Recaps

Xiao Yan lured Han Feng away from Jia Nan Academy while enduring attacks from Profound Origin Heavy Water infused with Sea Heart Flame. He revealed a second Heavenly Flame and began forming a Two-Colored Fire Lotus, leaving its power poised to unleash.

• Xiao Yan decided to use a dangerous technique against Han Feng but first tried to draw him farther from Jia Nan Academy.
• Han Feng attacked Xiao Yan with waves and globs of Profound Origin Heavy Water infused with Sea Heart Flame, forcing Xiao Yan to dodge and suffer mounting injuries.
• Xiao Yan deliberately led Han Feng higher and farther from Jia Nan Academy as Han Feng mocked him and boasted about Yao Lao's betrayal.
• Xiao Yan revealed Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, and Han Feng angrily accused Yao Lao of favoring his new disciple.
• Xiao Yan fused the two Heavenly Flames into a cyan-and-red Two-Colored Fire Lotus, gathering its violent power within it.

Xiao Yan unleashed a Two-Colored Fire Lotus that overwhelmed Han Feng’s attack and nearly engulfed him. Han Feng was rescued through a Spatial Passage by the mysterious Mu Lao, leaving the weakened Xiao Yan worried about facing him again.

• Han Feng attacked Xiao Yan with Profound Origin Heavy Water infused with the Sea Heart Flame while greedily coveting the Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan sent his Two-Colored Fire Lotus into Han Feng’s wave, and it erupted into a sea of fire that evaporated the water and flame.
• The enormous clash halted the distant fighting and left Jia Nan Academy’s allies and enemies wondering who had unleashed the attack.
• Han Feng realized he was trapped in the oncoming fire and called for Mu Lao to save him.
• A withered hand pulled Han Feng through a Spatial Passage, and Xiao Yan realized his injuries and exhaustion left him vulnerable.

After Han Feng escaped through a Spatial Passage, Protector Xuan ambushed Xiao Yan while he was distracted and weakened. Queen Medusa intervened just in time, saving Xiao Yan and standing between him and Protector Xuan.

• An unknown Dou Venerable rescued Han Feng through a Spatial Passage, while Yao Lao recognized the familiar aura of his enemy Mu Gu.
• Protector Xuan, acting on Mu Gu’s order, used Soul Mist Concealment to approach Xiao Yan and launch a surprise attack.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan could not evade Protector Xuan’s Ghost Hun Zhan.
• Queen Medusa appeared and swallowed Protector Xuan’s attack with a seven-colored serpent phantom.
• Medusa stood between Protector Xuan and Xiao Yan, explaining that she had been watching the upheaval at Jia Nan Academy.

Medusa saved Xiao Yan from Protector Xuan, then attacked Protector Xuan after he threatened the Snake-People Tribe. As Xiao Yan recovered, Mu Gu revealed himself beside Han Feng, bringing Yao Lao face-to-face with two of his greatest enemies.

• Medusa explained that she had saved Xiao Yan to repay her debt and ensure he could still refine pills for her.
• Protector Xuan threatened Medusa and her tribe, so Medusa attacked him and began another Dou Zong battle.
• Xiao Yan admitted that he was too weakened to pursue Han Feng, while Yao Lao regretted failing to notice Protector Xuan's ambush.
• Yao Lao began to identify the person who had rescued Han Feng, but Mu Gu appeared with Han Feng and mocked Yao Lao for surviving.
• Yao Lao recognized Mu Gu as the accomplice who had helped Han Feng kill him, while Xiao Yan realized both enemies were now before them.
• Mu Gu considered taking the complete Flame Mantra after seeing Xiao Yan control two Heavenly Flames.

Mu Gu attacked Xiao Yan and Yao Lao to seize the Flame Mantra and exploit their bond, but a hidden Dou Venerable intervened. Zhu Fang, a dispatched guest elder guarding Jia Nan Academy’s Spatial Wormhole, arrived to face Mu Gu.

• Mu Gu demanded the Flame Mantra and threatened Yao Lao and Xiao Yan, while Han Feng realized Mu Gu intended to capture Xiao Yan and use him as leverage.
• Mu Gu unleashed Ghost Dance Hand against Xiao Yan and Yao Lao’s Remnant Soul.
• A barrier blocked Mu Gu’s spectral claws just before they reached Xiao Yan and Yao Lao.
• Zhu Fang stepped through a Spatial Passage and revealed himself as the Dou Venerable who had been dispatched to guard the Spatial Wormhole.

