Recaps

Xiao Yan discovered that Hong Family members had planted a poisoned corpse to implicate Xiao Yi Xian, and he suspected the scheme was part of the family’s efforts to undermine the Han Family’s clinic. He confirmed the Hong Family was monitoring the clinic but left Xiao Yi Xian to continue treating patients, confident that her Dou Zun strength made her untouchable in Tianbei City.

• Xiao Yan followed two unmarked Hong Family members and saw them abandon a man’s corpse in a market alley.
• Xiao Yan examined the corpse and found that poison unlike Xiao Yi Xian’s had killed the man, leading him to suspect a Hong Family scheme.
• Xiao Yan left the body untouched and continued through the market, where he found nothing worth buying.
• Xiao Yan visited the Han Family clinic and noticed concealed auras watching it from several directions.
• Xiao Yan concluded that Xiao Yi Xian had likely noticed the Hong Family’s surveillance and remained unconcerned, then left as the waiting patients pressed forward.

Xiao Yan secretly returned to the Han Family and cured Lin Yan’s fire poison before watching him defeat Han Yue and Yan Zhi. Xiao Yan then sparred with Lin Yan, who used his sound-guided movement technique to evade his attacks as Xiao Yan prepared to demonstrate his speed.

• Xiao Yan gave Lin Yan a fifth-tier medicinal pill that permanently cured the fire poison in his body.
• Lin Yan defeated Han Yue in a spar and then beat Yan Zhi, a four-star Dou Emperor, with his evasive footwork.
• Lin Yan challenged Xiao Yan to a match, and Han Yue urged Xiao Yan to fight on her behalf.
• Xiao Yan suppressed his strength and attacked Lin Yan, who evaded his moves with the Bat Duck Fire-Evasion Step and countered from behind.
• Lin Yan insisted he would not lose to Xiao Yan in speed, and he heard faint thunder rumbling around Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to outpace Lin Yan in a movement-technique contest, forcing him off the platform. Afterward, Han Chi warned Xiao Yan that the Wind Lightning Pavilion guarded the technique closely and advised him to use it sparingly.

• Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to attack Lin Yan, while Lin Yan relied on sound waves and evasive movement to avoid him.
• Xiao Yan's afterimages disrupted Lin Yan's attempts to locate him, and Lin Yan dodged until he fell from the fighting platform.
• Lin Yan accepted his loss, while Xiao Yan called their speed contest a draw because he had never touched him.
• Han Chi recognized Three Thousand Lightning Movement and warned Xiao Yan that the Wind Lightning Pavilion treated it as a secret art.
• Han Chi told Han Yue and Yan Zhi not to spread word of Xiao Yan's technique, and Xiao Yan thanked him for the warning.

Han Chi told Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Luan Clan possessed an eighth-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core, which Xiao Yan needed to refine Xiao Yi Xian’s poison pill. Xiao Yan chose to seek Mu Qingluan at Starfall Pavilion rather than wait for the Four Pavilions Conference, and agreed to settle the Han Family’s conflict with the Hong Family before leaving.

• Han Chi informed Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Luan Clan held an eighth-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core, but the Han Family could not approach the clan.
• Han Chi explained that Mu Qingluan, a Heavenly Luan Clan member in Starfall Pavilion, would attend the Four Pavilions Conference in a little over three months.
• Xiao Yan decided he could not wait for the conference and would go to Starfall Pavilion to find Mu Qingluan.
• Xiao Yan assured Han Chi he would resolve the Han Family’s conflict with the Hong Family in return for the information.
• Xiao Yan ordered Han Chi to have the Hong Family remove its arrangements around the clinic and said he would confront the family before leaving the next day.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left the Han Family and went to the Hong Family to secure the Han Family’s safety. Xiao Yan agreed to spare Shen Yun only after making him face an attack for his role in the incident at the clinic.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to leave the Han Family, and Xiao Yan prepared pills for Lin Yan before they departed at dawn.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian visited the Hong Family, where Xiao Yan used his soul power to draw out Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun.
• Hong Tianxiao agreed that the Hong Family would no longer make things difficult for the Han Family.
• Xiao Yan confronted Shen Yun for watching Xiao Yi Xian at the clinic and helping cause several deaths, then ordered Shen Yun to receive one attack from him.

Xiao Yan defeated Shen Yun with one punch and forced Hong Tianxiao to promise that the Hong Family would answer for its treatment of the Han Family. After leaving Tianbei City with Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan set out for Starfall Pavilion to seek information about Zi Yan and Huo Zhi.

