Recaps

Xiao Yu challenged the Northwest Continent’s top experts and instantly defeated the White-Boned Elder of the Three Corpses Sect with a single punch. The gathering’s factions were left horrified by Xiao Yu’s strength as he began his effort to bring them into submission.

• Xiao Yan defeated every Dou Emperor who faced him, helping the Jia Ma Empire claim first place in both the Dou Wang and Dou Emperor contests.
• Xiao Yu entered the arena and challenged the top experts, saying he would face several at once if they wished.
• The White-Boned Elder of the Three Corpses Sect accepted Xiao Yu’s challenge and attacked him with Three Corpses Soul Devour.
• Xiao Yu split the elder’s attack with his bare hand, then punched him through the protective barrier and out of the venue.
• The spectators, including the Jia Ma Empire’s contingent, were stunned by the speed and force of Xiao Yu’s victory.

At the Sect Gathering, Xiao Yu claimed victory for the Jia Ma Empire and announced that he would unite the Northwest Continent, demanding that its factions submit. When fourteen Dou Zong attacked him together, a mysterious woman in red appeared beside him and challenged their shamelessness.

• Xie Biyan and the other faction leaders secretly agreed to concede the gathering to Xiao Yu rather than risk fighting him.
• Xiao Yu declared that he intended to unite the Northwest Continent and told the faction leaders he was informing them, not asking for their consent.
• Xiao Yu rose above the arena and demanded that the fourteen Dou Zong submit or challenge him together.
• Xie Biyan warned Xiao Yu to take back his words, then signaled the others to attack him.
• A coldly beautiful woman in red emerged from space beside Xiao Yu and halted the fourteen Dou Zong with her rebuke.

Xiao Yu and Medusa faced fourteen Dou Zong attackers together, dividing the opponents between them. Xiao Yu demonstrated his overwhelming physical strength and began battering the eight enemies he had chosen, while Medusa engaged the other six.

• Medusa arrived to help Xiao Yu, despite the Lion Underworld Sect's Dou Zong ordering her to leave.
• Medusa offered to fight eight opponents, but Xiao Yu told her to take six and leave the remaining eight to him.
• The fourteen Dou Zong charged, and Xiao Yu and Medusa split the battlefield between them.
• Xiao Yu used a massive sword to block Xie Biyan's poison beam, then stopped a golden saber beam with his bare hand.
• Xiao Yu shattered a Four-Star Dou Zong's defense with a punch and sent him flying away.
• Xiao Yu's sword beam overwhelmed another Four-Star Dou Zong's water-mirror defense.

Xiao Yu and Medusa fought fourteen Dou Zongs while onlookers marveled at their strength. As the battle continued, the wounded White-Boned Elder attacked the Jia Ma Empire’s contingent, and Xiao Yan stepped forward to face him.

• Xiao Yu easily held off eight Dou Zongs, while Medusa battled the others and considered the deadly power of her Primordial Creation Bloodline.
• Fa Ma and the Jia Ma Empire’s contingent watched in awe, while Yao Lao encouraged Xiao Yan to trust in his own potential and the Flame Mantra.
• The wounded White-Boned Elder secretly charged the Jia Ma Empire’s contingent, hoping to strike at Xiao Yu by attacking Xiao Yan and the others.
• Xiao Yan stopped the White-Boned Elder’s skeletal-claw attack with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Xiao Yan drew his Heavy Black Ruler and charged the wounded elder, declaring, “Old dog, come meet your death!”

Xiao Yu defeated eight Dou Zong with Burning Flame Annihilation and forced them to agree to his plan to unify the Northwest. He announced a gathering in the Jia Ma Empire to establish the Alliance, while secretly tracking the group with Three Thousand Puppet Thunders.

• Xiao Yu trapped the eight Dou Zong in the Thunderflame Illusory World and overwhelmed them with Burning Flame Annihilation.
• Xiao Yu released the battered Dou Zong and demanded to know whether they accepted his proposal.
• An elderly Dou Zong agreed to persuade his sect, and the other seven also agreed to cooperate.
• Xiao Yu revealed that he had planted dormant Three Thousand Puppet Thunders in all eight, allowing him to monitor them and uncover factions allied with the Soul Palace.
• Xiao Yu announced that he would hold a gathering in the Jia Ma Empire in one month to establish the Alliance.

