Recaps

Xiao Yan feigned weakness to make Earth Demon Old Ghost capture the fallen heart flame, which erupted from Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower. Earth Demon Old Ghost fled with the flame, and Xiao Yan pursued him.

• Xiao Yan used a feint and the Mountain Splitting Seal to injure Earth Demon Old Ghost while deliberately holding back.
• The fallen heart flame burst from the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower after its seal broke, leaving Su Qian and Hu Gan unable to contain it.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost froze the fallen heart flame into a black ice crystal while Xiao Yan pretended to be driven back.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had secretly arranged the eruption and weakened the flame so Earth Demon Old Ghost could capture it.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost fled with the flame, and Xiao Yan chased after him as Su Qian watched in dismay.

Xiao Yan ambushed Earth Demon Old Ghost at Demon Flame Valley after wiping out its members and demanded the Fallen Heart Flame. When Earth Demon Old Ghost summoned a Soul Hall protector for help, the protector attacked him instead.

• Earth Demon Old Ghost fled toward Demon Flame Valley with the Fallen Heart Flame, believing he had escaped Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan waited at the valley entrance and revealed that he had killed everyone in Demon Flame Valley.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost attacked Xiao Yan and tried to escape, but Xiao Yan turned his ice sword against him and struck him with a golden fist.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost crushed a jade token to summon a black-mist figure, who praised him and agreed to help kill Xiao Yan.
• The black-mist figure attacked Earth Demon Old Ghost instead, freezing his smile.

Xiao Yan stole the fallen heart flame from Earth Demon Old Ghost, revealed that he had impersonated a Soul Hall Protector, and killed him. He refined the fallen heart flame in Demon Flame Valley and used an earth fire lotus seed to push his cultivation toward Five-Star Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yan blasted Earth Demon Old Ghost and seized the black ice crystal containing the fallen heart flame.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Soul Hall Protector disguise and killed Earth Demon Old Ghost with the Annihilation Flame Eyes.
• Xiao Yan returned to Demon Flame Valley, summoned puppets to guard him, and released the fallen heart flame from its seal.
• Xiao Yan extracted the flame seed and refined the fallen heart flame, merging it into the nine nether illusion heart flame.
• Xiao Yan reached the peak of Four-Star Dou Zong, then swallowed an earth fire lotus seed to break through toward Five-Star Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan prepared to leave the Black-Corner Region for the Central Plains, but Hun Moli ambushed him before he could return to Jia Nan Academy. He recognized that Hun Dai'er had also been reborn, setting their old conflict in motion again.

• Xiao Yan suppressed the evil flame inside him with a cold pill and reviewed the Demonic Flame Remnant Map fragments he had collected.
• Xiao Yan sensed a powerful aura approaching and stowed his puppets and Green Lotus Seat.
• Hun Moli shattered the ceiling, attacked Xiao Yan with black chains, and trapped him behind spatial barriers.
• Xiao Yan identified Hun Moli as a Hun Clan Dou Zun and deduced that Hun Dai'er had sent her.
• Xiao Yan realized Hun Dai'er had been reborn and prepared to settle their conflict in this life.

Xiao Yan fought Hun Moli, using his Heavenly Flames and techniques to resist her overwhelming strength. After a series of feints and counterattacks, he launched another Light Wind Void Flame Slash at her.

• Hun Moli trapped Xiao Yan with spatial barriers, but he activated all three Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and broke free at near Two-Star Dou Zun strength.
• Hun Moli used the Hun Clan's clan mark to raise her power to peak Six-Star Dou Zun, and Xiao Yan attacked with a fake Light Wind Void Flame Slash before fleeing toward the Demon Flame Valley entrance.
• Hun Moli caught up and struck at Xiao Yan, but he combined the Mountain Splitting Seal, Sea Overturning Seal, and Earth Covering Seal to blast her backward.
• Xiao Yan used the recoil to retreat and launched another Light Wind Void Flame Slash, which Hun Moli recognized as the same feint and prepared to counter.

Xiao Yan used a concealed Ten Prisons Azure Flame Finger to pressure Hun Moli while he prepared a Demon Fury Fire Lotus. Hun Moli destroyed the incomplete attack and the puppets Xiao Yan sent to stall her, but he dodged her chains with Flame-Treading Sky-Soaring Step as he continued fusing four Heavenly Flames.

