Recaps

Xiao Yan slipped away from the battle at the Divine Hall and followed the Heavenly Flame’s presence to the eastern Sacrificial Temple. He crossed its poison pool and reached the island, where he found Medusa guarding the green lotus core flame.

• The Snake-People leaders and guards attacked the intruders, while Gu He’s group fought to clear a path and search for the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan told Gu He that the Heavenly Flame’s presence was divided among four directions, then secretly left the group and headed east, guided by the Little Milk Puppy.
• Xiao Yan reached the unguarded Sacrificial Temple and saw through Medusa’s Empty City Strategy by sensing the Heavenly Flame nearby.
• A force dragged Xiao Yan into the poison pool, but he protected himself with the myriad beast spirit flame and crossed after burning the attacking giant pythons.
• Xiao Yan crept through the poisonous plants on the island and spotted Medusa beside the green lotus core flame in a clearing.

Xiao Yan watched Empress Medusa begin a dangerous ritual to evolve by swallowing the Green Lotus Core Flame, then moved to claim the weakened flame when she appeared to die. The arrival of the Wind Fury Dragon Flame interrupted him and turned the Holy City into a new danger.

• Xiao Yan watched Empress Medusa use the Frozen Spirit Spring to restrain the Green Lotus Core Flame as she prepared her transformation ritual.
• Empress Medusa transformed into a giant purple serpent and swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame, which began burning her from within.
• The serpent collapsed, apparently charred to death, and Xiao Yan approached to subdue the weakened Green Lotus Core Flame.
• A fiery tornado approached the Holy City, and Xiao Yan recognized it as the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, ranked eighteenth among the Heavenly Flames.

Gu He and Yun Yun flew to confront the wind fury dragon flame, while Xiao Yan secured the green lotus core flame and discovered that the newly born seven-colored snake had transformed from Empress Medusa. Xiao Yan fed her a Green Lotus Seed, named her Cai Lin, and fled the city with the captured flame.

• Gu He discovered the wind fury dragon flame and judged that he had less than a thirty percent chance of taming it alone.
• Yun Yun agreed to support Gu He and promised to flee with him if he could not enter the wind field.
• Xiao Yan collected the Frozen Spirit Spring and used his myriad beast spirit flame to swallow and contain the weakened green lotus core flame.
• Xiao Yan found a seven-colored snake emerging from the charred corpse and suspected that Empress Medusa had successfully transformed.
• Xiao Yan fed the snake a Green Lotus Seed, named her Cai Lin, and flew away with the myriad beast spirit flame carrying the green lotus core flame.

The Wind Fury Dragon Flame threatened to destroy the Snake-People Holy City, but changed course before reaching it. Xiao Yan realized it was pursuing him because he carried the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, leaving him trapped between trying to subdue two Heavenly Flames or fleeing and losing them.

• The Snake-People guards fired poisoned arrows and spears at the approaching Wind Fury Dragon Flame, but its winds swept them away and its heat killed Snake-People on the city walls.
• Gu He and Yun Yun watched the Wind Fury Dragon Flame approach while searching for a way to slow or escape it.
• The Wind Fury Dragon Flame veered away from the Holy City, and the Snake-People celebrated their survival.
• Xiao Yan fled with the Green Lotus Core Flame, but the Wind Fury Dragon Flame changed course and chased him.
• Xiao Yan realized the Heavenly Flames were attracting each other and understood that he might have to subdue two at once or abandon the flames and flee.

Xiao Yan used Essence of Life to restore the green lotus core flame and set it against the approaching Wind Fury Dragon Flame. The two Heavenly Flames clashed in the desert while Gu He and Yun Yun stayed back, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Xiao Yan ordered Little Milk Puppy to hold the green lotus core flame while he tried feeding it Green Lotus Seeds, which barely strengthened it.
• Xiao Yan opened the Little Green Bottle, and the intense desire of both flames for its Essence of Life convinced him to use a drop on the green lotus core flame.
• The Essence of Life caused the green lotus core flame to erupt with renewed power, forcing Xiao Yan to withdraw his myriad beast spirit flame.
• The green lotus core flame transformed into a towering lotus and charged the approaching Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and the two flames collided.
• Yun Yun warned Gu He that neither of them could approach the clash, and Gu He lamented that the Heavenly Flame seemed beyond his reach.

Xiao Yan was trapped between the green lotus core flame and the wind fury dragon flame as they clashed for twenty-one days, devastating the Tagor Desert before the wind fury dragon flame began to win. With the two flames starting to merge, he revived Little Milk Puppy with Essence of Life and charged toward them for his last chance.

