Recaps

Xiao Yan accepted Old Yao as his teacher, awakened the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire, and began learning alchemy while strengthening his techniques. After sharing his plans with Xun Er, he chose to delay attending Jia Nan Academy and seek the Purple Cloud Wings in the Monster Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yan passed the test as a one-star Dou Zhe and accepted Yun Yun as his master after she offered to teach him in Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan defeated Jia Lie Ao’s guards in the Xiao Family marketplace and forced Jia Lie Ao to kneel before letting him go.
• Xiao Yan touched a scarlet bone fragment in his hidden cave, and Old Yao awakened to subdue the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire and take most of Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan accepted Old Yao as his teacher, learned the Spirit Flame Tempering Technique, and began refining medicines and pills with the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan sold Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and Qi Gathering Powder through Guni, bought medicinal supplies, and acquired the black iron fragment containing Sucking Palm.
• Old Yao taught Xiao Yan Fire Blowing Palm and Eight Extremities Collapse, while medicinal pills and harsh training strengthened Xiao Yan’s body.
• Xun Er gave Xiao Yan a Storage Ring filled with cultivation resources, and Xiao Yan showed her the infant Myriad Beast Spirit Fire and promised to protect her.
• Xun Er offered to help mature the Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Yan pledged to reach Dou Emperor in six years before choosing to pursue the Purple Cloud Wings instead of attending Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment.

Xiao Yan left Wutan City to gain experience, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, and uncovered treasures in a hidden cave before they settled in a valley to train. After they revealed their past lives to each other, Xiao Yan promised to help her control the Woe Poison Body, and Old Yao agreed to guide her.

• Xiao Yan met Ruo Lin at Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment and impressed Instructor Xi Wei, who arranged his enrollment with a long leave and an assessment the following year.
• Xiao Yan left Wutan City wearing Old Yao’s Heavy Profound Ruler and reached Green Mountain Town, where he learned Xiao Yi Xian had made Healing Medicine and defeated Mu Li when he confronted him.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized Xiao Yan from her previous life and arranged for him to join her herb-gathering party, while Mu She led the Wolf Head Mercenary Group into the Monster Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered a hidden cave, recovered its treasure and three scrolls, and returned to find Mu She and the mercenaries dead after Mu She went berserk.
• Xiao Yan refined the Purple Cloud Wings, discovered a map fragment tied to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and traveled with Xiao Yi Xian to a hidden valley to train.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she had lived a previous life as the Poison Sect’s sect master and had awakened as her younger self, and Xiao Yan admitted he had also been reborn.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao that Han Shanshan’s soul might remain in the Bone Chilling Flame and warned him that the Soul Hall and Soul Clan sought the Xiao Family’s jade fragment.
• Xiao Yi Xian chose to remain in the Chu Yun Empire and train with Xiao Yan, and Old Yao offered to teach her to control the Woe Poison Body.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled from Black Rock City to the Tagor Desert, where Xiao Yan pursued Hai Bodong’s map and searched for a Heavenly Flame. They rescued Qing Lin and began investigating the desert location where she had sensed a powerful woman.

• Xiao Yan refined a Fire Lotus Pill and used it to break through to Two-Star Dou Master before deciding with Xiao Yi Xian to travel to the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Yan earned Third-Grade Alchemist status in Black Rock City and obtained directions to Jueyou Valley, where he found the Mystic Ice Spirit Marrow beneath a pool of Ice Spirit Cold Spring.
• Xiao Yan confronted Mo Linglin in Salt City, then traveled to Jueyou Valley with Xiao Yi Xian and retrieved the Mystic Ice Spirit Marrow after Old Yao freed him from Mystic Ice.
• Xiao Yan met Hai Bodong in Mo City and fought Ya Fei over a map fragment, then agreed to find Sand Mandala in exchange for the fragment and information about Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Tagor Desert, cultivated through its heat, and rescued Dan Zai’s squad from eight snake-people before reaching Shi Mo City.
• Xiao Yan rescued Qing Lin from Mo Xing and two mercenaries, then promised with Xiao Yi Xian to protect her.
• Qing Lin recognized the flame-marked area on Hai Bodong’s map and recalled a powerful woman who had stayed nearby before leaving injured, so Xiao Yan asked Xue Lan and the Storm Mercenary Squad to search for an underground passage.

Xiao Yan infiltrated the Snake-Person Tribe, helped Queen Medusa evolve, and absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame. After returning to Yun Yun, he confronted the Mo Clan’s abuses and arrived with her in Salt City, where Nalan Yanran recognized him.

• Xiao Yan killed Luo Bu, awakened Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and used them to control the Double-Headed Fire Spirit Snake beneath the magma.
• After training in the desert, Xiao Yan disguised himself as a snake girl and entered the Snake-Person Tribe’s temple, where Queen Medusa began evolving with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Queen Medusa emerged as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and forced Xiao Yan to absorb the Green Lotus Core Flame, which he refined and fused with the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire.
• Xiao Yan replenished Queen Medusa’s energy, escaped with Sand Mandala, and met Yun Yun, who learned he was an alchemist and carried him toward the desert’s edge.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Storm Mercenary Squad and, with Yun Yun, defeated the Mo Clan attackers who had targeted Xiao Yi Xian because of her Woe Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun agreed to investigate the Mo Clan, then traveled in disguise to Salt City and found the clan controlling the inns for Mo Cheng’s birthday celebration.
• Mo Linglin attacked Xiao Yan at Moso Garden, but Nalan Yanran arrived, recognized him, and hurried toward him.