Recaps

Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Yi Xian had been engaged to him through a contract signed by his grandfather, Xiao Lin, and heard how Xiao Lin had predicted their relationship. As preparations for Yao Lao’s resurrection finished, Starfall Pavilion discovered that the Soul Hall was gathering near the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, and Xiao Yan and his allies prepared to defend the resurrection.

• Xiao Yi Xian showed Xiao Yan the one-sided Engagement Contract signed by Xiao Lin and explained that Xiao Lin had believed they would fall in love.
• Xiao Yi Xian recounted how she had met Xiao Lin and received the contract, leaving Xiao Yan puzzled by his grandfather’s apparent foresight.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian spent their days together while preparing for Yao Lao’s resurrection.
• Starfall Pavilion investigated the mysterious figures near the Heavenly Star Mountain Range and discovered they belonged to the Soul Hall.
• Feng Xian, Xiao Yan, Heavenly Fire Venerable, and Xiao Yi Xian pledged to stop the Soul Hall and protect Yao Lao’s resurrection.

Xiao Yi Xian decided to ask the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace to help Starfall Pavilion prepare for the Soul Hall’s attack while Xiao Yan worked to revive Yao Lao. The Soul Hall’s Gu You ordered an assault on Starfall Pavilion, unaware that its allies might arrive to defend it.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao initially objected to involving the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, but Xiao Yi Xian persuaded them that the sect had reason to help.
• After learning about the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace’s powerful Palace Masters and its standing among the Central Plains’ strongest factions, Xiao Yan and the others accepted Xiao Yi Xian’s plan.
• Xiao Yan began preparing to revive Yao Lao, Starfall Pavilion prepared for battle, and Xiao Yi Xian contacted the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.
• After learning when Yao Lao would be revived, Gu You ordered Soul Hall forces to attack Starfall Pavilion, seize Yao Chen’s soul, and destroy the pavilion.
• Gu You chose not to go personally, believing that a few Heavenly Venerables and Venerable Elders could defeat Starfall Pavilion, while the Soul Hall remained wary of the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.

The Soul Hall sent a powerful force to Starfall Pavilion to stop Yao Lao’s resurrection, just as Xiao Yan began the ritual. With Xiao Yan occupied and the attackers overwhelming the defenders, Xiao Yi Xian called on the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace for possible aid.

• Gu You ordered more than ten Dou Venerables and dozens of Dou Zongs to attack Starfall Pavilion, led by Xie Feng, Qiu Di, and Mo Yu.
• Xiao Yan began resurrecting Yao Lao using a Dou Sheng Corpse, while Yao Lao urged him to follow the steps they had prepared.
• The Soul Hall’s forces emerged from Spatial Passages and demanded that Yao Lao surrender or Starfall Pavilion be destroyed.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Feng Xian, and the Heavenly Fire Venerable prepared to defend Starfall Pavilion while Xiao Yan remained occupied with the resurrection.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Feng Xian that the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace could intervene, and Feng Xian thanked her for arranging its support.

Feng Xian, Xiao Yi Xian, and Heavenly Fire Venerable confronted the Soul Hall forces outside Starfall Pavilion, and the battle began. The Soul Hall divided its fighters among the three defenders while the remaining members prepared to attack the formation.

• Feng Xian reassured a Starfall Pavilion Elder and led Xiao Yi Xian and Heavenly Fire Venerable outside to meet the Soul Hall.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost demanded that Feng Xian surrender someone, but Feng Xian rejected him and provoked a fight.
• The Black and White Heavenly Venerables engaged Feng Xian and Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed her Nine-Star Dou Venerable strength and challenged the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Heavenly Venerables to fight together.
• The remaining Soul Hall Dou Venerables turned toward breaking the Starfall Formation.

Xiao Yi Xian fought Soul Hall's three Heavenly Venerates while Soul Hall's other experts attacked Starfall Pavilion's Starfall Formation. After activating her Woeful Poison Body and Netherworld Poison Flame, she overwhelmed the trio, who could only barely hold her off with a combination Dou Technique.

• Xiao Yi Xian attacked Xie Feng, Qiu Di, and Mo Yu with Thousand Illusions Poison Spring, and the three countered with their own techniques.
• Xiao Yi Xian used Heavenly Poison Prison Realm to withstand Xie Feng's redirected storm, while Mo Yu suffered a poisoned wound.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost and the other Soul Hall Dou Zun experts began attacking the Starfall Formation, prompting Xiao Yi Xian to stop holding back.
• Xiao Yi Xian activated her Woeful Poison Body, turning her hair white and gaining strength near the One-Turn Dou Venerable realm.
• Xiao Yi Xian charged the three Heavenly Venerates with the Netherworld Poison Flame, and they barely resisted her with a combination Dou Technique.

