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.

Xiao Yan leaves the Ancient Clan with his allies, reunites with his family and Yao Lao’s family, and returns to Starfall Pavilion. A tournament leads him to Burning Flame Valley to seek Fire Essence Demon Ginseng for Yao Lao’s resurrection, where Qing Lin confesses her feelings and her unusual pupils affect Xiao Yan.

• Yao Lao stopped Gu Yu’s attack, and Jiang Yunyan intervened before Gu Yu challenged Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Tomb Gathering.
• Xiao Yan left the Ancient Clan with his companions, thanked Jiang Yunyan and Yao Ming’s people, and accepted Qing Lin’s promise that she would return to protect him once she grew stronger.
• Yao Lao reunited with Xuan Yi and Yao Qingyu, while Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Xiao Zhan and Xiao Ding before returning with the group to Starfall Pavilion.
• At the three sects’ tournament, Xiao Yan judged the matches as Tang Meng, Yan Yu, Refinement, and Star Calamity advanced, and Tang Zhen invited him to Burning Flame Valley.
• Yao Lao asked Xiao Yan to obtain Fire Essence Demon Ginseng for his resurrection, and Xiao Yan set out with Tang Zhen after Xiao Yi Xian supported the trip.
• Tang Zhen welcomed Xiao Yan to Burning Flame Valley, but access to the dangerous area holding the ginseng had to wait until the Ancestor emerged, so Xiao Yan searched the valley’s technique pavilion instead.
• Qing Lin offered Xiao Yan a technique she had created and proposed a dangerous blood-exchange method to obtain one suited to him, but Xiao Yan refused and promised to wait for her at Starfall Pavilion.
• Qing Lin and Xiao Yan grew intimate, but her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils caused him to lose consciousness, and she resolved to discover why they had affected him.

Xiao Yan helped Yao Lao return to life and broke through to Half-Saint before heading to the Heavenly Tomb Conference. There, he reunited with Xun Er, won back the Xiao Clan’s two places, and faced a shocking claim from a mysterious man posing as Huo Xuan.

• 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, and Xiao Yan accepted the technique but declined the flame.
• Xiao Yan hunted Fire Essence Demon Ginseng in the magma, advanced to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zun, and later returned to Starfall Pavilion with four plants for Yao Lao.
• Old Man Shennong provided a One-Star Dou Sheng body, and Xiao Yan, Wei Jiangyuan, and the others revived Yao Lao, who reached One-Star Dou Sheng as Xiao Yan broke through to Half-Saint.
• Gu Feng ordered Gu Qingyang to kill Xiao Yan during the Heavenly Tomb Conference, while the clans gathered amid tensions with the Soul Clan and the survivors of the Flame Clan.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Lei Jingxiao and Wei Jiangyuan at the gathering, rejected Gu Zechuan’s extra slot, and demanded the Xiao Clan’s two original places.
• Xun Er appeared and declared that she would represent the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Yan defeated Gu Xing in their three-move challenge to secure the two slots.
• Xun Er apologized to Xiao Yan over Xiao Li’s death and the Xiao Clan’s suffering, but Xiao Yan gave her no answer before a black-robed man claimed to be Huo Xuan and revealed the Eight Wastelands Destruction Flame.