Recaps

Xiao Yi Xian realized that her Woeful Poison Body had caused the poisonings in Green Mountain Town, and Xiao Yan reassured her that he was not afraid of her. After she went into their thatched hut, Xiao Yan recognized the body’s fatal danger and decided to cultivate his alchemy so he could refine a Hidden Spirit Pill.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained that the Woeful Poison Body transformed consumed poison into Poison Dou Qi and changed medicinal herbs into poison, leading her to suspect that she had poisoned the townspeople unintentionally.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed that the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture was meant for someone with her constitution, and Xiao Yan realized that her Woeful Poison Body had led her to the cave and awakened through the poisonous scripture.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that he was not afraid of her poison, and she thanked him before inviting him to stay in her thatched hut.
• After Xiao Yi Xian entered the hut, Xiao Yan recalled that the Woeful Poison Body could eventually kill its bearer through Ten Thousand Poisons Devouring the Body.
• Xiao Yan took out a formula for a Hidden Spirit Pill and decided to practice alchemy until he could refine it.

Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Cauldron Black Demon to successfully refine his first Fourth Grade Pill, the Hidden Spirit Pill, but its dangerous effect nearly exhausted his Soul Power. He decided he needed another pill furnace and would avoid using Black Demon unless necessary.

• Xiao Yan spent more than ten days failing to refine a Fourth Grade Pill, and his old pill furnace eventually exploded.
• Xiao Yan brought out Black Demon, the eighth-ranked Heavenly Cauldron, and used it to refine pills despite the risk of overexerting his Soul Power.
• Black Demon drew Xiao Yan into a state of absolute focus, allowing him to refine a Hidden Spirit Pill successfully.
• The Void Swallowing Flame Sub-fire erupted and devoured Black Demon, breaking its influence and waking Xiao Yan before his Soul Power was completely exhausted.
• Xiao Yan recovered the Hidden Spirit Pill and decided to find another pill furnace because Black Demon was too dangerous to use regularly.

Xiao Yan trained in the valley with Xiao Yi Xian, who succumbed to the Woeful Poison Body’s hunger and advanced to Dou Shi. He showed her the Poison Pill Method and revealed his Heavenly Flame, giving her hope that he could help control her condition.

• Xiao Yan trained with Exploding Step and spent his days practicing Alchemy, Combat Techniques, and cultivation while Xiao Yi Xian gathered herbs and cooked for him.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that he planned to leave for Desert City in about ten days, and she said she wanted to visit the Chuyun Empire.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian unconscious amid poisonous mist, and Mao Wu devoured the mist as Xiao Yi Xian’s poison-induced markings faded and she woke up.
• Xiao Yi Xian blamed herself for losing control, but Xiao Yan comforted her and showed her the Poison Pill Method for managing the Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian despaired at the method’s rare requirements until Xiao Yan revealed his stark-white Heavenly Flame and promised there would be a way forward.

Xiao Yan explained that the Poison Pill Method could only temporarily contain Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, and urged her to restrain her appetite while he searched for the materials and skills needed to refine the pill. When the Amethyst Winged Lion King confronted them, Xiao Yan bluffed about his standing as an alchemist and invited it in for tea, suspecting it had come for something other than the Symbiotic Purple Source Crystal.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that the Poison Pill Method was only a stopgap and warned her to control her consumption of poison until he could gather three Heavenly Flames and become a Seventh Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Yi Xian resolved to remain the same person she had been in Green Mountain Town, and over the next seven days her Cultivation Level did not increase.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King and the Little Amethyst Winged Lion King arrived at the Small Mountain Valley, and Xiao Yi Xian stood beside Xiao Yan rather than flee.
• Xiao Yan claimed that killing him would bring trouble from the Alchemist Association and used his Soul Token to reinforce the bluff, despite not being a member of the association.
• After Xiao Yi Xian prepared medicinal tea, the Amethyst Winged Lion King withdrew its pressure and shrank, while Xiao Yan suspected it had come for something besides the Symbiotic Purple Source Crystal.

Xiao Yan used his alchemy skills and implied ties to powerful allies to negotiate with the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King instead of being killed over the Symbiotic Purple Source Crystal. After accepting a Purple Fire Pill for the Little Lion King, the Lion King offered to reveal the location of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame in exchange for a Transformation Pill.

