lessons, Gu Yuan took the books away and told her to stop, declaring that he would handle any objections from the elders.

• The Gu Clan celebrated the strong bloodlines of its new generation, especially Gu Xun’er, whose bloodline was Eighth-Tier at birth.
• Gu Xun’er was made to study cultivation theory and clan management every day, leaving her melancholy despite accepting her duties as Gu Yuan’s daughter.
• Gu Yuan saw that his daughter had exhausted herself and fallen asleep while studying.
• Gu Yuan took away Gu Xun’er’s books and told her she was too young to bear such burdens.
• When Gu Xun’er worried about the elders’ demands, Gu Yuan asserted his authority as Ancient Clan Chief and told them to come to him with any complaints.

Gu Yuan decided to secure the Tou She Ancient God Jade from the Xiao Household while giving Gu Xun'er a break from studying. He left the Gu Clan elders with a plan to send Xun'er into the Xiao Household to steal the jade unnoticed.

• Gu Yuan asked Gu Xun'er whether she enjoyed studying all day, then promised to give her a happy childhood.
• Gu Yuan convened a meeting of the Gu Clan's highest-ranking elders to decide what to do about the Tou She Ancient God Jade held by the Xiao Household.
• The elders urged Gu Yuan to take the jade, and he agreed despite silently apologizing to Xiao Xuan.
• Gu Yuan stopped an elder from setting out and proposed secretly stealing the jade rather than openly taking it.
• Gu Yuan named Gu Xun'er as the one who would enter the Xiao Household and carry out the plan.

Gu Xun'er agreed to enter the Xiao Household to gather information and seek the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Gu Yuan approved the plan after learning about the Xiao Household's strength and recent move to Wutan City. He brought Xun'er to visit the Xiao Household, where Xiao Zhan prepared to receive them.

• Gu Xun'er insisted she could study while living in the Xiao Household, and Gu Lie's support persuaded the Gu Clan Elders to approve her assignment.
• Gu Yuan sent Ling Ying to investigate the Xiao Household, and Ling Ying reported its leaders, family, relocation to Wutan City, and suspected Earth Tier techniques.
• Gu Yuan chose the Xiao Household in Wutan City as Xun'er's destination and brought her there.
• A Xiao Household member told Xiao Zhan that an unfamiliar visitor and his young daughter had requested a meeting, and Xiao Zhan went to receive them.

Gu Yuan visited Xiao Zhan and arranged for his daughter Gu Xun'er to live with the Xiao Household, offering abundant resources in return. Xiao Zhan accepted and welcomed her as family, and she took the name Xiao Xun'er.

• Xiao Zhan met Gu Yuan and his daughter, Gu Xun'er, and invited them into the reception hall.
• Gu Yuan claimed he had known the late Xiao Dongcheng and asked Xiao Zhan to foster Gu Xun'er while he went to the Central Plains.
• Gu Yuan gave Xiao Zhan a Storage Ring filled with resources, and Xiao Zhan accepted it after Gu Yuan insisted.
• Gu Xun'er asked to take the Xiao surname, and Gu Yuan agreed, making her Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Zhan announced that Xiao Xun'er was a member of the Xiao Household, and Yang Xiyue and the Xiao brothers welcomed her as family.

After two years of cultivation, Xiao Lin remained at the peak of five-turn Dou Venerable and worried that ordinary training would not make him strong enough to face the Hun Clan. Ji Li hinted that he knew of a possible way to help, though the necessary item was held by Danta.

• Xiao Lin spent most of the past two years cultivating in the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace’s Realm of Formations and reached the peak of five-turn Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Lin learned that Gu Xun'er had moved to Wutan City under the name Xiao Xun'er, but avoided contacting her because Gu Yuan might be watching.
• Ji Li told Xiao Lin that Zhu Fang had become a one-star Dou Venerable and that Xi Miaoyun remained a nine-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Lin warned Ji Li that Burning Flame Valley had a Dou Sheng ancestor and explained the history of five peak experts from a thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Lin told Ji Li that he needed to reach Dou Sheng or Half-Saint before the original plot began, and Ji Li considered suggesting an item held by Danta.

Ji Li suggested that Xiao Lin seek the Three Thousand Burning Flame to strengthen his Astral Dou Qi, and revealed a possible way around Danta’s restrictions. Xiao Lin was left considering whether he could trade with one of the Pill Region’s Five Great Clans for a chance to approach the flame.

• Ji Li offered Xiao Lin a suggestion for rapidly enhancing his strength, despite Xiao Lin’s suspicion that he wanted to stay ahead in their rivalry.
• Ji Li proposed the Three Thousand Burning Flame, which Xiao Lin recognized as a Heavenly Flame compatible with his Astral Dou Qi.
• Xiao Lin recalled the flame’s powers and explained that it was held by Danta, which ordinarily offered a chance to subdue it only through its Pill Gathering.
• Ji Li revealed that the Pill Region’s Five Great Clans could reportedly acquire a chance to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame by paying a certain price.
• Xiao Lin learned that he might be able to trade with one of the Five Great Clans for access to the flame.

