Recaps

Xiao Yan confronted the Wang Clan’s forces to protect the Fang Clan, while Xu Songming looked for a chance to flee. He challenged all six of the Wang Clan’s Dou Di experts to attack him together, then abruptly struck at Wang Xiang.

• Master Yuan stepped between Xiao Yan and Xu Songming, then agreed with Wang Xiang to join forces against Xiao Yan.
• Terrified by his past encounters with Xiao Yan, Xu Songming decided to escape while the others fought.
• Xiao Yan resolved to protect the Fang Clan because of Yuan Qing and the help Yuan Qing’s Nine Revolutions Avatar Art had given him.
• Xiao Yan told Wang Xiang, Master Yuan, and the other four Wang Clan Dou Di to attack him together.
• Xiao Yan used Heavenly Severing Steps to appear before Wang Xiang and punched toward his chest as Xu Songming quietly retreated.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Wang Clan’s fighters and killed Xu Songming after he tried to flee and invoked the Alchemist Alliance. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan killing Wang Xiang, while four opponents remained.

• Xiao Yan struck Master Yuan with the Strength Elephant Art, leaving him unable to fight.
• Xiao Yan evaded Wang Xiang’s Bone-Eroding Claw and killed one of the Su Brothers before anyone saw him move.
• Xiao Yan appeared before the fleeing Xu Songming, crushed his body, and erased his spiritual consciousness with Bone White Flame.
• Xiao Yan returned to the remaining fighters and killed Wang Xiang with a hand engulfed in Bone White Flame.

Xiao Yan killed Wang Xiang, Master Yuan, and the other Dou Di experts who tried to escape, leaving all six dead in less than a quarter of an hour. He handed the aftermath to Yuan Qing and descended into the Fang Clan residence to examine his spoils, hoping the Soul Origins might awaken Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Yan burned Wang Xiang's body and collected his Origin, then turned his attention to the remaining experts.
• Xiao Yan caught Master Yuan as he fled and crushed him before he could self-destruct, collecting his Soul Origin.
• Jin Ge and Wang Zhenyu fled in different directions, but Xiao Yan used his incarnations to kill them and another One-Star Dou Di, then took their Soul Origins and Storage Rings.
• Xiao Yan killed all six Dou Di experts in less than a quarter of an hour, leaving the clans stunned.
• Xiao Yan told Yuan Qing to handle what remained and descended into the Fang Clan residence to inspect his spoils.

Xiao Yan refined the Soul Origins of seven Dou Di experts, hoping to help Xiao Xuan awaken, while the Fang Clan destroyed the Wang Clan and claimed its residence. After half a month of seclusion, Xiao Yan finished refining the seven Soul Origins, but Xiao Xuan's awakening remained uncertain.

• Xiao Yan began refining the seven Soul Origins with his Heavenly Flame so Xiao Xuan could absorb them and perhaps awaken.
• The Fang Clan slaughtered or captured most of the Wang Clan's people and took over its residence, ending the Wang Family's rule in Helan City.
• Fang Cheng found the Wang Clan's enormous hidden hoard and told the Fang Clan elders to leave it untouched until Xiao Yan had inspected it.
• Xiao Yan spent half a month carefully purifying the seven Soul Origins while the Fang Clan waited outside his room.
• Xiao Yan finally fused the seven completely refined Soul Origins together.

Xiao Yan finished refining seven masses of Soul Origin and fused the purified essence with Xiao Xuan's remnant soul, beginning the long wait for his ancestor to awaken. He then inspected the Wang Clan treasury, took a few rare ingredients and cultivation scrolls, and returned to examine the Storage Rings taken from Wang Xiang and the others.

• Xiao Yan opened his eyes after half a month of refining Soul Origin and fused the condensed essence with Xiao Xuan's remnant soul.
• Xiao Yan left his room and found Fang Cheng and Yuan Qing waiting to show him the Wang Clan treasury.
• Xiao Yan collected the treasury's medicinal ingredients and selected a few valuable scrolls, leaving most of the wealth for the Fang Clan.
• Fang Cheng assumed Xiao Yan had left the remaining treasures for the Fang Clan, unaware that Xiao Yan considered them unremarkable.
• Xiao Yan returned to his room and brought out eight Storage Rings taken from Wang Xiang and the others.

