Recaps

After a month of training in Little Mountain Valley, Xiao Yan and his companions traveled to Mo City to seek a map fragment connected to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and meet Hai Bodong. Xiao Yan found one half of the map in Hai Bodong’s shop and proposed a deal, suspecting the old mapmaker had the other half.

• Xiao Yan refined pills, collected magical beast cores, and advanced to the seventy-sixth stage of Dou Qi during his month in Little Mountain Valley.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Little Lan, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King left the valley and headed toward the Tagor Desert.
• Yun Yun arrived at the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s cave seeking Purple Spirit Crystal, but found that the Lion King had already departed.
• Xiao Yan’s group reached Mo City and drew attention as they entered with the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Yan entered Hai Bodong’s map shop and recognized a fragment map of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Xiao Yan asked Hai Bodong whether he had the map’s other half and proposed making a deal.

Xiao Yan persuaded Hai Bodong that he could remove the seal Queen Medusa had placed on him and secured the remaining half of the fragment map as payment. Hai Bodong also gave Xiao Yan a map marking three possible locations of a Heavenly Flame in the Tagor Desert.

• Xiao Yan offered Hai Bodong three ways to remove his seal, then revealed his Fifth-Rank Alchemist skill and Heavenly Flame to prove his claims.
• Xiao Yan described using a pill, asking Queen Medusa to lift the seal, or having a Dou Zong expert break it by force.
• Hai Bodong agreed to give Xiao Yan the remaining half of the fragment map if Xiao Yan removed the seal.
• Hai Bodong handed Xiao Yan a map identifying three areas in the Tagor Desert where a Heavenly Flame might be found.

Xiao Yan left Hai Bodong’s shop with information about Heavenly Flames, then traveled across the desert with Xiao Yi Xian and the Amethyst Winged Lion King. He reunited with his second brother Xiao Li after spotting him fighting a Magical Beast, and left the Desert Iron Mercenary Group stunned by his physical strength.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that the shopkeeper was Ice Emperor Hai Bodong, whose cultivation had been sealed for over twenty years.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King traveled toward Stone Desert City, where Xiao Yan planned to meet his brothers.
• Xiao Yan spotted his second brother Xiao Li battling a scorpion Magical Beast and landed nearby to greet him.
• Xiao Li welcomed Xiao Yan and invited him to return to Stone Desert City with him.
• Xiao Yan borrowed Xiao Li’s spear and hurled it with physical strength alone, killing the scorpion Magical Beast after it escaped beneath the sand.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Li and Xiao Ding at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s compound in Stone Desert City, where the brothers welcomed him, Xiao Yi Xian, and their powerful magical beast companions. The group celebrated their arrival, while the Sand Mercenary Group grew uneasy about the formidable beast staying with their rivals.

• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Xiao Li, who teased him about whether Xiao Xun'er knew of her.
• Xiao Li led Xiao Yan and the others to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s compound, where he arranged spacious quarters and local specialties for the Amethyst Winged Lion King, Little Lion King, and Little Lan.
• Xiao Ding reunited with Xiao Yan and learned from Xiao Li about Xiao Yan’s strength, including his effortless defeat of a peak second-order Sandstone Scorpion.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Xiao Ding, and she blushed while requesting separate rooms.
• The Desert Iron Mercenary Group held a lavish welcoming banquet, and its members praised the Amethyst Winged Lion King after learning he was a Peak Sixth Tier magical beast.
• The Sand Mercenary Group grew anxious after hearing that the intimidating magical beast had entered the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s compound.

Xiao Yan reassured Qing Lin, whose Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils began to awaken, then met his brothers at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s assessment. He revealed that he was an Alchemist and that a heavenly flame might lie east of Stone Desert City, leaving the group gathered for the tournament before beginning the search.

• Qing Lin brought Xiao Yan water, and he praised her green scales, comforting her and triggering the first visible signs of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils awakening.
• Yao Lao identified Qing Lin’s rare constitution and explained its powers as Xiao Yan led her to the Training Ground.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, told them he was an Alchemist, and offered to refine pills for them in exchange for medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan showed Xiao Ding Hai Bodong’s map, and Xiao Ding recognized that the marked heavenly-flame location lay east of Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan postponed searching for the flame until after the assessment, and the mercenaries, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King gathered as the tournament was about to begin.

After Xiao Ding sent the Desert Iron Mercenary Group to investigate the eastern part of Stone Desert City and buy herbs, the Sand Mercenary Group learned that Xiao Yan had arrived with the Amethyst Winged Lion King. Luo Bu publicly ordered his men to avoid conflict, then secretly plotted to alert the Mo Family and draw them into confronting the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.

