Recaps

Yao Lao and Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Fan had risen to power in the Hall of Souls and faced a plan that could bring the continent’s factions into conflict. After Yao Lao imprisoned Xiao Fan’s messenger, Xiao Yan chose to stop hiding behind his Senior Brother, while rumors later claimed Yao Lao’s attempt to create a Small World had gravely injured him.

• Yao Lao and Xiao Yan read Xiao Fan’s plan, and Yao Lao imprisoned the Soul Form messenger rather than risk letting it leave.
• Yao Lao left the decision to Xiao Yan, who resolved to face the danger himself after recalling how Xiao Fan had protected and helped him.
• Yao Lao appeared at Starfall Pavilion’s banquet, then vanished amid spatial fluctuations that also took Mu Qingluan and several other experts.
• Rumors spread that Yao Lao had suffered a backlash while creating a Small World and that Mu Qingluan and the other missing experts had died in the upheaval.
• Yao Lao reappeared unharmed three days later, but observers took his appearance as evidence that he was badly injured, prompting new rumors that he might lose his Dou Sheng cultivation.

The Hall of Souls announced a campaign to slay the Medicine Saint, causing factions gathered outside Starfall Pavilion to reconsider their support. Xiao Yan and his allies prepared for the attack while Mo Shang invoked Heaven Hall’s authorization to silence objections within the Hall of Souls.

• The Hall of Souls sent airships toward Starfall Pavilion and declared its intention to slay the Medicine Saint, prompting factions to suspect rumors of his instability were true.
• Iron Sword Venerable condemned the wavering factions, while Venerable Feng revealed that Starfall Pavilion had staged the rumors and that Mu Qingluan and the others were safe.
• Xiao Yan instructed Yao Lao to take charge of Starfall Pavilion’s defensive Grand Array, and Heavenly Fire Venerable agreed to prepare for battle.
• Xiao Yan and his allies refused visitors, including Tang Zhen, which deepened outsiders’ suspicions that the Medicine Saint was near death.
• Venerable Heigu and other elders challenged Mo Shang’s Saint-Slaying plan, but Mo Shang revealed that Heaven Hall had approved the operation, ending their objections.

Xiao Fan recovered in the Spirit World's heavenly pool and absorbed the complete Moon God's Power. After discovering Tianchi was a peak Two-Star Dou Saint, he accepted her offer to call her big sister.

• The Hall of Souls elders accepted Heaven Hall's orders as the coming battle and the possibility of slaying a saint loomed.
• Tianchi helped Xiao Fan absorb energy from the heavenly pool while the full-moon mark reappeared on his forehead.
• Xiao Fan awoke, checked himself for restraints, and absorbed the complete Moon God's Power into the mark on his forehead.
• Xiao Fan used his Golden Eyes to identify Tianchi as a peak Two-Star Dou Saint and greeted her as Senior.
• Tianchi asked Xiao Fan to call her big sister, and he happily accepted.

Xiao Fan showed Tianchi his Chaos Flame, and she tested it despite his warning. The flame proved corrosive but could not overcome her Dou Sheng defenses, leaving Tianchi intrigued by its potential against seals.

• Tianchi examined Xiao Fan after his Chaos Flame blocked her gaze and wondered whether it was a new Heavenly Flame.
• Tianchi touched the Chaos Flame on Xiao Fan's chest, and it silently spread over the Dou Qi protecting her finger.
• Xiao Fan realized the flame could barely threaten a Dou Sheng Expert and that he would struggle to land it against one.
• Tianchi extinguished the Chaos Flame and considered whether it could be useful for burning through seals.

Tianchi confirmed that Yue Yao was still alive and had willingly accepted the Spirit Clan’s inheritance, though Xiao Fan believed someone else was controlling her body. As he resolved to awaken Yue Yao’s consciousness, Tianchi warned that meddling could kill her and challenged his understanding of the Spirit Clan and its history.

