Recaps

Xiao Yan and his allies battled and sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then Xiao Yan refined it during years of cultivation. He returned to a changed continent and arranged a bet battle between Nalan Yanran and Feng Qing’er while preparing to help Zi Yan unify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er, who had become a Dou Saint, as the clans gathered outside the Demon Flame Space and Xiao Yan clashed with Yao Tian over Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er navigated the flame-filled space, defeated its trials, and discovered that the apparent Demon Flame Source was an illusion before reaching the true Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame trapped the gathered fighters in a fire prison, and Xiao Yan rallied the rival clans to fight it as a group.
• Xiao Yan and his allies battled the flame, but its counterattacks and the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation turned the fight until the Purification Lotus Demon Saint emerged and confronted it.
• Xiao Yan formed a fourteen-petaled God Stage Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian's help, destroyed the formation's consciousness, and received the Demon Saint's inheritance.
• Xiao Yan spent years refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while the Flame Alliance weakened and the Shi Clan vanished, then returned with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian and learned what had happened.
• Xiao Yan used the flame to cleanse Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, then arranged for Nalan Yanran to challenge Feng Qing’er over territory.
• Nalan Yanran and Feng Qing’er’s bet battle drew crowds to Ten Thousand Bones Plain, while Xiao Yan told Yun Yun he hoped to avoid complications before helping Zi Yan unify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

Xiao Yan united the Ancient Void Dragon Clan with the Flame Alliance, advanced to Six-Star Dou Saint, and restored the Xiao Clan before visiting the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony. After forcing Yao Wangui to confess his role in Yao Chen’s exile, Xiao Yan entered the ceremony as Hun Xuzi arrived to challenge the alchemists.

• Nalan Yanran defeated Feng Qing’er, and Xiao Yan became Hall Master of the Hall of Souls before learning more about Nihility Devouring Flame and Tou She Ancient God.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan defeated the North Dragon King’s forces, reunited the Ancient Void Dragon Clan under Zi Yan, and formed an alliance with the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan refined the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning into a Thunder Tribulation Pill and advanced to Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan relocated the Xiao Realm, reclaimed leadership of the Xiao Clan, married Xun Er, and visited Xiao Xuan in the Heaven Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan explained how the Ancient Jade could lead to Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion, and Xiao Yan chose to keep the Xiao Clan and Flame Alliance neutral in the struggle over it.
• At the Medicine Ceremony, Xiao Yan confronted Yao Wangui for insulting Yao Chen and forced him to confess that he had framed Yao Chen and driven him from the Medicine Clan.
• Hun Xuzi arrived at the Medicine Ceremony and declared that he would compete for the title of the Continent’s Number One Alchemist.

Xiao Yan won the title of the continent’s number one alchemist before the Hun Clan destroyed the Medicine Clan and seized all eight Ancient Jades. As Hun Tiandi pursued the Emperor Grade Pill Embryo, Xiao Yan followed him to Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion, where a vast statue appeared.

• Xiao Yan defeated Hun Xuzi in the alchemy contest by creating a living Ninth Grade Golden Pill, then Hun Xuzi and the Hun Clan launched their assault on the Medicine Clan.
• Yao Dan entrusted the surviving young Medicine Clan members to Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan stayed neutral as the Hun Clan overran the Medicine Realm and took the captives.
• Xiao Yan accepted the Hun Clan’s resources, raised his strength, and broke through to the Emperor Realm Soul while the Ancient Clan and its allies failed to stop Hun Tiandi from collecting all eight Ancient Jades.
• Hun Tiandi challenged Xiao Yan and asked him to refine the Emperor Grade Pill Embryo, but Xiao Yan later refused to join the clans’ fight for it.
• Xiao Yan used the Life Spirit Flame to help change Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body and strengthened himself by refining Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan learned that Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion lay beneath Jia Nan Academy, while Hun Tiandi used the eight Ancient Jades to reveal its location.
• Hun Tiandi, Nihility Devouring Flame, and Xiao Yan entered the underground magma world, where the Ancient God’s Cave Mansion rose from the lava and its Stone Gate opened.
• The Hun Clan crossed the cave’s floating continent to an ancient Stone Hall, where a massive statue of Tou She Ancient God appeared and forced them to their knees.

Xiao Yan became a Dou God, destroyed Tou She Ancient God’s inheritance, and worked to strengthen the continent while investigating the lost route to the Great Thousand World. He uncovered the Divine Beast Continent’s history, prepared for a journey beyond his world, and began teaching alchemy at Jia Nan Academy.

• The Emperor Grade Pill Embryo disrupted Hun Tiandi’s array, while Xiao Yan fought Zhu Kun, who recognized Zi Yan as his daughter.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sealed the pill embryo and exposed the cave mansion, where Xiao Yan’s allies arrived and Zi Yan reunited with Zhu Kun.
• Xiao Yan released the Emperor Grade Pill Embryo, deduced that the flames were keys to Tou She Ancient God’s legacy, and took the embryo from the cave mansion.
• Xiao Yan refined the All Living Beings Emperor Breakthrough Pill, became a Dou God, and destroyed Tou She Ancient God’s inheritance with his flames.
• Xiao Yan declined to unify the continent, helped restore clan legacies, and sought a way to reopen the connection to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan investigated ancient records with Ya Fei and Feng Qing’er, then traveled with Zi Yan to the Wild Ancient Region and found an ancient Beast Spirit Shroud.
• Zi Yan’s evolved bloodline revealed the Divine Beast Continent’s history and its broken passage, while she agreed to accompany Xiao Yan to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan prepared a public alchemy conference at Jia Nan Academy, distributed pill formulas, and began guiding alchemists including Fa Ma, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Yao Tian.