Recaps

Yao Xuan advanced through several Heavenly Flames, reunited Yao Lao with Venerable Feng, and gained Zhu Kun’s trust and Dan Yuanzi’s soul inheritance. After restoring the academy’s tower and gathering rare treasures at Black Emperor City, he left with Zi Yan after destroying their pursuers.

• Yao Xuan defeated Yao Xingtong with four Heavenly Flames, crippled him, and later absorbed the Turtle Spirit Earthfire to advance his cultivation.
• Yao Xuan returned to Starfall Pavilion, reunited Yao Lao with Venerable Feng, and set out for Jia Nan Academy to obtain the Falling Heart Flame and ingredients for Yao Lao’s revival.
• Yao Xuan subdued the Falling Heart Flame, advanced to the peak of Two-Star Dou Zong, and used the magma realm’s fire essence to reach early Seven-Star Dou Zong.
• Zhu Kun revealed that he was Zi Yan’s father, asked Yao Xuan to escort her to Ancient Dragon Island, and gave him essence blood that helped him break through to Battle Venerable.
• Yao Xuan found Heavenly Flame Venerable, accepted a nascent Falling Heart Flame and the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method in exchange for helping restore his soul, and left with Zi Yan.
• Yao Xuan restarted Jia Nan Academy’s Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, then received Dan Yuanzi’s Divine Soul Canon, alchemical inheritance, and Huan Yuan Heavenly Cauldron.
• Yao Xuan and Zi Yan attended the Black Emperor City auction, where he bought the Demon Flame Fragment Map, Three Thousand Lightning Movement, a Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse, the Six Harmonies Wandering Body Ruler, and Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva.
• Yao Xuan confronted pursuers led by Fan Lao and the Gold and Silver Elders, killed them with his six-colored flame and Spatial Annihilation, then departed with Zi Yan.

Yao Xuan rescued Xiao Yi Xian from Ice River Valley, strengthened Starfall Pavilion, and established his power at the Four Pavilions Assembly. He accompanied Xiao Yan to fulfill the Three-Year Pact, where Yun Shan arrived after Yao Xuan killed Yun Ling.

• Yao Xuan and Zi Yan left Jia Nan Academy for Starfall Pavilion, where Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion and Yao Xuan gave him the Six Harmonies Wandering Body Ruler.
• Sky Serpent and Ice River Valley abducted Xiao Yi Xian and killed Qin Song, so Yao Xuan attacked Ice River Valley, killed Sky Serpent and Ice Venerable, and rescued her.
• Yao Xuan found the preserved Ice Saint’s corpse and used it, along with a Bone-Fusing Blood-Melting Pill, to revive the Heavenly Flame Venerable, who joined Starfall Pavilion.
• At the Four Pavilions Assembly, Yao Xuan defeated the rival pavilion masters, while Xiao Yan withdrew from the younger generation’s contest and Feng Qing’er became champion.
• Yao Xuan refined a Dragon-Blood Tempering Spirit Pill and advanced to Six-Star Battle Venerable, then accepted Pill Tower’s guest elder position and allied Starfall Pavilion with Flame Valley.
• Yao Xuan accompanied Xiao Yan to Misty Cloud Sect, where Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran and burned the letter of repudiation to settle their pact.
• Yun Ling tried to prevent Xiao Yan from leaving and ordered the sect’s formation activated, but Yao Xuan broke through, shattered Yun Ling’s meridians, and annihilated him.
• Yun Shan emerged from seclusion with a Dou Zong aura and asked where Yun Ling was.

Yao Xuan destroyed the Misty Cloud Sect, rescued Qing Lin, and helped Xiao Yan prepare for a future rescue of his father while confronting Soul Hall and the Yao Clan. After reviving Yao Chen as a Dou Saint, Yao Xuan traveled with Xiao Yan to Flame Valley, where Tang Zhen faced his request for the sect’s secret technique.

• Yao Xuan killed Yun Shan and wiped out the Misty Cloud Sect’s powerful cultivators after Xiao Yan condemned the sect’s past actions.
• Yao Xuan killed Soul Hall Protector Wu Ying, learned that Soul Hall had abducted Xiao Zhan, and helped Xiao Yan move the Xiao Household to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital.
• Yao Xuan rescued Qing Lin from Soul Hall and protected her from Qing Xuan, then helped Xiao Yan cultivate in the Life-and-Death Gate.
• Yao Xuan refined the Nine-Revolution Soul-Sculpting Life Pill and used it to restore Yao Chen’s body, while repelling Yao Li and Yao Ye with help from Zhu Li.
• Yao Chen awakened as a Dou Saint, defeated Yao Ye, and gave Yao Xuan the surviving soul, which Yao Xuan purified with his Myriad Souls Banner.
• Yao Xuan reached the Initial Heavenly Soul Realm, refined the Yin-Yang Twin Flame into the Mystic Dragon Firmament Ember Flame, and gave Xiao Yan a Child Flame.
• Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan went to Flame Valley, where Yao Xuan made Fire Bodhi Pills for Tang Hu'er and asked Tang Zhen to teach him the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame.

Yao Xuan inherited Flame Ancestor’s legacy, then killed Yao Wangu and strengthened his position as the Yao Clan chose not to retaliate. He went on to defeat the Soul Hall’s Mu Gu and won the Pill Assembly by refining a Ninth-Rank pill, leaving him poised to pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Yao Xuan defeated Tang Zhen in a spar, inherited the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame, and passed Flame Ancestor’s trial to receive his legacy and the Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame.
• Yao Xuan fused the Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame into his Heavenly Flame, then used Dan Yuanzi’s possession to kill Yao Wangu when he attacked Starfall Pavilion for Yao Xuan’s flames.
• After Dan Yuanzi sacrificed himself, Yao Xuan refined Yao Wangu’s remnant soul and body into a puppet, while Yao Dan forbade the Yao Clan from seeking revenge.
• Yao Xuan traveled with Xiao Yan to the Pill Assembly, where he killed Mu Gu and sealed his soul before becoming the first contestant to finish the second round.
• Yao Xuan refined a Ninth-Rank Purple Thunder Origin-Consolidating Pill and used its Black Demon Lightning tribulation to temper himself and strengthen his flames.
• Yao Xuan subdued the pill’s lightning dragon Pill Spirit, won the Pill Assembly, and became a Ninth-Rank Alchemist.