Recaps

Xiao Yan allied with Lin Dong and Mu Chen to defeat the Darkness Heavenly Emperor at Soul-Severing Cliff. Afterward, they established allied domains to protect the Great Thousand World, and Xiao Yan founded the Endless Fire Domain.

• Luo Tianshen gave Xiao Yan the complete Luo Shen Record and the Luo Shen Mirror, then promised ten Heavenly Sovereigns to aid the battle.
• Lin Dong helped Xiao Yan defeat a dark royal general, and the two traveled to Pill City together, sharing their insights into Heavenly Sovereign power.
• Mu Chen joined Xiao Yan and Lin Dong in Pill City as the Great Thousand Alliance prepared to fight the Darkness Heavenly Emperor at Soul-Severing Cliff.
• Xiao Yan used the Luo Shen Mirror to find the Darkness Heavenly Emperor's weakness, and Lin Dong and Mu Chen helped him strike it down.
• Xiao Yan proposed the Endless Fire Domain, and Lin Dong, Mu Chen, Luo Tianshen, and Xuan Kongzi agreed to form an alliance with it.
• Several years later, Xiao Yan established the Endless Fire Domain, which became one of the Great Thousand World's three great domains alongside Lin Dong's Martial Realm and Mu Chen's Mu Domain.

Xiao Yan founded the Endless Fire Domain and joined Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li to summon the Great Thousand World Origin Fire against the returning Evil Clan Sovereign. The battle for the Great Thousand World began, with Xiao Yan aiming to reach the Dominator Realm.

• Xiao Yan established the Endless Fire Domain and welcomed Lin Dong and Mu Chen, who warned him of a powerful threat beyond the realm.
• Xiao Yan learned from the Pill God's lingering will that the Evil Clan Sovereign feared the Great Thousand World Origin Fire, which could be summoned through four origins.
• Xiao Yan subdued the Chaos Sacred Flame and advanced to the advanced stage of Heavenly Sovereign before Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li returned.
• Xiao Yan and the others used their four origins to summon the Great Thousand World Origin Fire at the altar.
• The Evil Clan Sovereign attacked the Endless Fire Domain, and the four joined the Great Thousand World's living beings in resisting his darkness.

Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li combined their powers to destroy the Evil Clan Supreme, then advanced into the Half-Step Dominator Realm. Years later, Xiao Yan pursued the true Dominator Realm in the Primordial Hall, guided by the Pill God’s message about safeguarding all living beings.

• Luo Li redirected the Evil Clan Supreme’s attack, while Lin Dong wounded him and Mu Chen protected Lin Dong.
• Xiao Yan and the others infused the Great Thousand World Origin Fire with their powers, then Xiao Yan used his Dominator Dharma Form to purify and destroy the Evil Clan Supreme.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, Lin Dong, and Xiao Yan each broke through to the Half-Step Dominator Realm.
• Three months later, the four discussed their plans to protect the Great Thousand World and seek the true Dominator Realm before going their separate ways.
• Years later, Xiao Yan secluded himself in the Pill Realm’s Primordial Hall and read the Pill God’s message that the path to the Dominator Realm required safeguarding all living beings.

After ten years of seclusion, Xiao Yan grasped the meaning of the Dominator Realm and became a Dominator, then helped strengthen the Great Thousand World and guided Lin Dong and Mu Chen toward breakthroughs. When the Luo Shen Mirror revealed powerful forces beyond the Outer Realm, Xiao Yan prepared for challenges beyond the peace he had established.

• The Pill God's image taught Xiao Yan that a Dominator must bear the weight of heaven and earth and break through personal limits, allowing Xiao Yan to form his Heart of the Dominator and enter the Dominator Realm.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Burning Heaven Palace, where Mo Chen, Lin Qingxue, and the Fire Domain's elders welcomed him; living beings across the Great Thousand World soon honored him as the Flame Dominator.
• Lin Dong and Mu Chen visited Xiao Yan, learned from his breakthrough, and later went into seclusion to explore the Dao of protection and the power of bearing, while Luo Li reported approaching the Dominator Realm.
• Xiao Yan established the Nine Revolutions Primordial Array across the Great Thousand World, strengthening its defenses and helping its regions and people flourish.
• The Luo Shen Mirror showed Xiao Yan numerous planes beyond the Outer Realm and signs of stronger forces watching from the shadows, so he faced the coming challenges without fear.

