Recaps

Xiao Yan broke free of Hall Master Gui’s Great Dao of Darkness with Heavenly Flames and severely wounded him using Heart-Shattering Palm, but the technique left Xiao Yan nearly depleted. Hall Master Gui then sacrificed his blood to unleash Yin Evil Spirit Devouring, feeding on Shahepu’s people to restore his strength as Xiao Yan prepared to face him.

• Xiao Yan used Heart-Shattering Palm to strike Hall Master Gui, broke free of the darkness cocoon with Heavenly Flames, and sent him flying from the Domain of Darkness.
• Xiao Yan and Hall Master Gui were both badly weakened, while Qin Shuo attacked Leng Bingshuang again and Ye Luotian watched the exchange.
• Hall Master Gui sacrificed a drop of his blood and summoned Yin Evil Spirit Devouring, spreading a vast black cloud above Shahepu.
• Hall Master Gui’s black mist attacked the city’s onlookers and devoured their bodies, Dou Qi, and souls to restore his power.
• Xiao Yan condemned Hall Master Gui’s disregard for human lives, then closed his eyes and steadied his breathing as the mist continued to consume the city.

Xiao Yan used the Giant Elephant Art to overpower Hall Master Gui after shattering his Ghost Rakshasa Seal. Hall Master Gui charged again, and Xiao Yan met him with Eight Extremes Blast.

• Xiao Yan marveled at the Giant Elephant Art’s power and its apparition, which combined the strengths of the first three manifestation arts.
• Hall Master Gui launched the Ghost Rakshasa Seal, but Xiao Yan smashed the black-mist attack and its trapped soul with the apparition’s palm.
• Xiao Yan caught Hall Master Gui’s fist, broke his wrist, and kicked him in the chest, sending him flying.
• Hall Master Gui charged back with renewed force as Xiao Yan gathered his remaining Origin Qi and struck with Eight Extremes Blast.

Xiao Yan used the Giant Elephant Art to overpower Hall Master Gui, breaking his arms and driving the remnant souls inside him into a frenzy. Hall Master Gui destroyed the spirits and tried to escape in black mist, but Xiao Yan trapped him with Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Yan's relentless attacks overwhelmed Hall Master Gui, and a powerful stomp broke both of his arms and dispersed his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan kicked Hall Master Gui in the back, forcing out the remnant souls that swarmed and devoured him.
• Hall Master Gui destroyed the vengeful spirits, but without their energy, his strength weakened and he could no longer use Yin Evil Spirit Devouring.
• Hall Master Gui admitted he had underestimated Xiao Yan and tried to flee by turning into black mist.
• Xiao Yan surrounded the black mist with Heavenly Flames and forced Hall Master Gui back into a figure under his control.

After Xiao Yan's victory at Shahepu, Xiao Gate rose to prominence while he recovered and secretly destroyed the Ghost Hall's remaining branches in the Western Region. As he prepared to return to the Xilin Mountain Range, Murong Xuan arrived seeking Leng Bingshuang.

• Xiao Yan and the Dou Di experts killed Ye Luotian, ending the battle of Shahepu and capturing Hall Master Gui, while a Ghost Hall expert escaped.
• Black-robed figures ambushed and killed the escaping Ghost Hall expert, taking his Ghost Mask.
• Over the next half month, Xiao Gate gained fame, faction leaders flocked to the Xilin Mountain Range, and Xiao Yan remained in seclusion as the visitors were screened and sent away.
• Xiao Yan interrogated Hall Master Gui, learned the locations of three Ghost Hall branches, and destroyed them across the Western Wilderness Region.
• As Xiao Yan prepared to return to the Xilin Mountain Range, Murong Xuan returned and sought Leng Bingshuang.

Leng Bingshuang rejected Murong Xuan’s request to return to her ancestral clan, which had threatened to destroy his family if he failed to bring her back. Xiao Yan arrived in time to nearly attack Murong Xuan, then learned the threat came from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Leng Bingshuang’s fury shook the Xilin Mountain Range, and Xiao Yan sensed her anger as he arrived.
• Murong Xuan urged Leng Bingshuang to return to her ancestral clan, but she condemned them for driving out her people and killing many of them.
• Murong Xuan explained that the clan had threatened to wipe out his family unless he brought Leng Bingshuang back, then prepared to leave without forcing her.
• Xiao Yan rushed in and nearly grabbed Murong Xuan by the throat before recognizing him and withdrawing his hand.
• Leng Bingshuang left after Xiao Yan asked what had happened, and Murong Xuan told him about the threat.
• Xiao Yan’s expression froze when Murong Xuan identified the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Murong Xuan revealed that Leng Bingshuang was the last surviving member of the Ice Phoenix Clan, once a rival branch of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. When Leng Bingshuang set out to confront the clan in the Western Wilderness Region, Xiao Yan joined her, while Xiao Yi Xian watched them leave with a complicated expression.

