Recaps

Lin Jing took Xiao Yan from the mine to serve tea and fetch water, believing him to be frail and sickly. Xiao Yan concealed his strength and injuries while considering how Lin Jing might help him learn more about the mine and its otherworldly masters.

• Lin Jing rebuked the overseers for whipping the miners, and Xiao Yan privately doubted her words would improve their treatment.
• A miner told Xiao Yan that Lin Jing was the mine owner's niece and had authority because her aunt owned the Yang Origin Vein.
• Lin Jing noticed Xiao Yan working in the mine and ordered him to come with her, telling the overseers she wanted him to serve her.
• Xiao Yan gave Lin Jing his real name and quietly prepared Dou Qi, but relaxed when she assigned him only simple chores and showed him kindness.
• Lin Jing blamed the otherworldly demons for forcing even sickly people into hard labor, and Xiao Yan wondered why the mine workers still served them.

Xiao Yan recovered in the Heavenly Profound Continent and learned how its cultivation, Symbol Masters, and tribulations differed from those on the Dou Qi Continent. He discovered that the world’s energy could help him reach Dou Di but was contaminated by the Alien Demon Clan, and that Lin Jing had already absorbed a dangerous amount of it.

• Xiao Yan used his time in his own room to refine healing pills and gathered information about the Heavenly Profound Continent from memories and Lin Jing.
• Xiao Yan learned that this world’s cultivators relied on special energies and faced dangerous Nirvana Tribulations, while Symbol Masters focused mainly on mental-power combat and artifact refining.
• Xiao Yan found that space was less stable in this world and that his injuries had healed enough for him to face a Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan circulated the Flame Mantra, sensed his strength increasing, and discovered that abundant energy for reaching Dou Di remained in this world.
• Xiao Yan detected black contamination in the Heaven and Earth Energy and realized it came from the Alien Demon Clan and could transform those who absorbed it.
• Xiao Yan found that Lin Jing had accumulated a dangerous amount of the contamination in her body, while his Purifying Lotus Demon Flame could cleanse it.

Xiao Yan met Qingtan, Lin Jing’s aunt and the mine owner, while he worried that polluted energy could turn Lin Jing into an alien demon. After Qingtan left, Xiao Yan began probing Lin Jing about her aunt’s fortune, while Qingtan realized he had no aura and might be stronger than her.

• Xiao Yan sensed that polluted energy was entering Lin Jing’s body and decided not to intervene.
• Qingtan introduced herself to Xiao Yan and watched him closely as she considered whether he might suit Lin Jing.
• Xiao Yan learned that Qingtan was Lin Jing’s aunt and that she possessed hundreds of millions of Profound Origin Pills.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Jing what he used to do, hinting at an ulterior purpose.
• Qingtan realized she could not sense Xiao Yan’s aura and concluded that he might be stronger than her.

Xiao Yan kidnapped Lin Jing and demanded a billion Profound Origin Pills from Qingtan in exchange for her return. He took Lin Jing to a nearby cave, where he insisted he only wanted money but threatened to punish her if she continued insulting him.

• Qingtan rushed to Lin Jing's room and found Xiao Yan holding Lin Jing by the throat.
• Xiao Yan demanded a billion Profound Origin Pills, and Qingtan agreed to gather them before he returned Lin Jing in a month.
• Xiao Yan left the Yang Origin Vein with Lin Jing and hid with her in a cave nearby.
• Lin Jing questioned why Xiao Yan had kidnapped her, and he warned her not to trust people simply because they treated her well.
• Xiao Yan assured Lin Jing he would not violate her, then threatened to rip out her tongue if she kept insulting him.

Xiao Yan purified Lin Jing’s contaminated energy and kept her from escaping after she was attacked by a demonic beast. After he fed and treated her, Lin Jing denied she could ever fall for him.

• Xiao Yan gave Lin Jing a pill that expelled the impure energy in her body, and she went to bathe outside the cave.
• Lin Jing tried to flee but was mauled by a powerful black leopard before Xiao Yan killed it with a beam of energy.
• Xiao Yan gave Lin Jing healing medicine, and she washed her wounds and returned to the cave.
• Lin Jing ate the broth Xiao Yan had cooked and felt her fear fade as she drank several bowls.
• Xiao Yan teased Lin Jing about developing Stockholm syndrome, and she insisted she would never fall for him.

Xiao Yan offered to train Lin Jing during the month before her ransom arrived, and she became his second disciple. Lin Jing misunderstood his comments about his family and imagined that his wife and senior disciple had died, while Xiao Yan left her misconception uncorrected.

