Recaps

Xiao Dongchen restored Xiao Yan’s cultivation, helped him confront Nalan Yanran, and equipped him to train under Yao Chen. As Xiao Yan advanced at the coming-of-age ceremony, Xiao Dongchen faced him in a spar and stopped his strongest attack.

• Xiao Dongchen identified Xiao Yan’s ring as the cause of his declining cultivation, gave him pills, and helped him reach the Ninth Stage and condense his Dou Energy Vortex.
• Xiao Dongchen helped Xiao Xun’er awaken her bloodline and reach the Da Dou Shi realm, then joined her when the Misty Cloud Sect guests came to discuss Nalan Yanran’s engagement.
• After Nalan Yanran demanded to dissolve her engagement to Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan challenged her to meet him in three years, while Xiao Dongchen defeated a Misty Cloud Sect disciple and proposed a Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Dongchen summoned Yao Lao, took the Flame Mantra and Bone Chilling Flame essence, and persuaded him to teach Xiao Yan in exchange for a Soul-Calming Jade Cauldron.
• Xiao Yan became Yao Lao’s disciple, while Xiao Dongchen gained the Emperor-tier Heaven-Burning Sea-Boiling Art, fused two Heavenly Flames, and broke through to Dou Ling.
• Xiao Dongchen gave Xiao Xun’er the Guardian Curse Spirit Bracelet and sold Xiao Yan’s Spirit-Nourishing Pills through Ya Fei’s auction, earning 1.2 million gold coins for Xiao Yan’s training.
• After three months of training, Xiao Yan reached six-star Dou Zhe at the coming-of-age ceremony, and Xiao Dongchen stepped forward to spar with him.
• Xiao Dongchen blocked Xiao Yan’s attacks with his Heavenly Flames and then Golden Light Mantra, leaving Xiao Yan unable to break his defense with Eight Extremes Collapse.

Xiao Dongchen helped Xiao Yan and the Xiao Household prosper, then impressed Jia Nan Academy’s recruiters and left to meet Xiao Yi Xian. He took her as his junior sister, named her Zhao Purple Smoke, and brought her to a hidden cave containing treasure and mysterious jade boxes.

• Xiao Yan broke through Xiao Dongchen’s Golden Light Mantra with repeated strikes but conceded when Xiao Dongchen formed a massive golden finger, and the match left Xiao Yan exhausted.
• Xiao Dongchen arranged for Ya Fei to buy Xiao Yan’s pills, bringing the Xiao Household twelve million gold coins and a new source of income.
• Xiao Dongchen kissed Xun’er before Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment, then went with the Xiao Household group to the testing camp, where Xiao Yan and Xun’er stunned Instructor Ruo Lin with their cultivation.
• Xiao Dongchen defeated Ruo Lin’s attacks and then seriously injured Long Aotian with a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus, earning approval for leave from Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Dongchen left the Xiao Household, advised Xiao Yan to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest, and flew south toward Green Mountain Town.
• Xiao Dongchen met Xiao Yi Xian at Myriad Medicine Hall, recognized her Woeful Poison Body, and accepted her as his junior martial sister in the Supreme Pill Sect, naming her Zhao Purple Smoke.
• Xiao Dongchen explained the Poison Pill Method to Zhao Purple Smoke and followed her to a hidden cave, where he defeated a Rock Snake and broke through the entrance.
• Xiao Dongchen and Zhao Purple Smoke found treasure, medicinal herbs, and three locked jade boxes in the cave, and Xiao Dongchen approached the boxes to see what was inside.