Recaps

At the Sect Assembly, the Flame Alliance faced the Golden Goose Sect, while Xiao Yan noticed Old Man Gu Tong wielding the Wind Fury Dragon Flame. Nalan Yanran defeated Luo Yanhong’s speed advantage with a lightning-fast sword strike that severed his arm and wing.

• She Tianhao denied that the Flame Alliance was a force backed by Sky Serpent Mansion, while Ting Hao identified its ties to the Snake-People Empire.
• Old Man Gu Tong and Qiu Ping arrived, and Xiao Yan recognized Gu Tong’s Wind Fury Dragon Flame as a possible future target for the Flame Mantra.
• Nalan Yanran entered the arena to face Luo Yanhong, and Luo Yantian warned his son that losing could weaken the Luoyan Empire’s position.
• Luo Yanhong used the Golden Goose Sect’s Heavenly Goose Nine Movements Wings to attack at extreme speed, but Nalan Yanran drew her sword and severed his arm and wing.

Nalan Yanran defeated and killed Luo Yanhong after he attacked her from behind, then reached the Sect Assembly finals and upset Li Shi despite being a level lower. The Flame Alliance drew attention across the Northwest Region, while Nalan Yanran turned down invitations to join other sects.

• Nalan Yanran severed Luo Yanhong's arm and wings, then killed him when he launched a surprise attack with an Earth Rank Dou Technique.
• Jia Xing Tian stopped Luo Yantian from attacking Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan warned that the Flame Alliance intended to deal with the Three Great Empires and the Golden Goose Sect.
• Xiao Yan offered Nalan Yanran a Huangtian Pill, but she refused to take it before winning the West Region competition.
• Nalan Yanran fought her way to the finals and defeated the one-star Dou Emperor Li Shi while she was still a nine-star Dou Wang.
• News of Nalan Yanran and the Flame Alliance spread through the Northwest Region, and Nalan Yanran rejected powerful experts who invited her to switch sides.

Nalan Yanran won first place in the West Region and Xiao Yan helped her refine a Huangtian Pill to advance, while Yue Er revealed her talent by refining a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill at the alchemist competition. The Medicine Bone Sect Leader and Master Qiu Ping tried to recruit Yue Er, but Xiao Yan arrived and challenged the Qiu Family’s status.

• Xiao Yan praised Nalan Yanran for defeating Li Shi and gave her a Huangtian Pill to help her advance to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan spent the night using Heavenly Flames to refine the pill’s medicinal effects for Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun misunderstood the situation when she brought breakfast.
• Yue Er and five other young alchemists completed Fifth Grade Pills, and Yue Er used four kinds of flames to refine a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill.
• The Medicine Bone Sect Leader offered Yue Er a place in the sect and a chance to enter the Qiu Family, but Yue Er politely refused.
• Master Qiu Ping said Yue Er could join the Qiu Family if she reached sixth grade before twenty-eight, and Xiao Yan arrived to mock the Qiu Family’s claim.

Xiao Yan confronted Qiu Ping and Gu Tong over their attempt to recruit Yue Er, while the Sect Assembly’s battles brought victories for Nalan Yanran and Qing Lin. Qing Lin defeated Nalan Yanran in the final, and Xiao Yan revealed that she had once been taken from the Mo Clan to Heavenly Serpent Mansion and belonged to the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan rejected Qiu Ping’s attempt to poach Yue Er and rebuked Qiu Ping and Gu Tong, who then judged Yue Er’s pill poorly and awarded first place to Jian Feixue.
• Nalan Yanran defeated Shi Nian after breaking through to Dou Huang, and Qing Lin defeated Ting Wanjun with an Earth Rank Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong that Qing Lin had not relied on Medicinal Pills and wondered whether her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils granted additional abilities.
• Qing Lin defeated Nalan Yanran in the final, and Xiao Yan reminded Nalan Yanran that Qing Lin had been taken from the Mo Clan to Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
• Xiao Yan told Nalan Yanran that Qing Lin was a member of the Xiao Clan and teased her that she was the one who had promised to become his servant if she lost.

Xiao Yan and the Flame Alliance entered the Sect Assembly’s arena contests as rival sects worried about the Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s growing strength. After the Flame Alliance began defending an arena, Xiao Yan faced Old Man Gu Tong at the alchemists’ contest, where their Heavenly Flames clashed and Gu Tong proposed a wager.