• Xiao Yan told Lin Jing that his wife was not in this world, and Lin Jing assumed she had passed away.
• Xiao Yan pointed out that Lin Jing lacked combat experience and said her aunt, Qingtan, had sheltered her too much.
• Xiao Yan offered to put Lin Jing through a month of special training, and she agreed.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Jing to become his disciple, and she kowtowed and called him Teacher.
• Xiao Yan told Lin Jing she was his second disciple and that she might never meet her senior sister, leading Lin Jing to assume the senior sister had also died.

Xiao Yan put Lin Jing through brutal combat training by making her fight demon beasts without his intervention. After Lin Jing killed her first opponent, Xiao Yan sent a stronger beast after her and planned to increase her daily quota over the next month.

• Lin Jing fled from a tiger demon beast while Xiao Yan refused to intervene and told her to defeat it herself.
• Lin Jing completed her hand seals under pressure and struck the tiger, but it survived and wounded her in their next exchange.
• Lin Jing used the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger to kill the tiger and discovered that her hand seals had become faster.
• Xiao Yan criticized Lin Jing's combat skills and told her she had nineteen more demon beasts to fight that day, with the goal of reaching a hundred daily in a month.
• Xiao Yan summoned a stronger demon beast despite Lin Jing asking to rest, and she ran from it as he praised her improvement.

Lin Jing failed Xiao Yan’s training test and was badly injured, but he healed her and gave her the Three Thousand Lightning Movement. After she mocked him, Xiao Yan sent her into the sky to learn by being struck by lightning.

• Lin Jing collapsed during her fight with the fourteenth demonic beast, and Xiao Yan killed it before taking her back to a cave for treatment.
• Lin Jing woke in a medicinal pool, absorbed its healing energy, and advanced slightly in cultivation.
• Lin Jing discovered Xiao Yan had removed her clothes to treat her injuries and accused him of being a pervert.
• A sudden storm reminded Xiao Yan that Lin Jing’s Great Sun Thunder Body used lightning, so he gave her the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Lin Jing admitted Aunt Qingtan had helped her absorb lightning before, and Xiao Yan explained that she could learn by letting lightning strike her.
• When Lin Jing tried to retreat, Xiao Yan transported her high into the air, where a bolt of lightning struck her.

After a month of brutal training, Lin Jing defeated a powerful beast and prepared to regain her freedom, but Xiao Yan found the Yang Origin Vein filled with dead miners and Qingtan strangely unconscious. Lin Jing identified black flowers whose fragrance had killed everyone in the mine, leaving Xiao Yan facing an unexplained danger.

• Lin Jing killed a Wind-Attribute Beast in battle, showing how much she had improved after a month of Xiao Yan's training.
• Xiao Yan gave Lin Jing pills and took her back to the Yang Origin Vein for the scheduled exchange with Qingtan.
• Xiao Yan noticed the mine was silent and found the miners dead without visible wounds, their faces frozen in smiles.
• Xiao Yan located Qingtan sitting motionless on a stone platform and scanned the mine without disturbing her.
• Xiao Yan found more than a hundred fragrant black flowers, and Lin Jing recognized them as Eternal Illusion Demon Flowers.

Xiao Yan learned why Lin Jing’s people mined Yang Origin Stone for the Alien Demons and discovered that Qingtan had been trapped by an Eternal Illusion Demon Flower. After entering Qingtan’s illusion, he found her in a reconstructed town and tried to take her away.

• Lin Jing explained that Eternal Illusion Demon Flowers used their scent to trap victims in illusions until their bodies withered, and Xiao Yan realized his and Lin Jing’s purifying power had protected them.
• Lin Jing told Xiao Yan that her aunt mined Yang Origin Stone to preserve a human refuge after the Alien Demons defeated the Heavenly Profound Continent and killed Lin Jing’s parents and many other warriors.
• Xiao Yan devoured the Eternal Illusion Demon Flowers and entered Qingtan’s illusion with his soul to wake her before their power killed her.
• Xiao Yan found Qingtan in a shabby house with the family she remembered, including a young boy he identified as Lin Dong.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Qingtan’s arm and urged her to leave with him immediately.

Xiao Yan tried to convince Qingtan that her peaceful life in Qingyang Town was an illusion, but she refused to leave her imagined family. He left town and decided to shatter the illusion by destroying the happiness she clung to.

