Recaps

Xiao Yan lured Zi Yan into trading her treasure-finding skills for pills and joining the Flame Alliance as an honorary Guest Elder. The two struck a partnership, with Zi Yan unaware of how pleased Xiao Yan was to recruit her.

• Xiao Yan teased Zi Yan about being nonhuman, then used Energy-Gathering Pills to win her over.
• Zi Yan offered to protect Xiao Yan in the Inner Academy in exchange for more pills.
• Han Yue greeted Xiao Yan as the Flame Alliance leader and explained that Zi Yan treated everyone in the Inner Academy the same way.
• Zi Yan offered to trade treasures she found with her special ability for Xiao Yan's pills.
• Xiao Yan made Zi Yan's honorary Guest Elder status in the Flame Alliance a condition, and she agreed.

Xiao Yan negotiated pill-making services with Jia Nan Academy, helped Yao Lao restore his soul, and tempered his body with pill tribulation lightning. He returned to the Flame Alliance with Zi Yan, who traded him a diamond bodhi for pills.

• Xiao Yan arranged to refine pills for Jia Nan Academy in exchange for magic cores and medicinal ingredients, and Su Qian gathered the academy’s soul-restoring treasures for Yao Lao.
• Yao Lao refined soul-restoring pills, and Xiao Yan endured the pill tribulation lightning with his body to strengthen his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao restored their souls and refined pills for Jia Nan Academy’s experts, including a Sect Breaking Pill for Hu Gan.
• Xiao Yan left Jia Nan Academy after two months, while Ling Ying stopped Xiao Xun'er from accompanying him because of Gu Yuan’s concerns.
• Zi Yan joined Xiao Yan on his journey to the Flame Alliance, traded him a diamond bodhi for pills, and happily ate one of the pills he gave her.

After returning to the Flame Alliance, Xiao Yan rallied its new experts with promises of pills and finalized preparations for an upcoming auction. He later told Xiao Yi Xian that the Black Emperor Sect had Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, giving them a lead toward completing the Poison Pill Method.

• Xiao Yan returned after two months away and found that the Flame Alliance had recruited sixteen Dou Wang experts and two Dou Huang experts.
• Xiao Yan displayed valuable pills to the alliance members and told them they could earn them through contributions.
• Xiao Ding reported that the auction preparations were complete, and Xiao Yan ordered that anyone who caused trouble at the auction be killed.
• Xiao Yan hosted a banquet, where Zi Yan’s powerful Magical Beast bloodline impressed Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that the Black Emperor Sect possessed Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva and that he would visit after the auction.

As the Flame Alliance prepared its auction, Mo Tianxing persuaded Demon Flame Valley to bring out Earth Demon Old Ghost and hinted that an unknown ally was interested in the Flame Alliance’s Seventh-Rank Alchemist. Xiao Yan strengthened his body, resolved to unify the Black-Corner Region after the auction, and watched as Mo Tianxing arrived with a mysterious black-robed figure.

• Mo Tianxing pressured Fang Yan to summon Demon Flame Valley’s Valley Master and join the fight against the Flame Alliance, then revealed he had another ally interested in its Seventh-Rank Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated his improved physical strength, reached 456th-stage dou qi, and declared that he would begin unifying the Black-Corner Region after the auction.
• The Flame Alliance held the auction at the Heavenly Treasure Tower and enforced order after the Lion King killed two Dou Huang troublemakers who had attacked an alliance guard.
• Mo Tianxing arrived at the auction with Mo Ya, Qi Shan, two Dou Emperor elders, and a black-robed figure who laughed at the news of a Seventh-Rank Alchemist in the Black-Corner Region.

The Flame Alliance’s auction drew the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley, whose leaders viewed the alliance as a threat. Xiao Yan realized the two factions were likely to attack, leaving the auction on the brink of a decisive battle for control of the Black-Corner Region.

