Recaps

Xiao Jin joined Jia Nan Academy, displayed his alchemy skills, and destroyed the Blood Sect while hunting Fan Lao. At the Black Seal Auction, he investigated Soul Hall’s soul-harvesting operation and reunited with Medusa, leaving with a warning about Soul Hall’s power.

• Xiao Jin offered Fan Sui and Hei Xue’s heads to Huo De as proof of allegiance, then joined Jia Nan Academy with Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Jin sold a Bodhi Zongzun Pill, became an academy elder, and publicly refined another pill while Han Feng came to investigate the pill lightning.
• Xiao Jin broke through to Six-Star Dou King and left for Peace Town with Zi Yan to hunt the Black List and the Blood Sect.
• Xiao Jin killed Fan Lao, burned the Blood Sect’s base, and hung Fan Lao’s corpse on the Necro Tree in Peace Town.
• Han Feng began preparing an alliance to seize the Fallen Heart Flame, while Xiao Jin set out with Zi Yan for the Black Seal Auction.
• Xiao Jin discovered that Soul Hall was collecting souls through a barrier at the auction house, and the Pill Tower Ancestor found a crystal core containing over ten thousand Soul Origins.
• Xiao Jin followed Medusa and a Soul Hall soul body, suspected her of betrayal, then learned she had obtained Soul Origin for him and agreed to investigate Soul Hall in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Jin brought Medusa back to the inn, where Zi Yan met her and the Pill Tower Ancestor explained Soul Hall’s powerful members.

Xiao Jin exposed the Soul Hall’s scheme, destroyed its Black-Corner Region forces, and defeated Han Feng while helping Xiao Yan claim the Sea Heart Flame. After returning to Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Jin began refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and left the story amid a major breakthrough.

• Xiao Jin discovered that the Soul Hall’s Soul Origin would make Medusa its puppet, gave her a Nine-Colored Primordial Stone, and learned she would accompany him to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Jin attended the Black Seal Auction with Medusa and Zi Yan, bought the Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and marked the man who bought the young girl Zi Yan wanted to rescue.
• Xiao Jin and the Pill Tower Ancestor lured Black-Corner Region fighters into a confrontation, where the Ancestor gathered Soul Origin and exposed the Soul Hall Protectors.
• Xiao Jin drew Han Feng away and defeated him, while Yao Chen confronted his former disciple and Xiao Yan received the Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Jin, Medusa, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and Zi Yan killed the gathered fighters and learned that a Dou Venerate had been collecting alchemists’ souls for the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Jin rescued the auctioned girl, distributed the spoils, and spent six months fighting Black List experts before returning toward Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan.
• Xiao Jin reunited with Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, then told Su Qian about the sealed cave mansion near the academy and planned to investigate it.
• Xiao Jin refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, which transformed his shattered Dou Crystal and revealed the emerald Little Sapling as his aura surged and then weakened.

Xiao Jin helped Nalan Yanran’s family, strengthened his ties with the Mittel Family and Yun Yun, and used the Imperial Family’s crisis to reorganize the Jia Ma Empire under a Council of Elders. He returned to Stone Desert City to reunite with his brothers while Xun'er prepared to return to her clan and Xiao Jin readied himself for the Central Plains.

• Xiao Jin reached Six-Star Dou Emperor, showed the Pill Tower Ancestor his Reincarnation Nirvana Flame, and decided to investigate the Magma World beneath Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Jin rescued Nalan Yanran from thieves, learned that Nalan Jie was dying from Brand Poison, and brought her to Xiao Yan for help.
• Xiao Jin cured Nalan Jie and visited the Mittel Family, where he backed Xiao Yan after Leo’s men tried to seize his medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Jin gave Yun Yun a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill, and she advanced to Six-Star Dou Ancestor after surviving its violent refinement.
• At the Imperial Family’s banquet, Xiao Jin killed Mu Zhan and Mu Chen after Mu Zhan attacked him and Mu Chen threatened him.
• Xiao Jin persuaded Jia Xingtian to replace the Imperial Family’s sole rule with a Council of Elders that divided responsibilities among the empire’s major factions.
• Xiao Jin left the Imperial Capital with Xiao Yan, reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in Stone Desert City, and urged Xiao Li to break through to Dou King.
• Xun'er learned that the Ling Clan had sealed its realm passage, while Xiao Jin confirmed the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s growth and refined an Eighth-Grade Hundred Rivers Returning to Origin Pill.

Xiao Jin defended the Misty Cloud Sect from Soul Hall, parted from Xun'er, and pushed his cultivation forward while resolving the Fallen Heart Flame crisis. He left Xiao Yi Xian with a path to strengthen her Woe Poison Body and prepared an opportunity for Qing Lin.

• Xiao Jin learned that Soul Hall was targeting his clan, then trapped its three protectors at Misty Cloud Sect with the Sky Dome Origin-Locking Array.
• Xiao Jin and the Pill Tower Ancestor defeated the Soul Hall attackers and captured Qinghai Venerable, who revealed that he had discovered the Xiao Clan while searching a Dou Emperor's soul.
• Xun'er departed for the Ancient Clan after Xiao Jin defeated Ling Quan, and Xiao Jin promised to find her within five years.
• Xiao Jin reached Peak Dou Emperor, then entered the Magma World and sealed the Fallen Heart Flame that had threatened Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Jin found Skyfire Venerable's remains and negotiated for him to teach Xiao Yan and protect him in exchange for help advancing his cultivation.
• Xiao Jin gave Su Qian a newborn Fallen Heart Flame so the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower could reopen, then returned to his courtyard exhausted.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Jin to help her find stronger poisons, and he gave her a method for condensing a Poison Qi Rune and promised to stay while she cultivated.