• Hun Moli expelled the hidden force from her meridians after shattering Xiao Yan's Light Wind Void Flame Slash.
• Xiao Yan summoned an incomplete Ten Prisons Azure Flame Finger, concealing its buildup behind the slash, and began fusing four Heavenly Flames for a Demon Fury Fire Lotus.
• Hun Moli formed a black chain python to resist the finger, then shattered it with a series of attacks.
• Hun Moli realized Xiao Yan possessed four Heavenly Flames and rushed to stop him from completing his next attack.
• Hun Moli knocked away Xiao Yan's silver puppets and destroyed them with chains, but Xiao Yan evaded the barrage using Flame-Treading Sky-Soaring Step.

Xiao Yan used his Soul Body, the Fallen Heart Flame, and the Netherworld Poison Flame to keep Hun Moli at bay while his physical body fused Heavenly Flames. After blasting through her soul defense with the Annihilation Flame Eyes, he formed a terrifying Fire Lotus and sent it toward her.

• Xiao Yan separated his soul from his body and struck Hun Moli with a soul attack, briefly staggering her while his body continued fusing Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan used the Fallen Heart Flame to disrupt Hun Moli's Dou Qi, and poison from the Netherworld Poison Flame seeped into her body and slowed her further.
• Hun Moli expelled the poison and charged again, but Xiao Yan returned his soul to his body and attacked her with the Annihilation Flame Eyes, badly damaging her soul.
• Xiao Yan formed a brilliant Fire Lotus and tossed it toward Hun Moli.

Xiao Yan unleashed a four-flame Demon Fury Fire Lotus that devastated the Black Steel Mountain Range and badly wounded Hun Moli, though he appeared to be knocked unconscious by the blast. As Hun Moli approached him, an illusory figure suddenly appeared behind her and mocked her for falling for the same trick twice.

• Xiao Yan formed the Demon Fury Fire Lotus from four Heavenly Flames and injured himself in the process.
• Hun Moli used her strongest attack, the Great Nether Blood-Congealing Sword, to try to stop the Fire Lotus.
• The Fire Lotus detonated, destroying the sword and reducing the Black Steel Mountain Range to a scorched wasteland.
• Hun Moli survived behind her armor but suffered grave injuries, while Xiao Yan lay motionless on the ground.
• As Hun Moli moved to subdue Xiao Yan, an illusory figure appeared behind her and mocked her.

Xiao Yan trapped the badly injured Hun Moli in his Soul Refining Tower and used soul flame and fallen heart flame to weaken her soul. After the tower vanished, he invaded her mind, took her memories, and altered them.

• Hun Moli staggered back after Xiao Yan's Soul Body ambushed her, but believed he could not keep his soul outside his body for long.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Soul Refining Tower and enclosed Hun Moli within it.
• Xiao Yan poured soul flame into the tower and began refining Hun Moli's soul, but she resisted with black mist.
• Xiao Yan sent fallen heart flame into the tower, burning away Hun Moli's defense and overwhelming her weakened soul.
• Xiao Yan returned to his physical body, invaded Hun Moli's mind, and used the Nine Revolutions Soul Refining Art to obtain and alter her memories.

Xiao Yan brainwashed Hun Moli, renamed her Yuan Li, and kept her as a loyal Dou Zun guard. After returning to Jia Nan Academy with severe injuries, he recovered while Qing Lin and Zi Yan cared for him, and he resolved to be more cautious before heading to the Central Plains.

• Xiao Yan used the Nine Revolutions Soul Refining Art and Fallen Heart Flame to brainwash Hun Moli, then planted a Soul Imprint in her mind.
• Xiao Yan renamed Hun Moli Yuan Li and ordered her to follow him, intending to use her to guard the Xiao Gate and as an experiment for dealing with Hun Dai'er.
• Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy badly injured, told Great Elder Su Qian he had failed to retrieve the Fallen Heart Flame, and pretended to faint.
• Qing Lin and Zi Yan cared for Xiao Yan as he recovered over half a month, while he kept Yuan Li outside the academy.
• Xiao Yan reflected that stronger enemies could be sent after him in the Central Plains and resolved to proceed with greater caution.

