Recaps

Xiao Yan used Demon-Breaking Light to bypass the earth-attribute Dou Emperor’s defenses and disrupt his Dou Qi, but took the wind-attribute Dou Emperor’s sword strike in return. He was buried beneath shattered stone pillars, while the earth-attribute Dou Emperor was left unable to fight.

• Xiao Yan concealed a faint light in his left palm as he drew the earth-attribute Dou Emperor’s attention with his raised right arm.
• Xiao Yan used Demon-Breaking Light to pierce the Earth Rampart and Dou Qi Armor, striking the earth-attribute Dou Emperor directly and throwing his Dou Qi into chaos.
• Xiao Yan chose to take the wind-attribute Dou Emperor’s weakened sword strike rather than risk disrupting his plan.
• The sword strike shattered much of Xiao Yan’s Soul Armor and cut his back, sending him crashing through stone pillars.
• Xiao Yan fell beneath the rubble as the earth-attribute Dou Emperor’s presence weakened and he became temporarily unable to fight.

Xiao Yan fought off the earth-attribute Dou Emperor at the cost of a severe wound, but Old Ghost Liu intervened and attacked him with overwhelming force. Xiao Yan met the Dou Zong’s palm with his Cold Heart Lotus Explosion, yet the attack was overcome, leaving him badly weakened and still defiant beneath Old Ghost Liu.

• Xiao Yan’s Demon-Breaking Light gravely wounded the earth-attribute Dou Emperor, while the wind-attribute Dou Emperor worried over his companion.
• Old Ghost Liu lost patience, appeared above Xiao Yan’s rubble, and brought down a powerful palm strike.
• Xiao Yan erupted from the rubble and countered Old Ghost Liu with his Fifth Soul Skill, Cold Heart Lotus Explosion.
• Old Ghost Liu’s reinforced palm overwhelmed the Fire Lotus after a fierce clash, leaving Xiao Yan kneeling and bleeding as the wind-attribute Dou Emperor watched from a distance.
• Old Ghost Liu taunted the weakened Xiao Yan, who continued to glare at him without asking for mercy.

Cornered by Old Ghost Liu’s Dou Zong pressure, Xiao Yan summoned his Soul Division Martial Soul from Black Rock City and swallowed a handful of pills to recover. The martial soul returned to his side as a shadowy figure while Xiao Yan remained on the brink of death.

• Old Ghost Liu’s full pressure forced Xiao Yan to one knee, and Xiao Yan mocked him despite his injuries.
• In Black Rock City, the Soul Division Martial Soul’s departure caused a blast that destroyed the secluded chamber where it had posed as Elder Tang.
• Lu Bo searched the ruins, found Elder Tang missing, and ordered the site sealed before sending word to Alliance Leader Han.
• Xiao Yan recalled the martial soul from more than ten thousand li away, and its dispersal left the chamber in ruins.
• Xiao Yan swallowed a handful of pills to draw out his hidden energy as a pitch-black figure emerged beside him.

Xiao Yan fused with his Soul Division Martial Soul, raising his strength enough to challenge Old Ghost Liu’s overwhelming attack. He summoned the Radiant Heaven World-Burning Spear, while Old Ghost Liu recognized it as an Earth Tier Dou Technique and grew more determined to kill him and claim his treasures.

• Old Ghost Liu sensed the strange pitch-black Martial Soul beside Xiao Yan and, unable to perceive its nature, chose to attack before Xiao Yan could use it.
• Old Ghost Liu unleashed the Luo Tian Finger, a devastating Yellow Springs Pavilion technique that crushed the stone pillars around them under its pressure.
• Xiao Yan commanded the Clone Martial Soul to fuse with him, restoring some of his strength and raising his presence close to the Peak Dou Emperor level.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Radiant Heaven World-Burning Spear and poured his Soul Power into it, drawing power from the stone forest and diminishing the pressure of Old Ghost Liu’s attack.
• Old Ghost Liu recognized the spear technique as an Earth Tier Dou Technique and became greedier and more intent on killing Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and Old Ghost Liu unleashed their strongest attacks against each other, while a mysterious cyan-robed man sensed Bone Spirit Cold Flame nearby and rushed toward the battle. Their collision obliterated the stone forest, leaving Xiao Yan drained of his strength.

