Recaps

Xiao Yu refined an Ice-Skin Jade-Bone Pill for Su Mei and declined her invitation to visit Rakshasa Gate. He left the city on foot, planning to break through to Five-Star Dou Emperor on his journey back to Black Seal City.

• Su Mei brought Xiao Yu three sets of ingredients and payment, and he agreed to refine the Ice-Skin Jade-Bone Pill within three days.
• Xiao Yu studied the pill formula and ingredients, then successfully refined the pill on his first attempt.
• Su Mei collected the pill, praised Xiao Yu's alchemy, and invited him to visit Rakshasa Gate, but he declined.
• Su Mei hinted at dinner and a 'sparring session,' and Xiao Yu said he might visit another time before bidding her farewell.
• Xiao Yu left the city on foot, intending to break through to Five-Star Dou Emperor on his return journey.

Zi Yan followed Xiao Yu’s scent away from Rakshasa City while Xiao Yu advanced to Five-Star Dou Emperor and returned to Black Seal City. He found the Xiao Court’s reforms had built a loyal faction, and he resolved to make it a powerful force.

• Zi Yan found two traces of Xiao Yu’s scent at Rakshasa City and chased the trail leading away from the city.
• Xiao Yu traveled through the Black-Corner Region, cultivated along the way, and advanced to Five-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yu used Near-Horizon Wind Thunder to reach Black Seal City and returned to the Xiao Court.
• Xue You welcomed Xiao Yu’s return, and the Xiao Court’s members bowed and shouted their greeting.
• Xiao Yu saw the Xiao Court’s loyalty and believed it could grow into a powerful faction under his command.

Xiao Yu entered seclusion and refined five Emperor's Extreme Pills, using his flames, lightning, and careful preparation to produce pills of exceptional quality. He barely elevated the final pill to the seventh grade by using the Great Desolate Flame to gather natural energy, and then prepared to recover.

• Xiao Yu collected the ingredients from Xue You and ordered that no one disturb him while he refined pills in the palace.
• Xiao Yu studied the Emperor's Extreme Pill formula and spent a day simulating the refinement before beginning the actual process.
• Xiao Yu refined the ingredients with the Myriad Transformation Flame and Returning-to-Truth Lightning, successfully producing an Emperor's Extreme Pill.
• Xiao Yu refined all five pills, but struggled to raise the final one from the sixth grade to the seventh.
• Xiao Yu used the Great Desolate Flame to gather natural energy, allowing the final Emperor's Extreme Pill to barely reach the seventh grade.

Xiao Yu completed five Emperor's Extreme Pills and remained in seclusion to consume them and improve his strength. When his aura erupted across the Xiao Court, the elders realized he had emerged stronger and summoned them to the Palace.

• Xiao Yu prepared himself to consume the five Emperor's Extreme Pills without wasting their medicinal power.
• Xue You and the other four elders discussed Xiao Yu's seclusion, his plans to refine Emperor's Extreme Pills, and the Xiao Court's shortage of capable alchemists.
• A powerful aura erupted from the center of the Xiao Court, and the elders recognized it as Xiao Yu's strength.
• Xiao Yu summoned the five elders to the Palace, and they flew there together.

After reaching Eight-Star Dou Emperor, Xiao Yu arranged to auction three Emperor's Extreme Pills to obtain rare ingredients for his future breakthrough to Dou Zong. News of the auction drew the interest of Medicine Emperor Han Feng and Jia Nan Academy’s Elder Huo, who planned to attend.

• Xiao Yu summoned the Xiao Court elders and ordered them to organize an auction of three Emperor's Extreme Pills, accepting high-grade medicinal ingredients and publicizing a list of desired materials.
• Xiao Yu scheduled the auction in Black Seal City for a month later, and Xue You recognized that the bidding rules would help gather the ingredients Xiao Yu needed.
• News of the auction spread across the Black-Corner Region, and Han Feng learned that the Xiao Court’s master was another Sixth-Rank Alchemist.
• Elder Huo asked the dean of Jia Nan Academy for permission to attend the auction, hoping to obtain an Emperor's Extreme Pill and meet Xiao Yu; the dean agreed to accompany him, and Elder Huo asked to bring someone along.

Xiao Yu replenished the Treasure Pavilion and found a familiar little girl hiding on its third floor. She had tracked him to Xiao Court, and he asked how she had managed to get inside.

