Recaps

Xiao Yan endured the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, discarding most of the memories from ninety-nine simulated lives before entering a final life that recreated his own past. He woke injured in a cave with his power greatly reduced and faced an illusory Elder who had prepared medicine for him.

• Xiao Yan refined the evolved Nihility Devouring Flame with two pills while the Bodhi Ancient Tree eased his pain and drew him into a reincarnation.
• Xiao Yan rapidly experienced Dugu Qing’s life, erased most of its memories, and repeated the process through the first ninety-nine reincarnations.
• Xiao Yan entered the hundredth reincarnation and recognized memories of his own past, including Nalan Yanran’s engagement challenge.
• Xiao Yan discovered he was a wounded teenager with the strength of a Six-Star Dou Zhe, recovering in a cave’s medicinal liquid.
• An illusory Elder entered the cave after Xiao Yan demanded to know who was there.

Xiao Yan awakened in the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation as the injured disciple of the Elder, who had saved him and guided his recovery. After correcting Xiao Yan’s alchemy and testing his Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, the Elder ordered him to retrain under a waterfall and covered him with Burning Blood.

• Xiao Yan recognized the Elder as his Master and learned that he had been unconscious for five days after escaping the Wolf Fang Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yan tried to demonstrate his alchemy, but the Elder showed him how to account for medicinal ingredients’ age and growing conditions when refining them.
• Xiao Yan claimed mastery of the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler and unleashed a powerful strike that split the waterfall, but the Elder criticized his foundation and ordered him to practice under its current.
• The Elder applied Burning Blood to Xiao Yan, who screamed as the liquid burned his skin.

Xiao Yan trained under the Elder in the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, mastering the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler and advancing his cultivation and alchemy. After refining a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill and breaking the reincarnation, he faced the Elder’s final disappearance.

• Xiao Yan endured Burning Blood and practiced the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler under the Elder’s guidance until he mastered it.
• Xiao Yan reached Nine Star Peak Dou Zhe, then broke through to Dou Shi and recovered his full cultivation, becoming a Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan used his eleven Heavenly Flames and Black Demon to refine the Bodhi Great Return Pill, a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill.
• Xiao Yan split the Black Demon Lightning with the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, breaking the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation.
• Xiao Yan wept as the Elder faded away and the Tree Spirit Space began to vanish.

After completing the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation and bidding farewell to Yao Chen, Xiao Yan awoke, gathered Bodhi Transformation Saliva, and returned to the Xiao Realm. He later confronted Feng Qing’er in the town outside the Wild Ancient Region, where she offered information about the Ancient Void Dragon Clan in exchange for having her Soul Mark removed.

• Xiao Yan completed the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, received Yao Chen’s farewell, and sealed the Bodhi Great Return Pill in a wooden box.
• Xiao Yan learned that Nalan Yanran had experienced his past through the Bodhi Ancient Tree, teased her about their broken engagement, and left the Wild Ancient Region with her.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree disappeared, and Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Realm with Nalan Yanran while Xiao Yi Xian mistook the Bodhi Transformation Saliva on her for something else.
• Xiao Yan made a deal with the Ancient Devouring Insect Queen to protect the Xiao Realm, then prepared a Treasure Liquid pool for Xiao Yi Xian and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan used his Dou Sheng power to travel to the town outside the Wild Ancient Region, where Feng Qing’er offered information about the Ancient Void Dragon Clan in exchange for removal of her Soul Mark.

After becoming a One-Star Dou Saint, Xiao Yan freed Feng Qing'er from her Asura Slave Seal and learned that Zi Yan had returned to East Dragon Island after reaching Rank 9. Back at the Flame Alliance, he considered his remaining targets and reunited with Cai Lin while their daughters slept nearby.

• Xiao Yan revealed that his strength had grown enough for him to stop fearing the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Feng Qing'er told Xiao Yan that Ancient Void Dragon Clan elders had returned to East Dragon Island, and he concluded Zi Yan had become the Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan removed Feng Qing'er's Asura Slave Seal and bound her with a Soul Contract to keep her from revealing his affairs; she then returned to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Yan decided to deal with the Heaven Nether Sect and the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe before pursuing the Bodhi Heart and the incomplete Emperor Grade pill formula.
• Xiao Yan returned to Cai Lin, saw her caring for Xiao Xiao and Xiao Cai, and kissed her after covering the light barrier with Soul Power.

