Recaps

Su Wangchen appeared in the Ancient Heavenly Palace ruins, saved the Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul, and confronted the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor. He effortlessly defeated the demon-corrupted Tang Chen and challenged the Devil Emperor to use the power of his remaining two lives.

• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to retreat to the Thunderclap Mountain Range, seal its gates, and prepare the Thunder Dragon Formation in case Tang Chen returned with demons.
• The Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor prepared to destroy the Heavenly Emperor’s final remnant soul, but a golden lotus appeared and halted his demonic fire.
• Su Wangchen emerged from the lotus, stabilized the remnant soul, and revealed that the Heavenly Emperor had destroyed seven of the Devil Emperor’s nine lives.
• The Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor ordered Tang Chen to attack Su Wangchen, but Su Wangchen froze him, shattered his hammer, and crushed him into the plaza.
• Su Wangchen turned to the Devil Emperor and challenged him to show the power of his remaining two lives.

Su Wangchen defeated the Devil Emperor with the Great Wilderness Swallowing Heaven Art and his Dharma Form of Heaven and Earth, then met Xiao Yan and Lin Dong as they arrived at the Ancient Heavenly Palace ruins. On Douluo Continent, Qian Daoliu and the other worships were left shaken by the overwhelming power they witnessed on the Sky Screen.

• The Devil Emperor transformed and attacked Su Wangchen with a Dark Heavenly Phoenix, but Su Wangchen's Ancient Profound Python swallowed the attack and began to evolve.
• Su Wangchen revealed his Dharma Form of Heaven and Earth and crushed the Devil Emperor into black ashes with one palm.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong arrived at the Ancient Heavenly Palace ruins, where they exchanged a calm, mutual greeting with Su Wangchen.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo reacted in shock to the three Great Thousand World powerhouses and the Devil Emperor's defeat.
• Azure Luan Douluo helped Qian Daoliu to his feet and reassured him that the Demon Clan crisis had been resolved, but Qian Daoliu remained troubled by the gulf in power.

The God Kings and Tang San watched the Great Thousand World’s experts with awe, and Tang San vowed to seek them out as a disciple. In the Ancient Heavenly Palace ruins, Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong joined forces to restore the Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul, bringing him back as a phantom.

• The God Kings admitted that the Great Thousand World’s experts surpassed them and wondered why Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong had gathered.
• Tang Hao tried to leave with Tang San, but Tang San declared that the crisis was only the beginning and vowed to become one of the experts’ disciples.
• Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong discussed the Devil Emperor’s defeat, and Su Changqing proposed inviting the Heavenly Emperor to join them.
• Qian Daoliu and Tang San were astonished at the suggestion of reviving the Heavenly Emperor, and Tang San grew more eager to learn Su Changqing’s methods.
• Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong combined their spiritual energy, Emperor Flame, and Ancestor Stone power to restore the Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul into a phantom.

After Xiao Yan and Lin Dong refused the Heavenly Emperor’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, Su Changqing accepted the legacy and went into seclusion in the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum to study it. As three streams of clear qi formed lotus buds above him, Xiao Yan and Lin Dong waited outside, growing bored after several days.

• The Heavenly Emperor offered One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Su Changqing.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong declined the legacy, choosing to remain true to their own cultivation paths.
• Su Changqing accepted the art, received its knowledge from the Heavenly Emperor, and went to the mausoleum to contemplate it.
• Three streams of clear qi rose above Su Changqing and began forming lotus flowers as the art’s embryonic form.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong were astonished by the prospect that Su Changqing’s clones could match his strength, while Tang San resolved to seek Su Changqing as his master.
• After several days of guarding the ruins, Xiao Yan tossed Lin Dong a jar of spirit-fruit wine.

While Su Changqing continued his long meditation in the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum, Xiao Yan challenged Lin Dong to a spar in the Ancient Heavenly Palace. As the Douluo God Realm, Sea God Island, and the Far North debated who would win, the Snow Empress wondered whether Su Changqing was the most unfathomable figure of all.