Ji Li told Xiao Lin that the Five Great Families of the Pill Region might trade him a chance to approach Danta’s Three Thousand Burning Flame. After four families rejected him, Xiao Lin headed to the Ye Family, his only remaining hope because it risked losing its Pill Tower Elder seat.

• Ji Li revealed that Danta had granted the Five Great Families only ten chances to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and he offered Xiao Lin the chance to seek a trade with them.
• Xiao Lin visited the White Household, the Qiu Family, the Dan Family, and the Cao Family, but all four refused his request.
• The four families privately regarded the price as too steep because the trade would cost them their Pill Tower Elder seats, which they held securely.
• The Dan Family reasoned that the Ye Family might accept since it had finished last in two consecutive Pill Gathering assessments and could lose its seat if it finished last again.
• Xiao Lin continued toward the Ye Family, which remained his last chance to obtain access to the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Xiao Lin visited the Ye Family after four other great families rejected his proposal, then recognized Ye Yun, a former Jia Nan Academy student whose life he had saved. Ye Yun welcomed him into the family’s reception hall and introduced him to his father, leaving Xiao Lin’s proposed deal still to be discussed.

• Xiao Lin arrived at the Ye Family gates with little hope after the Bai, Qiu, Cao, and Dan families had rejected him.
• The Ye Family guards reported Xiao Lin’s arrival, and Ye Yun hurried out to greet him as Elder Lin.
• Xiao Lin recognized Ye Yun as one of the Jia Nan Academy students he had rescued in the Black-Corner Region more than twenty years earlier.
• Ye Yun invited Xiao Lin inside and led him to the reception hall, where his father was waiting.
• Ye Yun introduced Xiao Lin to his father as the man who had saved his life and expressed regret that he had not known Xiao Lin was the Palace Master of the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.

Xiao Lin visited the Ye Family seeking a way to obtain an opportunity to contact the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Ye Zhong explained that the price involved the Ye Family’s permanent elder seat at Danta, leaving Xiao Lin doubtful that they could help him.

• Ye Yun recognized Xiao Lin as the Lin Xiao who had once saved him, and Ye Zhong welcomed him, hoping to build ties with the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.
• Ye Yun and Ye Zhong insisted that Xiao Lin accept the Ye Family’s gratitude and promised to help with his request.
• Xiao Lin revealed that the Bai, Qiu, Cao, and Dan families had refused him, then asked what the Ye Family would require to secure him an opportunity to contact the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Ye Zhong explained that the five great families shared permanent elder seats at Danta, and Xiao Lin realized that sacrificing the Ye Family’s seat might be the price.

Xiao Lin apologized after learning that the Ye Family could not trade away its permanent elder seat in Danta, which it risked losing after another failed Pill Gathering. He proposed that the family join the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace for protection, leaving Ye Zhong and Ye Yun stunned.

• Xiao Lin apologized to Ye Zhong and Ye Yun for making his request without understanding what the Ye Family would have to sacrifice.
• Ye Yun explained that the Ye Family had failed the Pill Gathering assessment twice and could lose its permanent elder seat if it failed again in twenty years.
• Xiao Lin recalled that his grandson Xiao Yan would later compete for the Ye Family and saw the family's uncertain future as a chance to recruit them.
• Ye Zhong admitted that the Ye Family's next generation was weaker at alchemy than those of the other four families and feared losing its place among the great families.
• Xiao Lin proposed that the Ye Family join the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace in exchange for protection and the support of its Formation Masters.
• Ye Zhong and Ye Yun stared in shock because they had never considered changing the Ye Family's allegiance.

Ye Zhong weighed Xiao Lin’s offer to bring the Ye Family into the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, then agreed to inspect the sect before deciding. As they arrived at its mountain gate, a group approached from the sky, and Xiao Lin recognized their leader.

• Ye Zhong considered the risk of losing the Ye Family’s permanent elder seat at Danta and asked Xiao Lin to give him time to decide.
• Xiao Lin revealed that the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace had three fighters above Nine-Star Dou Venerable and six other Dou Venerables, with a seventh expected soon.
• Ye Zhong asked to visit the palace, and Xiao Lin agreed.
• The next day, Xiao Lin brought Ye Zhong, Ye Yun, and several Ye Family members to inspect the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.
• A group flew toward the palace as they reached its mountain gate; Ye Zhong and Ye Yun suspected an attack, but Xiao Lin recognized the leader.

