Recaps

Xiao Lin and Zi Yan framed the Black Hell Alliance for the thefts of several factions’ medicinal herbs, drawing their leaders into a confrontation that let Jia Nan Academy destroy the alliance. Xiao Lin returned to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan, while the surviving factions accepted the public explanation but continued to suspect other powers.

• Fan Lao and the other faction leaders linked the stolen herbs to a likely Dou Zong-level culprit, and Su Qian and Xiao Lin turned their request for help into a plan to target the Black Hell Alliance.
• Xiao Lin met the faction leaders at the Blood Sect and led them toward the Black Hell Alliance after a disciple claimed to have tracked a seller of stolen ingredients there.
• Zi Yan lured Fan Lao and the faction leaders into Luo You’s residence, where they found burned storage boxes from their medicinal vaults and concluded the Black Hell Alliance had destroyed evidence.
• Kuang Feiyu arrived, declared his intent to unify the Black-Corner Region, and led the Black Hell Alliance into battle against the assembled factions.
• Xiao Lin fought Kuang Feiyu, discovered the weakness of his Shadow Doppelganger, trapped both of his bodies in the Void Locking Spirit Formation, and killed them with God-Slaying Finger.
• With Kuang Feiyu dead, the faction leaders killed the Black Hell Alliance’s five Dou Emperor experts, and the alliance collapsed as its forces fled, surrendered, or fought on.
• Xiao Lin divided the alliance’s resources with the factions, who promised to protect Jia Nan Academy students, while Yin Gu Lao, Su Mei, and Tie Wu privately suspected the alliance had been framed.
• Xiao Lin returned to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan as the surviving leaders prepared to compete for the region’s interests.

Xiao Lin represented Jia Nan Academy at the Heavenly Serpent Empire’s Founding Ceremony and watched the Imperial Family maneuver against the Heavenly Serpent Mansion. As the factions’ conflict erupted at the Heavenly Water Cold Pool, Xiao Lin refined the Crimson Flame Immortal Spirit Liquid and reached Nine-Star Dou Zong.

• Xiao Lin spent two years cultivating in the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, then built four formations around his pavilion and opened the Trial Grounds to Jia Nan Academy’s students.
• Xiao Lin accepted Su Qian’s assignment to assess the Heavenly Serpent Imperial Family’s intentions and traveled to the capital for its Founding Ceremony.
• Xiao Lin met the Heavenly Serpent Emperor, Earth Serpent, and Heavenly Serpent Mansion experts, then told Golden Snake that Jia Nan Academy would remain neutral unless provoked.
• The Heavenly Serpent Emperor served Crimson Flame Immortal Spirit Liquid to the gathered Dou Zong experts, and Xiao Lin discovered it was genuine but unfinished without an extreme-cold environment.
• The Heavenly Serpent Emperor directed the guests to the Heavenly Water Cold Pool, forcing Golden Snake to allow them access and exposing the conflict between the Imperial Family and Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
• As the guests entered the pool, the Heavenly Serpent Emperor and Golden Snake openly confronted each other over the Mansion’s control of the pool and Spatial Wormhole.
• The Water Serene Demon Python summoned the Former Mansion Lord, while Xiao Lin refined the liquid, advanced to Nine-Star Dou Zong, and healed his hidden internal injuries.

Xiao Lin helped the Heavenly Serpent Mansion take power, then returned to Jia Nan Academy to contain the Fallen Heart Flame and reached the Dou Venerable realm. He came home to the Xiao Household, revealed his strength to Xiao Dongcheng, and promised to protect the clan.

• Earth Snake betrayed the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, but the Former Mansion Lord defeated the Heavenly Serpent Emperor and took control of the empire.
• Xiao Lin infiltrated the imperial palace, killed Mystic Serpent, and took the imperial family’s Earth Rank techniques and cultivation methods.
• Xiao Lin witnessed the Heavenly Serpent Emperor’s defeat, then left for Jia Nan Academy as the Heavenly Serpent Mansion assumed power.
• Xiao Lin entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and used the Fire-Sealing Formation to bind the Fallen Heart Flame and absorb part of its origin.
• Xiao Lin broke through to Dou Venerable, prepared cultivation resources and formations for the Xiao Household, and left Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Lin constructed a Spatial Wormhole to reach the Jia Ma Empire and returned to the Xiao Household, reuniting with Xiao Zhan and Xiao Dongcheng.
• Xiao Lin told Xiao Dongcheng that he was a One-Star Dou Venerable with Mid-Heavenly Realm Soul Power and promised to protect the Xiao Household.

Xiao Lin became the Xiao Household’s patriarch, strengthened the clan, and negotiated with Yun Shan over the Misty Cloud Sect’s inheritance and the coming Sect Tournament. At Yun Yun’s investiture, Yun Shan named her Young Sect Master and hinted that the ceremony had another purpose.

• Xiao Lin succeeded Xiao Dongcheng as patriarch during Xiao Zhan’s coming-of-age ceremony, where Xiao Zhan tested as a Three-Star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Lin learned from Yun Shan that the Heavenly Serpent Imperial Family held the Misty Cloud Sect’s lost inheritance, and he agreed to keep the sect’s history private.
• Xiao Lin led the Xiao Household to destroy the Li Household and the Wang Household, then accepted responsibility for guarding the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Lin rebuilt the Scripture Pavilion, shared Earth Rank methods and techniques with the household’s senior members, and expanded the clan’s strength.
• Xiao Lin traveled to the Misty Cloud Sect with Xiao Zhan and proposed a deal to Yun Shan, agreeing to compete in the Sect Tournament two years later.
• Yun Shan defeated Hai Bodong in their challenge and revealed that a hidden expert in the Jia Ma Empire was stronger than himself, prompting Hai Bodong, Jia Xing Tian, and Fa Ma to suspect a Dou Zong was present.
• Yun Shan accepted Yun Yun as his disciple and named her the Misty Cloud Sect’s ninth-generation chief disciple and Young Sect Master.
• Yun Shan announced that Yun Yun’s investiture ceremony was only halfway done, while Xiao Lin stayed calm as Nalan Jie asked what was happening.