• Shen Yun raised a lightning shield and unleashed his full strength, but Xiao Yan shattered the defenses and knocked him unconscious with one controlled punch.
• Hong Tianxiao inspected Shen Yun, confirmed he was alive, and promised Xiao Yan that the Hong Family would handle the matter to his satisfaction.
• Xiao Yan decided he had repaid the Han Family's favor and left Tianbei City with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian planned to travel to Starfall Pavilion through a spatial wormhole because the journey across the Central Plains was too long to make by spatial tearing.
• Xiao Yan worried that the Heavenly Luan Clan might demand too high a price for help from Mu Qingluan, and considered asking Xiao Yi Xian to intervene.

After Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left, the Hong Family decided to suspend its campaign against the Han Family after realizing Xiao Yan was likely a powerful alchemist. New information linked Xiao Yan to Three Thousand Lightning Movement and a theft at Wind Lightning East Pavilion, prompting Shen Yun to alert the Pavilion Master.

• Hong Tianxiao ordered the Hong Family to halt its actions against the Han Family, and Shen Yun recognized that Xiao Yan had defeated him using only soul power.
• Hong Chen objected to sparing the Han Family, but Hong Li rebuked him and allowed him to pursue the Han Family's physician only if he behaved properly.
• A messenger told Hong Li that an informant named Yan Zhi had identified the visitor as Xiao Yan, a young alchemist who had arrived at the Han Family by chance.
• Hong Li revealed that Xiao Yan knew Three Thousand Lightning Movement, leading Shen Yun and Hong Chen to suspect he had stolen from Wind Lightning East Pavilion's library.
• Shen Yun decided to notify the Pavilion Master and leave the matter for him to judge.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to Nine Star City so Xiao Yan could update his alchemist rank at the Pill Tower before offering seventh-tier pills to the Heavenly Luan Clan. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan asking to be tested as a seventh-tier alchemist despite a warning about the examiner.

• Xiao Yan decided to seek seventh-tier alchemist certification so he could trade pills with the Heavenly Luan Clan and gain access to restricted medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to Nine Star City and found its busy Pill Tower branch.
• Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Yi Xian that her medical skills were already comparable to those of an ordinary fifth-tier alchemist.
• Xiao Yan bypassed the long testing queue and asked a Pill Tower elder about taking a faster rank test.
• The elder warned Xiao Yan that the seventh-tier examiner had a bad temper, but Xiao Yan insisted that he needed seventh-tier certification.

Xiao Yan sought certification as a Seventh-Grade Alchemist at the Pill Tower branch in Nine Star City, despite Huang Qi warning him about the examiner’s punishment for failed candidates. When the examiner tested him with soul pressure, Xiao Yan revealed power beyond her own and left her stunned.

• Huang Qi led Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to the testing hall and warned Xiao Yan that failed candidates could be made to guard the Pill Tower entrance and serve as medicine attendants.
• Xiao Yan insisted that he needed Seventh-Grade Alchemist certification and reflected on his goal of becoming a Ninth-grade Alchemist for the Void Heavenly Emperor.
• A white-haired old woman entered the hall and tested Xiao Yan by steadily increasing her soul pressure.
• Xiao Yan remained unaffected as the old woman’s soul pressure rose to the advanced Sixth-Grade Alchemist level.
• Xiao Yan unleashed overwhelming soul pressure, crushed the old woman’s pressure, and left her pale and shocked.

Xiao Yan earned a Seventh-grade Intermediate Alchemist badge after testing at the Pill Tower, and Dan Qiu tried to recruit him into the Dan Clan. Though he refused to join a faction, he stopped when Dan Qiu offered to teach him precise soul-power control in exchange for a contest.

• Xiao Yan rebounded Dan Qiu's soul pressure and startled her with his strength.
• Dan Qiu learned Xiao Yan was twenty-three and tried to recruit him into the Dan Clan, even handing him a Rank 7 Intermediate Alchemist badge before the assessment.
• Xiao Yan completed the Pill Tower assessment and received the Seventh-grade Intermediate Alchemist rank.
• Xiao Yan refused to join the Dan Clan, but Dan Qiu caught his interest by offering a method for controlling soul power precisely.
• Dan Qiu said Xiao Yan could earn the method by defeating one of the Dan Clan's young Alchemists.

Xiao Yan refused to travel to the Pill Tower for an immediate alchemy contest because resolving Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body came first, but agreed to compete during the Pill Convention for a chance to win an eighth-rank pill. He left with Xiao Yi Xian carrying a Dan Clan token and a seventh-rank Transformation Pill, and planned to attend the convention for its Three Thousand Burning Flame prize.