• Xiao Yan asked Lin Dong about his conflict with the Western Heaven War Emperor, and Lin Dong said he had damaged the Western Heaven Battle Hall and secured an apology and compensation.
• Xiao Yan challenged Lin Dong to spar while Su Changqing continued meditating, and Lin Dong summoned all eight Ancestral Symbols to accept.
• The God Kings argued over whether Xiao Yan's flames or Lin Dong's martial will and weapons would prevail.
• Bo Saixi and the Sacred Pillar Guardians watched the Sky Screen and disagreed over which fighter would win.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress discussed Lin Dong's ice rune and favored different fighters before the Snow Empress singled out Su Changqing as especially impossible to fathom.

Su Changqing effortlessly stopped Xiao Yan and Lin Dong from destroying the Ancient Heavenly Palace, and the Heavenly Emperor finally passed on after entrusting the Great Thousand World to them. Xiao Yan then proposed that the three head to the Outer Realm border to fight the Evil Clan and compete over their kills.

• The Snow Empress judged Su Changqing more unfathomable than Xiao Yan and Lin Dong as their sparring match began in the Ancient Heavenly Palace ruins.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong unleashed their ultimate techniques, but Su Changqing erased both attacks with a gesture and urged them not to wreck the Heavenly Emperor’s resting place.
• Tang San resolved to travel to the Great Thousand World and take Su Changqing as his master, while the Five Great God Kings struggled to comprehend his power.
• The Heavenly Emperor praised Su Changqing and entrusted the Great Thousand World to him, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong before dissolving into golden light.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the three go to the Outer Realm border, kill Otherworldly Demons, and compete to see who killed the most and the highest-ranking Devil Emperor.

Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Su Changqing accepted a wager to hunt demons and traveled to the Great Thousand World’s border, where their arrival saved a crumbling defense from an Outer Realm Evil Clan assault. When five Heavenly Demon Emperor patriarchs appeared, Su Changqing used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to bring the battle to an even five against five.

• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Su Changqing agreed to compete in hunting demons and set off for the Great Thousand World’s border.
• The sky screen revealed the Great Thousand World and a border wall besieged by tens of millions of Outer Realm Evil Clan demons.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the wall and burned a Four-Armed Demon King to nothingness, then Lin Dong and Su Changqing joined him.
• The three arrivals rallied the defenders, but five Heavenly Demon Emperor patriarchs emerged from spatial rifts and threatened the battlefield.
• Su Changqing used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to create two additional Heavenly Sovereign-level fighters, making the sides five against five.

Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong defeated five Heavenly Demon Emperors who sacrificed their origins to trap them, killing three and capturing one as the Shadow Devil Emperor escaped. After the invading demon army fled, Su Changqing questioned the captive about the force behind the assault and what remained hidden in the rear.

• Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong overwhelmed the five Heavenly Demon Emperors, who ignited their origins to form the Forbidden Demon Array.
• Su Changqing and his companions combined their powers to shatter the array and leave the five Devil Emperors weakened by its backlash.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Su Changqing killed the Bone-Winged, Thousand-Handed, and flesh-and-blood Devil Emperors; Su Changqing's clone captured the Two-Horned Demon King while the Shadow Devil Emperor escaped through a spatial rift.
• The Otherworldly Demon army fled, and the defenders celebrated their victory as Su Changqing's clone returned with the captive.
• Su Changqing questioned the Two-Horned Demon King about who had empowered the attack and what was hidden in the rear.

Su Changqing and the Great Thousand World’s reinforcements faced an immense Outer Realm Evil Clan army at the Border Great Wall, while the Sky Screen’s viewers reacted to the power on display. The Four-Eyed Devil Emperor demanded Twin Horns again and threatened to destroy the defensive line.

• The Two-Horned Demon King refused to reveal anything, and Su Changqing said the enemy leaders had arrived to retrieve him.
• Eight Devil Emperors and a vast demonic army emerged from a spatial rift, and the Four-Eyed Devil Emperor demanded the captive’s return.
• Lin Dong defied the demand as over a hundred Heavenly Sovereigns arrived from the Great Thousand World and formed ranks behind Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King trembled at the Sky Screen’s display, and the Five Great God Kings feared their Divine Realm could not withstand such forces.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress admired the unity and strength of the Great Thousand World, and the Snow Empress said she wanted to follow Su Changqing.
• The Four-Eyed Devil Emperor repeated his demand for Twin Horns and threatened to flatten the Border Great Wall even at the cost of several clan chiefs.

Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong led the Great Thousand World's forces in a devastating assault that routed the Otherworldly Demon army and overwhelmed its Devil Emperors. As the Four-Eyed Devil Emperor’s side began sacrificing their own troops and gathering Devil Emperor essence blood, the Great Thousand World’s defenders realized they were trying to summon something.

• Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong charged into the million-strong Otherworldly Demon army, with Xiao Yan burning through its ranks and Lin Dong crushing demons beneath his eight-origin millstone.
• Su Changqing rode his transformed Saint Dragon into the Devil Emperors’ formation, where he caught an axe, ripped off a Four-Eyed Devil Emperor’s arm, and battered the enemy leaders.
• More than a hundred Heavenly Sovereigns manifested their Dharma Bodies and joined the attack, while Qian Daoliu and other Douluo Continent watchers recognized the vast gulf between their own strength and the Great Thousand World’s power.
• Tang San watched Su Changqing fight and resolved to become his disciple, even if he had to abandon everything and serve him.
• Su Changqing and his allies drove the Devil Emperors into retreat, but the Four-Eyed Devil Emperor ordered the survivors to absorb their own army and combined the blood with essence from slain Devil Emperors.
• The azure-robed Heavenly Sovereign recognized the gathering blood as a sacrifice meant to summon a mysterious entity.

Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong defeated the Heavenly Evil God's summoned apparition and sealed the spatial rift at the border, ending the invasion. After returning to the Great Desolation Divine Realm, Su Changqing entered seclusion to pursue the Dominator Realm, and the sky screen shifted to a vast fairyland herb garden.

• The Four-Eyed Devil Emperor and the other Devil Emperors sacrificed themselves to summon a fragmentary apparition of the Heavenly Evil God, whose pressure overwhelmed the Great Thousand World's defenders.
• Su Changqing activated his Dharma Form of Heaven and Earth and withstood the apparition's attack, giving Xiao Yan and Lin Dong the chance to strike alongside him and shatter it.
• Su Changqing, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong sealed the enormous spatial rift, and the surviving Otherworldly Demons fled after their army was devastated.
• Su Changqing handed the captured two-horned demon king to the Great Thousand Palace elder and warned that the blood sacrifice might be part of a larger scheme.
• Su Changqing realized that his clash with the apparition had brought him close to the Dominator Realm, then entered seclusion to comprehend the Great Thousand World.
• The sky screen showed a vast jade-paved herb garden after the viewers wondered where its next scene would appear.

The sky screen showed Wang Qiu'er exploring Su Changqing’s realm, where she found overwhelming spiritual energy, an ancient turtle, and a potent fruit that nearly killed her. Xiao Bai saved her by revealing her Primordial Heaven-Devouring Beast power, leaving the observers stunned by the little pet’s true strength.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion Wang Qiu'er appeared in the Great Thousand World, and Gu Yuena realized the sky screen had taken the Auspicious Beast from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Wang Qiu'er found the realm’s air and abundant Seven-Leaf Thunderclap Grass astonishingly rich in energy, then was warned away from the lake by an ancient turtle whose yawn cracked space.
• Wang Qiu'er ate a dark-golden fruit and was overwhelmed by its energy, leaving her badly injured and close to death.
• Xiao Bai emerged from the bushes and absorbed the dangerous energy from Wang Qiu'er with a yawn that manifested the Primordial Heaven-Devouring Beast.
• The observers in the Divine Realm and Star Dou Great Forest realized that Xiao Bai was a peerless divine beast, while Wang Qiu'er survived.

Wang Qiu'er evolved into a Great Thousand World spirit beast, and her fortune strengthened the Star Dou Great Forest. In the Great Desolation Divine Realm, a gentle maid revealed herself as a powerful Formation Grandmaster, fashioned a star into a bell for Wang Qiu'er, and then looked toward the sect’s main peak.

• Xiao Bai’s inhalation saved Wang Qiu'er, whose spirit fruit completed her evolution beyond the hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast limit.
• Wang Qiu'er's evolution sent golden fortune across the Star Dou Great Forest, healing its beasts, breaking Di Tian's bottleneck, and helping Gu Yuena recover.
• Qian Daoliu and Tang San watched the Sky Screen’s revelations and were shaken by the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s power; Tang San vowed to reach the Great Thousand World.
• A woman in a blue-green dress arrived to feed Xiao Bai scraps of a Void Thunder Dragon and a bead of Earth Core Flame Marrow, revealing her extraordinary resources.
• The woman compressed a distant star into a bell and hung it around Wang Qiu'er's neck as a gift.
• As viewers marveled at the woman’s power, she stood and looked toward the cloud-wreathed main peak of the Great Desolation Divine Realm.