• Old Ghost Liu sealed the space around Xiao Yan and concentrated his Dou Qi into a golden finger attack.
• Xiao Yan poured his strength into the Radiant Heaven World-Burning Spear and launched a blazing spear ray at Old Ghost Liu.
• A cyan-robed man stepped through a spatial rift, sensed the battle, and recognized Bone Spirit Cold Flame in Xiao Yan's power.
• The cyan-robed man vanished toward the stone forest after his discovery stirred his excitement.
• Xiao Yan's spear collided with Old Ghost Liu's golden finger, and the blast destroyed the stone forest as two nearby Dou Emperors fled.
• The attack consumed nearly all of Xiao Yan's Soul Power, leaving him exhausted as flames rained over the battlefield.

Xiao Yan reached the end of his strength after fighting Old Ghost Liu, but a mysterious cyan-robed man appeared and effortlessly erased the battle’s destructive aftermath. The man then asked Xiao Yan about the Heavenly Flames in his body and his Dou Technique.

• Xiao Yan, exhausted and badly wounded, prepared to die as the shockwave from his clash with Old Ghost Liu swept toward him.
• A cyan-robed man appeared before Xiao Yan and silently stopped the destructive energy from reaching him.
• The man summoned a massive cyan tornado that absorbed the remaining energy and sent it through a spatial rift.
• Xiao Yan realized the stranger’s strength was beyond his understanding and thought he might be a Dou Zun or higher.
• The cyan-robed man asked Xiao Yan about his Heavenly Flames and Dou Technique.

Xiao Yan suspected Venerable Feng had ties to Yao Lao but refused to reveal Yao Lao’s vulnerable state to an unknown Dou Zun. The chapter ended with Venerable Feng ignoring Old Ghost Liu’s greeting and demanding again to know where Xiao Yan had obtained the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Dou Technique.

• Xiao Yan realized Venerable Feng’s questions about his flame and spear technique likely connected him to Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan weighed the risk of exposing Yao Lao and decided to keep his situation secret while using the connection to buy time.
• Old Ghost Liu recognized the cyan-robed expert as Venerable Feng and hurriedly saluted him in terror.
• Xiao Yan recognized Venerable Feng as the renowned founder of Starfall Pavilion and a peak Dou Zun expert.
• Venerable Feng ignored Old Ghost Liu and again demanded that Xiao Yan reveal the origins of his Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Dou Technique.

Venerable Feng questioned Xiao Yan about the Radiant Heaven World-Burning Spear and his Heavenly Flames, hoping to learn whether he was connected to Yao Chen. After examining Xiao Yan and finding no trace of the Flame Mantra, Venerable Feng concluded that Xiao Yan had inherited the spear technique from Yao Chen but accepted that his unusual abilities came from a talent.

• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Venerable Feng and said a senior had passed the spear technique and Heavenly Flames to him because of his talent.
• Venerable Feng touched Xiao Yan's brow and used his Dou Qi to examine his body while easing some of his injuries.
• Venerable Feng asked how Xiao Yan possessed two kinds of Heavenly Flame, since he found no trace of the Flame Mantra in his body.
• Xiao Yan attributed his ability to use multiple Heavenly Flames to his talent, and Venerable Feng judged that he was not lying.
• Venerable Feng recalled that Yao Chen had acquired the Radiant Heaven World-Burning Spear in a trade and realized he had passed it to Xiao Yan.

Venerable Feng learned that Yao Chen was alive and protected Xiao Yan from the Yellow Springs Pavilion. After sending Old Ghost Liu and two Dou Emperors into a spatial rift, Venerable Feng carried the injured Xiao Yan away.

• Venerable Feng asked Xiao Yan whether the senior who taught him the Dou Technique was well, and Xiao Yan confirmed that the senior was alive and recovering.
• Venerable Feng praised Xiao Yan for surviving the battle and declared that Xiao Yan was under his protection.
• Old Ghost Liu tried to identify Xiao Yan as a member of the Yellow Springs Pavilion, but Venerable Feng told the pavilion to come to him if it had a problem.
• Venerable Feng opened a spatial rift and sent Old Ghost Liu and the two remaining Dou Emperors into it.
• Xiao Yan succumbed to his injuries and fainted, so Venerable Feng lifted him with azure Dou Qi and carried him through a spatial rift.

After Venerable Feng rescued Xiao Yan from Old Ghost Liu, Xiao Yan woke in Starfall Pavilion, where a young girl caring for him revealed herself to be a Nine-Star Dou Emperor. He remained weak and stunned as the girl went to fetch her master and a familiar green-robed figure appeared.

