Recaps

Xiao Fan planted a soul imprint in Han Jue, forcing him to submit while promising to spare his daughter and most of his Swallowing Hundred Herbs. After sending Han Jue to Desert City, Xiao Fan revised his plan to seize the Green Lotus Core Flame, and the system triggered a new mission.

• Xiao Fan planted the soul imprint in Han Jue and stopped him from firing a signal flare when he woke.
• Han Jue submitted to Xiao Fan, who promised not to harm his daughter or take his Swallowing Hundred Herbs, asking only for some rootlets.
• Xiao Fan checked Han Jue's favorability, which had reached 80, and ordered him to return to his mercenary group in Desert City.
• Xiao Fan told Han Jue where Han Qianqian was staying and said he would follow after Han Jue put the group in order.
• Xiao Fan reconsidered his plan to seize the Green Lotus Core Flame, then received a new mission from the system.

Xiao Fan accepted quests to unify Desert City’s factions and obtain the green lotus core flame, then visited Han Jue to inspect the swallowing hundred herbs. He used medicinal essence to make the nearly mature herb bloom.

• Xiao Fan accepted the system quests to unify Desert City’s factions and obtain the green lotus core flame.
• Xiao Fan returned to Desert City and learned that Han Jue had rescued Han Qianqian and lifted the Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group’s lockdown.
• Xiao Fan met Han Jue at the group’s headquarters and asked to see the swallowing hundred herbs.
• Han Jue led Xiao Fan through a hidden chamber to the herb growing underground.
• Xiao Fan used the bone spirit cold flame to refine medicinal herbs into essences and nourish the swallowing hundred herbs until its flower bloomed.

Xiao Fan helped Han Jue absorb the Swallowing Hundred Herbs, raising him to five-star Da Dou Shi, then proposed taking control of Desert City. They planned to kill Zhu Yan and capture the Flame Mercenary Group, leaving the Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group ready to begin its attack.

• Xiao Fan harvested part of the Swallowing Hundred Herbs and refined its essence for Han Jue to absorb.
• Han Jue healed old injuries, improved his aptitude, and advanced from four-star to five-star Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Fan proposed that Han Jue take control of Desert City, offering to kill Zhu Yan while Han Jue kept him occupied.
• Xiao Fan and Han Jue planned a decapitation operation against the Flame Mercenary Group, accounting for the Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group's disadvantages in city combat.
• Han Jue gathered his senior members, including Guo Pu, and they approved and refined the plan before setting it in motion.

The Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group launched a surprise attack on the Flame Mercenary Group, and Xiao Fan joined Han Jue to fight Zhu Yan. Xiao Fan killed Zhu Yan with an Earth Tier Dou Technique, leaving the battle close to its end.

• The Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group surrounded the Flame Mercenary Group's headquarters and launched a nighttime attack.
• Han Jue fought Zhu Yan while Xiao Fan and the Iron Cavalry's fighters drew Zhu Yan's allies away.
• Xiao Fan used the Da Dou Shi Combat Power Card to reach Five-Star Da Dou Shi and joined Han Jue in cornering Zhu Yan.
• Zhu Yan attempted to escape and then unleashed Fire Dragon Tornado against Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan countered with Cloud Crane Shadow, killing Zhu Yan in the ensuing explosion.

After completing the quest to unite Desert City, Xiao Fan claimed his rewards and advanced to Five-Star Dou Master, then used his source coins and Han Jue’s wealth to summon support for the coming struggle over the green lotus core flame. The summons finally gave him a Dou Wang-level Combat Power Card, leaving him with a chance to contend against the Snake-People Tribe’s rival powers.

• Xiao Fan claimed the rewards for uniting Desert City, advanced to Five-Star Dou Master, and saw his system experience rise to 731.
• Xiao Fan considered the danger posed by the Dou Wang- and Dou Emperor-level forces guarding the green lotus core flame and spent his first three thousand source coins on summons.
• Xiao Fan received a Dou Ling-level Speed Card, the power of one Dou Wang-level strike, and a Da Dou Shi-level Combat Power Card, then asked Han Jue for more funds.
• Han Jue gave Xiao Fan the spoils from the Flame Mercenary Group, including over three million gold coins, which Xiao Fan exchanged for three thousand source coins.
• Xiao Fan spent the new source coins and obtained a Dou Wang-level Combat Power Card, a Da Dou Shi-level puppet, and fifth-rank heavenly wolf grass.

