Recaps

Xiao Lin and Ji Li helped Huang Wuji destroy the Dark Demon King, then used the rewards and hidden space to establish Myriad Formation Spirit Palace. The arc ended with Huang Wuji’s egg hatching and Xiao Lin welcoming the last Ancient Heavenly Phoenix into the sect.

• Ji Li brought Xiao Lin and eight Formation Grandmasters to Falling Phoenix Ridge, where they broke the seal and entered the hidden space of the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Ji Li confessed that he had brought them to slay a demon, and the group found Huang Wuji on the black Wutong Tree, only for Xiao Lin and Ji Li to expose him as the Dark Demon King in disguise.
• Xiao Lin and Ji Li fought the Dark Demon King while the Formation Grandmasters supported them, and Xiao Lin advanced as a Spirit Array Master to activate the Myriad Lightning Demon-Slaying Formation.
• The Dark Demon King broke through Xiao Lin’s formation, but the true Huang Wuji appeared and burned his soul to destroy the demon with the Nirvana Holy Flame.
• Huang Wuji entrusted his egg and the hidden space to Xiao Lin and his companions, who absorbed the Energy Crystals and grew stronger over the following month.
• Xiao Lin proposed establishing Myriad Formation Spirit Palace in the hidden space and jointly raising Huang Wuji’s egg, and the eight Formation Grandmasters agreed to become its founders.
• The founders built Myriad Formation Spirit Palace in the Northern Region, recruited disciples, and developed its formation teachings while Xiao Lin served as palace master and Ji Li as second palace master.
• The Ancient Heavenly Phoenix egg absorbed the Cangwu tree’s Essence of Life and hatched into a seven-colored bird, which Xiao Lin named Tian Huangzi and welcomed as a member of the sect.

Xiao Lin welcomed Xiao Yan into the family, arranged his betrothal to Nalan Yanran, and destroyed the Chek Family before confronting Yan Penghong and uncovering the Soul Hall’s involvement. He faked a grave injury to conceal his strength and withdraw from public life, then stepped down as clan head and left Xiao Zhan in charge.

• Xiao Lin named the hatchling Tian Huangzi, then returned to the Northwest Continent and met the newborn Xiao Yan, who gradually grew comfortable with him.
• Xiao Lin agreed with Nalan Jie to betroth Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan resolved to reconsider the arrangement when he was older.
• Gu He asked Xiao Lin to help destroy the Chek Family, and Xiao Lin wiped it out after discovering its mass grave of victims.
• Xiao Lin accepted Yan Penghong’s duel challenge, defeated him, and learned that the Soul Hall and Protector Wu had transformed him before a restriction destroyed his body.
• Xiao Lin returned to the Xiao Household pretending to be gravely injured, drawing attention from factions across the capital while secretly focusing on becoming stronger.
• Yun Shan recognized Xiao Lin’s act and helped him conceal his strength by spreading news that his condition might worsen and his power could decline.
• Xiao Lin told Xiao Zhan he planned to step down as clan head, and three months later Xiao Zhan took over the Xiao Household.

The Xiao Household relocated to Wutan City while Xiao Lin recruited the Ye Family into the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace in exchange for access to the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Xiao Lin entered Danta’s Star Domain and defeated the flame, destroying its intelligence as he prepared to absorb it.

• Xiao Zhan moved the Xiao Household’s center of development to Wutan City, leaving Xiao Lin and several elders at the capital’s ancestral residence.
• Gu Yuan brought Gu Xun’er to the Xiao Household under the name Xiao Xun’er, and Xiao Zhan welcomed her as a member of the family.
• Xiao Lin sought a chance to approach the Three Thousand Burning Flame and proposed that the Ye Family join his palace in exchange for its Danta elder seat.
• After seeing the Lei Clan’s ties to Xiao Lin, Ye Zhong agreed to move the Ye Family to the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace and trade its Danta seat for Xiao Lin’s chance to enter the Star Domain.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the Star Domain passage, and Xiao Lin found the Three Thousand Burning Flame and began fighting it.
• Xiao Lin endured the flame swallowing him and turned its power into a source of strength, but the Three Thousand Burning Flame rejected his attempts to persuade it to submit.
• Xiao Lin unleashed Star River Annihilation, crushing the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s body and soul and destroying its intelligence.

Xiao Lin subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame, returned home, and arranged for Yao Lao to mentor Xiao Yan. As Xiao Yan’s cultivation repeatedly regressed, Xiao Lin continued developing the Star Codex and returned to Wutan City, where he concealed what he knew about Xiao Yan’s trials.

• Xiao Lin destroyed the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s spiritual consciousness, absorbed it, and refined it over several months until he reached Nine-Transformation Peak Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Lin left Danta and returned to the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace, which attracted new disciples and the Ye Family while he focused on breaking through to Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Lin returned to the Xiao Household Ancestral Residence and spent nearly a year nourishing Yao Chen’s Remnant Soul until Yao Chen awakened.
• Xiao Lin persuaded Yao Chen to meet Xiao Yan and teach him medicine refinement, and Yao Chen agreed to take Xiao Yan as his disciple after recognizing his talent.
• Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue brought their children and Gu Xun’er to the ancestral residence, where Xiao Yan met his fiancée Nalan Yanran and the two agreed to surpass each other.
• Xiao Lin gave Xiao Yan a High-Rank Storage Ring and sent the Xiao Household back to Wutan City, then began developing the Star Codex into an entry-level Heaven Rank Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Yan’s cultivation fell from Ninth Stage Dou Qi to Three-Section Dou Qi, recovered to the Ninth Stage, and then regressed again as Yao Lao watched and Xun’er asked Ling Ying to investigate.
• Xiao Lin returned to Wutan City and privately discussed Xiao Yan’s trials with Yao Lao, but feigned ignorance when Xiao Yan asked whether he knew their cause.