Xiao Yan created the Heaven Rank High-Level Flame Emperor Seal and considered striking against the Heaven Nether Sect, then took Qing Lin into the sea to pursue the Chi Serpent Race and gather what he needed to revive the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent. They reached a vast underwater palace, with Xiao Yan and Qing Lin still approaching the Serpent Demon Lord Chi.

• Cai Lin told Xiao Yan that Gu Xun Er had approved of their relationship but forbidden him from intimacy with Cai Lin until he reunited with Xun Er, and Xiao Yan accepted the restriction.
• Venerable Tian Huo revealed that he had created the Heaven Rank Low-Level Five Beasts Sky Burning Seal, and Xiao Yan used it and his own insights to complete the Heaven Rank High-Level Flame Emperor Seal.
• Xiao Yan discussed the growing Flame Alliance and the threat posed by the Heaven Nether Sect and its ally, the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe, while hinting that the Alliance had another Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin left the Flame Alliance to obtain essence blood and prepare to revive the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent, which Xiao Yan wanted to raise to Rank 9.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin entered the sealed territory of the Chi Serpent Race through a black hole, explored its coral forest, and continued toward the Asura Soul Chasing Mark.
• After a day beneath the sea, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin arrived before a vast crystal palace city.

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin attacked the Chi Serpent Race’s Dragon Palace City, where Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to turn the clan’s forces against it. When the Chi Serpent Lord summoned an Ancient Chi Dragon Ancestor Soul, Xiao Yan stepped forward, believing it could help restore the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent.

• Xiao Yan demanded that the Chi Serpent Race surrender its leader, submit its experts to Qing Lin, and open its treasury, but the Chi Serpent Lord refused and summoned the Ten Serpent Guards.
• Qing Lin summoned over a hundred Snake Slaves, and her forces overwhelmed the Chi Serpent defenders while gaining more controlled serpents in battle.
• The Chi Serpent Lord activated the clan’s inherited pendant and sacrificed its citizens’ blood to summon a powerful sea dragon Ancestor Soul.
• Qing Lin withdrew the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s soul, and Xiao Yan stepped forward to face the Ancestor Soul.
• Xiao Yan said the Ancestor Soul could help restore the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent and called its arrival a great gift.

Xiao Yan defeated the Chi Serpent Race by revealing his Dou Sheng strength and capturing its Ancestor Soul, then made the clan submit to the Flame Alliance. He brought the Ancestor Soul and the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s remains to an underwater secret realm to begin the serpent’s revival, but first demanded that it show its sincerity.

• Serpent Demon Lord Chi ordered his clansmen to sacrifice their essence blood, empowering the Chi Serpent Ancestor Soul until it reached Dou Sheng strength.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he was a Dou Sheng, seized the Ancestor Soul with the Asura Giant Statue, and crushed Dragon Palace City beneath his Saintly Might.
• Qing Lin used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, aided by the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent, to turn Serpent Demon Lord Chi into a Snake Slave.
• Xiao Yan spared the Chi Serpent Race in exchange for its treasury, secret realms, and mineral veins, and Hai Yan led him and Qing Lin to an underwater body-tempering secret realm.
• Xiao Yan brought out the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent’s skeleton and Magic Core, along with the captured Ancestor Soul, and told the serpent to prove its sincerity before he helped revive it.

Xiao Yan helped Qing Lin contract the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent and began restoring it with a Taiyi Treasure Pill, then traveled to Burning Flame Valley to ask Old Ancestor Huo Yun for help. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan offering to heal Huo Yun’s injuries in exchange for killing Heaven Nether Old Demon.

• The Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent accepted a Soul Contract with Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan added a safeguard before merging its soul with the Chi Serpent Ancestor Soul.
• Xiao Yan used the Sea Bottom Volcano and the Ten Thousand Beasts Earth Core Flame to fuse the serpent’s bones and Magic Core, while Qing Lin strengthened her connection to it.
• Xiao Yan refined a Taiyi Treasure Pill, overcame its Black Demon Lightning tribulation with the Flame Emperor Seal, and fed the pill to the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent to restore its body.
• Xiao Yan gave Qing Lin a protective pendant and a pill to help suppress the Snake Slaves’ resentment when her Cultivation Level approached a breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan left the hidden sea realm and went to Burning Flame Valley, where he offered to heal Old Ancestor Huo Yun’s injuries in exchange for killing Heaven Nether Old Demon.

