Recaps

Xu Xiaoshou used his passive skills to rise from a presumed corpse to a tournament standout, where a post-match ambush ended in Wen Chong’s death. After Elder Sang gave him an Emberlight Fire Seed, Xu Xiaoshou fought to vent its heat and continued drawing powerful skills, leaving him in the middle of the tournament with the seed still inside him.

• Xu Xiaoshou activated the Passive System, gained Breathing Method, and stunned the crowd by emerging alive and claiming he had advanced to the Fourth Realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou strengthened Sturdiness and won his group’s tournament match by taking attacks from the crowd and knocking contestants off the arena.
• Xu Xiaoshou drew Sword Mastery, accidentally destroyed his room with his sword strike, and attracted the attention of Xiao Qixiu, Qiao Qianzhi, and Elder Sang.
• Xu Xiaoshou defeated Di Xin'er and Liu Zhen in the breakout round, then beat Wen Chong with Acquired Sword Intent before Wen Chong stabbed him from behind and Xu Xiaoshou killed him in self-defense.
• Xu Xiaoshou reflected on Wen Chong’s death, broke through to the seventh realm, and met Elder Sang, who made him swallow an Emberlight Fire Seed.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Xiao Qixiu for help as the fire seed scorched him, then defeated Zhang Fu with its heat and vented nearly half its energy.
• Xu Xiaoshou realized the fire seed’s constant scorching earned him Passive Value, advanced Sharpness to the Innate level, and drew Endless Vitality after two rounds of disappointing draws.

Xu Xiaoshou advanced through the tournament by refining the Emberlight Fire Seed, developing his sword skills, and defeating a succession of formidable opponents. He won the final against Mo Mo after his Innate Sword Intent disrupted the power sealed within her arm, leaving him champion of the competition.

• Xu Xiaoshou raised Endless Vitality to Innate Lv.1, defeated Zhou Tianshen with his sword technique, and helped Zhou break through to the Innate Realm.
• Xu Xiaoshou refined the Emberlight Fire Seed overnight using the Breathing Method, Endless Vitality, and Red-Gold Pills, reaching the peak of the seventh level of Spirit Refinement.
• After Li Cen Jing conceded, Xu Xiaoshou advanced to the top eight and used Passive Value to obtain and develop Perception.
• Xu Xiaoshou defeated Chao Qingteng despite being frozen and pierced, then accidentally broke through to the eighth realm of Spirit Refinement.
• Xu Xiaoshou defeated Mu Zixi in the semifinal after surviving her ancient trees, vines, and Paralysis Flower.
• Xu Xiaoshou reached Innate Sword Intent during the final, but Mo Mo weakened him with her Spirit-Severing Hand and bound him with Heaven-Sealing Refinement.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Reversing Sword Form to disrupt the unrefined sword aura sealed inside Mo Mo, then unleashed his Innate Sword Intent and fought through her renewed lava attack.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Mo Mo exchanged bloodied blows while suspended above the arena, and after Mo Mo fainted, he caught her and was declared the winner.

After being denied an Inner Court slot, Xu Xiaoshou obtained Emberlight Skyburn and mastered its dangerous flames while strengthening his passive skills. He killed two assassins sent after him, then encountered a masked man seeking directions to the inner courtyard.

• Xiao Qixiu named Zhou Tianshen, Chao Qingteng, Mu Zixi, and Mo Mo as the Inner Court entrants, while Elder Qiao gave Xu Xiaoshou pills and urged him to prove the elders wrong.
• Xu Xiaoshou searched the Spirit Treasury Pavilion for techniques, where Elder Sang forced the Emberlight Skyburn jade slip and a fire seed on him.
• Xu Xiaoshou advanced his Breathing Method, refined the Emberlight Fire Seeds, and completed Emberlight Skyburn, accidentally destroying his house with its invisible flames.
• Xu Xiaoshou used Passive Value to draw Full of Vitality and Countershock, adding new skills to his arsenal.
• Feng Kong and Shao Yi entered Xu Xiaoshou’s ruined courtyard to assassinate him, but Xu Xiaoshou bluffed them with his flames and killed Shao Yi after draining his spiritual essence.
• Xu Xiaoshou lured Feng Kong to Goose Lake and killed him with Sword-Draw Form and Shao Yi’s broken sword.
• A masked man caught Xu Xiaoshou’s sword and fought him, then said he wanted directions to the inner courtyard.

Xu Xiaoshou survived the masked man’s attack and became Elder Sang’s disciple, then entered the Inner Court and began learning Emberlight alchemy. His experiments and a roulette reward unleashed flames throughout the Spirit Treasury Pavilion, but he gained enough control to form a stable fire seed and devised a new technique.

• The masked man fought off Spirit Palace elders at Goose Lake, but Elder Sang stopped his escape and struck Xu Xiaoshou with Emberlight Skyburn before reviving him.
• Elder Sang revealed his past and asked Xu Xiaoshou to become his disciple, and Xu Xiaoshou accepted.
• Su Qianqian visited Xu Xiaoshou, showed him her sword skills, and warned him that Zhang Xinxiong and the Wen clan were linked to the assassins who attacked him.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered the Inner Court and joined Elder Sang in the Spirit Treasury Pavilion, where Elder Sang gave him pills and began teaching him Emberlight alchemy.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s unstable fire seeds exploded above the pavilion, drawing Zhao Xidong and Spirit Law Pavilion officers, who suspected an attack despite Xu Xiaoshou’s claim that he was refining pills.
• A roulette vision gave Xu Xiaoshou Mastery of Culinary Arts, and invisible Emberlight flames then damaged the pavilion and its protective barrier.
• Elder Sang claimed a powerful intruder had caused the damage, sent the others away, and demanded an explanation from Xu Xiaoshou.
• Xu Xiaoshou used his new heat-control knowledge to form a stable fire seed, then named his stronger move the Five-Finger Seed Imprinting Technique.