Yu Xiaogang was chosen as one of three new explorers and arrived in the Great Thousand World, where he hoped to cure his Martial Soul Mutation and make a name for himself. He went to apply at the Northern Spiritual Academy, but the instructor found that Yu Xiaogang had no spiritual energy and told him the academy only admitted youths with spiritual meridians.

• The Douluo Continent learned that Great Thousand World exploration had reached 0.5%, and three new explorers were selected: Tang Yuehua, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived outside an enormous city in the Great Thousand World and felt the rich spiritual energy ease the pain in his meridians.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to find treasures to cure his Martial Soul Mutation and planned to study the Great Thousand World's cultivation system.
• Yu Xiaogang found the Northern Spiritual Academy's entrance assessments and went to the admissions desk, hoping to gain access to its cultivation methods.
• The gray-robed instructor told Yu Xiaogang that the academy accepted only youths under sixteen with spiritual meridians, after finding no spiritual energy in his body.

Yu Xiaogang was mocked and driven away after the Northern Spiritual Academy instructor dismissed his theories, so he decided to study spirit arrays instead. Meanwhile, Liu Erlong awakened her fire dragon bloodline in the Blazing Flame Continent, defeated a Lava Fire Crocodile, and was invited to join the Endless Fire Domain.

• Yu Xiaogang applied to become a guest instructor at the Northern Spiritual Academy, but the gray-robed instructor refuted his theories and guards shoved him away.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to pursue spirit array research and headed to the city's marketplace to find manuals.
• Liu Erlong awakened in the Blazing Flame Continent and absorbed its fire spiritual power, transforming her stagnant Soul Power.
• Liu Erlong killed a Lava Fire Crocodile with her physical strength and took its crystal core.
• Two deacons from the Endless Fire Domain recognized Liu Erlong's fire dragon bloodline and invited her to come with them.

Liu Erlong joined the Endless Fire Domain, where Xiao Xiao recognized the flaw in her Fire Dragon Bloodline and gifted her a cleansing treasure. The sky screen then showed Tang Yuehua arriving at the Great Sound Immortal Sect, where a woman recognized her Noble Ring domain.

• Liu Erlong accepted the stewards’ invitation and traveled with them to the Endless Fire Domain.
• Liu Erlong toured the domain and watched Xiao Xiao refine a Level Seven Pagoda Pill.
• Xiao Xiao identified impure Lower Plane energy locking Liu Erlong’s bloodline and gave her Marrow-Cleansing Flame Dragon Liquid.
• Viewers on the Douluo Continent envied Liu Erlong’s good fortune, while Flender and Zhao Wuji contrasted it with Yu Xiaogang’s rejection.
• Tang Yuehua awoke in a waterside pavilion among immortal mountains and realized that music could form formations.
• A woman from the Great Sound Immortal Sect recognized Tang Yuehua’s mutated aura as a domain, and Tang Yuehua confirmed it was Noble Ring.

Tang Yuehua learned that her Noble Ring could let her begin training in Sonic Wave Formations, while Yu Xiaogang, stranded and penniless in the Hundred Spirits Continent, tried to impress Lin Jing by presenting Luo Sanpao as a future Golden Divine Dragon. Lin Jing found Luo Sanpao amusing, leaving Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to win her favor unresolved.

• A woman accepted Tang Yuehua as a nominal disciple of the Great Sound Immortal Sect and gave her three years to form a basic musical array rune.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Hao rejoiced that Tang Yuehua had a chance to cultivate, while Douluo’s observers were struck by the gap between the worlds.
• Yu Xiaogang failed to gain entry to the Ten Thousand Volumes Bookshop after its shopkeeper demanded a fee and mocked his lower-plane knowledge.
• Yu Xiaogang spotted Lin Jing at a spirit beast stall and approached her, hoping to earn the Martial Realm princess’s favor.
• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and claimed his Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline could transform him into a Golden Divine Dragon, but Lin Jing laughed and called him a funny-looking little pig.

