Recaps

Xiao Yan returned home, clarified the righteous path he wanted to follow, and gathered support to reshape the Black Corner Region. As Evil Prison faced a coalition led by Old Man Yin Gu, Xiao Yan’s battle began while a riot erupted behind the enemy lines.

• Xiao Jing told Xiao Yan that his idealized view of the world made his righteous path difficult, and Yun Ying helped him understand how circumstances shaped people’s actions.
• Wu Ya attacked the Xiao Family gathering, but Xiao Yi Xian, Hai Bodong, Han Feng, Lv Man, and Zi Yun stopped him before Xiao Jing killed him.
• Xiao Yan defeated Zi Yan in a duel, then urged Jia Nan Academy students to help change the rule of the strong preying on the weak.
• Xiao Jing prepared for conflict at the border while Yun Yun kept her daughter Yun Xiao’s connection to Xiao Yan concealed from him.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning fought off attackers as Xiao Yan’s Evil Prison brought much of the Black Corner Region under its control.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Yan that her Calamitous Poison Body was worsening, and he vowed to find Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva to save her.
• Old Man Yin Gu united rival factions against Evil Prison, and Xiao Yan let them seize territory so residents could see the cruelty of the old order and choose between it and his rule.
• Xiao Yan led Evil Prison’s counterattack, then faced Old Man Yin Gu and the coalition as Han Feng and Yuan Yi arrived to support him and a riot broke out behind the enemy lines.

Xiao Yan defeated the old powers in the Black Corner Region, then returned to the Jia Ma Empire as war loomed and Xiao Yi Xian’s consciousness remained bound to him. As the Three-Year Pact drew near, Nalan Yanran fought to protect her family, while Xiao Yan and Yun Yun continued to avoid the truth about Yun Xiao.

• Xiao Yan and Evil Prison defeated the old established forces, and the Black Corner Region’s residents celebrated their freedom.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamitous Poison Body erupted, so Yao Chen attached her soul to Xiao Yan and he pledged to find a cure.
• Xiao Yan left the Black Corner Region with Xiao Yi Xian’s body, while Nalan Yanran emerged from the Gate of Life and Death and returned to Yun Yun with Yun Xiao.
• Nalan Yanran and Xiao Li defended the Jia Ma Empire’s border against the allied armies until Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and the empire’s reinforcements helped force the enemy to withdraw.
• Xiao Yan visited Nalan Yanran, who promised to defeat him in the Three-Year Pact and marry him, then continued toward the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan confronted Yun Yun about the man she claimed had abandoned Yun Xiao, but Yun Yun concealed that Xiao Yan was the child’s father.
• Xiao Yan left the Misty Cloud Sect wondering whether Yun Yun had kept him from seeking his own child, then found Yun Xiao and Zijing in Jia Ma Holy City.

Xiao Yan and the Jia Ma Empire fought to save Yun Xiao and the city from a Soul Hall array that trapped millions of vengeful souls. Xiao Yan absorbed the souls, awakening a separate personality, while Yao Chen entered his inner world to try to wake him.

• Xiao Yan rescued Yun Xiao from Yan Luotian, but Xie Biyan poisoned him before Queen Medusa arrived to defend him.
• Yan Luotian trapped the Misty Cloud Sect and Jia Ma Holy City in a blood-red formation that made Yun Xiao its core and forced Yun Yun to choose between killing her daughter and letting the city die.
• Yun Shan and the defenders fought the attackers as Xiao Yan recovered, and the barrier fell just as Yun Yun prepared to strike Yun Xiao.
• Xiao Yan stopped Yun Yun, powered up, and destroyed Yan Luotian and Xie Shan, but Xie Biyan absorbed the vengeful souls and temporarily became a Dou Zun.
• Yao Chen exposed Xie Biyan’s vulnerable soul, but Yun Ying intervened, and Xiao Yan pulled the tens of millions of vengeful souls into his body to protect everyone.
• The souls overwhelmed Xiao Yan until he suddenly announced that Hun Ying had returned, then seized control and threatened those around him.
• Queen Medusa used Xiao Yan’s safeguard to burn away his soul suppression, while Shadow Xiao Yan explained that the Black Woman was undermining Xiao Yan’s sense of self.
• Shadow Xiao Yan and the Black Woman opened a rift to the forbidden place where Xiao Yan slept, and Yao Chen kissed him in an attempt to wake him.

After the Three-Year Pact, Xiao Yan traveled to the Black Corner Region and tried to obtain Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva to restore Xiao Yi Xian. Soul Hall attacked his group and abducted Xiao Yu, leaving Xiao Yan to find someone he trusted to lead Evil Prison while he prepared to rescue her.

• Soul Spirit overwhelmed the defenders, but Xiao Yan awakened and regained control of his body before he and Nalan Yanran fought their Three-Year Pact duel to a draw.
• Xiao Yan confessed to Nalan Jie that Yun Yun was Yun Xiao’s mother, then promised Yun Yun he would protect her and their daughter as Nalan Yanran left to grow stronger.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the Black Corner Region with Zi Yan and reunited with Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, Han Yue, and the others, while Yao Ye joined the group after leaving home.
• Xiao Yan refused to take Elder Eagle Mountain’s Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva by force, but Elder Eagle Mountain later revealed his test and offered it in exchange for treatment.
• Soul Hall Protectors attacked Evil Prison headquarters and tried to abduct Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yan and his allies fought them off until Protector Xing seized her and escaped through a black vortex.
• Cai Lin rebuked Xiao Yan for blaming himself, and Yao Ye offered to lead Evil Prison while he organized the effort to rescue Xiao Yu.