Xiao Yu defeated the remaining Dou Zongs and forced the gathered sect leaders to accept his plan to unify the Northwest. He released them with a month to prepare for a meeting in the Jia Ma Empire, while Medusa questioned his confidence that they would not retaliate.

• Xiao Yu joined Medusa after defeating eight Dou Zongs, then ignored the six opponents’ pleas and crushed them, sparing the Heavenly Poison Woman from his full force.
• Xiao Yu asked the fourteen Dou Zongs whether they still opposed unifying the Northwest, and their silence let him declare their agreement.
• Xiao Yu ordered the sect leaders to meet him in the Jia Ma Empire’s Imperial Capital in one month and warned that he would come after anyone who failed to appear.
• Xiao Yu let the leaders leave, and the Heavenly Poison Woman studied him before departing.
• Medusa asked why Xiao Yu had released the Dou Zongs, and he assured her he had a plan before asking whether she would recuperate with him or return to her tribe.

Xiao Yu left the Jia Ma gathering after reassuring everyone that the defeated factions would not threaten the alliance, then brought Medusa to visit the Xiao Clan. Back in his courtyard, he reunited with Zi Yan and Ya Fei and felt envious of their closeness.

• Xiao Yan took the captured Three Corpses Sect Master away to decide how to deal with him, while Xiao Yu left the alliance’s aftermath to Jia Xingtian and the others.
• Fa Ma and the other leaders insisted on addressing Xiao Yu formally as Alliance Leader, and Xiao Yu accepted before departing with Medusa.
• Xiao Yu and Medusa returned to Wutan City, where the Xiao Clan welcomed Medusa as a guest.
• Xiao Yu returned to his courtyard and reunited with Zi Yan and Ya Fei, who said she and Zi Yan had visited the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yu watched Zi Yan nestling in Ya Fei’s arms and felt envious of their closeness.

After returning from the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Zi Yan asked Xiao Yu to make her more pills, and Ya Fei stayed with them as he refined herbs through the night. Medusa arrived to announce that she was returning to her tribe, but she and Zi Yan sensed something unusual in each other before Medusa left.

• Xiao Yu learned that Zi Yan and Ya Fei had spent three months gathering herbs and cultivating in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Ya Fei advanced from Three-Star Dou Ling to Six-Star Dou Ling.
• Zi Yan persuaded Xiao Yu to refine pills for her, and she and Ya Fei watched him work through the night.
• Xiao Yu finished refining the herbs at noon and gave Zi Yan dozens of bottles of pills, which she immediately began eating.
• Medusa came to tell Xiao Yu that she was returning to her tribe, then sensed Zi Yan's extraordinary bloodline as Zi Yan felt a mysterious aura from Medusa.
• Medusa studied Zi Yan and Ya Fei, said nothing, and walked out.

Xiao Yu received the rewards Su Qian had promised for helping Jia Nan Academy and spoke with Xiao Yan about their secrets and the Fallen Heart Flame. Xiao Yu then told Xiao Yan to visit the Poison Sect in a few days and persuade its leader to join the Alliance, leaving Xiao Yan wary of the promised surprise.

• Zi Yan told Xiao Yu that Medusa's aura had frightened her, and Xiao Yu wondered what other bloodline Medusa had awakened.
• Xiao Yan brought Xiao Yu an upgraded Earth Tier Mid Grade Dou Technique, two Peak Sixth Tier Magic Cores, and medicinal ingredients from Su Qian.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had told Su Qian the truth about the new wisp of Fallen Heart Flame and rejected taking credit from Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yan asked why Xiao Yu was not curious about his ability to refine two Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yu replied that everyone had secrets.
• Xiao Yu instructed Xiao Yan to visit the Poison Sect in a few days and persuade its leader to join the Alliance, but Xiao Yan said the plan made him nervous.

Xiao Yu searched Ten Thousand Scorpion City for the Soul Hall Protector connected to Xie Biyan, then infiltrated the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect to confront him. He found Xie Biyan recovering from their earlier fight and immobilized him after overhearing him plot against Xiao Yu.

• Xiao Yu used his Spirit Realm soul to search Ten Thousand Scorpion City but found no trace of the Soul Hall Protector.
• Xiao Yu concealed his presence with the Myriad Transformation Flame and entered the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect unnoticed.
• Xiao Yu located Xie Biyan in his residence and overheard him plan to seek Iron Protector's help to kill Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu appeared before Xie Biyan and froze him in place, furious that Xie Biyan had called him a little bastard.