Lin Jing fed Luo Sanpao a pill that severed his soul bond with Yu Xiaogang and transformed him into an independent spirit beast. After Lin Jing adopted Luo Sanpao and dismissed Yu Xiaogang, he followed her through the market, determined to convince her he was valuable.

• Lin Jing gave Luo Sanpao a Fire Dragon Body Tempering Pill, which transformed him and broke his connection to Yu Xiaogang, leaving Yu Xiaogang severely injured and without his Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed his theories had caused Luo Sanpao's transformation and asked Lin Jing to take him to the Martial Realm as an adviser, but Lin Jing laughed at him, claimed Luo Sanpao as her pet, and tossed him a low-grade spirit stone.
• Yu Xiaogang picked up the spirit stone, convinced himself Lin Jing would eventually recognize his worth, and followed her through the market.
• Lin Jing bought candied Crimson Flame Fruit and fed some to Luo Sanpao while Yu Xiaogang watched bitterly.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Lin Jing that the pill might harm Luo Sanpao's foundation and offered his guidance, but Lin Jing dismissed his theories and continued on.
• Yu Xiaogang kept trailing Lin Jing and tried to draw her attention by commenting on items at the market stalls.

At the Martial Realm’s Hundred Spirits Branch Pavilion, Yu Xiaogang tried to impress Qingzhi by claiming his clan’s dragon bloodline could purify the Azure Dragon King’s. Qingzhi revealed his Ancient Azure Dragon true form, leaving Yu Xiaogang and the entire Hundred Spirits City overwhelmed by its draconic might.

• Lin Jing reached the Hundred Spirits Branch Pavilion, where the guards welcomed her while barring Yu Xiaogang from entering.
• Qingzhi emerged from the pavilion, and Yu Xiaogang tried to win his favor by boasting about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and his research into dragon bloodlines.
• On the Douluo Continent, Yu Yuanzhen angrily condemned Yu Xiaogang for disgracing the clan before a true ancient dragon.
• Qingzhi challenged Yu Xiaogang’s claim by summoning a projection of his Ancient Azure Dragon true form above Hundred Spirits City.
• The dragon’s overwhelming presence silenced the city and terrified its cultivators, including experts of the Supreme and Earthly Sovereign Realms.

The Ancient Azure Dragon's phantom appeared on the Sky Screen, terrifying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and prompting the Five Great God Kings to compare its bloodline with the Dragon God. The Asura God rejected their caution and declared that he would cut the Azure Dragon down with one slash if it came to the Divine Realm.

• The Ancient Azure Dragon's phantom made the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Souls across the clan tremble and collapse, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered his clan to stop boasting that their Martial Soul was closest to a true dragon.
• The Five Great God Kings gathered in the God King Council Hall and watched the Azure Dragon's phantom on the Sky Screen.
• The Goddess of Life judged that the Azure Dragon's bloodline was purer than the Dragon God's had been at his peak, though she could not measure its true strength.
• The God of Kindness and the God of Evil voiced concern about the Great Thousand World, while the God of Destruction questioned the Goddess of Life's assessment.
• The Asura God recalled that he had delivered the final slash that split the Dragon God in two and declared that he would cut down the Azure Dragon with one slash if it came to the Divine Realm.
• The Goddess of Life held back her doubts, and the God of Destruction told the Asura God he hoped he would always keep his confidence.

After Qingzhi frightened Yu Xiaogang with the Ancient Azure Dragon phantom, Yu Xiaogang decided to seek recognition from the Endless Fire Domain instead. Xiao Jiu, a low-ranking member of the Xiao Family, offered him passage to Red Sun City in exchange for hauling medicinal herbs.

• Qingzhi dismissed Yu Xiaogang and left the Martial Realm Branch Pavilion with Lin Jing, while Yu Xiaogang remained shaken on the steps.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to join the Endless Fire Domain and asked a cultivator how to reach it, learning the journey could take thirty to fifty years on foot.
• Xiao Jiu approached Yu Xiaogang, showed him a token bearing the character “Xiao,” and introduced himself as an errand runner for the Fire Domain’s External Affairs Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Xiao Jiu to take him to the Endless Fire Domain and offered his pill-refining insights.
• Xiao Jiu agreed to take Yu Xiaogang to Red Sun City if he worked as an unpaid laborer hauling medicinal herbs along the way.

