Recaps

After collecting the Echo Sect’s auction purchases, Xiao Yan confronted Lu Zhi and learned more about the Mystic Pattern Sect’s techniques. Lu Zhi left Xiao Yan with a challenge for the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, and Xiao Yan resolved to strengthen himself before it.

• Xue Ningyi gave Xu Yingwu the Echo Sect’s auction items, and Xu Yingwu paid for them.
• He Kui suggested that more than one of the young people with Xu Yingwu could surpass Lu Zhi.
• Lu Chen accused Zi Yan’s group of taking the White Fragrant Berry and attacked Xiao Yan, who knocked him down with a single punch.
• Lu Zhi challenged Xiao Yan with the Hard Skin Pattern, forcing Xiao Yan back three steps before inviting him to surprise him at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.
• Xu Yingwu explained that Lu Zhi knew seven Mystic Patterns, including one that could cause mental attacks.
• Xiao Yan examined the vital blood in his storage ring and decided to increase his strength before the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.

Xiao Yan learned how the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly shaped the Northwest Region and negotiated for Qing Lin to participate. Yang Yue agreed, but demanded that Xiao Yan win first place to protect the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s standing.

• Xiao Yan trained with his Black Ruler in the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s courtyard, and Yang Yue praised his perseverance and discussed his recent clash with Lu Zhi.
• Yang Yue explained that a Dou Di had created the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, where young participants competed for points and the top ten could claim territory.
• Yang Yue told Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s past Assembly rankings had been poor and said the Saintess should be saved for the next competition.
• Xiao Yan asked to bring Qing Lin into the Assembly, and Yang Yue agreed because she had gained a flying Dou Technique.
• Yang Yue required Xiao Yan to take first place to secure the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s status, and Xiao Yan accepted.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er shared a private moment before Zi Yan’s breakthrough shook the Heavenly Snake Mansion. Zi Yan emerged as a four-star Dou Emperor, ready to join them at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, and another aura appeared before she could challenge Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan embraced and kissed Xun Er in the courtyard, but a powerful aura interrupted them.
• A purple pillar of energy erupted from Zi Yan’s room as she broke through to the Dou Emperor realm.
• Yang Yue reassured the Heavenly Snake Mansion members who gathered in the air to investigate the disturbance.
• Zi Yan’s breakthrough aura rose to four-star Dou Emperor, then blasted her room and damaged nearby rooms as she emerged.
• Zi Yan briefly appeared as a tall woman before changing back into her childlike form, then promised to protect Xiao Yan and Xun Er at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.
• Zi Yan challenged Xiao Yan to a fight, but another aura spread through the Heavenly Snake Mansion.

Xiao Yan and his companions met Yang Lingyan, the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s young master, after he broke through to the four-star Dou Huang realm. Yang Lingyan challenged them, but Zi Yan overwhelmed him with her strength and claimed victory.

• Yang Yue brought Xiao Yan and the others to meet his son Yang Lingyan, who had emerged from seclusion as a four-star Dou Huang.
• Yang Lingyan showed hostility toward Xiao Yan and insisted that the others follow his command at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.
• Zi Yan challenged Yang Lingyan, and he agreed to fight all three companions at once.
• Zi Yan evaded Yang Lingyan’s attacks by controlling space, then let him lock onto her with the Demon Snake Blood-Devouring Strike.
• Zi Yan struck Yang Lingyan with a powerful punch, sent him flying, and declared herself the boss.

Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s young cultivators gathered at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain for the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, where the six great superpowers assembled. After receiving Location Jades and support from allies, Xiao Yan watched the Mystic Pattern Sect arrive as the gathering continued.

• Xiao Yan and his group followed the Heavenly Snake Mansion to the summit, where the Lion Underworld Sect and Heroes Alliance had already arrived.
• Yang Yue warned Xiao Yan’s group to target Shi Han and gave them five Location Jades to help them find one another inside the Ten Thousand Beasts Space.
• Xiao Yan teased Zi Yan about whether she would even get into the assembly, while Yang Yue worried about losing her strength.
• Xu Yingwu greeted Xiao Yan and suggested they work together against Lu Zhi inside the Ten Thousand Beasts Space.
• Su Zhang gave Xiao Yan a ring of pills and urged him to stay safe, promising to stand up for him if he returned.
• The Mystic Pattern Sect arrived at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, drawing attention as the foremost power in the Northwest Region.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly began when the faction leaders combined their token fragments to open the Ten Thousand Beasts Space. Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Snake Mansion entered after Zi Yan unexpectedly broke through the barrier, leaving the other factions pondering what had happened.

