Recaps

The Soul Hall assembled seven Dou Sheng Experts at Fallen Peak for its decisive battle against the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, drawing a crowd of spectators from across the Central Plains. As the Soul Hall's forces welcomed their Hall Master, an even stronger presence began emerging from the Spatial Passage.

• Word spread that the Soul Hall and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance would fight their decisive battle at Fallen Peak, and crowds flooded the Fallen Mountain Range.
• On the morning of the battle, spectators gathered around Fallen Peak as a Spatial Passage opened above it.
• Hun Miesheng led Hun Qianmo and five other Soul Hall Dou Sheng Experts out of the passage.
• The passage remained open, and its growing black mist led spectators to speculate that the Hun Clan had sent more powerful reinforcements.
• Hun Miesheng, Hun Qianmo, and the other five experts bowed aside and welcomed their Hall Master as a presence emerged in the form of black mist.

The Hun Clan revealed that Hun Luo had replaced Hun Miesheng as Soul Hall Master, exposing one of its hidden fighters at Fallen Peak. The Heavenly Mansion Alliance answered his challenge with eleven Dou Sheng, and the battle between the two sides appeared imminent.

• The surrounding factions realized Hun Miesheng was no longer the Soul Hall Master and that the Hun Clan had concealed the change.
• The black mist formed into Hun Luo, a sickly-looking hidden fighter of the Hun Clan whose strength matched the Four Demon Saints at Late-Stage Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Hun Luo called on the Heavenly Mansion Alliance to show itself.
• Eleven Dou Sheng from the Heavenly Mansion Alliance appeared above Fallen Peak, astonishing the watching factions.
• The factions recognized that the confrontation could decide whether the Soul Hall or the Heavenly Mansion Alliance survived.

Xiao Lin and Hun Tiandi watched the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and Soul Hall prepare for battle, while Hun Tiandi probed Xiao Lin about his knowledge of the Soul Hall’s new Hall Master and his interest in Xiao Yan. Xiao Lin concealed his deeper understanding and insisted that Xiao Yan could become a Dou Emperor, a claim Hun Tiandi dismissed as impossible.

• Xiao Lin and Hun Tiandi secretly watched the coming battle in the Fallen Mountain Range after Hun Tiandi invited Xiao Lin to join him.
• Hun Tiandi questioned Xiao Lin’s lack of surprise at Hun Luo replacing the Soul Hall’s former Hall Master, and Xiao Lin pretended to be surprised.
• Hun Tiandi asked whether Xiao Lin had anticipated the day’s events and probed why he seemed unconcerned about the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Lin admitted that he thought highly of Xiao Yan and said the young man might become a Dou Emperor.
• Hun Tiandi dismissed Xiao Lin’s prediction because he believed only someone with access to Origin Qi could become a Dou Emperor, while Xiao Lin said Hun Tiandi would live to see it.

At Fallen Peak, Xiao Yan faced Hun Luo, the newly appointed Soul Hall Master, as the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and Soul Hall prepared for battle. Though he knew Hun Luo was far stronger than him, Xiao Yan accepted Hun Luo’s challenge, and the decisive battle was about to begin.

• Hun Luo introduced himself as the Soul Hall’s new Hall Master and revealed that Hun Miesheng had been removed from the position.
• Xiao Yan mocked Hun Miesheng and traded defiant words with Hun Luo, while recognizing that Hun Luo’s strength rivaled the late-stage Seven-Star Dou Saints.
• Hun Luo declared that Xiao Yan would not be allowed to grow into another Lin Xiao and challenged the Heavenly Mansion Alliance to stake everything on the coming battle.
• Hun Luo unleashed a soul attack, but Xiao Yan stood firm and accepted the challenge.

Xiao Yan accepted Hun Luo’s proposal to decide the conflict between the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and the Soul Hall through three battles, with two victories claiming the win. Hun Miesheng and Xiao Chen stepped forward for the first fight, and Xiao Chen launched an attack.

• Hun Luo proposed a three-battle contest, with each side choosing three fighters and two victories deciding the outcome.
• Xiao Yan agreed that the contest was preferable to an all-out war between the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and the Soul Hall.
• Hun Miesheng volunteered to fight first for the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Chen stepped forward to represent the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, and Hun Miesheng mocked him for losing a thousand years of growth.
• Xiao Chen declared he would kill Hun Miesheng and attacked with his blood axe.