• Xiao Yan told Qingtan that the world was false and urged her to remember Lin Jing, who was waiting in reality.
• Lin Xiao and Lin Dong defended Qingtan and urged her to ignore Xiao Yan, while Qingtan insisted that they were real.
• Qingtan admitted that even if her dreams showed the real world, she would stay where she still had a home.
• Xiao Yan left Qingyang Town and decided to break the illusion at its root by destroying its beauty.

Xiao Yan repeatedly slaughtered Qingtan’s family in the illusion, forcing her beautiful dream to become a nightmare until she began to let it collapse. Before she could awaken, a white light replaced his memories, leaving him at a Xiao Clan stone monument as his Dou Qi rank was announced.

• Xiao Yan used his soul force and inability to die to hunt down and kill everyone in Qingyang Town and the Lin Family estate.
• Xiao Yan killed Lin Xiao and Qingtan’s other family members in front of her, then revealed he had repeated the massacre 351 times whenever she restored the illusion.
• Qingtan pleaded with Xiao Yan to let her remain in the dream, but he demanded that she wake herself or face another round of killings.
• Qingtan’s illusion began to shake, but a white light erased Xiao Yan’s memories and replaced them with new ones.
• Xiao Yan found himself at a Xiao Clan stone monument, where a voice announced, “Xiao Yan, Dou Qi, third stage! Grade: low!”

Qingtan escaped the Eternal Illusion Demon Flower with Xiao Yan’s help, but he remained unconscious amid strange fluctuations that might signal an advance toward the ancestral realm. Third King Hall appeared and attacked, forcing Qingtan to fight alone while Xiao Yan remained behind her.

• Qingtan awoke from the illusion and reunited with Lin Jing, while Xiao Yan stayed unconscious.
• Qingtan sensed a strange reincarnation-like aura around Xiao Yan and wondered if he was approaching the ancestral realm.
• Third King Hall emerged from the shadows and revealed that he had come to kill Qingtan, but he became more interested in Xiao Yan’s potential breakthrough.
• Qingtan shielded Xiao Yan and charged Third King Hall, hoping to hold him off until Xiao Yan awoke.
• As Qingtan and Third King Hall fought, Xiao Yan’s fingers twitched.

Xiao Yan realized that his decades-long life as the Flame Emperor was an illusion created from his memories and prepared to leave it. After bidding farewell to Xun'er and entering a Plane Passage, his memories merged with the Demon Fury Sage's consciousness, while the real Xun'er awakened from a vivid dream.

• Xiao Yan told Xun'er that their world was false and that he needed to leave it.
• Xun'er accepted that she was shaped from Xiao Yan's memories and urged him to return to the people waiting for him.
• Xiao Yan opened a Plane Passage, and the people of the Dou Qi Continent bid farewell to the Flame Emperor as he entered it.
• The illusory world collapsed, and Xiao Yan's Flame Emperor memories merged with the Demon Fury Sage's consciousness.
• Xun'er awoke from a dream in seclusion within the Gu Clan and called out to Brother Xiao Yan.

Qingtan’s forgotten fiendish demon power returned, allowing her to wound the Third King Hall with an icy sword strike. As the Fourth King Hall attacked Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan awoke and erased him with Primordial Heaven-Transforming Light, leaving the Third King Hall terrified.

• Qingtan’s black Ice Lotus blocked the Third King Hall’s attack and restored her lost chilling power.
• Qingtan formed an icy longsword and wounded the Third King Hall with Ice Nether Aurora Slash, cracking his Demon Emperor Armor.
• The Third King Hall summoned the Fourth King Hall, who attacked Xiao Yan while the Third King Hall kept Qingtan occupied.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes and killed the Fourth King Hall with Primordial Heaven-Transforming Light.
• The Third King Hall realized Xiao Yan could likely kill him just as easily and was filled with terror.

Xiao Yan denied that he had reached the Ancestral Realm, then faced Heaven King Hall and a vast Alien Demon army alongside Qingtan and Lin Jing. He unleashed the Demon Fury Nine Arts, annihilating most of the invading force and leaving Heaven King Hall and the surviving True King-level demons badly wounded.

• Xiao Yan explained that his comprehension had reached the Ancestral Realm, but his Dou Qi remained at Peak Dou Sheng, so he had not truly broken through.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Yang Origin Mine and revealed Heaven King Hall leading the Ten Great King Halls and a huge Alien Demon army.
• Heaven King Hall recognized Qingtan's Ice Master aura and ordered the demons to attack Xiao Yan, Qingtan, and Lin Jing.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Demon Fury Nine Arts, annihilating more than ninety percent of the Alien Demon army while sparing Qingtan and Lin Jing.
• Heaven King Hall and the surviving True King-level demons endured the blast but were badly injured and terrified by Xiao Yan's strength.

