Recaps

Chen Xiao secured a new base in Northern Sky, defeated Thunder Venerable, and gathered allies while expanding Purple Firmament Pavilion. After pursuing pill-making and opening routes to Tagor and the Black-Corner Region, he returned to a reunion with his companions.

• Chen Xiao captured the Fallen Heart Flame with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, recruited Yao Tian Huo, and arranged for Su Qian to use the smaller flame in the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Chen Xiao returned to Tagor, reunited with Cai Lin, and welcomed their daughter Chen Yao, while Hai Bo Dong forced Jia Xing Tian to confront the threats facing the Jia Ma Empire.
• Chen Xiao traded information with Yao Chen, helped Xiao Yan defeat Yun Shan’s forces, and began arranging for the Snake-People Race and Purple Firmament Pavilion to move to Northern Sky.
• Chen Xiao chose Myriad Snake Gorge as the new base, killed Hong Chen and captured Yang Lei, then learned the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and ordered Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion to leave Qifeng Mountain.
• Chen Xiao defeated Thunder Venerable, destroyed Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion’s leadership, and began establishing Purple Firmament Pavilion at Qifeng Mountain with Han Yue and the Han Family’s help.
• Chen Xiao welcomed Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran into Purple Firmament Pavilion, then traveled with Zi Yan to Holy Pill City and asked Xuan Kongzi to refine a Bodhi Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Cao Ying refined a Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill and joined Chen Xiao and Zi Yan, while Qing Lin returned with a controlled Ancient Heavenly Serpent remnant soul and Chen Xiao’s group opened Spatial Wormholes to Tagor and the Black-Corner Region.
• After searching Northern Sky for clues to the Heavenly North Ruins, Chen Xiao returned to Purple Firmament Pavilion and reunited with Cai Lin, Yao Yao, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, Cao Ying, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others.

Chen Xiao strengthened Purple Firmament Pavilion, helped reunite Zi Yan with the Old Dragon Emperor, and rescued Yao Chen from Soul Hall. As the Dan Tower and Soul Hall conflict intensified, he set out with Cai Lin and Great Elder Qingshan to free Yao Ming and secure Cai Lin’s chance to grow stronger.

• Chen Xiao welcomed the Snake-People Race to Myriad Snake Gorge, advanced his allies’ responsibilities, and learned Xiao Yi Xian had safely condensed her Woeful Poison Qi into a Rune.
• Chen Xiao helped Zi Yan find the Old Dragon Emperor, who named her Dragon Emperor and empowered Chen Xiao before Zi Yan departed to absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Chen Xiao revived Heavenly Flame Honored One in a Dou Sheng body, then joined Feng Xian and Iron Sword Honored One to storm Soul Hall’s branch and rescue Yao Chen.
• Chen Xiao refined Soul Origin while Zi Yan absorbed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, then learned Yao Chen had helped ignite a war between Soul Hall and the Dan Tower.
• Xun Er reunited with Chen Xiao and later returned to the Ancient Realm, while Chen Xiao discovered that Cao Ying was pregnant and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Venerate.
• Cai Lin chose to pursue the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, and Chen Xiao arranged for Hei Qing to take the Heavenly Demon Puppets to the Void Thunder Pool for tempering.
• Chen Xiao, Cai Lin, and Great Elder Qingshan entered the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and found Yao Ming, who said Yao Xiaotian had poisoned him and seized his clan leadership.

Chen Xiao advanced his soul and gathered the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s inheritance before protecting Yellow Maple Valley from Soul Hall and rival forces. He entered the Northern Heaven Ruins with Qing Lin, who inherited the Void Devouring Serpent Saint’s legacy, and they confronted the Evil Entity on the third floor.

• Chen Xiao freed Yao Ming from the Yellow Spring Yin Stones, and Yao Ming killed Yao Xiaotian and reclaimed leadership of the Nine Nether Earth Python Race.
• Chen Xiao advanced to Eight-Star Dou Venerate and achieved a Heavenly Soul, then defeated the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s trials and received his techniques and Half Emperor essence blood.
• Chen Xiao left the Beast Region, obtained the Bodhi Heart, and visited Yellow Maple Valley, where Duanmu Yang entrusted him with the Seven-Colored Original Stone before dying.
• Chen Xiao cultivated the Frost Soul Nine Chapters, then defended Yellow Maple Valley from Wu Xiao, Ice Venerate, and other attackers, killing several Dou Venerates and capturing Soul Hall’s Eight Heavenly Guardian.
• Chen Xiao returned to Purple Firmament Pavilion after the Northern Heaven Ruins appeared and led Qing Lin and pavilion members into the ruins, where an illusion scattered the expedition.
• Chen Xiao reunited with Qing Lin at the Void Devouring Serpent Saint’s hall, and Qing Lin collected its twenty-seven Heavenly Demon Puppets before the group entered.
• On the second floor, Qing Lin took the Saint’s eighteen Blood Pupils and fell under the Evil Entity’s influence, but Chen Xiao freed her and defeated the gathered attackers.
• Qing Lin explained the Saint’s inheritance and the Evil Entity’s imprisonment, then joined Chen Xiao in entering the third floor, where they faced the awakening skeleton and its self-proclaimed General.

Chen Xiao and his allies dismantled much of Soul Hall’s strength, while Chen Xiao advanced his soul and prepared for the Dan Tower’s Pill Gathering. The arc ended with Chen Xiao rescuing Cao Ying from Soul Hall’s attack inside the Pill Realm and inviting Xiong Zhan to leave with him.

• Chen Xiao and Qing Lin destroyed the Void Devouring Serpent Saint’s skeleton and the Evil Entity, then collected the Saint’s inheritance and refined his essence blood together.
• After returning from the Ruins, Chen Xiao captured Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates, ordered Purple Firmament Pavilion to prepare for war, and set out to destroy Soul Hall before the Pill Gathering.
• Chen Xiao and Zi Yan destroyed a Soul Hall branch hall and recovered its Soul Origin, while Cai Lin advanced to Half-Saint in the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.
• Chen Xiao gathered allies for a campaign against Soul Hall, refined captured Soul Origin, and later stole Hun Miesheng’s Soul Origin after the Ancient Races’ attack on Soul Hall’s headquarters.
• Chen Xiao absorbed the Soul Origin on Dragon Island and reached Heavenly Realm Great Perfection, then decided Purple Firmament Pavilion would remain at Qifeng Mountain until after the Pill Gathering.
• Chen Xiao, Zi Yan, and Chen Xi attended the Pill Gathering, where Cao Ying entered the Pill Realm with the Elixir Hall team and encountered Soul Hall forces led by Old Man Mu Gu.
• Cao Ying used her Five Wheels Burning Flame Disk to defeat Soul Hall Dou Venerates, then Chen Xiao’s External Incarnation killed the gray-robed elder and Old Man Mu Gu.
• Chen Xiao took Cao Ying and her companions to a plaza of rare medicinal materials, invited Xiong Zhan to leave the Pill Realm with him, and told Cao Ying to gather the herbs she needed.