Recaps

Xiao Yan learned from Old Yao and entered a state of enlightenment while refining a Fire Lotus Pill, successfully making the Third-Grade Pill. He swallowed it, intending to break through to Dou Master.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian listened as Old Yao taught them about medicinal ingredients and pill formulas.
• Xiao Yan began refining a Fire Lotus Pill, surprising Xiao Yi Xian and Old Yao with his attempt at a Third-Grade Pill.
• Xiao Yan entered a state of enlightenment and smoothly refined the Fire Lotus Pill.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the pill, preparing to break through to Dou Master.

Xiao Yan used the Fire Lotus Pill to break through to Two-Star Dou Master, refining vast amounts of energy with his Heavenly Flames. The breakthrough also strengthened his body and meridians, and he emerged with a significantly more powerful aura.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the Fire Lotus Pill immediately after refining it, and the pill triggered his breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan guided energy from the surroundings through his meridians, using his Heavenly Flames to purify it as he refined the pill's medicinal power.
• Xiao Yan fed the refined energy into his blood-red Dou Qi Vortex, which condensed the energy and grew smaller as his aura strengthened.
• Xiao Yan reversed the vortex's rotation, scattering liquid energy throughout his body and strengthening his meridians, muscles, bones, and flesh.
• Xiao Yan's breakthrough ended, and he opened his eyes as a powerful aura revealed that he had reached Two-Star Dou Master.

After reaching the two-star Dou Master realm, Xiao Yan prepared to leave the Monster Mountain Range with Xiao Yi Xian and Old Yao for the Tagor Desert. As he and Xiao Yi Xian affirmed their bond, Xiao Yan and Old Yao discussed the Green Lotus Core Flame and the danger of trying to obtain it.

• Xiao Yan tested his new Dou Qi Gauze and learned that it improved his defense, recovery, cultivation, and ability to fly with the Purple Cloud Wings.
• Xiao Yan agreed to leave the Monster Mountain Range the next day and travel to the Tagor Desert with Xiao Yi Xian, where its fire energy and poisonous creatures could aid them.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian spent the afternoon touring the mountains and looking toward Green Mountain Town, then shared stories and promised not to leave each other.
• Old Yao asked Xiao Yan about the Heavenly Flame rumored to be in the desert, and Xiao Yan identified it as the mature Green Lotus Core Flame and said they should search for it despite the danger.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left their quiet valley and traveled to Black Rock City, where Xiao Yan planned to join the Alchemist Guild and arrange onward travel. After reaching the guild, he used his powerful flame to convince the guards to let them inside.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian departed the valley on the Blue Eagle, leaving it behind to grow stronger until they returned.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian rode a Horned Horse to Black Rock City and settled into an inn.
• Xiao Yan took Xiao Yi Xian to the Alchemist Guild to certify his alchemist identity and seek access to its resources.
• The guards stopped Xiao Yan for lacking a letter of introduction, so he displayed his flame and let them mistake him for a Fourth-Tier Alchemist.
• The guards respectfully allowed Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to enter the Alchemist Guild.

Xiao Yan went to the Black Rock City Alchemist Guild to take the Third-Grade Alchemist assessment, but learned that he had to pass each rank in order. He entered the examination hall, where his age and Blood-colored Flame astonished President Frank, who wondered if it was a Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan registered with Ya Han for the alchemist assessment and said he was ten years old with no mentor.
• Ya Han explained that Xiao Yan had to begin with the First-Tier assessment, and Xiao Yan accepted the rule.
• Te Ya gave Xiao Yan his examination armband, and Xiao Yi Xian waited outside as Xiao Yan entered the hall.
• President Frank noticed Xiao Yan and was astonished when he learned the boy was ten.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Blood-colored Flame and said he wanted the Third-Grade assessment, prompting Frank to ask if it was a Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan explained away his flame as a Blood Demon Flame and convinced Frank that he was genuinely ten years old and already a Dou Master. Frank agreed to personally oversee Xiao Yan’s Third-Grade Alchemist assessment, setting him the task of refining a Qi Recovery Pill.

