Recaps

Yao Xuan won the Pill Assembly after refining a flawless Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill and received the Supreme One Soul Art. He gave the soul technique to Xiao Yan, then led the top ten into the Star Domain, where the trial to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame was about to begin.

• Xuan Kongzi declared Yao Xuan the Pill Assembly champion and awarded him the Supreme One Soul Art.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the top ten would enter the Star Domain to attempt to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Yao Xuan gave the Supreme One Soul Art to Xiao Yan, who accepted it with gratitude.
• At dawn, a Pill Tower elder led Yao Xuan, Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and the other top contestants into the Star Domain.
• The group found Three Thousand Burning Flame coiled in the starry realm, and the elder called Yao Xuan forward as the first to attempt the trial.

Yao Xuan entered Three Thousand Burning Flame’s soul world and used his eight Heavenly Flames and powerful soul to suppress and subdue the starry flame. He formed a pact with it and emerged with the flame coiled around his palm, though he still needed to refine it completely.

• Yao Xuan touched Three Thousand Burning Flame and entered its soul world as the flame unleashed its starfire against him.
• Yao Xuan summoned his eight Heavenly Flames to form a domain that contained Three Thousand Burning Flame’s attacks.
• Yao Xuan used his Initial Heavenly Soul Realm power to suppress the flame’s spirit and then began assimilating its origin with the Flame Mantra.
• Yao Xuan told Three Thousand Burning Flame that he would break its Ancient Dragon Imprint and free it from its restraints.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame stopped resisting, and its origin formed a pact with Yao Xuan’s eight-flame foundation.
• Yao Xuan emerged with Three Thousand Burning Flame transformed into a small purple dragon around his palm, while the Pill Tower elder led Xiao Yan and the others away.

Yao Xuan refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame, advancing his cultivation and Flame Mantra while awakening a Nine-Flame Heavenly Flame Spirit. After consuming his Purple Thunder Origin-Consolidating Pill, he reached Six-Turn Peak Battle Venerable and believed he could temporarily fight at the Half-Saint Realm with the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame.

• Yao Xuan refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame, rising to peak Nine-Star Battle Venerable and advancing the Flame Mantra to Mid Heaven Rank.
• Yao Xuan's nine merged flames awakened as a Nine-Flame Heavenly Flame Spirit in the form of a Little Dragon Man.
• Yao Xuan swallowed his Purple Thunder Origin-Consolidating Pill, loosening the Zhu Kun Ancient Dragon blood essence within him.
• Yao Xuan used the pill's power and his dragon bloodline to reach Six-Turn Peak Battle Venerable.
• Yao Xuan concluded that the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame could temporarily raise his combat strength to the Half-Saint Realm.

After becoming a Ninth-Rank Alchemist and reaching Six-Turn Peak Battle Venerable, Yao Xuan returned to Starfall Pavilion and learned that the Yao Clan had invited him to its direct-line coming-of-age ceremony. Suspecting a trap or an attempt to recruit him, he decided to attend and discover the clan’s motives.

• Yao Xuan emerged from the Pill Tower secret realm at Six-Turn Peak Battle Venerable and left Saint Dan City with Xiao Yan for Starfall Pavilion.
• News of Yao Xuan’s Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill and feat during the pill tribulation spread across the Central Plains, making him famous.
• Yao Lao welcomed Yao Xuan and praised his achievements, while Yao Xuan credited Yao Lao’s guidance and support.
• Yao Lao told Yao Xuan that the Yao Clan had sent an invitation for him to attend its direct-line coming-of-age ceremony.
• Yao Xuan suspected the invitation concealed a scheme but decided to visit the Yao Clan and find out what it intended.

Yao Xuan traveled alone toward the Yao Clan and stopped at the Shennong Mountain Range to visit his former teacher, Old Man Shennong. Before he could enter, Gu You of Soul Hall ambushed him and tried to recruit him, but Old Man Shennong intervened as Yao Xuan prepared to fight.

