Recaps

Qi Fan reunited with the Nalan family while Qi Yan'er pursued her own mission, recruiting Yao Chen and helping Qing Lin master her pupils. Qi Yan'er left the Jia Ma Empire for the Chaotic Land as Qi Fan began searching for a way to catch up with her.

• Qi Fan learned from Yan'er's letter that the Jade Pendant held Butterfly's soul and sent Yan'er a warning to avoid the Black-Corner Region, but she decided to go there to restore Queen Medusa.
• Nalan Jie arranged for Qi Fan to stay in Yanran's room, where Nalan Yanran found him and confessed she wanted to become Yan'er's mother, though Qi Fan refused to accept her while he had a wife.
• Yan'er made Yao Chen her disciple and taught him the Pill-Stirring Method, which he used to refine three Huang Ji Dan for the Snake-People Race.
• Yan'er and her companions discovered Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could control powerful snake-type beasts, then traveled toward Desert City with Yao Chen in Xiao Yan's body.
• Bai Ya and Lü Man came seeking Qing Lin, but Qing Lin awakened her pupils and subdued Bai Ya, while Yan'er spared Lü Man after Yao Chen asked her to.
• Yan'er crossed Zhenbei Pass into the Chaotic Land after learning the Mittel Auction House was offering a reward for news of her.
• Qi Fan learned Yan'er had left the Jia Ma Empire, then went with Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran to the Alchemist Guild's eastern trading area.

Qi Yan'er and her companions crossed the Black-Corner Region, fought a Hall of Souls Protector, and reached Blood-Ink City for its auction. The auction exposed Xiao Yan's actions and drew the factions into a contest for Qi Yan'er's Dou Wang Puppet.

• Qi Fan agreed to treat Lei Na's Snake Venom and Fire Poison in exchange for Peach Blossom Fire, while Qi Yan'er led her companions across the Black-Corner Region toward Blood-Ink City.
• Qi Yan'er and her companions survived a Black Storm, where Yao Chen, Bai Ya, Ling Ying, and Little Spicy Stick helped her defeat a Hall of Souls Protector, whom she drained of his Dou Qi.
• Qi Yan'er arrived in Blood-Ink City and arranged to auction a Dou Wang Puppet, while Xiao Yan tried to sneak away and drew the Blood Sect's attention.
• At the auction, Yao Chen recognized his Soul Spirit ring and watched a bidder buy it, then the auctioneer presented the Tou She Ancient God Jade that Xiao Yan had offered.
• The white-haired auctioneer recognized the group's connections to ancient clans, gave Qi Yan'er the jade pendant, and fled, while Fan Ling bid against the Black Skull Tomb for an Azure Spirit Pill and Thunder Bat Wings.
• The auctioneer revealed Qi Yan'er's wooden Dou Wang Puppet, and Su Mei offered two Xuan-tier high-level battle techniques to obtain it as the other factions backed down.

Qi Yan’er’s auction for the Tongtian Xisui Pill drew rival factions into a battle, while Qi Fan’s separate trip to the Alchemist Convention brought him face to face with the Jia Ma princesses. The conflict at the auction remained unresolved as the story shifted to Qi Fan and the princesses.

• Qi Yan’er recognized the auctioned cloth fragment as part of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map and asked Su Mei to go to the Jia Ma Empire to serve her father.
• Xiao Yan tried to buy the fragment, but Ling Ying cut off one of his legs, allowing Fan Ling to win it.
• Qi Yan’er auctioned the Tongtian Xisui Pill and rejected offers of allegiance, directing the factions to acknowledge Su Mei instead.
• Yao Fang exchanged three rare ingredients for the pill, but Qi Yan’er refused to give it up, and the Black Emperor Sect attacked her group.
• Fan Lao and Han Feng revealed their plan to seize the pill, trapping the auction crowd in the Bloodthirsty Array and directing the factions against Qi Yan’er.
• The factions fought across the auction house as Yao Chen and Ling Ying joined forces against the Gold and Silver Elders, and Xiao Yi Xian poisoned the Blood Sect guards.
• Qi Fan went to the Alchemist Convention, signed in for Points and a Medicine Cauldron, and met Yao Yue and Yao Ye while using the name Xiao Fan.

Qi Yan’er defeated the Blood Sect and Black Skull Tomb forces in Blood-Ink City, then gathered allies and began bringing factions of the Black-Corner Region under her control. The arc left her facing Mo Tianxing at Rakshasa Gate after he returned with Xiao Yan and attacked her allies.

• Qi Yan’er and her companions fought the Blood Sect, Black Skull Tomb, and Han Feng’s forces, while Gu Xun Er and Queen Medusa helped defeat their strongest opponents.
• Queen Medusa protected Qi Yan’er from Mo Protector, then reverted to her snake form as her inner resistance grew, and Qi Yan’er planned to investigate the Nine Nether Earth Python clan for a way to help her.
• Qi Yan’er captured Mo Ya, defeated Kui Sha, and held the Black Emperor Sect’s Young Sect Master for ransom before setting out to bring nearby factions into her group.
• Qi Yan’er recruited Yao Fang and the Mad Lion Gang, then sent Xiao Xun’er and the others toward the academy while she continued to Rakshasa Gate.
• Mo Tianxing used Xiao Yan to try to force Qi Yan’er to return Mo Ya, but Qi Yan’er refused to yield and revealed that Mo Ya was already in her custody.
• Mo Tianxing attacked Yao Fang, Qi Shan, and Yan Sheng, and Qi Yan’er’s allies moved to fight him.