• Xiao Yan claimed his blood-red flame was an artificial Blood Demon Flame made from the blood of fire-attributed magical beasts.
• Frank questioned Xiao Yan’s age and cultivation, then confirmed through his bones that he was around eleven and had reached the Dou Master level.
• Frank discovered Xiao Yan’s recorded mentor was listed as None and was astonished that he might be a self-taught alchemist.
• Xiao Yan urged Frank to begin the assessment, and Frank led him to a quiet room to conduct it himself.
• Frank set out three sets of ingredients and instructed Xiao Yan to refine a third-grade Qi Recovery Pill within three attempts.
• Xiao Yan recognized the familiar pill formula and thought it would be easy to refine.

Xiao Yan passed the Black Rock City Alchemist Guild’s examination and became a Third-Grade Alchemist before turning eleven. After accepting his robes and badge, he considered his plans to leave Black Rock City, avoid the Misty Cloud Sect, and grow stronger at Jia Nan Academy.

• Frank emerged from the examination room and announced that Xiao Yan had refined a Third-Grade pill with pill patterns, making him the youngest Third-Grade Alchemist in the guild’s history.
• Frank asked Xiao Yan about his teacher, and Xiao Yan declined to reveal Old Yao’s identity.
• Xiao Yan considered avoiding the Misty Cloud Sect, going to the Tagor Desert to cultivate, and then attending Jia Nan Academy for three years.
• Frank congratulated Xiao Yan and presented him with the special black robes and badge of a Third-Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan put on the new robes and admired their feel and fragrance.

After passing the alchemist assessment and receiving his robe and badge, Xiao Yan met with President Frank to request help finding Ice Spirit Cold Spring. Frank located a possible supplier and agreed to keep Xiao Yan’s alchemy process confidential, leaving Xiao Yan waiting at the guild for news.

• Xiao Yan received applause after completing the assessment and showed off his new alchemist robe to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan brought Xiao Yi Xian to meet Frank, who was surprised by her strength and talent.
• Xiao Yan asked Frank to help him find Ice Spirit Cold Spring, Blood Lotus Essence, and a third-tier earth-attributed Magical Core.
• Frank found that a Fourth-Tier Alchemist had recently acquired Ice Spirit Cold Spring and offered to contact them about a price.
• Xiao Yan agreed that Frank could keep a record of his Qi Recovery Pill assessment, provided Frank did not share the alchemy process for five years.

After learning that the Ice Spirit Cold Spring had dissipated, Xiao Yan obtained its location in Jueyou Valley and prepared to travel there with Old Yao’s protection. Frank supplied him with pills and two Third Tier cauldrons, and Xiao Yan left Black Rock City with Xiao Yi Xian for Salt City.

• Xiao Yan learned that a Fourth-Tier Alchemist had accidentally let the Ice Spirit Cold Spring dissipate, then asked Frank for the location where it had been found.
• Frank warned Xiao Yan that Jueyou Valley in the Xuanyou Mountain Range was dangerous, but Xiao Yan said he would explore it with his teacher.
• Frank gave Xiao Yan pills and offered him his Fourth Tier cauldron, but Xiao Yan declined it and said that one’s own Alchemy mattered more than equipment.
• Frank gave Xiao Yan two Third Tier cauldrons, and Xiao Yan accepted them with thanks.
• Xiao Yan returned to his residence, brought Xiao Yi Xian, and boarded a flying magical beast bound for Salt City.

After arriving in Salt City, Xiao Yan confronted the Mo Clan’s young riders for driving dust over him and Xiao Yi Xian. He subdued Mo Linglin before she could summon help, leaving her at his mercy as he proposed a bet.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in Salt City after a six-day journey, and Xiao Yan considered the Mo Clan’s experiments and its ties to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Mo Linglin and her companions galloped through the streets, covering pedestrians and Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian in dust.
• Xiao Yan blasted dust into the riders’ faces, then hurled a Mo Clan youth into a wall when he challenged him.
• Xiao Yan confronted Mo Linglin and used the Sucking Palm to seize her when she reached for a signal flare.
• Xiao Yan held Mo Linglin by the neck and bet that he would snap it before she could fire the flare.

Xiao Yan confronted the Mo Clan in Salt City, then took Xiao Yi Xian to Jueyou Valley in search of poisonous, cold-attributed magical beasts. He found a recently dead fifth-tier magical beast in the valley, leaving him uncertain about what had happened there.