• Yao Xuan refused Yao Lao's offer to accompany him, then left for the Yao Clan alone.
• Yao Xuan reached the Shennong Mountain Range, remembering how Old Man Shennong had saved him and taught him alchemy.
• Gu You, Soul Hall's Second Heaven Venerable, appeared and blocked Yao Xuan's path with his Half-Saint pressure.
• Gu You invited Yao Xuan to Soul Hall, but Yao Xuan rejected him.
• Gu You threatened Yao Xuan, who readied himself to fight, until Old Man Shennong's voice challenged Gu You's conduct.

Old Man Shennong emerged to drive off Gu You and formally welcomed Yao Xuan as his disciple. After Yao Xuan announced his plan to attend the Yao Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony despite the danger, Old Man Shennong agreed to accompany him.

• Gu You sensed a Dou Saint’s aura, warned Yao Xuan that the Soul Hall would pursue him, and escaped through a spatial rift.
• Old Man Shennong appeared and warmly praised Yao Xuan’s cultivation, alchemical achievements, and reputation.
• Yao Xuan bowed to Old Man Shennong as his master and thanked him for saving and teaching him.
• Old Man Shennong approved of Yao Xuan’s discretion and told him he could openly claim his lineage as Shennong’s sole personal disciple.
• Yao Xuan confirmed he would attend the Yao Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony despite the clan’s resentment over Yao Wangu’s death.
• Old Man Shennong offered to accompany Yao Xuan to the Yao Clan and protect him through his friendship with Yao Dan.

Yao Xuan returned to the Medicine Realm for the Yao Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony under Old Man Shennong’s hidden protection. After Yao Wanhuo stopped Yao Feng from attacking him, a mysterious young man watched Yao Xuan’s display of power and took interest in him.

• Old Man Shennong told Yao Xuan to enter the Medicine Realm alone while he remained hidden as his protector.
• Yao Xuan entered the Medicine Realm and reflected on returning years after the Yao Clan had expelled him.
• Yao Feng confronted Yao Xuan and attacked him, but Yao Xuan summoned a colossal Nine-Colored Heavenly Flame dragon and fired a devastating breath at him.
• Yao Wanhuo intercepted the attack, rebuked Yao Feng for assaulting an invited guest, and sentenced him to one hundred years in the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Yao Wanhuo welcomed Yao Xuan to the Medicine Realm, and a mysterious young man watched from the clouds and called him interesting.

Yao Dan summoned Yao Xuan to the Sacred Lord Hall, apologized on behalf of the Yao Clan for the injustice he had suffered, and began to reveal the history of his lineage. The chapter ended as Yao Dan explained that Yao Xuan’s lineage had once led the direct line and possessed the purest Dou Emperor Bloodline.

• Yao Wanhuo told Yao Xuan that Yao Dan wanted to meet him alone and brought him to the Sacred Lord Hall.
• Yao Dan welcomed Yao Xuan and reassured the hidden Old Man Shennong that he meant him no harm.
• Yao Xuan said he no longer considered himself part of the Yao Clan because he had been expelled and removed from its registry.
• Yao Dan acknowledged the clan’s past mistreatment of Yao Xuan and solemnly apologized on behalf of the Yao Clan.
• Yao Dan began telling Yao Xuan that his lineage had once headed the direct line and possessed the purest Dou Emperor Bloodline.

Yao Dan revealed that Yao Xuan’s supposedly humble branch had once been the Yao Clan’s orthodox direct line, with its Dou Emperor Bloodline sealed after Yao Fang risked his life to protect Xiao Xuan. He offered to restore Yao Xuan’s bloodline and status as young clan leader, while Yao Xuan remained calm and uncertain about accepting.