The Soul Hall’s assault wore down the Starfall Pavilion’s defenses while Qing Lin and four other Myriad Formation Spirit Palace experts watched from hiding, ready to intervene if needed. The Starfall Formation finally shattered under Star-Picking Old Ghost’s attack, leaving the pavilion exposed.

• Central Plains observers gathered to watch as the Soul Hall attacked the Starfall Pavilion, while two minor factions fought over the chance to claim a vacant major-faction position.
• Qing Lin, Tian Huangzi, Feng Qing'er, Lei Guang, and Lei Ya watched from concealment, prepared to help if Xiao Yan could not revive Yao Lao before the Starfall Formation fell.
• Xiao Yi Xian fought the Soul Hall’s three Heavenly Venerables, while Feng Xian and Heavenly Fire Venerable battled the Black and White Heavenly Venerates.
• Tian Huangzi ordered the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace group to prepare to act once the formation broke, as the Starfall Pavilion’s elders and disciples began collapsing from exhaustion.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost, Gu You, and the other Soul Hall experts struck the weakened formation, and Star-Picking Old Ghost shattered it with his Zhai Xing Hand.

After the Starfall Formation fell, Mu Gu tried to destroy Starfall Pavilion, but reinforcements from the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace arrived and blocked his attack. Lei Guang, Lei Ya, Feng Qing'er, and Qing Lin confronted the Soul Hall, leaving the battle raging with Starfall Pavilion’s survival in their hands.

• The Soul Hall’s forces broke the Starfall Formation, leaving Starfall Pavilion’s elders and disciples weakened and exposed.
• Mu Gu attacked Starfall Pavilion with Dark Soul Hand, but a Formation Disk raised a new barrier and stopped his strike.
• Lei Guang, Lei Ya, Feng Qing'er, and Qing Lin arrived as reinforcements from the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost ordered the Soul Hall to attack the newcomers, and Qing Lin chose Star-Picking Old Ghost while Feng Qing'er chose Mu Gu as opponents.
• Lei Guang and Lei Ya intercepted the remaining Soul Hall Dou Venerables and Dou Zongs, and the battle resumed.

Qing Lin overwhelmed Star-Picking Old Ghost and killed him, while the other battles against the Soul Hall continued. The fight also revealed that Star-Picking Old Ghost’s techniques carried Astral Power similar to Xiao Lin’s.

• Lei Guang and Lei Ya faced five Soul Hall Dou Venerables and a host of Dou Zong, while Feng Qing'er fought Mu Gu at the same cultivation level.
• Qing Lin struck Star-Picking Old Ghost and easily broke through his defenses, then noticed Astral Power in his Star Dou Technique.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost unleashed the Senluo Great Star Hand, but Qing Lin’s Azure Sea Surging to the Heavens swallowed it and shattered his starlight curtain.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost escaped the waves with the Illusory Soul Movement Technique and attacked with his Star-Shattering Blade.
• Qing Lin summoned the Ancient Heavenly Serpent with Heavenly Serpent Soul-Devouring Shadow, which swallowed Star-Picking Old Ghost and killed him.

Qing Lin killed Star-Picking Old Ghost and joined Xiao Yi Xian against the Soul Hall’s three Heavenly Venerates, turning the battle against them. As the Heavenly Venerates tried to escape, a Starfall Pavilion expert sealed the surrounding space and confronted them.

• Qing Lin killed Star-Picking Old Ghost and used her Eight-Star Dou Venerable strength to help decide the battlefield’s outcome.
• Qing Lin joined Xiao Yi Xian’s fight against Xie Feng, Mo Yu, and the third Heavenly Venerate, leaving the three of them badly wounded.
• The Soul Hall forces struggled across the battlefield while Lei Guang and Lei Ya killed several opponents, and Starfall Pavilion remained protected by a formation.
• The three Heavenly Venerates feinted and retreated, threatening the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace as they tried to open a Spatial Passage.
• Tian Huangzi prepared to stop their escape, but the Spatial Passage collapsed before he could act.
• An aged voice from Starfall Pavilion welcomed the Soul Hall guests, and two figures arrived, sealing the space around the battlefield.

Yao Lao returned to life as a Dou Sheng and confronted the Soul Hall forces attacking Starfall Pavilion. He annihilated the Soul Hall experts with one gesture, sparing only Mu Gu so he could question him.

