Recaps

Xiao Yan helped the Snake-people race rescue Qing Lin and expose the Mo Family, then joined Jia Xingtian’s effort to investigate the Misty Cloud Sect. As the Three-Year Pact approached, Xiao Yan earned his Third Grade Alchemist badge, while Queen Medusa kissed him and Nalan Jie tested his dangerous new technique.

• Xiao Yan stabilized Xiao Yi Xian’s poison with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s seal, then joined the Snake-people race in rescuing Qing Lin and defeating Mo Cheng’s forces.
• Lv Man and Bai Ya tried to seize Qing Lin, but Yun Yun and Zi Yun helped drive them off, and Yun Yun admitted that the Misty Cloud Sect’s elders had concealed wrongdoing.
• Jia Xingtian gathered Xiao Yan, Hai Bodong, Ya Fei, Mu Zhan, and others to plan an investigation into the Misty Cloud Sect’s network, while Xiao Yan and Nalan Jie suspected the Nalan Family steward had been replaced.
• Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yi Xian acknowledged their rivalry over Xiao Yan and agreed to compete for him without pity deciding the outcome.
• Xiao Yan passed the Alchemist Guild assessment and received his Third Grade Alchemist badge, while a cloaked attacker struck Xiao Jing and the Snake-people chiefs during their meeting.
• After Xiao Yan returned to the Nalan Family, Queen Medusa kissed him while he slept, but the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s consciousness forced her back into the Colored Little Snake.
• Xiao Yan sparred with Nalan Jie and demonstrated his modified Eight Extremes Collapse, whose extreme force and speed left his skin cracked and caused severe pain.

Xiao Yan helped Chisha City's survivors, confronted threats around him, and won the Alchemist Tournament. As the Snake-people rebellion approached Jia Ma Holy City, Yun Yun took control of the Misty Cloud Sect and Jia Xingtian prepared for conflict.

• Xiao Yan sold pills at the Imperial Capital market, spent the proceeds on ingredients for Xiao Yi Xian, and stopped Xue Mei from trading for a defective Peach Blossom Fire seed.
• Xiao Yan impressed Frank and Otto at the high-level alchemist gathering, then stood up to Kuro before an assassin targeted Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan killed the attacker.
• Yun Ying revealed that she had destroyed Chisha City and killed Kuro, while Xiao Yan helped the grieving survivors without learning her role.
• Xiao Yan entered the Alchemist Tournament, rejected Yao Yue’s offer to marry into the royal family, and encouraged Liu Ling to respect ordinary people’s efforts.
• Jia Xingtian learned that the Snake-people were advancing toward Jia Ma Holy City and ordered preparations, including hiding Mu Chen’s death and appointing Mu Zhan in his place.
• Yun Yun confronted Yun Leng over his actions, spared him but removed him as Great Elder, and vowed to personally manage and preserve the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan won the Alchemist Tournament by refining a high-grade Three-pattern Green Spirit Pill, and Fa Ma awarded him a trophy, one million gold coins, and the Spirit Melting Pill formula.

Xiao Yan and his allies foiled Yun Leng’s attempt to overthrow the Jia Ma Empire, while Yun Yun dismantled the Misty Cloud Sect’s treasonous faction and was confronted with the consequences of her relationship with Xiao Yan. The crisis ended with Qing Lin leaving for Heavenly Snake Manor and Xiao Yan preparing to travel to the Black Corner Region with Xiao Yi Xian.

• Nalan Yanran got Xiao Yan drunk at the banquet, and Xiao Yi Xian’s drunken distress prompted him to keep watch over her as Jia Xingtian prepared for the Misty Cloud Sect’s rebellion.
• Yun Leng enlisted Mo Cheng, the Medicine Emperor, and other allies against the Jia Ma Imperial Family, while Qing Lin was abducted and the city was evacuated ahead of the Three-Year Pact.
• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in the arena, and the apparent attack by Heavenly Snake Manor and the Snake-people Rebels unfolded as Yun Leng revealed his betrayal of the Empire.
• Jia Xingtian’s allies exposed the attack as a coordinated ruse, freed Yao Ye, and defeated the plotters, while Fa Ma revealed that Nalan Jie’s apparent death had been staged.
• Yun Yun disbanded the Misty Cloud Sect and killed Yun Fan, Yun Sha, and Yun Du, but Yun Shan appeared, confined Yun Leng, and intervened when Yun Yun protected Xiao Yan from him.
• Jia Xingtian gave Mo Cheng to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Jing killed him before agreeing to let Qing Lin go with Lv Man to train at Heavenly Snake Manor.
• Yun Shan learned that Yun Yun was pregnant by Xiao Yan, but Yun Yun refused to tell Xiao Yan and chose to raise the child herself as Nalan Yanran entered the Gate of Life and Death.
• Xiao Yan decided to visit the Black Corner Region with Xiao Yi Xian, while Yao Chen suggested the trip might help with Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamitous Poison Body and Zi Yun gave him an emergency signal crystal.

Xiao Yan left the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yi Xian, trained her on the road, and reached Black-Seal City, where he confronted the region’s cruelty and took in two abandoned children. The arc left Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian caring for Lu Qiong and Lu Jing while Lu Yao remained missing.

• Xiao Yan refused Yun Shan’s offer to become his disciple, and Queen Medusa shielded him before declaring that she intended to make him her husband.
• Xiao Yan rejected Queen Medusa’s proposal, received a Thousand Year Ice Soul and a Fragmented Map from Hai Bodong, and left the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Yao Chen trained Xiao Yi Xian during their journey, and Xiao Yan helped her break through the Purple Crystal Seal as she grew stronger.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached Black-Seal City, where Xiao Yi Xian met the Green-haired Woman and Xiao Yan rescued Feng Qing'er from a group of men at the hot spring.
• Xiao Yan buried the dead pickpocket girl with Xiao Yi Xian, then told Yun Ying that he would keep following his Righteous Path in the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian rented a house and found Lu Qiong and Lu Jing trying to recover the money their missing older sister, Lu Yao, had saved for them.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian took in Lu Qiong and Lu Jing, and Yao Chen offered to make a pill to help Lu Qiong once she reached Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan went out to buy household supplies, but a figure knocked him down and accused him of being a lecher again.