• Yao Xuan asked Yao Dan to explain why his branch had once possessed the purest Dou Emperor Bloodline.
• Yao Dan explained that the Xiao Clan’s leader, Xiao Xuan, had failed to break through to Dou Di, after which the Soul Clan attacked the Xiao Clan.
• Yao Dan recounted how Yao Fang fought Soul Clan Dou Saints to protect Xiao Xuan, returned to the Yao Clan mortally wounded, and prompted the clan to seal his branch’s bloodline and demote it to a collateral line.
• Yao Dan admitted that the Yao Clan’s decision had been cowardly and wrong, then offered to unseal Yao Xuan’s bloodline and appoint him young clan leader with half the clan’s authority.
• Yao Xuan listened as his shock faded into calmness, but he still found it difficult to accept the offer.

After learning the truth about his Yao Clan heritage, Yao Xuan returned to the coming-of-age ceremony and was urged to decide whether to rejoin the clan. Yao Tian warned that Yao Ling was a target for a cross-clan marriage alliance, while a young clan head and Elder Zhen discussed securing her for their clan.

• Yao Dan gave Yao Xuan time to consider returning to the Yao Clan and said the clan would respect his choice.
• Yao Xuan returned to the crowded ceremony square, where Yao Ling asked about his meeting with Yao Dan and Yao Tian apologized for his past prejudice.
• Yao Tian told Yao Xuan that the six visiting Emperor Clans had gathered to select marriage candidates through sparring, and that Yao Ling was highly coveted.
• Yao Tian warned Yao Xuan that without a legitimate Yao Clan identity, he could not openly stand beside Yao Ling at the ceremony.
• A young clan head asked Elder Zhen whether they could secure Yao Ling in a marriage alliance, and Elder Zhen assured him they could.

The Yao Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony revealed that Yao Ling possessed a complete Nine-Grade Dou Emperor Bloodline, restoring the clan’s hopes after years of decline. The Thunder Clan’s Lei Dong then arrived and challenged Yao Ling, while Yao Xuan recognized him as the young patriarch who had been watching him.

• Yao Wanhuo opened the ceremony, and the early descendants tested with mostly ordinary bloodlines as a Soul Clan genius mocked the Yao Clan’s decline.
• Yao Xingji revealed a Seventh-Grade Dou Emperor Bloodline and received seven golden Clan Patterns.
• Yao Tian revealed a Peak Eighth-Grade Dou Emperor Bloodline and received eight purple-gold Clan Patterns.
• Yao Ling’s bloodline reached the complete Ninth Grade, and Yao Wanhuo bestowed upon her the Five-Colored Supreme Clan Pattern.
• Lei Dong of the Thunder Clan entered the arena, declared his interest in Yao Ling, and challenged her to exchange pointers.
• Yao Xuan recognized Lei Dong as the Thunder Clan’s young patriarch and recalled that Lei Dong had been watching him.

Lei Dong challenged the Yao Clan during Yao Ling’s coming-of-age ceremony and quickly gained the upper hand in their spar. Yao Tian took her place and prepared to face Lei Dong, leaving the two clan prodigies poised to clash.

• Yao Wanhuo approved Lei Dong’s challenge to Yao Ling before the assembled clans.
• Lei Dong used his lightning speed to strike Yao Ling from behind, sending her flying despite holding back.
• Yao Xuan moved to intervene, but Yao Tian stopped him and took responsibility for defending his sister.
• Yao Tian requested permission from Yao Wanhuo to spar with Lei Dong, and Yao Wanhuo agreed.
• Lei Dong welcomed the chance to fight Yao Tian, who unleashed his Six-Star Battle Venerable aura and summoned the Nine Nether Wind Flame.

Lei Dong defeated Yao Tian after revealing his Black Demon Lightning and Three-Turn Peak Battle Venerable cultivation, then invoked the ceremony’s rules to seek a marriage alliance with Yao Ling. As Yao Wanhuo hesitated, a spectator stepped onto the arena to challenge Lei Dong.

• Yao Tian used the Nine Nether Wind Flame to block Lei Dong’s surprise attack, but Lei Dong revealed his Black Demon Lightning and unleashed his full cultivation.
• Gu Qingyang judged that he had less than a thirty percent chance of defeating Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong overwhelmed Yao Tian’s borrowed Heavenly Flame with Black Demon Lightning and defeated him.
• Lei Dong asked Yao Wanhuo whether defeating Yao Ling and Yao Tian qualified him to propose a marriage alliance with Yao Ling.
• An unidentified figure stepped onto the arena and offered to test himself against Lei Dong.