• Xiao Yan led the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King into the Thatched Cottage, where Xiao Yi Xian served medicinal tea as Xiao Yan emphasized his alchemist credentials.
• The Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King complained that the tea was not enough, and Xiao Yan offered five Purple Fire Pills made with Symbiotic Purple Source Crystal for the Little Lion King.
• The Little Lion King eagerly swallowed one Purple Fire Pill and ran outside to absorb its energy while the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King accepted Xiao Yan's terms.
• The Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King proposed a deal and asked Xiao Yan for a Transformation Pill.
• The Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King offered to reveal the location of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, startling Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan negotiated with the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King for the location of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame by promising it a Transformation Pill within five years. The Lion King revealed that the Heavenly Flame lay in the Beast Tomb, a battlefield where magical beasts and humans had once fought to the death.

• Xiao Yan rejected trading a Transformation Pill for unverified information and proposed that the Lion King help him obtain the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame in exchange for a pill after he became a Seventh Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan claimed that, with a Heavenly Flame, he would become a Seventh Grade Alchemist within three to five years, persuading the Lion King to accept his promise.
• The Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King agreed to give Xiao Yan the location of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame in return for a Transformation Pill within five years.
• Xiao Yan asked why the Lion King could not refine the Heavenly Flame itself, and the Lion King revealed that it was inside the Beast Tomb, a battlefield from an ancient war between magical beasts and humans.

The Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King explained how the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame became polluted during a war three hundred years earlier, and Xiao Yan decided to try obtaining it from the Beast Tomb. He arranged for Xiao Yi Xian and the Lion King to gather ingredients while preparing to rely on Mao Wu to purify the flame.

• The Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King told Xiao Yan that the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame had once been the Magical Beast Mountain Range’s inheritance flame and that a war three hundred years earlier had polluted it.
• Xiao Yan learned that the polluted flame and the war’s wronged souls had transformed the Beast Tomb, making the flame impossible for Magical Beasts to refine.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian a list of ingredients to gather and asked the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King to find more ingredients and a Tier 4 Magic Core for a Fourth Grade Pill.
• Xiao Yan offered to refine a Yang Flame Pill for the Little Lion King, and the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King flew out with the Little Lion King to gather supplies.
• Xiao Yan called Mao Wu from the void and prepared to rely on its ability to devour beast resentment and purify the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.

Xiao Yan refined a Soul Protecting Pill, advanced his control over Black Demon, and went with the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King to the Beast Tomb to seek the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame. After easily destroying a Ghost Shadow at the tomb’s edge, he urged the Lion King to lead him onward.

• Xiao Yan refined four Yang Flame Pills and secretly kept the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King’s alchemy cauldron.
• After cultivating the Spirit Heart Soul Gathering Art, Xiao Yan refined two Soul Protecting Pills while controlling Black Demon on his own.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian to stay behind and seek Xiao Xun'er’s help if he and the Lion King failed to return.
• Xiao Yan and the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King flew to the Beast Tomb, where Xiao Yan saw the remains of the ancient battle that had defended the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan destroyed a Ghost Shadow with Black Flame and asked the Lion King to lead him deeper into the Beast Tomb.

Xiao Yan followed the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King into the Beast Tomb’s fissure, where Mao Wu’s Void Swallowing Flame devoured the dangerous ghost shadows. As Xiao Yan explored the underground caves and found a rare medicinal herb, two people entered the fissure from the far side.

• Xiao Yan and the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King reached the abyss created by the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and jumped into it.
• Mao Wu devoured the ghost shadows with the Void Swallowing Flame, while the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King explained how the caves led toward the flame.
• Xiao Yan discovered and carefully harvested a Hundred-Year Earth Spirit Mushroom, then recognized the caves as a trove of rare treasures.
• Xiao Yan burned a poisonous snake that attacked him, and the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King led him farther into the caves.
• Two human figures quietly jumped into the Ground Fissure from its opposite end.

Xiao Yan defeated three Beast Slaves in the Beast Tomb and burned the ghost shadows inside them with the Nihility Devouring Flame. After sensing powerful Soul Power, he hid as Yao Li and an Elder arrived searching for a Heavenly Flame, leaving the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King confronting them.

• The Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King explained that the Beast Slaves were Magical Beasts corrupted by the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, while Xiao Yan fought them without its help.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavy Xuan Ruler and Black Flame to extract and burn the ghost shadows inside the Beast Slaves, destroying the last one with Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler.
• Mao Wu swallowed the three weakened ghost shadows, and Xiao Yan recovered his Dou Qi before sensing powerful Soul Power nearby.
• Xiao Yan hid in a mountain cave as Yao Li and an Elder appeared, searching for the Heavenly Flame whose fluctuation Yao Li had sensed.
• Yao Li dismissed the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King's flame, provoking its roar, while the Elder unleashed a high-level Dou Emperor aura.