Xiao Yan searched the eight Storage Rings and found valuable pills, formulas, cultivation methods, and a vast quantity of Spirit Stones. He turned to the unusual eighth ring, whose talisman markings and golden protective layer suggested it was no ordinary Storage Ring.

• Xiao Yan examined the Su brothers' and Jin Ge's rings, finding few treasures in the former and several Spirit Class cultivation methods in the latter.
• Xiao Yan searched Wang Xiang's ring and discovered fourth-tier pills and formulas, abundant Spirit Stones, and two Intermediate Spirit Class cultivation methods.
• Xiao Yan opened Wang Zhenyu's ring and found an extraordinary mountain of Spirit Stones that could fund the cultivation of his nine avatars.
• Xiao Yan searched Xu Songming's ring and gained third-tier and fourth-tier pill formulas, cultivation methods, pills, and rare ingredients.
• Xiao Yan examined the final white ring and noticed its formation talismans and faint golden protective layer.

Xiao Yan broke the formation protecting Xu Songming’s unusual ring and discovered a phantom image of a rare flower inside. He identified it as a Fusang Flower, though its six petals left him uncertain.

• Xiao Yan’s Spiritual Strength was repelled by the ring’s protective formation, and he decided to break it by force.
• Xiao Yan struck the formation three times with spiritual drills until the golden runes went dark.
• Xiao Yan entered the ring’s storage space and found it smaller than he expected.
• The space changed to reveal a solid-looking phantom image of a six-petaled, snow-white flower with purple markings.
• Xiao Yan recognized the flower as a Fusang Flower but remained unsure because of its unusual six petals.

Xiao Yan discovered that the ring contained an image of a six-petaled Fusang Flower, a rare treasure rich in soul power. The ring revealed that the flower would be auctioned in Golden Radiance City in three months.

• Xiao Yan recognized the flower in the ring as a possible Fusang Flower, though its six petals differed from descriptions he had read.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether the ring held the flower’s location and considered the immense value its soul power would have for alchemists and formation masters.
• The image twisted into a formation-master identification plaque engraved with “Golden Radiance.”
• Xiao Yan checked his map and identified Golden Radiance City as a gathering place for formation masters in the Western Region.
• The ring revealed that the Fusang Flower was in Golden Radiance City and could be obtained by bidding at an auction scheduled for three months later.

Xiao Yan learned that the Fang Clan had arranged a family banquet in his honor and accepted Fang Cheng’s invitation. At the banquet, Fang Cheng repeatedly linked Xiao Yan and Fang Ruyan in conversation, leaving Xiao Yan suspicious and Ruyan blushing.

• Xiao Yan left his room, determined to visit Golden Radiance City after finding the Fusang Flower but being unable to claim it.
• Fang Ruyan invited Xiao Yan to the Fang Clan’s family banquet on her father’s behalf, explaining that the clan would not begin without him.
• Xiao Yan accepted the invitation and asked Fang Ruyan to call him by his name instead of “my lord.”
• The Fang Clan greeted Xiao Yan with a formal salute, and he took his seat beside Fang Cheng and Yuan Qing.
• Fang Cheng repeatedly brought up Xiao Yan and Ruyan during the banquet, while Xiao Yan grew suspicious and Ruyan blushed.

At the Fang Clan banquet, Fang Cheng tried to connect his clan to Xiao Yan by suggesting Fang Ruyan accompany him, but Xiao Yan rejected the proposal and left. He later told Yuan Qing he was going to Golden Radiance City for an auction and hoped the Fang Clan would learn to rely on its own strength.

• Fang Cheng praised Xiao Yan for saving Fang Ruyan and the Fang Clan, then asked what he thought of Fang Ruyan's cultivation.
• Fang Cheng suggested Fang Ruyan could follow Xiao Yan and look after him, but Xiao Yan stopped him and left the banquet.
• Fang Cheng sobered up and regretted that his attempt to secure a connection for the Fang Clan might have pushed Xiao Yan away.
• Yuan Qing found Xiao Yan beside a pond, where Xiao Yan said he was leaving for Golden Radiance City to attend an auction in three months.
• Xiao Yan told Yuan Qing that the Fang Clan needed to stand on its own and that the Wang Clan's treasury would give it enough resources to grow.