Xiao Chen and Hun Miesheng fought fiercely as the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and Soul Hall watched. Xiao Chen gained the advantage with his Three Heaven Breaking Axes, forcing Hun Miesheng to summon the Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-Flame, whose devouring power began to spread.

• Xiao Chen and Hun Miesheng exchanged dozens of blows while the onlookers debated who would win.
• Hun Miesheng used Ghost Dance Hand, but Xiao Chen shattered it with his Three Heaven Breaking Axes.
• Hun Miesheng countered the first axe strike with Star Soul Slash, but Xiao Chen’s second strike broke through and left him in danger.
• Hun Miesheng summoned the Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-Flame, and Hun Qianmo remarked that it should decide the battle.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame react but left the fight to Xiao Chen as Hun Miesheng formed a pitch-black vortex of flame.

Xiao Chen broke through Hun Miesheng’s flame defense with his Three Heaven Breaking Axes and injured him, then answered his opponent’s techniques with relentless axe strikes. Hun Miesheng and Xiao Chen both prepared decisive attacks, leaving their clash unresolved as Myriad Souls Worship met Xiao Chen’s Firmament Slash.

• Hun Miesheng’s pitch-black flame vortex swallowed Xiao Chen’s first two axe strikes, but the third shattered it and sent Hun Miesheng flying with a minor injury.
• Xiao Chen repeatedly countered Hun Miesheng’s Star Soul Slash, Demon Soul Fission, and Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-Flame with axe strikes.
• Hun Miesheng decided to risk everything and unleashed the soul technique Myriad Souls Worship at Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen prepared his strongest attack and swung out Firmament Slash as Hun Miesheng’s soul sound formed a sharp arrow.

Xiao Chen and Hun Miesheng struck each other with their strongest attacks and both lost the ability to fight, so Xiao Yan and Hun Luo agreed to call the first battle a draw. As the second battle began, Hun Qianmo stepped forward.

• Xiao Chen chose to meet Hun Miesheng’s Myriad Souls Worship head-on while Hun Miesheng faced Xiao Chen’s Firmament Slash.
• The attacks struck, and their shockwaves forced nearby spectators to retreat as they struggled to see through the chaotic battlefield.
• Xiao Yan and a Soul Hall Dou Sheng rushed in and carried Xiao Chen and Hun Miesheng back to their respective sides.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Chen medicinal pills and reassured him that he had fought well, while Xiao Chen returned to recover.
• Hun Luo proposed a draw for the first match, Xiao Yan agreed, and Hun Qianmo stepped forward to begin the second battle.

Xiao Yan interrupted the Pill Tower Ancestor’s plan to fight Hun Qianmo and volunteered for the second battle, believing the Heavenly Mansion Alliance needed to win it. He promised to defeat Hun Qianmo and stepped forward to face him.

• Hun Qianmo volunteered to fight for the Soul Hall, and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance considered the Pill Tower Ancestor its best opponent.
• Xiao Yan stopped the Pill Tower Ancestor and asked whether he could defeat Hun Qianmo; the Ancestor said he could at least avoid losing.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Alliance needed to win the second battle because Hun Luo was expected to win the final one.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor agreed to let Xiao Yan fight Hun Qianmo and offered to hold Hun Luo off if necessary.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward and appeared in front of Hun Qianmo.

Xiao Yan provoked Hun Qianmo and agreed to Hun Luo’s condition that a fourth battle would follow if the second and third ended with one victory each. Hun Tiandi suspected Xiao Lin was the stronger fighter Xiao Yan had promised, but Xiao Lin denied it and reminded Hun Tiandi why he had invited him to Fallen Peak.

• Xiao Yan taunted Hun Qianmo about once begging Xiao Xuan for mercy, enraging him until Hun Luo stopped him.
• Hun Luo accused Xiao Yan of avoiding their life-and-death battle, but Xiao Yan said someone stronger would face him instead.
• Hun Luo proposed a fourth battle between himself and Xiao Yan if Hun Qianmo lost the second battle and Hun Luo won the third, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• Hun Tiandi watched Xiao Lin, suspecting he was the fighter Xiao Yan had in mind, but Xiao Lin denied it and reminded him that he had been invited to watch in case he helped the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.