• Tianchi asked Xiao Fan when he had obtained the Moon God Mark, and he recalled receiving the Moon God's Power after Yue Yao gave him a pill at Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Fan asked whether Yue Yao was alive, and Tianchi confirmed that she was and had willingly accepted the inheritance after returning from the Black-Corner Region.
• Tianchi recalled Yue Yao’s past and explained that the inheritance had chosen her as the Spirit Clan’s Saintess.
• Xiao Fan resolved to awaken Yue Yao’s consciousness, but Tianchi warned that acting recklessly could kill her.
• Xiao Fan accused the Spirit Clan of taking over Yue Yao’s body, and Tianchi disputed his account and explained that the Spirit Clan’s people willingly served the Moon God.

Xiao Fan entered the Spirit Clan Ancestral Land with Tianchi, who warned that recklessness could cause Yue Yao to die and showed him the clan’s murals. As Xiao Fan viewed the first mural, Moon Shadow shielded him from its overwhelming power, and he witnessed a vision of an emperor and a god ruling over all races.

• Xiao Fan told Tianchi he did not care about the Spirit Clan’s affairs and asked why reckless action would cause Yue Yao to die.
• Tianchi transported Xiao Fan to the Spirit Clan Ancestral Land’s underground temple and explained that the clan’s Saintesses had an uncontrollable condition tied to achieving an outcome.
• The system triggered a mission for Xiao Fan to view all five murals and advanced the progress of Moon’s Sorrow to 1%.
• Xiao Fan focused on the first mural, whose pressure overwhelmed him and left him seeing only the painting.
• Moon Shadow appeared on Xiao Fan’s forehead and shielded him as he witnessed countless powerful beings kneeling before two figures, an emperor and a god.

After Xiao Fan saw a mural depicting two terrifying Dou Di, Tianchi revealed a second stone stele to him. As the stele pulled Xiao Fan into its vision, he heard its opening words mocking two sovereigns in one realm.

• Xiao Fan recalled the two Dou Di he had seen in the first mural and sensed that his soul power had evolved, though he felt exhausted.
• Mo Shang broke through to Four-Star Dou Zun after the mural’s pressure passed through his soul link, and he wondered how many Hall of Souls experts would survive the coming battle.
• Xiao Fan insisted that he was ready to continue, and Tianchi transported him before a mist-shrouded stone stele.
• Tianchi used the moonlight from her forehead to reveal the second stele, while the moon-marked statues calmed the space around it.
• Xiao Fan was drawn into the stele’s vision and heard the words, “Two sovereigns in one realm? How laughable!”

Xiao Fan was overwhelmed by the Dou Di’s pressure in the mural, while the system protected him and tempered his soul at the cost of source coins. Elsewhere, Mo Shang endured the pain transferred from his main body aboard the Hall of Souls’ warship.

• Xiao Fan witnessed the golden radiance of a Dou Di annihilate the world depicted in the mural and became completely engulfed by the vision.
• Tianchi examined Xiao Fan, found him neither conscious nor unconscious, and waited beside the mural as its fog remained mostly intact.
• The system spent Xiao Fan’s source coins to shield him from the Dou Di’s pressure, allowing his soul realm to condense and advance through unconscious tempering.
• Mo Shang sealed himself inside his room aboard the Hall of Souls’ warship and screamed as he endured his main body’s pain.

While Xiao Fan was trapped in the mural’s vision of a Dou Di’s destruction, the pressure began transforming his soul and triggering an uncontrolled eruption of the nine golden suns within him. The chapter left Xiao Fan engulfed in overwhelming golden energy, with Tianchi forced back by its power.