Xiao Fan learned that Xiao Yan had reached Desert City and secretly sent him a map to the green lotus core flame. Xiao Yan received the map and learned that Xiao Fan was safe, but the flame was likely already in Medusa’s hands.

• After learning that Xiao Yan had visited Ancient Map, Xiao Fan gave Yuan Wen a map and told him to confirm Xiao Yan’s white flame before delivering it as a message from “Fan.”
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discussed the purifying lotus demon flame map fragment and planned to leave Desert City the next day to investigate another heavenly flame in the Tagor Desert.
• Yuan Wen visited Xiao Yan, confirmed his bone spirit cold flame, and delivered Xiao Fan’s package and message.
• Xiao Yan opened the package and found a map to the green lotus core flame along with Xiao Fan’s letter explaining that he was safe but could not meet in person.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to remember what Xiao Fan had done for him, since information about a heavenly flame was exceptionally valuable.

Xiao Fan left Desert City and crossed the Tagor Desert while cultivating on his way to the Snake-People Tribe to find the green lotus core flame. At an oasis, he discovered the aftermath of a bandit attack, saved Liu Yun, and heard bells approaching as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Fan placed Han Jue in charge of Desert City and continued his journey through the desert.
• Xiao Fan cultivated with medicinal liquid and raised his Dou Qi value to 573 as he headed toward the Snake-People Tribe.
• Xiao Fan reached an oasis and found ruined tents and mercenaries’ corpses, then concluded that attackers had drugged the lake before ambushing them.
• Xiao Fan treated the wounded Liu Yun, who identified himself as a member of the Chasing Wind Mercenary Group and blamed desert bandits for the attack.
• Xiao Fan heard bells ringing outside the oasis while speaking with Liu Yun.

Xiao Fan reunited Liu Yun with Sun Wu and the Chasing Wind Mercenary Group after rescuing him, then continued his desert training. Near the Snake-People Tribe’s Holy City, he found traces of a battle and realized Xiao Yan had likely encountered Yue Mei at the oasis.

• Xiao Fan and Liu Yun hid as Sun Wu and the Chasing Wind Mercenary Group arrived to search the battlefield for survivors.
• Xiao Fan revealed Liu Yun and introduced himself as Mo Shang, and Sun Wu and Hou San thanked him for saving Liu Yun.
• Sun Wu said the Yang Family might have sent the Sand Thieves and explained that the Lion King and his companions had rescued the mercenary group.
• Xiao Fan rested with the group, then left the next morning and continued across the desert using Hai Bodong’s map.
• After reaching an oasis near the Snake-People Tribe’s Holy City, Xiao Fan found battle traces and recognized the aura of bone spirit cold flame, concluding that Xiao Yan had fought Yue Mei there.

Xiao Fan followed the trail of Gu He's party through Snake-People territory and took advantage of the damaged Charm Snake Tribe settlement to slip past its defenses. After escaping a squad of guards, he approached the Snake-People Tribe's Holy City.

• Xiao Fan found traces of a battle and recognized that Gu He's party had fought near the Charm Snake Tribe.
• Xiao Fan skirted the settlement and slipped through its weakened cordon while Snake-People tended to the wounded.
• A squad of guards from the Great Snake Tribe spotted Xiao Fan and tried to block his way with a defensive formation.
• Xiao Fan's spear could not break the squad's shield, so he used his Purple Cloud Wings to fly over it and escape.
• Xiao Fan evaded dozens of searches and finally neared the Snake-People Tribe's Holy City.

Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan watched as Gu He’s expedition reached the Snake-People Holy City and demanded an audience with Medusa. Medusa appeared and rejected Gu He’s costly offer for her heavenly flame.

• Xiao Fan hid near the Holy City while Xiao Yan waited nearby for Gu He and the other human experts to arrive.
• Yue Mei told Mo Bass that human forces included one Dou Emperor, three Dou Wangs, and five Dou Lings, and that Medusa had ordered the Snake-People leaders to gather.
• Gu He arrived with his assembled experts and called for Medusa to appear and meet with him.
• Medusa appeared in the sky, and the Snake-People bowed and hailed her as their queen.
• Gu He offered Medusa two Sixth-grade Dou Ling Pills and one Seventh-grade Transformation Pill for her heavenly flame, but Medusa refused to trade.

