Recaps

Xiao Lin helped the Jia Ma Empire win the Four Great Empires’ tournament, then returned to the Xiao Household to develop its resources and support Xiao Zhan. The arc ended with Xiao Zhan marrying Yang Xiyue, while Xiao Lin discovered Yao Chen’s soul sleeping in her ring and remembered his late wife, Yun'er.

• Yun Shan accepted Xiao Zhan as his disciple, while Xiao Lin returned to the Xiao Household and helped it expand with the Misty Cloud Sect’s support.
• Xiao Lin broke through to Two-Star Dou Venerable and joined the Jia Ma Empire’s delegation, where Yun Shan revealed his own breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Lin led the Jia Ma Empire’s Dou Wang fighters, defeating three opponents before Yun Shan beat Yan Luotian in the Dou Zong match.
• Xiao Lin defeated Xie Biyan in the final Dou Zong battle, securing first place and a share of the border resources for the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Lin refined Third-Rank formation disks, gave Xiao Zhan protective gifts, and postponed his journey to the Central Plains to spend time with the ailing Xiao Dongcheng.
• Xiao Zhan returned with Yang Xiyue, explained how he had rescued her and defeated her pursuers, and gained Xiao Lin’s support for their marriage.
• Xiao Lin recognized Yang Xiyue’s ring as the one that held Yao Chen’s sleeping soul and secretly monitored him without alerting the couple.
• Xiao Lin arranged Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue’s wedding, which they celebrated with guests from across the Jia Ma Empire, while Xiao Lin remembered Yun'er.

Xiao Lin avenged the Yang Household, then repaired Starfall Pavilion’s formation and advanced to Nine-Star Dou Venerable. When Kunwu confronted him over destroying the Qi Household, Xiao Lin subdued him and headed for Yellow Springs Pavilion to stop its elders from retaliating.

• Xiao Lin entrusted the Xiao Household to Xiao Zhan and the elders, then traveled to the Central Plains to avenge Yang Xiyue’s family.
• Xiao Lin destroyed the Qi Household in Baiting City after warning the onlookers to leave, then continued his travels and met Xu Mo in Heavenly Star City.
• Xiao Lin proved his formation skills to Starfall Pavilion’s leaders and agreed to repair the Starfall Formation in exchange for a piece of its Stellar Fragment.
• Xiao Lin repaired the formation and absorbed the Astral Power around Starfall Pavilion for nearly three months, advancing from Four-Star to Nine-Star Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Lin received a one-meter Stellar Fragment and left Starfall Pavilion, unaware that two hidden figures had recognized him as the man who destroyed the Qi Household.
• Kunwu pursued Xiao Lin on behalf of Yellow Springs Pavilion and demanded that he answer for the Qi Household’s destruction.
• Xiao Lin struck Kunwu down with a Starry Hand, spared his life, and carried him toward Yellow Springs Pavilion to prevent retaliation from its elders.

After forcing Yellow Springs Pavilion to answer for Kunwu, Xiao Lin returned home, arranged a profitable alliance with the Snake-People Tribe, and welcomed the birth of Xiao Li. He then traveled to the Space Trading Assembly, where he met the Nine-Star Dou Venerable Ji Li and examined his formation diagrams.

• Xiao Lin forced Yellow Springs Venerable to kill Kunwu, then accepted compensation and left Yellow Springs Pavilion, which was sealed for ten years as news of the confrontation spread.
• Xiao Lin evaded Soul Hall’s recruitment attempt, returned to the Xiao Household, met his grandson Xiao Ding, and told Yang Xiyue that he had avenged her family.
• Xiao Lin traveled to the Tagor Desert and negotiated with Queen Medusa for the Snake-People Tribe to guard the Xiao Household’s caravans in exchange for half their net profits.
• Xiao Lin returned home, helped establish the caravan alliance, and crafted Formation Disks while awaiting Yang Xiyue’s delivery of Xiao Li.
• Xiao Lin held the newborn Xiao Li and watched Xiao Ding meet his baby brother, then left the Xiao Household after spending time with his family.
• Xiao Lin returned to the Central Plains and entered the Space Trading Assembly, where he explored its marketplace ahead of the auction.
• Xiao Lin met Ji Li at a stall of formation diagrams, agreed to spar with him, and accepted Ji Li’s invitation to inspect the diagrams.

Xiao Lin joined Ji Li’s plan to investigate the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix clues, traded for a soul technique and Heavenly Flame, and later had a powerful dual-form weapon forged in the Thunder Realm. After growing stronger and learning to use the weapon, Xiao Lin met Ji Li and the other Formation Grandmasters at Falling Phoenix Ridge to prepare for their attempt to break the sealed formation.

• Ji Li recruited Xiao Lin to join eight other Formation Grandmasters in breaking a sealed formation tied to clues about the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Xiao Lin and Ji Li attended the Space Trading Assembly, where Xiao Lin traded a High-Tier Formation Disk for the Three Transformations of the Returning Soul and acquired the Tiger Tendon needed for his weapon.
• Ji Li traded a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map for the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, then led Xiao Lin into an ambush by the Gao Brothers.
• Xiao Lin killed Gao Tian while Ji Li killed Gao Hai, and the two agreed to meet again in three years when the formation was weakest.
• Xiao Lin visited the Thunder Realm, where Lei Xiu forged his materials into the Zhuiyue Blade and its bow form, the Zhuri Bow.
• Xiao Lin cultivated to Three-Star Dou Venerable, trained with the Lei Clan for half a year, and left after Ji Li summoned him to Falling Phoenix Ridge.
• The eight invited Formation Grandmasters gathered at Falling Phoenix Ridge, and Xiao Lin arrived to complete the group of nine.