• Yao Lao and Xiao Yan emerged before the Soul Hall forces, and Starfall Pavilion's members cheered at Yao Lao's revival.
• Mu Gu confronted Yao Lao with hatred, while the three Heavenly Venerates Xie Feng, Qiu Di, and Mo Yu begged to be allowed to flee.
• Yao Lao revealed that he had become a Dou Sheng, leaving Mu Gu and the other Soul Hall Members in disbelief and despair.
• Yao Lao clenched his hand and killed the Soul Hall forces, sparing Mu Gu because he still needed to question him.

After Yao Lao defeated the Soul Hall attackers and revealed his Dou Sheng strength, Starfall Pavilion celebrated his resurrection and the faction’s newfound standing. He thanked the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace for its aid and concluded that its gifted young members could keep it flourishing for a thousand years.

• Yao Lao killed the Soul Hall Members who had attacked Starfall Pavilion, then subdued the raving Mu Gu.
• Starfall Pavilion’s elders and disciples celebrated Yao Lao’s resurrection and his breakthrough to the Dou Sheng Realm.
• News of Yao Lao’s resurrection and new strength spread across the Central Plains, raising Starfall Pavilion’s standing among the factions.
• Tian Huangzi, Lei Guang, Lei Ya, Qing Lin, and Feng Qing'er congratulated Yao Lao, who thanked them for helping defend Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Lao recognized the exceptional talent of the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace’s young members and judged that they could keep the palace strong for a thousand years.

Xiao Yi Xian welcomed Tian Huangzi and the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace group, while she and Xiao Yan struggled to understand Tian Huangzi’s contradictory actions. Xiao Yan and Tian Huangzi put aside the tension for now, acknowledged a future battle, and entered Starfall Pavilion together.

• Xiao Yi Xian greeted Tian Huangzi, Qing Lin, Lei Guang, Lei Ya, and Feng Qing'er, and resolved to clear up the misunderstanding between Tian Huangzi and Xiao Yan.
• Qing Lin hugged Xiao Yi Xian, and Tian Huangzi teased her about her relationship with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan recalled that Tian Huangzi had protected Starfall Pavilion during the Soul Hall attack, leaving him unsure whether Tian Huangzi was a friend or an enemy.
• Xiao Yan and Tian Huangzi exchanged names and solemnly said they looked forward to fighting each other in the future.
• Xiao Yan thanked Tian Huangzi for helping Starfall Pavilion, and Tian Huangzi cited their shared enemy and family ties as reasons to help.
• Yao Lao and Feng Xian invited the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace group inside, and Tian Huangzi accepted.

Xiao Yi Xian visited Tian Huangzi and asked whether he had a misunderstanding with Xiao Yan. Tian Huangzi admitted he had arranged for Xiao Yan to be targeted at the Four Pavilions Assembly, leaving Xiao Yi Xian angry as she asked whether he knew Xiao Yan’s other identity.

• Yao Lao and Xiao Yan entered seclusion after welcoming Tian Huangzi and the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace group to Starfall Pavilion.
• Feng Xian arranged accommodations for Tian Huangzi and his companions, who stayed in case the Soul Hall returned.
• Xiao Yi Xian visited Tian Huangzi and asked about his past conflict with Xiao Yan.
• Tian Huangzi admitted he had bribed twelve Dou Emperors through Wind Lightning Pavilion to target Xiao Yan and had instructed Little Phoenix to act as well.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Tian Huangzi what his purpose had been, and he said he wanted to make things difficult for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether Tian Huangzi knew about Xiao Yan’s other identity.

Xiao Yi Xian confronted Tian Huangzi over his past targeting of Xiao Yan after learning Tian Huangzi knew Xiao Yan was the Palace Master's youngest grandson. Tian Huangzi revealed that Grandpa Xiao had ordered the targeting, leaving Xiao Yi Xian and Feng Qing'er stunned.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked Tian Huangzi why he had targeted Xiao Yan, while Feng Qing'er listened nearby.
• Tian Huangzi confirmed he knew Xiao Yan was the Palace Master's youngest grandson, angering Xiao Yi Xian and frightening Feng Qing'er.
• Xiao Yi Xian demanded to know why Tian Huangzi had acted against Xiao Yan despite knowing his identity.
• Tian Huangzi said Grandpa Xiao had assigned him the task and paid him with a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted Tian Huangzi's explanation and realized Grandpa Xiao had arranged the targeting himself.