• Venerable Feng had swept Old Ghost Liu and two Dou Emperors into a spatial rift before Xiao Yan lost consciousness.
• Gentle energy nourished Xiao Yan as he slept and helped ease his injuries.
• Xiao Yan woke in a wooden room filled with dense Dou Qi and sensed a girl standing nearby.
• The girl in green robes hurried out to tell her master that Xiao Yan had awakened.
• Xiao Yan realized the girl was a fourteen-year-old Nine-Star Dou Emperor and stared in disbelief.
• A familiar figure in green robes appeared in the doorway.

Xiao Yan recovered at Starfall Pavilion under Venerable Feng’s care, while Mu Qingluan introduced herself as his guide. He realized Venerable Feng had helped him because he believed Xiao Yan was Yao Lao’s disciple, and the chapter ended with Mu Qingluan promising to look after him as he healed.

• Xiao Yan greeted Venerable Feng, who told him to recuperate at Starfall Pavilion and offered him a Seventh-Grade Mystic Spirit Nourishing Rhyme Pill.
• Venerable Feng explained that Yao Lao was the master of Starfall Pavilion and left Xiao Yan to recover.
• Xiao Yan understood that Venerable Feng had helped him because he mistook Xiao Yan for Yao Lao’s disciple, and he bowed to express his gratitude.
• Mu Qingluan introduced herself, inspected Xiao Yan with curiosity, and joked that he might be Venerable Feng’s illegitimate son.
• Mu Qingluan promised to protect Xiao Yan and show him around Starfall Pavilion once he had recovered, then left his room.

Xiao Yan examined the Seventh-Grade Mystic Spirit Nourishing Rhyme Pill Venerable Feng had given him and realized how valuable it was. He took the pill to repair his damaged meridians and restore his depleted Spiritual Soul Power.

• After Mu Qingluan left, Xiao Yan inspected the room and picked up the box containing the Mystic Spirit Nourishing Rhyme Pill.
• Xiao Yan discovered the pill had pill patterns, marking it as a pinnacle-quality Seventh-Grade Pill, and reflected on Venerable Feng's generosity.
• Xiao Yan examined his injuries and found that Venerable Feng's cyan Dou Qi had stabilized his damaged meridians.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Mystic Spirit Nourishing Rhyme Pill and refined its medicinal power to heal his meridians and nourish his Spiritual Soul Power.

Xiao Yan used the Mystic Spirit Nourishing Rhyme Pill to heal his injuries and rebuild his meridians, then refined its remaining medicinal power to raise his cultivation. He emerged from two days of seclusion at level fifty-eight, with stronger, wider meridians and no trace of his wounds.

• Xiao Yan carefully refined the Seventh-Grade Mystic Spirit Nourishing Rhyme Pill to repair his damaged meridians without worsening them.
• The medicinal power healed Xiao Yan's injuries and rebuilt his meridians wider and more resilient than before.
• After two days of cultivation, Xiao Yan opened his eyes and realized that medicinal power remained after his recovery.
• Xiao Yan recalled Venerable Feng's words and decided to accept the remaining medicinal power as a gift tied to Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan refined the remaining power and broke through to level fifty-seven, then continued advancing to level fifty-eight.
• Xiao Yan refined the final trace of medicinal power and felt his Soul Power surging stronger than before.

After ten days of seclusion, Xiao Yan recovered from his injuries and reached level sixty, leaving him one Soul Ring away from the Soul Emperor realm. Mu Qingluan took him on a tour of the Starfall Pavilion and explained how its hidden world had been created.

• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion after the Mystic Spirit Nourishing Rhyme Pill healed his injuries and raised him to level sixty.
• Mu Qingluan, who had guarded Xiao Yan for ten days, welcomed him and pulled him out for fresh air.
• Mu Qingluan led Xiao Yan through the Starfall Pavilion and introduced its halls and areas.
• Mu Qingluan told Xiao Yan that her master and a senior had carved the Pavilion’s hidden world inside a meteorite and made it the Pavilion’s foundation.

Mu Qingluan explained Starfall Pavilion’s selective recruitment and showed Xiao Yan around its grounds, describing the four main areas and their facilities. Xiao Yan learned about the Star Realm and the pill refining tower, and was left with a clear picture of the pavilion’s layout.