After recovering, Xiao Yan partnered with Jia Nan Academy and began gathering treasures before settling in the Magma World to resume alchemy. The chapter left him ready to refine pills in seclusion beneath the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower.

• Su Qian returned the pills to Xiao Yan, who then accepted Jia Nan Academy's proposal to cooperate with Xiao Gate and gained the title of honorary elder.
• Zi Yan confronted Xiao Yan over his new status, and he overpowered her before she spent the next day clinging to him.
• Qing Lin brought food to Xiao Yan and Zi Yan, and the two girls tussled over their closeness to him.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin plundered natural treasures in Jia Nan Academy's mountain forests and fed several snake-type Magical Beasts to Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yan went to the Magma World beneath the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower to begin refining pills.

Xiao Yan entered the Magma World beneath the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower to cultivate and refine pills in seclusion, where he discovered that absorbing pill lightning could strengthen him and create powerful silver pearls. He continued refining pills underground, newly equipped with a way to turn pill lightning into both cultivation energy and a weapon.

• Xiao Yan sensed the Tou She Ancient God Jade react in the Magma World, then sealed it away and set aside thoughts of whatever it might lead to.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Myriad Beast Cauldron and began refining pills in the dense underground fire energy.
• Xiao Yan used the Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand to devour the pill lightning from his first successfully refined pill.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the lightning energy to strengthen his body and Dou Qi, and condensed its unabsorbable residue into a silver Pill Lightning Pearl.
• Xiao Yan stored the pearl and continued refining pills, encouraged by the lightning's benefits and the weapon it could provide.

After months of pill refining and hunting Flame Lizardmen, Xiao Yan reached Nine-Star Dou Zong and became a mid-stage eighth-tier Alchemist. As he prepared to leave the Magma World, the fallen heart flame inside him led him to a hidden space containing skeletal remains and another fallen heart flame.

• Xiao Yan advanced to Nine-Star Dou Zong by absorbing pill lightning, crimson beads from Flame Lizardmen, and energy from the underground world.
• Xiao Yan killed Flame Lizardmen across several ranks, including more than a dozen Dou Zun-level Flame Lizardmen, before withdrawing when powerful auras approached.
• Xiao Yan successfully refined eighth-tier pills, reached the middle stage of the Spirit Realm, and ran out of medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan followed the summons from his fallen heart flame to a hidden spatial ring in the magma.
• Xiao Yan entered the hidden space and found skeletal remains with a transparent fallen heart flame floating above them.

Xiao Yan collected an infant Fallen Heart Flame and encountered the fading Soul Body of the Heavenly Fire Venerable, who offered his Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method in exchange for help restoring his soul. Xiao Yan agreed to help if the Venerable would assist him afterward, while planning to take precautions of his own.

• Xiao Yan cut off the spatial power from the mysterious skeleton and collected the infant Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable emerged from the skeleton and introduced himself to Xiao Yan.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable asked Xiao Yan to restore his weakening soul and offered the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method as payment.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help restore the Heavenly Fire Venerable if he would assist him with a few things afterward.

Xiao Yan returned the infant fallen heart flame to Jia Nan Academy, then went back to Xiao Gate to restore Heavenly Fire Venerable and awaken Yao Lao. With both souls awake, he gathered the final ingredient needed to refine bodies for them.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable told Xiao Yan how the fallen heart flame backlash and Flame Lizardmen had killed him, and Xiao Yan took his corpse.
• Xiao Yan gave the infant fallen heart flame to Great Elder Su Qian, delighting Jia Nan Academy after its elders had feared losing the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower's benefits.
• Xiao Yan returned to Xiao Gate with Zi Yan and Qing Lin, where Yuan Li guarded the faction.
• Xiao Yan used medicinal liquids to restore Heavenly Fire Venerable's soul and awaken Yao Lao, who was astonished by Xiao Yan's rise to Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan extracted blood essence from a Dou Zun-level Flame Lizardman corpse, completing the materials needed to refine bodies for Heavenly Fire Venerable and Yao Lao.

Xiao Yan refined a new body for Heavenly Fire Venerable, who returned as a Three-Star Dou Zun and honored his agreement to serve Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan then began refining a stronger body for Yao Lao, leaving his resurrection underway.