Yu Xiaogang agreed to travel to the Endless Fire Domain as Xiao Jiu’s laborer, hoping to prove his worth through alchemy. On the road, Xiao Jiu revealed that the Domain Lord had fused more than twenty Heavenly Flames, while observers across the Douluo Continent worried about the Great Thousand World’s power.

• Yu Xiaogang accepted Xiao Jiu’s offer and spent the night at a shabby inn, resolving to find a place for himself in the Endless Fire Domain.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji discussed the Martial Realm, the Endless Fire Domain, and the Great Desolation Divine Realm, while Tang San worried about Yu Xiaogang’s fate.
• Yu Xiaogang joined Xiao Jiu’s Red-Horned Horse carriage outside Hundred Spirits City and questioned him about the medicinal herbs they were transporting.
• Xiao Jiu explained that the Endless Fire Domain’s Domain Lord possessed more than twenty Heavenly Flames and had risen from a Lower Plane to found the domain.
• Xue Qing and Bibi Dong reacted to the revelation, and Bibi Dong considered what the Fire Domain’s pills could mean for the Douluo Continent.

Yu Xiaogang reached Flame City with Xiao Jiu and found a recruitment notice offering him a chance to become an alchemy apprentice in the Endless Fire Domain. As they arrived, he saw the Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus and Heavenly Flames Eternal Ancient Ruler hovering above the city, and Xiao Jiu revealed that both had grown alongside the Domain Lord.

• Yu Xiaogang endured three days of hauling medicinal ingredients while Xiao Jiu secretly gave him extra food and useful herbs.
• In Red Sun City, Yu Xiaogang found an Endless Fire Domain notice recruiting alchemy apprentices regardless of background, cultivation, or age, and declared that it was his destined path.
• Xiao Jiu used a Fire Domain passage token to take Yu Xiaogang through teleportation arrays to Central Province and then toward Flame City.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived in Flame City and was stunned by the endless magma sea surrounding it and the strange flames burning atop its walls.
• Yu Xiaogang asked about the giant lotus and black ruler above Flame City, and Xiao Jiu identified them as the Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus and Heavenly Flames Eternal Ancient Ruler, saying they had grown alongside the Domain Lord.

Xiao Jiu explained that the Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus and Heavenly Flames Eternal Ancient Ruler held immense power accumulated by the Domain Lord, leaving Yu Xiaogang and viewers on the Douluo Continent shaken. In Flame City, Yu Xiaogang glimpsed the woman riding in a golden carriage drawn by nine Scarlet Flame Qilin and learned that she was Lady Xun'er.

• Xiao Jiu told Yu Xiaogang that the Domain Lord's flame lotus and ancient ruler had grown with him and could threaten even Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Viewers across the Douluo Continent reacted with alarm, while Bibi Dong, Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Tang San considered what the Domain Lord's power meant.
• Yu Xiaogang followed Xiao Jiu through Flame City toward the External Affairs Subhall and saw the street clear for a procession.
• A golden carriage drawn by nine Scarlet Flame Qilin passed, and Yu Xiaogang briefly glimpsed the woman inside.
• Xiao Jiu identified the woman as Lady Xun'er.

Yu Xiaogang failed every stage of the Fire Domain alchemy apprentice examination and was laughed at after his attempt to challenge a basic ingredient pairing. As he left the exam hall, a powerful man was blasted through three walls, and Yu Xiaogang saw the attacker was connected to the Xiao family.

• Xiao Jiu told Yu Xiaogang that Lady Xun'er was the Domain Lord's powerful wife and that she had gone out to handle trouble caused by her youngest son, Xiao Changge.
• Yu Xiaogang took the preliminary alchemy apprentice examination, but he could not read the written test, identified only three ingredients correctly, and failed to light the furnace.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned the use of Red Flame Grass and Azure Flame Lotus Heart together, but the examiner explained that their supposed conflict was disproven ancient knowledge, prompting the candidates to laugh at him.
• As Yu Xiaogang left the examination room, a powerful middle-aged man crashed through a restaurant and a Spirit Artifact shop before striking a stone wall.
• The injured man begged Young Master Xiao, saying he had meant no disrespect.