Medusa rejected Gu He's offer, and the negotiations over the Green Lotus Core Flame turned into a battle at the Snake-People Tribe's Holy City. Xiao Fan slipped inside to find the flame, but Yao Lao sensed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame nearby.

• Yun Yun exposed Medusa's appearance as an avatar and attacked, prompting the Snake-People Tribe's forces to strike back.
• Gu He flew toward the Holy City while Yan Shi and Feng Li engaged Mo Bass and Yue Mei, and Yun Yun later took on Hua She'er.
• Xiao Fan used his concealment to enter the city and sensed Heavenly Flame auras in all four corners before heading east toward a guarded temple.
• Xiao Fan drew the temple patrols away with an explosion and sneaked inside, while Yao Lao sensed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame's aura.

Xiao Fan crossed a venom-filled lake guarded by a giant snake and reached the Green Lotus Core Flame on the island. He found Medusa preparing to advance and heard her vow to kill everyone present if she succeeded.

• Xiao Yan recognized the aura of Bone Spirit Cold Flame and fought the temple guards after Xiao Fan's infiltration alerted them.
• Xiao Fan swam through a pool of venom protected by Bone Spirit Cold Flame and narrowly escaped a giant emerald snake's attacks.
• Xiao Fan used a Da Dou Shi Combat Power Card and Dou Qi Armor to survive the snake's tail strike, then climbed out of the soil on the island.
• Xiao Fan followed the aura of Green Lotus Core Flame to an Ice Spirit Cold Spring, where the flame rested inside a crystal lotus pedestal.
• Xiao Fan spotted Medusa near the pool, and she approached the Green Lotus Core Flame, deciding to advance and declaring that no humans there would survive if she succeeded.

Medusa began evolving by entering the green lotus core flame, and Xiao Fan accepted a system mission to help her survive by giving her his blood. When she ignored his attempts to deliver it, he provoked her until she sucked toward him, giving him a chance to throw his blood into her mouth.

• Medusa removed her clothes, transformed into a giant purple serpent, and plunged into the green lotus core flame to evolve.
• Yun Yun sensed that Medusa's evolution had begun while Hua She'er insisted that her queen would succeed.
• The system gave Xiao Fan a time-limited mission to help Medusa evolve, explaining that his blood could greatly increase her chances.
• Xiao Fan revealed his identity and tried to send his blood through the flame, but Medusa did not believe him.
• Xiao Fan shouted provocative comments about Medusa until she opened her mouth and sucked toward him.
• Xiao Fan wrapped his blood in Dou Qi and hurled it toward Medusa.

Xiao Fan fed Medusa his blood essence to help her endure the green lotus core flame and its heavenly tribulation. The lightning stopped and Medusa’s aura briefly overwhelmed the Holy City, but then vanished, leaving Yun Yun convinced something was still wrong.

• Xiao Fan repeatedly sent his blood essence to Medusa, easing the heavenly flame’s pain and improving her chances of surviving.
• Medusa swallowed the green lotus core flame, summoning dark clouds and a heavenly tribulation as Xiao Fan fled toward the island’s edge.
• The tribulation battered Medusa’s enormous purple serpent form until her charred body fell motionless and the clouds disappeared.
• Gu He asked Yun Yun whether Medusa had failed, but Yun Yun sensed something was wrong as a vast aura spread across the Holy City.
• The Snake-People Tribe celebrated Medusa’s apparent success, while Gu He urged Yun Yun to flee.
• Medusa’s aura suddenly vanished, and Yun Yun remained wary as the Snake-People Tribe stared in confusion.

Xiao Fan absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame and reunited with Xiao Yan and Yao Lao inside the temple, while Xiao Yan secured the flame on its lotus seat. As the temple barrier vanished, Xiao Fan activated his Dou Wang-level Combat Power Card, and the group prepared to face the experts outside.

• Xiao Fan found Medusa's tiny purple snake form in the crater, fed her companion amethyst source, and watched her coil around his arm.
• Xiao Fan absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame, gained one star of cultivation, and completed his mission.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Yao Lao, and Xiao Fan urged them to secure the Green Lotus Core Flame before the Dou Wang experts outside could reach it.
• Xiao Yan collected the Green Lotus Core Flame on the Green Lotus Seat while the three waited for the temple barrier to fall.
• As the barrier dissolved, Xiao Fan activated his Combat Power Card and rose to six-star Dou Wang strength, while Yao Lao warned them to get ready.

Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan escaped the Temple with the green lotus core flame as Gu He and his allies searched for it and discovered it was gone. Gu He pursued the thieves while Yun Yun held off the Snake-People Tribe, leaving the chase underway.

• The Temple's light barrier shattered, and Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan carried the green lotus core flame out while hiding their auras.
• Yun Yun and Gu He concluded that Medusa had failed, then prepared to search the Temple as Snake-People Tribe reinforcements gathered.
• Gu He and his companions found the scorched island empty, and Gu He spotted two black-clad figures fleeing with the flame.
• Gu He pursued Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan, but Yan Ci, Yue Mei, and Mo Bass blocked him until Yun Yun intervened.
• Yun Yun trapped Yan Ci and the others behind a wall of wind energy while Gu He, Yan Shi, and Feng Li continued the chase.

Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan fled through the Tagor Desert while Gu He and the Snake-People Tribe pursued them. Xiao Fan used Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus to slow the pursuers, and after they split into separate groups, Elder Yin and Yan Ci continued after Yun Yun.

• Yun Yun escaped Yue Mei and two other Snake-People Tribe Dou Wangs after trapping them with Wind Rain.
• Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan raced across the desert as Gu He and his two companions pursued them.
• Xiao Fan fused purple flame and bone spirit cold flame into Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus and launched it at Gu He and his companions.
• Yun Yun caught up with Gu He and told him to split up, then arranged to meet outside the desert in Rock City.
• Yue Mei and the Snake-People Tribe's other Dou Wangs split up to pursue the fleeing Dou Wangs and Yun Yun.
• Elder Yin and Yan Ci pursued Yun Yun while planning to identify her and wait for reinforcements.

Xiao Fan stayed behind to face the pursuing Dou Huang, only to discover that she was Yun Yun, whom he knew as Yun Zhi. He embraced and kissed her, leaving her stunned as her sword fell into the sand.

• After Xiao Yan and Xiao Fan escaped the Snake-People Tribe's Dou Wang pursuers, Yun Yun caught up with them.
• Xiao Fan convinced Xiao Yan and Yao Lao to continue ahead while he stayed behind to hold Yun Yun off.
• Yun Yun recognized Xiao Fan beneath his disguise and spared him, urging him to leave.
• Xiao Fan asked if she was Yun Zhi, then rushed to embrace her and pushed back her hood.
• Xiao Fan kissed Yun Yun and told her he loved her most, and her sword slipped from her hand into the sand.

Xiao Fan parted from Yun Yun after she offered to help him cultivate, then reunited with Xiao Yan and Yao Lao. The three escaped the desert and hid in a mountain cave.

• Yun Yun misunderstood Xiao Fan as an abandoned pawn and offered to introduce him to a friend, but he declined her offer.
• Yun Yun warned Xiao Fan that Snake-People Tribe Dou Wangs were approaching and stayed behind to face them.
• Xiao Fan reunited with Xiao Yan and Yao Lao, who had waited for him, and told them Yun Yun was fighting the pursuers.
• Xiao Fan's borrowed Dou Wang strength faded, so he and Xiao Yan relied on Yao Lao's power while avoiding Snake-People Tribe members.
• After flying through the desert for a day, Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan reached a green mountain forest and concealed themselves in a cave.

Xiao Fan revealed to Yao Lao and Xiao Yan that he could wield flames resembling Heavenly Flames, including the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame. Yao Lao could not explain Xiao Fan’s strange constitution and warned him to keep it secret.

• Xiao Fan showed Yao Lao and Xiao Yan his Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, startling them both.
• Yao Lao examined the flames and sensed that they had Heavenly Flame traits but lacked the vitality of true Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Fan explained that the flames had appeared after he parted ways with Yao Lao and suggested they came from his constitution.
• Xiao Fan touched the real Green Lotus Core Flame without protection and emerged engulfed in its fire, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao watched in shock.
• Xiao Fan returned the Green Lotus Core Flame to the lotus pedestal and said he had discovered he could use it.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Fan never to reveal his constitution to anyone else.

Xiao Fan claimed his reward for obtaining the Green Lotus Core Flame and surged to peak Nine-Star Dou Shi, astonishing Yao Lao and Xiao Yan. After Yao Lao explained how to devour the flame, Xiao Yan prepared himself, and Yao Lao released its suppression to begin the attempt.