• The system protected Xiao Fan from the mural’s Dou Di pressure, draining his Spiritual Strength and leaving him asleep while Mo Shang endured agony through their Soul Imprint and grew stronger.
• Tianchi guarded the unconscious Xiao Fan in the Spirit Clan’s Ancestral Grounds, unable to determine how to help him.
• In the mural realm, Di Tian’s golden radiance destroyed the Spirit World before a Divine Maiden appeared and froze the world with silver moonlight.
• Di Tian and the Divine Maiden battled as the world collapsed, and their scattered divine blood caused strange changes in the plants and earth.
• The pressure of the words “Beneath the dawn, all are ants!” stirred the nine golden suns inside Xiao Fan, which surged toward his mind and ruptured his meridians.
• Xiao Fan’s body shriveled as his strength rose, then golden light erupted and forced Tianchi back with the overwhelming rank of its Dou Qi.

Xiao Fan endured the collision between nine golden energies and the eight characters in his mind, which merged and began repairing his soul while greatly expanding his spiritual strength. He woke to find his spiritual world and Dou Qi transformed, while Mo Shang had recovered and grown stronger.

• Tianchi was pushed away as nine masses of golden energy surged through Xiao Fan, damaging his meridians as the three thousand burning flame and chaos flame repaired them.
• The nine golden masses clashed with the eight characters in Xiao Fan’s sea of consciousness, repeatedly draining and replenishing his spiritual strength as his spiritual world and Dou Qi broke through their limits.
• The eight characters merged into eight of the golden masses, and their combined energy began repairing Xiao Fan’s soul.
• Mo Shang recovered from his violent outburst, absorbed precious materials, and rapidly increased his strength.
• Xiao Fan regained consciousness, recognized the eight characters within the golden masses, and sensed that his spiritual world and Dou Qi had greatly improved.

Xiao Fan recovered after the second stone stele’s trial, discovering that the golden energy had greatly strengthened his body and soul. Tianchi warned him not to examine the remaining steles until he became a Dou Sheng, and Xiao Fan then left to intervene in the Hall of Souls’ planned attack on Starfall Pavilion.

• Xiao Fan awoke with greatly enhanced physical strength as the golden energy from the nine-wheeled suns transformed his body.
• Tianchi examined Xiao Fan and found his strength far beyond that of an ordinary Two-Turn Dou Zun.
• Xiao Fan told Tianchi what he had witnessed in the stone stele, including the Dou Di’s words, “Beneath the dawn, all are ants!”
• Tianchi promised to let Xiao Fan study the remaining two steles once he became a Dou Sheng, then took him back to her dwelling.
• Xiao Fan left a message and tore open space to leave, intending to interfere with the Hall of Souls’ planned attack on Starfall Pavilion.
• Tianchi returned to the ancestral land and watched the stone sculptures with sorrow, ignoring Xiao Fan’s departure.

Xiao Fan left the Spirit World through the void, heading toward Mo Shang so he could return to Starfall Pavilion and continue his plan against the Hall of Souls. He reached the Spirit World's enormous barrier and prepared to break through it with black flame.

• Xiao Fan sensed Mo Shang's location and decided to return to Starfall Pavilion before the Spirit Clan's trials began.
• Xiao Fan raced through the void, refining resources to replenish his Dou Qi and reaching the peak of Five-Turn Dou Zun.
• Xiao Fan followed his connection to Mo Shang through the shifting void and moved farther from the Spirit World.
• Xiao Fan encountered the vast blue barrier formation surrounding the Spirit World and realized it explained Tianchi's indifference to his departure.
• Xiao Fan replaced Bone Spirit Cold Flame with black flame and pressed it against the barrier.

Xiao Fan escaped the formation and hurried toward Starfall Pavilion as the Hall of Souls prepared to attack within two days. Yao Lao and Xiao Yan finalized Starfall Pavilion’s defenses and plans for protecting its disciples, while Xiao Yan also arranged to connect the Central Plains to the Jia Ma Empire after the battle.