Xiao Yan left Helan City and traveled west toward Golden Radiance City while cultivating his nine incarnations. After consuming forty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, all nine incarnations reached Late-stage Four-Star Dou Di, and Xiao Yan arrived within sight of Golden Radiance City.

• Xiao Yan departed Helan City, and Yuan Qing returned to the Fang Clan to tell Fang Cheng that Xiao Yan had left for other matters and had tried to teach the clan to rely on its own strength.
• Fang Cheng realized Xiao Yan’s show of power had frightened the Fang Clan into uniting, while Fang Ruyan overheard their conversation and quietly left.
• Xiao Yan traveled west toward Golden Radiance City and spent forty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones strengthening his nine incarnations.
• After nearly half a month of cultivation, Xiao Yan’s nine incarnations consumed their remaining Spirit Stones and broke through to Late-stage Four-Star Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan recalled the incarnations and saw Golden Radiance City on the western horizon.

Xiao Yan arrived at Golden Radiance City, a realm protected and ruled by formation masters, and approached its gate. After a golden-robed man cut the line and attacked him, Xiao Yan met the strike with his bare hand, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Xiao Yan reached Golden Radiance City and felt the pressure of its powerful protective formation.
• Xiao Yan overcame the formation's pressure and joined the queue at the city gate, where entrants paid ten Spirit Stones.
• A golden-robed middle-aged man forced his way through the queue, and the other people made room for him.
• The golden-robed man insulted Xiao Yan and slashed at his head with a ribbon of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan stopped himself from dodging and raised his bare hand to meet the attack.

Xiao Yan subdued a Two-Star Dou Di formation master who attacked him outside Golden Radiance City and rejected the Formation Master Association’s attempt to intervene. As he entered the city, the formation masters attacked him with a combined spiritual blade, which his Soul Storm tore apart.

• Xiao Yan caught the golden-robed man's Dou Qi attack in his palm, pulled him close, and grabbed him by the throat.
• Xiao Yan noticed the man's formation master badge and stopped short of killing him when the man invoked the Formation Master Association.
• A middle-aged formation master asked Xiao Yan to release the man, but Xiao Yan argued that he was still outside the city and threatened the group.
• Xiao Yan released the golden-robed man with a palm strike and continued toward Golden Radiance City's gate despite being told he was not welcome.
• The formation masters formed a spiritual blade to attack Xiao Yan, and his Soul Storm swept them back and shattered it.

Xiao Yan defeated five Formation Masters and overpowered Chief Steward Shan at Golden Radiance City's gate. As two strangers approached, one asked him to spare the old man.

• Xiao Yan shattered the five Formation Masters' combined soul blade and sent them crashing into the wall.
• A middle-aged Formation Master blamed Xiao Yan when Chief Steward Shan arrived and questioned what had happened.
• Xiao Yan rejected Shan's demand to come with him, then knocked the old man back and seized him by the neck.
• Two figures emerged from the crowd, and one asked Xiao Yan to spare Chief Steward Shan.

Xiao Yan encountered Qin Yun, a powerful young man who offered to settle the conflict with Golden Radiance City's formation masters, and accepted the chance to enter the city without further trouble. After Xiao Yan left, Qin Yun warned Chief Steward Shan not to report or retaliate over the incident.

• Qin Yun and a black-robed elder approached Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan sensed that Qin Yun was a Mid-Stage Six-Star Dou Di and the elder was a Nine-Star Dou Di.
• Qin Yun offered to take responsibility for Xiao Yan's clash with the formation masters, and Xiao Yan knocked the gold-robed elder away before releasing him.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Qin Yun and entered Golden Radiance City without paying the passage fee.
• Chief Steward Shan thanked Qin Yun, then cursed Xiao Yan and threatened to report him to his superiors.
• Qin Yun confronted Chief Steward Shan and ordered him to pretend nothing had happened and not pursue the matter.

Xiao Yan explored Golden Radiance City and sensed the formidable formation masters gathered there, while Qin Yun learned of Xiao Yan’s potential and ordered the Formation Master Association to protect him. Xiao Yan reached the city’s central plaza, where he discovered the pillar powering the city’s golden barrier.

