Recaps

Xiao Yan accepts Yao Lao’s guidance, settles the Xiao Clan’s dispute with the Misty Cloud Sect, and leaves to train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. There he befriends Xiao Yi Xian, discovers her Woeful Poison Body, and promises to help her control it as they agree to travel together.

• Yao Lao emerged from Xiao Yan’s ring, explained how he had survived by absorbing Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi, and offered to teach him in exchange for help restoring his body.
• Xiao Yan secretly advanced his cultivation while concealing his strength, then confronted Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran when the Misty Cloud Sect demanded that he end his engagement.
• Xiao Yan negotiated compensation and a three-year contest with Nalan Yanran, then used his alchemist disguise to gain Gu Ni’s support for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan revealed his ninth-stage Dou Power at the coming-of-age ceremony, enrolled in Jia Nan Academy, and secured a year’s leave before leaving Wutan City with Yao Lao.
• In Qingshan Town, Xiao Yan arranged for the Wolf Head Mercenary Group to target Xiao Yi Xian, then rescued her from Mu Li and his men.
• Xiao Yan helped Xiao Yi Xian retrieve her treasure, accepted the Purple Cloud Twin Wings, and bought the Map Fragment after Yao Lao identified its connection to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body erupted after she absorbed too much poison, and Xiao Yan promised to help control it with special antidote pills.
• Xiao Yan proposed traveling and training together, and Xiao Yi Xian tearfully accepted his guidance.

Xiao Yan gained Yun Yun’s trust, advanced his cultivation and alchemy, and gathered allies while helping Qing Lin find strength and confidence. After Nalan Yanran began preparing for their Three-Year Agreement, Xiao Yan traded a forged map fragment with a hidden old man and confronted him over the missing half.

• Xiao Yan rescued the injured Yun Yun, and the two agreed to spend two years together as cultivation companions while he kept his identity as Li Feiyu hidden.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun stole Purple Spirit Crystals from the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and Xiao Yan used companion amethyst source to advance to Dou Ling and refine the Purple Flame.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, arranged for Yun Yun to take her as a disciple, and earned fourth-tier alchemist certification before reaching fifth tier and advancing to Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan traveled with Xiao Yi Xian to Stone Desert City, reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and learned that Qing Lin possessed the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yan encouraged Qing Lin to choose her own identity and grow stronger, and she won arena matches until Stone Desert City's people recognized her as Lady Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yi Xian and the Xiao brothers advanced in cultivation while Xiao Yan concealed his own progress, and Nalan Yanran entered seclusion to prepare to defeat him at the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Yan exchanged a forged map fragment for the old man's fragment at a map shop, then revealed himself and accused the old man of giving him only half a fragment.