• Sect leaders from across the Northwest Region agreed to unite against the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, while Xiao Yan considered leaving for the Middle Continent sooner than planned.
• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Ding to plant the Flame Alliance flag on an arena, where Xiao Ding defeated a Mulan Valley Dou Wang before Misty Cloud Sect elders took over.
• Mulan Valley’s elder defeated two Misty Cloud Sect Dou Wang elders, and Xiao Li stepped forward to challenge him as Xiao Yan went to the alchemists’ contest.
• Old Man Gu Tong challenged Xiao Yan’s confidence, and their Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame clashed without breaking Xiao Yan’s defenses.
• Old Man Gu Tong proposed that he and Xiao Yan bet their Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan accepted Old Man Gu Tong’s wager of their Heavenly Flames and revealed he intended to refine a Seventh Grade Pill, shocking the spectators and drawing powerful factions to watch. As Xiao Yan and Gu Tong began refining, the chapter left their contest unresolved, with Gu Tong’s skill and powerful pill furnace on display.

• Xiao Yan and Old Man Gu Tong clashed with their Heavenly Flames, then agreed to wager them on the outcome of their alchemy contest.
• Old Man Gu Tong revealed he wanted Xiao Yan’s Green Lotus Core Flame to pay the Qiu Family for an eighth-grade pill that could treat his condition.
• Xiao Yan announced he would not refine a Sixth-Grade Pill and brought out ingredients for a Seventh Grade Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill.
• Qiu Ping and the spectators were shocked by Xiao Yan’s apparent Seventh Grade skill, while Old Man Gu Tong prepared to compete using three sets of ingredients and his White Tiger Medicine Cauldron.
• News of Xiao Yan’s age, alchemy rank, and Heavenly Flame spread through the Heavenly Serpent Mansion Mountain Range, drawing Qing Lin and powerful sect leaders to the plaza.
• Xiao Yan and Old Man Gu Tong began refining behind protective light, and spectators watched Gu Tong demonstrate his powerful Flame Control.

Xiao Yan refined the Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill using captured Soul Bodies instead of a Magic Core, while Sima Lin and Old Man Gu Tong began the same crucial pill-forming stage. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan combining the purified Soul Light and medicinal ingredients in the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Qiu Ping praised Old Man Gu Tong’s seventh-grade alchemy, while Sima Lin used the Silver Star Dragon Snake Flame to refine a Beast Emperor Body Tempering Pill.
• Sima Lin and Old Man Gu Tong added their Magic Cores and suppressed the beast resentment inside them, while Xiao Yan’s furnace remained calm.
• Xiao Yan released captured Soul Bodies from his Soul Token and used the Asura Soul Severing Technique’s second form, Sunken Abyss, to destroy them and gather Soul Light.
• The abyss chains took half of the Soul Light before retreating, and Xiao Yan fused the remainder with the medicinal ingredients and began melting them with the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Yan completed the Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill, whose strange black fragrance and powerful Pill Lightning stunned the gathered alchemists. After surviving the lightning and capturing the pill, he confronted Old Man Gu Tong and asked who had won their wager.

• Sima Lin and Old Man Gu Tong completed their Seventh-Rank pills, and both pills drew Pill Lightning, with Gu Tong's lightning appearing stronger.
• Xiao Yan's lotus opened and released ominous black pill fragrance, revealing the completed Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill.
• Xiao Yan borrowed Venerable Tian Huo's power and used the Mountain Splitting Seal and Sea Flipping Seal to overcome the Pill Lightning before it vanished.
• Xiao Yan trapped the pill with the Green Lotus Core Flame, returned to the square, and approached Old Man Gu Tong to settle their wager.
• Old Man Gu Tong stood stunned after realizing Xiao Yan's pill had surpassed his, while Sima Lin withdrew from the contest.

Xiao Yan’s pill outclassed Old Man Gu Tong’s, but Qiu Ping forced the contest to be called a draw to protect the Qiu Family’s claim to Gu Tong’s Heavenly Flame. After Xiao Yan left to settle matters later, Yue Er reported that Yun Yun had been surrounded by powerful sect leaders beside the corpse of Medicine Bone Sect’s Jian Feixue.