Xiao Yan prepared the Flame Alliance for war against the Heaven Nether Sect, with Old Ancestor Huo Yun agreeing to help. As the planned offensive approached, Tuan Tuan completed its evolution into a ninth-grade pill beast and reached Early One-Star Dou Saint strength.

• Xiao Yan persuaded Old Ancestor Huo Yun to target Heaven Nether Old Demon, and Huo Yun agreed to stake Burning Flame Valley's support on the conflict.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Alliance and coordinated a secret mobilization with its leaders, while Yun Yun confirmed that the Flower Sect's elders would join the fight.
• Cai Lin declared that she and Xiao Yan would confront the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe, and Xiao Yan said Qing Lin needed about half a month to recover.
• Tuan Tuan's evolution triggered Pill Lightning, and Xiao Yan protected Creation Valley while the pill beast faced the trial.
• Tuan Tuan endured the lightning and became a ninth-grade pill beast with Early One-Star Dou Saint strength.

Xiao Yan returned to Qing Lin and subdued the revived Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent, then brought them toward the Flame Alliance. Three days later, the Flame Alliance and Flower Sect arrived at the Heaven Nether Sect with a massive warship, declaring war over the sect’s attack in the Wild Ancient Region.

• Xiao Yan promised Xiao Yi Xian that he would refine a pill for Tuan Tuan and then left to check on Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan found Qing Lin awake and saw that the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent had revived as a middle-stage One-Star Dou Saint and turned the volcano into a Poison Swamp.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to bind the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent, which submitted and carried her and Xiao Yan through a Void Passage toward the Flame Alliance.
• Three days later, Nalan Yanran led a Flame Alliance force aboard an Ancient Clan Shuttle Sky Boat to the Heaven Nether Sect, accompanied by Yun Yun and other leaders.
• Tian Mingzi demanded to know why Yun Yun had come, and a Flower Sect elder accused the Heaven Nether Sect of attacking them in the Wild Ancient Region and killing Elder Qing.

The Flame Alliance attacked the Heaven Nether Sect, broke its protective array with a Shuttle Sky Boat, and drove into a fierce battle. Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun overwhelmed their opponents, but Tian Mingzi summoned an Advanced Half-Saint as the battle escalated.

• Tian Mingzi activated the Heaven Nether Sect's protective array while Nalan Yanran ordered the Misty Cloud Sect to attack it.
• Nalan Yanran's Heaven Rank array failed to break the barrier, so Yao Ye commanded the Shuttle Sky Boat to blast it apart with thunder.
• Nalan Yanran, Venerable Tian Huo, Yun Yun, and other Flame Alliance forces charged into the Heaven Nether Sect and joined the battle.
• Nalan Yanran used two swords to kill an Eight Star Dou Zun elder, while Yun Yun fought Tian Mingzi and redirected his Great Blood Demon Palm into the sect's Ancestral Land.
• Tian Mingzi crushed a Space Jade Slip, summoning an Advanced Half-Saint, and Yun Yun pulled Nalan Yanran back from the fight.

Old Ancestor Huo Yun’s appearance forced Heaven Nether Old Demon to back down from the Flame Alliance’s attack, while the Alliance’s forces struck the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe at Yellow Spring Mountain Range. Cai Lin led the assault as Xiao Yan stayed in reserve, and Yao Xiaotian confronted the invaders underground.

• Old Ancestor Huo Yun appeared before Heaven Nether Sect, and Heaven Nether Old Demon recognized the Two-Star Dou Saint and tried to retreat by invoking his alliance with the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe.
• The Flame Alliance’s forces arrived at Yellow Spring Mountain Range, where the Medusa Clan’s Great Elder explained the Nine Serene Yellow Spring’s dangers and the tribe’s control over the ancestral homeland.
• Cai Lin assigned the battle roles, with Qing Lin and herself facing the Great Elder and Xiao Yi Xian holding off Yao Xiaotian while Xiao Yan stayed back with Xiao Xiao and Xiao Cai.
• Xiao Yan took Xiao Xiao and Xiao Cai to start a fire and wait for stragglers while Cai Lin and the others prepared to attack the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe.
• Yao Xiaotian sensed the assault as the palace beneath Yellow Spring Mountain Range shook, then demanded to know who had invaded his territory.