Zhu Fang intervened when Mu Gu attacked Xiao Yan, then revealed his hostility toward the Soul Hall by striking Mu Gu after learning his affiliation. As Zhu Fang and Mu Gu began fighting, Han Feng fled the clash, only for Xiao Yan, possessed by Yao Lao, to pursue him.

• Zhu Fang explained that he had intervened to protect Xiao Yan, whom he knew was his Palace Master's grandson.
• Mu Gu offered Zhu Fang pills and a place in the Soul Hall, assuming he might be persuaded to stand aside.
• Zhu Fang attacked Mu Gu with Immovable Wisdom King Palm after learning that Mu Gu belonged to the Soul Hall.
• Mu Gu blocked Zhu Fang's surprise strike with Soul Devouring Bone Shield, and the two Dou Venerables began fighting.
• Han Feng moved away from the battle, but Xiao Yan, possessed by Yao Lao, caught up with him.

Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan's body to fight Han Feng, using his superior combat experience and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to overwhelm his former disciple. He followed up with the Great Wilderness Palm, leaving Han Feng under another powerful attack.

• Xiao Yan let Yao Lao control his body because he could no longer sustain borrowing Yao Lao's power himself.
• Yao Lao broke Han Feng's hand, kicked him into the ground, and attacked him with Flame Wheel Dance.
• Han Feng emerged from the flames protected by Sea Heart Flame and formed a Sea-Binding Net to attack Yao Lao.
• Yao Lao summoned the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, shaped it into a sword, and sliced through Han Feng's net.
• Yao Lao struck Han Feng with the Great Wilderness Palm before Han Feng could choose his next Dou Technique.

Yao Lao defeated Han Feng while teaching Xiao Yan that combat strength depended on more than cultivation and Heavenly Flames. After Han Feng begged for mercy, Yao Lao killed him and burned away his remains.

• Yao Lao criticized Han Feng for relying too heavily on the Sea Heart Flame, then exchanged blows with him using the Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Han Feng formed the Sea Heart Flame into a halberd and attacked, but Yao Lao repeatedly countered him and struck him with the ruler.
• Xiao Yan realized Yao Lao was using the fight to teach him combat experience and higher-level fighting methods.
• Yao Lao knocked the Sea Heart Halberd from Han Feng's hand and declared that cultivation level did not equal strength.
• Han Feng begged Yao Lao for another chance, but Yao Lao killed him with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler and burned his body away.

Yao Lao captured Han Feng’s soul after destroying his body and killed him when his pleas for mercy proved insincere. Xiao Yan reassured Yao Lao that Han Feng’s final attempt to sow distrust had failed, leaving teacher and disciple reconciled.

• Han Feng’s soul escaped the flames, but Yao Lao caught it and compressed it in his palm.
• Han Feng begged Yao Lao to spare him, then blamed Mu Gu, but Yao Lao recognized that he felt no real remorse.
• Yao Lao said he would end Han Feng’s life without tormenting him, and Han Feng cursed Yao Lao and Xiao Yan before Yao Lao crushed his soul.
• Yao Lao returned Xiao Yan’s body and worried that Han Feng’s claim that Xiao Yan was his replacement might trouble him.
• Xiao Yan dismissed Han Feng’s words as an attempt to drive a wedge between them, and he and Yao Lao exchanged a smile.

After Han Feng’s death, Xiao Yan sealed the ownerless Sea Heart Flame while Medusa returned with Protector Xuan’s corpse and agreed to let Xiao Yan refine her medicinal pill. Their conversation was interrupted when the Fallen Heart Flame broke its seal beneath Jia Nan Academy.

• Xiao Yan used the Green Lotus Core Flame and Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to seal the Sea Heart Flame.
• Medusa arrived carrying the dead Protector Xuan, whom she had killed, and destroyed his corpse.
• Xiao Yan promised to refine Medusa’s medicinal pill first, and Medusa questioned his ability to control multiple Heavenly Flames.
• A tremendous rumble came from Jia Nan Academy as the Fallen Heart Flame broke its seal and surged into the sky.