• Xiao Yan asked Murong Xuan why the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was pursuing Leng Bingshuang, and Murong Xuan revealed that she belonged to the clan.
• Murong Xuan explained that Leng Bingshuang was the last Ice Phoenix and that the Azure Luan Clan had fled with her ancestors to the Western Region after the Ice Phoenix Clan was defeated.
• Murong Xuan said the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had threatened the Azure Luan Clan to force Leng Bingshuang to return, and Leng Bingshuang appeared and objected to being kept in the dark.
• Leng Bingshuang decided to go to the Western Wilderness Region to confront the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Xiao Yan took her hand and went with her.
• Murong Xuan followed Xiao Yan and Leng Bingshuang as they left, while Tian Ying and the others departed and Xiao Yi Xian watched from another mountain peak.

Xiao Yan, Leng Bingshuang, and Murong Xuan arrived at Goshawk Fort, where the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s envoys were demanding that Leng Bingshuang return to her clan. The visitors revealed that she carried a nearly matured Extreme Yin Physique, just as the three companions arrived at the reception hall.

• Xiao Yan and his companions reached Blue Eagle City, where Murong Xuan identified the circling magical beasts as members of the Goshawk clan.
• Murong Xuan led Xiao Yan and Leng Bingshuang to Goshawk Fort, whose unusual design allowed entry only through high windows.
• At the reception hall, Elder Cang Xuan warned Murong Xun that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan expected Leng Bingshuang to return and acknowledge her ancestors.
• A white-haired young man explained that Leng Bingshuang’s Extreme Yin Physique had nearly matured and that the clan intended to help her control it.
• Xiao Yan, Leng Bingshuang, and Murong Xuan arrived outside the reception hall.

Xiao Yan arrived at Goshawk Fort with Murong Xuan and Leng Bingshuang, where Cang Xuan demanded that Leng Bingshuang return to the Central Region. Xiao Yan opposed him, and Leng Bingshuang declared she would never go back except to reclaim what belonged to her.

• Cang Xuan ordered Leng Bingshuang to return with him, while Xiao Yan recognized that the white-haired young man intended to use her Extreme Yin Physique as an excuse to pursue her.
• Murong Hao recognized Xiao Yan, and they greeted each other as old acquaintances.
• Xiao Yan told Cang Xuan that he and his group would be the only ones leaving, prompting Cang Xuan to pressure him until Murong Xun intervened.
• Leng Bingshuang refused to return and said she would go back only to reclaim what rightfully belonged to her.
• Cang Xuan warned that the Azure Luan Clan would face consequences, and Xiao Yan cut off Murong Xun as he began to discuss Leng Bingshuang's Extreme Yin Physique.

Xiao Yan claimed that Leng Bingshuang's Extreme Yin Physique had been cured, prompting Cang Xuan to test him with crushing pressure. Leng Bingshuang confirmed the cure and defended Xiao Yan, while the white-haired youth realized their intimacy had ruined his plan to steal the physique.

• Xiao Yan said that there was no need to worry about Leng Bingshuang's Extreme Yin Physique, and Cang Xuan challenged him to prove he could resolve it.
• Cang Xuan's pressure forced Xiao Yan to his knees, but Leng Bingshuang confirmed that her condition had been eradicated at its root.
• Murong Xun dispelled Cang Xuan's pressure after Leng Bingshuang demanded he help Xiao Yan.
• The white-haired youth realized that Xiao Yan and Leng Bingshuang had become intimate and silently cursed them for ruining his plan.
• The white-haired youth recalled that his clan had intended to transfer Leng Bingshuang's immature Extreme Yin Physique to him to strengthen his cultivation.

The white-haired young man of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan tried to take Leng Bingshuang back by force, but Xiao Yan intervened despite being outmatched. After Leng Bingshuang was injured defending him, Xiao Yan stopped the young man's next attacks and sent him crashing through the reception hall roof.