• Factions across the Black-Corner Region began searching for medicinal herbs after hearing the news.
• Xiao Yu reviewed Xiao Court’s progress, then went to the Treasure Pavilion to restock its items.
• Xiao Yu found a little girl with pale-purple hair in a corner of the third floor, despite the restrictions protecting access to it.
• The little girl hugged Xiao Yu’s thigh and said she had followed his scent, suffered along the way, and run out of pills.
• Xiao Yu set her down and asked how she had tracked him and entered Xiao Court.

Xiao Yu discovered that Zi Yan had joined the Xiao Court and allowed her to stay, while setting rules for her conduct. He learned she had run out of points because she did not know about the Mission Hall.

• Zi Yan told Xiao Yu how she followed his scent to Black Seal City and joined the Xiao Court after learning he was its boss.
• Zi Yan explained that she had earned an elder-level token by beating up several elders but had not taken anything from the Treasure Pavilion.
• Xiao Yu learned Zi Yan had been in the Xiao Court for a month and could not remember the name of the elder who admitted her.
• Xiao Yu agreed to let Zi Yan stay, ordered her to call him Court Master, and warned her not to steal or cause trouble.
• Zi Yan said she had run out of points, and Xiao Yu discovered she did not know what the Mission Hall was.

Xiao Yu approved preparations for the Xiao Court Auction and agreed to oversee the sale of an Emperor's Extreme Pill. He learned that Zi Yan had been appointed the Sixth Elder and had left to gather medicinal ingredients for a mission.

• Zi Yan headed to the Mission Hall to take a mission after Xiao Yu told her she needed points.
• Xiao Yu spent a month writing and reviewing his ideas while the Xiao Court prepared for its auction and renamed Black Seal City Xiao City.
• Xue You reported that the Xiao Court Auction had been expanded and that it would feature an Emperor's Extreme Pill.
• Xiao Yu agreed to oversee the auction himself to deter any Dou Huang experts from causing trouble.
• Xiao Yu learned that Xue You had accepted Zi Yan into the Xiao Court and appointed her Sixth Elder, then docked Xue You's next month's allowance.
• Xue You told Xiao Yu that Zi Yan had gone to gather medicinal ingredients for a mission and expected to return within a month.

As Xiao Court’s auction drew crowds and powerful factions to Xiao City, Yan brought Pang Yuan to make amends for the Earth Flame Sect’s past offense. Xiao Yan attended with Elder Huo, who planned to bid on an Emperor’s Extreme Pill, leaving Xiao Yan eager to see the rare pill.

• Vendors discussed the auction’s Emperor’s Extreme Pills and Xiao Court as crowds filled Xiao City.
• Yan warned Pang Yuan not to cause trouble and planned to apologize to Xiao Court’s Court Master to repair the Earth Flame Sect’s relationship with them.
• The auction began, drawing visitors and first-rate factions to Xiao Court’s largest building.
• Elder Huo arrived at the VIP entrance with Xiao Yan and explained that he had brought him to broaden his horizons and see a top sixth-rank pill.
• Xiao Yan questioned whether Elder Huo could win an Emperor’s Extreme Pill, and Elder Huo insisted that Jia Nan Academy’s standing would secure one.

Xiao Yan attended Xiao Court’s auction with Elder Huo and began to suspect that Xiao Court’s master might be his older cousin, a Sixth-Rank Alchemist. As the auction got underway under Xue You’s supervision, Xiao Yu watched from a private room until a familiar voice bidding below caught his attention.

• Xiao Yan asked Elder Huo about Xiao Court and learned that its master was a powerful Sixth-Rank Alchemist who had made the Emperor’s Extreme Pill.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether Xiao Court’s master was his older cousin, but he had not yet met him to confirm it.
• Xue You opened the crowded auction, where the audience stayed quiet because they feared Xiao Court’s power.
• Xiao Yu oversaw the auction from a private room, then lost interest and read while eating grapes.
• A youthful bid for a green wood immortal vine sounded familiar to Xiao Yu, who sat up and looked toward the auction floor.

At Xiao Court’s auction, Xiao Yan bought green wood immortal vine, and the bidding grew intense when Xue You offered three Emperor’s Extreme Pills in exchange for medicinal ingredients. The first pill’s bidding continued as Xiao Yu listened from his private room.

