Recaps

Xu Ran helps Little Medical Fairy establish her alchemy talent, restores Hai Bodong, and rescues Qing Lin from persecution before leading her to a powerful snake beast beneath the desert. After giving his companions treasures and setting out to meet Queen Medusa, Xu Ran offers to help her evolve using the Heavenly Flame.

• Xu Ran confirmed he was a Seventh-Rank Alchemist, and Little Medical Fairy passed the Second, Third, and Fourth Grade assessments while Xiao Yan repeatedly relied on Yao Lao and lost their wager.
• Xu Ran forced Xiao Yan to kneel and call him Grandfather, then confronted Yao Lao and obtained the Flame Mantra in exchange for sparing him.
• Xu Ran found a map fragment linked to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame in Hai Bodong’s shop, broke Queen Medusa’s seal on him, and restored his Dou Huang strength.
• Xu Ran found Qing Lin being abused for her heritage, protected her from the crowd, and killed the mercenaries who demanded that she be handed over.
• Xu Ran killed Luo Bu and destroyed the Sand and Desert Metal Mercenary Groups, then tortured Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and Xiao Yan arrived too late to save his brothers, who died from their injuries.
• Xu Ran explained the Xiao Clan’s history to Xiao Yan before leaving with Qing Lin, whose Three-Flower Green Snake Eyes let her control a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake that Xu Ran made her protector.
• Xu Ran retrieved Queen Medusa’s snake scale and an eight-leaf cyan lotus, then gave his companions treasures and left Shimo City to seek Queen Medusa.
• Xu Ran told Yue Mei that he knew Queen Medusa intended to use a Heavenly Flame to evolve and offered to help her become a Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and break through to Dou Zong.

Xu Ran helped Queen Medusa transform and rise to Dou Zong, won her affection, and strengthened the Snake-People Tribe while passing alchemy knowledge to Gu He. After leaving the tribe, he rescued Nalan Yanran from the Mo Clan and returned with her and his companions to the Mist Cloud Sect, where his influence was on full display.

• Yue Mei welcomed Xu Ran to the Snake-People Tribe, and Queen Medusa met him after learning his pills and power might help her transform safely.
• Xu Ran revealed his immense Dragon Body, which helped Medusa merge with her bloodline and become a powerful seven-colored snake and Dou Zong.
• Queen Medusa accepted Xu Ran’s help and affection, while he promised to protect her tribe and revealed that he was the Dou Qi Continent’s only Dou Di.
• Xu Ran subdued the Green Lotus Core Flame, gave Gu He an alchemy inheritance, and watched Yun Yun and Queen Medusa clash before teaching the Snake-People Tribe ways to grow stronger.
• Xu Ran left the tribe with Yun Yun and learned that Mo Cheng planned to use Nalan Yanran as leverage, while Mo Cheng’s crimes and ambitions led him to attack her and Ge Ye.
• Xu Ran and Yun Yun stopped Mo Cheng from capturing Nalan Yanran, and Xu Ran killed Mo Cheng before Ge Ye dealt with the remaining Mo Clan members.
• Xu Ran reunited Nalan Yanran with Little Medical Fairy and Qing Lin, then traveled with them to the Mist Cloud Sect, where elders and deacons bowed to him.

Xu Ran strengthened the Mist Cloud Sect, helped Ya Fei establish power in Black Mark City, and killed Hall of Souls and Six Fan Gate opponents who challenged him. He reunited with Xun'er, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mei at Jia Nan Academy, became its Pill Elder, and began secretly dating Ruo Lin.

• Yun Shan betrothed Yun Yun to Xu Ran and pledged the Mist Cloud Sect to him, and Xu Ran restored Yun Shan with Life Origin.
• Xu Ran created the Mist Cloud Secret Realm, helped the sect grow, and left after Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, Little Medical Fairy, and Qing Lin advanced under his support.
• Xu Ran visited Ya Fei and helped her reach Dou Zong, then killed Mo Yu and Wu Protector when Hall of Souls agents tried to recruit and attack him.
• Xun'er learned that Xu Ran had killed the Ninth Heavenly Venerable and told Ling Ying that the Gu Clan would support him against the Hall of Souls.
• Xu Ran reunited with Xun'er, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mei at Jia Nan Academy, where he became Pill Elder and warned Su Qian that the auctioned techniques came from Hall of Souls members he had killed.
• At the Black Mark City auction, Han Feng bought an ancient Dou Technique, while Yuan Yi withheld most of the proceeds and threatened Xu Ran and Ya Fei.
• Ya Fei killed Yuan Yi, took control of Six Fan Gate's remaining forces, and planned to expand the Black Mark City Grand Auction House with Xu Ran's pills.
• Xu Ran returned to Jia Nan Academy and began secretly dating Ruo Lin, promising her access to the auction house and its seventh-grade pills.

Xu Ran returned to Jia Nan Academy, where he asserted his authority, helped the girls make rapid cultivation breakthroughs, and took Xue Ni as his disciple. He left Su Qian hoping to secure Xu Ran’s help in bringing his training methods to the academy, though Xu Ran refused the vice principal position.

• Xu Ran made Han Feng submit as his servant and planted a mark in his mind that could destroy his soul.
• Xu Ran revealed that he was Jia Nan Academy’s Alchemy Elder, began dating Ruo Lin, and defeated Hu Jia and Bai Shan when they challenged him.
• Hu Qian explained Xu Ran’s power and status to Hu Jia, while Xun'er, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mei confronted Xu Ran over his treatment of Hu Jia and Bai Shan.
• Xu Ran gave the girls pills and cultivation guidance, helping Xun'er, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mei break through to Dou Ling and transforming the energy in their courtyard.
• Hu Jia moved into the courtyard to cultivate with the others, then received a pill from Xu Ran that raised her to Dou Ling.
• Xu Ran named Xue Ni his first disciple and promised to help her become powerful, while Ruo Lin made their relationship known around the academy.
• Xu Ran put the girls through intense gravity training, and Su Qian asked him to create gravity training rooms and improve the academy’s Heaven and Earth Energy.
• Su Qian offered Xu Ran academy treasures and the vice principal position in exchange for his help, but Xu Ran declined the position.