Recaps

Xiao Yan killed five purple-robed poison masters after they attacked him, then turned his attention to the people who had moved earlier. Terror swept through the onlookers as they faced the threat he had promised to carry out.

• The short, stout elder charged Xiao Yan and was killed by a single punch.
• The elder's four companions attacked together, but Xiao Yan used the Three Image Technique and Winged Elephant Art to overpower them.
• The four purple-robed poison masters formed the Corpse-Devouring Poison and sent a flock of purple crows at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan burned away the crows with pale blue flames and killed all four men with black steel needles.
• Xiao Yan looked toward the people who had moved earlier, and terror followed.

Xiao Yan defeated nearly half the High-Level Dou Di on the island, but a black-robed old man ambushed him and demanded his Heavenly Flames. Xiao Yan’s allies arrived in force, surrounding the old man and his men as the battle escalated.

• Xiao Yan slew nearly half the High-Level Dou Di before moving toward the injured Xiao Yi Xian.
• A black-robed old man attacked Xiao Yan, revealed his greed for the Heavenly Flames, and demanded that Xiao Yan hand them over.
• The old man summoned three Origin Transformation Realm experts and used Fifth-Tier Soul Power to pressure Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan revealed that his own Soul Power was Fifth-Tier and knocked the three experts back with a single exchange.
• Three Late Origin Transformation Realm experts and a hundred Origin Transformation Realm fighters arrived to defend Xiao Yan, and their leader ordered them to kill the attackers.

Xiao Yi Xian awakened in Xiao Yan’s room and told him that members of the Hun Clan had taken her to an island. Xiao Yan explained that the Ghost Fiend Gate had also taken Xun’er for the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then resolved to grow stronger before trying to rescue her.

• Xiao Yi Xian woke and threw herself into Xiao Yan’s arms, while Xue Mian and Hai Ling’er saw them and quietly left the room.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan that two people who had taken her to the island were likely members of the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Ghost Fiend Gate had taken Xun’er hostage to obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Xiao Yi Xian cursed the faction in anger.
• Xiao Yan suppressed his killing intent and decided he needed to improve his cultivation before he could rescue Xun’er.
• Xue Mian teased Xiao Yan by asking whether Xiao Yi Xian was his wife.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and traveled with her toward North Army City, stopping at North Sea Academy and rescuing Liu Jin’s Dragon Marsh Workshop vessel along the way. In North Army City, he learned that Qin Xu had imprisoned a girl with Illusory Spirit Eyes and planned to take them, filling Xiao Yan with killing intent.

• Xue Mian and Hai Ling'er teased Xiao Yan about Xiao Yi Xian, and he said she was his best friend.
• Two days later, Xiao Yan and the still-injured Xiao Yi Xian left the North Sea aboard a deep-sea behemoth summoned by Hai Zhantian.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian visited North Sea Academy, where Xiao Yan spoke with Shui Miao and discovered that the Tou She Ancient God statue had vanished into the mountain.
• Xiao Yan's behemoth killed the magical beast attacking Liu Jin's Dragon Marsh Workshop vessel and saved its crew.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached North Army City, where Xiao Yan learned that Qin Xu had captured a girl with Illusory Spirit Eyes and planned to take them in public.
• Xiao Yan's killing intent surged when he heard that Qin Xu intended to claim the girl's eyes.

Qin Xu displayed Cai'er's Illusory Spirit Eyes before the crowd at Mount Beiji and tried to force her to surrender them by threatening her brother, Zhu Qiang. Just as Qin Xu was about to take the eyes, Xiao Yan appeared and stopped his attack on Zhu Qiang.

• Qin Xu appeared above the plaza and used his pressure to intimidate the crowd gathered at Mount Beiji.
• Qin Xu revealed Cai'er and her multicolored Illusory Spirit Eyes to the spectators.
• Zhu Qiang caught Cai'er and urged her not to surrender her eyes, but Qin Xu struck him down and threatened to kill him.
• Cai'er began to give in to Qin Xu's demand, but Xiao Yan appeared and destroyed the energy attack aimed at Zhu Qiang.