• Old Man Gu Tong accused Xiao Yan of cheating, but Xiao Yan and the gathered alchemists challenged his claims, and Qiu Ping confirmed that the Pill Domain had produced young Seventh Grade Alchemists.
• Qiu Ping declared the pill contest a draw despite Xiao Yan’s superior Pill Lightning, and Xiao Yan warned that he would visit the Qiu Family to demand an explanation.
• Xiao Yan left the square with the Flame Alliance and secretly marked the others to track them, intending to reclaim the Heavenly Flames after the Sect Assembly.
• The sect leaders grew wary of the Flame Alliance and resolved to secure victory in the next day’s final contest, while Zi Yan boasted that she had defeated ten opponents.
• Yue Er told Xiao Yan that Yun Yun had been surrounded by experts from several sects, and Xiao Yan hurried to the mountain peak with the others.
• Xiao Yan arrived to find Yun Yun surrounded by Dou Huang and Dou Zong experts, with Jian Feixue’s corpse at her feet.

Yun Yun was framed for Jian Feixue’s murder as the Medicine Bone Sect, Golden Goose Sect, and Mulan Valley used the death as a pretext to corner the Flame Alliance. Xiao Yan arrived, confronted the conspirators, and prepared to fight as Qing Lin appeared to join him.

• Yun Yun discovered that Jian Feixue was already dead and was trapped by Luo Yantian and the Three Mulan Elders while Elder Zhang accused her of killing him.
• Old Man Gu Tong and the other sect leaders blamed Xiao Yan and the Flame Alliance, and Xiao Yan arrived with Zi Yan and his allies.
• The Medicine Bone Sect, Golden Goose Sect, and Mulan Valley surrounded Xiao Yan, who dismissed Jian Feixue’s importance and provocatively admitted to the murder.
• Xiao Yan assigned his allies to face the surrounding forces, descended beside Yun Yun, and revealed that he had secretly placed a Soul Mark on Old Man Gu Tong.
• Xiao Yan said he had people of his own, and Qing Lin flew in to stand before him.

Xiao Yan confronted the Medicine Bone Sect and its allies at the Sect Assembly, while Qing Lin and then Medusa intervened to protect him and the Flame Alliance. With Medusa overpowering the opposition, Xiao Yan pursued Old Man Gu Tong as the battle began.

• Qing Lin defied She Tianhao and stood between Xiao Yan and the sect leaders, revealing her loyalty to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan rejected Qing Lin’s plan to help the Flame Alliance escape and declared that the attackers had crossed a line by targeting his people.
• Queen Medusa arrived and revealed her Seven Star Dou Ancestor strength, turning the balance of power against the attackers.
• Medusa trapped two Medicine Bone Sect Dou Ancestors while Zi Yan, Yun Yun, and the Nethersea Flood Dragon attacked the fleeing sect members.
• Xiao Yan chased Old Man Gu Tong, dismissed his threat of retaliation from the Qiu Family, and used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to intercept him.

Xiao Yan defeated Old Man Gu Tong and captured his Soul Body, while the Flame Alliance crushed the Medicine Bone Sect and its allies at the Sect Assembly. The onlookers realized that the balance of power in the Northwest Region was about to change.

• Xiao Yan wounded Old Man Gu Tong with the Mountain Splitting Seal and overcame his Wind Fury Dragon Flame with the Lapis Lazuli Lotus Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan burned Old Man Gu Tong from within, exposed his escaping Soul Body, and captured him with the Soul Token while posing as Venerable Yan of the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan offered Old Man Gu Tong's body as a vessel for Venerable Tian Huo's resurrection and returned to find the other battles over, though Luo Yantian had escaped.
• Xiao Yan learned that Medusa and Zi Yan had helped wipe out the Medicine Bone Sect, Golden Goose Sect, and Mulan Valley forces, while Luo Yantian remained at large.
• The gathered spectators watched the Flame Alliance's victory in stunned silence and wondered how the Sect Assembly would reshape the Northwest Region.

Xiao Yan brought Qing Lin away from Heavenly Serpent Mansion under Medusa’s protection, while Medusa killed the traitor Lu She and tensions over the Flame Alliance’s ambitions intensified. The Sect Assembly resumed with a single arena, and the Flame Alliance arrived to defend first place against the Northwest Region’s sects.

