Recaps

Xu Yan uncovered the Giant Spirit Race’s Soul Liquid secret, learned the Ancient Demon Race’s techniques, and used a Demon Embryo to establish his Foundation. After mastering the Ancient Demon Nine Prohibitions and the Annihilation Demon Finger, he followed the Blood Sword Heart Curse to the outskirts, where Ji Heng confronted him.

• Xu Yan ambushed and killed the Demon Ape pack’s old leader, then discovered the Soul Liquid formation and cultivated the Great Azure Soul-Tempering Art until his divine sense reached four hundred and fifty zhang.
• Xu Yan entered the hidden tomb, learned the Soul-Annihilating Demon Needle from Ling Jie’s message, and mastered it before continuing into the Ancient Demon Abyss.
• Xu Yan killed a Purple-Robed Daoist and a wounded Crimson Flame Demon Leopard, took the Millennium Fire Lotus, and used a petal to strengthen his body before reaching Qi Refining Perfection.
• Xu Yan explored the Ancient Demon Race settlement, recovered a wooden bird Anomaly, deciphered the tribe’s writings, and learned the Slave Talisman Secret Art before teleporting to the ancestral grounds.
• Xu Yan reached the Sacred Pavilion, learned the Annihilation Demon Finger, defeated the demonic beast with his Soul-Annihilating Demon Needle, and refined its Demon Embryo to enter Foundation Establishment.
• Xu Yan learned the Ancient Demon Nine Prohibitions, inscribed all nine Rune Prohibitions, and mastered the Annihilation Demon Finger as the Blood Sword Heart Curse’s target entered the Ancient Demon Abyss.
• Xu Yan flew toward the outskirts, spared three Ascension Gate disciples, and attacked Spirit Sword Sect disciples beneath a Thunderstruck Wood before Ji Heng arrived and demanded his surrender.

Xu Yan escaped the Ancient Demon Abyss, seized the Heavenfire Dragon Locust, and survived the Three Demons’ attack on Thousandfire City. He joined the Crimson Sun Sect as a Guest Elder, then left for the Ancient Market seeking Jade Zhi Golden Ginseng and a way to restore his lost vitality.

• Xu Yan killed Ji Heng and Li Xiaotian, escaped the Ancient Demon Abyss, and robbed the Myriad Arts Pavilion while acquiring the complete Bloodfiend Shadow-Escaping Steps.
• Xu Yan entered a volcanic crater, took the Heavenfire Dragon Locust, and fought Huang Kui, Meiji, and the Yin Puppet Sect cultivator before fleeing to Thousandfire City.
• The Three Demons sacrificed Thousandfire City, but Danyangzi arrived, destroyed their formation, and killed the Blood Corpse Daoist.
• Danyangzi recruited Xu Yan as a Crimson Sun Sect Guest Elder, and Xu Yan accepted access to the sect’s resources while remaining wary of its motives.
• Xu Yan obtained the Ginseng Essence-Restoring Pill formula and learned that he needed Jade Zhi Golden Ginseng to make it.
• Li Changfeng approved Xu Yan’s trip to seek the ginseng, and Xu Yan traveled to Divine Peak City and hired Qi Quan to guide him through the Ancient Market.
• Qi Quan told Xu Yan where to find the black market and warned him to conceal his identity.

Xu Yan sold his spoils in the Black Market, acquired a rare pill ingredient, and learned that the Crimson Sun Sect was mobilizing to seize a Spirit Treasure in the Great Yan Ancient Mine. After entering the mine, he navigated its deadly formations while concealing his strength, then encountered the Gu Household riders and Ten Thousand Fire Sect ahead.

• Xu Yan sold corpses and treasures to Gu Santong, bought a formation to hide from Danyangzi’s divine sense, and attended Gu Xuanji’s private trade fair, where he won the Jade Zhi Golden Ginseng.
• After Old Monster Xue and Yang Ren lured Xu Yan outside Divine Peak City to rob him, Xu Yan killed Yang Ren, Blood Monster, and Blue-Faced Ghost, then returned to the Crimson Sun Sect and installed his formation.
• Xu Yan learned that a Spirit Treasure was forming in the Great Yan Ancient Mine and that the Crimson Sun Sect’s Guest Elders would join the expedition, while he gathered ingredients for the Five-Phase Essence-Consolidating Pill.
• At Shen Changyun’s gathering, Xu Yan obtained the Earth-Spirit Blood Ganoderma and traded the Blood Jade Spirit Python’s corpse to Ye Yun for the remaining ingredients he needed.
• Danyangzi gave Xu Yan and the other Guest Elders Golden Marrow Jade Dew Pills, named Li Changfeng leader, and led the sect’s cultivators to the mine on Martial Uncle Qingxuan’s back.
• Gu Tianrong and the other sect leaders opened the mine’s blood-colored barrier, and Xu Yan entered with the Crimson Sun Sect after the Gu Household and Ten Thousand Fire Sect.
• Inside the mine, Xu Yan noticed that the Ancient Demon Nine Prohibitions stirred nearby formations, while Li Changfeng warned that the Slaughter Formations had changed and a Blood-Devouring Sword Lotus killed a sect cultivator.
• After Elder Qi killed Zhou Li, Xu Yan agreed to lead in exchange for Zhou Li’s pill, secretly assessed the formations as the group advanced, and spotted the Eighteen Black-Scaled Riders and Ten Thousand Fire Sect cultivators ahead.

Xu Yan seized the Calamity-Averting Yuan Magnetism from the Great Yan Ancient Mine, then returned to the Crimson Sun Sect and survived Danyangzi’s sacrifice scheme by turning the Blood Pool’s power to his own breakthrough. He killed Li Changfeng and Elder Qi, and a mysterious childish voice announced its arrival.

• Xu Yan escaped the beast tide, killed Ye Yun, broke through to middle-stage foundation establishment, and enslaved the weakened Xuan Wuchang with the Ancient Demon Slave Talisman.
• Xu Yan and Xuan Wuchang infiltrated Ghost Cry Valley, where Xu Yan took the Calamity-Averting Yuan Magnetism and escaped through Slaughter Formations that killed many pursuers and gravely wounded Zhuang Wuya.
• Xu Yan hid among the Crimson Sun Sect survivors as the factions left the mine, while Gu Xuanji and the other sect leaders reported their losses and the missing Spirit Treasure.
• Danyangzi sealed the Crimson Sun Sect for a year, captured twenty-eight Foundation Establishment cultivators, and activated the Blood Pool and Blood Baleful Prison Formation to help Li Changfeng form a Golden Core.
• Danyangzi cast Xu Yan and Shen Changyun into the Blood Pool, but the Green Pearl protected Xu Yan, who killed the survivors and absorbed the pool’s power while Xuan Wuchang recovered nearby.
• Xu Yan secretly broke through to late-stage foundation establishment as Li Changfeng mistook the pool’s energy for a Blood Core and waited for the formation to open.
• Xu Yan killed Elder Qi and Li Changfeng after they attacked him, took their Storage Rings, and heard a childish voice say it could finally feast.