Recaps

Nalan Chaoge won the freshmen’s place at Jia Nan Academy, then developed Explosive Tags while facing new rivals and threats. After surviving an assassination attempt he blamed on Mu Zhan, he learned Yaoye was missing, and Wu Tianlang began searching Jia Nan City for her.

• Yaoye rallied the freshmen, and after she was injured challenging the senior students, Nalan Chaoge defeated Hu Jia, Warren, and Xue Beng and seized their valuables.
• Nalan Chaoge fought Hank when he tried to stop the freshmen, crippled Hank with an Explosive Tag, and earned Hu Gan’s welcome to Jia Nan Academy.
• Nalan Chaoge experimented until he mastered Explosive Tags, traded one to Wu Tianlang, and declined Yaoye’s offer to ask her grandfather to dissolve his family’s wager with the Xiao Family.
• Nalan Chaoge encountered Yan Hao and Xiao Yu, then joined Ruolin’s rotation in Peace Town and set out to gather magic cores from the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group.
• Mu Zhan abducted Yaoye after revealing his ambitions, while Nalan Chaoge discovered the mercenaries were leading him into an ambush and fought his way through their attack.
• Nalan Chaoge battled Feng Junzi, summoned Gamabunta, and survived until Wu Tianlang arrived, and Nalan Chaoge named Mu Zhan as the person behind the assassination attempt.
• Mu Zhan threatened and assaulted Yaoye, who resisted him, while Nalan Chaoge returned severely wounded and learned she was missing.
• Wu Tianlang searched Jia Nan Academy for Yaoye, then spread his soul power across Jia Nan City and sent it crashing toward the city.

Nalan Chaoge fought his way through Mu Zhan’s schemes, rescued Nalan Yanran from the Eight Gates, and was left presumed lost after battling Yuan Yi. A year and a half later, he met Qing Lin in the Tagor Desert and promised to protect her.

• Nalan Chaoge exposed Mu Zhan’s crimes to Wu Tianlang, then sealed Yaoye’s drugged condition and became intimate with her.
• After spending time in Peace Town, Nalan Chaoge killed the Eight Gates men who had abducted Nalan Yanran and rescued her from Yuan Geng.
• Nalan Chaoge fought the Sound King and Yuan Yi, broke through to Dou Ling, and escaped with Gamabunta after their attack badly injured Yuan Yi.
• Hu Gan ruled that Nalan Chaoge had to leave the academy, while Yaoye and Nalan Yanran resolved to leave with him when they found him.
• A year and a half later, Nalan Chaoge traveled through the Tagor Desert with Xiao Li’s mercenary group under the false name Yi and befriended Qing Lin.
• Nalan Chaoge discovered Qing Lin had baited the mercenaries for Golden Horn Kui and revealed he was a Dou Wang before an Exploding Lizard killed A Gang.
• After reaching Stone Desert City, Nalan Chaoge took Qing Lin’s hand and promised she would have a place with him and be safe from bullies.

Nalan Chaoge protected Qing Lin, pursued Medusa’s evolution, and fought off the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake before making a deal with Medusa. He reunited with Yaoye and Nalan Yanran in the desert, helped Qing Lin control Mo Bass, and prepared to stay hidden from the Mu Family for six months.

• Nalan Chaoge and Qing Lin were arrested after he killed two waiters, then escaped the City Lord’s Mansion with Qing Lin’s snakes while Yaoye and Nalan Yanran traveled to Stone Desert City to find him.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to bind Manda, and she and Nalan Chaoge followed Medusa beneath the desert to the magma cavern.
• Nalan Chaoge and Qing Lin watched Medusa battle the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake during her evolution, then Nalan Chaoge joined the fight and defeated the beast with Sage Art: Goemon.
• Medusa offered Nalan Chaoge the Green Lotus Core Flame, but he told her to evolve and offered to help her afterward in exchange for Demonic Cores and help training Qing Lin.
• Nalan Chaoge left Medusa to recover and encountered Yaoye and Nalan Yanran in the desert, where Mo Bass pursued them and Manda intervened.
• Nalan Chaoge, Qing Lin, and Manda subdued Mo Bass, and Qing Lin controlled him before collapsing from the strain.
• Yaoye and Nalan Yanran welcomed Qing Lin, while Nalan Chaoge decided the group should remain hidden from the Mu Family for six months.
• Qing Lin offered to accompany Nalan Yanran to Salt City for Mo Cheng’s birthday, surprising Nalan Chaoge.

Nalan Chaoge sought the heavenly flame map and became caught in Mu Chen’s plot against Yun Yun. After they joined forces to defeat Mu Chen, Chaoge was left gravely wounded, while Yun Yun and Yaoye searched the battlefield for answers.

• Nalan Chaoge left Yaoye and Qing Lin in the underground cave, then flew to Desert City and confronted Hai Bodong over the heavenly flame map.
• Nalan Chaoge and Hai Bodong fought until Hai Bodong revealed the map’s connection to the Snake-People Tribe and agreed to help Nalan Chaoge find the flame and sand mandala.
• Nalan Chaoge discovered Mu Chen had drugged and abducted Yun Yun, then was caught and used in Mu Chen’s scheme to pressure the Nalan Family.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Chaoge escaped Mu Chen’s control, and Yun Yun advanced to Four-Star Dou Emperor while Nalan Chaoge reached Dou Wang.
• Nalan Chaoge and Yun Yun fought Mu Chen with Gamabunta’s help, and Nalan Chaoge created Comet and launched it at Mu Chen.
• The Comet explosion devastated the desert and stripped Nalan Chaoge of his powers, while Yun Yun carried him away and treated his wounds.
• Yaoye and Qing Lin searched the battlefield for Nalan Chaoge, while Yaoye posted portraits and Qing Lin returned to the underground cave.
• Yun Yun found and killed a mangled survivor beside a wooden plaque marked with Mu, then left as a terrified youth collapsed.