• Earth Demon Old Ghost arrived at the auction with Demon Flame Valley and dismissed Fang Yan’s warning about the Flame Alliance’s hidden strength.
• The Gold and Silver Elders headed toward Flame City, planning to let the Black Emperor Sect and Flame Alliance fight before choosing whether to intervene.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost and Mo Tianxing exchanged greetings from their third-floor boxes, while Earth Demon Old Ghost praised Mo Tianxing’s boldness and schemes.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Qing Lin that the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley were bigger catches than the Gold and Silver Elders.
• Queen Medusa recognized that the Flame Alliance’s expansion had pushed the two factions toward an attack, and Xiao Yan agreed that the battle was unavoidable.

Hai Bodong presided over the Flame Alliance's auction, where the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and the Profound Yin Palm sold for high prices before bidding began for the Sect Breaking Pill. The Gold and Silver Elders hoped to take the pill from a weaker bidder, but Demon Flame Valley's Earth Demon Old Ghost entered the competition with a formidable offer.

• Hai Bodong introduced the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, which sold for nine hundred thousand gold coins amid fierce bidding.
• A Dou Wang expert bought the High-grade Profound Tier Dou Technique, the Profound Yin Palm, for eight hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.
• Hai Bodong offered the Sect Breaking Pill for barter, and experts began bidding with pills and magic cores.
• The Gold and Silver Elders watched the bidders, planning to seize the pill if its winner proved weak.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost of Demon Flame Valley bid one seventh-tier magic core and two sixth-tier magic cores, alarming the Gold and Silver Elders.

After the auction ended, Mo Tianxing confronted Xiao Yan at the Myriad Treasure Tower, believing the young Alliance Leader might be a lingering soul rather than a living cultivator. Xiao Yan appeared before the gathered experts as Mo Tianxing prepared to make his move.

• Earth Demon Old Ghost won the Sect Breaking Pill for Fang Yan, while the Gold and Silver Elders discussed joining forces with Mo Tianxing and Demon Flame Valley against the Flame Alliance.
• The Life Reversal Pill and Pure Heart Pill went unsold, and Eagle Mountain Elder won the Instant Qi Pill as Hai Bodong concluded the auction.
• Mo Tianxing emerged above the Myriad Treasure Tower and demanded that Alliance Leader Xiao come out to meet him.
• Xiao Yan flew from the third-floor room to face Mo Tianxing, stunning the crowd with his youthful appearance and Dou Ling-level aura.
• Mo Tianxing suspected that Xiao Yan was a powerful expert's lingering soul and believed his side had someone capable of dealing with souls.

Xiao Yan confronted Mo Tianxing, Earth Demon Old Ghost, and the Gold and Silver Elders as the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley moved to destroy the Flame Alliance. He revealed his Heavenly Flame and called on his teacher and Senior Heavenly Flame for help, leaving the assembled factions under the pressure of their surging soul power.

• Mo Tianxing accused the Flame Alliance of seeking to unify the Black-Corner Region and declared that he would destroy it.
• Xiao Yan challenged Mo Tianxing to fight in the sky and used the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame to melt the roof of the Myriad Treasure Tower.
• Xiao Yan called the Gold and Silver Elders and Demon Flame Valley to join the battle, and Queen Medusa blasted the Gold and Silver Elders out of their private room.
• Mo Tianxing demanded that Xiao Yan summon the soul supporting him, while Earth Demon Old Ghost assumed Xiao Yan had relied on another's power to kill Han Feng.
• Xiao Yan called on his teacher and Senior Heavenly Flame, and two torrents of soul power erupted from his rings.

Xiao Yan confronted the Nine-Star Dou Zong Ghost Protector, using his blood qi and Beast King Lotus Heart Flame to counter the Soul Hall’s techniques and gain the upper hand. Meanwhile, Yao Lao and the Flame Alliance’s fighters battled Mo Tianxing, Earth Demon Old Ghost, and their allies.