• Xiao Yan asked Mu Qingluan how Starfall Pavilion recruited disciples despite having no branch pavilions, and she explained that it prized quality and character over numbers.
• Mu Qingluan led Xiao Yan to a mountainside platform and outlined Starfall Pavilion’s core, cultivation, living, and special areas.
• Mu Qingluan pointed out the core area, where the pavilion master, elders, Starfall Hall, and Elders’ Hall were located, and said Xiao Yan could enter as an exception.
• Mu Qingluan described the Star Realm’s Starfall Power and identified the Dou Technique Pavilion and pill refining tower in the cultivation area.
• Mu Qingluan explained that the living area held the disciples’ residences and dining hall, while the special area contained the beast garden and Punishment Hall.

Mu Qingluan gave Xiao Yan a jade token identifying him as a Starfall Pavilion disciple and assured him she would protect him. Moved by the kindness he found at the pavilion, Xiao Yan resolved to return if it ever needed him, then explored its cultivation area and reached the entrance to the Star Realm.

• Mu Qingluan showed Xiao Yan the fellowship among Starfall Pavilion disciples as they walked through the residential area.
• Mu Qingluan gave Xiao Yan a jade token that let him enter the Star Realm and Dou Technique Pavilion, and promised to stand up for him as his senior sister.
• Xiao Yan felt a sense of belonging and resolved to return to help Starfall Pavilion if it ever needed him.
• Xiao Yan headed to the cultivation area and watched disciples spar on a martial arts platform.
• Xiao Yan continued past the platform and arrived at the entrance to the Star Realm.

Xiao Yan entered the Star Realm, discovered how its pure Starfall Power affected his Soul Power, and settled into a secluded cultivation chamber. After examining the chamber’s protective formation and reviewing the Soul Refining Technique, he began cultivating with the Starfall Power.

• Xiao Yan sensed and absorbed Starfall Power at the Star Realm’s entrance, finding that it refined into Soul Power while leaving a faint starlike trace in his meridians.
• Xiao Yan explored the Star Platforms and chose a secluded, vacant cultivation chamber.
• Xiao Yan inserted Mu Qingluan’s white jade token into the chamber’s formation, activating a barrier that protected his privacy.
• Xiao Yan inspected the barrier with his Spiritual Soul Power, then sat in the chamber’s cultivation area and reviewed the Soul Refining Technique.
• Xiao Yan regulated his breathing and began absorbing Starfall Power, refining it into Soul Power as its faint property accumulated in his meridians.

Xiao Yan consolidated his level-sixty-five strength in the Star Realm and learned the Startling Soul Spike before visiting the Dou Technique Pavilion to seek a way to fly. He found an incomplete Flying Dou Technique called Green Bat Wings, but it required wind-attribute Dou Qi.

• Xiao Yan used Starfall Power and the Mystic Spirit Nourishing Rhyme Pill's effects to consolidate his level-sixty-five foundation and strengthen his meridians.
• Xiao Yan cultivated the Startling Soul Spike, a concealed soul attack, and tested it against the Star Platform's formation.
• Xiao Yan left the Star Realm and went to the Dou Technique Pavilion to find a Flying Dou Technique that could improve on his Twin Flame Wings.
• Xiao Yan found the dusty, incomplete Green Bat Wings scroll, which could grant swift flight but required wind-attribute Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan adapted the Green Bat Wings’ energy circulation to his Twin Flame Wings, gaining effortless flight with reduced Soul Power consumption. As he prepared to leave Starfall Pavilion, Venerable Feng summoned him and produced a strange dark green stone.

• Xiao Yan used the Green Bat Wings’ methods and the Green-Winged Bat King’s wing bone to incorporate a new energy circulation route into his Twin Flame Wings.
• After nearly a month of practice, Xiao Yan made his wings more responsive and flew under his own power.
• Xiao Yan decided to leave Starfall Pavilion because he was worried about Zhu Zhuqing on the Douluo Continent.
• Venerable Feng summoned Xiao Yan to the Starfall Great Hall, praised his recovery, and said he had looked after him because of the old fellow who had passed down his Heavenly Flames and Radiant Heaven World-Burning Spear.
• Venerable Feng warned Xiao Yan that unexpected dangers could arise and showed him a dark green stone with a powerful, restrained energy fluctuation.

Venerable Feng gave Xiao Yan a stone containing his full-force strike and wind-attribute origin power before Xiao Yan left Starfall Pavilion. After bidding farewell to Mu Qingluan, Xiao Yan opened a passage to the Douluo Continent and stepped through, determined to return to Bibi Dong.