• Xiao Yan bid a Foundation-Stabilizing Pill for the green wood immortal vine, and Xue You awarded it to him after no one raised the offer.
• Xiao Yu suspected that a bidder’s voice belonged to Xiao Yan and decided to check later.
• Xue You unveiled an Emperor’s Extreme Pill and announced that three would be auctioned individually for medicinal ingredients, prioritizing items on Xiao Court’s list.
• A bidder questioned the pill’s quality, and Xue You guaranteed double compensation if any problem arose; the bidder then made the first offer.
• Dou Huang experts called out increasingly valuable ingredients and magic cores, and Xiao Yu placed a bid that included a Mid-Sixth-Order magic core.

At the Xiao Court auction, Elder Huo bought the first Emperor's Extreme Pill, an unidentified old man bought the second, and Han Feng secured the third. After the auction, Xiao Yu sensed trouble to the south and went to confront it as Dou Huang experts followed.

• Elder Huo invoked Jia Nan Academy's reputation to win the first Emperor's Extreme Pill, while Xiao Yu realized the auction had gathered many of the ingredients he needed.
• Han Feng waited until the third Emperor's Extreme Pill and watched the auction room ceiling as an old man on the roof sensed that both Han Feng and Xiao Yu had noticed him.
• A powerful old man bought the second pill and left the auction house immediately, prompting several Dou Huang experts to leave in apparent pursuit.
• Han Feng won the third pill, and Elder Huo took Xiao Yan back to an inn in Xiao City to study their pill.
• Xiao Yu sensed trouble to the south and vanished from the auction house as the Dou Huang experts headed there to witness the confrontation.

Xiao Yu intervened when two elders tried to rob a black-robed elder of his Emperor's Extreme Pill inside Xiao City. He confronted the attackers over Xiao City's rules, and prepared to cripple their Dou Qi after they refused to comply.

• A green-robed elder and a blue-robed elder ambushed a black-robed elder and demanded his Emperor's Extreme Pill.
• The black-robed elder tried to leave, but the green-robed elder blocked him, and both attackers prepared to fight inside Xiao City.
• Xiao Yu appeared with an overwhelming aura and stopped the three elders from clashing, allowing the black-robed elder to escape.
• Xiao Yu ordered the two elders to cripple their own Dou Qi, but the blue-robed elder arrogantly challenged him.
• Xiao Yu said he would do it himself.

Xiao Yu defeated two Five-Star Dou Emperors who had attacked Xiao Court, while the gathered faction leaders learned who he was. The elders launched desperate counterattacks, regretting that they had come to Xiao City, as Xiao Yu pressed his assault.

• Xiao Yu used his speed to slam the Green-Clothed Elder and the Blue-Clothed Elder into the ground.
• The leaders of several Black-Corner Region factions arrived and recognized Xiao Yu as the Court Master of Xiao Court.
• Pang Yuan told Yan that Xiao Yu was the court master, and Yan ordered Pang Yuan to apologize to him afterward.
• Xiao Yan revealed to Elder Huo that Xiao Yu was his cousin, and Elder Huo asked him to seek Xiao Yu's help with alchemy.
• Xiao Yu attacked the two elders in their craters, and they broke free to unleash poison and water attacks against him.

Xiao Yu defeated the Poison Emperor and Sea Emperor after they attacked Xiao City, then prepared to cripple their Dou Qi. Medicine Emperor Han Feng tried to buy their release, but Xiao Yu grew suspicious of his connection to them and remained determined to punish them.

• Xiao Yu used the Golden Light Dao Flame and Great Desolate Flame to destroy the elders' attacks and smash them into craters in the street.
• Xiao Yu grabbed the battered green-robed and blue-robed elders by their throats and said he would cripple their Dou Qi rather than kill them.
• Han Feng arrived, introduced himself as Medicine Emperor, and asked Xiao Yu to spare the two men, offering compensation and then a top-grade sixth-rank pill.
• Fan Lao identified the elders as the Poison Emperor and Sea Emperor, two obscure Five-Star Dou Emperors of the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yu suspected Han Feng was more than an acquaintance of the elders and refused to abandon their punishment.

Xiao Yu crippled the Poison Emperor and Sea Emperor after they caused trouble in Xiao City, while Han Feng hid his anger and later killed them with sea heart flame. Xiao Yu mingled with Black-Corner Region faction leaders afterward, as Xiao Yan and a mysterious woman watched him.