Mang Tianchi arrived at the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace with four Lei Clan members and reunited with Xiao Lin. Xiao Lin introduced Ye Yun as a fellow Jia Nan Academy alumnus, and Mang Tianchi revealed his Lei Clan identity to the astonished Ye Family.

• Mang Tianchi led Lei Ming, Lei Mang, Lei Guang, and Lei Ya to the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, where Xiao Lin welcomed them.
• Xiao Lin deliberately let the Ye Family observe his friendly ties with the Lei Clan before turning his attention back to them.
• Xiao Lin introduced Ye Yun to Mang Tianchi as someone connected to them both.
• Mang Tianchi recognized Ye Yun as a former Jia Nan Academy student and revealed that he was both the academy's headmaster and a member of the Lei Clan.
• Ye Yun, Ye Zhong, and the rest of the Ye Family were stunned to learn Mang Tianchi belonged to the Lei Clan.

Mang Tianchi and four Lei Clan members visited the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace while the Ye Family was inspecting it, revealing the Lei Clan’s close ties to Xiao Lin and strengthening the Ye Family’s desire to join. Mang Tianchi gave Xiao Lin a Storage Ring filled with resources, leaving the palace well supported and the Ye Family close to joining.

• Ye Zhong greeted Mang Tianchi and realized that the Lei Clan’s connection to Xiao Lin’s palace could benefit the Ye Family.
• Xiao Lin welcomed the five Lei Clan members and the Ye Family into the palace’s main hall, where Ji Li and the other leaders learned of his ties to the Lei Clan.
• The Ye Family grew more eager to join after seeing Mang Tianchi steer their conversations toward Xiao Lin and the palace.
• Mang Tianchi presented Xiao Lin with a Storage Ring as a gift from the Lei Clan.
• Xiao Lin accepted the ring and found enough resources to sustain the palace for years, even if it expanded to ten thousand people.

The Ye Family decided to join the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace after seeing the Lei Clan support it, while Lei Guang and Lei Ya began training there. Ye Zhong promised that the family would return to the Pill Region, trade its Danta seat for a chance to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and then move to the palace.

• The Ye Family concluded that the Lei Clan’s backing made the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace a safe and advantageous home.
• Mang Tianchi asked Xiao Lin to let Lei Clan youths train at the palace, and Xiao Lin agreed after Mang Tianchi promised the clan would not interfere with discipline.
• Mang Tianchi ordered Lei Guang and Lei Ya to remain at the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace until they had learned something worthwhile, and the siblings saluted Xiao Lin and the palace’s leaders.
• After witnessing the Lei siblings join the palace, Ye Zhong and the Ye Family agreed to join as well.
• Ye Zhong told Xiao Lin that the Ye Family would trade its permanent elder seat at Danta for a chance to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame, then move to the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.

The Ye Family traded its permanent elder seat at Danta for a chance to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame, hoping to escape the threat of losing its position after repeated poor Pill Gathering results. Ye Zhong revealed that the family had transferred the chance to Xiao Lin, whom he introduced to Xuan Kongzi.

• The Ye Family offered its permanent elder seat at Danta in exchange for a chance to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Danta prepared to open the passage to the Starry Sky Path, and Xiao Lin accompanied Ye Zhong to meet Xuan Kongzi.
• Xuan Kongzi urged Ye Zhong to reconsider the irreversible trade, since the Ye Family still had one chance to keep its seat.
• Ye Zhong said the Ye Family had decided carefully and had transferred its chance to Xiao Lin.
• Ye Zhong introduced Xiao Lin, Palace Master of the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, to Xuan Kongzi.

Lin Xiao accepted the Ye Family’s chance to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame and followed Xuan Kongzi through a spatial gate into the starry sky. There, Lin Xiao felt the immense Astral Power and prepared to attempt to subdue the flame.

• Xuan Kongzi and the onlookers were surprised when they learned the Ye Family had given Lin Xiao its chance to enter the starry sky.
• Xuan Kongzi told Lin Xiao that only he could enter, then led him to Danta’s summit and opened a spatial gate.
• Lin Xiao followed Xuan Kongzi through the gate while Ye Zhong silently hoped he would succeed.
• Lin Xiao emerged into the starry sky and felt Astral Power pour into him, briefly stirring his bottleneck at the peak of Five-Turn Dou Venerable.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that Danta had sealed the Three Thousand Burning Flame there and told Lin Xiao he had one chance to subdue it.

Xiao Lin sensed the Three Thousand Burning Flame and left Xuan Kongzi to travel alone through the Star Domain. He avoided its spatial rifts and reached the dazzling flame, while Xuan Kongzi resolved to investigate him and the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.

