Recaps

Xiao Tian Ce secretly prepared his branch to survive Xiao Xuan’s risky attempt to become a Dou Di, while building strength and allies beyond the Xiao Realm. After gaining treasures and a powerful puppet, he returned to confront a clan dispute over mithril.

• Xiao Tian Ce woke after a century and opposed Xiao Xuan’s plan to concentrate the Xiao Clan’s bloodline power for a chance at becoming a Dou Di.
• Xiao Xuan agreed to let Xiao Tian Ce’s branch leave the Xiao Realm, and Xiao Tian Ce secretly began preparing the clansmen and arranging a staged death to hide their escape.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Qing established Heaven Beyond, while Xiao Qing built the Luo Network and began setting up the Heavenly Secret Tower.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Qing explored the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Secret Realm, where Xiao Tian Ce subdued the Green Lotus Flame and met Huang Jiuji.
• Huang Jiuji entrusted Xiao Tian Ce with the secret realm’s treasures in exchange for his promise to help hatch the last two Heavenly Huang Clan eggs, and Xiao Tian Ce absorbed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Xiao Tian Ce made Huang Jiuji into a powerful Heavenly Demon Puppet, then learned that Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame intended to target Xiao Xuan after his failed breakthrough.
• Xiao Tian Ce found Fengtian Dou Di’s method for making a device that converted Dou Qi into spiritual energy and returned to the Xiao Realm to obtain mithril.
• After Xiao Tian Yun mistreated Xiao Chun over the mithril, Xiao Tian Ce sent his puppet to defeat Xiao Tian Shan and Xiao Tian Yun, but Xiao Tian Yun refused to apologize and went to seek out Xiao Wu.

Xiao Tian Ce prepared a hidden refuge and concealed force while Xiao Xuan’s failed Dou Di breakthrough brought the Hun Clan’s invasion of the Xiao Realm. After rescuing hundreds of clansmen and taking leadership, Xiao Tian Ce trapped the Hun forces and began wiping them out with Spiritual Arrays.

• Xiao Tian Ce refused Xiao Tian Yun’s request to punish Xiao Tian Ce and moved his branch to a new base, where he created a Converter and strengthened his spiritual arts.
• Xiao Tian Ce developed his Spiritual Array skills, sparred with Xiao Xuan, and learned that Xiao Xuan intended to risk a Dou Di breakthrough despite the danger to the clan.
• Xiao Tian Ce warned Xiao Chun that the Hun Clan might attack, then staged the deaths of his branch with Xiao Xuan and hid the survivors while Hun Tiandi prepared to invade.
• Xiao Tian Ce completed the White Jade Capital and its Spirit Gathering Array, refined two pills for Huang Jiuji, and reached the peak of Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from seclusion, attempted to become Dou Di, and was crippled by golden lightning before Hun Tiandi and the Hun Clan attacked him.
• While Xiao Xuan fought Hun Tiandi, Xiao Qing secretly evacuated 499 Xiao clansmen as Xiao Tian Ce prepared arrays and summoned Huang Jiuji to confront the invading forces.
• Xiao Tian Ce entered the Xiao Realm with Old Phoenix, revealed the staged confrontation, stopped Hun Yuanpo from calling for help, and led the rescued clansmen to Heaven Beyond.
• Xiao Tian Ce trapped the remaining Hun Clan forces in the Xiao Realm and activated arrays that killed and weakened them as Hun Yuanpo resorted to the Ten Thousand Ghosts Devouring Soul Formation.

Xiao Tian Ce saved the Xiao Clan from the Hun Clan’s assault, rebuilt its strength in Heaven Beyond, and later watched over the events leading to Xiao Yan’s loss of Dou Qi. The stretch ended with Nalan Yanran arriving to break her engagement to Xiao Yan, while Xiao Zhan rejected her offering.

• Xiao Qing evacuated the Xiao Clan survivors as Xiao Tian Ce trapped and killed the Hun Clan Dou Shengs, while Xiao Xuan defeated Hun Yuantian and Gu Yuan arrived to confront Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Xuan entrusted Xiao Tian Ce with the clan’s resources and final instructions, then entered the Heavenly Tomb and left Xiao Tian Ce to lead the survivors in Heaven Beyond.
• Xiao Tian Ce formed a ninth-tier spiritual array, refined Xiao Xuan into the Heavenly Demon Puppet Heavenly Net, and led the Xiao Clan through reforms and a century of rebuilding.
• After centuries of growth and travel, Xiao Tian Ce returned to the Central Plains and began monitoring Xiao Yan and the Wutan City Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan lost his Dou Qi on his twelfth birthday, while Xiao Tian Ce watched the Soul Hall influence Yun Shan and decided to adjust Xiao Yan’s future path.
• Nalan Yanran gained Yun Yun’s support to dissolve her engagement, then arrived at the Xiao Clan and announced her demand to break it.
• Xiao Zhan rejected Nalan Yanran’s Qi Gathering Powder and refused her offer as Xiao Yan sat beside Xiao Xun’er.

Xiao Tian Ce gathered allies and prepared the Xiao Clan for war after the Hun Clan attacked its branch. He trapped Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame, but they escaped, leaving Xiao Tian Ce to pursue the Hun Clan and confront the Stone and Spirit Clans.

• Xiao Yan rejected Yao Chen’s offer to teach him, blaming him for absorbing his Dou Qi, while Xiao Tian Ce recruited Xiao Huai'en and killed the mercenaries who threatened them.
• Xiao Tian Ce trained Huai En across the desert, brought him to the Xiao Clan, and ordered his followers to watch the Soul Hall and Han Feng.
• After Hun Miesheng destroyed a Heavenly Secret Tower branch, Xiao Tian Ce healed Xiao Tian Shan, ordered attacks on the Soul Hall, and sent envoys to seek alliances.
• The other five Emperor Clans refused to help, and Gu Yuan declined Xiao Tian Ce’s offer, leaving the Xiao Clan to fight the Hun Clan alone.
• Xiao Tian Ce trapped Hun Tiandi, the Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Four Demon Saints in the Nine Dragons Ascension Array, but Hun Tiandi broke it with a Blood-Colored Palm Seal.
• Xiao Tian Ce trapped Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame in further formations, but Shi Zhong Tian struck Heavenly Net and enabled their escape.
• Xiao Tian Ce killed Shi Zhong Tian and demanded compensation from the Stone and Spirit Clans, then ordered the Xiao Clan to attack the Soul Realm and destroy the Hun Clan.