• Xiao Yan headed toward Golden Radiance City’s center and sensed several formation masters whose Spiritual Strength rivaled Chen Zhen’s.
• Qin Yun’s black-robed elder, Yan He, judged Xiao Yan to be a gifted alchemist who could become stronger than Venerable Heavenly Severing.
• Qin Yun decided to befriend Xiao Yan and ordered Yan He to tell Qi Ming that no one was to harm him.
• Qin Yun also told Yan He to bring Chief Steward Shan back, then let his smile fade into a cold expression.
• Xiao Yan reached the central plaza and saw a massive talisman-covered pillar that appeared to power Golden Radiance City’s barrier.

Xiao Yan learned that the Fusang Flower auction had drawn powerful visitors to Golden Radiance City, then was confronted by Liu Quan and six formation masters seeking revenge. The group attacked him outside the auction house, and Xiao Yan faced their Spiritual Strength assault.

• Xiao Yan noticed that formation masters kept their distance from the black stone pillar and watched him with hostility.
• Xiao Yan learned that the upcoming auction would feature a Fusang Flower, attracting at least ten Dou Di experts to Golden Radiance City.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the auction house, where seven formation masters surrounded him, including Liu Quan, whom he had injured at the city gate.
• Xiao Yan admitted that he had injured Liu Quan and calmly faced the group’s threats.
• The burly formation master sent out Spiritual Strength that formed an invisible hand to seize Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan clashed with Liu Meng and six other formation masters after they confronted him, revealing that his soul force and cultivation surpassed Liu Meng’s. As the seven attacked together, Xiao Yan summoned the Fallen Heart Flame and struck at their soul net.

• Xiao Yan’s Soul Storm collided with Liu Meng’s soul hand, forcing Liu Meng back while Xiao Yan stepped back only half a pace.
• Liu Meng asked Xiao Yan about his identity and backing, but Xiao Yan said he had no faction and challenged him to attack.
• Liu Meng attacked with a powerful kick, but Xiao Yan stopped it with one hand and sent him staggering backward.
• Liu Meng rallied the other six formation masters, and all seven combined their soul force into a giant net aimed at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan released the Fallen Heart Flame, shaped it into an invisible giant fire ruler, and slashed at the descending soul net.

Xiao Yan defeated seven formation masters and killed Liu Meng despite Wu Gang’s attempt to stop him. Wu Gang, the auction house’s Eight-Star Dou Di vice president, escorted Xiao Yan inside as figures in golden robes approached.

• Xiao Yan’s invisible flames overwhelmed the seven formation masters, leaving them injured and terrified.
• Xiao Yan confronted Liu Meng and declared he would kill him despite his status as a formation master.
• Wu Gang called out for Xiao Yan to spare Liu Meng, but Xiao Yan ignored him and struck Liu Meng with ghastly white flames.
• Wu Gang arrived too late to save Liu Meng and introduced himself as the auction house’s vice president.
• Xiao Yan identified himself to Wu Gang, who ushered him into the auction house as golden-robed figures approached.

Wu Gang escorted Xiao Yan into the Golden Radiance City auction house and explained the upcoming auction of the Fusang Flower. Xiao Yan learned that appraisers had identified the unusual six-petaled flower as genuine, though the auction house itself still had doubts.

• Wu Gang assured Xiao Yan that the Formation Master Association members outside would be sent away by the auction house’s people.
• Xiao Yan examined the vast, darkened auction venue as Wu Gang offered to answer his questions.
• Wu Gang guessed that Xiao Yan had received a ring advertising the Fusang Flower auction and explained that the rings were meant to draw wealthy or powerful bidders.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the six-petaled flower was truly a Fusang Flower from the Fusang Ancient Spirit Tree.
• Wu Gang said several master appraisers had identified it as genuine despite the lack of historical records of a six-petaled specimen, and Xiao Yan accepted that the auction would proceed amid the uncertainty.

After learning that powerful factions had gathered in Golden Radiance City to bid on the Fusang Flower, Xiao Yan planned to refine a fourth-tier Spirit Awakening Pill to compete for it. He intended to use a Spirit Ascension Pill to boost his Spiritual Strength enough for the refinement, then began meditating to prepare.