• Xiao Li won the testing tournament after facing five opponents, and Xiao Ding assigned the Desert Iron Mercenary Group to search the eastern part of Stone Desert City while he bought herbs from Xiao Yan's list.
• Mo Xing told Luo Bu that the young man with the Amethyst Winged Lion King was Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li's younger brother, and that Xiao Yan had brought the beast.
• Luo Bu told the Sand Mercenary Group's senior members to keep a low profile and avoid provoking the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Luo Bu privately ordered Mo Xing to inform the Mo Family about the suspected treasure in the eastern district, hoping they would challenge the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Mo Xing understood Luo Bu's deception and praised his scheme.

Xiao Yan prepared pills for Xiao Ding and Xiao Li while the Desert Iron Mercenary Group searched for the underground magma. After several days, they found a vast magma cavern, and Xiao Yan sensed the Heavenly Flame beneath it before diving in alone.

• Xiao Yan refined healing and Dou Qi-restoring pills, eighteen Second-Grade Energy-Gathering Pills for Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and a Fourth-Grade Energy-Gathering Pill for himself.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Yan that the mercenaries had uncovered an underground passage east of Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li reported that the passages branched in many directions, so the mercenaries searched them one by one while Qing Lin sensed nothing unusual.
• Several days later, a mercenary led Xiao Yan and the others to an enormous cavern filled with flowing magma.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Heavenly Flame beneath the magma, surrounded himself with blood-red flames, and leaped in after telling everyone else to return to the surface.

Xiao Yan found the Green Lotus Core Flame at the bottom of the magma and began preparing to devour it, while the Mo Family investigated the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s discovery near Stone Desert City. The chapter ended as the Amethyst Winged Lion King appeared before Mo Yu.

• Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li left Xiao Yan to descend into the magma and search for the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan fought off the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, planted a wisp of myriad beast spirit flame on it, and planned to capture it for Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan found the Green Lotus Core Flame, collected eleven core fire lotus seeds, and prepared the Blood Lotus Pill, ice spirit cold spring, and Spirit Container to absorb it.
• Mo Yu sent Mo Ran back to the Mo Family and ordered Mo Hai to capture a Desert Iron Mercenary Group member for questioning.
• As Mo Hai approached the guarded area after nightfall, the Amethyst Winged Lion King appeared, shocking Mo Yu.

After the Mo Family’s failed attempt to seize the treasure beneath Stone Desert City, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li learned that Luo Bu and Mo Xing had set them up, while Xiao Yan continued refining the Green Lotus Core Flame. Mo Cheng reported the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s appearance to Yun Yun, who decided to travel to Stone Desert City before Master Gu He requested an audience.

• Mo Yu recognized the Amethyst Winged Lion King, abandoned Mo Hai, and returned to the Mo Family to plan their next move.
• Mo Xing told Luo Bu that the Mo Family had sent experts to Stone Desert City, and Luo Bu decided to let the rival groups fight.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li tortured Mo Hai for information, killed him, and identified Mo Xing as the one who had alerted the Mo Family under a false name.
• Xiao Yan continued refining the Green Lotus Core Flame beneath the magma, and Yao Lao remarked on his growing strength.
• Mo Cheng told Yun Yun that the Amethyst Winged Lion King had appeared in Stone Desert City, and Yun Yun decided to investigate the city herself.
• Yun Leng urged Yun Yun to claim the treasure for the Misty Cloud Sect, and a servant announced that Gu He had come to see her.

As Xiao Yan absorbed the green lotus core flame, Yun Yun, Gu He, and three Misty Cloud Sect elders arrived at Stone Desert City to investigate the heavenly flame. Queen Medusa joined them, and Gu He struck a deal with her to help him seize the flame in exchange for an Emperor's Extreme Pill and a Transformation Pill.