• Mo Tianxing and Earth Demon Old Ghost ordered their forces to attack the Flame Alliance, while the alliance’s fighters engaged their assigned opponents.
• Xiao Yan insisted on fighting Ghost Protector himself, and Yao Lao agreed to help after dealing with Earth Demon Old Ghost.
• Xiao Yan’s blood qi weakened Ghost Protector’s black mist, and he seized and stored one of the protector’s chains.
• Xiao Yan struck Ghost Protector with Eight Extremes Collapse, sending blood qi and the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame into his body.
• Yao Lao severely wounded Earth Demon Old Ghost, while the Amethyst Winged Lion King and Heavenly Fire Venerable drove Mo Tianxing into a wretched state.

Xiao Yan battled Ghost Protector above Flame City, using his blood qi and heavenly flames to counter the Soul Hall expert’s attacks. He unleashed the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Method, and its five-colored fire disc collided with Ghost Protector’s demonic saber.

• Xiao Yan detonated the hidden force of Eight Extremes Collapse inside Ghost Protector, injuring him and tearing his sleeve.
• Ghost Protector trapped Xiao Yan in a Space Lock, but Xiao Yan broke through it with the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame and dodged Ghost Protector’s ambush.
• Xiao Yan used his blood qi and heavenly flame to overpower Ghost Protector’s Ten Thousand Souls Piercing Heart attack.
• Xiao Yan invoked the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Method, and Yao Lao sent him the bone spirit cold flame to complete his five heavenly flames.
• Xiao Yan formed five fire spirits and launched a five-colored fire disc as Ghost Protector swung his Hundred Spectral Soul Slashes saber; the two attacks collided.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Ghost Protector with the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Method, then killed him with a Four-Colored Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus. Yao Lao cornered the wounded Earth Demon Old Ghost, while Mo Tianxing watched the battle and realized the fight was lost.

• Xiao Yan and Ghost Protector's attacks collided, and the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Method shattered Ghost Protector's saber and sent him flying.
• Yao Lao severed Earth Demon Old Ghost's left arm, blocked his escape with Spatial Lock, and continued attacking him.
• Xiao Yan formed and hurled a Four-Colored Fire Lotus at Ghost Protector, whose body and soul were annihilated in the blast.
• Mo Tianxing stared at the blooming Fire Lotus and realized that everything was over.

Yao Lao, Xiao Yan, and the Flame Alliance defeated the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley, killing their leaders and breaking their forces. The battle ended with the Flame Alliance poised to dominate the Black-Corner Region, while Qi Shan remained the only expert spared.

• Yao Lao killed Earth Demon Old Ghost after rejecting his plea to surrender.
• Mo Tianxing ordered Mo Ya to flee, but Zi Yan kept him trapped while the Amethyst Winged Lion King sealed Mo Tianxing’s strength and joined Heavenly Fire Venerable in killing him.
• Zi Yan killed Mo Ya as the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley forces lost their will to fight and tried to escape.
• Yao Lao used Space Lock to trap the Gold and Silver Elders, and Queen Medusa and the Flame Alliance’s fighters killed them.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao recognized the Flame Alliance’s victory, and its members began clearing the battlefield after all enemy experts except Qi Shan had been slain.

After Xiao Yan’s Flame Alliance defeated its attackers, news that he had killed a Nine-Star Dou Zong shook the Black-Corner Region. He then prepared to evolve Queen Medusa’s bloodline, leaving with her for her cultivation chamber.

• Xiao Yan announced that the Flame Alliance had killed the invaders and directed auction winners to collect their items from Hai Bodong.
• News of Xiao Yan killing a Nine-Star Dou Zong spread through the Black-Corner Region, and Su Qian learned that Xiao Yan could fuse multiple Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan sent the Amethyst Winged Lion King and Queen Medusa to destroy the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley, then focused on using their resources to strengthen the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan visited Queen Medusa and teased her about her attitude before agreeing to evolve her bloodline.
• Xiao Yan asked Queen Medusa to lead him to her cultivation chamber and warned that the evolution would be painful.