• Xiao Yan endured the Heavenly Flames’ immense heat inside the myriad beast spirit flame while Yun Yun and Gu He waited at a distance for the clash to weaken its survivors.
• The flames’ collision scorched a vast pit into the Tagor Desert, threatened nearby settlements, and caused the ground in Stone Desert City to sink.
• After ten days the flames began weakening, and after three more days their zone of destruction had shrunk enough for Xiao Yan to sense the heat falling.
• On the twenty-first day, the green lotus core flame began to wither while the wind fury dragon flame maintained its form and started wrapping around it.
• Xiao Yan feared the flames would fuse, withdrew the myriad beast spirit flame, fed Essence of Life to Little Milk Puppy, and charged toward the wind field.

Xiao Yan captured the Green Lotus Core Flame and refined it inside his Divine Pattern Space, while the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame unexpectedly swallowed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame too. The two flames began merging, but Xiao Yan separated them with Essence of Life and mastered the Green Lotus Core Flame, leaving the Wind Fury Dragon Flame still to be dealt with.

• Xiao Yan entered the Wind Fury Dragon Flame’s Wind Field and sent the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to attack it while it was weakened from battling the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame tried to escape, but Xiao Yan weakened it with Frozen Spirit Spring, captured it, and spent two hours refining it into his Divine Pattern Space.
• The Myriad Beast Spirit Flame brought the Wind Fury Dragon Flame into the Divine Pattern Space, where it broke free and began merging with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan used a drop of Essence of Life to draw the Green Lotus Core Flame away from the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and began taming it.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame took root in Xiao Yan’s Divine Pattern Space, manifesting a third emerald-green Divine Pattern and giving him mastery of its power.

Xiao Yan subdued the green lotus core flame and the wind fury dragon flame, raising his cultivation to One-Star Dou Wang and gaining a powerful new Divine Pattern ring. As he prepared to leave the Tagor Desert in disguise, the black-robed Dou Emperor who had accompanied Gu He caught up with him.

• Xiao Yan fed Essence of Life to the green lotus core flame and persuaded the wind fury dragon flame to submit, then tamed both heavenly flames.
• The two flames raised Xiao Yan's cultivation to One-Star Dou Wang and formed the fourth, earth-yellow ring of his Divine Pattern, which could boost him to Nine-Star Dou Wang for a time.
• Xiao Yan gave the wind fury dragon flame a drop of Essence of Life and discovered that his three heavenly flames gave him distinct powers, including plant-sensing, flame beasts, and flame tornadoes.
• Xiao Yan disguised himself in a gray robe and concealed his presence before leaving the Tagor Desert, expecting powerful figures to investigate the heavenly flame phenomenon.
• The black-robed Dou Emperor who had accompanied Gu He caught up with Xiao Yan, and he warned her that he would not surrender the heavenly flames.

Xiao Yan refused to trade away a Heavenly Flame and fought the black-robed Dou Emperor who had come seeking one. He drove her out of her robe and recognized her as Yun Zhi.

• The black-robed Dou Emperor offered Xiao Yan two Dou Ling Pills and an Earth-tier Low-grade Dou Technique for a Heavenly Flame, but he refused and proposed selling one at an auction in the Black-Corner Region.
• The black-robed woman drew an emerald-green sword, and Xiao Yan recognized it as resembling Yun Zhi’s before activating the Fourfold Divine Pattern to reach Nine-Star Dou Wang strength.
• Xiao Yan used Wind Fury Dragon Flame to pressure the black-robed Dou Emperor, whose protective Dou Qi was drained by the scorching winds.
• The black-robed Dou Emperor launched Extreme Wind: Setting Sun Radiance, but Xiao Yan’s giant flame tornado swallowed and neutralized the attack.
• Xiao Yan trapped the woman in Wind Fury Dragon Flame and struck through her Cloud Wind Whirling Shield, cutting her robe and revealing Yun Zhi.

Xiao Yan and Yun Zhi recognized each other after clashing over the Heavenly Flame, then exchanged a Green Lotus Seed and a Dou Ling Pill. Yun Zhi returned to Gu He with the seed as a substitute for the Heavenly Flame needed to refine a pill for her disciple.

• Yun Zhi realized the black-robed Dou Emperor was Xiao Yan and was shocked that he had advanced to Dou Wang in half a year.
• Xiao Yan explained that he needed Heavenly Flames to cultivate and that the Wind Fury Dragon Flame had devoured the other flame.
• Yun Zhi asked Xiao Yan for a Heavenly Flame to refine a Soul-Consolidating Pill, but he said he had only one and could not give it up.
• Xiao Yan gave Yun Zhi a Green Lotus Seed, which could serve as a Pseudo-Heavenly Flame, and Yun Zhi exchanged it for a Dou Ling Pill.
• Yun Zhi returned to Gu He and told him they had not obtained a Heavenly Flame, but he agreed to try refining the pill with the Green Lotus Seed.

Xiao Yan returned to Stone Desert City after acquiring two heavenly flames and discovered that the Desert Iron Mercenary Group was under attack by the Storm Mercenary Group. He rescued Xue Lan and prepared to confront the attackers, while Qing Lin remained missing.

• Xiao Yan flew back to Stone Desert City in less than three days and found the Desert Iron Mercenary Group's compound stained with blood.
• Feili told Xiao Yan that the Storm Mercenary Group had gained outside reinforcements, while Qing Lin had gone missing during a mission.
• Xiao Yan gave Feili a Recovery Pill and flew into the compound to help the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yan incinerated a Two-Star Dou Shi who was threatening Xue Lan on the training ground.
• Xue Lan recognized Xiao Yan and welcomed his return.

Xiao Yan rescued Xue Lan and Xiao Li during the attack on the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, then learned that the Mo Family had likely taken Qing Lin. He realized the family had targeted her for her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

• Xiao Yan summoned twelve Flame Beasts to help the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and left Healing Pills with Xue Lan before flying to the back gate.
• A One-Star Great Dou Master defeated Xiao Li and attacked the mercenaries shielding him, but Xiao Yan arrived in time to block the strike.
• Xiao Yan confronted the Great Dou Master and burned him until he revealed that the Mo Family's Great Elder, Mo Cheng, had likely captured Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan killed the Great Dou Master and recognized that Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils were likely why the Mo Family had targeted her.

Xiao Yan learned that the Mo Family had taken over the Storm Mercenary Group and vowed to make them pay for their blood debt. He destroyed the mercenary group’s base with a Flame Tornado, leaving its leader and the Mo Family’s next move unresolved.

• Xiao Ding explained that the Mo Family was a powerful northeastern family protected by its ties to the Misty Cloud Sect, and warned Xiao Yan about its Great Elder, Mo Cheng.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the warning, promised the Mo Family would disappear, and told Xiao Ding to distribute pills and clean up the mercenary group before flying away.
• Xiao Yan learned where the Storm Mercenary Group was based and discovered that Mo Family outsiders had taken control of it.
• Xiao Yan counted down outside the group’s gates, blasted away more than twenty mercenaries, and killed a three-star Dou Shi with a single counterattack.
• Xiao Yan engulfed the entire Storm Mercenary Group base in a Flame Tornado, burning it to nothingness.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Storm Mercenary Group after it attacked the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, then set out for Salt City to rescue Qing Lin from the Mo Family. He entered the city by showing his Alchemist badge after the Mo Family’s guards demanded an invitation.

• Xiao Yan left the Storm Mercenary Group’s headquarters in ruins and warned its survivors to tell their master he would come for him in three days.
• Xiao Yan helped treat the wounded and mourn the thirty-two members killed, while Xiao Ding urged him to go bring Qing Lin back.
• Xiao Yan promised Xiao Ding and Xiao Li that he would return with Qing Lin alive and went to Salt City, where the Mo Family was celebrating Mo Cheng’s birthday.
• Mo Ling Lin entered Salt City after berating the guards who had stopped her carriage.
• The guards demanded Xiao Yan’s invitation, but he displayed his First-Rank Alchemist badge and entered the city.

Xiao Yan arrived in Salt City to confront the Mo Family during Mo Cheng’s birthday celebration, but accepted Mo Ling Lin’s invitation to enter the Longevity Garden. As he reached the Mo Family’s gates, he recognized Nalan Yanran among the Misty Cloud Sect delegation.

• Xiao Yan explored Salt City and criticized the Mo Family’s influence when an inn waitress asked for an invitation.
• Mo Ling Lin introduced herself as a member of the Mo Family and gave Xiao Yan an invitation to the birthday celebration.
• Xiao Yan left the inn and joined the line of well-wishers entering the Mo Family’s vast Longevity Garden.
• The Misty Cloud Sect arrived at the gates, led by Nalan Yanran, whom Xiao Yan recognized as his former fiancée.

Xiao Yan entered the Mo Family’s birthday feast under the name Yan Xiao, intending to take revenge on Mo Cheng, and Mo Ling Lin brought him to the summit banquet. There, while searching for Qing Lin with his Soul Power, he caught the attention of Nalan Yanran, who was seated nearby.

• The Misty Cloud Sect arrived at the Mo Family’s celebration, and Ge Ye presented a bottle of fourth-grade Qi Gathering Powder as a gift.
• Xiao Yan recognized Nalan Yanran and noticed that she had become a Dou Shi, though something about her seemed strange to him.
• Xiao Yan gave the Mo Family second-grade Central Origin Pills under the name Yan Xiao, viewing them as a send-off to Mo Cheng’s grave.
• Mo Ling Lin welcomed Xiao Yan and pulled him past the guards to the summit banquet, where Mo Cheng and the most powerful guests were gathered.
• Xiao Yan searched for Qing Lin with his Soul Power and inadvertently drew the attention of Nalan Yanran.

Xiao Yan confronted Mo Cheng at the Mo Family estate after Mo Cheng announced plans to establish the Mo Alliance, demanding to know where Qing Lin was. Xiao Yan overwhelmed Mo Cheng and his guards, and the chapter ended with Mo Cheng still refusing to give up Qing Lin while Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yan’s voice.

• Mo Cheng proposed forming the Mo Alliance and accepted the position of its leader as the surrounding factions voiced their support.
• Xiao Yan, disguised in a black robe, asked Mo Cheng where the little girl he had taken was.
• Mo Cheng ordered his guards to seize Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan summoned twelve Flame Beasts that killed them in one exchange.
• Mo Cheng attacked Xiao Yan with his executioner's axe, but a Flame Beast blocked him and Xiao Yan sent him flying with a slap.
• Mo Cheng threatened that the girl would die if he was killed, and Xiao Yan demanded that he hand her over or face the Mo Family's destruction.
• Nalan Yanran heard Xiao Yan's voice and thought it sounded familiar.

Xiao Yan rescued Qing Lin from the Mo Family and killed Mo Cheng after the Great Elder transformed himself with Magical Beast parts. As the Mo Family hurried to obey Xiao Yan, a powerful woman in green emerged from the secret passage holding the unconscious Qing Lin.

• Mo Lan agreed to release Qing Lin, but Mo Cheng refused and Xiao Yan burned off his arm.
• Mo Cheng transformed into a patchwork monster made from Magical Beast parts and charged at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan killed Mo Cheng with a single Heavenly Flames sword strike and threatened to destroy the Mo Family unless Qing Lin was brought to him within ten minutes.
• Xiao Yan sensed someone in the secret passage and slashed at its entrance, but rapidly growing plants extinguished his attack.
• A woman in green emerged from the secret passage carrying the unconscious Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan sensed that she was a Dou Huang expert.

Xiao Yan battled Lu Man of the Heavenly Snake Mansion after she took Qing Lin, using his Secret Art and Flame Beasts to injure her and stop her escape. Lu Man summoned a gigantic python to help her as the Man-Made Mountain shook.

• Xiao Yan activated the Fourfold Divine Pattern and confronted Lu Man with twelve strengthened Flame Beasts, demanding that she release Qing Lin.
• Lu Man fought off the Flame Beasts and revealed that she belonged to the Heavenly Snake Mansion, claiming her faction would nurture Qing Lin rather than use the Mo Family's transplant method.
• Lu Man tried to escape on a rapidly growing tree, but Xiao Yan switched to the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and sent the Flame Beasts after her.
• Xiao Yan made the twelve Flame Beasts self-destruct, breaking Lu Man's Dou Technique and injuring her.
• Lu Man whistled for help, and a gigantic python emerged and wound its way up the Man-Made Mountain.

Xiao Yan battled the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor while Lu Man escaped with Qing Lin, and realized he lacked the power to defeat a Dou Emperor quickly. He began fusing the three kinds of heavenly flames in search of a stronger killing move.

• The Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor arrived to help Lu Man, then held Xiao Yan off while she fled with Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame against the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor, but the beast survived his attacks and countered with poison and a venomous fang.
• The Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor and Xiao Yan fought across the sky, damaging the Mo Family's Man-Made Mountain as Lu Man escaped farther away.
• Xiao Yan realized he needed a decisive attack strong enough to kill a Dou Emperor and considered fusing his three kinds of heavenly flames.
• Xiao Yan removed the restraints separating the flames, causing all three to stir restlessly as they drew together.