• The Mystic Pattern Sect arrived on a Three-Headed Demon Falcon, and Xiao Yan felt uneasy about its leader, Lu Huangtian, after learning he cultivated the life-draining Life-Draining Pattern.
• The six faction leaders assembled ten Ten Thousand Beasts Token fragments, opening a gateway to the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, and Wan Baishan announced that the three-month assembly allowed killing without restrictions.
• Lu Zhi declared he would take first place and entered the space with a team of Mystic Pattern Sect experts, followed by the other major factions and the gathering participants.
• Zi Yan could not initially pass through the gateway, but her punch made it ripple and suck her inside; the barrier then rejected everyone else who tried to imitate her.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er entered hand in hand with the rest of the Heavenly Snake Mansion, while the faction leaders watched the gateway and wondered about Zi Yan's passage.

Xiao Yan entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, where the rules of the competition prevented him from contacting Yao Lao and separated him from Xiao Xun'er. He began hunting Magical Beasts and collecting herbs, while Lu Zhi raced toward the Dou Saint Ruins using a map bought by the Mystic Pattern Sect.

• The Ten Thousand Beasts Space separated Xiao Yan from Xiao Xun'er, and Xiao Yan found that he could sense Yao Lao in his ring but could not reach him.
• Xiao Yan checked the rankings, saw that his score was zero, and set out to hunt Magical Beasts to earn points.
• Xiao Yan killed a Mountain-Shaking Ape, gained twelve points, rose to ninth place, and took the Bloodflame Flower it had guarded.
• Xiao Yan headed west toward denser Dou Qi as competitors across the space hunted Magical Beasts and gathered herbs.
• Lu Zhi killed a Magical Beast, consulted a map to the Dou Saint Ruins that the Mystic Pattern Sect had bought, and flew toward the ruins.

Xiao Yan fought a seventh-tier Black Thunder Hound in the Ten Thousand Beasts Space and foiled an ambush by four competitors. After defeating the beast, he rose to third place in the rankings, gathered another rare herb, and confronted the attackers.

• Xiao Yan battled the Black Thunder Hound while four hidden competitors planned to ambush him and steal the herb it guarded.
• The one-star Dou Emperor and three Dou Kings attacked Xiao Yan and the beast, but Xiao Yan repelled the Dou Emperor with Mountain Opening Seal.
• The Black Thunder Hound survived the combined attacks and struck down the three Dou Kings with its Bone-Eroding Black Thunder.
• Xiao Yan caught up with the retreating Dou Emperor, then shattered the mortally wounded Black Thunder Hound and collected its herb.
• Xiao Yan checked the rankings, where his score of 5,532 placed him third behind Wan Qing and Xu Yingwu, and noted that Xiao Xun'er was eighth.
• Xiao Yan faced the four attackers, who were still recovering, and asked what they had to say.

Xiao Yan learned of a possible Dou Zun Inheritance Ruins from Wu Shuang and hurried to the Mist Poison Forest surrounding it. At the forest’s edge, he found the poison costly to burn through with the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame and remembered another possible solution.

• Xiao Yan defeated an ambush by Wu Shuang and the Frost Sect group, then accepted three herbs from Wu Shuang’s Storage Ring as compensation.
• Wu Shuang told Xiao Yan that the group had found a possible Inheritance Ruins beyond a poisonous forest and warned that people from the Lion Underworld Sect were heading there.
• Xiao Yan returned one herb to Wu Shuang in exchange for directions and traveled for half a day to reach the Mist Poison Forest.
• Xiao Yan tested the poison and used the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame to burn it, but found that doing so consumed too much Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan remembered that he had another way to deal with the poisonous miasma.

Xiao Yan used Yao Lao’s Bone Chilling Flame to pass through the poisonous miasma and reached a pool where Shi Han was overpowering Yang Lingyan. He intervened to block Shi Han’s attack, leaving the battle between them poised to begin.

• Xiao Yan used the Bone Chilling Flame to freeze the poisonous miasma and rejected three Dou Wang cultivators’ offer to join forces.
• Xiao Yan cleared a path through the miasma, and other cultivators followed him to a pool in a miasma-free area.
• Xiao Yan found Shi Han fighting Yang Lingyan while the Lion Underworld Sect’s followers ordered the newcomers to leave.
• Yang Lingyan urged the crowd to resist the Lion Underworld Sect’s claim over the Venerable’s inheritance, but Shi Han struck him into a crater.
• Xiao Yan blocked Shi Han’s attack on Yang Lingyan and challenged Shi Han’s threat to eliminate one of the top factions.