Xiao Yan used the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to refine Queen Medusa’s bloodline, awakening her as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python with two souls sharing one body. He planned to help Queen Medusa’s soul take control after it awakened, and her awakening would bring a breakthrough to Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yan gave Queen Medusa the Green Lotus Platform to help her cultivate and endure the bloodline refinement.
• Xiao Yan sent the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame into Queen Medusa, refining her bloodline as she suffered through the process and lost consciousness.
• Yao Lao and the Heavenly Fire Venerable identified the Seven-Colored Little Snake as the legendary Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, whose bloodline had awakened within Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yan fed the Seven-Colored Little Snake a wisp of Beast King Lotus Heart Flame, and she fell asleep after greedily licking it.
• Xiao Yan explained that Queen Medusa’s soul and the newborn snake’s soul shared one body, and Yao Lao advised using a soul-strengthening pill so Queen Medusa could take control once she awakened.

Xiao Yan gathered the ingredients for the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill, whose refinement strengthened the Flame Alliance and advanced his cultivation. He then used the pill, ninth-rank magical beast blood essence, and four heavenly flames to begin resurrecting Heavenly Fire Venerable in Earth Demon Old Ghost's body.

• Queen Medusa entered seclusion to break through to Dou Zong, leaving Lu Man to oversee the Heavenly Snake Hall, while the Flame Alliance recruited Eagle Mountain Elder and three Dou Emperors.
• Yao Lao refined the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill as Xiao Yan, Gu He, and Qi Shan watched, and Xiao Yan absorbed its pill lightning to advance another stage in Dou Qi.
• Nalan Yanran returned at Three-Star Dou Wang and reaffirmed her intention to keep the Three-Year Agreement with Xiao Yan, with Yun Yun encouraging her.
• Xiao Yan infused Earth Demon Old Ghost's corpse with ninth-rank magical beast blood essence, and Heavenly Fire Venerable swallowed the pill and entered the body.
• Xiao Yan separated the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame into four heavenly flames and began tempering the body, promising Yao Lao he would someday refine him a body using a Dou Sheng's corpse.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao successfully resurrected Heavenly Fire Venerable, who regained his peak Five-Star Dou Zun strength and joined the Flame Alliance. Xiao Ding then brought Xiao Yan a map fragment that Hai Bodong recognized as the third Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map.

• After three days of tempering, Heavenly Fire Venerable emerged from Earth Demon Old Ghost's body with his former appearance and a powerful aura.
• Yao Lao identified Heavenly Fire Venerable's recovered strength as Five-Star Dou Zun, and Yao Tianhuo pledged his loyalty to Xiao Yan and Yao Chen.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable joined the Flame Alliance as chief consecrator of the Consecration Hall, causing a stir among its members.
• On the third day after the resurrection, Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Dou Ling, and Xiao Yan reassured her that he would help resolve her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Ding told Xiao Yan that a Dou Ling had offered a map fragment to gain entry to the Inner Alliance, and Hai Bodong recognized it as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map Xiao Yan needed.

Xiao Yan prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran after securing the third Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map and refining Mo Tianxing into a Human Demon Puppet. They reached the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Yun reclaimed her position as sect master, while Xiao Yan planned to deal with Protector Wu and reconsider Yun Yun’s role in the Flame Alliance.

• Xiao Yan gained the third map fragment, rewarding its contributor with a place in the Inner Alliance and a promise of a Dou Ling Pill upon reaching Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan refined Mo Tianxing into Old Mo, a five-star Dou Zong Human Demon Puppet, and decided not to spend heavenly lightning cultivating it.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Yan about returning to the Jia Ma Empire, and he confirmed they would leave in a month or two to visit his father and resolve matters with the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Two months later, Xiao Yan left Xiao Ding and the Heavenly Fire Venerable in charge of the Flame Alliance and traveled to the Jia Ma Empire with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan accompanied Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Leng was shocked by their early return and Yun Yun asserted her authority as sect master.
• Xiao Yan planned to kill Protector Wu and considered removing Yun Yun from her Enforcement Hall position so she could focus on cultivation.