• Xiao Lin felt the Three Thousand Burning Flame calling to him, and the flame sensed his arrival from afar.
• Xiao Lin declined Xuan Kongzi's offer to guide him, saying he was prepared to subdue the flame and wanted to continue alone.
• Xuan Kongzi let Xiao Lin go, then decided Danta should investigate Xiao Lin and the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.
• Xiao Lin used his Astral Dou Qi to detect and avoid spatial rifts as he flew deeper into the Star Domain.
• Xiao Lin reached the Three Thousand Burning Flame, ranked ninth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking.

Xiao Lin reached the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Domain and discovered that its flames contained Astral Power. After entering the seal, he charged at the dragon-shaped flame, determined to devour it before it could devour him.

• Xiao Lin saw the immense, dragon-shaped Three Thousand Burning Flame and recognized the draconic aura created by the Dragon Seal within it.
• Xiao Lin realized the Three Thousand Burning Flame was intelligent and sensed it regarded him as a chance to transform and escape its seal.
• Xiao Lin entered the seal, prompting the Three Thousand Burning Flame to roar and shake the Star Domain.
• Xiao Lin recognized Astral Power in the flame and charged at the Three Thousand Burning Flame, ready to see which of them would devour the other.

Xiao Lin fought the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Domain, but its intelligence and ability to reshape itself made it far harder to subdue than he had expected. As the sentient Heavenly Flame unleashed an endless barrage of attacks, Xiao Lin realized that conventional methods of refining and devouring it were unlikely to work.

• The Three Thousand Burning Flame used its draconic might to attack Xiao Lin, who cut through its claw and pierced its head with the God-Slaying Finger.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame restored its damaged body, and Xiao Lin realized he would need to wear down its intelligence to refine it.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame spoke and launched a vast wave of purple-black fire, which Xiao Lin blocked with Star-Devouring Jade.
• Xiao Lin struck the Three Thousand Burning Flame with the Starlight Heaven-Suppressing Seal, shattering nearly half its tail.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame summoned countless miniature suns and sent them after Xiao Lin, leaving him to conclude that conventional refinement was practically impossible.

Xiao Lin used spirit arrays to restrain the Three Thousand Burning Flame, but the Heavenly Flame broke free and swallowed him along with the stars and meteorites. Xiao Lin let himself be swallowed so he could attack the dragon from within.

• Xiao Lin used the Void Locking Spirit Formation to freeze the miniature suns created by the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Lin cast the Fire-Sealing Formation, which weakened the Three Thousand Burning Flame but failed to restrain it completely.
• Xiao Lin formed Starfall Pavilion's Starfall Formation as the Three Thousand Burning Flame absorbed Astral Power and prepared to fight back.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame enlarged its body and swallowed the stars, nearby meteorites, and Xiao Lin.
• Xiao Lin allowed himself to be swallowed so he could attack the Three Thousand Burning Flame from within.

Xiao Lin let the Three Thousand Burning Flame swallow him so he could study its structure from within and trace its Astral Power back to its source. Though his Dou Qi barrier finally broke, the flame discovered that Xiao Lin was devouring its power instead.

• The Three Thousand Burning Flame swallowed Xiao Lin and tried to dissolve him inside its body.
• Xiao Lin maintained a Dou Qi barrier and used his Heavenly Realm Soul Power to unravel the flame’s structure.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame sensed danger and intensified its assault until Xiao Lin’s Dou Qi ran out and his barrier shattered.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame engulfed Xiao Lin, but its power began to be devoured in turn.

Xiao Lin deciphered the Three Thousand Burning Flame and became immune to its attacks, turning its own flames into nourishment. He advanced on the panicked Heavenly Flame, intending to absorb its Origin and erase its consciousness.

• Xiao Lin converted his Astral Dou Qi into the Three Thousand Burning Flame and replenished his exhausted Dou Qi from its flames.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame asked how Xiao Lin could control it, and Xiao Lin claimed he was the Three Thousand Burning Flame itself.
• Xiao Lin tried to convince the Three Thousand Burning Flame that it was part of him, but it rejected his words and spat him out.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame attacked Xiao Lin repeatedly, but its flames and physical strikes passed through him and only nourished him.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame retreated as Xiao Lin approached, warning him not to come closer.

Xiao Lin refused to preserve the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s intelligence and used his new Dou Technique, Star River Annihilation, to defeat it. He began replenishing his Dou Qi as the battle ended and he prepared to claim the flame.

• Xiao Lin explained that he would erase the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s intelligence because he feared it might turn against him.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame rejected Xiao Lin’s offer to come with him and insisted he could not erase its mind.
• Xiao Lin revealed that he had developed a new weapon-based Dou Technique and raised the Moon-Chasing Scimitar.
• Xiao Lin unleashed Star River Annihilation, carving a river of stars across the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s dragon form and crushing its body and soul.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame lost its intelligence and its dragon form shattered, while Xiao Lin absorbed Astral Power to replenish his Dou Qi.