Recaps

Xiao Yu attended the Misty Cloud Sect’s recruitment assessment, then sought out Yun Yun and confessed his love, asking her to become his wife. Yun Yun accepted his feelings despite his love for Medusa, and they embraced atop Misty Cloud Mountain.

• Nalan Yanran began the Misty Cloud Sect’s assessment, and hundreds of candidates who met its published standards were accepted as entry-level disciples.
• After the assessment ended, Xiao Yu went to the floating platform where Yun Yun had once given him a sword and waited for her to appear.
• Xiao Yu confronted Yun Yun with the sword and discovered that she had kept her own matching longsword in her Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yu realized the Sea Heart Armor he had worn for years had belonged to Yun Yun, pulled her into his arms, and asked her to be his wife.
• Yun Yun asked about Medusa, and Xiao Yu told her he loved them both and would not give either of them up.
• Yun Yun embraced Xiao Yu and accepted that she would share a life with him.

Xiao Yu visited Snake People City to ask Medusa to marry him, refusing to leave until she faced him. Medusa agreed to his condition that he stop forcing her if she ever became stronger than him, and Xiao Yu gave his word.

• Xiao Yu bought a necklace from a stallholder in Snake People City, paying with a second-grade pill.
• Yan Ci recognized Xiao Yu near the temple, but Medusa refused to meet him and told him to leave.
• Xiao Yu summoned a house outside the temple and settled in, prompting Medusa to come out to confront him.
• Xiao Yu put the necklace on Medusa, embraced her, and asked her to become his wife.
• Medusa denied having feelings for Xiao Yu and objected to being forced, then made him promise to let her go if she surpassed him.
• Xiao Yu promised he would keep his word.

Xiao Yu focused on building the Northwest Alliance while the Soul Palace intensified its soul-collecting across the continent. When a mysterious sect threatened the Northwest, he sent Yao Tianhuo to lead the Alliance’s response, suspecting the Soul Palace stood behind it.

• Xiao Yu spent several months strengthening the Alliance and took possession of the Xiao Clan’s piece of the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi discussed the Soul Palace’s abductions and the injuries Yao Chen suffered defending Starfall Pavilion from Gu You.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan to seek a new heavenly flame, and they planned to attend the Space Trade Fair after hearing of a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map.
• Jia Xingtian reported that the Spectral Soul Sect had conquered the Fierce Wind Empire and destroyed the Wind God Sect, so Xiao Yu ordered the Alliance’s Dou Zong experts to attack the Netherworld Sect.
• Xiao Yu sent Yao Tianhuo to oversee the campaign and gave him a token to summon Xiao Yu if he faced an opponent he could not handle.

Yao Tianhuo and the Northwest Alliance confronted the Ghost Soul Sect in the deserted Gale Imperial Capital, where the two forces clashed. Yao Tianhuo revealed that the sect belonged to the Soul Palace, then gained a sudden surge of power and struck its Four-Star Dou Zun leader.

• Yao Tianhuo led the Northwest Alliance into the empty Gale Imperial Capital, where the faction leaders found abandoned streets and no sign of the empire’s people.
• Ghost Soul Sect members surrounded the Alliance, and their leader threatened that the newcomers would meet the same fate as Gale’s people.
• Yao Tianhuo recognized the enemy leader as a Four-Star Dou Zun from outside the Northwest and ordered the Alliance to attack.
• Nearly a hundred Dou Zong experts fought across the city as Yao Tianhuo and the black-robed leader exchanged powerful attacks.
• Yao Tianhuo identified the Ghost Soul Sect as part of the Soul Palace, appeared behind its leader, and slapped him hundreds of meters away.
• The black-robed leader saw five-colored flames and fiery runes around Yao Tianhuo and realized that his strength had abruptly increased.

Yao Tianhuo used Xiao Yu’s secret art to battle the Soul Palace, but Blood River arrived and overpowered him. Xiao Yu rescued Yao Tianhuo, captured Blood River, and discovered the Soul Palace was targeting the Xiao Clan’s Emperor Jade.

• Yao Tianhuo used five flames and the Five-Wheel Departing Fire Formation to nearly defeat Jia Jin, but Blood River appeared and destroyed the attack.
• Blood River seized Yao Tianhuo and demanded to know whether any families on the Northwest Continent had the surname Xiao.
• Xiao Yu arrived, rescued Yao Tianhuo, and sent him to aid the Northwest Alliance fighters.
• Blood River tried to escape, but Xiao Yu restrained him and used the Heart Puppet Thunder Flame to read his memories.
• Xiao Yu learned that the Soul Palace was seeking the Xiao Clan’s Emperor Jade and began considering how to use Blood River.

