Recaps

Xiao Yuan helped Tang Huo'er inherit a Heavenly Flame, rescued Xiao Yi Xian from her Calamity Poison Body, and reunited with his companions before traveling to Saint Pill City. The group began the Pill Gathering assessments as Xiao Yuan’s unusual Soul Strength drew attention.

• After refining pills for Burning Flame Valley and reviving Heavenly Flame Venerable, Xiao Yuan helped Tang Huo'er subdue the Nine Dragons Lightning Flame and left for Ye City with Cai Lin.
• Xiao Yuan rescued Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun from Ice River Valley, killed Heavenly Serpent Elder and Protector Wu, and fought alongside Xiao Yan and Xun Er against the pursuing forces.
• With the Ancient Clan forcing Ice River Valley to withdraw, Xiao Yuan and Heavenly Flame Venerable defeated the remaining enemies, then reunited with their companions at the Ye family manor.
• After Xun Er departed, Xiao Yuan brought Xiao Yi Xian to the Yang Fire Ancient Altar, contained her poison, and helped her complete the Poison Pill Method and reach Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yuan absorbed Yang Flame at the altar, then returned to the Ye Clan and made peace with the women after they confronted him for disappearing.
• Xiao Yuan built a secluded retreat for Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Tang Huo'er, and Cai Lin, helped them cultivate, and warned that Xiao Yan needed to attend the Pill Gathering for Three Thousand Burning Flame and their teacher’s legacy.
• After reaching Seven Star Dou Zong and becoming an Eighth Grade Alchemist, Xiao Yuan traveled with Xiao Yan and the others to Saint Pill City, where Xiao Yan sensed Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Dan City Star Region.
• At the Danta assessment, Xiao Yan announced he would test for a seventh-tier, middle-grade rank badge, while Xiao Yuan used Space Power against a mocking Bai family elder and displayed the candidates’ tests with his Soul Strength.

Xiao Yuan develops a soul-nourishing pill, reunites Yao Lao with the truth about Han Shanshan, and becomes a leading Pill Tower figure. As the Pill Gathering proceeds, he protects Xiao Yan and the other contestants from Soul Hall infiltrators, while the final competition reaches its peak with Dan Chen producing a Rank 8 Pill.

• Xiao Yan passed the Seventh Grade intermediate examination, and Xiao Yuan left the testing grounds with his companions before trading for rare herbs and a mysterious copper fragment.
• Xiao Yuan refined the copper fragment into Spirit Nurturing Powder and used it to create the Spirit Elevation Soul Nourishing Pill, then absorbed the pill tribulation lightning and advanced to Eight Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yuan discovered Han Shanshan’s Soul Imprint inside the Bone Spirit Cold Fire and sacrificed part of his soul origin to place a seal on her before the imprint vanished.
• Xiao Yuan showed Yao Lao the memory of Han Shanshan’s sacrifice, promised to seek her in the River of Time, and accepted Xuan Yi’s appointment to preside over the Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Yuan announced the Pill Gathering’s prize and secretly entered the Pill World, where he found Zi Yan and gathered the required herbs before a Soul Hall attacker targeted Xiao Yan and the contestants.
• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan defeated Old Man Mu Gu’s assault, exposed the Soul Hall infiltrators, and Xiao Yuan announced that the Pill Gathering would continue.
• The surviving contestants began the final pill-refining round, and Xiao Yan worked on a Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill as the competition narrowed to seventeen alchemists.
• Dan Chen produced a Rank 8 Pill with a Two-Colored Thundercloud, and Cao Ying rose to challenge her rather than concede.

Xiao Yuan helped Xiao Yan subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, then clashed with the Tianming Sect and grew stronger while returning to Starfall Pavilion. The arc ended with Yao Lao restored as Pavilion Master and Xiao Yuan setting out to find Dou Sheng Remains to rebuild his body.

• Xiao Yan won the Pill Gathering with a peak Rank 8 pill, and Xiao Yuan was named champion and prepared to help him subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• A Hall of Souls ambush freed the Three Thousand Burning Flame, but Xiao Yuan defeated Demon Flame Tian Zun and held the dragon while Xiao Yan fought to claim it.
• Xiao Yan subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Xiao Yuan delivered a Little Creation Pill to Hua Yu and helped her recover at the Flower Sect.
• Yi Chen challenged Xiao Yuan at the Pill Tower, but Tang Huo'er defeated him, and Heavenly Flame Venerable killed him and the Xuanming Sect party.
• Hua Jin and Tianming Sect elders ambushed Xiao Yuan, who revealed his overwhelming strength, defeated his enemies, and turned Ninth Heavenly Venerable Mo Yu into a puppet.
• Xiao Yuan strengthened his soul with Earth Core Soul Marrow, returned to the Pill Tower, and learned that the Tianming Sect had targeted him over Yi Chen’s death.
• Xiao Yuan left the Star Region and traveled to Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Lao returned as Pavilion Master and Heavenly Flame Venerable became Guest Elder.
• Wind Venerable told Xiao Yuan of possible Dou Sheng ruins in the Beast Region, and Xiao Yuan declared he would seek remains to restore Yao Lao’s body.

Xiao Yuan claimed treasures in the Ancient Ruins, helped revive Yao Lao, and led Starfall Pavilion through an attack by the Hall of Souls. The story left him at the Void Ancient Dragon Tribe, beginning treatment for Zi Yan’s dangerous reaction to the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Xiao Yuan killed Tian Zhen and defeated Lei Xuan after Wind and Thunder Pavilion drove Starfall Pavilion from its camp, then waited with his allies for the Ancient Ruins’ seal to weaken.
• Xiao Yuan reunited with Qing Lian, found that Emperor Python Heart-Corroding Poison was killing her, and later used the Pill Beast’s blood to cure her as his group entered the ruins.
• Xiao Yuan took control of the Di Yao Kui, claimed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan, and fought Feng Qing’er’s group before gathering treasures and scrolls in the ruins’ halls.
• Xiao Yuan subdued the Ancient Human Puppets and killed Star Plucking Old Ghost and two Soul Hall allies after the Dou Sheng Skeleton awakened, then left the ruins with his companions.
• Xiao Yuan returned to Starfall Pavilion and worked with Xiao Yan to restore Yao Lao’s body, while the Hall of Souls and Tianming Sect prepared an assault.
• Yao Lao revived as a Dou Sheng and defeated the attackers, strengthening Starfall Pavilion before Hei Qing brought Xiao Yuan news of Zi Yan’s condition.
• Xiao Yuan reached the Void Ancient Dragon Tribe, learned that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s power had encased and shrunk Zi Yan, and began refining the crystal layer around her in a cauldron.