Xiao Yu forced Xie Biyan to summon the Iron Protector, then waited half a month for him to arrive. After defeating and controlling the Iron Protector, Xiao Yu killed Xie Biyan and gained a Dou Zong enforcer.

• Xiao Yu threatened Xie Biyan and learned that the Iron Protector would visit in half a month.
• Xiao Yu sealed Xie Biyan in place and cultivated while waiting for the Iron Protector.
• The Iron Protector arrived, and Xiao Yu struck him and planted heart puppet thunder flame inside him.
• Xiao Yu burned Xie Biyan to nothing with void-burning divine flame.
• The Iron Protector returned, knelt before Xiao Yu, and greeted him as his master.

Xiao Yu prepared for the Northwest Alliance’s founding and considered the danger the Hun Clan posed to the Xiao Clan. At the assembly, the factions gathered under his leadership, and Bai Xiangling of the Heavenly Snake Mansion arrived with a young girl who was visibly excited to see Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yu met with Jia Ma Empire leaders to discuss the Alliance’s founding, its dealings with other factions, and its future development.
• The next day, the Mulan Three Elders and representatives of nearly every faction from the Sect Gathering arrived at the Alliance assembly.
• Xiao Yan entered with Xiao Yi Xian, and the gathering noted the absence of the Three Corpses Sect Master and the death of Xie Biyan.
• Bai Xiangling entered with a young girl whose eyes showed three emerald flowers, and Xiao Yu recognized Bai Xiangling as a powerful elder of the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• The attendees reacted in shock when Xiao Yu asked whether Bai Xiangling was the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s venerable Spirit Sect.

Xiao Yu founded the Northwest Alliance by securing Bai Xiangling’s support and persuading the region’s factions to join, then organized the Alliance and its rewards. A year later, he finally gathered the rare ingredients needed to refine a batch of Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pills.

• Bai Xiangling agreed to bring the Heavenly Snake Mansion into the Alliance, and the other factions followed.
• Xiao Yu established Alliance contribution points, offering rewards that included seventh-grade pill refining.
• Xiao Yu built a Spirit-Gathering Tower at Alliance Headquarters, added Spirit-Gathering Arrays to the Exchange Treasury, and created departments to manage the Alliance.
• A year later, Xiao Yu examined the ingredients he had gathered for the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, including a ten-thousand-year green spirit vine.

Xiao Yu decided to refine the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill to give Yao Tianhuo a chance at resurrection and began the risky Eighth-Tier Pill refinement in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. As the pill took shape, dark clouds gathered overhead, signaling the arrival of pill lightning.

• Xiao Yu weighed the risk of failure against the need to resurrect Yao Tianhuo and decided to refine the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.
• Xiao Yu told Jia Xingtian and the others he would be away, then traveled to the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yu had Little Purple clear the northern area and stand guard while he formed a medicine cauldron from the Myriad Transformation Flame.
• Xiao Yu used the Golden Light Dao Flame and Five Qi Thunder to extract and merge the medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yu continued tempering the shrinking pill as dark clouds gathered and thunder rumbled overhead.

Xiao Yu successfully refined an Eighth-Tier Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill that summoned four-colored pill lightning. He welcomed the lightning to temper his bones, but the bolts struck so rapidly that he struggled to keep up.

• Xiao Yu completed the pill’s formation, and a tiny blood-colored bone dragon appeared as its spirituality took shape.
• The Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill flew from the cauldron, but Xiao Yu caught it and sealed it in a specially made jade bottle.
• Xiao Yu saw that the gathered pill lightning had turned azure, silver, red, and gold, and worried whether he could withstand it.
• Xiao Yu charged into the first bolt of four-colored pill lightning and redirected its force into his bones to temper his body.
• More bolts struck in rapid succession, and Xiao Yu shouted in pain and frustration as he struggled to endure them.

Xiao Yu exploited the Illusory World Thunderflame to evade and absorb the four-colored pill lightning, tempering his body and strengthening his Dou Qi. After enduring the entire tribulation, he resolved to seek better resources in the Central Plains, while Little Purple worried he would become useless to his master.