• Xiao Yan threatened the Mo Clan’s representative, returned Mo Linglin to him, and refused his offer of hospitality.
• After Xiao Yan left Salt City, the Mo Clan sent men to follow him, and Xiao Yi Xian killed them with her Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she had advanced to seven stars, and Xiao Yan flew with her toward Jueyou Valley in the Xuanyou Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached the valley and discovered the decayed corpse of a fifth-tier magical beast that had apparently died about a month earlier.

Xiao Yan found that the Ice Spirit Cold Spring had been nearly drained, but Old Yao’s suspicion led him to uncover a powerful cold source beneath the pool. After Xiao Yan was frozen by its chill, Old Yao emerged and identified it as the Mystic Ice Spirit Marrow.

• Xiao Yan discovered that the Cold Poison Ice Blue Scorpion’s corpse lay over a pool containing only a few drops of Ice Spirit Cold Spring.
• Xiao Yan retrieved the scorpion’s Fifth Tier Magical Core and venom sac, then refined its corpse into essence blood.
• Old Yao reasoned that an object of extreme cold might have nurtured the Ice Spirit Cold Spring, and Xiao Yan sensed cracks beneath the pool.
• Xiao Yan melted through the pool’s stone floor with the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire, but a burst of cold aura froze him in Mystic Ice.
• Old Yao emerged from Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring, freed him with pale flames, and recognized the hidden treasure as the Mystic Ice Spirit Marrow.

Xiao Yan found the Mystic Ice Spirit Marrow while searching for Ice Spirit Cold Spring, gaining a valuable aid for refining Heavenly Flames and suppressing Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Body. He and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to Mo City, where Xiao Yan planned to seek out Hai Bodong before pursuing the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Old Yao explained the Mystic Ice Spirit Marrow’s rarity and how it could improve Xiao Yan’s chances of refining Heavenly Flames, while warning him privately that it could suppress Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan collected the Mystic Ice Spirit Marrow and stored it in his ring, then returned with Xiao Yi Xian to Salt City.
• Xiao Yan chartered a flight to Mo City and spent the journey refining pills and cultivating Dou Qi.
• After arriving in Mo City, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian explored the desert city, and Xiao Yan learned the location of the Ancient Map shop.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian visited Hai Bodong’s map shop, where Xiao Yan found an ancient map fragment and asked to buy it. After Hai Bodong refused and Xiao Yan revealed that he knew the old man’s identity, Hai Bodong cleared the shop and unleashed his aura, leaving the bystanders convinced he was a Dou Ling expert.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Ancient Map shop and found Hai Bodong drawing maps behind the counter.
• Xiao Yan searched a rack of damaged maps and found a fragment resembling one he had seen before.
• Xiao Yan asked Hai Bodong for more fragments and learned that the one he held had already been bought.
• Hai Bodong refused to identify the buyer and warned Xiao Yan not to try taking the fragment by force.
• Xiao Yan used a voice transmission to reveal Hai Bodong’s identity, causing Hai Bodong to snap his pen and order everyone out.
• Hai Bodong’s icy aura drove the customers from the shop, and they mistook him for a Dou Ling expert while Old Yao shielded Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian.

Mite'er Ya Fei reflected on how her dream had led her to Elder Hai, improved her cultivation, and helped her find Xiao Yan, whose rapid growth differed from what she remembered. When she heard that a Dou Ling had been revealed at Elder Hai's map shop, she feared her plans would need to advance and rushed there.

• Mite'er Ya Fei read intelligence that Xiao Yan had become a four-star Dou Zhe at ten and that Nalan Yanran had taken Yun Yun to the Xiao Family.
• Mite'er Ya Fei recalled dreaming of another life in which she met Xiao Yan, then awakening with greatly improved cultivation talent and ice-attributed Dou Qi.
• Mite'er Ya Fei used her family position to connect with Elder Hai, learned his Mystic Ice Dou Qi, and found Xiao Yan in Wutan City.
• Mite'er Ya Fei planned to approach Xiao Yan when his Dou Qi realm declined, but learned that he was advancing even faster than in her dream.
• A clan uncle told Mite'er Ya Fei that Elder Hai had revealed himself as a Dou Ling at the map shop, and she jumped out the window to hurry there.