The Fallen Heart Flame broke free after reaching the Dou Venerable level and charged toward Xiao Yan, drawn to the three Heavenly Flames he possessed. Yao Lao proposed a dangerous plan to use its power to absorb the Sea Heart Flame and then fight for the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Han Feng's allies celebrated the Fallen Heart Flame's escape, unaware that Han Feng had already left and his promises were void.
• The Fallen Heart Flame broke through the seal, and Qian Mu and Bai Lie realized its strength had risen to the Dou Venerable level.
• The Fallen Heart Flame fled the Underground Magma World and sensed three Heavenly Flames in Xiao Yan's possession.
• Yao Lao advised Xiao Yan to abandon the Sea Heart Flame as bait, but Xiao Yan refused because he needed it to resurrect Yao Lao.
• Yao Lao proposed using the Fallen Heart Flame to suppress the Sea Heart Flame, then combining three Heavenly Flames to fight and possibly absorb the Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Yan chose to risk using the Fallen Heart Flame to help him absorb the Sea Heart Flame, despite Yao Lao warning that the four Heavenly Flames could kill him. As the Fallen Heart Flame swallowed them, Medusa returned under the influence of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's soul and helped shield Xiao Yan, leaving them trapped inside the fire python.

• Yao Lao proposed using the Fallen Heart Flame to suppress the Sea Heart Flame while Xiao Yan absorbed it, and Xiao Yan accepted the risk.
• Medusa refused to join Xiao Yan and Yao Lao, but the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's soul fought her for control and urged her to help Xiao Yan.
• Medusa returned to Xiao Yan and agreed to help, demanding twice as many medicinal pills in return.
• The Fallen Heart Flame attacked, and Xiao Yan wrapped himself and Medusa in the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame while Yao Lao hid in Xiao Yan's Storage Ring.
• Medusa added a protective barrier with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's phantom, but the Fallen Heart Flame swallowed them.

Xiao Yan and Medusa survived inside the Fallen Heart Flame and used its struggle to devour the Sea Heart Flame as cover for Xiao Yan to refine it. As Xiao Yan grew stronger and the Flame Mantra advanced, the Fallen Heart Flame realized something was wrong.

• Xiao Yan and Medusa remained protected inside the Fallen Heart Flame by Medusa’s Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python phantom and Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan found the Sea Heart Flame resisting the Fallen Heart Flame and decided to refine it while the two flames were locked in battle.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to act, and Medusa agreed to defend him as he withdrew his Heavenly Flames and focused on refining the Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Sea Heart Flame without pain while Medusa endured the increased pressure of defending them.
• Xiao Yan’s aura grew stronger and the Flame Mantra advanced toward the Earth Tier as the Fallen Heart Flame noticed that the Sea Heart Flame was weakening without strengthening it.

Han Feng’s death and betrayal from within shattered the Black-Corner Region experts’ alliance, allowing Jia Nan Academy to turn the battle around. Su Qian and the others ended their pursuit to return to the Inner Academy and deal with the rampaging Fallen Heart Flame.

• Betrayal and news of Han Feng’s death broke the Black-Corner Region alliance, and about half its experts fled the battlefield.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost and Elder Ying Shan escaped from Su Qian and Hu Gan, who pursued and killed fleeing Dou Emperors instead.
• The Black-Corner Region experts attacked one another as they fled, and fewer than a quarter of those Han Feng brought escaped.
• Su Qian decided Jia Nan Academy would postpone pursuing the invaders because the Fallen Heart Flame remained out of control.
• Su Qian led the academy’s senior figures back to the Inner Academy to suppress the Fallen Heart Flame.

After Han Feng’s attack was repelled, Su Qian thanked Yin Gu Lao, Tie Wu, and Su Mei for betraying Han Feng’s forces and promised Jia Nan Academy’s protection. On the final battlefield, Zhu Fang trapped Mu Gu in a high-tier formation disk and gravely wounded him, but Mu Gu escaped through a spatial passage.

• Su Qian declined Yin Gu Lao, Tie Wu, and Su Mei’s offer to help further, thanked them, and promised Jia Nan Academy would protect them.
• Yin Gu Lao, Tie Wu, and Su Mei returned to their territories after affirming their ties to Jia Nan Academy.
• Zhu Fang gained the upper hand against Mu Gu and trapped him with a high-tier formation disk.
• Mu Gu severed his right arm, transformed it into a pitch-black blade, and cut open a spatial passage.
• Zhu Fang unleashed the formation’s full power and gravely wounded Mu Gu, but Mu Gu escaped through the passage.

Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy just as its elders prepared to reseal the escaped Fallen Heart Flame. After learning what had happened, she declared that she would handle it herself.

• Qian Mu and Bai Lie gathered the recovering elders to help Qian Bai Er Lao and Zhu Fang reseal the Fallen Heart Flame.
• A distorted Void Passage opened above the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, and a purple-haired young woman emerged.
• The elders recognized Zi Yan, who had grown older during her seclusion and returned to the academy.
• Qian Mu told Zi Yan that attackers had been driven away and that the Fallen Heart Flame had escaped its tower.
• Zi Yan learned that the Fallen Heart Flame threatened the tower and confidently offered to deal with it herself.

Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy with a powerful escort of Flame Lizardmen and ordered their Half-Saint leader to capture the escaped fallen heart flame. The leader tossed it back into the Underground Magma World as Su Qian and the others hurried to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, still believing Xiao Lin or Mang Tianchi had returned.

• Zi Yan rejected Qian Bai Er Lao's warnings and summoned roughly thirty Flame Lizardmen, including Dou Zong, Dou Venerable, and Half-Saint experts.
• Zi Yan explained that the Flame Lizardmen obeyed her and that they would handle the fallen heart flame for her.
• Zi Yan ordered the Half-Saint Flame Lizardman leader to seize the fallen heart flame and throw it beneath the tower.
• The Half-Saint leader captured the Fire Python formed by the fallen heart flame despite its attempts to resist.
• Su Qian told Jia Nan Academy's elders to retreat, then headed for the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, thinking Xiao Lin or Mang Tianchi had returned.
• The Flame Lizardman leader tossed the fallen heart flame back into the Underground Magma World while Qian Bai Er Lao watched in shock.

Zi Yan and the Flame Lizardmen returned the Fallen Heart Flame to the Underground Magma World, and Jia Nan Academy’s leaders learned how they had contained the crisis. Nalan Yanran then arrived asking where Xiao Yan was, revealing that he had fought Han Feng and confronted the escaped flame.

• Zi Yan ordered the Half-Saint Flame Lizardman chief to return the Fallen Heart Flame beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, and Qian Bai Er Lao resealed it.
• Zi Yan sent the Flame Lizardmen back to the Underground Magma World after explaining how they could pass through the seal without breaking it.
• Su Qian, Hu Gan, and the other Jia Nan Academy leaders arrived and heard how Zi Yan’s underling had captured and returned the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Nalan Yanran arrived and asked where Xiao Yan was, then explained that he had fought Han Feng and faced the escaped Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian and the others were stunned by Nalan Yanran’s account of Xiao Yan’s actions.

Nalan Yanran told Su Qian and the academy elders that Xiao Yan had killed Han Feng before the Fallen Heart Flame swallowed him, and they prepared to rescue him with Zi Yan's help. Xiao Lin appeared through a space distortion and stopped Zi Yan, knowing Xiao Yan was safe and should remain inside the flame.

• Nalan Yanran returned to Jia Nan Academy and told Su Qian and the others that Xiao Yan had killed Han Feng before the Fallen Heart Flame swallowed him.
• Su Qian and the elders vowed to rescue Xiao Yan, and they asked Zi Yan to summon the Flame Lizardmen.
• Zi Yan prepared to call the Flame Lizardmen back, but an illusory face appeared in the sky and told everyone there was no need.
• The academy elders recognized the face as Xiao Lin, who revealed through his actions that he knew Xiao Yan was safe and wanted him to stay inside the Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Lin reassured Jia Nan Academy that Xiao Yan was safe beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and should remain there to pursue an opportunity. After Xiao Lin vanished, the academy focused on recovering from the invasion and preparing to retaliate against the Black-Corner Region forces.

• Nalan Yanran and Jia Nan Academy's leaders urged Xiao Lin to rescue Xiao Yan, but he said Xiao Yan was safe and had an opportunity waiting for him underground.
• Xiao Lin told Nalan Yanran that Xiao Yan might remain below for a year or two and encouraged her to improve her strength while he was gone.
• Nalan Yanran accepted Xiao Lin's decision and resolved to train so Xiao Yan would not leave her behind.
• Xiao Lin refused to say where he was and disappeared, leaving Su Qian and the others to handle the academy's recovery.
• Su Qian and the academy's senior figures restored the school's operations and prepared to retaliate against the Black-Corner Region invaders and their forces.