After months of refining pills to strengthen the Alliance against the Soul Palace, Xiao Yu reunited with Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Medusa and decided to take them to Wutan City to meet his second uncle. The three women refused at first, but Xiao Yu forcibly transported them to the Xiao Residence and reminded Medusa of her promise to obey him until she defeated him.

• Xiao Yu enslaved the Soul Palace members who survived the Ghost Soul Sect's destruction and sent the Fourth Heavenly Venerate back with false information about the Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Yu spent three months in seclusion refining pills, entrusting lower-ranked pill ingredients to the Alliance's Alchemy Hall.
• Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Medusa discussed Xiao Yu's absence and their worries about the Soul Palace's strength.
• Xiao Yu emerged from seclusion and invited the three women to accompany him to Wutan City to meet his second uncle.
• Medusa and Yun Yun declined, but Xiao Yu transported all three women to the Xiao Residence and reminded Medusa of her promise to obey him until she defeated him.

Xiao Yu brought Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Medusa to the Xiao Residence, then told Xiao Zhan he would create a hidden independent space to protect the Xiao Clan. He expanded the space to the size of the Jia Ma Empire and began stabilizing it.

• Xiao Yu introduced Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Medusa to Xiao Zhan, who welcomed them and arranged a family banquet and a shared room for them.
• The three women refused to share the room with Xiao Yu, and he spent the night in the neighboring room reflecting on the threat of the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Zhan he would create an independent living space to protect the Xiao Clan, and the clan evacuated nearby homes and shops before the work began.
• Xiao Yu used the Void-Burning Divine Flame and his spatial control to form an independent space in the void and expand it to the size of the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yu stopped expanding the space and began stabilizing it.

Xiao Yu created the Xiao Realm to protect the Xiao Clan and prepared to return to the Central Plains with Medusa and Yun Yun. He left Ya Fei behind in Jia Ma, where she accepted his decision and spent their last night together before his departure.

• Xiao Yu moved the Xiao Residence into the Xiao Realm, restricted entry mainly to the Xiao Clan's bloodline, and showed Xiao Zhan the hidden gateway.
• Xiao Zhan gathered the clansmen and led them into the Xiao Realm to explore their new refuge.
• Xiao Yu decided to travel to the Central Plains with Medusa and Yun Yun, while leaving Ya Fei behind because she was too weak for the journey.
• Xiao Yu told Ya Fei he would not take her to the Central Plains, and she reassured him that she would wait for his safe return.
• Ya Fei and Xiao Yu spent the night together, and the next morning he left for Yun Yun and Medusa's courtyard as Ya Fei watched him go with reluctance.

Xiao Yu returned to the Central Plains and discussed the Soul Palace’s escalating slaughter with Tian Leizi before seeking medicinal herbs through the Pill Tower. Back at the Xiao Residence, he received an invitation to the Space Trade Fair and decided to attend with Yun Yun and Medusa.

• Xiao Yu learned that the Soul Palace was capturing alchemists across the Central Plains and had wiped out the population of the Gale Empire.
• Xiao Yu told Tian Leizi about the Gale Empire and discussed stopping the Soul Palace, then asked the Pill Tower to help him find medicinal herbs.
• Yun Yun gave Xiao Yu an invitation to the Space Trade Fair from a disciple of Treasure Appraisal Mountain.
• Xiao Yu explained the trade fair’s exclusivity and its rare wares to Yun Yun, then invited her and Medusa to attend with him.

Xiao Yu attended the Space Trade Fair with Medusa and Yun Yun, trading pills for rare medicinal ingredients and treasures. He acquired a seven-colored primordial stone that Medusa could use, leaving the fair with his group and the stallholder puzzled by how quickly he had paid.

• Xiao Yu spent a month refining pills before traveling with Medusa and Yun Yun to the Space Trade Fair in the northeastern Central Plains.
• The three entered the independent space and browsed the stalls in Space Trade Town, where Xiao Yu traded a Two-Colored Eighth-Tier Pill for profound spirit grass.
• Xiao Yu bought rare medicinal ingredients and encouraged Medusa and Yun Yun to choose items, then paid for some of their selections.
• Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Yun Yun recognized a seven-colored primordial stone at a stall, and Xiao Yu bought it for two Three-Colored Eighth-Tier Pills.
• After Xiao Yu left with the stone, the old stallholder wondered whether he had misjudged its value.

