Recaps

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran traveled to Wasteland Town after he obtained a Bodhi Seed, and entered the dangerous Ancient Wasteland Region in search of the Bodhi Ancient Tree. With Nalan Yanran still recovering and refining Flame Essence Marrow, Xiao Yan took precautions against the region’s poisonous miasma and hurried to find Yun Yun and the Flower Sect group.

• Nalan Yanran explained that Elder Sheng had obtained the Bodhi Seed shortly before the Bodhi Ancient Tree appeared, and Xiao Yan promised to repay him with a Bodhi Pill.
• Five days later, Xiao Yan arrived in Wasteland Town with an exhausted Nalan Yanran and gathered information about the Ancient Wasteland Region.
• After the Bodhi Seed’s Qi roused her, Nalan Yanran scolded Xiao Yan and worried about refining the Flame Essence Marrow before meeting Yun Yun and the other Flower Sect members.
• Xiao Yan protected himself and Nalan Yanran from the poisonous miasma with a film of Heavenly Flame as they passed the corpses of poisoned cultivators.
• Worried that Yun Yun and the Flower Sect group lacked Heavenly Flame protection, Xiao Yan carried Nalan Yanran away from the crowd and hurried toward them.

Xiao Yan reached Yun Yun just after the Flower Sect was ambushed by the Heavenly Underworld Sect, and he found her recovered from a near-fatal wound with one of his pills. When the sect surrounded Yun Yun’s group again, Xiao Yan arrived with Nalan Yanran and began crushing the attackers, who fled in terror.

• Yun Yun took a five-colored eighth-grade pill and quickly recovered from the injuries she sustained protecting the Flower Sect Great Elder during the ambush.
• Liu Cang and the Heavenly Underworld Sect surrounded Yun Yun’s group, but Yun Yun warned them that they would not escape.
• Xiao Yan appeared with Nalan Yanran, embraced Yun Yun, and learned that the Heavenly Underworld Sect had injured her.
• A Heavenly Underworld Sect elder leered at Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan crushed him, seized his soul, and sealed it in a Fallen Heart Flame bottle.
• Xiao Yan crippled another elder, and the remaining Heavenly Underworld Sect members panicked and scattered.

Xiao Yan defeated the Heavenly Underworld Sect attackers and helped Yun Yun secure the Flower Sect elders’ support, then reunited with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran. After treating the elders for poison, he led them deeper into the Ancient Wasteland Region, determined to obtain the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Xiao Yan defeated the Heavenly Underworld Sect members in minutes and gave the injured Flower Sect elders healing pills.
• Xiao Yan offered to refine pills for the elders in exchange for medicinal ingredients, and they decided to formally make Yun Yun sect master.
• Xiao Yan embraced Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, and he and Yun Yun shared an affectionate reunion while Nalan Yanran continued cultivating.
• Nalan Yanran asked Yun Yun about life at the Flower Sect, and Xiao Yan declared that he would obtain the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Yan realized the Flower Sect members had been infected by poisonous insects, burned them out with Heavenly Flames, and led everyone farther into the Ancient Wasteland Region.

Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python’s territory, killed the Five-turn Peak Dou Zun beast with ease, and activated its Heavenly Demon Blood Pool. He began cultivating the Azure Jade Treasure Form in the pool while Yun Yun and the others stood guard.

• Xiao Yan brought Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and the Flower Sect elders to the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python’s mountain to obtain its body and blood for Cai Yan and the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool.
• The Ancient Heavenly Demon Python attacked Xiao Yan, but he blocked its tail and transformed into his Dragon-Phoenix form.
• Xiao Yan suppressed the python with his bloodline pressure, seized its heart, and killed it with a single decisive attack.
• Xiao Yan drained the python’s blood into the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool and stored its body in his Storage Ring.
• Yun Yun and the Flower Sect elders agreed to guard Xiao Yan while Nalan Yanran went outside to refine spiritual liquid.
• Xiao Yan entered the activated blood pool, used his Heavenly Flames and Devouring Ancestral Symbol to absorb its energy, and began cultivating the Azure Jade Treasure Form.

After absorbing the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool, Xiao Yan broke through to First-Turn Dou Zun Peak and led the Flower Sect to the Ancient Domain Platform. There he reunited with Xun'er and several other familiar women, drawing astonished and envious attention from the gathered factions.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool's energy, perfected his Azure Jade Treasure Form, and advanced to First-Turn Dou Zun Peak.
• Xiao Yan led Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and the Flower Sect elders through the Ancient Wasteland Region to the Ancient Domain Platform.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the platform and spotted Xun'er among the gathered experts.
• Yao Ling, Huo Zhi, Shi Xuanxuan, and Ling Yanfei greeted Xiao Yan before Xun'er reached him and embraced him.
• The crowd reacted with envy to Xiao Yan's intimate reunions, while Gu Qingyang remarked on his charm.

Xiao Yan reunited with the young women from several clans at the Ancient Wasteland Region, while the Soul Clan realized his strength far exceeded its intelligence reports. Hun Yu ordered the Soul Clan to watch Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan prepared to lead the allied groups deeper into the region.

• Gu Yao warned Xiao Yan that his strength had become so terrifying that he might surpass even Gu Yao.
• The young women of the Ancient, Yao, Yan, and Shi Clans gathered around Xiao Yan, while the Ling Clan elder learned he was descended from the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Yu recognized Xiao Yan as the branch-clan descendant investigated through Hun Li Li and ordered the Soul Clan elders to monitor him and report back.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Yao Ling, Huo Zhi, Shi Xuanxuan, Ling Yanfei, and Xun'er, who each sought to join him on the expedition.
• Xiao Yan said he planned to take the groups from the four clans, the Lei and Ling Clans, and Sound Valley into the depths of the Ancient Wasteland Region, and assured the women that Hun Li Li was safe.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xun’er and the other women, learned that a beast tide blocked the way to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and gathered the clans to break through it. He recruited the Lei Clan after discovering that Mang Tianchi led them and agreed with Lei Dong that he would spearhead the charge.

• Xiao Yan introduced his companions and the Eight Clans’ young women to one another, and Xun’er explained that a beast tide had stopped their advance toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Yan offered to lead the groups through the beast tide, and the women went to gather their clans while he approached the Lei Clan.
• Mang Tianchi revealed that he was the headmaster of Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yan introduced himself to the Lei Clan as the Xiao Clan’s young clan chief.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the seven clans join forces without the Soul Clan, and Lei Dong asked who would lead them.
• Xiao Yan promised to spearhead the charge through the beast tide, and Lei Dong agreed to join forces with him.