Recaps

Xiao Yu led the newcomers into the Inner Academy, established Pan Men, and reached the Dou Wang realm after absorbing the Chaos Flame and surviving a tribulation. The arc left Xiao Yu facing Bai Cheng in a duel that would decide whether Pan Men or Bai Gang disbanded.

• Xiao Yu entered the Inner Academy with the newcomers, defeated veteran students during the Fire Energy competition, and secured a shared residence for his group.
• Xiao Yu helped form Pan Men after older students demanded tribute, then cultivated in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and received the Chaos Flame.
• Xiao Yu gave the Green Lotus Core Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame to Xiao Nian, and Pan Men officially formed with twenty freshmen.
• Xiao Yu survived a heavenly tribulation and reached the Dou Wang realm, while Elder Su promised to seek greater authority for him in the academy.
• After Fu Ao threatened Pan Men, Xiao Yu led its members to Bai Gang’s grounds and challenged Bai Cheng to a duel that would decide the faction’s fate.
• Xiao Yu arrived at the crowded arena with his companions and revealed his Dou Wang strength by spreading dark golden wings before facing Bai Cheng.

Xiao Yu built Pan Men’s influence, gathered allies and rare resources, and helped prepare Jia Nan Academy for the increasingly unstable Fallen Heart Flame. As the Soul Hall moved against Yao Lao, Xiao Yu proposed using the flame’s controlled eruption to strike back at its agents and Han Feng.

• Xiao Yu defeated Bai Cheng, welcomed his brothers Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and began organizing the Underworld with their help.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan supplied Pan Men with pills, formed a profit-sharing partnership with the Medicine Gang, and hired Bai Cheng’s former gang members to gather herbs.
• Xiao Yu found Earth Core Body Tempering Milk in a hidden cavern, advanced to six-star Dou Wang, and shared the milk with his companions.
• Xiao Yu warned Su Qian that the Fallen Heart Flame had developed intelligence and revealed that a second, unformed flame lay beneath the tower.
• Nalan Yanran emerged from the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death with sealed power, then left the Imperial Capital to seek her teacher at Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan that the academy planned to let the intelligent Fallen Heart Flame erupt under control so Xiao Yan could absorb it, and he showed Yao Lao the dark golden flame within him.
• Wu Hao reported that murderous outsiders were gathering near the academy, while Han Feng learned the Soul Hall suspected Yao Lao was there.
• After Yao Lao refined the Earth Spirit Pill, Su Qian recognized him, and Xiao Yu and Xun Er identified the Soul Hall’s likely target and planned to use the controlled Fallen Heart Flame against it and Han Feng.

Xiao Yu arranged for the Fallen Heart Flame to erupt and drew Han Feng and Soul Hall into an assault on Jia Nan Academy. Gu Yuan’s Ancient Clan forces intervened, but Han Feng’s final attack destabilized the tower seal without freeing the flame.

• Xiao Yu and Xun Er welcomed Qing Lin, Green Man, and Nalan Yanran to Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yu warned Green Man that Han Feng might attack for the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yu met Gu Yuan and persuaded him to oppose Soul Hall, then arranged for the Inner Academy elders to weaken the Fallen Heart Flame’s seal after the Strong Ranking Competition.
• Zi Yan won the Strong Ranking Competition, Xiao Yu placed second, and the top contestants began Heart Flame body tempering before the students evacuated the tower.
• Xiao Yu withdrew his Chaos Flame and released the Fallen Heart Flame, prompting Han Feng to gather allied sect leaders and attack Jia Nan Academy.
• Green Man turned against Yuan Yi and helped defend the academy, while Xiao Yu killed Fan Lao and challenged Han Feng as battles spread across the Inner Academy.
• Han Feng summoned Soul Hall forces, and Gu Yuan’s Ancient Clan elders emerged from hiding and destroyed the invading Soul Hall members.
• Reverse Scale absorbed Soul Hall fighters and advanced to Dou Zong, while Xiao Yan wounded Han Feng with Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus.
• Han Feng engulfed himself in Sea Heart Flame and exploded against the tower, but the Fallen Heart Flame absorbed the released energy and retreated toward the tower’s depths.

Xiao Yu pursued the Fallen Heart Flame, strengthened the Underworld, and traveled to the Jia Ma Empire to bring Ya Fei back with him. He uncovered Soul Hall’s possession of Jia Xingtian and destroyed the parasitic soul, then prepared to return to Wu Tan City.

• Xiao Yu pursued the Fallen Heart Flame into the abyss beneath the tower, while Xun Er departed for the Ancient Clan after promising to meet him again in two years.
• Xiao Yu and his companions traveled to Twilight City, where he killed Blood Old Ghost and helped Xiao Ding establish the city as the Underworld’s trade center.
• Xiao Yu returned to the Imperial Capital and asked Ya Fei to go with him to the Black Corner Region, then confronted the Jian Family over its pressure on the Mittel Family.
• Xiao Yu defeated Jian Qian and Jian Changfeng, warned Jian Xueqing, and invited Fama to establish a new Alchemist Guild in the Black Corner Region, but Fama declined.
• Xiao Yu examined Jia Xingtian and discovered that a Soul Hall fragment had possessed him as Heavenly Venerable Qing Hai, who demanded the Xiao Clan’s key.
• Xiao Yu, Cai Lin, and Fama used a Spirit Binding Array to drive Qing Hai out of Jia Xingtian, and Xiao Yu destroyed the soul with Chaos Flame.
• Xiao Yu told Ya Fei he would leave for Wu Tan City soon and return to the Imperial Capital in a month, and Ya Fei invited him to spend the night with her.