Xiao Yan visited the Misty Cloud Sect with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, drawing attention from its disciples and elders. As they toured deeper into the sect, Xiao Yan sensed two Dou Zong-level presences and called for the hidden observers to show themselves.

• Yun Yun introduced Xiao Yan as the Flame Alliance leader and asked Yun Leng to prepare a residence for him, while Xiao Yan coldly dismissed the elder.
• Xiao Yan said he disliked Yun Leng because of his appearance, and Yun Yun took him and Nalan Yanran on a tour of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Disciples and elders speculated about Xiao Yan's identity until Yun Yun sent them away.
• Xiao Yan learned that Yun Yun did not enjoy her Enforcement Hall role and promised to arrange her a different position in the Flame Alliance.
• Yao Lao sensed two Dou Zong-level presences deep within the sect, and Xiao Yan recognized one as Yun Shan and the other as Protector Wu.
• Xiao Yan turned toward the hidden watchers and challenged them to come out and meet the group.

Xiao Yan exposed Yun Shan and Protector Wu as the two figures watching him and Yun Yun, then confronted the Soul Hall Protector when he tried to capture him. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan unleashing a terrifying aura and challenging Protector Wu to fight.

• Yun Shan and Protector Wu discussed Xiao Yan's ability to sense them, and Protector Wu decided to meet the young alchemist.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran that two people were nearby, and Yun Shan and Protector Wu soon appeared before them.
• Yun Yun reunited with her teacher, Yun Shan, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao recognized Protector Wu as a Soul Hall Protector.
• After Xiao Yan gave his name, Protector Wu suspected he might be connected to the Xiao clan sought by the Hall of Souls and ordered him to surrender.
• Xiao Yan released a fearsome aura and challenged Protector Wu to attack him.

Xiao Yan confronted Protector Wu and overwhelmed the Four-Star Dou Zong with his blood energy, prompting Protector Wu to try to flee. Yao Chen appeared and used Space Lock to trap him.

• Yun Yun warned Yun Shan that Xiao Yan was the Flame Alliance leader who had killed a Nine-Star Dou Zong, and Yun Shan moved away from Protector Wu.
• Protector Wu attacked Xiao Yan with a black chain, but Xiao Yan shattered its black mist and knocked it aside with a punch.
• Protector Wu unleashed his Hundred-Soul Domain-Sealing Lock, but Xiao Yan seized the chain with a hand of blood energy and destroyed the attack.
• Protector Wu tried to escape, but Yao Chen sealed the surrounding space and trapped him.
• Protector Wu recognized Yao Chen and exclaimed that he had thought Yao Chen was dead.

Xiao Yan defeated Protector Wu after Yao Lao revealed himself, while Yun Shan explained how Protector Wu had helped him break through to Dou Zong and tampered with his soul. After learning that Nalan Yanran was Xiao Yan’s fiancée who had once broken off their engagement, Yun Shan regretted her choice; Xiao Yan returned from the mountainside after apparently killing Protector Wu.

• Yao Lao appeared and frightened Protector Wu, while Yun Shan thanked Yun Yun for warning him about Xiao Yan.
• Yun Shan told Yun Yun that Protector Wu had helped him reach Dou Zong and had apparently used a secret art to tamper with his soul.
• Protector Wu tried to seize Nalan Yanran as a hostage, but Xiao Yan intercepted him and struck him with Eight Extremes Collapse, blasting him into a mountainside.
• Yun Shan learned that Nalan Yanran was his granddisciple, Nalan Jie's granddaughter, and Xiao Yan’s fiancée, who had previously broken off their engagement.
• Xiao Yan returned from the exploding mountainside, and Yun Shan concluded that Protector Wu was likely dead.