Xiao Yan tried to trade his alchemy skills for Hai Bodong’s Ancient Map, but Hai Bodong recognized his extraordinary talent and called Ya Fei in to fight him. Ya Fei revealed that she had become a Da Dou Shi, and the chapter ended as she and Xiao Yan prepared to battle.

• Xiao Yan offered to help remove Hai Bodong’s seal in exchange for the Ancient Map and revealed that he was an eleven-year-old Third-Grade Alchemist and Two-Star Dou Master.
• Hai Bodong accepted Xiao Yan’s explanation, then summoned Ya Fei and told her to fight him over the map.
• Ya Fei entered and displayed Mystic Ice Armor, revealing that she had become a Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan suspected that several women around him might have been reborn and worried about future conflicts among them.
• Xiao Yan drew his Heavy Profound Ruler and ignited his Blood Flame Gauze as Ya Fei took her stance with an Ice Spear.

Xiao Yan fought Ya Fei in the shop and defeated her by detonating the hidden force of Eight Extremities Collapse inside her Dou Qi Armor. Ya Fei was left embarrassed and furious, while Xiao Yan suspected that Old Yao had awakened.

• Xiao Yan charged Ya Fei with the Heavy Profound Ruler, but she met his attack with her Ice Spear and forced him back.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Mad Lion Roar, and Ya Fei used Ice Condensation Mirror to reflect the attack into the shop’s counters and wall.
• Xiao Yan used his soul perception to evade Ya Fei’s spear and struck her shoulder with Eight Extremities Collapse.
• Xiao Yan detonated eight bursts of force and Heavenly Flames inside Ya Fei’s Dou Qi Armor, burning it away and scorching her qipao.
• Xiao Yan conceded, while Ya Fei blushed with embarrassment and glared at him resentfully.

After Xiao Yan defeated Ya Fei in a spar, she resolved to gain more combat experience and grow stronger rather than rely on him. Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Ya Fei and Hai Bodong, whose conversation turned to whether Xiao Yan could help Hai Bodong recover his cultivation, while Xiao Yi Xian grew wary of Ya Fei.

• Xiao Yan apologized for damaging Ya Fei's clothes, and Hai Bodong pointed out that she lacked real combat experience.
• Ya Fei accepted the criticism and decided to train in the desert so she could become strong enough to protect Xiao Yan herself.
• Xiao Yan recognized Hai Bodong as the Ice Emperor, and Hai Bodong asked whether Xiao Yan was the talented boy Ya Fei had found in Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian as his friend and said she was a Seven-Star Dou Master, prompting Ya Fei to tease them about being well matched.
• Ya Fei revealed that she had told Hai Bodong Xiao Yan might help restore his cultivation, and Xiao Yi Xian began to view Ya Fei as a rival.

Xiao Yan agreed to refine a pill to restore Hai Bodong’s strength in exchange for Hai Bodong’s Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. After receiving a map marking likely Heavenly Flame locations in the Tagor Desert, Xiao Yan set out to begin his training there.

• Xiao Yan offered to refine a sixth-tier pill for Hai Bodong in return for the Fragmented Map, and Hai Bodong agreed to hand over the second piece after his strength was restored.
• Old Yao urged Xiao Yan to obtain the map because it concerned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, which was vital to cultivating the Burning Art.
• Hai Bodong explained that he had gathered most of the pill’s ingredients but still needed Sand Mandala from the Tagor Desert, where Queen Medusa could sense him.
• Xiao Yan agreed to find the Sand Mandala, and Hai Bodong gave him a detailed desert map marking three places likely to contain Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan ignored Hai Bodong’s warnings about the desert and departed at once to begin his training.

Xiao Yan agreed to restore Hai Bodong’s strength in exchange for the fragmented map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. After obtaining a map marked with three likely Heavenly Flame locations, Xiao Yan set out to find the Sand Mandala and begin training in the desert.