• Xiao Yan gathered the fallen experts’ Storage Rings as Qing Lin announced she was leaving Heavenly Serpent Mansion, and Medusa declared Qing Lin under her protection.
• Medusa killed Lu She with her heart flame, prompting She Tianhao to withdraw with his disciples.
• Xiao Yan discussed the Flame Alliance’s plans with Medusa, who explained the Ancient Void Dragon’s place among the Monster Beast clans and revealed that it was a Divine Beast descended from a Tenth-Rank Ancient Dragon.
• Xiao Yan, Medusa, and Zi Yan divided the captured medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yan reunited Qing Lin with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• The Sect Assembly resumed with one arena, and the Nethersea Flood Dragon carried the Flame Alliance to the venue, where the alliance claimed first place and invited challenges.

Xiao Yan made a grand entrance at the Sect Assembly, where the Flame Alliance faced the three leading Northwest Region sects. Queen Medusa challenged She Tianhao, Ting Hao, and Shi Nian at once and began overpowering them with the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Xiao Yan watched warily for She Tianhao’s hidden trump card.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Sect Assembly in a display of Heavenly Flame, drawing the crowd’s attention and prompting Shi Nian and Ting Hao to challenge his arrogance.
• Xiao Yan explained the Flame Alliance’s strength as the leaders of Sky Serpent Mansion, Thunder Sect, and Lion Nether Sect gathered against it.
• She Tianhao chose to fight first, and Queen Medusa rose into the sky with the Green Lotus Core Flame and challenged all three leaders at once.
• She Tianhao offered to divide Sky Serpent Mansion with Medusa and join her in reclaiming the Snake Clan, but Medusa refused to negotiate.
• She Tianhao, Ting Hao, and Shi Nian attacked Medusa together with Earth Rank Dou Techniques, but she blocked their attacks and forced them back.
• As Medusa began suppressing the three Seven Star Dou Ancestors, Xiao Yan warned that She Tianhao might still have a hidden trump card and prepared to support her.

Queen Medusa overwhelmed She Tianhao, Shi Nian, and Ting Hao, then revealed she could wield both the Green Lotus Core Flame and Fallen Heart Flame with Xiao Yan’s help. The three leaders activated Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s Demon Saint Heaven Gate formation to trap and suppress her.

• Queen Medusa knocked Shi Nian, Ting Hao, and She Tianhao back with her attacks, while onlookers recognized the power of the legendary Devouring Heaven Python Clan.
• Shi Nian drew the Lion Nether Demon Blade, Ting Hao summoned the Thunder God Spear, and She Tianhao attacked with a giant serpent formed from his shed skin.
• Queen Medusa used the Green Lotus Core Flame to withstand their combined assault until Xiao Yan told her to stop holding back.
• Queen Medusa revealed the Fallen Heart Flame and used it alongside the Green Lotus Core Flame to drive all three leaders away.
• She Tianhao urged Shi Nian and Ting Hao to abandon restraint, and the three activated the Demon Saint Heaven Gate formation to trap Queen Medusa.

Medusa broke Sky Serpent Mansion’s Heavenly Gate formation by detonating two Heavenly Flames, then defeated Shi Nian and Ting Hao and forced She Tianhao to surrender. The Flame Alliance won the Sect Assembly, leaving the Northwest Region’s sects preparing to submit or make peace with it.

• She Tianhao, Shi Nian, and Ting Hao activated the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s Heavenly Gate formation and pressed it down on Medusa, wounding her despite her Seven-Colored Swallowing Heavens Python bloodline skill.
• Xiao Yan prepared to rescue Medusa, but she collided the Fallen Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame at full power, shattering the Heavenly Gate and badly injuring the three opponents.
• Medusa survived the blast and swiftly defeated Shi Nian and Ting Hao, while She Tianhao surrendered after recognizing that neither of them could continue fighting.
• Xiao Yan used his Life Flame to heal Medusa as the Flame Alliance’s allies guarded against a counterattack.
• The Sect Assembly ended with the Flame Alliance victorious, and sect leaders across the Northwest Region considered offering gifts or becoming its affiliates.

Xiao Yan treated Medusa’s severe injuries while the Flame Alliance turned its victory at the Sect Assembly into gifts, resources, and new ties with Northwest Region sects. After seven days of collecting medicinal ingredients and refining a pill for Zi Yan, Xiao Yan learned that Sky Serpent Mansion had secretly sent Dou Zong to investigate Medusa’s condition.

