Recaps

Xiao Yan pursued breakthroughs, fought powerful enemies, and encountered allies and schemes across several regions. The stretch ended with the Wanhuo Sect considering him as its head after Elder Huo vouched for his strength.

• Xiao Yan learned the Green Buffalo Heavenly Wood guarded the Ghost Moon Well, then prepared to challenge its guardian with the Qing family.
• Xiao Yan evolved the Flame Mantra by absorbing the Ghost Face Soul Flame and Kong Ling Ice Flame, reaching peak Dou Di.
• Hao Ni'er learned Youhunzi had returned with the Soul Devouring Talisman and ordered preparations to attack the Lihun Domain.
• Xiao Yan joined Qing Wenshu and Qinger, cultivated at the Moon Reflection Pool, and broke through to initial-stage one-star Dou Xian.
• Xiao Yan obtained the Gaze Eye soul skill and later used it, along with his array, to suppress a powerful Sin Guard.
• Xiao Yan pursued the Undying Leaf as Yu Qian plotted to seize Ghost King City, while Hun Hao and the City Lord’s forces fought their own battles.
• Xiao Yan helped the Earth Demon Bear face its fourth beast tribulation, while Xiao Gui gave Luo Menglan a Dou Xian Pill after her failed breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan confronted the Wanhuo Sect, and Huo Yi ordered a test of his abilities before considering him as the sect’s head.

Xiao Yan fought through the Eastern Continent’s contests and confronted Soul Clan plots while pursuing new techniques and allies. The story left him and Duan Qifei in the Thunder Tomb as Emperor Lei Hong revealed the Thunder Emperor Scepter and forced everyone nearby to kneel.

• Xiao Yan helped the Yu Sect repel Ye Sheng, then drew a bye in the contest while the Soul Clan’s Yin Protector targeted him and Hun Qianmo captured him.
• Xiao Yan advanced through the tournament, defeating Huobo and overcoming Feng Yu’s attacks before he was rescued from the Demon Suppressing Prison and taken to Tianming Villa.
• Xiao Yan joined the trial’s top ten on the journey to Lihun Domain, where Tan Chen assigned him to refine the Xian Ling Pill within two hundred days.
• Xiao Yan uncovered the Demon Wood Chart and began cultivating it, while Duan Qifei fought Youhuan and Hua Fei defeated Bai Lan in the soul-skill contest.
• Xiao Yan and Duan Qifei explored the Thunder Tomb, where the Thunder Lord offered Xiao Yan a scripture and began transferring power to Duan Qifei.
• Duan Qifei suppressed the bronze coffin’s lightning, and Emperor Lei Hong appeared, recognized her connection to Duan Tianhong, and revealed the Thunder Emperor Scepter, whose force made everyone kneel.

Xiao Yan faced rival factions, uncovered buried histories, and gathered powerful allies and flames while the Soul Devouring Master prepared for war in the Lihun Domain. The stretch ended with Xiao Yan absorbing the Ghost Source and being told to answer the coming signal.

• Black-robed Soul Hall figures slaughtered disciples in Forged Blade Thunder Valley as Duan Tianheng prepared to face the Second Master and his allies, while Xiao Yan was sealed beside Duan Tianhong, who planned to destroy Sin and the Soul Hall.
• Valley Master Lei sent the tournament contestants into the Thunder Tomb for a year-long trial, and Xiao Yan traveled with Die Qi to Butterfly Valley, where he volunteered to face the Yaoxuan Sect.
• Elder Tian announced that the tournament trial would take place in the Dusha Demon Suppressing Prison, and Xiao Yan later followed Muxi after she bought the Human-Ghost Hybrid with a Quasi-Immortal Skill.
• Xiao Yan fought the Living Dead to rescue a child and Duan Qifei, then entered Tianwang Cang’s ruins through a Space Gate with the other cultivators.
• Xiao Yan uncovered Gamma’s connection to Sin and the Devil Fruits, confronted the Ghost Queen with the Soul Devouring Master’s help, and acquired a crystal shard that dispelled the acacia power in his body.
• Mal transformed into a demon and faced an angel’s judgment, while Xiao Yan forced Demon Power and Holy Flame Power to fuse and attacked Lexi with his Buddha Fiend Samsara cube.
• Xiao Yan rescued Xiao Gui from Ling Yu, defeated Yan Feng after assembling seven holy flames, and later recovered from the Xiao Clan Patriarch’s attack by breaking through to the Seven-Star Dou Xian Later Stage.
• Xiao Yan defeated Aileen, gained Xiao Zhuoma’s permission to try the Undying Fire, and absorbed a Ghost Source prepared by Ling Chi as the Soul Devouring Master readied forces for war against the Lihun Domain.

Xiao Yan strengthened his flames and powers while moving through the Ghost Graveyard, the Undying Sacred Pool, and the Lihun Domain’s conflicts. He reunited with allies and freed Gu Yuan and the Peerless Heavenly Emperor, while threats from the Outer Realm Evil Clan and Soul Hall continued to grow.

• Xiao Yan freed the Dragon Blood Martial Emperor from ghost qi, and their combined dragon flame opened the dark red coffin to reveal a vision of Dragon Transformation Arm fighting a Five-Colored Transforming Heaven Python.
• Xiao Yan gained the Dragon Blood Martial Emperor’s trust by projecting the Golden Dragon King’s form, then learned that the coffin might be tied to the Nine Transformations of the Dragon God.
• Xiao Yan entered the next layer of the Ghost Graveyard, fought Xuanyue’s puppets, and escaped with You Er before the Black Fiend Dragon Wolf followed them.
• Xiao Yan fused four sacred flames into Buddha's Wrath Reincarnation and hurled the fire lotus at Fang Hao, then the Soul Devouring Master and Hao Ni'er rescued him and treated his injuries.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Undying Fire, evolved the Flame Mantra, and formed the Acacia Flame Domain before learning that war had engulfed the Lihun Domain.
• The Lord of Fierce Souls countered the Demon of Light’s final strike with the Xiangsi Broken Intestine Flame and overwhelmed her with his Samsara power.
• Xiao Yan forged an Equality Contract with the Dark Underworld Warrior, then found Gu Yuan and freed him and the Peerless Heavenly Emperor before a woman accompanied by blood snakes confronted them.
• Hun Yan used the Blood Red Melting Furnace and Evil Rain to control and attack the lair, but the Dark Underworld Warrior resisted both the rain and Soul Fire as Xiao Yan arrived.