Xiao Yan protected the injured Yang Lingyan from Shi Han, but their confrontation was interrupted when Chu Qun arrived and offered to join forces. After Shi Han withdrew toward the pool, Xiao Yan and Yang Lingyan prepared to investigate what lay beneath the water.

• Xiao Yan stepped forward to defend Yang Lingyan, refused his offer to retreat, and gave him healing pills.
• Chu Qun arrived and proposed joining forces with Xiao Yan against Shi Han, prompting Shi Han to abandon his attempt to monopolize the opportunity.
• Shi Han led his followers toward the pool while Chu Qun and several others also went to investigate it.
• Yang Lingyan told Xiao Yan that Shi Han's subordinates had ambushed him and killed the people he had brought.
• Xiao Yan asked Yang Lingyan to accompany him beneath the pool, and Yang Lingyan agreed despite his injuries.

Xiao Yan and Yang Lingyan descended into the pool, where they discovered a patch of rare medicinal herbs that included the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine. As someone tried to claim the herbs, a giant Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad revealed itself at the pool bottom.

• Chu Qun told the gathered cultivators that the pool water weakened Dou Qi and prevented communication underwater.
• Xiao Yan and Yang Lingyan entered the pool and swam down with the other cultivators in search of an inheritance ruin.
• The cultivators found ten rare herbs, and Xiao Yan recognized the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine among them.
• Shi Han's men attacked the area around the herbs, but a blood-colored lion's head swallowed a cultivator who rushed toward them.
• As one of Shi Han's men approached the herbs, two enormous green eyes appeared and revealed an eighth-tier Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad.

Xiao Yan and the others were attacked by the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad, while Shi Han betrayed them to make his escape. A mysterious voice urged Xiao Yan to dive deeper into the pool, and Yang Lingyan and Chu Qun followed him.

• Xiao Yan fled from the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad, then used two Emperor Seal Art techniques and ice to blunt its water-arrow attack.
• Shi Han detonated a Dou Huang corpse near Xiao Yan and the others, blasting them back as he tried to escape alone.
• The Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad reappeared near the pool’s surface and struck Shi Han with its tongue, trapping him against the wall.
• Xiao Yan, Yang Lingyan, and Chu Qun hesitated between fleeing and waiting as the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad attacked Shi Han.
• A mysterious voice told Xiao Yan to go downward, and he dove to the bottom of the pool with Yang Lingyan and Chu Qun following.

Xiao Yan, Chu Qun, and Yang Lingyan escaped the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad after discovering a teleportation screen beneath the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine. They regrouped in the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, where Xiao Yan claimed the vine and shared the remaining herbs equally with his companions.

• Xiao Yan discovered a teleportation light screen beneath the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine at the pool bottom.
• The Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad attacked, and Xiao Yan and Chu Qun fought it while Yang Lingyan gathered the medicinal herbs.
• The Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad's tongue pierced Xiao Yan's overlapping seals, and the resulting explosion sent all three through the light screen.
• Xiao Yan, Chu Qun, and Yang Lingyan landed in a forest and confirmed that the toad had not followed them.
• Yang Lingyan revealed that he had collected nine types of medicinal herbs, and Xiao Yan claimed the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine before dividing the rest equally.

Xiao Yan learned about the Ten Thousand Beasts Space’s Small Markets and agreed to travel with Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan. While studying his battle with the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad, he experimented with two Heavenly Flames and fused them into a flame lotus.

• Chu Qun asked Xiao Yan how he had discovered the teleportation screen, and Xiao Yan described the mysterious voice that had guided him.
• Yang Lingyan explained that Small Markets were held every ten days, and Xiao Yan agreed to search for one with Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan.
• After the three recovered, Xiao Yan reasoned that the Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad’s final explosion might have been caused by his Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan brought the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame and Bone Chilling Flame together, and the Flame Mantra enabled them to fuse into a blood-red and ghostly-white flame lotus.

Xiao Yan tested his newly created Buddha Fury Fire Lotus, whose explosion shook the Ten Thousand Beasts Space and stunned Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan. After the three failed to find the Small Market, Xiao Yan swallowed Yao Lao’s Imperial Extreme Pill to strengthen himself.

