Recaps

Lin Xiao sought a way to survive his Evil Fire and help Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo overcome their Martial Soul defects, while strengthening his body with Ye Qingxian’s healing. After enduring a second Evil Fire Body Tempering, he emerged transformed, with a changed Phoenix Martial Soul and a flame he suspected carried Darkness and Destruction Attributes.

• Lin Xiao refused Flender and Ma Hongjun’s suggestions that he find a woman to vent his Evil Fire, then left to seek a way to survive it.
• Lin Xiao killed a Fire Cauterizing Bird, absorbed its Soul Ring, and helped Shui Bing’er obtain a Frost Ice Carp Soul Ring before the two parted in Heaven Dou City.
• Lin Xiao challenged Dugu Yan to a wager duel, proved himself immune to her poison, and explained that he wanted to meet Poison Douluo about their Martial Soul defects.
• Ye Qingxian healed Lin Xiao’s hidden injuries with her Nine Hearted Begonia and helped him endure a painful Evil Fire Body Tempering that strengthened his body.
• Dugu Bo tested Lin Xiao’s resistance to poison and agreed to work with him on the family’s Martial Soul defects, while Lin Xiao described the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Ye Qingxian began teaching Lin Xiao pharmacology and prepared another body-tempering treatment as his Evil Fire built up again.
• Lin Xiao endured the boiling medicinal bath as Ye Qingxian and Ye Lingling healed him, and his Evil Fire darkened as a phoenix cry sounded.
• Lin Xiao emerged with changed looks and a red-and-black flame, and Ye Qingxian said that his Nirvana had brought evolution rather than mutation.

Lin Xiao and his companions evolved their Martial Souls, gained new powers, and journeyed to Skywater City so Shui Bing'er could advance as well. The arc ended with Lin Xiao and Shui Bing'er awakening a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Lin Xiao discovered his Darkness and Destruction Phoenix form, damaged Ye Qingxian’s courtyard while testing it, and helped repair the damage with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Lin Xiao and Dugu Bo brought Ye Qingxian to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, where she cured her Nine Hearted Begonia curse and helped Dugu Bo evolve into the Golden Horned Jade Dragon.
• Lin Xiao consumed Immortal Grasses and transformed into the Ink Jade Phoenix, drawing the attention of gods who searched for the God Child before losing track of him.
• Lin Xiao absorbed a Tyrant Flame Blazing Luan Soul Ring, gained Flame Burst Phoenix Transformation, and helped Ye Qingxian absorb a Soul Ring from a Snow Hoof Unicorn Horse.
• Lin Xiao returned to Dugu Bo’s home, where Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had completed their Martial Soul evolutions, then left for Skywater City to visit Shui Bing'er.
• Lin Xiao gave Shui Bing'er Immortal Grasses that evolved her Ice Phoenix into the Ultimate Ice Phoenix, and she reached Soul Power Level 20.
• Lin Xiao developed the Flame Burst Phoenix technique after several days of experiments, then learned that Shui Bing'er had gained the Frost Assault Soul Skill.
• Lin Xiao and Shui Bing'er joined hands to test a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, creating a blazing phoenix that became a Throne and released a beam of Extreme Flame into the sky.

Lin Xiao reunited with Shui Bing'er, then enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy while developing his techniques and preparing his body for a stronger Third Soul Ring. After a month at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, Ye Qingxian judged he could absorb a ring of at least seven thousand years.

• Lin Xiao and Shui Bing'er practiced their flame and ice fusion skills, named them, and said farewell when Lin Xiao left the Shui Family with Li Bo.
• Lin Xiao returned to Ye Qingxian, who sent him to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, while Dugu Bo sought his help refining Poison Burst Technique.
• Lin Xiao trained Burst Step with his Flame Burst Phoenix Body and joined Dugu Bo at an auction, where he bought Ten Thousand Year Whale Gel for 181,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Ye Qingxian prepared Whale Gel capsules for Lin Xiao, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling, and Lin Xiao discovered that the Ice Heart Incantation helped him control the Evil Fire stirred by the capsules.
• Lin Xiao enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, formed the Blazing Maple team with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and began studying martial-soul theory in the Library.
• Ning Rongrong met Lin Xiao in Heaven Dou City, but he left before she could stop him, and she caused an uproar after waiting three days for him.
• At the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, Lin Xiao consumed increasing amounts of Whale Gel while Ye Qingxian supervised Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling as they prepared the Herb Garden.
• After a month, Ye Qingxian found Lin Xiao healthy and concluded that he could absorb a Third Soul Ring of at least seven thousand years before everyone prepared to return.