Cai Lin led the Snake-People Empire and Flame Alliance into the underground territory of the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe, triggering a battle with Yao Xiaotian’s forces. When Qing Lin was targeted by Great Elder Yao Ce, she summoned a conscious Rank 9 Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent, leaving the tribe’s leaders stunned.

• Cai Lin blasted open the Yellow Spring Mountain Range and rallied the snake-people to reclaim their ancestral homeland.
• Mo Bas, Yue Mei, and the other Tribe Leaders led the Snake-People Empire and allied clans through the breach as the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe sounded the alarm.
• Yao Xiaotian ordered his forces to kill the invaders, while Yao Ce and the Nether Serpent Guards surrounded the Shuttle Sky Boat and targeted Cai Lin and Qing Lin.
• Yao Ce sealed Qing Lin in space, but Qing Lin called forth a colossal Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils that released poisonous mist and revealed a nine-headed black serpent.
• The Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent blocked Yao Ce’s Yellow Spring Finger and broke his spatial defense, shocking Yao Xiaotian and the tribe’s elders.
• Yao Ce realized the Rank 9 Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent had its own consciousness and was not Qing Lin’s Snake Slave.

The Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe faced Medusa’s forces as Qing Lin, the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent, Xiao Yi Xian, and Tuan Tuan revealed their strength. When Yao Xiaotian unleashed a powerful technique using the Nine Serene Yellow Spring, Xiao Yan noticed someone awakening beneath it.

• Xiao Yan discovered the Nine Serene Yellow Spring with his Soul Power and stopped probing when its Cold Qi reached him.
• Medusa’s forces confronted the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe, while its subordinate snake clans waited to see who would win.
• Yao Xiaotian ordered the Ten Thousand Serpents Grand Formation, and Qing Lin summoned her snake army, including Serpent Demon Lord Chi and the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python.
• Yao Xiaotian and Yao Ce attacked Qing Lin, but the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent engaged Yao Ce while Tuan Tuan and Xiao Yi Xian protected Qing Lin from Yao Xiaotian.
• Yao Xiaotian drew water from the Nine Serene Yellow Spring to form the Yellow Spring Grand Seal, and Xiao Yan sensed someone opening their eyes beneath the spring.

Cai Lin awakened the Serpent Mother Power and used a Nine-Colored Thunder Sword to destroy Yao Xiaotian’s Yellow Spring Grand Seal, turning the battle against the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe. She declared herself the true king, and the subordinate Snake Clans knelt before her.

• Yao Xiaotian unleashed the Yellow Spring Grand Seal, and the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent, Xiao Yi Xian, Tuan Tuan, and Great Elder Yao Ce struggled against it.
• Xiao Yan prepared to intervene, but a voice told him it was not yet time, and the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, and Fallen Heart Flame flew to Cai Lin.
• Cai Lin activated her Seven-Colored Swallowing Heavens Python bloodline and used the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change with the three Heavenly Flames, reaching Dou Sheng power through the Serpent Mother Power.
• Cai Lin summoned a Nine-Colored Thunder Sword and split apart the Yellow Spring Grand Seal and Yellow Spring Finger, leaving Yao Xiaotian badly weakened.
• Cai Lin declared, “I am the true king,” and the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe and other subordinate Snake Clans knelt before her.

Cai Lin overwhelmed Yao Xiaotian as the Flame Alliance’s forces pushed back the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe. Yao Xiaotian and Yao Ce freed the imprisoned former clan leader Yao Ming to help defend their territory, and Yao Ming confronted Cai Lin as the chapter ended.

• Cai Lin defeated Yao Xiaotian with her Three-Colored Strange Flame, Nine-Colored Heavenly Thunder, and superior bloodline while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin’s Snake Slaves drove back the tribe’s forces.
• Yao Ce warned Yao Xiaotian that the tribe faced destruction and persuaded him to release Yao Ming from beneath the Nine Serene Yellow Spring.
• Yao Xiaotian and Yao Ce lifted the seal, and Yao Ming broke free with the strength of a Two-Star Dou Saint.
• Yao Ming stopped himself from attacking Yao Xiaotian after learning the tribe faced an invading force, then ordered Cai Lin and her allies to leave the tribe’s territory.

Xiao Yan arrived to confront the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe and demanded its treasury, the Nine Serene Yellow Spring, and the deaths of Yao Xiaotian and Yao Ce. After Yao Ming recovered his strength and challenged Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan revealed his God Grade Xiao Clan bloodline and prepared an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus, prompting Yao Ming to agree to his terms.

• Xiao Yan appeared beside Cai Lin and declared that the Snake-People Empire would claim the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe's territory.
• Xiao Yan demanded the tribe's treasury and Yellow Spring Blood Crystals, its departure from the sacred land, and the execution of Yao Xiaotian and Yao Ce.
• Xiao Yan fought Yao Ming, countering his Yellow Spring Finger with the Grand Creation Palm.
• Yao Ming used the Nine Serene Scepter to absorb power from the Nine Serene Yellow Spring and recover to Two-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan activated his Xiao Clan Mark and combined eight Heavenly Flames to reach Two-Star Dou Saint, then formed an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Yao Ming agreed to Xiao Yan's conditions as Xiao Yan prepared to throw the fire lotus.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe, allowing Cai Lin and the Snake-People Race to reclaim their homeland. Yao Ming surrendered the tribe’s resources and Yellow Spring Blood Crystals, while Yao Xiaotian and Yao Ce were sealed beneath the Nine Serene Yellow Spring.

• Yao Ming recognized Xiao Yan’s strength and chose not to oppose him, but Yao Ce tried to flee after Xiao Yan attacked him with an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan saw through Yao Ce’s clones and blasted his real body, leaving him gravely injured and unable to fight.
• Yao Xiaotian begged Yao Ming for help, but Yao Ming refused, and Xiao Yan’s group suppressed Yao Xiaotian and Yao Ce with poison, Qing Lin’s pupils, and Xiao Yan’s soul illusion.
• Yao Ming gave Xiao Yan the Yellow Spring Blood Crystals and agreed to show his group the tribe’s resources and sacred lands in exchange for sparing the rest of the tribe.
• Cai Lin and the Snake-People Race celebrated their return to their homeland, and Cai Lin thanked and kissed Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and the Flame Alliance negotiated with Yao Ming for control of most of the Yellow Spring Mountain Range and gained access to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet. Xiao Yan entered its inheritance trial and confronted the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s remnant soul, meeting Yellow Spring Sky Fury with his Asura Soul Severing Technique.

• Yao Ming offered the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet’s inheritance in exchange for a safe territory and resources for the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe.
• Cai Lin agreed that the tribe could keep the Nether Serpent Earth Vein while the Flame Alliance received the rest of the Yellow Spring Mountain Range, the Nine Serene Yellow Spring, and the tablet.
• Yao Ming explained that Yellow Spring Sky Fury required a Heavenly Soul and that the tablet’s final trial also guarded the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s essence blood.
• Xiao Yan entered the tablet’s inheritance space and easily passed the Yellow Spring Finger and Yellow Spring Palm trials.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s remnant soul unleashed Yellow Spring Sky Fury, and Xiao Yan answered with his Asura Soul Severing Technique, empowered by the Hun Clan’s Clan Mark.

Xiao Yan completed the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s trial, gained Yellow Spring Sky Wrath and Half-Emperor essence blood, then helped Cai Lin decide how to handle the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s territorial demand. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan learning of the clan’s Azure Sky World and becoming interested in it.

• Xiao Yan shattered Yellow Spring Sky Wrath, received its cultivation method and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s essence blood, and watched the remnant soul and inheritance space disappear.
• Xiao Yan awoke after ten days, shared some essence blood with Qing Lin, and learned that Xiao Yi Xian was studying the Yellow Spring Blood Crystal while Cai Lin oversaw her people’s relocation.
• The Flame Alliance destroyed the Heaven Nether Sect, Yao Ming reclaimed leadership of the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe, and the Snake-People Empire took command of the snake clans.
• Xiao Yan advised Cai Lin to let the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan manage one-third of the Yellow Spring Mountain Range until the Flame Alliance grew strong enough to reclaim it.
• Eagle Phoenix led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s delegation to negotiate, and Xiao Yan learned that its Azure Sky World surpassed the Nine Serene Yellow Spring.

Xiao Yan prepared Cai Lin to cultivate in the Nine Serene Yellow Spring, giving her pills, Yellow Spring Demon Saint's Essence Blood, and three Heavenly Flames before she entered the lake. Meanwhile, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's envoys discussed their growing power and the possibility of temporarily replacing Jiu Feng as young clan leader.