Xiao Lin watched the battle between Xiao Yan and Hun Qianmo alongside Hun Tiandi, who doubted that the Heavenly Mansion Alliance had anyone capable of defeating Hun Luo. Xiao Yan overwhelmed Hun Qianmo, who revived himself with a secret technique, and the fight continued with Xiao Yan still in control.

• Hun Tiandi questioned Xiao Lin about Xiao Yan’s confidence, while Xiao Lin remained unconcerned and said Hun Tiandi would see for himself.
• Xiao Yan defeated Hun Qianmo in three moves, sending him crashing through several mountain peaks.
• Xiao Yan mocked Hun Qianmo, who used the Soul-Devouring Spirit-Restoring Technique to regain his youth and boost his strength.
• Hun Qianmo attacked with the Great Desolation Demonic Halberd, but Xiao Yan shattered it with one punch from the Diamond Glass Body.
• Xiao Yan taunted Hun Qianmo again and declared that he would die if that was all he could do.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Hun Qianmo in their second battle, revealing combat strength far beyond his apparent cultivation. After wearing Hun Qianmo down, Xiao Yan killed him with a Fire Lotus before he could surrender, while Hun Luo grew wary of Xiao Yan’s power.

• Xiao Yan broke Hun Qianmo’s Great Desolation Demonic Halberd and smashed apart the mountain Hun Qianmo displaced to shield himself.
• Hun Qianmo’s Thousand Demon Illusory Destruction Break failed to hit Xiao Yan, who displaced himself behind Hun Qianmo and struck him with Six Harmonies Wandering Body Ruler—Six Harmonies Fire.
• Hun Luo watched Xiao Yan dominate Hun Qianmo and realized Xiao Yan could likely fight an Early Seven-Star Dou Saint, even without using his Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan battered Hun Qianmo until his rejuvenation secret technique ended and he returned to his elderly form.
• Xiao Yan formed and launched a Fire Lotus, killing Hun Qianmo before he could finish surrendering.

Xiao Yan killed Hun Qianmo by luring him into fighting on despite being outmatched, then destroyed him with a Destruction Fire Lotus. The Heavenly Mansion Alliance took the second match, leaving the identity of its fighter for the decisive third battle unknown.

• Xiao Yan kept Hun Qianmo fighting by hiding his full strength and wearing him down until Hun Qianmo could no longer retreat safely.
• Xiao Yan killed Hun Qianmo with a Destruction Fire Lotus, leaving no trace of him behind.
• Spectators marveled at Xiao Yan's victory, while the Heavenly Mansion Alliance celebrated and the Soul Hall's side looked grim.
• Hun Luo acknowledged that the Heavenly Mansion Alliance had won the second match.
• The crowd anticipated the third match against Hun Luo, while the Heavenly Mansion Alliance's fighter remained a mystery.

After the Heavenly Mansion Alliance won the second battle, Hun Luo appeared for the third and demanded to know who would face him, while Xiao Yan waited anxiously for the powerful uncle his grandfather had promised. The chapter left Xiao Lin under Hun Tiandi’s close watch, with the third battle’s opponent still undecided.

• The Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s victory in the second battle did little to ease fears that Hun Luo would kill whoever they sent out next.
• Hun Luo appeared on Fallen Peak and challenged Xiao Yan to name the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s fighter for the third battle.
• Xiao Yan searched for the promised uncle, while the Pill Tower Ancestor offered to fight and Xiao Yan refused to risk his life.
• Hun Tiandi watched Xiao Lin and sealed off their area to prevent him from going to Fallen Peak, leaving Xiao Lin speechless.

Xiao Lin revealed that Nine Profound Golden Lightning had joined the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, leading Hun Tiandi to realize the Soul Hall would lose its confrontation with the Heavenly Mansion Alliance. Hun Tiandi left in anger, while Hun Luo wondered why lightning was appearing in the clouds he had summoned.

• Hun Tiandi explained that he kept Xiao Lin under watch because Xiao Lin was unpredictable, and Xiao Lin hinted that the sky would reveal who would face Hun Luo.
• Hun Tiandi noticed lightning power in the dark clouds above Fallen Peak and connected it to Nine Profound Golden Lightning, who had vanished after appearing in the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xiao Lin confirmed Nine Profound Golden Lightning had joined the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace with a smile, and Hun Tiandi concluded the Soul Hall had lost before leaving.
• Xiao Lin enjoyed Hun Tiandi's angry departure, then thunder and lightning appeared among the clouds above Fallen Peak.
• Hun Luo wondered why lightning had appeared, since the dark clouds he summoned were meant only as visual effects.