• Venerable Feng gave Xiao Yan a stone that could unleash one full-force strike and passively enhance his speed and flight.
• Xiao Yan accepted the stone with gratitude, and Venerable Feng quietly wondered about an old fellow’s condition.
• Mu Qingluan reminded Xiao Yan to return to Starfall Pavilion if he needed anything, and Xiao Yan left the small world.
• Xiao Yan used his sixth Soul Skill, Gate of the Mystic Realm, to open a spatial passage to the Douluo Continent.
• Xiao Yan stepped through the gateway, saying he had returned to Bibi Dong, and the passage closed behind him.

Bibi Dong learned that Spirit Hall had failed to find Zhu Zhuqing for a year, then sensed Xiao Yan returning to the Pope's Palace. Xiao Yan arrived in the hall and narrowly dodged Bibi Dong's sudden attack, leaving them face to face.

• Yue Guan reported that Spirit Hall had been unable to find Zhu Zhuqing despite searching for a year.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to keep searching for Zhu Zhuqing and bring her back to use as leverage against Xiao Yan.
• Bibi Dong sensed a spatial fluctuation from the Pope's Palace and hurried there with Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
• Xiao Yan emerged from a spatial rift in the Pope's Palace and recognized the Douluo Continent as his homeland.
• Bibi Dong appeared before Xiao Yan and attacked him with a black blade of light, but he dodged it.

Xiao Yan returned to the Pope's Palace after nearly a year, and Bibi Dong confronted him, intent on learning about the other world and its cultivation system. He escaped her first attack with his flames and flew toward the sky, but Bibi Dong launched a net of attacks to stop him as Yue Guan and Gui Mei watched.

• Bibi Dong sensed Xiao Yan's growth to level sixty-five and the threat hidden in his power.
• Bibi Dong revealed her nine Soul Rings and demanded that Xiao Yan tell her about the other world.
• Bibi Dong struck the floor with her scepter, sending black blades toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame to propel himself through the palace doors and into the sky.
• Bibi Dong sent a dense wave of attacks after Xiao Yan, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei arrived and watched, certain he could not escape.

Xiao Yan used a mysterious stone to unleash powerful wind energy and escape Bibi Dong’s attack, revealing speed beyond Gui Mei’s. Bibi Dong became determined to capture him and seize the secrets of his power and the other world.

• Xiao Yan activated a blue-black stone, and its wind power expanded his flame wings and wrapped him in a vortex.
• Xiao Yan used the wind vortex’s speed to evade Bibi Dong’s attack and appear high above the Pope’s Palace.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei were astonished by Xiao Yan’s speed, and Gui Mei admitted that Xiao Yan was faster than he was.
• Bibi Dong considered the power Xiao Yan had brought from another world and resolved to capture him to obtain its secrets.

Xiao Yan used Venerable Feng’s wind power to evade Bibi Dong, then unleashed the all-out strike sealed in a stone above Spirit City. The enormous sword radiance hung over the city, leaving everyone beneath it in fear of its destructive power.

• Bibi Dong teleported behind Xiao Yan and tried to claw him, but he vanished before she could reach him.
• Xiao Yan used Venerable Feng’s wind-attribute power to move away from Bibi Dong and taunted her while calculating how little time his borrowed speed would last.
• Xiao Yan decided not to flee and poured his Soul Power into the cracked stone to activate Venerable Feng’s sealed strike.
• A vast pressure erupted across Spirit City, forcing Soul Masters throughout the city to look up at Xiao Yan.
• The stone released a colossal cyan sword radiance that nearly blotted out half the sky above Spirit City.

A cyan sword strike released by Xiao Yan threatened to destroy Spirit City, forcing Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to combine their strongest defenses. Qian Daoliu watched from the Elder Hall, confident Bibi Dong could protect the city as the strike hung in the sky.

• Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire representatives, Spirit Hall officials, and sect delegates panicked as the enormous cyan sword threatened to erase Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong recognized that the sword’s power exceeded Xiao Yan’s own and called Yue Guan and Gui Mei to defend the city.
• Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei simultaneously unleashed their Martial Soul Avatars and prepared layered defenses against the strike.
• Qian Daoliu observed the battle from the Elder Hall and chose not to intervene, believing Bibi Dong could withstand the attack.
• Yue Guan formed a golden flower shield, Gui Mei spread a net of darkness and tentacles, and Bibi Dong wove a vast web of venomous spider silk.