After discovering that the Outer World Domain was threatened by the plane-devouring Deathly Stillness Realm, Xiao Yan united its planes and joined forces with Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li to fight back. The Realm-Devouring Demon revealed itself and vowed to use the Dominators as nourishment, setting the stage for a dangerous new war.

• Xiao Yan used the Luo Shen Mirror to discover the Outer World Domain and learned from Mo Chen and Lin Qingxue that its subsidiary planes might be connected to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the Azure Mist Realm, where an old treant told him that the Deathly Stillness Realm had consumed seven planes and was led by a Realm-Devouring Demon stronger than the Evil Clan's Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan spent six months uniting the Outer World Domain's planes into a Plane Alliance, while Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li arrived to help strengthen and connect them.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Plane Alliance's forces destroyed the deathly stillness mist sent by the Realm-Devouring Demon.
• The Realm-Devouring Demon vowed to make the Dominators nourishment for its breakthrough to the Realm Lord Realm, and Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen prepared to face the coming war.

Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li led the Allied Forces into the Deathly Stillness Realm, battling the Realm-Devouring Demon's minions and destroying an energy node on their way to its lair. At the Myriad Devourings Hall, they encountered the demon's overwhelming Realm Lord pressure and prepared for the decisive fight.

• Xiao Yan and the other Dominators planned an invasion of the Deathly Stillness Realm, and the alliance assembled a hundred thousand warriors for the expedition.
• The Allied Forces fought through waves of the Realm-Devouring Demon's minions as Mu Chen's spiritual rhyme light and Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames protected them from the deathly mist.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen defeated ten Deathly Silence Titans and destroyed the Shattered Star Abyss energy node, weakening the surrounding mist.
• At the Myriad Devourings Hall, the Realm-Devouring Demon emerged and shattered the Allied Forces' protective light pillar with a tentacle's black beam.
• Xiao Yan ordered ordinary warriors to retreat and led Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li toward the Realm-Devouring Demon as the final battle began.

Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li defeated the Realm-Devouring Demon by joining their powers to create the Great Thousand World Origin Fire. They restored the devoured planes and returned to the Great Thousand World, where they chose their next steps toward the Realm Lord Realm and protecting both worlds.

• Lin Dong, Xiao Yan, Luo Li, and Mu Chen attacked the Realm-Devouring Demon, but it absorbed Lin Dong’s lightning and unleashed waves of remnant souls.
• Mu Chen proposed using the Great Thousand World Origin Fire, and the four combined their origins while Luo Li and Lin Dong protected them and Mu Chen gathered the faith of living beings.
• Xiao Yan and the others sent the golden lotus into the Realm-Devouring Demon’s law core, destroying the demon and purifying its core into a crystal containing Realm Lord insights and the origins of ninety-nine planes.
• Xiao Yan proposed returning the crystal’s origin power to the devoured planes and sharing its insights, and the four helped revive the planes over the following month.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li returned to the Great Thousand World and discussed entering seclusion or sharing Realm Lord power, while Xiao Yan resolved to use it to protect the worlds.

After the worlds began merging, Xiao Yan and his allies explored an ancient ruin and gained the inheritances needed to enter the Initial Stage World Lord Realm. Years later, Xiao Yan transformed the Endless Fire Domain and left through the Star Orbit Bridge to seek the World Beyond the World.

• Xiao Yan studied a World Lord core fragment, formed a miniature world in his sea of consciousness, and accelerated the spiritual Qi circulation in the Endless Fire Domain.
• Lin Qingxue told Xiao Yan that Lin Dong and Mu Chen had found a ruin at the Star Orbit Bridge, so Xiao Yan joined them and Luo Li there.
• Luo Li deciphered the ruin's stele, revealing the stages of the Realm Lord Realm and the need to condense a World Heart.
• Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li used jade slips in the World Heart Hall to enter the Initial Stage World Lord Realm, while Xiao Yan received the Flame God's inheritance and also broke through.
• The four returned to their domains and used their new powers to transform them; Xiao Yan spent several years turning the Endless Fire Domain into a world of fire.
• Xiao Yan left the Endless Fire Domain and passed through the Star Orbit Bridge toward the World Beyond the World.

Xiao Yan reached the Realm Capital and entered the Flame God's temple to undergo the final trial for his legacy. After conquering six flame trials, he advanced to the Intermediate Realm Lord level and set off toward the All-Heavens Hub.