Xiao Yan and the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King raced through the Underground Cave toward the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame after avoiding Yao Li and Mu Lao. They found the Beast Slaves gathered under Yao Li’s command, revealing that he had created them and was likely descended from the Seventh Grade Alchemist who once sought the flame.

• Yao Li and Mu Lao searched for the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame but failed to detect Xiao Yan, who was hidden by his Earth Rank Soul Robe.
• After Yao Li and Mu Lao left, Xiao Yan persuaded the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King to take him to the flame in exchange for owing it a Seventh Grade Pill.
• Xiao Yan rode the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King through the Underground Cave while the Nihility Devouring Flame consumed the Beast Slaves they encountered.
• Xiao Yan noticed that the Beast Slaves had vanished from the tunnels, and he and the Lion King grew wary as they approached the flame.
• Xiao Yan and the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King found the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame sleeping in a vast hall surrounded by Beast Slaves obeying Yao Li.
• Yao Li threatened the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, and Xiao Yan realized that Yao Li had created the Beast Slaves and was likely descended from the Seventh Grade Alchemist.

Xiao Yan uncovered how Yao Li and the surviving Seventh Grade Alchemist, Yao Ao, had controlled the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and the Beast Slaves. As Yao Ao prepared to revive, a black-robed man arrived and revealed that he was Hun Yan of Soul Hall, while Xiao Yan’s token exposed a Hun Clan mark.

• Xiao Yan deduced that Yao Ao had survived as a Soul Body inside the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and had turned Magical Beasts into Beast Slaves.
• Yao Li revealed a puppet body for Yao Ao and explained that he had come to help his elder recover the flame and return to the clan.
• Yao Ao appeared as a flaming human face and demanded that the remnant soul of the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger be destroyed.
• Xiao Yan urged the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King to hold off Mu Lao while he looked for a way to survive.
• Hun Yan appeared on the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King's back, identified himself as a Soul Hall member, and caused Yao Li and Mu Lao to recognize the threat.
• Xiao Yan's token revealed a Hun Clan mark, leading Yao Li to identify him as a bearer of the Hun Clan's Clan Mark.

Xiao Yan used his Soul Token and the Soul Hall’s fearsome reputation to bluff Yao Li and Mu Lao into letting him approach the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame. He then sent the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King to help the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger’s remnant soul eliminate the alchemist controlling the flame.

• Yao Li recognized Xiao Yan’s Soul Token as proof that he belonged to the Hun Clan and became wary of challenging him.
• Xiao Yan insulted Yao Li and threatened to summon Soul Hall experts, claiming he would take the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame by force.
• Yao Li and Mu Lao held back as Xiao Yan walked past them toward the flame, believing his threats could bring them into danger.
• Xiao Yan reminded the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King of their agreement and told it to help the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger’s remnant soul defeat the controlling Soul Body.
• The Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King sent its Beast Flame into the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to attack the Seventh Grade Alchemist’s Soul Body.

Xiao Yan used Mao Wu to help wrest control of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame from Yao Ao, but Yao Ao escaped by seizing Yao Li’s body. Yao Ao then exposed Xiao Yan’s identity as Mu Long and offered Mu Long a Huangji Pill to deal with the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, leaving Xiao Yan facing a new threat.

• Xiao Yan sent Mao Wu into the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, where the Void Swallowing Flame devoured Yao Ao’s Soul Mark and weakened his control.
• Yao Li packed away the coffin and prepared to leave, while Xiao Yan approached the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.
• Yao Ao split off half of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and formed an illusory body, then charged at Yao Li instead of attacking Xiao Yan.
• Yao Ao overcame Yao Li’s Fourth Grade Clan Mark and seized his body, revealing that he had planned to take the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame for himself.
• Yao Ao recognized Xiao Yan as Mu Long and offered Mu Long a Huangji Pill if he dealt with the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, while Xiao Yan realized his cover had been exposed.

Xiao Yan chose to fight Yao Ao for the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, drawing on its power and the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger’s residual strength. He gained the upper hand, but Yao Ao called on his Beast Slaves as the battle continued.

• Xiao Yan swallowed Purple Fire Pills and other Medicinal Pills, raising his strength before facing Yao Ao.
• The Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger lent Xiao Yan its residual power, forming eight fire wings around him and empowering him to protect the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan struck Yao Ao with Ten Thousand Beasts Collapse Fist and forced him back through the layers of hidden force.
• Yao Ao used Fire Dragon Whip, but Xiao Yan seized the fire dragon and hurled it back at him, worsening the collapse of the Underground Cave.
• Mu Long held back the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King instead of helping Yao Ao, so Yao Ao summoned his Beast Slaves to attack.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Yao Ao with the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger’s power and unleashed his strongest strike, but Yao Ao countered with a pill-based Combat Technique. As the Ten Thousand Beasts Flame Wave faded, Xiao Yan revealed the Bone Chiling Flame and ignited it with a spark of the Nihility Devouring Flame, leaving the battle poised for an explosion.