Xuan Ting appeared above Fallen Peak and offered to fight the third battle between the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and the Soul Hall. Xiao Yan accepted his help and called him uncle, though he still did not know why his grandfather had described Xuan Ting that way.

• A terrifying power of lightning gathered over Fallen Peak, and Hun Luo demanded that whoever was behind it reveal himself.
• Xiao Yan and the Pill Tower Ancestor recognized the signs of the person from the Demonic Flame Space, while Xiao Yan insisted he did not know why that person was intervening.
• Xuan Ting emerged amid the lightning and declared that he would take the third battle.
• Hun Luo recognized Xuan Ting as the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, and onlookers learned that he had met Xiao Yan in the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xuan Ting asked Xiao Yan for permission to take the battle, and Xiao Yan agreed, addressing him as Uncle Xuan Ting.

Xuan Ting backed Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, then faced Soul Hall Master Hun Luo in battle. Hun Luo unleashed the Heavenly Spring Soul River, drawing Xuan Ting’s serious attention as their fight escalated.

• Xiao Yan called Xuan Ting “Uncle Xuan Ting,” leading those around Fallen Peak to realize they were connected and giving the Heavenly Mansion Alliance a powerful backer.
• Hun Luo threatened Xuan Ting with the Hun Clan, but Xuan Ting refused to back down and agreed to fight for Xiao Yan.
• Hun Luo opened the battle with his Rending Blade, but Xuan Ting dispelled the attack with a single stamp.
• Hun Luo formed seals and summoned the Heavenly Spring Soul River from the horizon toward Fallen Peak.
• Xuan Ting showed renewed interest and became more serious as Hun Luo’s river reached the battlefield.

Hun Luo trapped Xuan Ting inside a river of dead souls and unleashed its attacks, but Xuan Ting’s lightning withstood and began to evaporate the river. Both fighters recognized that their stalemate would not end soon and prepared to decide the battle with one decisive strike.

• Hun Luo summoned the Soul River and enclosed himself and Xuan Ting within it.
• Hun Luo sent the river’s Soul Bodies to attack, but Xuan Ting destroyed them with lightning.
• Xuan Ting unleashed Tribulation Lightning of All Living Beings, striking both the Soul Bodies and the Soul River.
• Hun Luo used Soul Sea Overturns the World to raise a towering wave that swallowed Xuan Ting, alarming Xiao Yan.
• Xuan Ting emerged unharmed inside a sphere of golden lightning, and he and Hun Luo resolved to settle the fight with a single strike.

Xuan Ting and Hun Luo fought their third battle, with Hun Luo staking everything on merging into the Soul River and drawing Xuan Ting inside. Xuan Ting destroyed the river with his lightning and survived, while Hun Luo died.

• Xuan Ting and Hun Luo exchanged attacks that flattened the surrounding mountaintops.
• Hun Luo challenged Xuan Ting to enter the Soul River for his final strike, and Xuan Ting accepted.
• Hun Luo merged himself into the Soul River, which turned black and surged around Xuan Ting after he plunged inside.
• After a prolonged struggle, the Soul River shrank and a streak of golden lightning burst from its depths.
• Xuan Ting's lightning evaporated the Soul River, leaving him alone at Fallen Peak and Hun Luo dead.

Xuan Ting killed Hun Luo, securing the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s victory over the Soul Hall, though the battle left him nearly exhausted. Hun Miesheng agreed to disband the Soul Hall within three days and warned Xiao Yan that the Hun Clan would retaliate.

• Xuan Ting announced Hun Luo’s death after defeating him, and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance celebrated its victory.
• Xuan Ting admitted to Xiao Lin that Hun Luo had been difficult to kill, then returned with him to the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.
• Xiao Yan reminded the remaining Soul Hall members that they had lost the best-of-three contest and had agreed to disband if defeated.
• Xiao Yan threatened to destroy the Soul Hall himself if Hun Miesheng refused to honor the agreement.
• Hun Miesheng announced that the Soul Hall would disband within three days and warned that the Hun Clan would remember the humiliation.

After forcing the Soul Hall to disband, the Heavenly Mansion Alliance became one of the Central Plains’ two leading factions, and Xiao Yan’s strength and reputation soared. The alliance curbed its members’ conduct as its ranks grew, while the consequences of the battle at Fallen Peak continued to reverberate three months later.