• Xiao Yan crossed the Star Orbit Bridge, reached the Realm Capital, and learned that the Flame God's temple stood at the God-Sealing Platform.
• Xiao Yan opened the temple with his six-colored Heavenly Flames and began the Flame God's trial by climbing the mountain of netherworld poison flame.
• Xiao Yan defeated the Poison Flame Guardian and fused the netherworld poison flame's origin with his green lotus core flame.
• Xiao Yan conquered the remaining five flame mountains and formed the Heart of the Flame Realm, breaking through to the Intermediate Realm Lord level.
• The Flame God gave Xiao Yan his Realm Lord insights and the Heaven Burning Sword, then directed him toward higher realms.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the temple and flew beyond the Realm Capital toward the All-Heavens Hub.

After breaking through to the Intermediate Realm Lord stage, Xiao Yan learned about the upcoming Star Dou Gathering and traded a Heaven Burning Stone for Space Marrow. He learned he could acquire a Nihility Devouring Flame Origin Fragment by obtaining a Time Hourglass fragment, and left determined to win one at the gathering.

• Xiao Yan tested the Heaven Burning Sword after his breakthrough and met Elder Qin, who invited him to the Star Dou Gathering in three days.
• Elder Qin told Xiao Yan that the gathering’s winners would enter the Law Secret Realm and recommended the Myriad Treasures Tower for trading resources.
• Xiao Yan exchanged a high-grade Heaven Burning Stone with Ling Yue for Space Marrow.
• Ling Yue showed Xiao Yan a Nihility Devouring Flame Origin Fragment and said it could be exchanged for a palm-sized Time Hourglass fragment.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would win the Time Hourglass fragment at the Star Dou Gathering, and Ling Yue agreed to reserve the flame fragment for him.

Xiao Yan competed in the Star Dou Gathering, claimed second place, and won a fragment of the Time Hourglass, which he exchanged for Nihility Devouring Flame. He entered the Law Secret Realm with the Thunder Realm Lord and four others, where an obscure force seemed to call to his Heaven Burning Sword.

• Xiao Yan entered the Star Dou Gathering and advanced through the melee, defeating several Realm Lords with the Heaven Burning Sword and Flame Realm: Heaven Burning.
• Xiao Yan defeated five challengers in the ranking contest and placed third before overcoming the Profound Gravity Realm Lord to take second place overall.
• Elder Qin awarded Xiao Yan a Law Secret Realm token and a Time Hourglass fragment, and the Thunder Realm Lord invited him to explore the realm with a group.
• Xiao Yan exchanged the Time Hourglass fragment at the Myriad Treasures Tower for a fragment of Nihility Devouring Flame, strengthening his Heart of the Flame Realm and Heaven Burning Sword.
• Xiao Yan and the Thunder Realm Lord's group entered the Law Secret Realm and set out to find a safe place, while an obscure fluctuation made Xiao Yan's sword tremble.

Xiao Yan followed the Heaven Burning Sword’s call to an altar, where he reclaimed its missing half and learned that the Heaven Burning Domain required the Heart-Clearing Jade from the Rift of Time. He and the Thunder Realm Lord’s companions prepared to enter the dangerous rift to find it.

• Xiao Yan followed the Heaven Burning Sword’s call through the law storms and found a ruined altar guarded by flame-law beasts and a Heaven Burning Battle Lion.
• Xiao Yan proved he was the Flame God’s inheritor, and the guardian beasts accepted him.
• Xiao Yan reunited the broken sword halves to restore the Heaven Burning Sword and discovered the tablet’s warning that the Heaven Burning Domain required the Heart-Clearing Jade from the Rift of Time.
• The Thunder Realm Lord warned Xiao Yan that the Rift of Time was deadly and offered to accompany him with the Soul-Stabilizing Bell, while the other Realm Lords joined them.
• Xiao Yan trained with the restored sword overnight, then set out with his companions for the Rift of Time the next morning.

Xiao Yan entered the Rift of Time alone and passed three trials drawn from his past, obtaining the Heart-Clearing Jade. After leaving the Law Secret Realm, he set his sights on the wider world and the mission ahead.