Yao Xuan stepped in to fight Lei Dong at the Yao Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony, revealing that he had reached the Six-Turn Peak Battle Venerable level. Lei Dong welcomed the challenge and charged at him, leaving their battle about to begin.

• Lei Dong said he had been waiting to fight Yao Xuan, and Yao Wanhuo allowed Yao Xuan to represent the Yao Clan.
• Gu Yao told Gu Qingyang that Yao Xuan was an expelled Yao Clan outcast rumored to have killed a Four-Star Dou Saint while still a Battle Venerable.
• Huo Xuan expressed interest in challenging Yao Xuan, while Huo Zhi doubted he could overcome Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong asked whether Yao Xuan's Heavenly Flames or his Black Demon Lightning was stronger, and Yao Xuan said he did not need to use his flames against Lei Dong.
• Yao Xuan released the aura of a Six-Turn Peak Battle Venerable, shocking the crowd and Gu Qingyang.
• Lei Dong grew excited, surged with Black Demon Lightning, and charged at Yao Xuan.

Yao Xuan defeated Lei Dong in their sparring match, countering the Thunder Clan prodigy’s speed and overpowering his ultimate thunder technique. Lei Dong accepted the loss with respect, and Yao Xuan remained unbeaten.

• Lei Dong used his Black Demon Lightning speed to launch surprise attacks, but Yao Xuan evaded them with clones and proved faster.
• Lei Dong covered the arena in a lightning net to block Yao Xuan’s movement.
• Lei Dong summoned the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon Art, and Yao Xuan answered with the Thunderflame Rakshasa Palm using Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame.
• Yao Wanhuo shielded the arena as the two High Heaven Rank battle skills collided.
• Lei Dong staggered back seven steps and conceded that Yao Xuan had won, then bowed to him in respect.

Yao Xuan defeated Lei Dong at the Yao Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, then rejected Yao Wanhuo’s public declaration that he was the clan’s young clan chief. He remained firm in calling himself an independent cultivator, leaving Yao Wanhuo’s attempt to bring him back unresolved.

• Yao Xuan defeated Lei Dong, stunning the gathered clans and restoring the Yao Clan’s standing.
• Yao Wanhuo invited the other clans’ prodigies to challenge the Yao Clan, but none accepted.
• Gu Qingyang stopped Gu Yao from taking the stage, while Huo Zhi teased Huo Xuan about challenging Yao Xuan.
• Yao Wanhuo declared that Yao Xuan was not an abandoned son but the Yao Clan’s appointed young clan chief.
• Yao Xuan publicly rejected the title and said he was no longer a member of the Yao Clan, but an independent cultivator.
• Yao Wanhuo urged Yao Xuan to return and accept the position, but Yao Xuan refused and asked him to understand.

After Yao Xuan rejected the Yao Clan’s offer to make him Young Clan Leader, Lei Dong befriended him and praised his strength, while Yao Wanhuo confronted him over the public refusal. Yao Xuan reminded Yao Wanhuo that the Yao Clan had expelled him and Uncle Chen without considering their grievances.

• Lei Dong offered Yao Xuan his personal Thunder Talisman and left the Medicine Realm with Elder Lei Zhen.
• Lei Dong told Lei Zhen that Yao Xuan’s talents, alchemy, and hidden strength made him a valuable ally who could defeat even a One-Star Dou Saint.
• Lei Zhen agreed that the Yao Clan had foolishly driven away a gifted genius and lost its chance to revive.
• Yao Wanhuo thanked Yao Xuan for helping the Yao Clan and asked whether he would return, but Yao Xuan firmly refused.
• Yao Wanhuo reproached Yao Xuan for rejecting the Young Clan Leader position in front of the other clans, and Yao Xuan asked whether the Yao Clan had considered his grievances when it expelled him and Uncle Chen.