• Dan Qiu offered to teach Xiao Yan a soul-control method and give him an eighth-rank medicinal pill if he defeated a young Dan Clan alchemist, while Huang Qi suggested that the opponent name the condition for Xiao Yan’s defeat.
• Xiao Yan declined to travel to the Pill Tower for the contest because the trip could delay his efforts to resolve Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body and cause him to miss the Four Pavilions Conference.
• Dan Qiu explained that the Pill Convention would take place in a little over a year and offer Three Thousand Burning Flame as a prize, prompting Xiao Yan to agree to participate and compete against Chen there.
• Dan Qiu gave Xiao Yan a Dan Clan identity token and promised him three free seventh-rank pills if he kept the appointment; Xiao Yan chose a Transformation Pill for his trade with the Heavenly Luan Clan.
• Xiao Yan left the Pill Tower branch with Xiao Yi Xian after officially certifying his seventh-rank alchemist status.

After refusing the Dan Clan’s invitation, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian headed toward Dongli City to travel to the Southern Region, but Fei Tian and four Wind Lightning Pavilion elders ambushed them. Fei Tian accused Xiao Yan of possessing a stolen combat skill and demanded that he join the pavilion or submit to an investigation; Xiao Yan refused and challenged their authority.

• Dan Qiu gave Huang Qi a sixth-tier medicinal pill and told him to keep the meeting with Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian secret.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he had declined the Dan Clan’s offer because he could not be sure he would win and needed to find Huo Zhi and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian hurried toward Dongli City, where they planned to use a spatial passage to the Southern Region.
• Fei Tian, master of the Wind Lightning North Pavilion, appeared with Shen Yun and three other elders and confronted Xiao Yan about the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Fei Tian demanded that Xiao Yan either join the Wind Lightning Pavilion or return with him for an investigation, but Xiao Yan refused and declared that the pavilion could not force him to join.

Xiao Yan faced Fei Tian and the Wind Lightning North Pavilion elders, eager to test his strength against them. He overwhelmed the four elders and exchanged blows with Fei Tian, whose lightning Xiao Yan could absorb, leaving Fei Tian wary of his abilities.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian to stay back and confronted Fei Tian and the four Wind Lightning North Pavilion elders.
• Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to evade the elders’ formation, then struck one with a punch while Crimson Lotus Karma Flame ignited Heart Fire within him.
• Xiao Yan sent purple fire serpents into the other three elders, injuring them and intensifying their Heart Fire.
• Xiao Yan attacked Shen Yun, but Fei Tian intervened with lightning; Xiao Yan absorbed the lightning with a black void in his palm.
• Xiao Yan traded a punch with Fei Tian and gained the upper hand through his greater physical strength, then devoured the lightning clinging to his body.

Xiao Yan tested his physical strength against Fei Tian, then countered Fei Tian’s lightning storm with the Red Lotus Core Flame. Fei Tian unleashed his strongest technique, the Thunder Tribulation Blood Finger, and its crimson attack pierced through Xiao Yan’s flaming dragon and streaked toward him.

• Xiao Yan used Fei Tian as a test opponent for his enhanced body and transplanted right arm, trading blows without immediately trying to defeat him.
• Fei Tian summoned a vast lightning storm that battered the mountain range and sent lightning toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used the Red Lotus Core Flame to devour Fei Tian’s lightning and form a flaming dragon.
• Fei Tian decided Xiao Yan had to die, struck his chest, and unleashed the Thunder Tribulation Blood Finger.
• Xiao Yan sent the flaming dragon to swallow Fei Tian, but Fei Tian’s crimson attack pierced through it and flew toward Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan broke the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation and overwhelmed Fei Tian with his Heavenly Flame-powered Wild Desolation Ruler and physical strength. As Xiao Yan prepared to finish Fei Tian, Fei Tian revealed a second self attacking Xiao Yi Xian and threatened her to force Xiao Yan to comply.