• Xiao Fan cut through the formation, escaped, and absorbed energy-rich materials as he rushed toward Starfall Pavilion.
• The Iron Sword Venerable reported that the Hall of Souls’ army would likely reach Starfall Pavilion within two days, while rumors spread that Yao Lao’s strength had fallen back to the Dou Zun realm.
• Yao Lao warned Starfall Pavilion’s leaders to protect their disciples, and Xiao Yan said most had already been transferred to Sacred Pill City.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Pill Tower, Flower Sect, and Burning Flame Valley had allied with Starfall Pavilion, while the Heavenly Underworld Sect remained evasive and Starfall Pavilion could not locate Sound Valley.
• Xiao Yan proposed building a space wormhole between the Central Plains and the Jia Ma Empire after the battle, and Yao Lao agreed that they had the strength to do so.

As Xiao Yan prepared the Starfall Pavilion for its battle with the Hall of Souls, Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian volunteered to fight. Meanwhile, Mo Shang reached Eight-Star Dou Zun and repelled those probing his strength, prompting Elder Jiu Yin to abandon his plan to test him and instead place his trust in the acting Hall Master.

• Xiao Yan confirmed that the weaker Starfall Pavilion disciples had been sent to Sacred Pill City and postponed plans to construct a Space Wormhole until after the battle.
• Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian volunteered to join the fight, and Xiao Yan accepted their help.
• Mo Shang used the resources aboard the Sky-Reaching Warship to raise his cultivation from Four-Star Dou Zun to Eight-Star Dou Zun.
• Mo Shang repelled the Hall of Souls members probing his soul power and appeared at the bow of the Sky-Reaching Warship.
• Elder Jiu Yin approached Mo Shang to sound him out, but sensing his strength, decided to bet on him instead of aiding the other elders.

Starfall Pavilion assembled its allies and revealed a large force of Dou Zun experts as the Hall of Souls arrived in warships through spatial rifts. A masked Hall of Souls figure appeared and fixed his killing intent on Xiao Yan, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Mo Shang assured Jiu Yin that the Hall of Souls would win, while the other Hall of Souls experts speculated about Mo Shang’s unusual aura.
• Starfall Pavilion opened its gates, and Xiao Yan led its experts onto the plains as allied forces gathered around them.
• Xiao Yan raised Bone Spirit Cold Flame, prompting Starfall Pavilion’s experts to unleash their auras and reveal their formidable strength.
• Gu Chen recognized the approaching Hall of Souls warships and sent word of the developments to the Gu Clan.
• More than a hundred Hall of Souls figures and over a dozen warships emerged from spatial rifts, and a masked figure appeared to threaten Xiao Yan.

Mo Shang confronted the experts gathered at Starfall Pavilion and revealed the strength of an Eight-Star Dou Zun, while Xiao Yan stepped forward as the pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master. The chapter left the two facing each other as Mo Shang taunted him for being the Medicine Saint’s disciple.

• A Three-Star Dou Zun mocked Mo Shang, who attacked him with a chain until Ghost Old Man intervened and helped the man escape.
• Venerable Feng recognized Ghost Old Man and told Xiao Yan about the old alchemist’s rivalry with Yao Chen.
• Mo Shang declared himself the acting Hall Master of the Hall of Souls and rebuked the gathered experts for speaking before Starfall Pavilion’s leader.
• Venerable Feng sent Xiao Yan forward as the Starfall Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master, while the gathered experts reacted to Mo Shang’s Eight-Star Dou Zun strength.
• Gu Chen worried about Mo Shang’s possible connection to the Soul Clan, and Xun'er felt pressured by his strength as Mo Shang taunted Xiao Yan.

Mo Shang confronted Xiao Yan and the Starfall Pavilion, while Xiao Fan remained on his way to the battlefield. As the Soul Hall and Starfall Pavilion gathered their Dou Zun experts, allies joined Starfall Pavilion, and Mo Shang unleashed his black flames to begin the clash.

