Recaps

Xiao Yan helped the Flame Clan complete a ninth-tier pill, then obtained the final map fragment for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and rescued his brother Xiao Ding. He learned that the Ancient Clan had confined and targeted the Xiao Clan, leaving him to confront the threat to his family.

• Yan Chao brought Xiao Yan into the Flame Clan sanctuary, where Xiao Yan reunited with Huo Zhi and helped Elder Huo Zhen prepare the Creation Heaven-Returning Pill.
• Xiao Yan took over the unstable refinement and completed the ninth-tier pill, then stayed briefly to learn from Huo Zhen before leaving and receiving Huo Zhi’s jade pendant.
• Xiao Yi Xian welcomed Wang Zhuang and Wang Linger to Medical Poison Valley, while Xiao Yan learned from Ye Qiong that the Cloud Rain Sect held the final map fragment he needed.
• Hun Wei and Black Intent led Soul Hall forces against the Three Scorpion Demons, and Heavenly Scorpion sacrificed himself to devastate the Soul Hall fighters.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the remaining Soul Hall forces, recovered the final map fragment, and rescued the Cloud Rain Sect captives, including Xiao Ding’s wife, Lu Qing.
• Xiao Yan rescued Xiao Ding from the Wolf King and the men plotting his death, treated his wounds, and killed their captured leader.
• Xiao Ding told Xiao Yan that the Ancient Clan had confined the Xiao Clan and sent its members on deadly assignments, while Xun Er had been absent for three years.

Xiao Yan returned to the Ancient Clan to avenge Xiao Li and killed Gu Yao despite the clan’s commanders and Dou Saints trying to stop him. As Gu Yu demanded Xiao Yan sacrifice his cultivation to spare the others, Yao Chen appeared and prepared to confront the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Yan rescued the Xiao Clan, learned that Gu Yao had executed Xiao Li, and swore to avenge him.
• After reaching the late stage of nine-star Dou Zun, Xiao Yan confronted Gu Yao at his wedding and defeated his aides and Black Annihilation Army soldiers.
• Xiao Yan fought Gu Yao and the Ancient Clan commanders, broke through to Half Saint, and formed a Five-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Three Dou Saints intervened, but Xiao Yan captured Gu Yao’s escaping soul and destroyed it with the Red Lotus Star Flame.
• Gu Zhao grievously wounded Xiao Yan and sealed his power before Xiao Yi Xian, Mu Yaoyin, Qing Lin, and Yao Ming arrived to protect him.
• Gu Yu halted the conflict and offered to spare everyone if Xiao Yan surrendered his Dou Zun cultivation and swore never to oppose the Ancient Clan.
• Yao Chen appeared to defend Xiao Yan, rebuked Gu Yu, and faced the Ancient Clan as Gu Yu prepared to fight.

After escaping the Ancient Clan, Xiao Yan reunited with allies and family, then judged a three-sect tournament before traveling to Burning Flame Valley. As he sought a technique and the Fire Essence Demon Ginseng for Yao Lao’s resurrection, Qing Lin confessed her feelings and drew close to him.

• Yao Lao stopped Gu Yu’s attack, and Gu Yu challenged Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Tomb Gathering over the deaths of Ancient Clan youths, and Xiao Yan accepted and left the Ancient Clan with his allies.
• Jiang Yunyan explained that Lei Jingxiao had sent her to help Xiao Yan, while Qing Lin confessed she wanted to protect Xiao Yan and stay by his side, and Xiao Yan promised to wait for her.
• Wei Jiangyuan, Xuan Yi, and Yao Qingyu reunited with Xiao Yan’s group, and Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Xiao Zhan and Xiao Ding before returning to Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan agreed to judge a tournament between Starfall Pavilion, Medical Poison Valley, and Burning Flame Valley, and Yan Yu won, while Tang Meng, Yan Yu, Refinement, and Star Calamity advanced from the quarterfinals.
• Tang Zhen invited Xiao Yan to Burning Flame Valley, where Yao Lao asked him to obtain Fire Essence Demon Ginseng for the resurrection preparations, and Xiao Yan also learned that Ancient Clan elders had called his family the Xiao Clan.
• At Burning Flame Valley, Xiao Yan searched the Yanwu Pavilion for a powerful technique and found the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire, but Qing Lin later offered him a Heaven Class technique she had created.
• Qing Lin offered to obtain a suitable technique through a dangerous blood-exchange method, but Xiao Yan refused and told her to follow her own path, and she confessed her love, and they embraced and kissed.
• Qing Lin guided Xiao Yan’s hand beneath her clothing, and as they undressed, a flower in her emerald eyes brightened and a peculiar fragrance blurred his vision.

Xiao Yan advanced to Half-Saint, restored Yao Lao to life, and learned that Xiao Xuan had entrusted Burning Flame Valley with treasures for the Xiao Clan. At the Heavenly Tomb Conference, Xun Er joined Xiao Yan in claiming the Xiao Clan’s places, and he defeated Gu Xing before demanding answers from her about Xiao Li’s death and the clan’s suffering.

• Qing Lin apologized after her pupils caused Xiao Yan to lose consciousness and resolved to learn how to control them.
• Fire Cloud Ancestor revealed that Xiao Xuan had entrusted Burning Flame Valley with the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire and the Nine Dragon Thunder Fire for the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Yan accepted the technique but declined the flame.
• Xiao Yan hunted Fire Essence Demon Ginseng, advanced to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zun, and returned to Starfall Pavilion with ginseng for Yao Lao’s revival.
• Old Man Shennong provided a One-Star Dou Sheng body, and Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames and prepared medicines to restore Yao Lao, who awakened and advanced to One-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan broke through to Half-Saint as Yao Lao awakened, while Gu Qingyang accepted the Ancient Clan throne’s order to kill Xiao Yan in the Heavenly Tomb.
• The clans gathered for the Heavenly Tomb Conference, where Huo Zhi accused the Soul Clan of infiltrating and destroying the Flame Clan’s defenses, and Xiao Yan reunited with Lei Jingxiao and Wei Jiangyuan.
• Xiao Yan rejected an extra conference place and demanded the Xiao Clan’s original two slots, and Xun Er appeared to represent the Xiao Clan despite Gu Zechuan’s objections.
• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Xing in their three-move challenge, secured the Xiao Clan’s two places, and demanded that Xun Er explain Xiao Li’s death and the clan’s suffering.