• Yao Ao sent his Beast Slaves charging, and Xiao Yan used Blood Rage to split the ground and melt them with crimson lava.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Mad Devil Flame, recreating the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger’s Beast Skill and blasting Yao Ao through his Spirit Medicine Fire Shield.
• Xiao Yan pursued Yao Ao and battered him with the Heavy Xuan Ruler, while Mu Long waited to see which of them would win.
• Xiao Yan struck Yao Ao with Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler—Ten Thousand Beasts Flame Wave, but Yao Ao used Pill Spirit Garden to counter it with pills.
• Xiao Yan revealed the Bone Chiling Flame and flicked a spark of the Nihility Devouring Flame into it, triggering a burst of ghastly white light.

Xiao Yan detonated the Bone Chiling Flame to freeze the Beast Tomb, then captured Yao Ao and prepared to claim the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame. The Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger’s final gift helped Xiao Yan advance his soul art and reach Rank 5 Alchemist Soul Power.

• Xiao Yan triggered the Bone Chiling Flame with the Nihility Devouring Flame, freezing the Beast Tomb and nearly everyone in it while protecting himself with the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger’s remaining power.
• Xiao Yan used the Soul Token to absorb Yao Ao’s frozen Soul Body, while Mu Long escaped and the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King remained trapped in the ice.
• Xiao Yan told Mao Wu to take everything except the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, then recovered the Bone Chiling Flame and approached the frozen Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan melted the ice around the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger and received its final soul-light motes, which advanced his Spirit Heart Soul Gathering Art to Great Accomplishment and raised his Soul Power to Rank 5 Alchemist.

Xiao Yan refined the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, enduring repeated burns as it tempered his body and strengthened his Dou Qi. After absorbing the remaining flame over three days and nights, he reached Nine-Star Dou Shi and prepared to use a Hidden Spirit Pill to advance to Da Dou Shi.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger's remnant soul power, reaching Rank 5 Alchemist Soul Power, and prepared pills and Ice Spirit Cold Spring to refine the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Source Fire Seed and Ice Spirit Cold Spring, then endured the flame burning away and regenerating his flesh as he circulated it through the Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan completed the refinement and absorbed the remaining Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, while Mao Wu melted ice in the cave.
• After three days and nights, Xiao Yan transformed the remaining flame into Dou Qi, reached Nine-Star Dou Shi, and took out a Hidden Spirit Pill to attempt a breakthrough to Da Dou Shi.

After refining the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, Xiao Yan broke through to Da Dou Shi and strengthened the Flame Mantra. He concealed how he had manipulated events to claim the flame and capture Yao Ao's soul, then prepared to return with the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King.

• Xiao Yan took the Hidden Spirit Pill, broke through to Da Dou Shi, and used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to strengthen his body.
• Mao Wu gave Xiao Yan a drop of blood refined from Yao Li's corpse, and Xiao Yan confirmed the Flame Mantra had reached Mystic High-Rank.
• The Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King asked why the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger had chosen Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan said he stood with the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan recalled that he had awakened the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger, erased Yao Ao's soul imprint, and secured the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame through a promise backed by a threat.
• Xiao Yan revealed that his real gamble had been freezing Yao Ao's soul so he could trade the Rank 7 High-Level Alchemist's Soul Body for an Earth Rank offensive Soul Skill.
• Xiao Yan told the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King they should return because Xiao Yi Xian had been waiting.

Xiao Yan returned from the Beast Tomb Canyon with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, bringing her closer to the ingredients needed for the Poison Pill. After Xiao Yi Xian left for the Chuyun Empire with the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, Xiao Yan confronted Ling Ying, who revealed that Xun Er had sent him to protect Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan returned to the Small Mountain Valley with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and showed Xiao Yi Xian the new flame formed by fusing it with the Void Swallowing Flame Sub-fire.
• Xiao Yi Xian worried about the danger Xiao Yan had faced, but he reassured her and gave her Yao Li's Storage Ring to sort through its medicinal ingredients.
• After three days, the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King said the awakened Magical Beast could discover the missing flame, and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to travel to the Chuyun Empire with it.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian healing and poison pills, then gave the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King a pill to help the Little Lion King advance to the fifth rank.
• After Xiao Yi Xian departed on Little Blue, Xiao Yan detected Ling Ying hiding nearby and learned that Xun Er had sent him to protect Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan told Ling Ying to return to Xun Er and asked him not to reveal the Small Mountain Valley.