• On the seventh day of Xiao Yan's absorption, Yun Yun and her group reached Stone Desert City, where Gu He sensed a heavenly flame beneath the city.
• Gu He guessed that the Amethyst Winged Lion King was guarding the person absorbing the flame, and Yun Yun's group considered confronting them.
• Queen Medusa appeared and confirmed that she had heard about the heavenly flame beneath the city.
• Gu He secretly proposed joining forces with Queen Medusa to take the flame and eliminate the Amethyst Winged Lion King and the Alchemist absorbing it.
• Gu He offered Queen Medusa an Emperor's Extreme Pill and a Transformation Pill in exchange for her help, and she agreed while demanding that he prove the offer was genuine.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King warned Xiao Yi Xian and the mercenaries to retreat before Gu He, Yun Yun, and Queen Medusa arrived to attack him. As the Lion King fought them above the underground passage, Xiao Yan continued evolving the Flame Mantra beneath the magma.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King sensed approaching enemies and ordered Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and the others to evacuate while he guarded Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian led the group toward Stone Desert City, while Qing Lin sensed something strange and Queen Medusa resolved to investigate her later.
• After the mercenaries reached the city, Gu He and his companions confronted the Amethyst Winged Lion King above the passage, but he refused Gu He's offer and revealed his Peak Dou Emperor strength.
• The Lion King charged Gu He, Yun Yun stopped his first attack, and Queen Medusa's seven-colored strike collided with him, sending shock waves across Stone Desert City.
• Below the magma, Xiao Yan hurried the Flame Mantra's evolution after sensing the battle, but Yao Lao reassured him that the Lion King could hold off the attackers.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King held off Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, and Gu He’s group while Xiao Yan remained in seclusion. Just as their combined attacks threatened to kill him, Xiao Yan emerged with Dou Zong-level power and saved him.

• Queen Medusa struck the Amethyst Winged Lion King with the Purple Origin Rakshasa Seal, but he counterattacked with massive pillars of purple fire.
• Yun Yun and Queen Medusa joined forces to withstand the Lion King's attack while Gu He and the Misty Cloud Sect’s three Dou Wangs stayed back.
• After hours of fighting, the wounded Amethyst Winged Lion King continued guarding the underground passage as Queen Medusa and Yun Yun prepared their finishing attacks.
• Queen Medusa unleashed the Snake Seal Curse and Yun Yun used Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill against the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the passage, suppressed the fighters with his Dou Zong aura, and erased both attacks with pale flames.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King thanked Xiao Yan for the rescue, then cursed at him.

Xiao Yan used Yao Lao’s power to defeat Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, Gu He, and their companions, then revealed that he had kept them alive for a purpose. He confronted the wounded Queen Medusa by threatening the Snake-People Tribe, leaving her pride shaken.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li learned from Xiao Yi Xian that Xiao Yan was borrowing his teacher’s power, while the Sand Mercenary Group panicked at his arrival.
• Gu He offered his life and his collection to spare the others, and Yun Yun refused to let him die alone.
• Queen Medusa attacked Xiao Yan, but he used Spatial Lock to break her attack and struck her into the desert.
• Xiao Yan knocked Yun Yun, Gu He, and the others from the sky, then planted wisps of bone spirit cold flame inside them and said they were useful.
• Xiao Yan returned to his youthful form and found Queen Medusa and Yun Yun conscious while the others were unconscious.
• Xiao Yan warned Queen Medusa that she would not want anything to happen to the Snake-People Tribe.

Xiao Yan forced Queen Medusa and Yun Yun to serve him for twenty years, while demanding payment from the Misty Cloud Sect for its elders. He returned to Stone Desert City and agreed to give the Amethyst Winged Lion King a Transformation Pill.

• Xiao Yan threatened to kill Queen Medusa and destroy the Snake-People Tribe unless she served him for twenty years, and Medusa submitted to protect her people.
• Xiao Yan took Medusa's Storage Ring and offered her a few pills to heal her injuries.
• Yun Yun agreed to serve Xiao Yan for twenty years after arranging to return to the Misty Cloud Sect and hand her duties to the First Elder.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Gu He serve him and that the Misty Cloud Sect pay magic cores for three elders, then took their Storage Rings and returned to Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Li and the Amethyst Winged Lion King, then agreed to give the Lion King a Transformation Pill.

Xiao Yan brought Yun Yun, Gu He, Queen Medusa, and the others under his control and offered them rewards for serving him. He assigned Yun Yun the Mo Family’s fate, promised Gu He a path to higher alchemy, and used the offer of bloodline evolution to make Queen Medusa apologize.

• Xiao Yan gave the Amethyst Winged Lion King a Transformation Pill, which he fed to the Little Lion King so the cub could begin transforming into human form.
• Gu He and the others woke after surviving the previous night, and Yun Yun explained how Xiao Yan had taken them into his service.
• Yun Yun warned Gu He not to question Xiao Yan about the Heavenly Flame, and Queen Medusa mocked Yun Yun for accepting her new role.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li asked what to do about the Mo Family, and Xiao Yan told Yun Yun to handle them and seize their accumulated wealth.
• Xiao Yan promised Gu He that hard work could make him a seventh-tier Alchemist and named him as the future chief Alchemist of a faction in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan offered to help Queen Medusa evolve her bloodline and break through to Dou Zong, then withdrew the offer until she apologized to him.