• Wu Gang invited Xiao Yan to stay in guest pavilions behind the auction house, warning that members of the Formation Master Association might cause him trouble elsewhere.
• Xiao Yan sensed the immense formation above Golden Radiance City and reflected on the powerful factions seeking the Fusang Flower.
• Xiao Yan decided that he needed a valuable pill to compete for the Fusang Flower and chose the fourth-tier Spirit Awakening Pill, which could purge medicinal impurities from a cultivator's body.
• Xiao Yan realized his Spiritual Strength was not yet sufficient to refine a fourth-tier pill, but planned to take a Spirit Ascension Pill he had seized to raise it enough.
• Xiao Yan sat atop the pavilion and began circulating the Flame Mantra to prepare for refining the Spirit Awakening Pill.

While cultivating at night, Xiao Yan endured the yin wind and discovered that it carried an elusive force from heaven and earth. He realized he could capture it only when his mind was completely still, and successfully drew the force into his body.

• Xiao Yan recovered his Dou Qi through an hour of cultivation and returned to his peak condition.
• A fierce yin wind struck Xiao Yan’s soul with intense pain, forcing him to flee as it followed his movements.
• Xiao Yan sensed a brief, strange force within the yin wind and tried repeatedly to capture it, but failed over a hundred times.
• Xiao Yan realized the yin wind responded to his thoughts and that he needed to clear his mind to catch the force.
• Xiao Yan stilled his thoughts, reached into the passing wind, and successfully drew an invisible force into his body.

Xiao Yan drew the strange current into his body and refined it with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, but it escaped into his cyclone and began devouring his Dou Qi. With his cyclone expanding toward rupture and his cultivation at risk, Xiao Yan feared he had brought about his own destruction.

• Xiao Yan discovered that the strange current reacted to his emotions and calmed it by steadying his mind.
• Xiao Yan used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to refine the current for half an hour.
• After Xiao Yan withdrew his soul power, the current rushed into his cyclone space.
• The current devoured all the Dou Qi in Xiao Yan’s cyclone and expanded until the cyclone itself began to swell toward bursting.
• Xiao Yan watched helplessly as his cultivation faced destruction and wondered if everything was over.

Xiao Yan feared that his swelling Qi Cyclone Space would burst and destroy his cultivation, but it expanded instead, giving him strength comparable to a Mid-Stage Six-Star Dou Di. A barrier within him then broke, drawing energy from the Endless Void as he sat through a storm, and he awoke at dawn.

• Xiao Yan believed his Qi Cyclone Space had burst and lamented that he had failed Ancestor Xiao Xuan.
• A tide of Dou Qi filled the expanded Qi Cyclone Space, raising its size to that of a Mid-Stage Six-Star Dou Di expert’s and strengthening Xiao Yan’s combat ability.
• An unknown barrier inside Xiao Yan shattered, and a fierce gale formed around him, disturbing the formation above Golden Radiance City.
• Three old men in a hall noticed a brief golden flicker on a stone pillar and dismissed it as someone touching the barrier again.
• The gale shattered space into the Endless Void, and black energy motes flowed into Xiao Yan’s forehead.
• Xiao Yan’s storm subsided, and he awoke as dawn arrived.

After a night of cultivation, Xiao Yan discovered that Heavenly Severing Steps had advanced to the Cloud-Soaring Grand Realm and that his cyclone space had expanded. He turned his attention to preparing to refine the Spirit Awakening Pill in Golden Radiance City, with the Northern King summoned to help protect him.

• Xiao Yan found that the flowing wind had vanished from his body, while his cyclone space had grown larger.
• Xiao Yan accidentally unleashed extraordinary speed with Heavenly Severing Steps and realized it had reached the Cloud-Soaring Grand Realm.
• Xiao Yan considered how his enhanced speed and expanded cyclone space had increased his strength and confidence against powerful opponents.
• Xiao Yan returned to his room, sealed it with Spiritual Strength, and summoned the Northern King to handle trouble during the pill refinement.
• Xiao Yan brought out the Myriad Beast Cauldron to begin preparing the Spirit Awakening Pill.