Recaps

Yao Yan left the Jia Ma Empire for the Central Plains, advanced to Four Star Dou Zong at the Tianshan Blood Pool, and brought Yao Lao to the Pill Tower. After helping restore Yao Lao’s body, Yao Yan entered the Pill Realm to gather ingredients for an Eighth-grade alchemy assessment, where Zi Yan’s bloodline subdued a Void Dragon Bear.

• Yao Yan entrusted the Heavenly Court’s leadership to Hai Bo Dong, then departed for the Central Plains with Zi Yan, Heavenly Fire Venerable, and Yao Lao.
• Yao Yan and Yun Yun confronted and destroyed the Fierce Soul inside the Life and Death Gate before he left the Misty Cloud Sect for the Snake-People Tribe.
• Yao Yan cultivated for nearly ten months in the Tianshan Blood Pool, reaching Four Star Dou Zong Peak and draining most of its energy.
• Hun Xuzi visited Yao Yan and urged him to devour a captured Yan Clan woman’s bloodline, while promising a child flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame after Yao Yan reached Dou Zun.
• Yao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, then traveled with Yao Lao and their companions to the Pill Tower, where Xuan Yi offered resources to restore Yao Lao’s body.
• Yao Yan used a Two-Star Dou Sheng Skeleton, Demonic Beast Blood Essence, and a Life and Death Reincarnation Pill to help Yao Lao regain his body.
• After half a year of cultivation, Yao Yan reached the peak of Five-Star Dou Zong and chose the Nine-Revolution Undying Pill for his Eighth-grade Alchemist assessment.
• Yao Yan entered the Pill Realm to gather ingredients, and Zi Yan used her bloodline pressure to subdue a Void Dragon Bear in Danta’s abandoned palace ruins.

Yao Yan pursued Zi Yan’s Dragon Emperor heritage, gained power through pills and battles, and arranged with Soul Hall to seize Three Thousand Burning Flame. After Yao Lao reappeared during the operation, Soul Hall captured Yao Yan and the fighting with the Pill Tower ended.

• Yao Yan passed his eighth-grade pill assessment, cultivated the Supreme Profound Scripture, and advanced to Seven Star Dou Zong after consuming the Seven-Colored Nine-Revolution Undying Pill.
• Yao Yan traveled to Dragon Island, traded pills for dragon blood, and refined the Yin-Yang Dragon Phoenix Pill, whose bloodline power he later gave to Zi Yan before she began her baptism in the Dragon Phoenix Pool.
• Yao Yan absorbed the pool’s energy, reached the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zong, and returned to Starfall Pavilion while Zi Yan remained in a violet-gold egg under Zhu Li’s protection.
• Yao Yan hunted the Profound Ice Toad King with Wind Venerable, Iron Sword Venerable, and Heavenly Fire Venerable, then fought Ice River Valley Master Bing He and obtained the Calamity Poison Body secret technique.
• Yao Yan returned to Holy Pill City, supplied pills to his allies, and learned from Xuan Yi that he needed Three Thousand Burning Flame’s recognition to refine it safely.
• Yao Yan joined Soul Hall’s plan to break Three Thousand Burning Flame’s seal, and Soul Hall’s forces attacked the Pill Tower while Mo Yu and the Six Venerable Elders restrained the flame.
• Yao Yan drew Three Thousand Burning Flame into himself, but Yao Lao appeared and confronted him over the Yao Clan’s Three Flowers Gather Fire Skill.
• Soul Hall’s Dou Sheng captured Yao Yan as Yao Lao fought another Dou Sheng above Holy Pill City, and the Soul Hall and Pill Tower leaders ended the confrontation.

Yao Yan subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame, rose through the Soul Clan’s ranks, and defeated Hun Feng to become Young Chief. Hun Tiandi then used Yao Yan and the Tou She Ancient God Jade to pursue an alliance with the Gu Clan, while Yao Yan began building influence and cultivating for Dou Sheng.

• After the Soul Hall forces left, Lin Mo arranged for Yao Lao to meet the Pill Tower Old Ancestor, who offered him the Pill Tower Master position and condensed essence before passing into reincarnation.
• Yao Yan absorbed the Three Thousand Burning Flame, advanced to Four-Star Dou Zun, and used Soul Origin to raise his soul to the Mid Heaven Realm.
• Hun Xuzi brought Yao Yan to the Soul Clan, named him Soul Yan, and prepared him to compete with Hun Feng for Young Clan Leader.
• In the Blood Sacrifice World, Yao Yan devoured his opponents and a Tunling Clan General, then received the Heavenly Son Fire from Void Swallowing Flame.
• Hun Jue and other Dou Zuns pledged allegiance to Yao Yan, who defeated Hun Feng and was declared the contest’s victor by Hun Yuantian.
• Hun Tiandi gave Yao Yan a Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment, declared him Soul Clan Young Chief, and brought him to the Gu Clan to propose a marriage alliance with Gu Xun'er.
• Yao Yan recruited Hun Jue to build his influence and accepted pill-refining work before taking a Saint Spirit Pill to transform his body, Dou Qi, and soul.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Xun'er that the Gu Clan had agreed to the alliance because Yao Yan’s five clan bloodlines could help open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, and Xun'er asked to meet him.

Yao Yan pursued the Soul Clan’s marriage alliance while building ties with Gu Xun’er, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and Cai Lin. After absorbing two Heavenly Flames and the poisons of the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain Range, he formed an Acquired Calamity Poison Body and faced Heavenly Dragon Saint.

• Yao Yan met Gu Xun’er in the Xiao Clan, discussed their marriage alliance, and accompanied her around Wutan City before she returned to the Gu Realm.
• Xiao Ning accepted the Devouring Heaven Demon Skill from the Son of Heaven Fire, then used it to kill Xiao Yan and flee toward the Black-Corner Region.
• Yao Yan found Xiao Yan’s corpse, told Yun Yun he was leaving, and departed the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Yao Yan reunited with Cai Lin and Cai Die, revealed his position as Soul Yan and his plan to stabilize the Northwest Continent, then followed Cai Die to find the Netherworld Poison Flame.
• Yao Yan subdued the Netherworld Poison Flame and seized the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, then entered seclusion in the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain Range.
• Yao Yan spent six months absorbing poisons and treasures to form an Acquired Calamity Poison Body, then confronted Heavenly Dragon Saint.
• Yao Yan used seven Exotic Flames and Spatial Shift against Heavenly Dragon Saint, revealed that poison had seeped into his body, and raised his strength to Two Star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Yan condensed a Seven-Colored Fire Lotus as Heavenly Dragon Saint formed a dragon pearl, and the watching saints recognized that their fight had become a battle to the death.