• Xiao Yan threw the fire lotus into the sky, and its explosion shattered mountain peaks and fractured the Ten Thousand Beasts Space.
• Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan recognized the crimson and white flames, then learned from Xiao Yan that he had caused the blast and named the attack Buddha Fury Fire Lotus.
• The next day, Xiao Yan, Chu Qun, and Yang Lingyan searched for the Small Market but failed to find it before nightfall.
• As the three rested by a campfire, Xiao Yan arranged their watch shifts and reflected on the need to grow stronger before facing Shi Han and Lu Zhi.
• Xiao Yan swallowed Yao Lao’s sixth-grade Imperial Extreme Pill, and his aura began to rise.

Xiao Yan absorbed an Imperial Extreme Pill overnight and broke through to the early stage of four-star Dou Emperor. By the tenth day, he and Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan reached the Thousand Scroll Waterfall Small Market, ready to trade.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the pill’s medicinal energy as the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame refined it, and Chu Qun noticed his cultivation rising.
• Chu Qun reflected on Xiao Yan’s age, strength, and potential, while Yang Lingyan reconsidered his jealousy of Xiao Yan and his feelings for Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan completed his breakthrough at dawn, apologized to Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan for missing his watch, and realized his foundation had become unstable again.
• Xiao Yan decided to wait until after the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly to consider absorbing the Sea Heart Flame trapped in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan, Chu Qun, and Yang Lingyan reached the Thousand Scroll Waterfall, where thousands of people had gathered for the Small Market.

Xiao Yan explored the Small Market, bought herbs, and followed a mysterious voice to acquire a Flame-Claw Silver Wolf cub and a strange lump of dirt. As he left, a black-robed person showed him an object that immediately caught his attention.

• Xiao Yan separated from Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan, disguised his points, and browsed the Small Market.
• Xiao Yan noticed that medicinal pills were expensive and herbs were cheap, then bought several precious herbs.
• A mysterious voice in Xiao Yan’s heart directed him toward a stall, where he sensed something unusual about a yellow lump of dirt.
• Xiao Yan bargained with the stall owner and traded two medicinal pills for the Flame-Claw Silver Wolf cub and everything on the stall, including the dirt.
• A black-robed person bumped into Xiao Yan and showed him an object that drew his gaze.

Xiao Yan traded five Sixth-Grade Pills for a Star Spirit Soul-Nurturing Orchid and a Dou Emperor puppet, hoping the orchid would restore Yao Lao's soul strength. The Crimson Lotus Karma Flame destroyed the puppet while burning away a hidden mark, and Xiao Yan left before Lu Mingzhe and five others arrived to search the cave.

• Xiao Yan offered five Sixth-Grade Pills for the Star Spirit Soul-Nurturing Orchid, and the black-robed man also gave him a Dou Emperor puppet on the condition that Xiao Yan keep the deal secret.
• Xiao Yan left the Small Market with Yang Lingyan, Chu Qun, and the other man, then inspected the puppet in a secluded cave.
• Xiao Yan supplied the puppet with Dou Qi and tested its strength, but discovered a hidden aura inside it that he could not remove by ordinary means.
• The Crimson Lotus Karma Flame surged out of Xiao Yan's control, burned away the hidden mark, and consumed the puppet completely.
• Xiao Yan and the others departed, and about half an hour later Lu Mingzhe led five people to search the cave.

Xiao Yan and his companions set out to raise their scores in the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly after failing to discover how to handle the mysterious clump of earth. Meanwhile, Xun Er joined Xu Yingwu’s group to confront Shi Han while searching for Xiao Yan.

• Lu Mingzhe discovered that the aura of the item entrusted to his group had vanished and suspected Heavenly Flames had been involved.
• Xiao Yan and his companions found that Dou Qi made the mysterious clump of earth crumble, so Xiao Yan put it away to await Yao Lao’s advice.
• Xiao Yan, Yang Lingyan, and Chu Qun agreed to spread out while staying close enough to regroup against powerful beasts, and Xiao Yan began hunting for points.
• Xu Yingwu continued leading the rankings with help from a group of experts and noted that the competition had produced many formidable contestants.
• Xun Er arrived alone, declined Xu Yingwu’s offer to team up at first, then agreed to help him confront Shi Han on the condition that Shi Han would be hers to fight.

Xiao Yan discovered that the yellow clod of earth had transformed into the incomplete Soul-Turning Secret Technique, which could convert Dou Qi into soul power. After two days of cultivation, he gained powerful soul perception and prepared to hunt more effectively.