• Xiao Yan judged that he lacked time to refine the Bodhi Heart and Yellow Spring Demon Saint's Essence Blood before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared, and he investigated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's influence before approaching the Nine Serene Yellow Spring with Cai Lin.
• Xiao Yan gave Cai Lin the Bodhi Great Return Pill, Yellow Spring Demon Saint's Essence Blood, and the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, Fallen Heart Flame, and Nine Dragons Thunder Flame to aid her cultivation.
• Cai Lin kissed Xiao Yan, warned him not to die while she was away, then transformed into a Seven-Colored Swallowing Heavens Python and plunged into the Nine Serene Yellow Spring to cultivate.
• Xiao Yan left Qing Lin, Xiao Xiao, and Xiao Cai in the Yellow Spring Mountain Range to guard Cai Lin, while the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan party stopped at an inn near the range.
• Eagle Phoenix told the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members that Jiu Feng was likely inheriting the Bodhi Heart inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree and that the clan might select a temporary young clan leader in his absence.

Xiao Yan infiltrated the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan after learning about its Azure Sky World, intending to use its fire-based body-tempering grounds. Disguised as the Tenth Tian Zun, he watched Feng Qing'er emerge from seclusion, and the chapter ended as clan disciples attacked him after she sensed something familiar about him.

• Eagle Phoenix warned the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan disciples that Feng Qing'er would likely become the next young clan leader and urged them to earn entry to the Azure Sky World.
• Xiao Yan, disguised as a waiter, overheard that the Azure Sky World was a fire-attributed body-tempering realm and decided to infiltrate the clan's territory.
• After Eagle Phoenix led the clan group home, Xiao Yan used Mao Wu's Nihility Devouring Flame to break through the ancestral land's seals and entered wearing the Tenth Tian Zun's Soul Robe.
• Feng Qing'er left her secluded cultivation and sensed an uneasy familiarity when she noticed the black-robed Xiao Yan in the plaza.
• Huang He and other clan disciples confronted Xiao Yan, and a Nine Star Dou Ancestor youth attacked him as Feng Qing'er watched.

Xiao Yan’s appearance at the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan triggered a clash, but Feng Qing’er intervened and escorted him away. He asked to use the clan’s body-tempering grounds and offered her a Bodhi Seed in exchange, leaving Feng Qing’er struggling before she finally admitted she wanted it.

• Xiao Yan’s Wind Fury Dragon Flame storm shattered Huang He’s Demon Phoenix Bell and severed his arms, while Feng Qing’er recognized Xiao Yan and panicked.
• Several Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan Elders arrived to seize Xiao Yan, but Feng Qing’er blocked them and claimed he was her invited friend.
• The Elders punished Huang He and the others for attacking the Holy Maiden’s guest, then mistook Xiao Yan for Feng Qing’er’s lover and praised their supposed relationship.
• Feng Qing’er took Xiao Yan to her palace, where he revealed himself and asked to borrow the Azure Sky World’s body-tempering grounds.
• Feng Qing’er offered him free access, but Xiao Yan showed her a Bodhi Seed; she ultimately admitted that she wanted it.

Xiao Yan entered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Azure Sky World and began refining the Bodhi Heart in the Phoenix Nest’s Flame Vortex. A year and a half later, Feng Qing’er learned that her clan planned to help the Three Great Dragon Kings attack East Dragon Island and seize the Dragon Queen’s Dragon Phoenix Bloodline.

• Xiao Yan gave Feng Qing’er a Bodhi Seed, then had her lead him into the Azure Sky World.
• Xiao Yan climbed into the Phoenix Nest’s Flame Vortex, removed his Heavenly Flame protection, and began cultivating with the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s Essence Blood to refine the Bodhi Heart.
• During Xiao Yan’s year and a half of cultivation, the Flame Alliance remained at peace, the Heaven Nether Sect was disbanded and replaced by the Misty Cloud Sect, and the Flower Sect joined the alliance.
• Feng Qing’er rose to the equivalent of a human Six-Star Dou Zun and learned that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would help the Three Great Dragon Kings attack East Dragon Island.
• Feng Qing’er realized the siege would target East Dragon Island, where the Dragon Queen possessed the Dragon Phoenix Bloodline coveted by the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.