• The white-haired young man declared that Leng Bingshuang had to return with him and lunged to seize her.
• Xiao Yan intercepted him, but the young man revealed his Peak Late Origin Return Realm cultivation and knocked Xiao Yan away with one punch.
• Leng Bingshuang rushed to check on Xiao Yan, then stepped between him and the young man's next attack and was sent flying, coughing blood.
• The white-haired young man moved to strike the injured Leng Bingshuang, but Xiao Yan caught his wrist and blocked his other fist.
• Xiao Yan raised his bloodied face with killing intent and struck the white-haired young man so hard that he flew through the reception hall roof.

Xiao Yan used a medicinal pill to raise his cultivation and confronted Feng Xiangyu after rescuing the injured Leng Bingshuang. He dodged Feng Xiangyu’s attack and launched a punch at him, beginning their fight in earnest.

• Xiao Yan’s cultivation surged to the Origin Return Realm after he took a medicinal pill, and he sent Feng Xiangyu flying with one blow.
• Feng Xiangyu attacked Xiao Yan while Xiao Yan picked up Leng Bingshuang, but Xiao Yan evaded the claw strike with an afterimage.
• Xiao Yan laid Leng Bingshuang on a table and gave her a medicinal pill as Feng Xiangyu hesitated to attack again.
• Murong Xuan stopped Cang Xuan’s side from interfering, leaving Xiao Yan and Feng Xiangyu to face each other.
• Xiao Yan mocked Feng Xiangyu, vanished from his position, and punched toward his face.

Xiao Yan exploited Feng Xiangyu’s momentary lapse and beat him so severely that Cang Xuan secretly revived him. Feng Xiangyu transformed and swallowed Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan seized him by the neck and hurled him toward a city square.

• Xiao Yan struck Feng Xiangyu in the face and followed up with a relentless barrage of punches while Murong Hao and the Murong Clan elders held back the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts.
• Cang Xuan secretly awakened the unconscious Feng Xiangyu, and Xiao Yan immediately knocked him back into the ground with another punch.
• Feng Xiangyu transformed into a giant bird, swallowed Xiao Yan, and flew out of Goshawk Fort.
• Xiao Yan’s Dragon Bone Pill power and Giant Elephant Art let him seize Feng Xiangyu by the neck and throw him toward a city square.

Xiao Yan battered Feng Xiangyu in Blue Eagle City until a powerful voice from Goshawk Fort intervened and drove off the three giant birds overhead. Feng Xiangyu began healing and challenged Xiao Yan to face him at full strength.

• Xiao Yan used the Giant Elephant Art to smash Feng Xiangyu into a plaza, leaving him gravely injured.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside Feng Xiangyu and prepared to strike again, but a giant bird's cry immobilized him with overwhelming power.
• An ancient voice from Goshawk Fort shattered the oppressive force and warned the three giant birds, forcing them to retreat.
• Xiao Yan discovered Feng Xiangyu had moved away and was rapidly healing with the Dragon Bone Pill's medicinal power.
• Feng Xiangyu challenged Xiao Yan to use all his strength and face him head-on as his bloodline pressure spread.

Xiao Yan endured Feng Xiangyu’s bloodline-enhanced attacks, then shattered Feng Xiangyu’s halberd and struck him down with a single palm. He returned to Goshawk Fort and collapsed beside the unconscious Leng Bingshuang as his power faded.

• Feng Xiangyu activated his bloodline power and unleashed the Great Dao of Ice against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used the Giant Elephant Art to withstand Feng Xiangyu’s halberd and ice spikes, but Feng Xiangyu froze and shattered the giant form.
• Xiao Yan caught Feng Xiangyu’s halberd between his palms, destroyed it with Heavenly Flames, and struck Feng Xiangyu in the chest.
• Xiao Yan stopped attacking after sensing three hostile gazes, leaving Feng Xiangyu gravely wounded and demoralized.
• Xiao Yan returned to Goshawk Fort and collapsed onto the unconscious Leng Bingshuang as his strength gave out.

After Luo Jin warned Xiao Yan that the Sea Cloud Palace planned to attack the Liu Clan in Qingyang City, Xiao Yan hurried toward the Southern Region to protect them. He and his companions found Lengcui City destroyed and its teleportation formation shattered, leaving their route blocked.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Luo Jin in the Xilin Mountain Range and learned that Luo Ao had returned to the Central Region.
• Luo Jin told Xiao Yan that the Sea Cloud Palace planned to absorb factions along the southwestern border and might attack the Liu Clan in Qingyang City.
• Xiao Yan resolved to go to the Southern Region, and Leng Bingshuang and Luo Jin followed him; Xiao Yi Xian watched him leave from a distant mountain.
• Xiao Yan and his companions reached Lengcui City and found it ruined, its residents dead, and its teleportation formation destroyed.