• Xiao Yan used Earth Demon Old Ghost's corpse, seventh-rank Heavenly Scorpion Poison Dragon Beast blood essence, and a peak seventh-tier pill to refine Heavenly Fire Venerable's body over five days.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable returned as a Three-Star Dou Zun and promised to honor his agreement with Xiao Yan, then went outside to stand guard.
• Xiao Yan prepared a Dou Zun-level Flame Lizardman’s blood essence, an eighth-tier pill, and Heavenly Fire Venerable's former skeleton for Yao Lao, keeping safeguards in each material.
• Xiao Yan began refining Yao Lao's body, and the process took more than twice as long as Heavenly Fire Venerable's.
• After Yao Lao's soul merged with the skeleton, Xiao Yan replenished his Dou Qi and waited for Yao Lao to resurrect.

Yao Lao was resurrected at Nine Revolutions Peak Dou Zun and reunited with Xiao Yan, who gave him Han Feng's soul. Yao Lao prepared to return to the Central Plains, gave Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and promised him a direct passage there.

• Yao Lao awakened with Nine Revolutions Peak Dou Zun strength and thanked Xiao Yan for bringing him back to life.
• Xiao Yan handed Yao Lao Han Feng's soul, and Yao Lao quietly confronted the pain of Han Feng's betrayal.
• Yao Lao advised Xiao Yan to gain experience in the Central Plains and explained that he would return there to settle old grudges and restore the Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Lao erased his soul imprint from the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and gave it to Xiao Yan as a graduation gift.
• Xiao Yan planted his soul imprint in the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Yao Lao promised to prepare a space wormhole scroll for his future journey to the Central Plains.

After Xiao Yan crushed the Black Emperor Sect, he found the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva and a Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse, which the Nine Nether Flame devoured to evolve his wings. With the materials he needed gathered, he prepared to return to Xiao Yi Xian, while worrying about how she would react to his long absence.

• Xiao Yan's Xiao Gate grew powerful and wealthy, and Qing Lin advanced to Dou Wang.
• The Black Emperor Sect destroyed one of Xiao Gate's auction houses, so Xiao Yan retaliated by killing the sect's master, his son, and the rest of the faction.
• Xiao Yan found the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva and a Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse among the sect's treasures.
• The Nine Nether Flame devoured the corpse and strengthened Xiao Yan's wings, making him faster than an eighth-rank Heavenly Demon Phoenix.
• Xiao Yan remembered a map of the Great Beast Den and decided to seek more avian Magic Beast blood essence there.
• With the required materials ready, Xiao Yan planned to return to Xiao Yi Xian and help resolve her Woeful Poison Body, though he feared her reaction to his years-long delay.

Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City with Qing Lin and Zi Yan, only to find Xiao Yi Xian’s Medical Hall closed and worry that something had happened to her. At the Xiao Clan gates, he discovered Misty Cloud Sect carriages and learned that Nalan Yanran might be there to break off her engagement to him.

• Xiao Yan left Hai Bodong to guard Xiao Gate and flew to Wutan City with Qing Lin and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan warned Zi Yan to behave herself in town and teased her about refining more dragon saliva fire spirit grass.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian’s Medical Hall closed and learned it had been shut for more than half a year.
• Xiao Yan hurried to the Xiao Clan and saw carriages bearing the Misty Cloud Sect emblem outside its gates.
• Qing Lin explained that Nalan Yanran, the Misty Cloud Sect Master’s disciple, was engaged to the Xiao Clan’s missing young master and might have come to break off the engagement.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he was the missing young master, leaving Qing Lin and Zi Yan speechless.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan as Nalan Yanran arrived to demand that their engagement be dissolved. After rejecting her proposed compensation, he agreed to end the engagement on his own terms and ordered a brush and inkstone, leaving Nalan Yanran shocked when she realized he intended to write her a letter of repudiation.

