Recaps

Xiao Yan’s fifth-grade pill helps unite the Three Great Families against the Black Sand Alliance, where Xiao Yi’s strange powers turn the battle. After the victory, Xiao Yi leads Xiao Yan and Yao Lao to a hidden cave, where a mysterious old man appears and reveals his deep knowledge of Yao Lao’s past.

• Xiao Yan brought Yao Lao’s Earth Vein Miasma-Breaking Pill to the Mittel Auction House, and Gu Ni confirmed its value before Xiao Yan gave it to Xiao Zhan and Ya Fei without asking for payment.
• Hai Bodong arrived in Wutan City, joined the three clan heads’ expedition to rescue their abducted children, and offered to guard them after Xiao Yan challenged him.
• At the Magnetic Crystal Mine, Xiao Yi arrived atop a Mud-and-Stone Dragon, and the three clans and the Desert Iron Mercenary Group joined forces against the Black Sand Alliance.
• Xiao Yi’s mud and thunder formations trapped the enemy commander and overwhelmed a Dou Wang, while Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, Xiao Zhan, and Hai Bodong helped defeat the alliance’s fighters.
• After the battle, Xiao Zhan, Jia Lie Bi, and Oba Pa formed an alliance, and Xiao Yi began telling Xiao Yan about his past before turning to pranks and strange experiments around the Xiao Clan.
• As Xiao Yan recovered and trained, he and Xiao Yi kept up their routines until they turned fifteen, when Xiao Yi brought him to a concealed cave and invited Yao Lao to refine medicine there.
• Xiao Yi summoned a gray-robed old man, who offered to guide Yao Lao, refined ingredients with an ordinary-looking flame, and revealed the betrayal and loss that had shaped Yao Lao’s past.

Xiao Yan rebuilt his cultivation, faced Nalan Yanran’s attempt to end their engagement, and challenged her to a duel three years later. After Xiao Yi’s bizarre exorcism and a taste of food from his past life, Xiao Yan regained his strength while the city turned the clan gate into a shrine.

• Supreme Lord Lao gave Xiao Yan three pills and Xiao Yi an Angel Halo, nursery-rhyme book, and gourd before leaving, and Yao Lao resolved to pursue cultivation after examining the gifts.
• Xiao Yan took the Body Tempering pill, purified his Dou Qi, and cultivated back to the third stage before attending the clan assessment with Xun’er, where she ranked high and he ranked low.
• Xiao Yan defeated Xiao Ning in a spar, then learned that Xiao Yi had opened a snack shop and was using monosodium glutamate in his cooking.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan a new cultivation method and divined danger at the family gate, as Nalan Yanran arrived with Ge Ye to end her engagement to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan rejected Nalan Yanran’s condescending offer, repudiated her before the Xiao Clan, and accepted her challenge to duel at the Misty Cloud Sect Summit in three years.
• Xiao Yi tried to exorcise Xiao Yan with a talisman-covered gate panel, while Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan the Heavy Mysterious Ruler and ordered him to carry it.
• Xiao Yi gave Xiao Yan instant noodles, drinks, and spicy strips, and Xiao Yan forgot his anger as he ate food that reminded him of his past life.
• Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi rose until he became a Dou Zhe again, while rumors made the repaired clan gate a sacred place and brought a stream of visitors seeking luck.

Xiao Yan trained in alchemy and took up the Jade Pivot Void Danger Scripture while Xiao Yi used his strange schemes to disrupt the Jia Lie Family and build his business. The arc ended with Xiao Yi joining the group at Jia Nan Academy and punishing students who bullied newcomers.

• Xiao Yan chose the dangerous Flame Mantra after learning it could evolve by devouring heavenly flames, then continued training with Yao Lao and the Heavy Mysterious Ruler.
• Xiao Yi explained his Dao of constancy and change to Xiao Yan, demonstrated Paul's elemental pill-making, and turned their rivalry into a fish fight and a tenfold burger surcharge.
• Xiao Yan began learning alchemy and invented Ghost Claw Itching Powder to use against Xiao Yi, while the Xiao Clan worried about losing business to the Jia Lie Family's Healing Pills.
• Phantom Thief A Pi sabotaged Xiao Archway's ingredients, so Xiao Yi cleaned up the mess and retaliated by attacking the Jia Lie Family estate with a dung mop, bucket, and sludge dragons.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao watched Xiao Yi's attack, while Xiao Yi later crushed A Pi's treasured abacus and Xiao Yan discovered that a blind box held a rare Ultraman nose clip.
• Xiao Yan accepted Xun'er's Jade Pivot Void Danger Scripture and learned from Yao Lao that it could form an external qi vortex, after copying it, Xiao Yan gave a copy to Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan that Jia Nan Academy's recruitment team would arrive the next month, and Xiao Yi eagerly planned merchandise and guides as the group headed to the Back Gate.
• Xiao Yi passed through Senior Ke's barrier and stopped older students from bullying newcomers, forcing them to hold push-ups while he leisurely sipped from his cup.