• Xiao Yan noticed his hunting points and leaderboard rank had fallen as the major powers gathered followers and farmed points.
• After killing a magical beast, Xiao Yan found a jade slip containing the Soul-Turning Secret Technique where the yellow clod of earth had been in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan shared the secret technique with Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan, but neither of them could perceive its contents.
• Xiao Yan spent two days cultivating the technique while Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan stood guard.
• Xiao Yan's new soul perception concealed him from Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan's senses and revealed the locations of nearby magical beasts, so he announced that it was time to hunt.

Xiao Yan, Chu Qun, and Yang Lingyan dominated the Ten Thousand Beasts Space rankings by hunting with the Soul-Turning Secret Technique, then rested after weeks of relentless effort. At dawn, Xiao Yan sensed that Qing Lin was in trouble.

• Xu Yingwu saw Xiao Yan ranked first with an overwhelming score, while Xiao Xun'er had climbed into the top ten alone after beating Shi Han for sabotaging Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan, Chu Qun, and Yang Lingyan shared a meal as Chu Qun credited their high scores to Xiao Yan's Soul-Turning Secret Technique, which let them hunt at night.
• Xiao Yan explained that the technique's soul power faded if unused and could only detect hidden creatures, then agreed to rest for the night.
• At dawn, Xiao Yan and Yang Lingyan received a signal from their jade rings and realized they had encountered their own people.
• Xiao Yan sensed that Qing Lin was in trouble.

Qing Lin was hunted down by Shi Meng and Lu Zhi, who nearly drained her life essence with the Bloodthirsty Pattern. Xiao Yan arrived in time to save her and faced Lu Zhi, who claimed only his defeat could restore Qing Lin’s life essence.

• Qing Lin fled Shi Meng after a Heavenly Snake Mansion disciple sacrificed himself, but Shi Meng tracked her to a cave where Lu Zhi joined the pursuit.
• Lu Zhi and Shi Meng cornered Qing Lin, and Lu Zhi demanded she become his servant while the Jade Blood Demon Python fought to protect her.
• Lu Zhi wounded the Jade Blood Demon Python, killed Qing Lin’s two other controlled beasts, and began draining her life essence with the Bloodthirsty Pattern.
• Xiao Yan arrived and pulled Qing Lin away from Lu Zhi, who said her life essence could not be restored unless he was defeated.
• Yang Lingyan and Chu Qun entered the cave as Xiao Yan handed Qing Lin to Yang Lingyan and challenged Lu Zhi to a fight.
• Lu Zhi ordered Shi Meng to hold off Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan, then welcomed Xiao Yan as a potentially worthy opponent.

Xiao Yan fought Lu Zhi, the strongest young expert in the Northwest Region, and used Lu Zhi’s failed soul attack to land a series of powerful counterattacks. Though badly injured, Lu Zhi survived and revealed his Lightning Strike Pattern.

• Lu Zhi tried to make Xiao Yan submit, but Xiao Yan drew his Heavy Profound Ruler and attacked.
• Lu Zhi used the Hurricane Pattern and Bloodthirsty Pattern to fight Xiao Yan, then blocked his Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler with the Hard Skin and Spirit-Devouring Patterns.
• Yang Lingyan resolved to buy time for Xiao Yan and Qing Lin to escape as Lu Zhi pressed the attack.
• Lu Zhi’s Spirit Chaos Pattern soul attack backfired against Xiao Yan, allowing Xiao Yan to strike him with the Mountain Opening Seal and Sea Overturning Seal.
• Lu Zhi emerged injured from the rubble and revealed his Lightning Strike Pattern, saying Xiao Yan had forced him to use it.

Xiao Yan battled Lu Zhi, whose Lightning Strike Pattern unleashed a devastating storm of purple lightning. With Xiao Yan badly wounded and preparing to risk using the Fire Lotus, Qing Lin’s faint words changed his decision.

• Lu Zhi attacked Xiao Yan with the Lightning Strike Pattern, and Xiao Yan dodged while suffering a wound to his leg.
• Xiao Yan used the Bone Chilling Flame to repel Lu Zhi’s lightning, revealing that he possessed two Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan struck Lu Zhi with the Mountain Opening Seal and Sea Overturning Seal, but Lu Zhi’s lightning droplets pierced the seals and unleashed a storm that wounded Xiao Yan badly.
• Xiao Yan realized Lu Zhi had used a final pattern to withstand the seals, while Shi Meng and the others struggled against the lightning.
• Xiao Yan prepared to risk using the Fire Lotus until Qing Lin whispered something that changed his mind.