Xiao Yu and Medusa discovered that the seven-colored primordial stone was actually a nine-colored origin stone, then returned to Sacred Pill City. Xiao Yu refined a Saint Spirit Pill for Yun Yun, and a month later a black demon lightning cloud formed over the Xiao Residence, revealing that he was refining a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill.

• Medusa used her blood to reveal the stone’s eighth stripe, and Xiao Yu stopped her from putting it away as a faint ninth stripe began to appear.
• Medusa realized the nine-colored origin stone could help her bypass Half-Saint and reach Dou Sheng, and Xiao Yu urged her to hide it from prying eyes.
• Xiao Yu took Medusa and Yun Yun back to Sacred Pill City, told Medusa not to use the stone yet, and secluded himself to refine a Saint Spirit Pill for Yun Yun.
• A month later, a vast black demon lightning cloud gathered above the Xiao Residence, drawing powerful experts from Sacred Pill City.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi recognized the tribulation as a sign that Xiao Yu was refining a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill and celebrated his advancement as a Ninth-Grade Grandmaster Alchemist.

After a month of refining, Xiao Yu completed the Saint Spirit Pill and subdued the black demon lightning that appeared to test it. He gave the pill to Yun Yun, who asked whether he had made one for her alone.

• Dou Zuns gathered outside the Xiao Residence and recognized that Xiao Yu was refining a ninth-grade pill when black demon lightning formed overhead.
• Xiao Yu emerged with the Saint Spirit Pill, then approached the tribulation clouds and caused the black demon lightning to flee and disperse.
• Xiao Yu pulled the lightning back, subdued it, and decided to keep it as a pet that he would help develop intelligence.
• Xiao Yu returned to the Xiao Residence and found Yun Yun cultivating behind the Isolation Barrier.
• Xiao Yu teased Yun Yun, then gave her the Saint Spirit Pill, explaining that it could increase her chances of reaching Dou Sheng by thirty percent.
• Yun Yun asked whether anyone else was receiving a pill, and Xiao Yu said she was the only one because he had enough herbs to refine just one.

Xiao Yu brought Medusa to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs so she could cultivate and pursue a breakthrough to Dou Sheng, then left her to enter the pool alone. After checking on the still-sleeping Zi Yan and returning to the Pill Region, he learned from Xiao Yan that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was about to emerge.

• Xiao Yu and Medusa slipped past the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s defenses and reached the Nine Nether Yellow Springs in the depths of the Nether Serpent Earth Vein.
• Xiao Yu warned Medusa about the dangers beneath the springs, gave her a Spatial Jade Slip and pills, and told her not to interfere with the imprisoned Yao Ming.
• Medusa kissed Xiao Yu, promised to help him after her breakthrough, and transformed into a Seven-Colored Giant Python before diving into the springs.
• Xiao Yu visited East Dragon Island and found that Zi Yan was still absorbing and integrating the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s power.
• Xiao Yu returned to the Pill Region, where Xiao Yan informed him that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was about to emerge in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.

Xiao Yu traveled to Desolate Ancient Town to join Xiao Yan and his companions for a search for the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region. He arrived as they planned to wait for him, then urged them to enter the dangerous region with him that day.

• Xiao Yu decided to seek Bodhi Seeds and explore the Vast Desolate Ancient Region after reading Xiao Yan's message inviting him to Desolate Ancient Town.
• Xiao Yu left the Inner Region while Yun Yun remained in seclusion, securing the Xiao Residence before departing.
• Xiao Yu traveled to Desolate Ancient Town and found Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin at an inn.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked what they should do after learning that an earlier group had died in the ancient region, and Xiao Yan proposed waiting for Xiao Yu before deciding how to proceed.
• Xiao Yu appeared in their room and told them to enter the ancient region with him that day.

Xiao Yu revealed that he had reached the Dou Sheng realm and led Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin into the Vast Desolate Ancient Region ahead of the other experts. After they appeared inside the silent forest, Xiao Yu warned them that poisonous mist was rising around them.