• Hun Miesheng handed over the locations of the Soul Hall’s branches, declared the Soul Hall disbanded, and left Fallen Peak with five surviving Hun Clan Dou Sheng Experts.
• The Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s victory spread across the Central Plains, where the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace congratulated it and began strengthening ties with its factions.
• People praised Xiao Yan for defeating Hun Qianmo and learned of his connection to Uncle Xuan Ting, further elevating his standing within the alliance.
• The alliance leadership banned members from acting arrogantly or tyrannically and threatened to expel anyone who violated the order.
• More experts joined the Heavenly Mansion Alliance as its strength grew, and three months passed while the aftershocks of the battle continued.

Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs after greatly improving their strength and returned to Starfall Pavilion. They learned that Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance had destroyed the Soul Hall, and were left astonished by his victory over a Six-Star Dou Sheng.

• Medusa completed her transformation into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and reached Late Four-Star Dou Sheng, while Xiao Yi Xian advanced to Late-Stage Two-Star Dou Sheng.
• Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian left the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and noticed celebrations as they traveled through the Heavenly Mansion Alliance's territory.
• At Starfall Pavilion, the women learned that Hun Miesheng had announced the Soul Hall's dissolution and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance had cleared out its branch halls.
• The women heard that Xiao Yan had killed a Six-Star Dou Sheng during the battle at Fallen Peak and reacted with shock.
• Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, and the others took turns telling Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian about recent events.

Six months after the Soul Hall’s destruction, Nalan Yanran broke through to the Dou Sheng Realm with Xiao Yan’s help, bringing all five of his women to that rank. With Xiao Ding and Xiao Li also having reached One-Star Dou Sheng, the story left the Xiao family and its allies poised for an age of Dou Shengs.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian, then welcomed Gu Xun'er back, and spent time with all five women before everyone resumed cultivation.
• Six months after the Soul Hall’s destruction, Nalan Yanran emerged from seclusion amid powerful Spiritual Energy fluctuations and reached the Dou Sheng Realm.
• Xiao Yan had used Bodhi Seeds to refine a Bodhi Great Return Pill, then combined it with Demon Saint Essence Blood and the Bodhi Heart to help Nalan Yanran reach Late-Stage Two-Star Dou Sheng.
• Nalan Yanran celebrated her breakthrough by kissing Xiao Yan in front of everyone.
• Xiao Yan’s elder brothers, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, had also used Demon Saint Essence Blood to reach One-Star Dou Sheng.

The Xiao Household prepared to relocate from the Northwest Continent to the Central Plains after the Soul Hall’s destruction, bringing small groups from allied factions to establish outposts. Xiao Yan returned with his family and ended up tricked by Xiao Lin into taking charge of the move.

• Xiao Zhan and Xiao Lin’s plan to move the Xiao Household to the Central Plains went ahead, with Xiao Lin relying on his strength, Xiao Yan’s family, and their allies for protection.
• The Xiao Household invited small groups from the Nalan Family and the Misty Cloud Sect to establish outposts in the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yan returned with Xiao Li, Xiao Ding, their wives, and Xiao Xiao, and learned that the Xiao Household was moving after arriving three days earlier.
• Xiao Lin and Xiao Yan lounged while the clan prepared to leave, and Xiao Lin guilted Xiao Yan into volunteering to manage the move.
• Xiao Yan realized from Xiao Lin’s satisfied smile that his grandfather had maneuvered him into taking on the work.

Xiao Lin assigned Xiao Yan the exhausting task of moving the Xiao Realm to the Central Plains using Spatial Displacement. After a month of preparations, Xiao Yan transported the realm over seven days, bringing the Xiao Household to its new home.

• Xiao Lin persuaded Xiao Yan to take responsibility for moving the Xiao Realm, despite Xiao Yan's protests about his early Six-Star Dou Sheng cultivation.
• The Xiao Household spent another month preparing to relocate and notified its allies on the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Zhan led the assembled household members into the Xiao Realm, while some elders and guards stayed behind to protect the Ancestral Residence in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Yan used Spatial Displacement to move the Xiao Realm and entered the Spatial Passage he had opened.
• After seven days, Xiao Yan brought the Xiao Realm to the Central Plains, exhausted, and the Xiao Household arrived.