Recaps

Xiao Yan overcame Yun Xiaotian, strengthened his cultivation, and used Yao Chen’s help to defeat the Xiao Clan’s threats and secure its dominance in Wutan City. As Xiao Yan and Xun'er prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Lin awakened Qing Lin’s snake-controlling ability and sensed Xiao Yi Xian facing danger.

• Xiao Yan defeated Yun Xiaotian, rejected Nalan Yanran’s engagement terms, and wrote her a Divorce Letter after she challenged him to meet her at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years.
• Xiao Tian inherited One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, created two avatars, and left the Xiao Clan, while Xiao Lin’s Plane Embryo recovery advanced.
• Shi Yi awakened his Double Pupils and glimpsed the world’s core, boosting Xiao Lin’s restoration progress as Xiao Yan refined a beast flame into his Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen profited from an auction, raided the Jia Lie Family, and set Jia Lie Bi and the Ao Ba Family against each other before Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan confronted Xiao Zha and his human-derived puppets, then escaped when Xiao Zhan arrived, while Xiao Zha fled the clan.
• Xiao Zha’s puppets robbed the Mittel Auction House, but the Xiao Clan emerged as Wutan City’s sole dominant power after Jia Lie Bi died and Oba Pa disappeared.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy as Xiao Lin awakened Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and helped her subdue a Purple Lightning Viper.
• Xiao Lin sensed Xiao Yi Xian and her companions facing a fourth-rank Rot-Bone Mud Snake near a swamp.

Xiao Lin helped Xiao Yi Xian discover the means to control her Woeful Poison Body and arranged her entry into the Misty Cloud Sect, while he also aided Yun Yun and traded with the Amethyst Winged Lion King. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan gathered rare materials, killed Gute, and advanced the Flame Mantra by stealing the Azure Water Flame, leaving Gu He and Jia Xingtian investigating the powerful intruder.

• Xiao Lin helped Xiao Yi Xian reach a hidden cave, where she found the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and learned that the Heavenly Poison Pearl could control her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Lin and Qing Lin subdued the Branding Iron Poison Seal Python, and Xiao Lin rescued Yun Yun after her battle with the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Lin traded a Transformation Pill for Purple Spirit Crystals and Companion Amethyst Source, then arranged for Yun Yun to accept Xiao Yi Xian as a core disciple of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yi Xian drank the Ten Thousand Snakes Heart-Rending Powder, activated her Woeful Poison Body, and awakened at nine-star Dou Zhe after Xiao Lin shielded Qing Lin from her poisonous mist.
• Xiao Yan passed the Second-Rank Alchemist examination, obtained ice spirit cold spring from Gute, and killed him after Gute sent attackers to steal his treasures.
• Gu He discovered Gute’s death and traces of Bone Spirit Cold Flame, then went to the Misty Cloud Sect and set out to search for heavenly flames in the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Yan defeated the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast with Yao Chen’s help and extracted its Azure Water Flame, evolving the Flame Mantra and advancing to Two-Star Great Dou Master.
• Fa Ma and Jia Xingtian linked the attack on the guardian beast to the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and concluded that the intruder was too powerful to confront directly, so Jia Xingtian resolved to visit the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Yan acquired and refined two Heavenly Flames while Gu He’s attempt to seize one ended in Queen Medusa’s evolution and a battle at the Divine Temple. After returning to the Imperial Capital to face Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan agreed to protect Ya Fei from Mu Zhan and sought a map fragment tied to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

• Gu He joined forces with the Imperial Family and the Misty Cloud Sect to hunt Yao Yan, while Yun Shan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan entered the magma lake, retrieved the Green Lotus Core Flame, and later headed toward the Snake-People Tribe when a pillar of violet-red light rose from its Divine Temple.
• Gu He and his allies fought the Snake-People Tribe as Queen Medusa underwent her evolution, while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen slipped into the temple to find the purple-black Heavenly Flame.
• Yao Chen possessed Xiao Yan, repelled the Snake-People Tribe’s attacks, and took the flame, then injured Gu He as the temple was destroyed.
• Queen Medusa emerged as an Eight-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, while Xiao Lin concealed her and departed with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan refined the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Undying Flame, reaching Seven-Star Great Dou Master before leaving for the Imperial Capital to prepare for his Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan met Ya Fei at the Mittel Auction House, learned Mu Zhan was pursuing her, and agreed to stop him in exchange for a map fragment that Yao Chen suspected was connected to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

Xiao Yan defeated Mu Zhan, healed Nalan Jie, and awakened Elder Dan before winning the Alchemist Tournament with a fifth-grade pill. The arc ended with Gu He pursuing a watcher and Yan Li fleeing toward the Chu Yun Empire, where a giant poisonous python blocked his path.

• Xiao Yan defeated Mu Zhan at the trade fair, then Fa Ma protected him from Mu Chen and confirmed his place in the Alchemist Tournament.
• Yun Shan considered arranging Yun Yun’s marriage to Gu He, while Nalan Su asked Nalan Yanran to seek Xiao Yan’s help for Nalan Jie.
• Xiao Yan agreed to cure Nalan Jie in exchange for seven illusory azure spirit saliva, used his Heavenly Flame to remove the poison, and accepted Nalan Yanran’s challenge to spar.
• Xiao Yan restored Elder Dan with the spirit saliva, learned of his betrayal by Hun Xuzi, and agreed to deliver his Holy Pill Ring to a Dan Family descendant.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran sparred until Hai Bodong intervened, while Yun Xiaotian announced the Battle at the Cloud Summit and provoked Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Lin visited Yun Yun, gave her a Ninth-Rank Wind-Splitting Beast core, and asked her to register Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin for the Battle at the Cloud Summit.
• Xiao Yan exposed the gray-robed Chu Yun Empire contestant’s faulty Windwalk Pill formula and defeated him in the tournament by refining a Four-Pattern Purple Spirit Pill.
• Gu He confirmed Xiao Yan’s pill was fifth grade and Fa Ma declared him champion, while Gu He pursued a watcher and Yan Li fled toward the Chu Yun Empire before a poisonous python stopped him.