Recaps

Xiao Tian Ce drew the Stone, Spirit, Yao, Gu, and Gold-Devouring Rat Clans into alliances or vassalage while strengthening the Xiao Clan’s position. The Gu Clan’s marriage plans brought Xiao Xun’er face to face with Xiao Yan, and the two confessed their love before her return to the Gu Clan.

• After Shi Zhong Tian’s death, the Stone Clan’s Three Venerables chose peace, while the Spirit Clan offered tribute and an alliance under Xiao Clan leadership.
• Heavenly Net secured the Stone Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade and God-Demon Body Refining Art, and Ling Hua helped bring the Yao Clan into an alliance with the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Tian Ce restrained Gu Lie after Gu Lie challenged him, then restored him and offered the Gu Clan a Ninth-Level Spirit Gathering Array in exchange for its Tou She Ancient God Jade and Emperor Seal Art.
• At the exchange gathering, Xiao Xinghe defeated Gu Yao, and Gu Yuan agreed to renew marriage alliances between the Gu and Xiao Clans.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Nihility Devouring Flame to take bloodline power from hundreds of thousands of Soul Clan members to heal him, while the Gu Clan debated trading its jade for Xiao Tian Ce’s array.
• Huang Min and Huang Lingyun returned from seclusion stronger, and Jin Shi made the Gold-Devouring Rat Clan a Xiao Clan vassal in exchange for protection.
• Gu Lie went to Wutan City to bring Xiao Xun’er back, but she told him she loved Xiao Yan and asked to stay, and Xiao Yan confessed that he loved her too.
• Xiao Tian Ce warned Xiao Xun’er not to reveal the greater Xiao Clan to Xiao Yan, explaining to Xiao Tian Ming that keeping Xiao Yan ignorant was meant to spur his growth.

Xiao Tian Ce studied the bronze-door array, entered the Ancient Emperor’s Cave, and acquired the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill before reaching Half-Emperor. As Xiao Yan advanced toward the Alchemist Grand Meeting finals, Huang Min and Ling Yun captured Zhu Guang, bringing Xiao Qing and Heavenly Net into a confrontation with Zhu Kun.

• Gu Lie pressured Xiao Yan to his knee, but Xiao Xun'er secured three years to stay with him, and Xiao Tian Ce killed a Black Smoke Army member searching for the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Tian Ce hosted the Gu Clan marriage gathering, agreed to exchange the Tou She Ancient God Jade for a Ninth-Level Spirit Gathering Array, and learned that Xiao Xuan's soul controlled the Heavenly Tomb's Third Layer.
• Xiao Yan chose Yao Chen's Flame Mantra, while Xiao Tian Ce obtained a copy and discovered that the Tou She Ancient God Jade fragments could lead him to the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Tian Ce studied the array imprisoning Zhu Kun, freed him, and entered the Ancient Emperor's Cave, where he trapped the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Tian Ce reached Half-Emperor and secretly took the blame for the disturbance, then forced Zhu Kun to hand over a peak ninth-tier medicinal herb and three peak ninth-tier Ancient Void Dragon Clan magic cores.
• Xiao Yan advanced to the Alchemist Grand Meeting finals, while Ya Fei joined the Heavenly Secret Tower after Xiao He offered her an Eighth-Tier Meridian- and Marrow-Cleansing Pill.
• Huang Min and Ling Yun trapped the North Dragon King, Zhu Guang, in an Eight-Level Spiritual Array and prepared to make hot pot from him.
• Zhu Kun freed Zhu Guang, but Xiao Qing and Heavenly Net arrived with a Nine-Star Dou Sheng-level Heavenly Demon Puppet and challenged Zhu Kun after he refused to leave Zhu Guang behind an arm.

Xiao Yan survived the Three-Year Agreement’s bloody aftermath while Xiao Tian Ce maneuvered against the Hun Clan and sent the Tou She Ancient God Jade to bait them. Huang Min and Ling Yun attacked East Dragon Island, but Zhu Ku and Zhu Lu overwhelmed them, forcing Xiao Tian Ce to reveal himself and face their challenge.

• Zhu Guang severed his own arm to appease the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, while Xiao Tian Ce returned to the Central Plains with Ya Fei and learned that the Soul Hall had been destroyed.
• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their Three-Year Agreement, then fought Yun Leng after Yun Leng accused him of killing Mo Cheng.
• Yun Shan intervened against Xiao Yan, but Medusa, Ling Ying, and Heavenly Secret Tower experts helped Xiao Yan escape the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Tian Ce sought Gu Yuan’s alliance against the weakened Hun Clan, but Gu Yuan refused and instead considered bringing the Yan and Lei Clans together.
• Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City and found the Xiao Clan missing, then confronted Yun Shan at the Misty Cloud Sect before escaping after wrecking the sect with a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Tian Ming gave Xiao Yan the Tou She Ancient God Jade and ordered the Eight Gates to protect him secretly, while Xiao Tian Ce prepared the other clans for conflict with the Hun Clan.
• Huang Min and Ling Yun led the Heaven Demon Phoenix and Nine Netherworld Python forces in an assault on East Dragon Island, where they wounded Zhu Kun and trapped him with spiritual arrays.
• Zhu Ku and Zhu Lu defeated Huang Min and Ling Yun, freed Zhu Kun and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and seized the two disciples before Xiao Tian Ce appeared and declared he would take them away.

Xiao Tian Ce manipulated the Gu, Yan, Stone, and Spirit Clans into destroying the Stone and Spirit Clans, then retrieved Xiao Xuan from the Heavenly Tomb and helped revive Huang Jiuji and Xiao Xuan. As Xiao Yan began strengthening himself and Xiao Tian Ce gathered allies, he rescued Xiao Yi Xian and offered hope for curing her woeful poison body.

• Xiao Tian Ce freed Huang Min and Ling Yun from Dragon Island, secured the release of the captured clan members, and punished the pair for their reckless actions.
• After learning that the Stone and Spirit Clans had joined the Yan Clan against the Xiao Clan, Xiao Tian Ce approved Heavenly Net's plan to sow discord among their rivals.
• Xiao Tian Ce brought Gu Xun'er into his scheme, while Xiao Yan obtained the Fallen Heart Flame and began refining it with the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Tian Ce's false-flag attacks drove the Gu and Yan Clans to destroy the Stone and Spirit Clans, and he later settled the Xiao Clan's debt with Gu Yuan before leaving Gu Xun'er with him.
• Xiao Tian Ce entered the Heavenly Tomb, freed Xiao Xuan, and took the tomb back to the Xiao Clan, where he appointed Ling Hua as Xiao Qing's deputy.
• Xiao Yan helped Xiao Tian Ce resurrect Huang Jiuji, Tomb Spirit, and Xiao Xuan, while Huang Jiuji gave Xiao Yan and Yao Chen Heaven Rank Low Grade Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Tian Ce brought Medusa and the Snake-People Tribe toward the Central Plains, then sensed Xiao Yi Xian's distress and went to rescue her from Ice River Valley.
• After Ice Venerable revealed Soul Hall's role and named the materials needed for the Poison Pill, Xiao Tian Ce told the despairing Xiao Yi Xian that he might have what she needed.