• Xiao Yan blindfolded himself and used the Yin-Yang Life-Death Flame and Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to treat Medusa, who rejected his proposed name Cai Lin.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li welcomed visiting sect leaders, and Hu Tianchou presented gifts from Tiger Sword Sect to the Flame Alliance.
• The Flame Alliance hosted sect representatives for seven days, gathering Rank 7 and Rank 8 medicinal ingredients, pill formulas, and promises of annual membership fees from later affiliates.
• Xiao Yan refined a Beast Emperor Body Tempering Pill for Zi Yan, who swallowed it and returned to her room to refine its medicinal strength.
• Medusa told Xiao Yan that most sects had left the Heavenly Serpent Empire and that Sky Serpent Mansion had sent three Dou Zong to investigate her injuries.

Xiao Yan used Qing Lin’s connection to the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s inheritance to pressure the divided Sky Serpent Mansion into negotiating with the Flame Alliance. She Tianhao agreed to let Xiao Yan and Medusa enter the inheritance ruins with Qing Lin, though the risks of the expedition remained unresolved.

• Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s elders argued over resisting Medusa or aligning with Qing Lin, while Lü Man and Bai Ya proposed following Qing Lin into the Flame Alliance’s protection.
• Xiao Yan deduced that the Mansion was divided and revealed he wanted the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s inheritance for Qing Lin and Medusa; he refused the visitors and announced that the Flame Alliance would leave in a month.
• While refining pills and cultivating, Xiao Yan advanced to Four Star Dou Emperor, and the Sky Serpent Mansion grew alarmed that Qing Lin would leave with him.
• Serpent Emperor urged She Tianhao to endure the negotiations, explaining that reaching Dou Zun and migrating to the Beast Domain mattered more than keeping the inheritance within the Mansion.
• She Tianhao visited Xiao Yan, who agreed to open the ruins only if he and Medusa accompanied Qing Lin; She Tianhao accepted, and Xiao Yan assured Yun Yun they could flee if danger arose.

Xiao Yan accompanied Qing Lin and Queen Medusa to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to enter the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s inheritance. After helping Qing Lin open the entrance, they reached the inheritance hall, where She Tianhao and the other Heavenly Serpent Mansion experts had already gathered.

• Xiao Yan learned from Qing Lin that the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s inheritance lay inside its enormous corpse, and She Tianhao brought the mansion’s experts to the serpent’s Space Lock.
• She Tianhao used the mansion’s token and Qing Lin placed her trial proof into the lock, causing the serpent’s head to emerge and awaken.
• Qing Lin faltered while opening the inheritance, so Xiao Yan strengthened her with his Soul Power and the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame; the Space Lock shattered, and She Tianhao led the mansion’s experts inside.
• Xiao Yan helped the exhausted Qing Lin recover before carrying her into the serpent’s pupil space with Queen Medusa, where Qing Lin sensed the direction of the inheritance.
• Xiao Yan and his companions passed through a dangerous forest, then reached the ancient inheritance hall and found She Tianhao and the other mansion experts already there.

Xiao Yan and the others entered the inheritance hall, where dead serpent experts controlled by the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils guarded the treasures. Xiao Yan discovered that he could extract the puppets’ souls with Sunken Abyss, and began secretly collecting them while working with Medusa to keep the Sky Serpent Mansion from noticing.

• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin saw that the hall’s treasure clusters were guarded by Serpent-Race Puppets, some of whom had once been Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan charged for a treasure, but a Three Stars Dou Zun puppet attacked him and proved resistant to his Heavenly Flames and Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Xiao Yan asked Qing Lin to briefly control the puppet, then used Sunken Abyss to pull its soul and the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils seal from its body.
• Xiao Yan struck a Sky Serpent Mansion serpent king and had the little black cat secretly retrieve a treasure while She Tianhao ordered his people to press on.
• Xiao Yan and Medusa worked together to extract another puppet’s soul, and Xiao Yan announced that the remaining thirteen puppets could earn him enough Soul Points for a Heaven Rank Dou Technique.

Xiao Yan and Medusa collected inheritance treasures while Qing Lin underwent the final stage of the trial, but she failed and awakened under the control of a mysterious power. As the Serpent-Race Puppets turned against them and the inheritance space began collapsing, Xiao Yan and Medusa stayed behind to protect Qing Lin.