After discovering that Lengcui City and its teleportation array had been destroyed by the Ghost Hall, Xiao Yan decided to reach the Southern Region by breaking the Provincial Region Barrier. He flew there alone, leaving Luo Jin to repair the array and Leng Bingshuang to guard against further Ghost Hall attacks.

• Xiao Yan, Luo Jin, and Leng Bingshuang found Lengcui City devastated and its teleportation array destroyed.
• Luo Jin suspected Zhang Yi, and Xiao Yan identified traces of black Qi as belonging to the Ghost Hall.
• Luo Jin offered to repair the array, but Xiao Yan refused to wait because the Liu Clan was in danger.
• Xiao Yan decided to break the Provincial Region Barrier and stopped Leng Bingshuang from accompanying him.
• Luo Jin began preparing to repair the array as Xiao Yan flew south and reached the barrier between the Western and Southern Regions.

Xiao Yan tried to break through the Provincial Region Barrier to enter the Southern Region. After his first strike failed and injured him, he used Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, which eventually shattered the barrier and opened a passage.

• Xiao Yan struck the Provincial Region Barrier with Giant Elephant Art and Eight Extremes Blast, but the barrier repelled his attack and sent him flying.
• Xiao Yan swallowed a medicinal pill, recovered, and decided to use Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus for a single powerful blow.
• Xiao Yan merged two kinds of Heavenly Flames and sent the Fire Lotus toward the barrier.
• The Fire Lotus unleashed a destructive storm that shook the barrier, which initially appeared to remain intact.
• The Provincial Region Barrier cracked and burst apart, opening a passage into the Southern Region.

As Xiao Yan prepared to enter the Southern Region, the Sea Cloud Palace sent a powerful force to attack Qingyang City and capture Bai Hua alive. Bai Hua and the Liu Clan faced the newcomers, whose strange Nine-Star Dou Di leader unsettled him, as Murong Qianqian and Qin Zhong recalled Xiao Yan’s strength.

• A gray-haired Nine-Star Dou Di led two Origin Transformation Realm experts and other Sea Cloud Palace fighters toward Qingyang City to capture Bai Hua alive.
• Bai Hua and the Liu Clan’s experts flew out to confront the group, while Liu Huabai recalled the Sea Cloud Palace’s expansion and its failed attacks on the city.
• Bai Hua sensed something strange about the gray-haired elder, and Zhong Li shared his concern about the strength of the approaching force.
• Murong Qianqian declared that Xiao Yan would easily defeat the Sea Cloud Palace fighters, and Bai Hua sent her back to watch Lian'er.
• The gray-haired elder praised Bai Hua’s strength and revealed that he had met two people like him; Bai Hua answered with a threat and unleashed his Origin Qi.

The battle for Qingyang City began, and Zhong Li discovered that the gray-haired Sea Cloud Palace expert was Mu Han, an old enemy seeking revenge. Mu Han trapped Zhong Li and prepared to activate a vast killing formation over the city, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Bai Hua fought two Origin Transformation Realm experts while Qin Zhong, Zhong Li, and the others engaged Sea Cloud Palace’s Dou Di experts.
• The gray-haired old man trapped Zhong Li in the God-Trapping Formation and revealed that he was Mu Han.
• Mu Han explained that he had joined Sea Cloud Palace, regained his lost left arm, and strengthened his cultivation at the cost of much of his right arm’s power.
• Mu Han declared that everyone in Qingyang City except Bai Hua would die and used a Formation Plate to spread a massive killing formation across the city.
• Mu Han activated the Ancient Heaven Spirit-Slaying Formation.

Mu Han’s formation devastated Qingyang City and helped him and two Origin Transformation Realm experts overwhelm Bai Hua. As Mu Han tried to take Bai Hua captive by threatening Murong Qianqian, she vanished and Mu Han’s left arm was severed.

• Mu Han activated the Ancient Heaven Spirit-Slaying Formation, which bombarded Qingyang City and killed or injured many people, including members of the Liu Clan.
• Bai Hua fought Mu Han and the two Origin Transformation Realm experts, but they badly wounded him and left the Liu Clan unable to fight.
• As Mu Han prepared to capture Bai Hua, Bai Hua began to self-destruct, but Murong Qianqian rushed back and pleaded with him to live.
• Mu Han’s companions seized Murong Qianqian, and Mu Han threatened her until Bai Hua agreed to go with them.
• Murong Qianqian suddenly vanished from her captors’ grasp, and Mu Han screamed as his extended left arm was severed.

