Recaps

Xiao Yan reunited with his brothers, helped Qing Lin awaken her Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes, and obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame while negotiating with Queen Medusa. After supporting her evolution and killing Kuixing, he returned to rescue Qing Lin from Sky Snake Palace and gained White Fang as a subordinate.

• Xiao Yan reached Stone Desert City, reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and gave them cultivation resources and formations to strengthen the Desert Iron Mercenary Corps.
• Xiao Yan took Qing Lin under his protection, healed her, and trained her until she rapidly advanced in cultivation and awakened her Three-Flower Jade Serpent Eyes.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin discovered the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent beneath Stone Desert City, and Qing Lin used her eyes to subdue it and form a contract.
• Xiao Yan descended into the magma, took the Green Lotus Core Flame, and negotiated with Queen Medusa to help her evolve in exchange for the Sand Mandrake.
• Xiao Yan confronted Mobas and Kuixing in the Snakefolk Holy City, forced Queen Medusa to punish them, and refined pills while preparing for her evolution ritual.
• Queen Medusa underwent the evolution using Xiao Yan’s Myriad-Beast Spirit Flame, emerged as the Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python, and left Xiao Yan to conceal and care for Little Cai.
• Xiao Yan killed Kuixing after Queen Medusa’s order, while Qing Lin returned to Stone Desert City and later refused Lü Man and White Fang’s offer to join Sky Snake Palace.
• Xiao Yan rescued Qing Lin from Lü Man and White Fang, defeated their attacks with the Lesser Celestial Star-Dipper Sword Formation, and accepted White Fang’s submission through Qing Lin’s soul contract.

Xiao Yan returned to the Jia Ma Empire, settled his Three-Year Pact with Nalan Yanran, defeated the Soul Hall Guardian and united the empire’s major powers as the Flame Alliance. At the Powerhouse Assembly, the alliance’s leaders routed the rival empires’ forces and cornered Xie Bi Yan.

• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan, reunited with his family, and killed Yun Leng and his attackers after they raided the clan.
• Xiao Yan publicly refined a Supreme Sect-Breaking Pill in the Imperial Capital, revealing his identity and power before announcing that he would settle his Three-Year Pact with Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan killed Gu He, then agreed with Yun Yun to spare the Misty Cloud Sect if Yun Shan turned against the Soul Hall Guardian and accepted a Soul Contract.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Misty Cloud Sect’s formation, defeated Guardian Wu with the Four Symbols Grand Formation, and refined the Guardian’s soul into a Seventh-Rank pill.
• Xiao Yan and Cai Lin formed the Flame Alliance with Jia Xingtian, Yun Yun, Fa Ma, Hai Bo Dong, and the empire’s major clans, then sent Nalan Yanran into the Life-and-Death Gate.
• Xiao Yan disguised himself as Guardian Wu and joined the Flame Alliance’s leaders at Black Mountain Fortress for the Powerhouse Assembly with the rival empires.
• Yun Yun defeated the Mulan Three Elders, while Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian killed Yan Luotian and helped her rout the opposing forces.
• Queen Medusa, Yun Shan, and Jia Xingtian surrounded Xie Bi Yan after he sent his forces fleeing.

Xiao Yan defeated Xie Bi Yan, reunited with his loved ones, and gained control of the Poison Sect and much of the Black-Corner Region while strengthening his cultivation. The arc left him confronting the Earth Demon Alliance after it gathered forces against the Flame Alliance.

• Xiao Yan revealed himself during the battle at Black Mountain Fortress, helped defeat Xie Bi Yan, and burned away the poison mark before advancing to Five-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan traveled with Cai Lin to the Snakefolk Tribe, promised to refine a pill for their child, and then reunited with Xiao Yi Xian at the Poison Sect.
• Xiao Yan obtained and refined the Netherworld Poison Flame, then used the Calamitous Poison Pill Technique to help Xiao Yi Xian control her poison and become an Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan brought his family to the Imperial Capital, then traveled with Xiao Yi Xian to the Black-Corner Region, where he recovered the third Pure Lotus Demon Flame Remnant Map and learned Han Feng was there.
• Xiao Yan and his allies destroyed the Blood Sect, then confronted Han Feng in Maple City, where Yao Lao revealed himself and killed his treacherous former student.
• Xiao Yan took control of Maple City, renamed it Flame City, and forced its factions to join the Flame Alliance before refining the Sea Heart Flame and breaking through to Three-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan strengthened his soul and body, subdued the Black Emperor Sect, killed Mo Tianxing and other opponents, and claimed the sect’s treasures, including Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva.
• Xiao Yan’s forces confronted the Earth Demon Alliance, where Cai Lin declared war and Xiao Yan crushed Earth Demon Old Ghost’s attack before dragging him out of hiding in space.

Xiao Yan unified the Black-Corner Region, secured Canaan Academy’s cooperation, and advanced through battles, alchemy, and the resurrection of Yao Tianhuo and Yao Chen. He reunited Zi Yan with Zhukun and reached Five-Star Dou Venerable, while Zhukun prepared to confront the divided Ancient Void Dragon tribe.

• Xiao Yan defeated the Earth Demon Alliance, took its treasures, and established the Flame Alliance’s control over the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan returned to Canaan Academy, promised to deal with the Fallen Heart Flame, and exchanged gifts with Xiao Xun'er before becoming honorary headmaster.
• Xiao Yan subdued the Fallen Heart Flame and later discovered Yao Tianhuo in the Magma World, agreeing to help resurrect him in exchange for the Juvenile Fallen Heart Flame and his protection.
• Xiao Yan killed Venerable Mu when he attacked Canaan Academy, then restored the weakened Fallen Heart Flame to the academy and formed an alliance with Su Qian.
• Xiao Yan refined Earth Demon Puppets and a Venerable-Breaking Pill, then used Venerable Mu’s body to resurrect Yao Tianhuo as a Nine-Star Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Lingming in a duel, broke through to the Dou Venerable realm, and gave Xiao Xun'er a supreme Venerable-Breaking Pill before she left for the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan found Zhukun in the Magma World, where Zhukun reunited with Zi Yan and helped Xiao Yan resurrect Yao Chen in a Five-Star Dou Saint body.
• Xiao Yan cultivated to Five-Star Dou Venerable while Zhukun freed Zi Yan from the Transformation Grass’s restrictions, then warned Zhukun that the Three Dragon Kings might target her.