• Xiao Yan rose to the peak of the nine-star Dou Zong level and battered Fei Tian with successive Wild Desolation Ruler techniques.
• Xiao Yan coated the Heavy Profound Ruler in Red Lotus Core Flame and shattered the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation, leaving the Wind Lightning Pavilion experts badly injured.
• Fei Tian detonated the lightning shield's Dou Qi to slow Xiao Yan's Heavy Profound Ruler, then tried to make a final move.
• Xiao Yan struck Fei Tian and sent him flying, shattering nearly half the bones in both his arms.
• Fei Tian revealed a second self with six-star Dou Zong strength rushing toward Xiao Yi Xian and threatened Xiao Yan with her safety.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian turned Fei Tian’s attempt to use Xiao Yi Xian as a hostage against him, and Xiao Yan seized the Storage Rings of Fei Tian and four fallen elders. Fei Tian warned him that the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s East Pavilion Master was a three-star Dou Zun, but Xiao Yan remained unfazed and prepared to test Fei Tian’s avatar.

• Fei Tian sent his avatar to threaten Xiao Yi Xian, but she immobilized it with her strange power.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had never entered the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s library pavilion, and Fei Tian seized on the explanation as a chance to escape blame.
• Xiao Yan used suction to take the Storage Rings worn by Fei Tian and the four fallen Dou Zong elders.
• Fei Tian threatened Xiao Yan with the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s three-star Dou Zun East Pavilion Master, but Xiao Yan said he had no reason to fear him.
• Xiao Yan told Fei Tian he wanted to learn more about the avatar Fei Tian had used.

Xiao Yan forced Fei Tian to reveal Wind Lightning Pavilion’s Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body, a technique that created a powerful lightning clone. He and Xiao Yi Xian then traveled toward Starfall Pavilion aboard Fei Tian’s ship, while Xiao Yan practiced the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.

• Xiao Yan used the Red Lotus Core Flame to torment Fei Tian and demand his cooperation.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned Fei Tian’s corrupted clone, and Fei Tian gave up resisting.
• Fei Tian explained that the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body created a lightning clone as strong as its original and required the Three Thousand Lightning Movement as a prerequisite.
• Xiao Yan learned that he had already mastered the prerequisite technique and became eager to cultivate the clone technique.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian boarded Fei Tian’s Wind Lightning Pavilion ship and traveled toward Starfall Pavilion, where Xiao Yan practiced the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.

Xiao Yan practiced the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body aboard the space vessel while Xiao Yi Xian carried him toward Starfall Pavilion. After repeated attempts, he finally created an afterimage containing a strand of soul energy.

• Xiao Yan exhausted his Dou Qi practicing the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and recovered with a pill taken from Fei Tian's Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether Xiao Yan had succeeded, and he said he still could not turn his afterimages into clones.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian discussed their journey to Starfall Pavilion and his promise to refine a poison pill that would free her from the Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan sensed soul energy within one of his afterimages but continued practicing as Xiao Yi Xian piloted the space vessel toward the Heavenly Luan Clan.
• Xiao Yan discovered that one of his afterimages remained in place and contained a strand of soul energy, marking his success.

Xiao Yan successfully condensed a seed for the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and asked Fei Tian how to strengthen it. Since wind and lightning power were unavailable, Xiao Yan tried tempering the clone with the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, and the clone began to fade under the flames.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the clone seed and realized he had completed the first step of cultivating the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body.
• Xiao Yan asked Fei Tian how to strengthen the clone seed, and Fei Tian explained that it normally required wind and lightning power.
• Fei Tian was shocked when Xiao Yan confirmed that he had condensed the clone seed in less than ten days.
• Fei Tian suggested that other forms of energy might work, though he could not guarantee success.
• Xiao Yan summoned the clone in his sea of souls and wrapped it in the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, causing its body to tremble and grow fainter.

Xiao Yan strengthened his soul avatar by tempering it with the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, then prepared to enter the Southern Region aboard the spatial vessel. As the vessel neared its exit, he asked Fei Tian about Starfall Pavilion and learned it was considered the most mysterious and likely strongest of the Four Pavilions.

• Xiao Yan carefully adjusted the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame to temper his soul avatar, gradually strengthening it and infusing it with traces of flame.
• Xiao Yan revealed that his avatar had reached the strength of a one-star Dou Zong and reviewed the strengths and gaps in his abilities.
• Xiao Yi Xian alerted Xiao Yan as the spatial vessel approached the Southern Region, and he joined her and Fei Tian on deck.
• Fei Tian remained wary of Xiao Yi Xian, having realized she was likely a Dou Zun and knowing he could not remove the Dou Qi she had placed inside him.
• Xiao Yan asked Fei Tian about Starfall Pavilion, and Fei Tian said it was the most mysterious and probably strongest of the Four Pavilions.