Xiao Yan arranged for Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to join him in the Black-Corner Region, while Queen Medusa departed for her tribe and Xiao Yi Xian showed jealousy over his attention to her. Yun Yun discovered the Mo Family’s atrocities and attacked Mo Cheng, who tried to flee.

• Xiao Yan warned Yun Yun’s three Dou Wang elders not to reveal his identity and told Yun Yun to settle her affairs within five days.
• Xiao Yan invited Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to leave Stone Desert City and build a faction with him in the Black-Corner Region, and they agreed.
• Queen Medusa told Xiao Yan she needed to return to her tribe, then left after he ordered her to hurry back.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Xiao Yan about admiring Queen Medusa, and Xiao Yan playfully called her jealous.
• Yun Yun investigated the Mo Family and learned they had abducted ordinary people for experiments, then confronted Mo Cheng as he tried to escape and unleashed Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill.

Yun Yun left the Misty Cloud Sect in Yun Leng’s hands and decided to take Nalan Yanran with her, despite Xiao Yan traveling with them. In Stone Desert City, Hai Bodong arrived to have Xiao Yan remove his seal, and Xiao Yan brought Queen Medusa to meet him.

• Yun Yun killed Mo Cheng with Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill and demanded that the head of the Mo Family face her.
• Yun Yun warned Yun Leng to stop indulging the Mo Family, entrusted him with the sect’s affairs, and secretly instructed three elders to watch him.
• Yun Yun visited Nalan Yanran and told her she would leave the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yan; Nalan Yanran firmly agreed to go despite her misgivings.
• Queen Medusa returned to Stone Desert City, and Xiao Yan told her to wait for Yun Yun and an old acquaintance before they set out for the Black-Corner Region.
• Hai Bodong arrived in Stone Desert City and asked Xiao Yan how he would remove his seal; Xiao Yan summoned Queen Medusa, who recognized Hai Bodong.

Xiao Yan had Queen Medusa remove Hai Bodong’s seal, restoring his Dou Emperor strength, and received the remaining half of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map. After Xiao Yan promised Hai Bodong a chance to pursue greater strength in the Black-Corner Region, Hai Bodong agreed to join his faction and travel with him.

• Queen Medusa dissolved Hai Bodong’s seal, restoring his strength and causing him to unleash a wave of freezing energy.
• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Yan the remaining half of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map and promised to repay his help.
• Xiao Yan invited Hai Bodong to join his faction and promised to help him break through to Dou Zong within twenty years.
• Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong that Queen Medusa, Gu He, Yun Yun, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King would also join him, and said the lion was close to becoming a seventh-rank Magical Beast.
• Hai Bodong decided to join Xiao Yan’s trip to the Black-Corner Region.

Xiao Yan refined Energy-Gathering Pills while Gu He became convinced that a mysterious alchemist guided him. Queen Medusa offered Qing Lin the Snake-People Tribe’s succession and secret techniques, and Qing Lin accepted the techniques so she could better help Xiao Yan.

• Hai Bodong returned to the Mittel Family and arranged to meet Xiao Yan again in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan used Fourth-Tier Magic Cores to refine two Fifth-Grade Energy-Gathering Pills, and Gu He marveled at the pills’ potential.
• Queen Medusa visited Qing Lin and offered to make her the Snake-People Tribe’s queen and her disciple, but Qing Lin refused because she wanted to remain Xiao Yan’s maid.
• Queen Medusa offered to teach Qing Lin the tribe’s secret techniques in exchange for Qing Lin helping the Snake-People Tribe when she could.
• Qing Lin accepted Queen Medusa’s offer because she wanted to help Xiao Yan sooner.

Yun Yun returned with the Mo Family’s wealth and brought Nalan Yanran to meet Xiao Yan, who welcomed her and encouraged her to keep their three-year agreement. Their reunion was interrupted when Queen Medusa confronted White Fang and Lu Man, who had come to seize Qing Lin for her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

• Yun Yun brought the ransom for the Misty Cloud Sect’s elders and the Mo Family’s accumulated wealth to Xiao Yan and the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan welcomed Nalan Yanran, accepted her determination to challenge him at the three-year agreement, and encouraged her to keep training.
• A distant clash of Dou Emperor energy shook the hall, and Xiao Yan and Yun Yun hurried out to investigate.
• White Fang and Lu Man confronted Queen Medusa above Stone Desert City while Qing Lin stayed below with Little Spirit.
• Lu Man planned to take Qing Lin to the Heavenly Snake Mansion, while White Fang agreed to hold off Queen Medusa.

Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yan stopped Lu Man and White Fang from taking Qing Lin. Xiao Yan subdued the pair with his borrowed Dou Zong power, then brought Qing Lin to make White Fang choose between submitting to her Contract or dying.

• Queen Medusa attacked White Fang and guarded Qing Lin while Lu Man tried to seize the girl.
• Yun Yun arrived and fought Lu Man, keeping her from reaching Qing Lin as Queen Medusa battered White Fang.
• Xiao Yan arrived, praised Qing Lin for reaching One-Star Dou Zhe, and watched Lu Man and White Fang decide to retreat.
• Xiao Yan used the Heaven-tier Possession Dou Technique to unleash Dou Zong-level pressure and slam Lu Man and White Fang into the sand.
• Xiao Yan brought Qing Lin to White Fang and offered him a choice: submit to her Contract or die.

After Bai Ya and Lu Man joined Xiao Yan, the Xiao Clan sent elders and fighters to Stone Desert City, where the Third Elder took charge of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group. Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion, received a scroll from Xun'er, and later walked with Xiao Yi Xian while Nalan Yanran watched them with bitterness.

• Bai Ya and Lu Man submitted to Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan gained two high-level Dou Emperor workers.
• The Xiao Clan's Third Elder arrived in Stone Desert City with four clansmen, and Xiao Ding and Xiao Li welcomed them.
• The Third Elder took control of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group while Xiao Ding and Xiao Li focused on cultivation.
• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion at the eightieth stage of Dou Qi and received a Dou Technique scroll from Xun'er through the Third Elder.
• The Third Elder told Xiao Yan that Xun'er would attend Jia Nan Academy and asked whether he would go; Xiao Yan said he would and would write to her.
• Xiao Yan gave Energy-Gathering Pills to Shi Batian, then walked with Xiao Yi Xian as Nalan Yanran watched them from a window.

Xiao Yan learned that Xun'er had sent him the Ancient Saint Body Tempering Art, a harsh low Heaven-tier technique tied to the Primordial Chaos Sage. Gu Yuan secretly watched Xiao Yan, bristled at his confidence and his closeness to Xun'er, and decided to warn his daughter to preserve her chastity until her bloodline awakened.

• Xiao Yan read Xun'er's scroll, and Yao Lao explained the Ancient Saint Body Tempering Art's origins and brutal cultivation requirements.
• Xiao Yan suspected Gu Yuan had chosen the technique and declared that no one could stop him from marrying Xun'er if she wanted to marry him.
• Gu Yuan watched Xiao Yan through the void and resented that Xun'er favored an outsider and had fallen for him.
• Gu Yuan acknowledged Xiao Yan's alchemy talent but decided he would need to become a Ninth-Rank Alchemist to marry Xun'er.
• Gu Yuan resolved to warn Xun'er to preserve her chastity until her bloodline fully awakened.

Xiao Yan tempered his body with the newly fused Myriad Beast Green Lotus Flame while the Amethyst Winged Lion King broke through to Dou Zong. After the celebration, Queen Medusa tried to persuade Xiao Yan to help evolve her bloodline, but he refused to do so yet.

• Xiao Yan practiced the Ancient Saint Body Tempering Art with the Myriad Beast Green Lotus Flame for more than a dozen days.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King broke through to Dou Zong and assumed human form above Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Gu He congratulated the Lion King, and the Desert Iron Mercenary Group held a banquet to celebrate.
• Queen Medusa visited Xiao Yan after the banquet and tried to tempt him into helping her evolve her bloodline.
• Xiao Yan told Queen Medusa he would help her when the time was right, and she left determined to win him over.

Xiao Yan led his companions into the Black-Corner Region and chose Medicine Emperor Han Feng as their first target, seeking revenge for Yao Lao. The party reached Maple City and confronted Han Feng and Elder Ban, with Xiao Yan declaring that Han Feng would die.

• Xiao Yan bade farewell to the Third Elder and the Desert Iron Mercenary Group before leading his party out of Stone Desert City.
• After crossing the Jia Ma Empire and the Black Domain Great Plains, Xiao Yan announced that they would kill Han Feng to establish their name in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan's party learned that Han Feng was a peak Dou Emperor with many allies, then rested near Maple City before setting out the next day.
• Han Feng and Elder Ban sensed powerful intruders arriving in Maple City while discussing a deal for an Emperor's Extreme Pill.
• Xiao Yan appeared before Han Feng and Elder Ban and accused Han Feng of betraying his master and defiling his lineage.