• The Thunder Realm Lord led the group through the chaotic Rift of Time, but Xiao Yan was separated from them upon entering.
• The Flame God's remnant will explained that Xiao Yan had to cross three rivers representing obsession, confusion, and fear to obtain the Heart-Clearing Jade.
• Xiao Yan faced memories of Hun Tiandi, his search for Xun'er, and his battle with the Darkness Heavenly Emperor, overcoming each trial.
• The Heart-Clearing Jade appeared, and Xiao Yan fused it into the Heaven Burning Sword, stabilizing the Heaven Burning Domain's power.
• Xiao Yan rejoined the Thunder Realm Lord and the others, and they left the secret realm.
• Xiao Yan emerged over the Realm Capital with a steadier Dao heart and turned his attention toward the wider world and his mission.

Xiao Yan learned that the Council of the Heavens was summoning powerful Realm Lords, then faced accusations from the Black Fiend Realm Lord over the Flame God's legacy. After defeating him and earning the Realm Capital's recognition, Xiao Yan received an invitation to the All-Heavens Hub.

• Xiao Yan visited Ling Yue at the Myriad Treasures Tower and learned that the Council of the Heavens was preparing for an unknown major undertaking.
• The Thunder Realm Lord warned Xiao Yan that the Black Fiend Realm Lord was spreading rumors and urging the council to seize the Flame God's legacy, but Xiao Yan refused to hide.
• At the Realm Capital Council, Xiao Yan challenged the Black Fiend Realm Lord to a duel at the Battle Star Platform, with the loser required to retract his claims.
• Xiao Yan overpowered the Black Fiend Realm Lord, but the Grand Elder intervened and sentenced Black Fiend to a hundred years of confinement while confirming Xiao Yan's right to the legacy.
• The Thunder Realm Lord told Xiao Yan that the Council of the Heavens had invited him to the All-Heavens Hub.

Xiao Yan traveled to the All-Heavens Hub to attend the Council of the Heavens, where he learned that Law-Devouring Beasts threatened the worlds. He offered to use his Heaven-Burning Flame to find the beasts’ weakness and was assigned to an investigation team led by Yun He.

• Xiao Yan left the Thunder Realm after receiving an invitation and traveled through the teleportation array to the All-Heavens Hub.
• Xiao Yan met Yun He, who explained the hub’s council and warned him about the growing threat of the Outer Realm Demons.
• The Council of the Heavens revealed that Law-Devouring Beasts had destroyed three medium-sized worlds and could devour cultivators’ laws.
• Xiao Yan recalled that the demons had a vulnerable core called Origin Fire and proposed that his Heaven-Burning Flame might detect it.
• The Grand Elder assigned Xiao Yan to an investigation team led by Yun He, which would set out in three days.

Xiao Yan and Yun He led a team into the Void Rift, where Xiao Yan discovered that Origin Fire could pierce the Law-Devouring Beasts’ defenses and helped the group claim seventeen flames. A powerful Law-Devouring Beast King appeared, and Xiao Yan fled with the other Realm Lords while Yun He stayed behind to hold it off.

• Xiao Yan joined Yun He and five Realm Lords on an expedition into the Void Rift to investigate the Law-Devouring Beasts.
• The group fought off Nothingness Human-Faced Lizards and reached a canyon filled with Law-Devouring Beasts that could absorb laws.
• Xiao Yan sensed Origin Fire inside the largest beast and helped Yun He defeat it, then guided the team in collecting seventeen balls of Origin Fire.
• A Law-Devouring Beast King emerged from the canyon and attacked the exhausted group.
• Yun He stayed behind to hold off the Beast King as Xiao Yan led the other Realm Lords toward the teleportation array.

Xiao Yan and the Realm Lords fled the Law-Devouring Beast King through a flame corridor, but Yun He and another Realm Lord died buying them time. After Xiao Yan’s forbidden sword strike weakened the Beast King and left Xiao Yan stranded and badly injured, he recovered Yun He’s final remnant, learned the Beast King’s weakness, and headed toward the Council’s arriving reinforcements.

• Yun He sacrificed himself by turning his whip into a cyan dragon that wounded the Law-Devouring Beast King and gave Xiao Yan’s group time to escape.
• Xiao Yan strengthened the flame corridor with the Realm Lords’ laws, but the Beast King shattered its tail and devoured the earth-law Realm Lord Lao Tu.
• Xiao Yan stayed behind and used Heaven-Burning: Flame God Slash to wound the Beast King’s claw, then passed out after sending the corridor onward.
• Xiao Yan awoke alone on a floating rock and learned from a message on the Heaven Burning Sword that the others had reached the hub and alerted the Council.
• While recovering and searching for the teleportation array, Xiao Yan found Yun He’s remnant thought, which revealed that the Beast King’s origin core lay beneath the golden scale between its brows.
• Xiao Yan stored Yun He’s remnant in the Heaven Burning Sword and set off toward the Council of the Heavens’ arriving reinforcements.

