Recaps

Xiao Long and his allies claimed Fallen Star Flame, reunited Zi Yan with Zhu Kun, and negotiated a partnership between the Xiao Clan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. The arc ended with Yao Chen reaching Dou Saint and Xiao Long preparing to attack a Soul Hall branch.

• Yao Chen captured Han Feng’s soul, while Xiao Long refined Sea Heart Blue and Xiao Xun’er defeated Soul Hall Protector Xuan Mu.
• Xiao Long helped Yao Chen regain a body, and Ling Ying discovered that Xiao Xun’er had lost her virginity before she refused to return to the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Long brought Yao Chen and Xiao Xun’er to Jia Lan Academy, where Yao Chen traded pills and a formula to take the academy’s Fallen Star Flame.
• Xiao Xun’er devoured the weakened Fallen Star Flame, while Xiao Long collected herbs and befriended Zi Yan by promising to help her find her father.
• Xiao Long, Yao Chen, and Zi Yan descended into the underground world, where they met Heavenly Flame Venerate and discovered Zhu Kun was Zi Yan’s father.
• Xiao Long negotiated an alliance with Zhu Kun, offering pills and the Xiao Clan’s jade in exchange for cooperation and requesting Zhu Kun’s essence blood.
• Yao Chen reached Dou Saint, Xiao Long became a One-star Dou Ancestor, and Xiao Xun’er advanced to Seven-star Dou Venerate after refining Fallen Star Flame and Zhu Kun’s blood.
• Xiao Long subdued an Eight-star Dou Ancestor of the Flame Lizard Tribe and prepared to build a wormhole to obtain a body for Heavenly Flame Venerate before attacking Soul Hall.

Xiao Long and his companions raided a Soul Hall branch, defeated the Great Heavenly Venerate, and refined him into a powerful puppet. They then traveled to Fentian Valley to negotiate for the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, leaving Old Man Huoyun to inspect Xiao Long’s offered Heaven-grade Cultivation Method.

• Xiao Long looted Demonic Flame Valley, killed its elders, took the Corpse Puppet refining method and Life Transformation Fire, then left to pursue Yun Shan before choosing to attack a Soul Hall branch instead.
• Xiao Long, Xiao Xun'er, and Yao Chen raided the branch in the Duotian Mountain Range, where Yao Chen confronted the men who had captured him and Xiao Xun'er defeated two Dou Venerates.
• Xiao Long destroyed the branch and took its Soul Origin, which he and Xiao Xun'er refined together as the Great Heavenly Venerate pursued them to Fengyun Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Long and Yao Chen defeated the Great Heavenly Venerate, while Yao Chen pursued and captured the two escaped Dou Zuns.
• Xiao Long and Yao Chen refined the Great Heavenly Venerate into a Demonic Puppet, which Xiao Long named Saint Tian Yi, then agreed to visit Fentian Valley in search of the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.
• Yao Chen revealed himself as Feng Xian's senior brother and asked Tang Zhen for the flame, but Old Man Huoyun appeared to defend Fentian Valley.
• Yao Chen offered to heal Old Man Huoyun and provide a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, and Xiao Long added a Heaven-grade Cultivation Method to the bargain.
• Old Man Huoyun agreed to consider the offer and asked to inspect the cultivation method, which Xiao Long allowed.

Xiao Long acquired the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Flame, clashed with the Ancient Clan while helping Xiao Xun'er, and stole and refined the Three Thousand Burning Flames. He returned to the Jia Ma Empire and encountered Ya Fei at the Mittel Family auction, where Mu Zhan confronted him.

• Xiao Long gave Old Man Huoyun the Fire Cloud Art and secured permission to remove Fentian Valley's seals from the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Flame after two months, then refused Tang Huo'er's challenge and pulled her into his manor.
• Tang Zhen gave Xiao Long the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Flame, which Xiao Long refined to reach Nine-star Dou Zong, before he left for Starfall Pavilion with Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Long sought the Three Thousand Burning Flames and traveled with Yao Chen and the Second Elder, while Gu Yuan's forces attacked Starfall Pavilion to retrieve Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Long and Xiao Xun'er faced the Ancient Clan forces, and Yao Chen, the Second Elder, and Saint Tian Yi killed Gu Xiang before Xiao Long spared the remaining clan members at Xiao Xun'er's request and confiscated their Storage Rings.
• Xiao Long injured Gu Zhen, gave Xiao Xun'er an imitation Immortal Artifact necklace, and watched her return to the Ancient Clan before learning Starfall Pavilion had disbanded.
• Xiao Long, Yao Chen, the Second Elder, and Saint Tian Yi seized the Three Thousand Burning Flames from the Pill Tower, and Xiao Long later led the Second Elder to Zhu Kun's prison.
• Xiao Long refined the Three Thousand Burning Flames, raising the Flame Mantra to low-grade Heaven-grade and reaching Four-star Dou Venerate, then returned to the Jia Ma Empire after Yao Chen left him a message.
• Xiao Long attended the Mittel Family auction and encountered Ya Fei, then followed her to secluded guest rooms, where Mu Zhan rushed in and ordered him to let her go.

Xiao Long gathered allies and resources to build the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court, while Gu Yuan seized Xiao Xun’er’s Heavenly Flames to pursue his own rise. The arc ended with the Court’s portal appearing over the Imperial Capital and Mite’er Tengshan declaring the Mittel Family its representative.

• Xiao Long visited Qing Lin in the Monster Forest, freed Yun Yun from her seal, and left her after their encounter.
• Xiao Long returned to the Xiao Family with Qing Lin, supplied them with techniques, skills, pills, and Demonic Puppets, then went back to the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Long killed Mu Zhan after Mu Zhan threatened Ya Fei, then began building a headquarters in the Monster Forest.
• Xiao Long recruited Heavenly Flame Venerate, Saint Tian Yi, Gu Xiang, and Saint Gu You to help establish and defend the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court.
• Gu Yuan learned about the Flame Mantra from Xiao Xun’er, took the technique from her, and seized her Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame and Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Long installed the Heavenly Court in the clouds, arranged its towers and wares, and opened a Space Wormhole connecting it to the Imperial Capital.
• The Jia Ma Empire’s factions gathered around the wormhole, and Hai Bodong backed Mite’er Tengshan as Tengshan proclaimed the Mittel Family served the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court.