Fei Tian led Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to Starfall Pavilion, where Xiao Yan realized its missing founder was likely his teacher, Yao Lao, and its master was Yao Lao’s friend, Venerable Wind. Unable to enter the pavilion’s hidden formation without a token, Xiao Yi Xian announced their arrival with her Dou Zun power, and someone inside answered.

• Fei Tian explained that Starfall Pavilion’s founder had been the continent’s renowned alchemist, who had mysteriously disappeared, and identified its current master as Venerable Wind, Feng Xian.
• Xiao Yan connected the missing alchemist to Yao Lao and recognized Venerable Wind as the friend he had been seeking.
• Fei Tian guided Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to Starfall Pavilion’s concealed headquarters in the Sky Star Mountain Range.
• Fei Tian revealed that a natural formation protected the pavilion and required a special token to enter.
• Xiao Yi Xian released her Dou Zun pressure across the forest to draw out the pavilion’s residents.
• A voice asked who had come to visit, and Xiao Yan replied that a disciple of an old friend had come to pay respects.

Xiao Yan proved to Venerable Wind that he was Yao Lao’s disciple by showing him the Heavy Profound Ruler and his Flame Mantra, then told him Yao Lao was safe and that he was preparing to revive him. Venerable Wind welcomed Xiao Yan into Starfall Pavilion as family.

• Xiao Yan showed Venerable Wind the Heavy Profound Ruler, prompting the old man to demand an explanation.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated that he could control three Heavenly Flames, and Venerable Wind recognized the Flame Mantra and accepted him as Yao Lao’s disciple.
• Venerable Wind brought Xiao Yan and his companions into Starfall Pavilion, while Fei Tian realized that Xiao Yan was Venerable Yao’s disciple.
• In a secret chamber, Xiao Yan assured Venerable Wind that Yao Lao was safe and that he was making preparations to revive him.
• Venerable Wind told Xiao Yan that, as Yao Lao’s disciple, he was also his disciple and Starfall Pavilion would be his home.

Xiao Yan reunited with Venerable Wind at Starfall Pavilion and discussed Fei Tian, Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, and the supplies needed to revive Yao Lao. Venerable Wind agreed to help, but Mu Qingluan was away in the northern region of the Central Plains.

• Xiao Yan recounted his journey and Fei Tian’s ambush while withholding sensitive details, and Venerable Wind welcomed him as part of Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan chose not to kill Fei Tian, so Venerable Wind decided to hold him until Wind Lightning Pavilion offered satisfactory terms.
• Venerable Wind teased Xiao Yan about Xiao Yi Xian and advised him not to disappoint her sincere feelings.
• Xiao Yan explained that he needed Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva and a Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast core to control Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body.
• Venerable Wind said Starfall Pavilion had a suitable beast core and that Qingluan could accompany Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Luan Clan, but revealed that she was in the northern region of the Central Plains.

Xiao Yan learned that Mu Qingluan had gone to the Northern Region and agreed to travel with Venerable Wind to the Four Pavilions Conference, where he could meet her. After discovering Xiao Yan was also a seventh-tier alchemist, Venerable Wind asked him to represent Starfall Pavilion at the conference.

• Venerable Wind told Xiao Yan that Mu Qingluan had gone to compete for a spot at the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, and promised to take him to see her at the Four Pavilions Conference.
• Xiao Yan told Venerable Wind that he was an eight-star Dou Zong whose combat strength could rival some nine-star Dou Zongs.
• Xiao Yan showed Venerable Wind his Pill Tower badge, revealing that he was a seventh-tier alchemist.
• Xiao Yan described Dan Qiu's attempt to recruit him, and Venerable Wind advised him to build a connection with the powerful Dan Clan.
• Venerable Wind asked Xiao Yan to represent Starfall Pavilion at the Four Pavilions Conference.

The Four Pavilions Conference began at the Wind Lightning Pavilion, where the pavilion masters discussed the Starfall Pavilion sending extra disciples. Venerable Yellow Spring challenged Venerable Wind to bet on whether the Starfall Pavilion would take first place.

• The four pavilion masters gathered for the conference, while Venerable Lei concealed Fei Tian’s disappearance and hoped Feng Qing'er would secure the championship.
• Venerable Wind asked to let the Starfall Pavilion send additional participants, and Venerable Lei proposed allowing each pavilion up to three extra disciples.
• Venerable Yellow Spring mocked the Starfall Pavilion and challenged Venerable Wind to bet on whether it could win first place.
• Venerable Yellow Spring offered Venerable Wind anything he wanted from the Yellow Spring Pavilion if he won, with no penalty if he lost.