• Xiao Fan claimed the completed quest reward, gaining Dou Qi, experience, and source coins as a massive funnel of energy gathered around him.
• Xiao Fan's strength rose from Six-Star Dou Shi to peak Nine-Star Dou Shi, leaving Xiao Yan and Yao Lao stunned.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to take the pill, seize the Green Lotus Core Flame's origin seed, and refine it inside his body.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Blood Lotus Pill, and a blood-colored membrane formed over his body.
• Yao Lao enveloped the Mountain Cave with his soul power and lifted the flame's suppression, causing the Green Lotus Core Flame to surge through the cave.

Xiao Yan extracted the green lotus core flame’s seed and, with Yao Lao and Xiao Fan waiting beside him, swallowed it and began refining it through the Flame Mantra. He managed to guide the flame through his meridians, but Yao Lao warned that Xiao Yan still had to contain it in his Naling space to complete the devouring.

• Xiao Yan pulled the green lotus core flame’s seed from the raging heavenly flame as Yao Lao strengthened the Mountain Cave’s protection.
• Xiao Yan hesitated over Yao Lao’s instruction to swallow the seed, and Xiao Fan encouraged him while Yao Lao waited in silence.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the seed, drank the ice spirit cold spring, and began guiding the flame through the Flame Mantra’s circulation route.
• Xiao Yan repeatedly failed before successfully guiding the flame, which burned and repaired his meridians as it strengthened his body.
• Xiao Fan asked whether Xiao Yan had succeeded, and Yao Lao explained that Xiao Yan still had to force the flame into his Naling space.

Xiao Yan successfully absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame, evolved the Flame Mantra, and advanced to Four-Star Dou Shi. After reuniting and sparring with Xiao Fan, he asked whether his senior brother would leave again, and Xiao Fan promised to attend the Three-Year Agreement at the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the weakened Heavenly Flame barrier after absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame, then hurriedly dressed when Yao Lao pointed out he was naked.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Green Lotus Core Flame and told Yao Lao that it had evolved the Flame Mantra and raised him from Two-Star Dou Shi to Four-Star Dou Shi.
• Yao Lao judged that Xiao Yan’s cultivation method had reached low-grade Black Tier, and Xiao Yan thought ahead to his coming encounter with Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan exchanged news about their recent activities, including Xiao Fan’s training and the Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group’s control of Desert City.
• Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan sparred with their bodies until Xiao Fan knocked Xiao Yan down, while Yao Lao watched them vent their pent-up emotions.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Xiao Fan would leave to continue cultivating, and Xiao Fan promised to attend the Three-Year Agreement at the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Fan used companion amethyst source and medicinal ingredients to reach the Da Dou Shi realm, then endured the system's soul tempering. The system began fusing the origins of the heavenly flames within his body, leaving a black flame-shaped form in his dantian.

• Xiao Fan fed Shasha more companion amethyst source and drank some himself, but it barely increased his Dou Qi.
• After the system absorbed a poisonous medicinal ingredient, Xiao Fan met the requirements to advance and chose to break through.
• The system condensed Xiao Fan's liquid Dou Qi into a Dou Crystal, advancing him to One-Star Great Dou Master.
• The system tempered Xiao Fan's soul, causing him intense pain until the process ended.
• The system began fusing the origins of Xiao Fan's bone spirit cold flame, purple flame, and green lotus core flame, which gathered in his dantian and formed a black flame-shaped object.

Xiao Fan awakened the Chaos Flame after advancing to Da Dou Shi, then received a mission to survive an encounter with a Hall of Souls expert. When a fleeing soul body drew the expert toward him, Xiao Fan tried to escape, but the pursuit continued through the mountain range.

• Xiao Fan learned that the black flame in his dantian was the Chaos Flame and tested it by silently burning away a large tree.
• The system rewarded Xiao Fan with the Flame Manipulation Art and issued a mission to survive an encounter with a Hall of Souls expert.
• A terrified soul body raced toward Xiao Fan, and Xiao Fan used a Dou Ling-Level Speed Card to flee with his Purple Cloud Wings.
• The soul body pursued Xiao Fan, who took Qi Recovery Pills and flew through Magical Beast territories to try to slow the pursuers.
• A Hall of Souls expert's black chain pierced the Purple-Backed Green-Eyed Wolf's skull after the soul body flew past it.