• Xiao Yu entered the room unnoticed, surprised Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, and confirmed Xiao Yan’s guess that he had reached Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan and the two women to prepare to leave in an hour, and Xiao Yan said they no longer needed to wait for the experts gathering in town.
• Xiao Yu took Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin out of Vast Desolate Ancient Town and used spatial force to enter the Primeval Forest directly.
• Xiao Yan found the forest strangely quiet and asked why there were no Fierce Beasts nearby.
• Xiao Yu sensed poisonous mist rising and warned Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to be careful.

Xiao Yu led Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin through the dangers of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After using the beast tide as a training ground, the group escaped deeper into the region with their combat skills improved.

• Xiao Yu protected the group from clouds of microscopic venomous insects with his Origin Flame, and they crossed a ravine into the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Xiao Yan used a Bodhi Seed to sense the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s direction, and Xiao Yu carried the group northwest while concealing their auras from Fierce Beasts and other travelers.
• Xiao Yu’s group bypassed the Ancient Domain Platform and found a vast beast tide blocking their path deeper into the region.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin chose to fight the Fierce Beasts for training, and Xiao Yu transported them into the tide and watched over them.
• Xiao Yu withdrew Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin when they reached their limits, then took the group out of the beast tide after Xiao Yan finished fighting.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where Xiao Yu destroyed its Half-Saint puppets and broke free of its illusion. Inside the tree, they found the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s true body and witnessed an image of a black-robed figure whose aura identified him as a Dou Di.

• Xiao Yu detected sinister energy concealed within the Bodhi Ancient Tree and led Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin toward its Bodhi Heart.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent out five Half-Saint Puppets, and Xiao Yu erased them with a sweep of his sleeve.
• A beam transported the group into the tree, where Xiao Yu shattered his illusion and Xiao Yan soon emerged from his own.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan saw that Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin were trapped in illusions, then examined an image of the ancient tree at its peak.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu saw a black-robed figure whose overwhelming aura suggested he was a Dou Di.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan learned that a dark intelligence born from a dead Dou Di’s negative emotions had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which asked them to help cleanse it. The tree supplied them with sixty-eight Bodhi Seeds to refine with Heavenly Flames, and they prepared to begin.

• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan watched the Bodhi Ancient Tree and a white-robed Dou Di defeat the Black-Robed Dou Di, whose black energy seeped into the tree.
• The sphere’s information revealed that the Black-Robed Dou Di’s negative emotions had corrupted the Bodhi Ancient Tree and created a second, dark intelligence within it.
• Xiao Yan realized the tree wanted their help, and Xiao Yu inferred that refining Bodhi Seeds with Heavenly Flames could return pure energy to the tree and dispel the corruption.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree demonstrated the cleansing method and gave Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan sixty-eight Bodhi Seeds.
• Xiao Yu urged Xiao Yan to begin refining the seeds, suggesting the tree would reward their help.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu refined the Bodhi Seeds until the Bodhi Ancient Tree was freed of its black energy, after which Xiao Yan entered enlightenment beneath the tree. Xiao Yu learned where the black-robed Dou Di had died and left to pursue his own opportunity, but a Soul Palace man blocked his path outside the tree.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu refined the Bodhi Seeds, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Yan a green cushion to help restore his Dou Qi.
• After the final black energy left the tree, Xiao Yan collapsed from exhaustion and merged with the trunk to receive enlightenment.
• Xiao Yu declined the tree's enlightenment and asked where the black-robed Dou Di had died, receiving information and an aura through a tendril.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent Xiao Yu outside, where he told Gu Xun'er that Xiao Yan was still inside and then left to seek his own opportunity.
• A black-robed man confronted Xiao Yu and demanded that he share what he had obtained inside the tree, while the surrounding factions watched greedily.
• Xiao Yu identified the man as belonging to the Soul Palace and coldly confronted him.

Xiao Yu crushed Hun Yu and eliminated the Soul Clan members who attacked him, leaving the other treasure seekers too afraid to challenge him. After leaving the Bodhi Ancient Tree, he followed information to a location in the sky and vanished into the void.

• Hun Yu attacked Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu seized him, took his scroll, and crushed it to summon a Half-Saint.
• Xiao Yu punched into the spatial black hole, killing the Half-Saint before it could emerge.
• Xiao Yu crushed Hun Yu and erased the Three Elders with Black-and-White Lightning.
• Xiao Yu warned the gathered treasure seekers not to challenge him, then left the Bodhi Ancient Tree as Gu Xun'er wondered at his strength.
• Xiao Yu reached the indicated spot thousands of zhang above the ground and melded into space when he could not find what he sought.