• Xiao Yu crippled the Poison Emperor and Sea Emperor, then let Han Feng take them away.
• Han Feng killed the two crippled men with sea heart flame and decided to accelerate his plan against Xiao Court.
• Xiao Yu greeted leaders from several first-rate factions and exchanged pleasantries with them after the auction.
• Xiao Yan waited with Elder Huo while a beautiful woman watched Xiao Yu mingle with the faction leaders.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yu and learned that the Xiao Court would welcome him and his clansmen. Su Mei asked Xiao Yu to refine an Emperor's Extreme Pill, and she offered him a rare Two-Extremes Coiling Dragon Branch as additional payment.

• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan caught up, and Xiao Yu offered to give Xiao Yan and his clansmen positions at the Xiao Court.
• Su Mei arrived and greeted Xiao Yu, who introduced her to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan remembered Elder Huo and tried to introduce him, giving Xiao Yu an opening to ask Su Mei whether she needed anything.
• Su Mei asked Xiao Yu to refine an Emperor's Extreme Pill because she had failed to win one at auction and had only gathered one set of ingredients.
• Su Mei offered additional medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yu recognized one as a Two-Extremes Coiling Dragon Branch.

Xiao Yu accepted Su Mei’s request to refine Emperor’s Extreme Pills and showed Xiao Yan and Elder Huo around the Xiao Court, including its upgraded Desolate Spirit-Gathering Tower. That night, Yao Lao praised the Xiao Court’s potential while reflecting on his former disciple’s betrayal and the Soul Palace’s threat.

• Xiao Yu accepted Su Mei’s medicinal ingredients as payment for refining Emperor’s Extreme Pills and arranged a time for her to collect them.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yu to Elder Huo, and Xiao Yu invited both men to stay at the Xiao Court.
• Xiao Yu showed Xiao Yan and Elder Huo the Xiao Court’s points system, Treasure Pavilion, Mission Hall, and Desolate Spirit-Gathering Tower 2.0.
• Xiao Yu explained that Returning-to-Truth Lightning purified the tower’s worldly energy, though keeping it running required more of his Dou Qi.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Court could become a superpower and recalled his anger and heartache over the disciple who had betrayed him.

Xiao Yan learned from Yao Lao that the Fallen Heart Flame’s seal was weakening and that they might soon have a chance to subdue it. Meanwhile, Xiao Yu exchanged alchemy insights with Elder Huo, and their discussion ended as someone returned with items to exchange for points.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the formation sealing the Fallen Heart Flame’s Fire Spirit would likely fail within a year, creating an opportunity to subdue it.
• At Elder Huo’s prompting, Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yu to exchange alchemy insights with Elder Huo, and Xiao Yu agreed while preparing an Emperor’s Extreme Pill for Su Mei.
• Elder Huo watched Xiao Yu refine the pill, while Xiao Yu concealed the Pill Fusion step with the Myriad Transformation Flame.
• Xiao Yu and Elder Huo spent two days sharing alchemy knowledge, with Xiao Yu teaching him about the sixth rank and Elder Huo expanding Xiao Yu’s knowledge of medicinal ingredients.
• Elder Huo thanked Xiao Yu and promised to return after reaching the sixth rank, while Xiao Yan sat bored through their farewells.
• A clear voice called from outside as someone returned and asked Xiao Yu to see what they had found and estimate its exchange value.

Zi Yan returned to Xiao Yu’s hall, where he told Elder Huo to inform Su Qian that she was at the Xiao Court. Elder Huo and Xiao Yan left afterward, while Zi Yan stayed behind, sulking at Xiao Yu.

• Zi Yan tried to flee when she recognized Elder Huo, but Xiao Yu caught her with an energy hand and explained that she had followed him to the Xiao Court.
• Elder Huo explained that Zi Yan was a powerful magical beast who often stole medicinal ingredients, and Zi Yan threatened to pull out his beard if he told Su Qian she was there.
• Xiao Yu asked Elder Huo to pass the message to Su Qian, while Zi Yan threatened to eat Xiao Yan until Xiao Yu warned her against harming his younger brother.
• Zi Yan clung to Xiao Yu and begged him not to send her away, but he scolded her and Elder Huo agreed to deliver the message.
• Elder Huo and Xiao Yan departed, and Xiao Yu asked Zi Yan to show him what she had mentioned earlier, but she sulked and refused.