• Xiao Yan and Medusa defeated the Serpent-Race Puppets and claimed six light clusters while Sky Serpent Mansion obtained four.
• Xiao Yan realized the Demon Saint Essence Blood was missing from the treasures, then discovered Qing Lin motionless with jade-green eyes.
• Qing Lin roared and unleashed the Serpent-Race Puppets, killing several Sky Serpent Mansion experts and forcing the survivors to flee.
• Xiao Yan concluded Qing Lin had failed the inheritance trial, and he urged Cai Lin to leave while he stayed to help her.
• Medusa stopped Xiao Yan from charging ahead alone, then joined him as the space collapsed and they attacked the puppets together.

Xiao Yan and Cai Lin fought Qing Lin and the Serpent-Race Puppets after Qing Lin lost control of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. When Xiao Yan’s attempt to awaken Qing Lin failed and an enormous serpent formed from the accumulated darkness threatened them, he released the Asura within his soul as a last resort.

• Cai Lin knocked back the Serpent-Race Puppets while Xiao Yan realized Qing Lin’s pupils had absorbed their abilities and negative emotions, causing her to lose control.
• Cai Lin combined her bloodline power with the Lapis Lazuli Lotus Heart Flame and unleashed the Colorful Light Sky Swallowing Art, melting several puppets.
• Xiao Yan used the Bone Chiling Flame to restrain Qing Lin and entered her soul with the Asura Soul Severing Technique, but he could not awaken her.
• Darkness gathered into a giant serpent resembling the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint as Xiao Yan and Cai Lin ran low on strength.
• Xiao Yan took the Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill and released the Asura within the abyss, frightening the giant serpent and the remaining puppets.

Xiao Yan used the Asura Soul Severing Technique to destroy the black serpent but lost control and attacked Cai Lin. After Cai Lin brought him back to his senses at great cost, Xiao Yan carried her and Qing Lin up the Heavenly Stairway, determined to obtain the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint's Demon Saint Essence Blood and save her.

• Xiao Yan transformed into an Asura, wounded the black giant serpent, and bound it with Soul Chains as his Soul Power surged to the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yan swallowed Old Man Gu Tong and the captured Soul Lights, then overwhelmed and devoured the black serpent while his hunger and loss of control grew.
• Cai Lin transformed into her Seven-Colored Swallowing Heavens Python form and fought Xiao Yan, calling to him through their soul connection until her blood helped him regain some clarity.
• Xiao Yan wounded Cai Lin during their struggle, then came back to himself and used the Life Flame to try to heal her, despite his exhausted Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan carried the injured Cai Lin up the Heavenly Stairway, with Qing Lin on her body, while Venerable Tian Huo sustained the Life Flame and accompanied him.

Xiao Yan carried the injured Cai Lin up the Heavenly Stairway and used the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint's Essence Blood to save her, then survived through the hidden power of the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill. After Qing Lin began inheriting the Serpent Saint's legacy, Xiao Yan reached the Spirit Realm, recovered, and refined the Wind Fury Dragon Flame.

• Xiao Yan endured the climb while carrying Cai Lin's giant serpent body, then reached the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint and fed her Essence Blood to Cai Lin.
• As Xiao Yan collapsed near death, the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill awakened and restored his body and Soul Power.
• Qing Lin woke, began the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint inheritance, and Xiao Yan continued cultivating while Cai Lin recovered.
• After six months, Xiao Yan broke through to Mortal Realm Great Perfection and then the Spirit Realm, while Qing Lin and Cai Lin continued their inheritances and recovery.
• Xiao Yan refined the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, bringing the number of Heavenly Flames inside him to nine.

After refining the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, Xiao Yan improved his cultivation and alchemy while preparing a body for Venerable Tian Huo. He also refined a Transformation Pill for the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, leaving him at Eight-Star Dou Huang with his companions still advancing through their inheritance and bloodline gains.

• Xiao Yan rose to Seven-Star Dou Huang after refining the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, then practiced refining Seventh-Rank medicinal pills and advanced to intermediate-level alchemy.
• Xiao Yan used Old Man Gu Tong's corpse, Rank 7 Magical Beast essence blood, Venerable Tian Huo's skeleton, and two Heavenly Flames to create a body shell for Venerable Tian Huo.
• Xiao Yan saw that Qing Lin was nearing the end of her inheritance and Cai Lin had reached Nine-Star Dou Ancestor after obtaining Ban Sheng essence blood.
• Xiao Yan refined a Transformation Pill for the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, first with Black Demon's help and then with his own alchemy.
• Xiao Yan used the Destruction Fire Lotus to destroy the pill lightning and its thunderclouds, and he reached Eight-Star Dou Huang.