Recaps

Xiao Yan returned from his three-year agreement as a Dou Emperor, pursued the Heavenly Flames and medicinal resources he needed, and became entangled in the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly and a major auction. The arc ended with Lu Zhi surviving He Kui’s strike and treating the fight as a lesson.

• Xiao Yan defeated Yun Leng and endured Yun Shan’s challenge, then returned to Wutan City and revealed that he had reached the Dou Emperor realm.
• Yao Lao captured Protector Jiu, who confessed that the Soul Hall had come for Xiao Zhan’s indestructible jade, and Xiao Yan later helped Yao Lao take revenge on Han Feng.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Xun'er at Jia Nan Academy and entered the Inner Academy, where he defeated the students who challenged him in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.
• Xiao Yan met Qing Lin at the Heavenly Snake Mansion and agreed to compete for first place at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly to secure her lasting freedom.
• Yao Lao recognized Su Zhang as a former recipient of his alchemy notes, advised him, and later accepted him as a disciple after Su Zhang advanced to Six-Star Dou Zong.
• At the auction, Xiao Yan’s Qi Sea Spirit Returning Pill sold for sixteen million gold coins, and he bought five drops of magical beast essence blood for Zi Yan.
• Xue Ningyi presented the Emperor Essence Fruit, and armed attackers stormed the auction before He Kui killed their leader and revealed himself as a Dou Zun.
• Lu Zhi won the Emperor Essence Fruit and challenged He Kui, who suppressed his realm and struck Lu Zhi through a wall, but Lu Zhi emerged alive with his bloody pattern consuming his blood.

Xiao Yan entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, gathered allies and points, and gained a powerful soul technique before confronting Lu Zhi. As Lu Zhi’s patterns badly wounded him, Qing Lin whispered something that changed Xiao Yan’s plan to use the Fire Lotus.

• Xiao Yan accepted Yang Yue’s demand to win the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly and brought Qing Lin into the competition.
• Zi Yan broke through to the four-star Dou Emperor realm, then defeated Yang Lingyan and declared herself the group’s boss.
• The factions entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, where Xiao Yan hunted Magical Beasts and climbed the rankings while Lu Zhi headed for the Dou Saint Ruins.
• Xiao Yan defended Yang Lingyan from Shi Han at a poisoned pool, then escaped an eighth-tier Green-Eyed Nightmare Toad through a teleportation screen with Yang Lingyan and Chu Qun.
• Xiao Yan fused the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame and Bone Chilling Flame into the Buddha Fury Fire Lotus, then broke through after taking an Imperial Extreme Pill.
• At the Small Market, Xiao Yan bought a Flame-Claw Silver Wolf cub and acquired a clod of earth and a Star Spirit Soul-Nurturing Orchid, while the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame destroyed a hidden mark on a Dou Emperor puppet.
• Xiao Yan found the Soul-Turning Secret Technique in his Storage Ring, cultivated it, and used its enhanced soul perception to help his group hunt and rise in the rankings.
• Xiao Yan rescued Qing Lin from Lu Zhi, then fought him as Lu Zhi unleashed his Lightning Strike Pattern and badly wounded Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan helped Qing Lin inherit Ming Mei’s abilities, then risked his body to gain the power needed to secure the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Coagulating Flower. He defeated Lu Zhi and claimed the flower, leaving the group to settle the spirit springs and the reward for the eighth-tier beast.

• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin escaped into the ruins and met Ming Mei, the Jade-Eyed Charm Saint, who took Qing Lin as her disciple and tested Xiao Yan before fusing the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame with him.
• Xiao Yan accepted Ming Mei’s dangerous transplant of a former Nihility Devouring Flame master’s arm, stabilized at peak six-star Dou Emperor, and helped Qing Lin survive the fierce souls within her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Ming Mei gave Qing Lin the Nine Serene Deepground Python egg and her inheritance before her soul dissipated, and Xiao Yan and Qing Lin emerged from the vanished space to defeat Lu Mingzhe’s group.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xu Yingwu and Xiao Xun'er, then led them and Qing Lin to obtain a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Coagulating Flower guarded by a Mountain-Leveling Rhinoceros and a swift bird.
• Xiao Yan lured Lu Zhi and his allies into fighting the rhinoceros, then killed it with a Buddha Fury Fire Lotus and was teleported with the others to the Spirit Pool Body Bath space.
• Xiao Yan and Lu Zhi fought over a large spirit spring, and Xiao Yan countered Lu Zhi’s patterns and lightning with his techniques and Heavenly Flames.
• Lu Zhi survived Xiao Yan’s fire lotus with four puppets, advanced to Dou Zong, and sacrificed his lifespan to unleash black lightning, but Xiao Yan’s transplanted arm swallowed the attack and turned its power back on him.
• Xiao Yan defeated Lu Zhi and took the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Coagulating Flower, then demanded the large spirit spring from Lu Zhi’s allies as the group prepared to claim the rewards.

Xiao Yan won the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, strengthened the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and helped Liang Mengying remove her frigid energy. As Lu Huangtian tried to force the regional powers into an alliance, seven Dou Zuns arrived and the story left them facing off.

• Xiao Yan restored his Dou Sheng Arm, returned to the rankings lead, and later defeated Lu Zhi’s encirclement with help from Zi Yan and their allies.
• Xiao Yan placed first in the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, securing three token fragments for the Heavenly Snake Mansion and establishing its rise among the regional powers.
• Xiao Yan reunited with the awakened Yao Lao and treated Liang Mengying’s frigid energy in exchange for the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire.
• Lu Huangtian revealed that he had killed Lu Zhi’s mother and used him for his bloodline, then let Lu Chen stab Lu Zhi through the heart.
• Yang Yue named Xiao Yan an honorary elder, and Xiao Yan helped settle Wan Qing’s conflict with the Heavenly Snake Mansion before the regional leaders divided their territories.
• Lu Huangtian revealed his Dou Zun strength and demanded that the factions join his alliance, then attacked Su Zhang and Xu Yingwu when they resisted.
• Xiao Yan, possessed by Yao Lao, blocked Lu Huangtian’s attack as Yang Yue, Liang Mengying, Wan Baishan, and Shi Tian stood with him.
• Lion Roar Valley and the other factions’ Dou Zuns arrived, bringing seven Venerables together while Xu Ce confronted Xu Chengzze over the deaths of Xu Chengying and Xu Chengye.