Recaps

Hun Ruoruo escaped the Soul Realm and set her sights on helping Xiao Yan grow strong enough to oppose Hun Tiandi. Xiao Yan accepted Nalan Yanran’s three-year challenge, began training under Hun Ruoruo and Yao Chen, and ended the stretch drawing the attention of Xun'er and Elder Ling.

• Hun Ruoruo escaped the Soul Realm after revealing her plan to seek out Xiao Yan and use his future strength against Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Yan refused Nalan Yanran’s demand to dissolve their engagement and sealed a Three-Year Pact with a bloodied divorce letter.
• Hun Ruoruo summoned Yao Chen and persuaded him to teach Xiao Yan, while asking him to help her kill Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Yan learned that Yao Chen had absorbed his Dou Qi for years and began training with Foundation Building Spiritual Liquid and Hun Ruoruo’s guidance.
• Xiao Yan challenged Xiao Ning at the Training Ground and defeated him despite being at only the Fifth Stage of Dou Qi.
• Hun Ruoruo taught Xiao Yan Soul Piercing Strike, then demonstrated it by killing Jia Lie Ao and taking his soul.
• Xiao Yan endured the technique himself, began to understand Soul Piercing Strike, and combined it with Eight Extremes Collapse in training.
• Xiao Zhan warned Xiao Yan against crooked paths, while Xun'er asked Elder Ling about the investigation into Hun Ruoruo.

Xiao Yan helped ruin the Jia Lie Family’s attempt to crush the Xiao Family, then broke through to Dou Zhe and left Wutan City with Hun Ruoruo to train and pursue a Heavenly Flame. After becoming separated from her, he joined a merchant caravan, fought off bandits, and failed a trial when the Black-skirted Girl stopped the Great Chieftain’s attack.

• Hun Ruoruo helped Xiao Yan kill the Jia Lie Family’s Alchemist, and Xiao Zhan used the death to trap Jia Lie Bu in a disastrous contract.
• Xiao Yan trained with Old Man Yao and Hun Ruoruo, broke through to Dou Zhe, and stunned the Coming-of-Age Ceremony crowd with his result.
• Hun Ruoruo revealed her plan to prepare Xiao Yan to absorb a Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Yan promised Xun'er he would attend Jia Nan Academy’s entrance examination.
• Hun Ruoruo flew Xiao Yan to a mountain, broke through by two stars, and left him carrying a massive black ruler back to the valley on his own.
• Xiao Yan became lost in the forest, joined Ka Gang’s merchant caravan, and discovered Scar was a traitor leading a bandit raid.
• Xiao Yan killed Scar and fought the bandits, then set out to rescue the noble young lady from the Great Chieftain.
• The Great Chieftain overwhelmed Xiao Yan, but the Black-skirted Girl stopped his saber and declared that Xiao Yan had failed the trial.

Xiao Yan refined the Void Child Flame, returned to Wutan City, and transferred his Jia Nan Academy slot to Hun Ruoruo while pursuing his own training. Hun Ruoruo joined the Soul Hall and became the Frost Soul Emissary, leaving Xiao Yan to set out toward Qingshan Town.

• Hun Ruoruo stopped the bandits’ attack on the Merchant Caravan, then killed the Great Chieftain, and Xiao Yan challenged her over the injured survivors before accepting her explanation.
• Hun Ruoruo taught Xiao Yan to mix Wood Qi with his fire attribute Dou Qi, and he produced an alchemical flame.
• Hun Ruoruo and Old Man Yao took Xiao Yan to the Monster Beast Graveyard, where he absorbed the Void Child Flame after combining his Soul Force with Hun Ruoruo’s Dou Qi.
• After Xiao Yan recovered, Old Man Yao urged Hun Ruoruo to treat Xiao Yan as a friend, and she resolved to improve herself.
• Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City, sold Foundation Building Spiritual Liquid through Ya Fei, and suggested that Hun Ruoruo take his Jia Nan Academy enrollment slot.
• Xiao Yan transferred the slot to Hun Ruoruo and defeated Teacher Ruolin’s water defense to secure permission to leave the academy.
• Hun Ruoruo strengthened Xiao Yan’s soul and suggested he train in Qingshan Town, then left Wutan City for the Imperial Capital.
• Hun Ruoruo passed Yun Leng’s Soul Hall test by absorbing the Soul Seal, and he welcomed her as the Frost Soul Emissary.

Hun Ruoruo joined the Misty Cloud Sect, helped Nalan Yanran and Nalan Jie, and pursued the materials she needed while preparing to break through. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan trained in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, where he arrived at the aftermath of Hun Ruoruo’s clash with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.

• Hun Ruoruo became the Misty Cloud Sect’s Guest Elder, treated Nalan Jie’s Scorching Poison, and began instructing Nalan Yanran while concealing her own plans.
• Hun Ruoruo used Nalan Yanran’s unusual Soul Force to help her cultivate, and Nalan Yanran’s strength improved enough to defeat Yun Cheng in a sparring match.
• Xiao Yan left Wutan City for Qingshan Town, met Xiao Yi Xian, and helped her explore a cave containing a Medicine Garden, a Poison Scripture, and an Incomplete Map.
• When Mu Li and his mercenaries attacked them in the cave, Xiao Yan killed them, then parted ways with Xiao Yi Xian and continued training in the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• After two months of hunting, Xiao Yan reached the Dou Shi realm, while Hun Ruoruo prepared for her Dou Emperor breakthrough and secretly considered taking Nalan Jie’s soul to meet her Soul Hall mission.
• Hun Ruoruo sought a Companion Purple Crystal Source from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, but their negotiation turned hostile when he demanded her Shaping Pill.
• Xiao Yan flew toward the disturbance caused by the Sixth-tier Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and found an injured Black-skirted Girl in the cave, who recognized him as the Third Young Master.