Xiao Yan flew toward Mo City Rock and stopped in Desert City after Mao Wu sensed a connection to a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Remnant Map. He found another fragment in an old map shop, but the Elder attacked him when he tried to take it, and Xiao Yan broke free with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.

• Xiao Yan set aside thoughts of Ling Ying and flew toward Mo City Rock to visit Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• Xiao Yan passed over Desert City, where Mao Wu emerged and fixed its hostile gaze on a map shop below.
• Xiao Yan followed Mao Wu’s attention to a yellowed map and recognized it as a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Remnant Map.
• Xiao Yan asked the Elder about the map and claimed his organization had ordered him to collect fragments bearing its symbol.
• The Elder refused to sell the map and froze Xiao Yan into an ice sculpture when Xiao Yan closed his hand around it.
• Xiao Yan melted the ice with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, entered Beast Transformation Form, and threatened to take the map.

Xiao Yan fought Ice Emperor Hai Bo Dong after breaking his ice seal and entering his shop to take a map. Their clash left both injured, and Hai Bo Dong recognized that Xiao Yan possessed a Heavenly Flame.

• Hai Bo Dong revealed that Queen Medusa had sealed his strength and questioned how Xiao Yan had broken his ice seal.
• Hai Bo Dong attacked Xiao Yan with ice needles, but Xiao Yan blocked them with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan used Lion's Roar and struck Hai Bo Dong's Ice Mirror, then endured a barrage of ice spikes that pierced his armor but not his strengthened body.
• Xiao Yan shattered the Ice Mirror with Eight Extremities Collapse, and his clash with Hai Bo Dong's Ice Sky Palm sent both fighters flying back.
• Hai Bo Dong sensed Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flame and concluded that it had let him dispel the Cold Qi.

Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong negotiated over the remnant map after their fight, and Hai Bodong revealed that he wanted Xiao Yan’s help breaking Queen Medusa’s seal. Xiao Yan realized his Void Swallowing Flame could remove the seal without a pill and began planning how to profit from the deal.

• Xiao Yan admitted that his Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame was a Heavenly Flame, and Hai Bodong recognized that Xiao Yan could escape their fight.
• Hai Bodong revealed that the remnant map was only half of the original and that he had hidden the other half.
• Xiao Yan deduced that Hai Bodong was using the missing half to raise the price, then revealed his youthful face and asked what Hai Bodong wanted.
• Hai Bodong asked Xiao Yan to help refine a pill requiring a Heavenly Flame to break Queen Medusa’s seal, and Xiao Yan noted that Gu He could not meet that requirement.
• Xiao Yan realized that his Void Swallowing Flame could devour Hai Bodong’s seal directly, and he began calculating how to make a profitable bargain.

Xiao Yan bargained with Hai Bodong, promising to refine the pill that would break Medusa’s seal in exchange for a share of the Mittel Auction House. After learning a rare ingredient was missing and hearing of Gu He’s search for Heavenly Flames, Xiao Yan left with the map fragments, intending to grow stronger before restoring Hai Bodong’s power.

• Xiao Yan convinced Hai Bodong that his Heavenly Flames and alchemy talent made him a promising future Rank 6 Alchemist.
• Hai Bodong offered Xiao Yan half of the Mittel Auction House if Xiao Yan refined the required pill and broke Medusa’s seal within one year.
• Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong that the missing Sand Mandala grew near the Snake-People Empire’s Holy City and negotiated for more in return for helping find it.
• Hai Bodong revealed that Gu He had searched the desert for Heavenly Flames six months earlier but had found none.
• Xiao Yan accepted the information without planning to search yet, then flew toward Mo City Rock with the map fragments.

Xiao Yan arrived in Rock Desert City and reunited with his brothers, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, after testing the Mo Tie Mercenary Group. He left the group strengthened by rewarding its members with Medicinal Pills and affirming his brothers’ leadership.

• Xiao Yan flew from Mo City to Rock Desert City and learned that the Mo Tie Mercenary Group had earned a strong reputation.
• Xiao Yan reached the mercenary group’s compound, claimed to be Xiao Ding and Xiao Li’s younger brother, and fought his way past the guards and assembled members.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li came out to stop Xiao Yan, and the brothers greeted each other warmly.
• Xiao Yan praised the mercenaries for their courage and gave Xiao Li nine bottles of Spring Returning Pills and one bottle of Body Recovery Pills to distribute.
• Xiao Ding recognized that Xiao Yan’s test and reward would strengthen the group’s loyalty and his brothers’ authority.