• Xiao Yu hid inside the isolated Thunderflame Illusory World to break the pill lightning's lock on him, then absorbed the lightning that had filled his body.
• Xiao Yu repeatedly emerged to take more four-colored lightning and retreated into the illusory world to digest it until the tribulation ended.
• Xiao Yu cultivated until the lightning was fully consumed, and Little Purple sensed his master's dramatically stronger aura and feared he would no longer be useful.
• Xiao Yu tore open a rift in space and judged that his tempered body could contend with a Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yu reached the eight-star peak of Dou Zong and decided he needed to go to the Central Plains for resources to advance further.

Xiao Yu prepared to revive Yao Tianhuo by refining a Dou Zong-level skeleton with seventh-rank magical beast blood essence and having Yao Tianhuo enter it with the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill. As flesh began to grow on the bones, Yao Tianhuo's revival was underway.

• Xiao Yu summoned Yao Tianhuo and revealed that he had already refined the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.
• Yao Tianhuo thanked Xiao Yu and promised to support him in future matters.
• Xiao Yu placed a crystalline skeleton on the mountaintop and instructed Yao Tianhuo to take the pill and enter it at the right moment.
• Xiao Yu covered the skeleton with the blood essence of a seventh-rank magical beast and used three Origin Flames to refine it.
• Xiao Yu called out to Yao Tianhuo, who swallowed the pill and entered the skeleton as flesh began growing on its bones.

Xiao Yu resurrected Yao Tianhuo, who returned as a Two-Star Dou Zun and agreed to guard the Northwest. After they returned to the Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Yu introduced him to the Alliance and announced that he would be leaving.

• Xiao Yu used the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and Origin Flames to restore Yao Tianhuo's body, secretly placing a Heart Puppet Thunder Flame inside as a precaution.
• After half a month, Yao Tianhuo awoke, celebrated his resurrection, and thanked Xiao Yu for bringing him back to life.
• Yao Tianhuo recovered to Two-Star Dou Zun and agreed to stay in the Northwest to help Xiao Yu hold the fort.
• Xiao Yu and Yao Tianhuo returned to the Jia Ma Empire, where Xiao Yu introduced him to Jia Xingtian and the others.
• Xiao Yu announced that he would leave and appointed Yao Tianhuo as the Alliance Guest Grand Elder.

After completing the first level of the eternal undying body and reaching Nine-Star Dou Zong, Xiao Yu left to visit the Misty Cloud Sect and learned Yun Yun had gone traveling. Before leaving Wutan City, he shared his first kiss with Ya Fei, then departed with Zi Yan, who revealed she had understood what she witnessed and demanded medicinal pills.

• Xiao Yu completed the first level of the eternal undying body, reached Nine-Star Dou Zong, and suppressed Yao Tianhuo in a physical fight.
• Xiao Yu visited the Misty Cloud Sect and learned from Gu He that Yun Yun had left the Jia Ma Empire six months earlier, naming young Yanran as the new sect leader.
• Xiao Yu told Ya Fei he was leaving Wutan City, then kissed her, and the two eagerly traded kisses until Zi Yan interrupted them.
• Ya Fei told Zi Yan that Xiao Yu had bullied her, so Xiao Yu hurriedly took Zi Yan away from the courtyard.
• Outside Wutan City, Zi Yan admitted she knew Xiao Yu and Ya Fei had been kissing and asked him to refine medicinal pills as thanks for protecting her secret.

Xiao Yu traveled toward the Black-Corner Region with Zi Yan, encountered Queen Medusa on her way to the Central Plains, and returned to find Xiao Court flourishing. After catching up on events, he learned that Xiao Yan had killed Han Feng and left Soul Hall threats under watch in the Northwest Continent.

• Xiao Yu and Zi Yan flew toward the Black-Corner Region, where Xiao Yu detected Queen Medusa and found her traveling toward the Central Plains to seek a chance to reach Dou Zun.
• Medusa said the Snake-People Tribe’s four elders had reached Dou Zong after obtaining Sect Breaking Pills through Xiao Yu’s Alliance, and she flew away after Xiao Yu continued on with Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yu returned to Xiao City and was pleased with Xue You’s management and Xiao Court’s growth, including its three Dou Emperor elders.
• Xue You told Xiao Yu that Xiao Yan had killed Han Feng, and Xiao Yu wondered whether the death had attracted a Soul Hall Protector.
• Xiao Yu kept the four Soul Hall Protectors in the Northwest Continent so they could alert him if another Soul Palace expert appeared.

