Recaps

Xiao Yan overcame his stalled cultivation, repudiated Nalan Yanran, and used his growing alchemy skill to help the Xiao Clan challenge its rivals. In the Magical Beast Mountain Range, he reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and discovered a cave whose treasures drew the attention of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.

• Xiao Yan accepted Yao Lao as his teacher, chose the risky Flame Mantra, and broke through the early stages of Dou Qi with Yao Lao’s guidance.
• Nalan Yanran came to end her engagement, but Xiao Yan repudiated her and she vowed to return in three years to challenge him.
• Xiao Yan revealed his alchemy skills to the Xiao Clan and supplied it with pills that helped launch a counterattack against the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families.
• Xiao Yan left Wutan City for the Magical Beast Mountain Range, trained in Little Mountain Valley, and advanced his cultivation with Energy-Gathering Pills.
• Xiao Yi Xian found Xiao Yan in the valley, and he treated her wounds before she invited him to share the treasures of a secluded cave abode.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered the cave, where Xiao Yan took a flame map, a key, and the Eagle Wings technique while Xiao Yi Xian learned about her constitution.
• Mu She sent Mu Li and He Meng to investigate the cave, and they entered and claimed it for the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.

Xiao Yan wiped out the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, and secured the rare ingredients needed to absorb the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame. After refining the flame and helping the Little Lion King awaken his bloodline, Xiao Yan’s group headed toward the Tagor Desert, where he found another fragment map of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

• Xiao Yan killed Mu Li, Mu She, and the rest of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, then took the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and negotiated with the Amethyst Winged Lion King for magical beast cores.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian confined at the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, killed Mr. Yao, and brought her to Little Mountain Valley, where he accepted her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan and his companions discovered the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame beneath the valley, and Xiao Yan left with Xiao Yi Xian to gather the ingredients needed to absorb it.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan for the Coming-of-Age Ceremony, revealed his Ninth Stage of Dou Qi, and later watched the Jia Lie Family’s assault on the Xiao Family Market end in defeat and destruction.
• Xiao Yan cured Nalan Jie’s Brand Poison in exchange for the seven illusory azure spirit saliva, then returned to Little Mountain Valley with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, advanced to the seventieth Dou Qi Segment, and helped the Little Lion King awaken the Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor bloodline.
• After a month of cultivation, Xiao Yan left Little Mountain Valley with Xiao Yi Xian and the Amethyst Winged Lion King, reached Mo City, and asked Hai Bodong about the other half of a Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame, subdued powerful rivals, and gathered allies for a new faction in the Black-Corner Region. After departing Stone Desert City, he confronted Han Feng in Maple City and prepared to fight him with Yao Lao’s power.

• Xiao Yan revealed his alchemy skill and Heavenly Flame to Hai Bodong, who agreed to give him the rest of the fragment map in exchange for breaking his seal.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in Stone Desert City, where the Desert Iron Mercenary Group found an underground magma cavern and Xiao Yan descended to absorb the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• As Xiao Yan absorbed the flame, Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, and Gu He attacked the Amethyst Winged Lion King, but Xiao Yan emerged with Dou Zong power and defeated them.
• Xiao Yan forced Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, and Gu He into his service, then invited Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Hai Bodong to join his planned faction in the Black-Corner Region.
• Yun Yun killed Mo Cheng and confronted the Mo Family, while Hai Bodong’s seal was removed and Queen Medusa offered Qing Lin the Snake-People Tribe’s techniques.
• Xiao Yan’s party defeated White Fang and Lu Man, who submitted to Qing Lin, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King later broke through to Dou Zong and took human form.
• Xiao Yan left Stone Desert City with his companions and announced that they would kill Han Feng to establish their name in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan confronted Han Feng in Maple City, where their forces began fighting and Xiao Yan called on Yao Lao’s power to face his former disciple.

Xiao Yan killed Han Feng, built the Flame Alliance, and strengthened his allies while confronting the Gu Clan and exploring the depths beneath Jia Nan Academy. He returned to prepare for the Sect Breaking Pill auction, setting his sights on the Black Emperor Sect and its Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva.

• Xiao Yan killed Han Feng, burned away his soul, and claimed the Sea Heart Flame, then joined Queen Medusa and the others in defeating Maple City's remaining forces.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Sea Heart Flame, founded the Flame Alliance, and advanced his cultivation while a Soul Hall Protector attacked and was captured.
• After Lu Man and White Fang reported that the Gold and Silver Elders had ambushed them, Xiao Yan planned a Sect Breaking Pill auction to draw the attackers out.
• Xiao Yan fused two Heavenly Flames into Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, helped Nalan Yanran advance to Dou Wang, and visited Jia Nan Academy to reunite with Xiao Xun'er and his Xiao Clan relatives.
• Xiao Yan defeated Lingquan of the Black Annihilation Army, then helped deal with the Fallen Heart Flame's rampage and descended beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Yan refined a juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, met Yao Tianhuo's remnant soul, and returned from the Magma World with blood energy strengthened by Blood Pearls.
• Xiao Yan recruited Zi Yan as an honorary Guest Elder of the Flame Alliance in exchange for pills and her help finding treasures.
• Xiao Yan returned to a stronger Flame Alliance, prepared for the Sect Breaking Pill auction, and told Xiao Yi Xian he would seek the Black Emperor Sect's Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva.