Recaps

Xiao Yan attended the Xiao Clan’s talent assessment, revealed his immense strength, and took Xiao Xun'er to visit his mother’s grave. As they left the Ancestral Grounds, he urged Xun'er not to restrain herself for his sake and promised he would catch up to her.

• Xiao Mei tested at seven segments, while Xiao Xun'er reached nine segments and was praised as a prodigy.
• Xiao Yan arrived and, after Xiao Ning challenged him, tested at the tablet’s maximum reading of Nine-Star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan invited Xiao Xun'er to accompany him to the Ancestral Grounds on the anniversary of his mother’s death, and they left the testing square together.
• Xiao Yan offered incense and paid his respects at Ling Yao’s grave, while Xiao Xun'er helped him sweep the fallen leaves.
• On their way out, Xiao Yan told Xiao Xun'er not to hold herself back for him and promised he would catch up with her.

Xiao Yan set out to find a birthday gift for Xun'er in Wutan City, unaware that the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families were plotting to assassinate him. The two clan leaders assembled a force of Dou Zhe fighters, Qi-Sealing Powder, and a Shadow Tower contract to ensure his death.

• Xiao Yan saved his Gold Coins and left for Wutan City to find Xun'er a birthday present without spoiling the surprise.
• Jia Lie Bi told Oba Pa that Xiao Yan's growing strength threatened their families and proposed secretly killing him.
• Jia Lie Bi committed ten Five-Star Dou Zhe and one Seven-Star Dou Zhe death soldier to the assassination plan.
• Oba Pa agreed to join with five Five-Star Dou Zhe, one Seven-Star Dou Zhe, and five doses of the Ao Ba Family's Qi-Sealing Powder.
• Jia Lie Bi sent a letter offering the Shadow Tower one hundred thousand Gold Coins to assassinate Xiao Yan.

Jia Lie Bi set a trap to kill Xiao Yan, surrounding him with seventeen Dou Zhe death warriors at the Treasure Stall in Azure Cloud Market. Just as they attacked, a girl from the Misty Cloud Sect intervened, leaving Xiao Yan facing the assassins alongside an unexpected newcomer.

• Jia Lie Bi used hundreds of Mortal informants to track Xiao Yan and ordered his death warriors to surround the Treasure Stall.
• Xiao Yan bought a pair of Image-Reflecting Pearls as a birthday present for Xun'er and warned the stall owner to leave before a battle began.
• Xiao Yan sensed seventeen Dou Zhe, each at least Five-Star, closing in and chose to test his cultivation rather than flee.
• Four death warriors attacked Xiao Yan, but a girl wielding a Wind Spirit Splitting Sword repelled their combined strike.
• The girl, wearing a Cloud-Shaped Silver Sword Emblem, said she had intervened because she thought it was disgraceful to gang up on one person.

Xiao Yan rescued a girl from death warriors sent to kill him and revealed that he had reached the Dou Shi realm. After defeating the attackers, he left the girl furious and embarrassed over his having held her.

• The girl attacked the death warriors with her sword and wounded several of them, prompting the group to pretend to retreat.
• The death warriors threw Qi-Sealing Powder at the girl, but Xiao Yan caught her and burned away the powder with his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Dou Shi-level Dou Qi Veil and demanded to know who had sent the attackers.
• The death warriors chose to fight, and Xiao Yan defeated them with his Great Flame Palm; the survivors then killed themselves.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the girl was all right, and she broke away from him, blushing and calling him shameless.

Xiao Yan met a talented girl and her powerful protector in Wutan City, then returned to Xiao Xun'er with a birthday gift. Xun'er learned who had arranged the attack on Xiao Yan and prepared for her coming departure from the Xiao Clan, while planning one last gift for him.

• Xiao Yan met the girl and Ge Ye in Wutan City, where Ge Ye revealed he had driven off a Shadow Tower assassin.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Xun'er a pair of Image-Reflecting Pearls as an early birthday present, and she kept the pearl showing his image.
• After Xiao Yan left, Xiao Xun'er asked Ling Ying who had targeted him, and Ling Ying identified the Jia Lie Family and Ao Ba Family as the ones behind the hired assassins.
• Xiao Xun'er ordered Ling Ying to find the Shadow Tower's headquarters but told him to leave the two Wutan City families to Xiao Yan.
• Ling Ying reminded Xiao Xun'er that she would have to return to her family when she advanced to Dou Zhe, and she asked him to obtain an Earth Tier Fire Cultivation Technique for Xiao Yan without telling the clan.

After Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached Six-Star Dou Shi, the Xiao Clan agreed to eliminate the Jia Lie Family and the Ao Ba Family for their attack on him. The clan’s plans were interrupted by the arrival of two visitors from the Misty Cloud Sect, including Nalan Yanran.

• Xiao Zhan summoned the Xiao Clan’s senior members and told them that more than a dozen powerful Dou Zhe had attacked Xiao Yan.
• The Second and Third Elders urged restraint, but Xiao Zhan insisted the clan could not ignore an attempt on his son’s life.
• Xiao Yan silenced the Third Elder by revealing he was a Six-Star Dou Shi, then declared that the Jia Lie Family and the Ao Ba Family must be eliminated.
• The Xiao Clan members accepted Xiao Yan’s decision, though they would need time to prepare their plan.
• A guard reported that two Misty Cloud Sect visitors had arrived, including Nalan Yanran of the Nalan Family.

Nalan Yanran arrived at the Xiao Clan with Ge Ye to challenge Xiao Yan over their childhood betrothal, saying she wanted to choose her own fate. Xiao Yan accepted her challenge, confident he could defeat her, while Xiao Xun'er urged him not to embarrass her too badly.

• Xiao Yan recalled that Nalan Yanran was his betrothed, promised to him by their grandfathers when they were born.
• Xiao Zhan welcomed Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye to the Xiao Clan, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er waited in the council hall.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran recognized each other from their earlier meeting at the Treasure Stall.
• Nalan Yanran objected to the arranged engagement, drew her sword, and challenged Xiao Yan to prove he was worthy of becoming her husband.
• Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan members believed Xiao Yan would win, angering Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Xun'er whether he should win or deliberately lose, then agreed to defeat Nalan Yanran without making her lose too badly.

Nalan Yanran challenged Xiao Yan to a spar at the Xiao Clan, hoping to break free of the engagement arranged by their elders. After Xiao Yan defeated her effortlessly, he offered to dissolve the engagement, but she rejected the agreement and left, leaving their engagement in place.

• Nalan Yanran reflected that her family and the Misty Cloud Sect would not let her end the engagement, so she had come to the Xiao Clan to act on her own.
• In the Xiao Clan's Qi Refining Room, Nalan Yanran announced that she was a Nine-Star Dou Zhe, and Xiao Yan revealed that he was a Six-Star Dou Shi.
• Nalan Yanran attacked with her Wind Spirit Splitting Sword, but Xiao Yan caught the blade between two fingers and defeated her with a finger to her forehead.
• Nalan Yanran admitted defeat, and Xiao Yan offered her a Marriage Dissolution Agreement, saying he also opposed an arranged marriage.
• Nalan Yanran cut the agreement in half, declared that she would honor the bet and remain engaged unless Xiao Yan gave her a Divorce Letter, then left with Old Ge.
• Xiao Yan wondered aloud why Nalan Yanran had come to end the engagement but refused to do so, while Xiao Xun'er laughed at his failure to understand her feelings.

After Ge Ye offered Xiao Yan a Misty Cloud Sect recommendation, Xiao Yan kept his choices open and focused on countering the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families. He proposed faking his death and staging a funeral to lure their leaders into an ambush, though the plan still depended on making them believe the ruse.

• Ge Ye gave Xiao Yan a recommendation letter from the Misty Cloud Sect, and Xiao Yan accepted it while reserving the right to decide later whether to join a sect or Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the Xiao Clan spread news that he had been mortally wounded and hold a conspicuous funeral two weeks later to draw in the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families.
• Xiao Yan explained that a mole had likely revealed his movements, and he told the clan to keep the mole alive so the false news could reach the enemy families.
• Xiao Yan outlined a plan to hire a Three-Star Da Dou Shi from the Shadow Tower for 300,000 Gold Coins and create conditions that would leave the rival leaders vulnerable at the banquet.
• Xiao Yan said that if the leaders refused to attend, he would present evidence of their assassination attempt and use it to justify declaring war on their families.

After Xiao Yan was reported dead, the Xiao Clan used his funeral as a trap for the Jia Lie and Ao Ba families, with hidden assassins ready to strike. Xiao Yan was only feigning death, and the funeral reached its turning point when its central figure finally appeared.

• Rumors of Xiao Yan's death spread through Wutan City, and Jia Lie Bi confirmed the news through a spy who had seen Xiao Yan's body in a coffin.
• Jia Lie Bi suspected the Xiao Clan was plotting something but decided to attend the funeral with his brothers and the Ao Ba Family's clan head.
• The Xiao Clan held a lavish funeral managed by the Mittel Auction House, while Xiao Lie concealed the clan's plan to eliminate the Jia Lie and Ao Ba families' leaders.
• The Shadow Tower sent two Three-Star Da Dou Shi assassins without taking payment, and the Xiao Clan suspected Xiao Xun'er had paid their reward.
• Xiao Xun'er stood watch beside Xiao Yan in an ice coffin, knowing he was only feigning death, as the central figure of the funeral finally appeared.

Nalan Su confronted Nalan Yanran at the Misty Cloud Sect over rumors that she had killed Xiao Yan after challenging him to a death match. Yanran explained that Xiao Yan had defeated her and was alive when she left, and Nalan Su agreed to correct the rumors.

• A Misty Cloud Sect disciple told Nalan Yanran that Nalan Su had arrived and wanted to see her.
• Nalan Su angrily accused Nalan Yanran of causing trouble in Wutan City and damaging the Nalan Family’s reputation.
• Nalan Su said rumors claimed Nalan Yanran had killed Xiao Yan after gravely injuring him in a death match.
• Nalan Yanran denied killing Xiao Yan and explained that he was a Six-Star Dou Shi who defeated her with one move.
• Nalan Su accepted Yanran’s account, apologized for accusing her, and promised to explain the truth to Nalan Jie and suppress the rumors.

At Xiao Yan’s funeral, Jia Lie Bi inspected the coffin while Xiao Zhan prepared to trap the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families and avenge his son. The confrontation began with a betrayal, as Jia Lie Xiu was stabbed before the battle even started.

• Jia Lie Bi arrived at Xiao Yan’s funeral with Jia Lie Hu, Jia Lie Xiu, Jia Lie Ao, and a bald bodyguard, and Xiao Mei angrily rejected them.
• Jia Lie Bi offered ten thousand Gold Coins and inspected Xiao Yan in the Ice Coffin, then joined Aoba Rui after the Ao Ba Family patriarch failed to appear.
• Jia Lie Bi tried to leave with his brothers after growing uneasy, but Demon Steel Walls sealed the venue.
• Xiao Zhan accused the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families of assassinating Xiao Yan and declared that he would fight Jia Lie Bi to the death.
• The bald bodyguard stabbed Jia Lie Xiu through the chest, leaving Jia Lie Bi’s side down a Da Dou Shi before the battle began.

Xiao Yan’s staged funeral became an ambush that turned the Jia Lie Family’s attack into a massacre. Jia Lie Bi was left fighting alone as Xiao Yan explained that the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families had given the Xiao Clan its pretext to destroy them.

• A Shadow Tower assassin killed Jia Lie Xiu, while Xiao Ying gravely wounded Jia Lie Hu and Jia Lie Ao was seized as a hostage.
• Jia Lie Bi tried to rally the guests against the Xiao Clan, but Xiao Yan emerged from the coffin and revealed that they were mercenaries hired by the Xiao Clan.
• Jia Lie Bi sent his Purple Cloud Leopard after Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan withstood its attack and Xiao Zhan engaged the beast.
• The Xiao Clan elders and Shadow Tower assassins overwhelmed Jia Lie Bi’s group, killing Jia Lie Hu, Aoba Rui, Jia Lie Ao, and eventually the Purple Cloud Leopard.
• As Jia Lie Bi faced defeat, Xiao Yan said the Xiao Clan had used the deaths of his reputation and the families’ own actions as justification to wipe them out.

Oba Pa sought to save the Ao Ba Family by offering the Xiao Clan its Qi-Sealing Powder formula and the location of a Heavenly Flame. The chapter ended with him naming the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame as his bargaining chip.

• After the Jia Lie Family's defeat, Oba Pa feared the Xiao Clan would destroy his family and decided to offer a treasured secret in exchange for its survival.
• The Xiao Clan celebrated taking over much of the Jia Lie Family's businesses, while Xiao Yan remained present despite being considered dead in Wutan City.
• Oba Pa arrived alone at the Xiao Clan meeting hall and offered half of his family's businesses, but Xiao Zhan rejected the proposal as insufficient.
• Oba Pa promised the Qi-Sealing Powder formula and treasure coordinates if the Xiao Clan spared his family, and warned that he would take the secret to his grave otherwise.
• Oba Pa revealed that the treasure was a Heavenly Flame and identified it as the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.

Xiao Xun'er explained the value of Heavenly Flames after Oba Pa offered the Ao Ba Family’s coordinate map in exchange for protection. Xiao Zhan accepted the bargain, and Xiao Yan ended the meeting eager to learn whether a Heavenly Flame could help him become an Alchemist.

• Xiao Xun'er explained that Heavenly Flames aided Alchemists and fighters, and that the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame ranked twenty-second.
• Oba Pa explained how an Ao Ba Family ancestor found the flame, failed to subdue it, and passed down its coordinates.
• Xiao Zhan agreed to protect the Ao Ba Family in exchange for the coordinate map, and Xiao Xun'er confirmed it was likely genuine.
• Oba Pa warned that the fifty-year-old map might be slightly inaccurate and promised to deliver the Qi-Sealing Powder formula in three days.
• Xiao Yan asked whether a Heavenly Flame could help him become an Alchemist, and Xiao Xun'er encouraged him.

After the Xiao Clan became Wutan City's dominant force, Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er spent a final quiet moment together before her return to her family for a bloodline awakening. Xiao Yan accepted Xun'er's Earth Tier Flame Manipulation Art as a loan, then endured an elaborate, three-hour Coming-of-Age Ceremony prepared specially for him.

• The Xiao Clan consolidated its control of Wutan City, while the Ao Ba Family allied with it and Aoba Wen became the clan's exclusive Alchemist.
• Xiao Xun'er told Xiao Yan she would soon return to her family after becoming a Dou Zhe, and he promised to help her whenever she needed him.
• Xun'er gave Xiao Yan the Earth Tier Flame Manipulation Art, and he accepted it as a loan.
• Xun'er led Xiao Yan to the ceremony square, where he realized his feelings for her might be more than brotherly affection.
• The great elder, Xiao Lie, gave Xiao Yan a special Ancestoral Coming-of-Age Ceremony that lasted three hours.

After Xun'er left the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan mastered the Flame Manipulation Art and became a Two-Star Great Dou Master. He decided to leave Wutan City for the Tagor Desert, carrying the clan’s Ancient Jade and planning to bid farewell to his mother before departing.

• Xun'er tearfully said goodbye to Xiao Yan, embraced him, and left to return to her family and grow strong enough to control her own future.
• Xiao Yan used the Soul Imprint in the Earth Tier Mid Grade Flame Manipulation Art to replace his former technique and break through to Two-Star Great Dou Master.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan and the elders that Xun'er had left Wutan City and that he planned to travel to the Tagor Desert to visit his eldest and second brothers.
• Xiao Zhan accepted Xiao Yan’s decision to leave, entrusted him with the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade, and told him to say goodbye to his mother at the Ancestral Grounds.

Xiao Yan awakened the Xiao Clan’s Clan Mark after meeting the remnant soul of Xiao Xuan in the ancestral tomb. He learned that collecting Heavenly Flames could strengthen the Divine Pattern and left Wutan City planning to seek the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.

• Xiao Yan visited his mother’s grave before leaving Wutan City, but the Ancient Jade Piece began glowing and led him to the Nameless Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that he had been the Xiao Clan Leader a thousand years earlier and learned that only about three hundred clan members remained.
• Xiao Xuan awakened a one-pattern Divine Pattern in Xiao Yan and explained that Heavenly Flames could strengthen it, while warning him about their danger.
• Xiao Yan remembered his Heavenly Flames Coordinate Map, which located the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, and decided to seek it on his way toward the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Yan said farewell to his mother and set out from Wutan City.

Xiao Yan reached Qingshan Town seeking a way to learn about the Magical Beast Mountain Range and met Xiao Yi Xian, a celebrated doctor who was organizing a herb-gathering expedition. He proved his strength to the recruiters and secured a place in her group.

• Xiao Yan arrived in Qingshan Town after three days of travel and learned about the mercenaries who worked in the nearby Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• At a teahouse, Xiao Yan heard the shopkeeper praise Xiao Yi Xian and watched her walk toward the Myriad Medicine Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Yi Xian was recruiting mercenaries to accompany her into the mountains and decided to join the expedition.
• When the recruiter doubted that Xiao Yan was strong enough, Xiao Yan punched a thick tree in half to demonstrate his power.
• The recruiter accepted Xiao Yan into the group after seeing his strength.

Xiao Yan traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group into the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where he demonstrated his strength against several beasts. While clearing vegetation ahead of the resting party, he found a red medicinal fruit and accidentally touched another person's arm as they both reached for it.

• The Wolf Head Mercenary Group's young leader ordered the mercenaries to stay alert, while Xiao Yan learned that the leader's father was one of Qingshan Town's strongest Dou Shi.
• A Fallen Leaf Snake poisoned a mercenary, and Xiao Yi Xian treated him with her prepared antidote.
• The group faced several Magical Beast attacks, and Xiao Yan knocked back an Earth Demon Ape with a punch.
• At a rest stop, the young leader ordered the temporary mercenaries, including Xiao Yan, to clear nearby vegetation while his own men rested.
• Xiao Yan wandered to a cliff, spotted a bright red medicinal fruit, and touched a jade-white arm as another person reached for it.

Xiao Yan and the little medical fairy found a hidden cave beneath a cliff after she tried to conceal it from him. They agreed to return after dark and split whatever treasure they found inside.

• Xiao Yan helped the little medical fairy retrieve a Red-Eye Fruit, and she offered him half its value.
• Xiao Yan questioned why the little medical fairy had been on the cliff and exposed the Sleep Powder she carried.
• The little medical fairy attacked Xiao Yan, but he subdued her and demanded to know what lay below the cliff.
• The little medical fairy revealed a hidden cave and admitted she wanted to explore it, while warning Xiao Yan not to keep the treasure for himself.
• Xiao Yan and the little medical fairy agreed to rest for the night and meet after dark to explore the cave and split their findings.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled with the Wolf Head Mercenary Group to a herb-filled basin at the edge of the Magical Beast Mountain Range’s depths. After night fell, they secretly left camp and descended the cliff together to reach the cave and search for its treasure.

• Mu Li tried to recruit Xiao Yan into the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, but Xiao Yan refused.
• Xiao Yi Xian guided the mercenaries to a basin rich in medicinal herbs, where they set up camp.
• Xiao Yan volunteered for the first watch and kept an eye on Xiao Yi Xian’s tent, but she waited until the camp grew quiet before sneaking out.
• Xiao Yan followed Xiao Yi Xian to the cliff, and they agreed to descend together rather than risk one of them taking the treasure alone.
• Xiao Yan held Xiao Yi Xian as he jumped down the rocks, and they reached the cave entrance.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian explored a cave, survived a Flying Rock Snake attack, and found a hidden chamber filled with medicinal herbs. Xiao Yan offered Xiao Yi Xian the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and the other herbs in exchange for teaching him Pharmacology and Medicine.

• Xiao Yan killed a Flying Rock Snake that attacked Xiao Yi Xian and found a first-rank Earth-Type Magic Core inside it.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian continued deeper into the cave, where Xiao Yi Xian found and reset a Formation Disk to open a stone door.
• Xiao Yan checked for traps before they entered a chamber containing a skeleton, three locked iron boxes, and many rare medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yan took the Ice Spirit Flame Grass before Xiao Yi Xian could reach it and offered to give her the herb and the other plants in exchange for lessons in Pharmacology and Medicine.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian searched the stone chamber, found the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and a Flying Dou Technique, and agreed to divide the treasures. Their search was interrupted when Mu Li arrived with dozens of people, claiming Xiao Yi Xian had led him to the place.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to teach Xiao Yan Pharmacology and Medicine after they escaped, and Xiao Yan found three keys hidden with a skeleton.
• Xiao Yan secretly discovered a Beast-Skin Scroll inside the skeleton’s arm bone and concealed it in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan opened the first box and gave Xiao Yi Xian the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture after she explained she could not become an Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan claimed the Eagle Wings Flying Dou Technique from the second box, and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to their even split of the treasures.
• Xiao Yan sensed dozens of people outside, and Mu Li appeared at the entrance, thanking Xiao Yi Xian for leading him to the chamber.

Xiao Yan opened the last treasure chest and faced Mu Li and his mercenaries, who intended to kill him and take the treasures. After revealing his Da Dou Shi strength, Xiao Yan annihilated the mercenaries and pursued the fleeing Mu Li, whose escape rope burst into flames.

• Mu Li revealed that Feili had told him about the cave and demanded the treasures, while Xiao Yan opened the third box and found the Mad Lion's Roar scroll.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian agreed that he could keep the Dou Technique if they survived, and Mu Li ordered his mercenaries to attack.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Dou Qi Armor and used Great Flame Palm to kill the mercenaries and blast apart the stone door.
• Xiao Yan put an arm around Xiao Yi Xian and chased Mu Li, who fled to the cliff and called for a rope.
• As Mu Li reached for the lowered rope, it burst into flames before him.