Xiao Yan survived the near-destruction of his Divine Pattern Space as his three Heavenly Flames began to fuse, gaining insight into a new power called Sunrise, Sunlight, Sunset. He used a Flame Sun to absorb the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor’s attack and began burning through the Emperor’s defenses.

• The three Heavenly Flames drew together and ignited Xiao Yan’s Divine Pattern Space, leaving him close to death as the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor watched.
• Xiao Yan experienced a vision of sunrise, sunlight, and sunset, then the Hourglass Divine Pattern reversed the partial fusion and restored his Divine Pattern Space.
• Xiao Yan seized a wisp of fused flame and formed a palm-sized Flame Sun, awakening to a new power.
• The Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor attacked with Darkburn Annihilation Break, but the Flame Sun absorbed most of the blast and grew to the size of a house.
• The Flame Sun entered its Sunlight state, burning the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor and rapidly evaporating his Dou Qi as Xiao Yan raised his hand and called out, "Sunset!"

Xiao Yan defeated the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor with a devastating Flame Sun attack, but Qing Lin and Lu Man stopped him from delivering the final blow. Qing Lin chose to join the Heavenly Snake Mansion to grow stronger, and Xiao Yan collapsed after she departed.

• The Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor used its Bloodline Secret Art, but Xiao Yan's Flame Sun destroyed its Blood Python Dharma Body and left it near death.
• As Xiao Yan approached to kill the helpless snake, Lu Man restrained his weapon with plants, and Qing Lin asked him to stop.
• Lu Man said the Heavenly Snake Mansion would nurture Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Qing Lin confirmed that joining was her own choice.
• Xiao Yan accepted Qing Lin's decision, warned Lu Man not to mistreat her, and received a Heavenly Snake Token as Qing Lin left with the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Lu Man stored the injured Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor in her Myriad Snake Pouch, and Xiao Yan fainted in the crater after Qing Lin departed.
• A dozen or so minutes later, a moon-white-robed girl returned with an older person, recognized Xiao Yan, and said, "It really was you, Xiao Yan."

Xiao Yan woke aboard a Misty Cloud Sect flying beast and learned that Nalan Yanran was losing her memories and emotions because of a mysterious illness. He decided to travel with her to the Imperial Capital, where he planned to take the Third-Rank Alchemist examination.

• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Yan she had rescued him after he was found unconscious, and he discovered that her Soul Power had dwindled to a tiny, fiercely burning flame.
• Nalan Yanran explained that her illness was erasing her memories and feelings, though she still remembered Xiao Yan as her fiancé.
• Nalan Yanran said she had taken an unknown medicinal pill to grow stronger for Xiao Yan, but her cultivation gains had come with worsening memory loss.
• Xiao Yan learned that Nalan Yanran's teacher believed a solution existed, but they were searching for a crucial missing ingredient.
• Nalan Yanran revealed that they were flying back to the Imperial Capital, and Xiao Yan chose to accompany her and take the Third-Rank Alchemist examination.

Xiao Yan arrived in the Imperial Capital with Nalan Yanran, who asked him to use his Heavenly Flames to treat her grandfather's poison. When Nalan Yanran forgot where her family lived, they decided to visit the Mittel Auction House first, leaving Old Master Nalan's treatment for later.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran reached the Imperial Capital, where she invited him to the Nalan Family.
• Nalan Yanran explained that her grandfather, Nalan Jie, was nearing a crisis from poison inflicted by a Branding Iron Poison Seal Python, and that only a Heavenly Flame might remove it.
• Xiao Yan agreed to try treating Nalan Jie but warned that he could not promise to cure him.
• Nalan Yanran forgot where the Nalan Family was and led Xiao Yan to the Mittel Auction House instead.
• Xiao Yan decided to shop for cultivation techniques and Dou Techniques before going to the Nalan Family, and Nalan Yanran said her grandfather could hold on for another month.

Xiao Yan visited the Mittel Auction House in the Imperial Capital with Nalan Yanran and reunited with Ya Fei. After showing her his wealth and asking her to acquire two sets of Black Tier techniques, he received an invitation to the Heaven Tier Auction House.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran entered the Mittel Auction House in the Imperial Capital.
• Ya Fei recognized Xiao Yan and came over to greet him, and he realized Nalan Yanran had wandered off.
• Xiao Yan asked Ya Fei to obtain two Black Tier, Advanced Level Cultivation Techniques and matching Dou Techniques for the leaders of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yan showed Ya Fei a Black Card containing nearly ten million Gold Coins and told her he had become an Alchemist.
• Ya Fei agreed to handle his request and invited Xiao Yan to see the Heaven Tier Auction House.