Xiao Yu left Zi Yan with Su Qian at Jia Nan Academy and traveled to Tianya City to use its space wormhole to reach the Central Plains. He found the Space Ship Pavilion but left without buying a vessel, having examined the level-nine Space Wooden Boats.

• Xiao Yu told Su Qian to take Zi Yan back into Jia Nan Academy, and Su Qian agreed.
• Zi Yan realized Su Qian would not stop her from leaving afterward, thanked him, and ran after Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu reached Tianya City in less than two days and entered the city to find its space wormhole.
• Xiao Yu crossed Blackstone Square and went to the Space Ship Pavilion to look for a vessel for the journey.
• Xiao Yu inspected the level-nine Space Wooden Boats, found they cost five million gold coins, and left the pavilion without buying one.

Xiao Yu built a wooden space boat in Tianya City, where Zi Yan caught up with him and reunited with Medusa. He invited them both to travel with him, and the three entered the Space Wormhole aboard his boat.

• Xiao Yu bought timber and made a space boat outside Tianya City after studying the boats at the Space Boat Pavilion.
• Zi Yan arrived in Tianya City after nearly five days of nonstop travel and learned she needed a space boat to follow Xiao Yu.
• Zi Yan found Medusa near Blackstone Square, and Xiao Yu soon joined them.
• Xiao Yu decided to take Zi Yan to the Central Plains and invited Medusa to travel with them in his boat.
• Xiao Yu paid to use the Space Wormhole, entered it with Zi Yan and Medusa, and launched his boat, which expanded inside the passage.

Xiao Yu, Zi Yan, and Medusa traveled through a space wormhole aboard Xiao Yu’s fast, stable Space Ship, where tea and a gentle exchange helped Zi Yan become less afraid of Medusa. As they continued through the wormhole, Xiao Yu encouraged Zi Yan to sense its spatial fluctuations and asked Medusa about the Thunderfire Seed, prompting a resentful look from her.

• Xiao Yu powered up his custom Space Ship with a magic core, and it carried the three of them into the Spatial Passage at great speed.
• Xiao Yu brewed tea aboard the ship; Medusa enjoyed it, while Zi Yan complained that it was bitter.
• Medusa smiled at Zi Yan, easing the girl’s fear, then returned to her usual aloof demeanor when Xiao Yu reacted in surprise.
• Xiao Yu urged Zi Yan to sense the wormhole’s spatial fluctuations, and she obediently began cultivating her understanding of spatial force.
• Xiao Yu asked Medusa whether she still had the Thunderfire Seed, and she gave him a resentful look as she recalled the delay his mistaken information had caused.

Xiao Yu gave Medusa another Illusory World Thunderflame seed and a magic core to sustain it, and she insisted on repaying him by serving as his hired muscle for three years. After agreeing to take her along, Xiao Yu began trying to devise an Eighth-Tier Pill Formula for his upcoming alchemist assessment in the Pill Region.

• Xiao Yu apologized to Medusa for not realizing that the thunderflame seed needed his Dou Qi to survive.
• Xiao Yu offered Medusa a new thunderflame seed and a magic core, but she suspected he wanted something from her in return.
• Medusa proposed serving as Xiao Yu's hired muscle for three years in exchange for the seed, and Xiao Yu agreed to take her along.
• Medusa accepted the seed and magic core and began cultivating with them.
• Xiao Yu meditated on creating an Eighth-Tier Pill Formula for his planned assessment in the Pill Region.

Xiao Yu, Zi Yan, and Medusa arrived in Tianyue City and explored the Central Plains city while preparing to travel to Tianzhen City. Their shopping trip ended with Xiao Yu asking the proprietress to bring out the shop’s finest shoes for Medusa.

• Xiao Yu brought Zi Yan and Medusa through the Space Wormhole to Tianyue City and learned about the Central Plains and the route to the Pill Region.
• Xiao Yu decided the group would rest for a day before leaving for Tianzhen City the next morning.
• Zi Yan and Medusa browsed a clothing shop, where Zi Yan chose several outfits but had no money to pay for them.
• Xiao Yu offered to pay for Zi Yan’s clothes and invited Medusa to choose something as well.
• Xiao Yu noticed Medusa was barefoot and asked the proprietress to bring out the shop’s best shoes for her to try.