Recaps

Xiao Yan entered the Inner Academy, challenged its strongest students, and fought Han Feng when Falling Heart Flame broke loose. After surviving the flames with help from four women, Xiao Yan was separated from Xun'er and joined Xiao Yixian in confronting the forces attacking the Poison Sect.

• Elder Su awarded Xiao Yan an Amethyst Card and extra points after he defeated the Inner Academy hunters, then brought him and the other newcomers into the academy.
• Xiao Yan restored his soul, mastered Lightning Flash, and took Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk from a Snow Demon Sky Ape's cave before killing the beast.
• Xiao Yan entered the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, gained Ziyan's permission to use her chamber, and announced a tournament offering Earth Core Body-Tempering Milk to anyone who could defeat him.
• Xiao Yan defeated wave after wave of Inner Academy challengers until Falling Heart Flame erupted from the tower, and he joined Su Qian in trying to contain it.
• Han Feng attacked Canaan Academy to seize Falling Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan fought him after revealing he knew Han Feng had betrayed and killed Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan devoured several Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yixian, Medusa, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran took turns bearing the flames until he recovered.
• Ling Quan came to take Xun'er back to the Ancient Clan, but a huge golden palm struck Xiao Yan unconscious and Xun'er was taken away.
• Xiao Yan formed the Tianxia Guild with Nalan Yanran, then hurried to the Chu Yun Empire and rescued Xiao Yixian from the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect and its allies.

Xiao Yan united much of the Northwestern Continent under the Tianxia Guild, then traveled to Black Emperor City to obtain rare treasures and confront Soul Hall’s forces. The confrontation left Mo Tianxing and Eagle Mountain Old Man dead, while Xiao Yan captured the Fierce Soul and continued fighting the remaining pursuers.

• Xiao Yan defeated Wu Protector, Jia Xingtian, Iron Protector, and Xie Bi Yan, then joined forces with Xiao Yixian to gather the Northwestern Continent’s factions.
• Xiao Yan founded the Tianxia Guild, recruited major factions including the Misty Cloud Sect and the Snake People, and tasked Yao Ye with unifying the empires.
• Xiao Yan helped Canaan Academy defeat the Black Alliance, reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and traveled to Black Emperor City with Nalan Yanran and Ziyan.
• At the Black Emperor City auction, Xiao Yan acquired a seventh-tier ice-attribute Magic Core and traded pills for a Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse, while Xiongba won the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva.
• Xiao Yan learned from Wu Protector that Soul Hall’s Northwestern branch was based in Burial Heaven Ravine and was led by a Hall Master of at least three-star Dou Zun strength.
• Soul Hall’s Hall Master sent Xuan Protector, Mo Tianxing, Earth Demon Old Ghost, and Eagle Mountain Old Man after Xiao Yan, who lured them away from Black Emperor City to fight.
• Xiao Yan killed Mo Tianxing, captured the Fierce Soul, and killed Eagle Mountain Old Man with his Death Finger.

Xiao Yan defeated the Soul Hall’s assault on Tianxia Guild and sealed Xiao Yixian’s Calamity Poison Body, but the seal would last only about half a year. He traveled with Xiao Yixian to Fallen God Ravine, revived Skyfire Venerable as Yao Tianhuo, and prepared to refine her Poison Pill.

• Xiao Yan killed Earth Demon Old Ghost, then rejected Hun Qiu’s offer to join Soul Hall and fought him until he fled from the Three Points Return to Origin Qi.
• Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder defeated Hun Dan, after which Xiao Yan forged powerful Heavenly Monster Puppets and prepared to revive Medicine Elder using a Heavenly Demon Phoenix body.
• Xiao Yan refined pills for Tianxia Guild members and entered seclusion to break through to Dou Zong, while Soul Hall forces gathered to attack Maple City.
• Yun Shan, Medusa, and Xiao Yixian defended Maple City with the Myriad Phenomena Return-to-Origin Tai Chi Formation and the puppets until Xiao Yan emerged and drove off Star Picking Old Ghost and Mu Gu.
• Xiao Yan suppressed Xiao Yixian’s Calamity Poison Body with the Heavenly Capital Flame Seal, but learned the seal would last only about half a year and that they needed a seventh-rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s Magic Core.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian found the beast in Fallen God Ravine, secured its cooperation, and Xiao Yan offered to revive Skyfire Venerable in exchange for protection while refining the Poison Pill.
• Xiao Yan used the beast’s essence blood and Magic Core to restore Skyfire Venerable’s body, reviving him as Yao Tianhuo, who agreed to help resist Soul Hall.
• Yao Tianhuo warned that Xiao Yixian’s Poison Pill had to be refined somewhere rich in Yang Fire, so Xiao Yan led him out of the cave.

Xiao Yan helped Xiao Yixian refine her Poison Pill, fought off the factions pursuing them, and reunited with Xun'er. He then reached Holy Pill City and led the Ye Clan’s assessment, taking first place in the first two tests.

• Xiao Yan borrowed the Ye Clan’s Sunfire Ancient Altar and helped Xiao Yixian begin condensing a Poison Pill while hostile factions surrounded Ye City.
• Xiao Yan fought Ice River, Star Picking Old Ghost, Mu Gu, and their allies as Xiao Yixian and Skyfire Venerable joined the battle.
• Xiao Yan suppressed Xiao Yixian’s self-destructive outburst, and Xun'er arrived and reunited with him.
• Xiao Yan fused two energy spheres and destroyed Ling Quan’s forces, then returned to Ye City and promised to represent the Ye Clan in the Alchemist Tournament.
• Xiao Yan earned an intermediate seventh-grade alchemist badge in Holy Pill City and attended the Five Great Clans Examination with Ye Zhong.
• Xiao Yan scored 1999 on the soul test, then caught 288 Soul-Measuring Pearls to win the second assessment.
• Xiao Yan entered the third assessment as Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Bai Ying, and Qiu Ji targeted him, and he defended himself while studying their techniques.