Yao Xuan refused Yao Dan’s offer to rejoin the Yao Clan, despite the promise of restoring his Dou Emperor Bloodline, and accepted the clan’s conditions for marrying Yao Ling. After leaving the Medicine Realm with Old Man Shennong, he asked whether his master would continue living in seclusion in the Shennong Mountain Range.

• Yao Wanhuo grew angry at Yao Xuan, but Old Man Shennong appeared and identified Yao Xuan as his disciple.
• Yao Dan brought Yao Xuan to the Sacred Lord Hall, acknowledged the Yao Clan’s past wrongs, and set Battle Saint cultivation and Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection soul power as requirements for marrying Yao Ling.
• Yao Dan offered to help Yao Xuan regain his Dou Emperor Bloodline if he rejoined the clan, but Yao Xuan refused and vowed to reach Battle Saint on his own.
• Yao Ling supported Yao Xuan, and he promised to return as a Battle Saint and marry her before leaving the Medicine Realm with Old Man Shennong.
• Yao Wanhuo asked Yao Dan why he let Yao Xuan leave, and Yao Dan said trapping him would only create resentment.
• Yao Xuan thanked Old Man Shennong above the Shennong Mountain Range and asked if he planned to remain in seclusion there.

Old Man Shennong left the Shennong Mountain Range and joined the Starfall Pavilion as a Supreme Elder, greatly strengthening the faction. Yao Xuan then questioned Yao Lao about his lineage and learned of a Battle Saint Ruins that could help him advance his soul realm.

• Old Man Shennong traveled with Yao Xuan to the Starfall Pavilion and agreed to join as a Supreme Elder.
• Yao Lao welcomed Old Man Shennong and arranged a spiritually rich place for his seclusion.
• Yao Xuan told Yao Lao about the Yao Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony and asked whether Yao Dan's claims about his lineage were true.
• Yao Lao said he could not confirm the claims, and Yao Xuan resolved to seek answers from Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Yao Lao told Yao Xuan that a Battle Saint Ruins holding Gold-Grade Soul Infant Fruit was about to emerge in the Central Plains.

Yao Xuan brought Xiao Yan to the Battle Saint Ruins, where he confronted Soul Hall’s Star-Picking Old Ghost and revealed his overwhelming strength. The ruins opened as the gathered factions prepared to enter.

• Yao Xuan told Yao Lao that Soul Hall’s Gu You had targeted him, then decided to take Xiao Yan to the Battle Saint Ruins so he could find suitable Battle Skills.
• Yao Xuan visited Xiao Yan, who had reached the Three-Star Battle Ancestor Realm, and invited him to the ruins.
• Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan arrived at the ruins, where Yao Xuan greeted Tang Zhen and Venerable Lei grew resentful of their ties to Flame Valley.
• Yao Xuan sensed Soul Hall’s Star-Picking Old Ghost hiding in the void and dragged him out with one hand, shocking the gathered factions.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost recognized Yao Xuan but endured the humiliation, and the Battle Saint Ruins opened as a beam of light shot into the sky.

Yao Xuan entered the Battle Saint Ruins with Xiao Yan, seized the Soul Infant Fruit, and headed to the main hall in search of more treasures. There, Star-Picking Old Ghost tried to use the Heaven Rank Battle Skill scrolls to draw attackers toward Yao Xuan, who effortlessly blasted them away and threatened the old ghost.

• Independent cultivators were dissolved by the energy at the fractured entrance, and the stone statues transformed into peak Dou Zong puppets that merged into a Three-Star Peak Battle Venerable captain.
• Yao Xuan destroyed the captain puppet with a gesture, then led Xiao Yan into the ruins and found the hidden entrance beneath the magma.
• Yao Xuan subdued the Heaven-Piercing Flood Dragon and took the Soul Infant Fruit, storing it for later refinement into a pill.
• Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan reached the main hall, where factions fought over ten blue light clusters believed to contain a Heaven Rank Battle Skill.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost threw three scrolls toward Yao Xuan to draw the others’ attacks and seize the Dou Saint skeleton, but Yao Xuan repelled everyone who charged him and warned Star-Picking Old Ghost that he had a death wish.