Xiao Yan removed Protector Wu’s hidden mark from Yun Shan’s soul and learned that the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death was an inheritance site requiring recognition to enter. Yun Shan then led Xiao Yan to the gate, leaving Xiao Yan wondering whether they thought he would fail to gain its recognition.

• Yun Shan thanked Xiao Yan for killing Protector Wu, and Nalan Yanran urged Xiao Yan to treat Yun Shan in exchange for the Misty Cloud Sect’s resources.
• Xiao Yan examined Yun Shan’s soul and explained that Protector Wu’s mark could have gradually turned him into a puppet.
• Xiao Yan used the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame to burn away the mark, and Yun Shan thanked him.
• Yun Shan agreed to show Xiao Yan the Gate of Life and Death and explained that it was an inheritance site that only those it recognized could enter.
• Yun Shan said that only Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran had gained the gate’s recognition, and Xiao Yan wondered if they expected him to fail.

Xiao Yan learned about the Gate of Life and Death’s trials and arrived with Yun Yun, Yun Shan, and Nalan Yanran at the Misty Cloud Sect’s forbidden ground. When he touched the gate, its patterns shone and it resonated with him, leaving the three witnesses astonished.

• Yun Yun explained that the Gate of Life and Death sent waves of phantoms whose defeat granted energy, and advised Nalan Yanran to save Dou Qi between rounds.
• Yun Yun revealed that she had fought a final wave of ten Seven-Star Dou Wangs, defeating six before she was forced to leave.
• Yun Shan explained that the gate had not been created by Yun Potian and recognized only a few people over nearly a thousand years.
• Xiao Yan asked to test whether the Gate of Life and Death would recognize him, and Yun Shan agreed.
• Xiao Yan touched the gate, causing its patterns to shine brightly as it resonated with him.

Xiao Yan gained the Gate of Life and Death’s acknowledgment, and Yun Shan welcomed him into the Misty Cloud Sect’s inheritance trials. News of Yun Shan’s return and apparent breakthrough unsettled the Jia Ma Imperial Family, while Xiao Yan began refining pills with the sect’s support.

• The Gate of Life and Death resonated with Xiao Yan, and Yun Shan agreed that he could enter it with Nalan Yanran after the Three-Year Agreement.
• Yao Ye told Jia Xingtian that Yun Shan had emerged from seclusion looking younger and was rumored to have become a Dou Zong, prompting Jia Xingtian to plan a visit to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Jia Xingtian learned that Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran had returned with a mysterious man, while Nalan Jie and Mittel Tengshan recognized him as Xiao Yan, leader of the Flame Alliance.
• Yun Shan showed Xiao Yan the Misty Cloud Sect’s treasury and gave him all its stored magic cores.
• Xiao Yan began refining pills in a hall inside the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Yan refined a Seven-Tier Energy-Gathering Pill, bringing him close to becoming a Seventh-Rank Alchemist. As Jia Xingtian visited Yun Shan at the Misty Cloud Sect, he was astonished by Nalan Yanran’s strength and mistakenly concluded that Gu He was refining the seventh-tier pill.

• Xiao Yan used Yao Lao’s Black Demon Cauldron to refine a Seven-Tier Energy-Gathering Pill while Yao Lao watched.
• Jia Xingtian and Yao Ye arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Shan greeted them warmly and invited them inside.
• Jia Xingtian was shocked to discover that Nalan Yanran had reached Dou Wang, and Yun Shan modestly attributed her progress to a small opportunity.
• A thunderous boom signaled that a seventh-tier pill was about to emerge, and Yun Yun said Xiao Yan would handle it.
• Jia Xingtian mistook the pill’s appearance for proof that Gu He had become a Seventh-Rank Alchemist.