• Xiao Zhan erupted in anger at Ge Ye’s suggestion that Xiao Yan might be dead, but Xiao Yan appeared and calmed him.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Nalan Yanran and mocked her for assuming his return made her demand proper.
• Xiao Yan argued that the engagement had been arranged by their elders and that dissolving it should respect their friendship.
• Nalan Yanran offered ten portions of Qi Gathering Powder and access to Misty Cloud Sect cultivation methods, but Xiao Yan criticized her choice of compensation.
• Xiao Yan agreed to dissolve the engagement and ordered someone to bring a brush and inkstone, prompting Nalan Yanran to cry out that he was repudiating her.

Xiao Yan rejected Nalan Yanran’s engagement-breaking gifts and revealed that he had reached the Dou Shi realm before age fifteen. Nalan Yanran challenged him to a duel at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years, and Xiao Yan accepted no terms but looked forward to the encounter.

• Xiao Yan returned Nalan Yanran’s letter of repudiation and refused the Qi Gathering Powder and gifts.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Dou Shi battle robe, shocking Nalan Yanran, Ge Ye, and the others; Ge Ye secretly considered killing him rather than letting him become a threat to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Nalan Yanran proposed a Three-Year Agreement, offering to become Xiao Yan’s slave and maid if she lost, but Xiao Yan refused that condition.
• Nalan Yanran declared the wager settled and left with Ge Ye after promising to challenge Xiao Yan at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years.
• Xiao Yan wondered at Nalan Yanran’s confidence and privately anticipated tormenting her when they met again.

Xiao Yan showed Xiao Zhan his apparent Dou Wang strength and planned to move the Xiao Clan to his faction in secret while concealing his true power from the Soul Hall. He learned that Xiao Yi Xian had left Wutan City after her Woeful Poison Body awakened and resolved to find her.

• Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Zhan about the Three-Year Agreement by displaying Dou Qi Wings, and Xiao Zhan revealed he had reached Two-Star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan he had founded a faction and planned to send Xiao Clan members there in batches without attracting attention.
• Xiao Yan introduced Zi Yan and Qing Lin to Xiao Zhan as friends who would stay with the clan.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yi Xian had accidentally poisoned neighbors about six months earlier and then left Wutan City alone.
• Xiao Yan realized Xiao Yi Xian's Woeful Poison Body had awakened and worried that he had no way to find her.

Xiao Yan spoke with Xun'er on the mountain behind the clan grounds, reflecting on Xiao Yi Xian's disappearance and his changed feelings about the past. He asked Xun'er to watch over Zi Yan and Qing Lin before preparing to leave to find Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Yan went alone to the mountain and regretted leaving Xiao Yi Xian in Wutan City.
• Xun'er joined Xiao Yan and remarked that his years away had made him less distant.
• Xun'er reassured Xiao Yan about Xiao Yi Xian, and he vowed to find her wherever she went.
• Xiao Yan asked Xun'er to inform his father and look after Zi Yan and Qing Lin while he was away.
• Xun'er asked whether Xiao Yan knew someone like her, and he said Hun Dai'er was only a scar from the past while Xun'er was his little sister.

Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian in the Small Valley after she succumbed to her poison cravings and carried her back to bed. He revealed that he had spent years gathering materials to control her Woeful Poison Body and promised to help her.

• Xiao Yi Xian consumed poisonous powder in the Small Valley and lost consciousness as her Woeful Poison Body took effect.
• Xiao Yan carried the unconscious Xiao Yi Xian to her bed, and she worried that her poisonous body had harmed him.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yi Xian to return with him and told her he knew about her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian feared she would lose her reason and endanger others, but Xiao Yan said he had found a way to control her condition and gathered the necessary materials.

Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Yi Xian that he could control her Woeful Poison Body, and she broke down in relief as she confessed her fears. He agreed to stay with her in the Small Valley, where she secretly cherished having his attention to herself.

• Xiao Yan showed Xiao Yi Xian his Heavenly Flame and promised it could prevent her Woeful Poison Body from backfiring.
• Xiao Yi Xian wept in Xiao Yan's arms and admitted she feared becoming a killer and losing the people she cared about.
• Xiao Yan comforted Xiao Yi Xian and asked her to return to Wutan City, but she asked to stay in the Small Valley longer.
• Xiao Yan agreed to stay with Xiao Yi Xian, placed a Soul Imprint on her, and gave her the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered to cook for Xiao Yan and secretly relished having his kindness to herself in the Small Valley.