Xiao Yi Xian learned that Tian Huangzi had targeted Xiao Yan on the Palace Master's orders, clearing up her suspicions about the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace. Meanwhile, Yao Lao prepared to question Mu Gu about the important memory his friends had concealed, and Mu Gu demanded that Yao Lao kill him.

• Xiao Yi Xian apologized to Tian Huangzi for suspecting him, and he reassured her that her questions had been reasonable.
• Feng Qing'er asked Tian Huangzi how they should treat Xiao Yan, and Tian Huangzi admired Xiao Yan's progress and predicted they would fight someday.
• Yao Lao stabilized his Late-Stage One-Star Dou Saint realm and decided to interrogate Mu Gu about his lost memory.
• Yao Lao recalled that Danta's old friends, Feng Xian, and others had refused to reveal what they knew, so he had spared Mu Gu to learn the truth from him.
• Mu Gu, immobilized at Yao Lao's place of seclusion, demanded that Yao Lao kill him.

Yao Lao interrogated Mu Gu about their past and their teacher, using their old rivalry to provoke him into revealing what Yao Lao had forgotten. The chapter left Yao Lao stunned after Mu Gu revealed their teacher’s name was Han Shanshan.

• Yao Lao questioned Mu Gu about their shared history as fellow disciples and their time studying alchemy at the Danta.
• Mu Gu admitted he joined the Soul Hall because he resented Yao Lao for receiving their teacher’s favor.
• Yao Lao provoked Mu Gu by displaying the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and accusing him of sullying their teacher’s name.
• Mu Gu revealed that their teacher was named Han Shanshan, and Yao Lao froze at the name.

Yao Lao learned that his lost teacher was named Han Shanshan and gathered memories of her from Mu Gu before killing him. After Tian Huangzi’s group departed with Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Lao offered Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Xiao Yan hesitated until Yao Lao revealed he had another reason for the gift.

• Yao Lao provoked Mu Gu into recounting his memories of Han Shanshan, helping Yao Lao form an impression of his forgotten teacher.
• Yao Lao declared their grudges settled and erased Mu Gu without pain.
• Tian Huangzi and his group left Starfall Pavilion after a farewell gathering, taking Xiao Yi Xian back to the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.
• Yao Lao offered Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, but Xiao Yan refused because he already had four Heavenly Flames.
• Yao Lao demonstrated that his Dou Sheng flames surpassed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and explained how the flame could strengthen Xiao Yan and the Flame Mantra.
• Yao Lao said he had another purpose for giving Xiao Yan the flame and asked him to help his teacher.

Xiao Yan accepted Yao Lao’s Bone Spirit Cold Flame so he could use the Flame Mantra to investigate how Yao Lao had subdued it and recover his lost memories. After refining the flame, Xiao Yan witnessed Yao Lao’s near-fatal struggle and learned that a woman had sacrificed herself to save him, but he did not discover who she was.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that he suspected the Bone Spirit Cold Flame was connected to his lost memories and asked him to investigate how he had subdued it.
• Xiao Yan accepted the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and absorbed and refined it, advancing the Flame Mantra to Low-Tier Heaven Rank and reaching Eight-Star Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Mantra to experience the Bone Spirit Cold Flame’s past, including Yao Lao’s effort to subdue it.
• Xiao Yan saw that Yao Lao had nearly died and that a woman had sacrificed herself to save him.
• Xiao Yan wondered who the woman was.

After refining the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, Xiao Yan told Yao Lao the painful truth about how he had lost his memories, strengthening Yao Lao’s resolve to recover them. Yao Lao identified the woman who sacrificed herself as his teacher, Han Shanshan, making her Xiao Yan’s grandmaster.

• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as an Eight-Star Dou Venerable after absorbing and refining the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Yao Lao noticed Xiao Yan’s unease and asked whether he had used the Flame Mantra to witness how the Bone Spirit Cold Flame had been subdued.
• After Yao Lao begged him to tell the truth, Xiao Yan recounted what he had seen, and Yao Lao wept despite being unable to remember the events.
• Yao Lao said the painful account made him more determined to recover his own memories, and Xiao Yan offered to help.
• Xiao Yan suggested the Bone Spirit Cold Flame might hold the key to recovering the woman’s true spirit, and Yao Lao guessed that she was his teacher, Han Shanshan.