• Mo Shang offered to spare Starfall Pavilion if Xiao Yan handed over Yao Lao, but Xiao Yan rejected him and revealed his six Heavenly Flames.
• Mo Shang released his Eight-Star Dou Zun aura, and the experts of Starfall Pavilion and the Soul Hall combined their auras in opposition.
• Secretly watching Dou Zun experts joined Starfall Pavilion after realizing the battle could decide the Central Plains’ fate.
• Senluo Ghost Venerable and Chen Tiannan arrived for the Heavenly Underworld Sect, and Hua Jin arrived for the Flower Sect to support Starfall Pavilion.
• Mo Shang summoned black flames and shattered the standoff between the assembled experts, signaling the start of the battle.

Mo Shang and the Starfall Pavilion’s allies clashed with the Hall of Souls as Xiao Yan watched the battle unfold. Xuan Yi confronted Mo Shang, while Xiao Yan was ambushed by Huang Xuan, who bound him with the Demon Phoenix Bell.

• Mo Shang unleashed the Chaos Flame, and the Hall of Souls and Starfall Pavilion forces began fighting across the battlefield.
• Xiao Yi Xian fought two Hall of Souls elders, while Jiu Yin faced a Pill Tower elder and the Sword Venerables challenged Hall of Souls Dou Zun experts.
• Mo Shang attacked Senluo Ghost Venerable and Hua Jin, but Xuan Yi intervened and took him on.
• Xiao Yan was attacked from the void, then trapped by Huang Xuan’s Demon Phoenix Bell.

Xiao Yan fought Huang Xuan in the sky above the battlefield, using the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and his Heavenly Flames to match the Heavenly Demon Phoenix. Elsewhere, Xuan Yi pressed Mo Shang, who guarded against her while watching the wider battle and waiting for more powerful opponents to appear.

• Xiao Yan activated the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, broke free of Huang Xuan's Demon Phoenix Bell, and attacked with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Huang Xuan summoned his Demon Phoenix Sacred Image, and his deathly beams clashed with Xiao Yan's ruler strike and sea of Heavenly Flames.
• Huang Xuan transformed into his Heavenly Demon Phoenix true form and lunged at Xiao Yan, who blocked him with a barrier of intertwined Heavenly Flames that exploded in Huang Xuan's face.
• Xuan Yi attacked Mo Shang with Dou Qi and soul-power traps, while Mo Shang defended and noted that Hall of Souls experts were keeping Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun occupied.
• Dou Zun, Dou Zong, and Dou Huang experts continued fighting across the Plains as Mo Shang surveyed the battlefield for stronger opponents who had yet to appear.

The Hall of Souls escalated its assault on Starfall Pavilion when Left Elder, a nine-revolution Peak Dou Zun, entered the battle, but the Qingluan Clan’s First Elder confronted him. As the senior fighters remained occupied and Yao Lao stayed hidden, Mo Shang judged that the fighting was about to turn into a slaughter.

• Left Elder appeared above the battlefield, revealing his nine-revolution Peak Dou Zun cultivation and taunting Yao Chen to come out.
• The Qingluan Clan’s First Elder arrived and blocked Left Elder, declaring that the clan would defend Starfall Pavilion; the two entered the void to fight.
• Mo Shang considered the Hall of Souls’ hidden reserves and its plan to force Yao Lao to reveal his true condition.
• Mo Shang evaded Xuan Yi’s Soul Storm, surveyed the battlefield, and declared that the slaughter was about to begin.

Xiao Fan arrived at the Starfall Pavilion battlefield and killed a Hall of Souls Three-Star Dou Zun with his heavenly flames. He sensed a hidden expert and forced the Third Heavenly Venerate to reveal himself.

• Mo Shang evaded Xuan Yi’s strike by transforming into black mist and reappearing in the sky.
• Xiao Fan rode a massive flame dragon onto the battlefield, drawing the attention of both sides and reuniting briefly with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Fan trapped Venerable Feng and a Hall of Souls Three-Star Dou Zun in heavenly flames, leaving Venerable Feng an escape route and killing the enemy expert.
• Xiao Fan detected a concealed Hall of Souls expert and challenged him to reveal himself.
• The Third Heavenly Venerate appeared in the warped void, startling everyone on the battlefield.