The twelve Sovereigns arrived in the Void Rift and killed the Law-Devouring Beast King by destroying the origin core beneath its golden brow scale. Xiao Yan joined the newly formed All-Heavens Guard as deputy commander and headed to its headquarters, determined to protect the heavens.

• The grand elder thanked Xiao Yan for his efforts, and Xiao Yan revealed that the Beast King's origin core was beneath the golden scale between its brows.
• The twelve Sovereigns attacked the Law-Devouring Beast King together, restrained it with their laws, and exposed its origin core.
• The armored Sovereign shattered the origin core with his lightning-wreathed axe, killing the Beast King and allowing the Void Rift to begin stabilizing.
• The grand elder ordered the formation of the All-Heavens Guard and appointed Xiao Yan its deputy commander, giving him an All-Heavens Token.
• The Sovereigns returned with Xiao Yan to the All-Heavens Hub, where Xiao Yan remembered Yun He and set out for the All-Heavens Guard headquarters.

Xiao Yan joined the All-Heavens Guard as acting deputy commander of the Heaven Battalion and led a team to the Netherworld Realm, where they defeated the Soul-Eroding Monarch and cleared the Soul-Eroding Mist. The grand elder then gave Xiao Yan the Spirit Refining Technique and arranged for him to study the Hall of Ten Thousand Laws, while warning that a stronger force might be behind the attack.

• The grand elder showed Xiao Yan the All-Heavens Guard headquarters and appointed him acting deputy commander of the Heaven Battalion under the Blazing Sun Realm Lord.
• Xiao Yan discovered Soul-Eroding Mist spreading through the Netherworld Realm and led thirty Heaven Battalion elites toward its source at the Ten Thousand Souls Cavern.
• Xiao Yan and his team fought the Soul-Eroding Monarch, using Heavenly Flames and Soul-Suppressing Nails to destroy it and disperse the mist.
• The Blazing Sun Realm Lord praised Xiao Yan’s success and confirmed his deputy commander position after arriving with reinforcements.
• The grand elder gave Xiao Yan the Spirit Refining Technique and told him to come to the Hall of Ten Thousand Laws in three days, warning that a more powerful existence might be involved.

Xiao Yan gained Old Ghost Heaven Burning’s flame-law legacy and advanced to the Late Realm Lord Realm before leading a squad to suppress Soul-Defiling demons in the Mystic Ice Realm. After he discovered signs of a greater demonic force, the All-Heavens Guard entered its highest state of alert.

• Xiao Yan entered the Hall of Ten Thousand Laws and received Old Ghost Heaven Burning’s insights into the law of flames and the Heaven Burning Nine Forms.
• Xiao Yan spent seven days refining his sword techniques and emerged at the Late Realm Lord Realm, then accepted a mission to investigate demonic activity in the Mystic Ice Realm.
• Xiao Yan led a fifty-person Heaven Battalion squad against the Soul-Defiling Race and cleansed a corrupted squad member with the Heart-Clearing Jade’s power.
• Xiao Yan traced the Heart-Corroding Black Water to an ice mountain, defeated the Soul-Defiling Lords with his squad, and sealed the source with the Soul-Suppressing Nail.
• Xiao Yan sensed a sinister presence deeper in the black hole, returned to the All-Heavens Hub, and reported that the demons’ main force might be approaching.
• The Grand Elder ordered the All-Heavens Guard to its highest state of alert as Xiao Yan prepared to face the coming war.

Xiao Yan led thirty Heaven Battalion cultivators into the Black Domain to destroy the Soul-Devouring Vines and stop a Void Envoy's ritual. He confronted the Void Envoy at the bone altar, and their battle began as the vines continued spreading.

• Xiao Yan learned that Soul-Devouring Vines were spreading through the Black Domain and volunteered to investigate with an elite squad.
• Xiao Yan and the squad crossed the unstable Black Domain, fought polluted barbarians, and followed vanished soul signatures to the vines' lair.
• Xiao Yan used Heaven Burning Purification to destroy the vines and their fruits around the bone altar, but the black-robed man empowered them with a black crystal.
• Xiao Yan charged the altar and used Heaven Burning Rend to break through the vine barrier, forcing the black-robed man to evade and revealing himself as a Void Envoy.
• The Void Envoy unleashed remnant souls from the crystal, and Xiao Yan met his attack with the full power of the Heart of the Flame Realm as the battle began.