After Xiao Yan learned that Han Shanshan’s true spirit might remain inside the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, Yao Lao urged him to grow strong enough to revive her and sent him toward ancient ruins in the Beast Region. Meanwhile, Xiao Lin’s repeated attempts to comprehend “Supreme” drew his consciousness into the Space of Nihility.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that Han Shanshan’s true spirit might still exist within the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, though he could not yet recover it.
• Yao Lao resolved to help Xiao Yan reach Dou Emperor and beyond, and Xiao Yan agreed to keep improving his strength.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that ancient ruins in the Beast Region, once a Dou Sheng Expert’s territory, were about to open, and Xiao Yan prepared to explore them.
• Human and magical beast factions began gathering in the Beast Region as the ruins’ opening approached.
• Xiao Lin continued activating the Supreme Nine Heavens Yingyuan Formation to comprehend “Supreme” until his consciousness was pulled into the Space of Nihility.

Xiao Lin’s consciousness entered the Space of Nihility through the Supreme Nine Heavens Yingyuan Formation, and he realized that he had fully comprehended “Supreme.” He found the Plane’s Embryo and, believing he was qualified to refine it, approached the source of a power that could make him a Plane Master.

• Xiao Lin’s consciousness was pulled into the Space of Nihility, and he deduced that the Supreme Nine Heavens Yingyuan Formation had caused it.
• Xiao Lin explored the spaceless, timeless void until a shifting halo appeared before him.
• Xiao Lin recognized the halo as the Plane’s Embryo and understood that comprehending “Supreme” meant contacting it outright, not progressing gradually.
• Xiao Lin recalled that refining the Plane’s Embryo could make him a Plane Master able to wield the power of the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Lin approached the Plane’s Embryo, convinced that he was qualified to refine it.

Xiao Lin reached the Plane's Embryo but was refused permission to refine it because the Dou Qi Continent faced no threat of invasion or collapse. Before leaving, he received an offer to visit a place where he could obtain Origin Qi and pursue becoming a Dou Emperor.

• The Plane's Embryo rejected Xiao Lin's attempt to refine it, explaining that it only chose a refiner when outsiders threatened the world's survival.
• Xiao Lin learned that Shi Lingdao had borrowed the Plane's Embryo's power through the Supreme Nine Heavens Yingyuan Formation to destroy the Rakshasa Heart Demon Emperor's body.
• Xiao Lin lamented that the continent's safety made refining its Plane's Embryo impossible and prepared to leave the Space of Nihility.
• The Plane's Embryo sent Xiao Lin another message, offering him a trip to a place where he could obtain Origin Qi.

The Plane's Embryo offered to send Xiao Lin's soul to the Greater World for three days so he could obtain Origin Qi, protecting him from the dangers of ascending in the flesh. Xiao Lin accepted and passed through the barrier between the worlds, leaving his soul on the way to the Greater World.

• Xiao Lin considered that the Plane's Embryo could help him obtain a third strand of Origin Qi by sending him to the Greater World.
• The Plane's Embryo told Xiao Lin it would transport his soul for three days and lend it power equal to his full Emperor Realm Soul.
• After learning the journey would be safe and temporary, Xiao Lin agreed to the reward.
• The Plane's Embryo's power entered Xiao Lin, and his soul emerged from his body.
• Xiao Lin's soul traveled through a black hole to the barrier between the worlds and crossed it with the Plane's Embryo's power.

Eight young Sovereigns joined forces to break the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm’s defenses, allowing the gathered explorers to rush inside. Deep within the realm, Xiao Lin awoke as a Soul Body, confused about where the Plane's Embryo had sent him.

• After three days of waiting, Chi Yan and the other young Sovereigns agreed to break the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm’s defenses together.
• Du Qianqian proposed an oath against anyone who held back, and Wu Du and the others agreed and swore it.
• Wu Du, Chi Yan, Feng Xiao, Shen Yun, Qin Baichuan, Du Qianqian, Wen Bufan, and the black-robed person attacked the defenses and shattered them.
• The gathered explorers surged into the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm.
• Deep within the Secret Realm, Xiao Lin awoke as a Soul Body and wondered where the Plane's Embryo had sent him.

After arriving in the Greater World as a soul, Xiao Lin found himself inside a suspended coffin in the ruined hall of the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm. He hid there when Wen Bufan and Wu Du entered and began fighting, leaving him to watch their battle from inside the coffin.

• Xiao Lin used his Emperor Realm Soul Power to explore the darkness and realized he was inside a coffin suspended in a ruined hall.
• Xiao Lin guessed the hall was deep within a Secret Realm and decided to leave the coffin, but a commotion outside made him stay hidden.
• Wen Bufan and Wu Du, rival clan prodigies and Fourth Grade Sovereigns, fought their way into the hall after exploring the Six Desires Palace Secret Realm.
• Wen Bufan and Wu Du exchanged blows and taunts while Xiao Lin watched their fierce battle from inside the coffin.