Xiao Fan faced the Hall of Souls’ Third Heavenly Venerate, a Half-Saint, and used his Heavenly Flames to withstand the expert’s attack. The Third Heavenly Venerate then moved to kill him, and Xiao Fan countered by creating a Soul Clone and two Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies.

• The Third Heavenly Venerate arrived, and Senluo Ghost Venerable and Hua Jin eased their attacks while Yao Chen remained absent.
• The Third Heavenly Venerate struck Xiao Fan, who fused five Fire Spirits into a Five-Wheel Flame Disk and met the attack, leaving a vast crater.
• The Third Heavenly Venerate recognized Xiao Fan as a threat and launched a rapid assault using numerous afterimages.
• Xiao Fan created a Soul Clone and two Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies, then charged at the Third Heavenly Venerate’s phantoms.

Xiao Fan used his Heavenly Realm Soul Power, Heavenly Flames, and Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies to attack the Third Heavenly Venerate, but the Half-Saint countered his techniques with overwhelming force. Xiao Fan then formed a massive soul warhammer, which clashed with the Third Heavenly Venerate’s Dou Qi arm as the battle continued.

• Xiao Fan released his Heavenly Realm soul pressure, suppressing the Third Heavenly Venerate and startling Xuan Yi while Mo Shang watched for an opening.
• Xiao Fan and his two Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies attacked from three directions as he unleashed beasts formed from Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Fan trapped the Third Heavenly Venerate within a rotating formation of five Heavenly Flames and isolated the surrounding space.
• The Third Heavenly Venerate used the Great Senluo Fist to collapse the flame formation and shatter both Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Bodies.
• Xiao Fan and his soul avatar renewed their assault, but the Third Heavenly Venerate extinguished the flames and prepared to counterattack.
• Xiao Fan’s soul avatar summoned a massive warhammer, which collided with the Third Heavenly Venerate’s Dou Qi arm; both attacks gradually disintegrated.

Xiao Fan fought the Third Heavenly Venerate while keeping his original body from breaking through, but Mo Shang used his innate black flame to weaken Xiao Fan’s soul pressure. Xiao Fan unleashed a Heaven Tier Dou Technique that destroyed the Third Heavenly Venerate’s wolf phantom and continued toward him.

• Xiao Fan continued battling the Third Heavenly Venerate with his Heaven Realm soul avatar, while holding back from breaking through to Dou Sheng.
• Mo Shang stepped forward and used his innate black flame to withstand the Third Heavenly Venerate’s pressure, offering to help restrain Xiao Fan’s soul avatar.
• Mo Shang spread his black flames across the sky, reducing the effect of Xiao Fan’s soul pressure on the Third Heavenly Venerate.
• Xiao Fan challenged the Third Heavenly Venerate and gathered his Dou Qi to unleash the Heaven Tier Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• The Third Heavenly Venerate summoned his Devouring Nether Magic Wolf, but Xiao Fan’s attack dissolved the wolf phantom and surged toward him.

Xiao Fan used the Great Heaven Creation Palm to clash with the Third Heavenly Venerate, but Mo Shang ambushed him while he was weakened. The Black Flame engulfed Xiao Fan, Mo Shang, and Xiao Fan’s Soul Clone, leaving his fate unknown.

• Xiao Fan’s Great Heaven Creation Palm overwhelmed the Third Heavenly Venerate’s Earth Tier technique and devastated the plain around them.
• Gu Chen and Xun'er watched in shock as Xiao Fan faced the Half-Saint, while Xun'er resolved to grow stronger.
• Mo Shang concealed himself in the falling Black Flame and trapped Xiao Fan with the Shadow Prison as he tried to evade a surprise attack.
• Mo Shang struck Xiao Fan with a black fire dragon, then detonated the Black Flame around them despite being injured by Xiao Fan’s Soul Clone.
• Xiao Yi Xian flew into the engulfing Black Flame as Xiao Fan and his Soul Clone disappeared from view.