Xiao Yu searched the void for remnants of the Black-Robed Dou Di and found only a dangerous wisp of black mist. After ten days of searching, he encountered a massive black storm and braced himself as it rushed toward him.

• Xiao Yu entered the void and used the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s aura to search for traces of the Black-Robed Dou Di.
• Xiao Yu found a tiny wisp of black mist, suppressed it with his profound venerable ancestral flame, and resumed his search.
• After searching for about ten days, Xiao Yu gave up and opened a passage to leave the void.
• Xiao Yu sensed a distant roar and used five qi thunder and the Void Eye to spot a vast black storm racing toward him.
• Unable to escape, Xiao Yu covered himself in golden flames and formed a sturdy independent space with silver flames.

After surviving a devastating void storm, Xiao Yu explored a dark space connected to the Black-Robed Dou Di and found a fragment of a Storage Ring containing valuable treasures. He gained a powerful Dou Technique, a pill formula, and a source of pure energy that greatly advanced his cultivation.

• Xiao Yu recovered from the void storm's injuries and identified the dark space's connection to the Black-Robed Dou Di.
• Xiao Yu found a Storage Ring fragment and entered its broken internal space.
• Xiao Yu discovered the Black-Sky Profound Finger Dou Technique and judged it well suited to his strength and divine thunder.
• Xiao Yu found the Black Emperor Mystic Pill formula but realized its ingredients and refinement were beyond his current reach.
• Xiao Yu refined a wisp of energy from a mysterious stone, advancing to the peak of the middle stage of one-star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yu collected the treasures and Storage Ring fragment before leaving the broken space.

Trapped in the black-mist space, Xiao Yu spent over a year refining the Milky White Stone and reached late Four-Star Dou Sheng before breaking his way out with the Ha Que Profound Firmament Finger. He emerged in the Beast Region rather than the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and set off to see Zi Yan.

• Xiao Yu failed to escape the black-mist space by force and began refining the Milky White Stone.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, later reached peak One-Star Dou Sheng, and defeated the Nether River Alliance as it attacked Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan formed the Heavenly Mansion Alliance with the Flower Sect, Burning Flame Valley, the Pill Tower, and other factions to oppose the Soul Palace.
• After more than a year of refining the stone, Xiao Yu reached late Four-Star Dou Sheng and shattered the black-mist space with the Ha Que Profound Firmament Finger.
• Xiao Yu emerged in the Beast Region, realized the Bodhi Ancient Tree's location had shifted, and decided to visit Zi Yan.

Xiao Yu arrived at East Dragon Island after reaching Dou Sheng, where the elders welcomed him and told him Zi Yan had refined the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and was preparing to advance to Four-Star Dou Sheng. Zi Yan reunited with Xiao Yu in the Dragon Emperor Hall, and the chapter ended with him asking what she planned to do next.

• Elder Zhu Li and East Dragon Island’s Elder and Second Elder sensed Xiao Yu’s Dou Sheng aura and went to meet him.
• Xiao Yu greeted Qing Shan and Huang He, and Zhu Li explained that Xiao Yu was Zi Yan’s elder brother and had helped her obtain the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Zhu Li told Xiao Yu that Zi Yan had refined the fruit and was preparing to break through to Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Qing Shan hosted Xiao Yu in the Dragon Emperor Hall, where Zi Yan arrived and playfully threw herself into his arms.
• Zi Yan took her place as Dragon Emperor after Xiao Yu scolded her, and he asked what she planned to do after absorbing the fruit.

Xiao Yu agreed to help Zi Yan reunite the divided Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and she led an army from East Dragon Island to attack South Dragon Island. The South Dragon King learned of the invasion and went out to confront her.

• Zi Yan said she could defeat two Dragon Kings if Xiao Yu kept the third occupied, and they planned a surprise attack on the other islands.
• Xiao Yu gave Zi Yan medicinal pills, and she spent the next day catching up with him before their army assembled.
• Zi Yan rallied the assembled Ancient Void Dragon experts and led them, with Xiao Yu, out of East Dragon Island.
• The South Dragon King told Lie Shan that he planned to eliminate the Dragon Emperor and unify the dragon clan.
• East Dragon Island's forces announced Zi Yan's arrival, and the South Dragon King went out with his senior leaders to meet her.