Xiao Yan wounded the Void Envoy and returned from the Black Domain, where he learned the demon invasion was nearing. As the All-Heavens Hub prepared its defenses, the Void Mothership attacked with its Space Cannon, beginning the great battle ahead of schedule.

• Xiao Yan unleashed Heaven Burning Explosion, badly injuring the Void Envoy and forcing him to flee the Black Domain.
• Xiao Yan and his team purified the altar’s remains and suppressed the surviving sinister power before leaving the Black Domain.
• Xiao Yan reported the encounter to the grand elder and the Blazing Sun Realm Lord, who ordered him to train others in Heaven Burning Purification.
• Xiao Yan trained cultivators at the Purification Camp and watched the All-Heavens Mirror as demonic incursions spread across more worlds.
• The All-Heavens Mirror revealed the Void Mothership, and the escaped Void Envoy directed its Space Cannon at the All-Heavens Hub.
• Xiao Yan helped reinforce the Hub’s defensive barrier, but the Space Cannon struck and shattered its law runes as the battle began.

Xiao Yan helped the All-Heavens Hub withstand the void mothership’s bombardment and joined the defense against an approaching evil demon fleet. As the battle threatened to drain the defensive array, he set out with an elite team to infiltrate the mothership and destroy its evil power core.

• The Grand Elder and twelve Sovereigns reinforced the barrier while Xiao Yan used Heaven Burning Meteor to purify a cannon blast and buy time to activate the All-Heavens Defensive Array.
• The array repelled the void mothership’s next attack, but the Grand Elder revealed that an evil demon fleet was approaching and ordered the All-Heavens Guard into battle stations.
• Xiao Yan directed the defense against Soul-Devouring Beasts and Law-Devouring Beasts attacking the array, then concluded that the mothership’s evil power core had to be destroyed to stop the monsters.
• Xiao Yan persuaded the Blazing Sun Realm Lord to let him infiltrate the mothership with ten elite team members and a spacebreaker craft.
• Half a shichen later, Xiao Yan and the team slipped out of the hub toward the void mothership.

Xiao Yan led a team into the Void Mothership, broke through its defenses, and destroyed its evil energy core while the Sovereigns attacked from outside. He returned to the All-Heavens Hub after the mothership fell, then recovered as the demon army regrouped and the war continued.

• Xiao Yan and ten Heaven Battalion cultivators infiltrated the Void Mothership through a weakened rear section and fought through its traps and guardians.
• Xiao Yan used Heaven Burning Radiance to break the Ten Thousand Souls Gate and reveal the evil energy core and the Void Envoy.
• Xiao Yan's team held off the Evil Armor Guardians while he battled the Void Envoy and destroyed the evil energy core.
• The twelve Sovereigns shattered the mothership's weakened defenses and destroyed the vessel as Xiao Yan annihilated the Void Envoy.
• Xiao Yan and the surviving team members returned to the All-Heavens Hub, where Xiao Yan collapsed and later recovered.
• Xiao Yan saw the demon army regrouping in the All-Heavens Mirror and gripped the Heaven Burning Sword as the battle continued.

Xiao Yan recovered from his battle with the Void Envoy and joined Blazing Sun and three elders to investigate signs of the Shadow Clan in the Mist Star Domain. At Soul-Severing Cliff, they encountered a far more powerful enemy who attacked them.

• The Grand Elder treated Xiao Yan’s injuries and warned that the Shadow Clan would retaliate after the Void Envoy’s death and the destruction of its mothership.
• A Yao brought Xiao Yan soul-condensing fruits, and Blazing Sun told him the group would investigate a suspected Shadow Clan envoy in the Mist Star Domain.
• Xiao Yan traveled with Blazing Sun and three elders to Soul-Severing Cliff, where they found signs of a fight and traces of the Shadow Clan’s Bone-Corroding Claw.
• The white-bearded elder warned that the attacker might be a Shadow Clan priest, whose power exceeded the Void Envoy’s.
• A black figure rose from the mist, vowed to offer the group’s souls to Lord Shadow, and launched countless black spears at them.