Xiao Yan returned to ruined Qingyang City, rescued Murong Qianqian, and confronted Mu Han, who had destroyed the city and injured its defenders. Xiao Yan swiftly incapacitated the Sea Cloud Palace’s Dou Di experts, leaving Mu Han and the two Origin Transformation Realm experts facing him.

• Xiao Yan appeared behind Mu Han, severed his left arm, and caught the unconscious Murong Qianqian.
• Xiao Yan gave Bai Hua a pill, which Bai Hua swallowed, then turned around and revealed his identity to Mu Han.
• Mu Han recognized Xiao Yan and feared his strength, but resolved to rely on his allies and formation to defeat him.
• Xiao Yan declared that Mu Han and his companions would stay in Qingyang City, then struck down the Sea Cloud Palace’s dozen or so Dou Di experts in an instant.
• The two Origin Transformation Realm experts realized that Xiao Yan could have incapacitated them just as easily.

Xiao Yan faced Mu Han and two Origin Transformation Realm experts after defeating their allies, while Mu Han trapped him in the Ninefold Lightning Formation. Xiao Yan absorbed the formation’s lightning and turned it against the two attackers, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xiao Yan threatened Mu Han and the two Origin Transformation Realm experts after arriving in time to protect Qingyang City, Bai Hua, and Murong Qianqian.
• Mu Han activated his Fifth-Tier Ninefold Lightning Formation and asked the two experts to attack Xiao Yan while he controlled the Formation Plate.
• The two experts charged Xiao Yan as golden lightning descended from the formation.
• Xiao Yan ignored the lightning, absorbed it into his body, and severed Mu Han’s control over it.
• Xiao Yan blasted the two experts backward and struck their chests with lightning from his palms.

Xiao Yan turned Mu Han’s lightning against Chen Yan and his companion, badly weakening them and rendering the Ninefold Lightning Formation ineffective. When Mu Han shielded the two men with Vajra Bodhi Formations, Xiao Yan’s attacks failed to break through, and the chapter ended as he prepared to escalate the fight.

• Xiao Yan used the lightning in his body to injure Chen Yan and his companion, leaving them with greatly reduced fighting strength.
• Mu Han realized the Ninefold Lightning Formation had failed against Xiao Yan, while Chen Yan and his companion retreated and threatened him.
• Xiao Yan refused to let the two men escape, so Chen Yan called on Mu Han for protection.
• Mu Han used two Formation Plates to surround Chen Yan and his companion with Vajra Bodhi Formations.
• Xiao Yan attacked, but the formations blocked most of his punches, and the two men struck back.
• Xiao Yan blocked their counterattack and retreated, then fixed his gaze on their formations as killing intent flared in his eyes.

Xiao Yan defeated Chen and Yan by using his Origin-Breaking Needles to break their formations, then confronted Mu Han, whose altered body and connection to the Ghost Hall revealed its reach into the Southern Region. Xiao Yan stopped Mu Han’s attempted self-destruction before he could transmit details of the battle.

• Xiao Yan shattered Chen and Yan’s protective formations and knocked them into a crater, leaving them unable to fight.
• Mu Han fled, but Xiao Yan called him by name and revealed that he recognized Mu Han’s soul beneath his changed appearance.
• Mu Han blamed Xiao Yan for his suffering and began swelling as his Dou Qi ran wild and black Qi poured from his body.
• Xiao Yan realized the Ghost Hall had tampered with Mu Han and could use his self-destruction to learn about Xiao Yan and the battle.
• Xiao Yan struck Mu Han with Heavenly Flame, knocking him unconscious and halting his body’s expansion.

After defeating Mu Han and ending the crisis in Qingyang, Xiao Yan reunited with Zhong Li, Qin Zhong, Lu Du, and the Liu Clan survivors, then learned how the conflict had developed. The chapter ended with a black-haired man on the southwestern border discovering that Chen Yan, Wu Xinglong, and Mu Han had all died.

• The Ninefold Lightning Formation dissipated after Mu Han's death, freeing Zhong Li, who reunited with Xiao Yan.
• Qin Zhong and Lu Du arrived severely injured, and Xiao Yan gave each of them a fifth-tier pill.
• Liu Huabai and Liu Xincheng met Xiao Yan, and the survivors settled in a relatively intact courtyard while they recovered.
• Bai Hua explained the Liu Clan's circumstances and its worsening relations with Sea Cloud Palace to Xiao Yan.
• A black-haired middle-aged man found three shattered jade plaques and learned that Chen Yan, Wu Xinglong, and Mu Han had died.