Recaps

After awakening his past-life memories, Xiao Lin developed the Star Codex and went to war, where he exposed Grand Marshal Mo Ya’s treason and helped defeat the Cloud Empire. He returned home, promised Xiao Zhan he would leave military service, and began teaching his son to cultivate.

• Xiao Lin returned from war to find Wen Lingyun dead, and grief awakened his past-life memories and Heavenly Realm Soul Power.
• Xiao Lin recovered, recognized his place in the story, and spent five years transforming the Starlight Formula into the Earth-tier Star Codex.
• After reaching Four-Star Dou Emperor, Xiao Lin hid his strength and joined Mu Chen’s deployment to the front lines against the Cloud Empire.
• Mo Ya assigned Xiao Lin to rescue Nalan Jie’s trapped squad, and Xiao Lin suspected the marshal was conspiring with the enemy.
• Xiao Lin killed a Cloud Empire poison master, destroyed the enemy squad trapping Nalan Jie, and used the poison master’s scent-marking method to lure Mo Ya and Ghost Spider together.
• Ghost Spider and Mo Ya fought in the Black Rock Mountains and died in a mutual explosion as Xiao Lin and Mu Chen watched.
• Xiao Lin rescued Nalan Jie, exposed Mo Ya’s treason, and helped the Jia Ma Empire defeat the Cloud Empire before the war ended in peace.
• Xiao Lin returned to Xiao Zhan, promised to resign as a general, and began teaching his six-year-old son to cultivate.

Xiao Lin strengthened the Xiao Household, joined the Jia Ma Empire’s expedition into a secret realm, and discovered a Formation Pavilion that tested his skill. He became Formation Old Man’s disciple and learned to form a Spirit Seal, while inheriting a clue to the lost Myriad Formation Spirit Palace.

• After the war ended, Xiao Lin displayed himself as a Battle King and helped establish the Xiao Household among the empire’s Four Great Families.
• Xiao Lin attended the Mittel Family’s grand auction, bought cultivation supplies for the Xiao Household, and obtained the Basic Formation Annotations.
• Mittel Tengshan revealed that a damaged Secret Realm would soon collapse, prompting Jia Xing Tian, Yun Shan, and other Jia Ma Empire factions to unite for an expedition.
• Xiao Lin led Xiao Household cultivators into the Secret Realm and killed Yan Bohong, a Five-Star Battle King who had tried to assassinate him.
• Xiao Lin entered a nine-story pavilion and mastered the Nine Fundamental Formations, aided by the pavilion’s altered flow of time.
• Formation Old Man revealed that he had created the pavilion and chose Xiao Lin as his heir after seeing him carry the Basic Formation Annotations.
• Formation Old Man told Xiao Lin that the book concealed a clue to the lost Myriad Formation Spirit Palace and warned him not to seek its former site until he was strong enough.
• Formation Old Man taught Xiao Lin to condense Spirit Seals and spent his remaining soul power helping Xiao Lin form his first one.

Xiao Lin secured the Formation Pavilion inheritance, killed Ying Changkong, and strengthened the Xiao Household before learning of its ancient decline. After leaving home to train, he entered the Black-Corner Region and followed a Dou Emperor who was targeting Jia Nan Academy students.

• Xiao Lin escaped the collapsing Formation Pavilion with a fragment of Formation Old Man’s soul, then faced the Falling Goose Empire’s forces and a demand from Ying Changkong to surrender his treasures.
• Xiao Lin lured Ying Changkong away from the Jia Ma Empire’s group, then killed him after Yun Shan’s intervention helped him avoid an earlier attack.
• Xiao Lin gave Ying Changkong’s Storage Ring to Xiao Dongcheng and spent two years strengthening the Xiao Household, advancing to Dou Zong and becoming a Level Three Spirit Array Master.
• Xiao Dongcheng revealed the Xiao Household’s history of powerful ancestors dying before old age, and Xiao Lin suspected the Hun Clan had orchestrated the family’s decline.
• Xiao Lin told Xiao Zhan and Xiao Dongcheng he would leave to train, and Nalan Jie agreed to protect the Xiao Household while he was away.
• Xiao Lin entered the Black-Corner Region disguised as a Dou Zong, killed four Dou Ling bandits, and continued into the lawless territory.
• Xiao Lin spotted a Dou Emperor secretly following a Dou Wang elder and four Jia Nan Academy students, and followed him to make contact with the academy.

Lin Xiao joined Jia Nan Academy as an elder and improved the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower with Spirit-Gathering Formations, then advanced to Three-Star Dou Zong. While caring for Zi Yan, he accompanied her into the Black-Corner Region to raid powerful factions for medicinal ingredients, leaving the Blood Sect suspecting a rival faction had framed Jia Nan Academy.

• Lin Xiao saved Huo Dian and four Jia Nan Academy students from Jing Gui, killed Jing Gui, and asked Huo Dian about becoming an academy elder.
• Su Qian accepted Lin Xiao as an elder after learning he was a Dou Zong and Formation Master, and Lin Xiao set up Spirit-Gathering Formations throughout the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• Lin Xiao cultivated in the tower, advanced to Three-Star Dou Zong, and agreed to look after Su Qian’s granddaughter, Zi Yan.
• Lin Xiao and Zi Yan raided Huo Dian’s residence and other elders’ homes for medicinal ingredients, while Lin Xiao’s spatial mastery improved.
• Lin Xiao revealed his strength to Zi Yan and persuaded Su Qian to let them travel to the Black-Corner Region to target dangerous factions.
• Zi Yan chose the Blood Sect as their first target, and she and Lin Xiao stole its medicinal materials while Lin Xiao left a message blaming Jia Nan Academy.
• Fan Lao found the message and concluded that another faction had framed Jia Nan Academy, while Zi Yan chose the Ghost Emperor Hall as their next target.