Xiao Yu lectured Zi Yan into agreeing to return to Jia Nan Academy and seek Su Qian’s permission before visiting Xiao Court again. After appraising her medicinal herbs and awarding her seventy thousand points, he took the usable herbs to his Alchemy Room to refine them.

• Xiao Yu explained that Zi Yan’s behavior had worried her elders and could cause conflict between Xiao Court and Jia Nan Academy, persuading her to go back and tell Su Qian she was safe.
• Xiao Yu agreed Zi Yan could return to Xiao Court if Su Qian approved, and reminded her to show respect to her elders.
• Zi Yan showed Xiao Yu a large collection of medicinal herbs, including yin-yang profound grass, and asked how many points they were worth.
• Xiao Yu valued the herbs at seventy thousand points and transferred them to Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan hurried away, while Xiao Yu sorted out the herbs he could use and carried them to his private Alchemy Room.

Su Qian arrived at Xiao Court to find Zi Yan, and Xiao Yu welcomed him as its court master. After seeing that Zi Yan was safe and well cared for, Su Qian set aside his worry and listened as she offered to show him around.

• Xiao Yu sensed a powerful Dou Zong aura at Xiao Court and went to meet its visitor, Su Qian of Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian recognized Xiao Yu as Xiao Court's court master, and Xiao Yu invited him into the main hall.
• Xiao Yu sent for Zi Yan, who greeted Su Qian with teasing remarks and brushed off his scolding for leaving without telling him she was safe.
• Su Qian thanked Xiao Yu for caring for Zi Yan, and Xiao Yu told him that she had helped rather than caused trouble.
• Zi Yan grew bored of their conversation and offered to show Su Qian around Xiao Court.

Xiao Yu accepted Su Qian and Zi Yan’s invitation to visit Jia Nan Academy, leaving Xue You in charge of the Xiao Court. Meanwhile, Han Feng rallied powerful factions for a plan that he believed needed two specific people to succeed.

• Zi Yan showed Su Qian around the Xiao Court, and he was impressed by its facilities and Xiao Yu’s potential.
• Xiao Yu delivered the Emperor's Extreme Pill to Su Mei and left quickly, angering her.
• Su Qian invited Xiao Yu to visit Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yu agreed so he could see the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and study the Fallen Heart Flame’s heart flame.
• Xiao Yu entrusted Xue You with authority over the Xiao Court’s affairs and departed with Su Qian and Zi Yan.
• In Maple City, Han Feng learned that the Blood Sect had agreed to join his plan while Emperor Ban was still considering it.
• Han Feng instructed his subordinate to contact every first-rate faction except the Xiao Court, then resolved to personally invite two people he considered essential to the plan.

Xiao Yu arrived at Jia Nan Academy with Su Qian and Zi Yan, then went to the Inner Academy to find Xiao Yan. He called out to Xiao Yan at the Pan Gate dormitory, where he was unexpectedly greeted by his cousin Xiao Yu.

• Xiao Yu, Su Qian, and Zi Yan entered Peace Town and saw the Death Spirit Tree before making their way into Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian left to handle his duties, while Zi Yan showed Xiao Yu around the Outer and Inner Academies.
• Xiao Yu asked for directions to the Pan Gate and went to Xiao Yan's freshman dormitory, where he loudly called for him to come out and welcome a guest.
• Pan Gate students took offense at Xiao Yu's greeting, and one of them prepared to confront him as Zi Yan watched eagerly.
• Xiao Yu's cousin Xiao Yu opened the door, recognized him, and surprised the student who had been about to pick a fight.

Xiao Yu brought Xiao Yu and the Xiao Clan members to the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, where he forced a path through the crowd and entered with them. Inside, the heart flame appeared in Xiao Yu’s body, but his six origin flames subdued it, and it vanished when his dou qi passed through it.

• Xiao Yu learned that Xiao Yan was cultivating in the tower after Xun'er had left, and Xiao Yu agreed to take Xiao Yu and the Xiao Clan members there.
• Xiao Yu examined the tower’s spatial barrier and floated ten meters above the crowd, startling the Xiao Clan members and nearby students.
• Xiao Yu surrounded his group with a protective wave of force and pushed through the waiting students into the tower.
• Xiao Yu entered the tower and sensed the heart flame manifesting inside his body.
• Xiao Yu’s six origin flames surrounded the heart flame, and his dou qi passed through it, causing it to disappear.