Xiao Yan successfully absorbed and refined the Sea Heart Flame inside the Fallen Heart Flame’s Fire Python, reaching five-star Dou Emperor and advancing the Flame Mantra to low Earth tier. With Medusa exhausted but recovering, he prepared to pit the origins of his three heavenly flames against the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Medusa endured the Fallen Heart Flame’s pressure while Xiao Yan absorbed the Sea Heart Flame and grew stronger.
• Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame, reached five-star Dou Emperor, and advanced the Flame Mantra to low Earth tier.
• Xiao Yan took over their defenses with three heavenly flames after Medusa asked him for help.
• Medusa nearly fell from exhaustion, and Xiao Yan caught her before she recovered and pushed him away.
• Xiao Yan prepared to combine his three heavenly flames and begin the final contest against the Fallen Heart Flame.

After Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame inside the Fallen Heart Flame, he found the Fallen Heart Flame’s hidden origin core and began a clash of origins with his three Heavenly Flames. Xiao Yan’s flames gained the upper hand, but the Fallen Heart Flame’s conjured Fire Python secretly began influencing them.

• The Fallen Heart Flame realized that Xiao Yan had refined the Sea Heart Flame and raged helplessly inside the sealed Magma World.
• Xiao Yan searched within the Fallen Heart Flame’s Fire Python form and found its hidden origin core.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that the origin core was dangerous, and Xiao Yan prepared to attack while Medusa watched.
• Xiao Yan surrounded the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin core with the green, red, and blue Heavenly Flames.
• The four origins clashed, and Xiao Yan’s three Heavenly Flames began to overpower the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin as its Fire Python secretly exerted influence on them.

Xiao Yan continued absorbing and refining the Fallen Heart Flame while its Heart Flame quietly built up inside him and Medusa. As Xiao Yan neared success, Medusa began the final fusion of her soul with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's soul, and the Fallen Heart Flame's manifested Fire Python vanished.

• The Fallen Heart Flame kindled Heart Flame within Xiao Yan and Medusa while they focused on refining it and recovering, and neither noticed.
• As the days passed, Medusa's soul and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's soul reached the critical point of fusion, so Medusa began their final fusion despite her depleted state.
• Xiao Yan's three Heavenly Flames surrounded the Fallen Heart Flame's origin as he neared the completion of absorbing and refining it.
• Yao Lao watched Xiao Yan's progress and considered sending him to the Central Plains after he graduated from Jia Nan Academy.
• The Fire Python formed by the Fallen Heart Flame roared and then faded away as Xiao Yan's refinement approached its end.

Xiao Yan absorbed the fallen heart flame and struggled to refine it inside his body as it damaged his meridians and resisted having its intelligence erased. Just as he pressed on, the flame triggered a hidden contingency that stirred desire within him and released a strange fragrance.

• Yao Lao explained that Medusa was completing her merger with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's soul and warned Xiao Yan to focus on refining the fallen heart flame.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the fallen heart flame's essence into his body, where it fled through his meridians while his three heavenly flames pursued it.
• Xiao Yan's flames cornered the essence, and its scorching heat damaged his meridians as he hurried to absorb it into the Naling.
• Xiao Yan used his three flames to erase the fallen heart flame's intelligence, enduring its fierce resistance.
• The fallen heart flame ignited a contingency inside Xiao Yan, stirring desire in him and releasing a strange fragrance.

As Xiao Yan absorbed the fallen heart flame, its counterattack and Medusa’s involuntarily triggered charm left both of them overwhelmed by desire. Yao Lao withdrew to his Storage Ring, leaving Xiao Yan and Medusa alone in the Underground Magma World as he decided they should become each other’s antidote.

• While Medusa merged with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's soul, the fallen heart flame ignited her desire and triggered her passive charm, releasing an aphrodisiac fragrance.
• The fragrance magnified Xiao Yan’s desire as the fallen heart flame launched a final counterattack to consume him and his Heavenly Flames.
• Yao Lao noticed their predicament and prepared to intervene, but Xiao Yan insisted he could continue refining the flame and asked him to take Medusa away.
• Yao Lao agreed outwardly, then returned to Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring, deciding that separating them would cause bodily harm and that they should become each other’s antidote.