Recaps

Yan Qingshan won a place among the Inner Academy’s top students, built alliances, and set off a scramble for the Green Lotus Core Flame while secretly plundering the Black Corner Region. The arc ended with Han Feng and Mo Tianxing fighting Old Ghost of Earth Demon as Demonic Flame Valley’s forces struggled against the Golden-Silver Elders.

• Yan Qingshan advanced through the Strong Ranking Competition, defeated Muyun, and introduced Ziyan to the Azure Mountain Society.
• Yan Qingshan and Wang Mang expanded their influence through Azure King City and Beast King Valley, then sent the Yao Clan Three Brothers to stir conflict among the Black Corner Region’s factions.
• Han Feng, Mo Tianxing, Fang Yan, and their allies followed the brothers’ jade fragments to a magma lake, where they found the Green Lotus Core Flame and fought over the Transformed Flame.
• Yan Qingshan and Ziyan raided the Black Emperor Sect and other factions, spreading rumors and deepening the region’s turmoil.
• Yan Qingshan entered Demonic Flame Valley’s treasury with Old Ghost of Earth Demon’s token and took valuable techniques, pills, and treasures.
• After the magma eruption, Han Feng kept the Transformed Flame and turned other factions against Demonic Flame Valley, prompting Old Ghost of Earth Demon to confront him.
• Old Ghost of Earth Demon attacked Han Feng, but Mo Tianxing joined Han Feng, and the two fought the patriarch while the Golden-Silver Elders battled Demonic Flame Valley’s experts.

Yan Qingshan expanded Azure King City’s influence, uncovered the threats surrounding the Xiao Family, and pursued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map. In the Tagore Desert, he helped Queen Medusa undergo her evolution, then left the Snake-people Race with a promise to return.

• Yan Qingshan defeated Fan Lao and Fan Ling, captured Twilight City, and secured Black Seal City while the Black Alliance and other powers avoided confronting Azure King City.
• Yan Qingshan returned to the Jia Ma Empire, examined Xiao Yan’s fading Dou Qi, and learned that Venerable Yao had been absorbing it from the black ring.
• Yan Qingshan explained the Xiao Family’s ancient ties and warned Xiao Yan and Venerable Yao that the Hun Clan and Soul Hall could threaten the family because of Xiao Xun’er.
• Yan Qingshan found Hai Bodong in Desert City and obtained the Calamity Breaking Pill formula in exchange for promising to lift the seal on Hai Bodong’s cultivation.
• Yan Qingshan negotiated with Queen Medusa to use the Snake-people Race’s ingredients, refined the Calamity Breaking Pill, and broke through to Dou Emperor.
• Queen Medusa underwent her evolution in Yan Qingshan’s Green Lotus Core Flame, and a Seven-colored Heaven Swallowing Python emerged while Medusa’s soul remained asleep.
• Yan Qingshan hid and cared for the young python until Queen Medusa awakened, then agreed to refine a Snake Marrow Bone-Shedding Pill in exchange for the Snake-people Race’s secret arts and pill formulas.
• Yan Qingshan spent the night with Yue Mei and Hua Sha'er, promised to return, and left Moon City at dawn.

Yan Qingshan maneuvered the Jia Ma Empire, Queen Medusa, and the Misty Cloud Sect into confronting rival empires and the Soul Hall. After the coalition won the battle, Xie Biyan poisoned Yan Qingshan, and the group captured three Soul Hall Protectors.

• Yan Qingshan helped Hai Bodong break his seal, reclaimed the ancient map fragment, and negotiated with the Jia Ma Royal Family while preparing Queen Medusa to support his plans.
• Yan Qingshan rescued Yun Yun from the Amethyst Winged Lion King, obtained the Amethyst Cloud Crystal, and warned Yun Shan that the Soul Hall had placed a restriction in his soul.
• Yan Qingshan brought Jia Xingtian and Queen Medusa to confront Yun Shan, then persuaded the Misty Cloud Sect to host a Grand Gathering of Experts against neighboring empires.
• At Black Mountain Fortress, Yan Qingshan fought the Mulan Three Elders as Yun Shan and the other experts faced the rival armies, and Queen Medusa and Snake-people allies joined the battle.
• Queen Medusa defeated Xie Biyan after he fused with the Blood Demon Scorpion Emperor, but he struck Yan Qingshan with a Demonic Poison Mark that Fa Ma said would kill him within half a year.
• Yan Qingshan led his allies against the Soul Hall Protectors, and Old Ya poisoned them during the fight before Queen Medusa, Yun Shan, and Jia Xingtian helped capture all three.

Yan Qingshan consolidated power in Jia Ma, dealt with Han Feng, and traveled with Han Yue and Ziyan to Northern Sky City. There he helped the Han Family move against the Hong Family, while a silver-haired stranger’s pursuit of the Supreme Lightning Marrow brought a new threat into play.

• Queen Medusa’s seal stripped the black mist from the Soul Hall Protectors, and Old Ya tortured Protector Wu until he revealed the Soul Hall’s plan to abduct Xiao Zhan and its interest in the Xiao Family.
• Yan Qingshan secured Old Ya’s help, sealed his Demonic Poison Mark, and joined the Jia Ma Empire and Snake-people Race in conquering the neighboring empires.
• Yan Qingshan gave Xiao Xun’er Protector Wu in exchange for a soul technique, then returned to Jia Nan Academy and gave Xiao Yi Xian the Poison Pill Method and Bodhi Transforming Saliva.
• Yan Qingshan made two Heavenly Demon Puppets, found Yao Tianhuo in the magma world, and obtained the Five-Ring Blazing Fire Method and the sealed Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yan Qingshan completed the Heavenly Wild Goose Nine Movement Wings, advanced to four-star Dou Emperor, and later rose to peak six-star Dou Emperor after Ziyan helped inscribe a Dragon Mark.
• Yan Qingshan sealed Ling Quan and his guards, defeated Han Feng, dismantled the Black Alliance, and forced Demonic Flame Valley and the Black Emperor Sect to sign treaties.
• Yan Qingshan traveled with Han Yue and Ziyan through a Spatial Wormhole to Northern Sky City, where he proposed destroying the Hong Family and arranged to draw Hong Chen down from Phoenix Dwelling Mountain with Supreme Lightning Marrow.
• The Han Family traded the Supreme Lightning Marrow for Northern Spirit Market, but after Shen Yun took the treasure toward the Wind Lightning Northern Pavilion, a silver-haired young man attacked the Hong Family and pursued him.