Yao Xuan overwhelmed Star-Picking Old Ghost, but the dying Soul Hall elder summoned Gu You Saint, who absorbed his soul and confronted Yao Xuan. Gu You pinned Yao Xuan with his Advanced Half-Saint pressure, and Yao Xuan defiantly insulted him.

• Yao Xuan revealed his Six-Turn Peak Battle Venerable strength and blasted half of Star-Picking Old Ghost's body apart with a palm strike.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost crushed a jade token to summon Soul Hall reinforcements, and Gu You Saint emerged from a spatial rift.
• Gu You dismissed Star-Picking Old Ghost as trash, absorbed his soul into the black mist, and offered Yao Xuan a chance to return to Soul Hall.
• Yao Xuan rejected Gu You's offer and attacked him with the Profound Flame Suppressing Wilderness Palm, but Gu You blocked the strike with a black mist shield.
• Gu You released his Advanced Half-Saint pressure and pinned Yao Xuan in place, but Yao Xuan declared that Gu You was still an ant.

Yao Xuan used the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame to reach the Half-Saint Realm and battled Elder Gu You. After countering Gu You’s soul attack and badly injuring him, Yao Xuan prepared to take his soul.

• Yao Xuan activated all three transformations of the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame and rose from peak Battle Venerable to the Half-Saint Realm.
• Yao Xuan’s Profound Flame Suppressing Wilderness Palm clashed with Gu You’s Netherworld Ghost Claw, forcing Gu You back.
• Gu You summoned a skeletal giant and attacked Yao Xuan’s soul with Dark Skull Extinction.
• Yao Xuan countered with the Golden Firmament Soul-Suppressing Seal, injuring Gu You’s soul and disrupting his Dou Qi.
• Yao Xuan struck Gu You with the Fire-Asura Thunder Astral Palm, shattering his Ten Thousand Souls Bone Armor and leaving him gravely injured.
• Yao Xuan approached Gu You and declared that he would take his soul.

Yao Xuan nearly killed Gu You, but the Great Heaven Venerable intervened and rescued him before disappearing. Alone afterward, Gu You resented the Great Heaven Venerable and vowed to avenge his defeat by Yao Xuan.

• Yao Xuan prepared to kill the wounded Gu You, but a powerful black claw struck from a spatial rift and forced him to defend himself.
• The Great Heaven Venerable rescued Gu You and vanished after scolding him for losing to Yao Xuan.
• Xiao Yan and the others joined Yao Xuan, who recovered with medicinal pills and told Xiao Yan to keep Uncle Chen at Starfall Pavilion.
• Gu You secretly cursed the Great Heaven Venerable as a Spirit Clan traitor and resolved to claim his position after reaching Dou Saint.
• Gu You took pills to ease his injuries and vowed to repay Yao Xuan for the humiliation.

After Yao Xuan destroyed the awakened Dou Saint Skeleton and claimed its three treasured ribs, Huang Xuan led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan away from the main hall. They forced open a Beast Spirit Barrier to enter the Dragon Phoenix Ruins, and Yao Xuan followed them inside.

• Huang Xuan approached the Dou Saint Skeleton, triggered its defenses, and awakened it with his blood, causing it to kill the independent cultivators at the Dou Zong level.
• Huang Xuan attacked the puppet but was quickly defeated, then called on Yao Xuan to intervene.
• Yao Xuan shattered the skeleton with a palm strike, collected its three crystalline ribs, and noticed Huang Xuan and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had disappeared.
• Huang Xuan led Feng Qing'er and two elders to a Beast Spirit Barrier, where he learned it had been formed by an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Huang Xuan, Feng Qing'er, and the two elders combined their essence blood to break through the barrier and enter the Dragon Phoenix Ruins.
• Yao Xuan tracked the group, emerged after they entered, and followed them through the opening.