Xiao Yan used a powerful area attack against the Ten Great King Halls, then feigned another strike to escape with Qingtan and Lin Jing. The group arrived at the Chaotic Demon Sea, where Qingtan recalled the old defeat, and Xiao Yan demanded the billion Profound Origin Pills before their pursuers could find them.

• Xiao Yan unleashed Eight Desolations Annihilation, badly injuring the Third King Hall and devastating the Alien Demon army around them.
• Xiao Yan feigned a Light Wind Void Flame Slash and escaped through a spatial passage with Qingtan and Lin Jing while the Heaven King Hall ordered a search.
• Xiao Yan, Qingtan, and Lin Jing appeared hundreds of thousands of li from the Yang Origin Vein, and Xiao Yan's injuries worsened.
• Qingtan identified the Chaotic Demon Sea, and she told Lin Jing how Lin Dong's allies had sacrificed themselves during the second great war of heaven and earth.
• Xiao Yan urged Qingtan and Lin Jing to stop reminiscing and hand over the billion Profound Origin Pills, while suspecting Lin Dong had become lost on the path of reincarnation.

Xiao Yan refined the Profound Origin Pills in the Chaotic Demon Sea and used the Origin Qi there to break through to Dou Di. As the Alien Demons arrived to attack the gathered human survivors, Xiao Yan appeared before Heaven King Hall, ready to settle the score.

• Qingtan gave Xiao Yan the Profound Origin Pills, and he began refining them while she summoned the remaining human survivors to guard him.
• The survivors sensed Xiao Yan's Ancestral Realm fluctuations and gathered around him to protect his breakthrough.
• Heaven King Hall and the other Alien Demons arrived in force, threatening the humans and revealing that the Demon Emperor had emerged from seclusion.
• Xiao Yan completed his breakthrough to Dou Di and appeared before Heaven King Hall, who could no longer sense his presence.
• Xiao Yan told Heaven King Hall and the other Alien Demons that it was time to settle the score.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the Dou Di realm and fought the Alien Demon Emperor, who had fused with Lin Dong’s body and wielded the Eight Ancestral Symbols and Nine Divine Objects. Xiao Yan gained the upper hand with his Heavenly Flames and techniques, but the emperor survived his strongest strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xiao Yan effortlessly defeated Heaven King Hall and the other demons, then confronted the Alien Demon Emperor, who emerged in Lin Dong’s body and admitted he had taken it over.
• The Alien Demon Emperor combined the Eight Ancestral Symbols and Nine Divine Objects into a demonic spear, while Little Yao helped Xiao Yan strengthen his Xuan Heavy Ruler into the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ancient Ruler.
• Xiao Yan and the Alien Demon Emperor exchanged powerful attacks, and Xiao Yan countered the emperor’s spatial, life-and-death, flame, ice, devouring, lightning, and darkness abilities with his Heavenly Flames and combat techniques.
• Xiao Yan used Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and Extreme Day Heaven-Destroying Slash to break the Darkness Realm and blast the Alien Demon Emperor away, but the emperor’s black armor absorbed much of the damage.
• The Alien Demon Emperor’s armor shattered and blood appeared at his mouth, though he remained alive and the fight continued.

Xiao Yan battled the Alien Demon Emperor, who unleashed the Plane Embryo’s power through the Beginningless Demon Stele. Facing the stele’s overwhelming attack, Xiao Yan created Mortal Annihilation and destroyed the Alien Demon Emperor, ending the Alien Demon calamity.

• The Alien Demon Emperor and Xiao Yan clashed with their transformed bodies and powerful techniques, but Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames kept him on the offensive.
• The Alien Demon Emperor fired the Ancestral Symbol Eye and Chaos Arrow, while Xiao Yan countered with the Nine Profound Annihilation Burning Heaven Eyes and a fire lotus made from his heavenly flames.
• The Alien Demon Emperor corrupted the Plane Embryo, sacrificed captives and Alien Demons, and sent the blood-empowered Beginningless Demon Stele crashing toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan’s Demon Fury Nine Arts failed to stop the stele, so he used time force to create emperor flame and forged a silver needle that shattered it.
• The silver needle trapped the Alien Demon Emperor inside a lotus and unleashed Xiao Yan’s combined powers against him.
• Xiao Yan created and used Mortal Annihilation to destroy the Alien Demon Emperor, ending the nearly ten-thousand-year Alien Demon calamity.

