Recaps

Xiao Yan defeated the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley, strengthened the Flame Alliance, and returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran. After confronting the Soul Hall Protector and helping the Misty Cloud Sect, he reached the Black Market in search of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations.

• Xiao Yan hosted an auction where Mo Tianxing and Earth Demon Old Ghost arrived with their allies, then challenged the Flame Alliance to battle.
• Xiao Yan killed Ghost Protector with the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Method, while Yao Lao and the alliance’s fighters defeated Earth Demon Old Ghost, Mo Tianxing, the Gold and Silver Elders, and their forces.
• Xiao Yan sent Queen Medusa and the Amethyst Winged Lion King to destroy the defeated factions, then helped Queen Medusa awaken the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline.
• Yao Lao refined a Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill, Heavenly Fire Venerable regained his body and became a Five-Star Dou Zun, and Xiao Yan obtained the third Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, killed Protector Wu at the Misty Cloud Sect, and burned away the mark corrupting Yun Shan’s soul.
• The Gate of Life and Death resonated with Xiao Yan, while he refined three Sect Breaking Pills for Jia Xingtian and chose treasures from the Imperial Family Treasury.
• Xiao Yan searched the Black Market for the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, bought a broken black jade fragment, and recognized Yan Li as a rival in the coming Alchemist Competition.

Xiao Yan resolved the Three-Year Agreement, raided Mulan Valley’s hidden realm, and gained powerful techniques and flames while strengthening his allies. After helping Xiao Yi Xian condense her Poison Pill, he led the Flame Alliance to unify the Black-Corner Region and set his sights on the Northwest Continent.

• Xiao Yan exposed Yan Li as a Chu Yun Empire spy, then taught the Alchemist Guild and uncovered the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations.
• Xiao Yan visited the Nalan and Mittel families, received Xiao Lin’s Black Jade, inherited the Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger, and returned to Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their Three-Year Agreement, then joined Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan in searching Mulan Valley for its hidden treasury.
• Xiao Yan killed Mulan Valley’s defenders, exposed its Spatial Secret Realm, seized its treasures, and acquired the True Blood Divine Refinement Art and Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yan trained Nalan Yanran in the blood sea and conquered the Gate of Life and Death trial, breaking through to Dou Wang and overwhelming its phantom trials.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Alliance and helped Xiao Yi Xian condense her Poison Pill, raising her strength to Seven-Star Dou Huang.
• Xiao Yan unified the Black-Corner Region with the Flame Alliance and announced his next target was the Northwest Continent.

Xiao Yan and his companions traveled to the Central Plains, where he reclaimed his clan’s technique, explored a Dou Sheng ruin, and helped Zi Yan claim her Dragon Emperor heritage. The arc ended with Xiao Yan reaching 9,600 stages of Dou Qi and becoming the continent’s youngest Ninth-Rank Alchemist.

• Xiao Yan led Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Nalan Yanran, and Zi Yan into the Central Plains, where they destroyed a Hall of Souls branch and freed its captured souls.
• Xiao Yan visited Burning Flame Valley, proved his Xiao Clan heritage to Tang Zhen and Old Ancestor Huoyun, and cured Tang Huo’er with an eighth-tier Fire Bodhi Pill.
• Xiao Yan uncovered a Dou Sheng ruin in the Beast Region, and Zi Yan claimed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit while his group gathered its treasures.
• Xiao Yan defeated the factions that attacked them outside the ruin, and Hei Qing brought Zi Yan and her companions to East Dragon Island.
• Zhu Li confirmed Zi Yan was the Dragon Emperor’s daughter, and Xiao Yan helped her absorb the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit until she reached early five-star Dou Sheng.
• Zi Yan lured the North Dragon King to East Dragon Island, killed him, and forced the remaining Dragon Kings to submit while Xiao Yan revived Yao Lao in the North Dragon King’s body.
• Xiao Yan trained in the Void Lightning Pool, reached 9,600 stages of Dou Qi, and later used black demon lightning to temper himself while refining a ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pill.
• Xiao Yan completed the ninth-grade pill and became the youngest Ninth-Rank Alchemist on the Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Yan won the Pill Gathering, subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and led Starfall Pavilion to victory against the Hall of Souls and its allies. After destroying two Soul Halls and advancing his cultivation, he obtained the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s legacy, reunited with Queen Medusa, and entered Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion with Zi Yan.

• Xiao Yan reached ten thousand stages of Dou Qi, gained the Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal, and traveled with Yao Lao and his companions to Sacred Pill City.
• Xiao Yan passed the Pill Tower’s alchemist certification and killed Chen Xian after Chen tried to seize Zi Yan’s brass fragment.
• Xiao Yan entered the Pill Realm, killed Old Man Mu Gu, collected the required ingredients, and returned for the Pill Gathering’s final round.
• Xiao Yan refined a Ninth-Grade Pill and won the Pill Gathering, then accepted Dan Chen as his disciple.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Three Thousand Burning Flame and advanced the Flame Mantra before returning with Yao Lao to Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao defeated the Great Heavenly Venerate and the invading forces, then Xiao Yan destroyed the Human Hall and Earth Hall and reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan rescued Qing Lin, subdued the Nine Netherworld Python Clan’s leaders, and obtained the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s techniques and essence blood from the Stone Tablet.
• Xiao Yan cultivated to thirty thousand stages of Dou Qi, reunited with Queen Medusa, and entered Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion with Zi Yan, where Zhu Kun recognized her as his child.