• Xiao Yan offered to refine a sixth-grade pill for Hai Bodong in exchange for the fragmented map, and Old Yao urged him to accept because it concerned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hai Bodong agreed to give Xiao Yan the other map fragment after recovering his strength and explained that a Heavenly Flame was required to refine the pill.
• Hai Bodong said he lacked the Sand Mandala ingredient, so Xiao Yan agreed to find it in exchange for information about Heavenly Flames.
• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Yan a detailed map marking three places in the Tagor Desert likely to contain a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan ignored Hai Bodong’s warning about one location and immediately set off for the desert.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled through the Tagor Desert while Xiao Yan trained to withstand its harsh fire-element energy. They left off sharing an awkward but intimate moment after Xiao Yi Xian applied Blood Burning spirit liquid to him.

• Xiao Yan endured the desert heat and agreed with Old Yao to travel toward the map's flame symbol, though Old Yao warned him that he was not yet strong enough to safely devour the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian dealt with desert magical beasts, and Xiao Yan collected poison from Yellow Sand Demon Scorpions for her.
• On the second day, Xiao Yan used Blood Burning spirit liquid to intensify his desert cultivation, while Xiao Yi Xian applied it to his back and chest.
• Xiao Yi Xian touched Xiao Yan's chest as she checked whether the spirit liquid had absorbed, and the two awkwardly changed the subject before laughing together.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian encountered the wounded Dan Zai in the Tager Desert and learned that snake-people had attacked his mercenary squad. They rescued the squad and met its captain, Xue Lan, who could lead them to Shi Mo City.

• Xiao Yan discovered that Hai Bodong's old map did not show Shi Mo City's precise location, and Old Yao said someone would soon guide him.
• Dan Zai told Xiao Yan that snake-people had attacked his squad, and Xiao Yan gave him medicine in exchange for directions to Shi Mo City.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian followed Dan Zai to the besieged squad, where Xiao Yan killed all eight snake-people with his Heavy Profound Ruler.
• Dan Zai reunited with Xue Lan, and Xiao Yan introduced himself and Xiao Yi Xian to the captain of Shi Mo City's Storm Mercenary Squad.

After settling in Shi Mo City, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian grew closer while shopping together. Their evening was interrupted by mercenaries harassing a young woman with Snake-Person Bloodline, and Xiao Yan went to intervene.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian accepted Xue Lan and the others' invitation to stay at the Storm Mercenary Squad's headquarters.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian explored Shi Mo City, bought clothes and herbs, and sampled local food.
• Xiao Yan complimented Xiao Yi Xian's new dress and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear as they walked together.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Xiao Yan about holding her, and the two laughed together.
• Xiao Yan heard mercenaries in an alley threatening a young woman with Snake-Person Bloodline and headed over to intervene.

Xiao Yan rescued Qing Lin from a group of mercenaries in a Shi Mo City alley and offered her a name and a home. Qing Lin accepted Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian’s invitation to come with them.

• Xiao Yan intervened when Mo Xing and two mercenaries cornered Qing Lin, and asked her to close her eyes.
• Xiao Yan’s Blood-colored Flame burned Mo Xing and the other men to ashes after their attacks failed to harm him.
• Xiao Yi Xian joined Xiao Yan, and the frightened Qing Lin began sobbing after the danger passed.
• Xiao Yan comforted Qing Lin, saw the snake scales on her wrist, and named her Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian took Qing Lin by the hands and promised to protect her as they led her home.

Xiao Yan asked Qing Lin to use her unusual senses to locate the place where a powerful woman had stayed near Shi Mo City. After Qing Lin led him, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Storm Mercenary Squad to the spot, Xiao Yan ordered the mercenaries to search for a hidden underground passage.

• Xiao Yan showed Qing Lin Hai Bodong's old map, and she recognized that the flame-marked area lay east of Shi Mo City.
• Qing Lin recalled sensing a powerful woman with an aura like her Snake-Person Bloodline near the city a month earlier, and said the woman had stayed through a violent night before leaving injured.
• Xiao Yan comforted Qing Lin about her bloodline, then took her and Xiao Yi Xian to find the woman's resting place.
• Qing Lin identified a featureless stretch of desert, and Xiao Yan asked Xue Lan and the Storm Mercenary Squad to search for an underground passage.
• Xue Lan warned that a broad search could draw attention from other mercenary groups, but Xiao Yan told her to proceed and promised to handle any trouble.