Xiao Yan defeated the Alien Demon Emperor and claimed the Eight Ancestral Symbols, Nine Divine Objects, and corrupted Plane Embryo. After purifying the Plane Embryo, he caused the Woman in White to appear, and Qingtan recognized her as Sister Qingzhu.

• Xiao Yan recovered from using Mortal Annihilation and gathered the Eight Ancestral Symbols and Nine Divine Objects left behind by the Alien Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan offered to recreate Lin Dong’s final moments on the Path of the Ancestor, but Lin Jing and the others declined.
• Xiao Yan retrieved the Plane Embryo and explained that the Alien Demon Emperor had corrupted it with demonic aura.
• Xiao Yan purified the Plane Embryo with his Emperor Flame, driving the demonic aura from it.
• A Woman in White appeared from the Plane Embryo, and Qingtan recognized her as Sister Qingzhu.

Xiao Yan learned that the Woman in White was the sentient Plane Spirit, who had chosen him to defeat the Alien Demon Emperor. The Plane Spirit explained that controlling the Plane Embryo required her recognition, then suggested Xiao Yan might qualify if he treated the world as his own property.

• Lin Jing mistook the Woman in White for her mother, but the Woman in White clarified that she was borrowing Lin Jing's mother's appearance and was the Plane Spirit.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Woman in White as the Plane Embryo, and she explained that she had sent her power across worlds to find help against the Alien Demon Emperor.
• The Plane Spirit admitted she had expected to intervene if Xiao Yan faltered, while Xiao Yan challenged her for withholding crucial information and for promising an opportunity that was already his spoils.
• The Plane Spirit explained that controlling the Plane Embryo required her recognition and a pure desire to protect all living beings, which had also made the Symbol Ancestor fail.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether he could force control of the Plane Embryo, and the Plane Spirit suggested that claiming the world as his own might count as protecting it.

Xiao Yan became the Heavenly Profound Continent’s Plane Master and learned that the Plane Embryo’s power could help him break through to higher realms. The plane spirit revealed that a mysterious destiny-altering force had disrupted Lin Dong’s breakthrough and appeared far more strongly in Xiao Yan.

• The plane spirit accepted Xiao Yan as her master, and the Plane Embryo merged into him, granting him the ability to wield the Heavenly Profound Continent’s power.
• The plane spirit advised Xiao Yan to reserve the Plane Embryo’s energy for future breakthroughs beyond Dou Di and as a safeguard against future dangers.
• The plane spirit explained that Lin Dong had sensed her and could have reached the Ancestral Realm, but an unknown fluctuation changed the final trial in his path of reincarnation and caused him to fail.
• The plane spirit told Qingtan that the same strange fluctuation had appeared in her, then revealed that it had appeared in Xiao Yan thousands of times more intensely.
• Xiao Yan guessed that the mysterious power was connected to destiny and could change it.

Xiao Yan explained how outside interference could alter a person's destiny, then suspected that his own life had been rewritten. After the plane spirit teased Lin Jing and Xiao Yan, he turned his attention to the spirit's physical body.

• Xiao Yan used the poisoned-water analogy to explain how the plane spirit's power could change Lin Dong's and Qingtan's destinies.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether his life in the Path of Reincarnation had been his original destiny, while his previous life had distorted it, and vowed to make the mastermind pay.
• The plane spirit changed her appearance into a young girl and teased Lin Jing about her feelings for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan stopped the plane spirit and Lin Jing from arguing, then threatened to prove something after the spirit called him a lolicon.

After recovering from his battle with the Alien Demon Emperor, Xiao Yan refined his control over the Ancestral Symbols and experimented with the Heavenly Profound Continent’s cultivation system. He created a Source Spirit clone but discovered it lacked techniques and needed a separate supply of Dou Qi.

• Xiao Yan spent more than a month healing his severe injuries and found that his strength and control had improved after defeating the Alien Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan refined the Alien Demon Emperor’s spoils except for the Plane Embryo’s power, then studied the Ancestral Symbols and their potential to strengthen his combat abilities.
• Xiao Yan punished the Plane Spirit by locking her in the Soul Refining Tower and exposing her to the Soul Refining Fire.
• Xiao Yan studied Origin Power cultivation and condensed a Source Spirit from his Dou Qi, giving himself a second clone alongside his Soul Clone.
• Xiao Yan discovered that his Source Spirit could not use Dou Techniques and would need a separate supply of Dou Qi to keep from dissipating.