Recaps

Xiao Yan strengthened the Flame Alliance, defeated the factions that challenged it, and restored Queen Medusa’s bloodline while building up his allies. He returned to the Jia Ma Empire, killed Protector Wu, treated Yun Shan, and began refining a seventh-tier pill at the Misty Cloud Sect as Jia Xingtian arrived.

• Xiao Yan recruited Zi Yan as an honorary Guest Elder and returned to the Flame Alliance with her after restoring Yao Lao’s soul and leaving Jia Nan Academy.
• The Flame Alliance held an auction that drew Mo Tianxing, Earth Demon Old Ghost, and the Gold and Silver Elders, who joined forces to attack Xiao Yan’s faction.
• Xiao Yan and his allies killed Mo Tianxing, Earth Demon Old Ghost, Ghost Protector, and the Gold and Silver Elders, securing the Flame Alliance’s victory.
• Xiao Yan refined Queen Medusa’s bloodline, awakening a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, then helped Heavenly Fire Venerable regain a body and recruited new experts into the alliance.
• Xiao Yan obtained the third Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment, refined Mo Tianxing into a Human Demon Puppet, and traveled to the Jia Ma Empire with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran.
• At the Misty Cloud Sect, Xiao Yan killed Protector Wu after he attacked the group, then burned the Soul Hall mark from Yun Shan and gained access to the sect’s treasury and Gate of Life and Death.
• Xiao Yan began refining a seventh-tier Energy-Gathering Pill as Jia Xingtian and Yao Ye arrived, and Jia Xingtian mistook the pill’s emergence for proof that Gu He had become a Seventh-Rank Alchemist.

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 rose to the top of the alchemy world, won the Pill Gathering, and absorbed the Three Thousand Burning Flame before returning to Starfall Pavilion. After defeating the Hall of Souls’ forces and destroying two of its halls, he set out with Zi Yan to rescue Qing Lin.

• Xiao Yan resurrected Yao Lao, strengthened his body in the Void Lightning Pool, and refined a ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pill that raised his cultivation to ten thousand stages of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan traveled to Sacred Pill City, passed the alchemist certification, killed Chen Xian after he threatened Zi Yan, and entered the Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Yan killed Mu Gu in the Pill Realm, gathered the required ingredients, and returned to compete in the final pill-refining trial.
• Xiao Yan refined a Ninth-Grade Pill through black demon lightning, won the Pill Gathering, and accepted Dan Chen as his student.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Domain, then returned to Starfall Pavilion with Yao Lao as the other pavilion masters sought closer ties.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate and allied factions attacked Starfall Pavilion, but Xiao Yan and his companions defeated them and captured the Great Heavenly Venerate’s remnant soul.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan destroyed the Human Hall and Earth Hall, and Xiao Yan refined their stolen soul origins until his soul power reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• After two years of training, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan went to the Fushui Mountains when they learned the Nine Netherworld Python Clan was hunting Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan rescued her from its fighters.