Xiao Yan returned to rescue Cai'er and revealed that he had reached the Middle Origin Transformation Realm. After clashing with Qin Xu, he faced a new threat when Protector Huan emerged from the great hall as ghostly mist.

• Xiao Yan appeared in the arena, rescued Zhu Qiang with a pill, and promised Cai'er he would take her home.
• Xiao Yan overpowered Qin Xu in their first exchange, shocking the spectators with his Middle Origin Transformation Realm cultivation.
• Xiao Yan and Qin Xu traded attacks, and Xiao Yan’s combat strength proved strong enough to challenge Qin Xu despite Qin Xu’s higher cultivation.
• Qin Xu called on Protector Huan to help prevent Xiao Yan from escaping.
• Protector Huan emerged from the great hall in ghostly mist, and Xiao Yan recognized Ghost Hall.

Xiao Yan fought Qin Xu and Protector Huan, two Late Origin Transformation Realm experts, on Mount Beiji and held his own despite their combined attacks. Qin Xu then looked toward Cai'er, suggesting they would use another way to capture Xiao Yan.

• Protector Huan appeared in black mist and joined Qin Xu in attacking Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan countered their combined attacks with the Sevenfold Heaven-Breaking Ruler.
• Xiao Yan used the Strength Elephant Art, Golden Elephant Art, and Winged Elephant Art to evade their strikes and injure Qin Xu.
• Xiao Yan's attack on Protector Huan was blocked by four chains emerging from the black mist.
• Qin Xu and Protector Huan recognized that brute force would not be enough, and Qin Xu turned his attention to Cai'er.

Xiao Yan fought Qin Xu and Protector Huan to protect Cai'er, but Qin Xu used her as leverage and began extracting her Illusory Spirit Eyes. Zhu Qiang died trying to stop him, and while Cai'er’s eyes triggered a mysterious reversal that drained Qin Xu’s power into her, Xiao Yan pursued the fleeing Protector Huan with a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.

• Qin Xu seized Cai'er to threaten Xiao Yan, while Protector Huan blocked Xiao Yan from reaching them.
• Xiao Yan rejected Qin Xu’s demand to surrender and attacked, but Protector Huan intercepted him as Qin Xu began the eye transfer.
• Zhu Qiang interrupted Qin Xu’s hand seals and was killed; Cai’er’s eyes turned scarlet after she witnessed her brother’s death.
• Qin Xu resumed the transfer, but Cai’er’s Illusory Spirit Eyes caused his Origin Qi to flow into her, leaving him unable to control his body.
• Xiao Yan suppressed Protector Huan and formed a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, prompting Protector Huan to flee.
• Xiao Yan appeared in front of the fleeing Protector Huan and slammed the Fire Lotus into his chest.

After Qin Xu suffered a backlash while trying to seize Cai’er’s Illusory Spirit Eyes, her cultivation surged as she absorbed his Origin Qi, and Xiao Yan watched over her with Xiao Yi Xian. Cai’er later killed Qin Xu to avenge her brother, and the group left Mount Beiji for Feng City as its five-year grand event was underway.

• Xiao Yan discovered that Cai’er’s Illusory Spirit Eyes had drained Qin Xu’s Origin Qi and driven her cultivation close to the Early Origin Transformation Realm.
• Xiao Yi Xian joined Xiao Yan on Mount Beiji, and he reassured her that he would not get lost again.
• Cai’er finished absorbing Qin Xu’s Origin Qi and collapsed unconscious, while the backlash left Qin Xu a cripple.
• Xiao Yan placed Zhu Qiang’s corpse in a crystal coffin and departed Mount Beiji with Xiao Yi Xian, Cai’er, and Qin Xu.
• Cai’er awoke during the journey through the Red Silk Gobi and killed Qin Xu to avenge her brother.
• Xiao Yan and the two women reached Feng City, where the five-year grand event was taking place.

After five years inside the Obsidian Tower, the Northern King had grown powerful enough to kill anyone who tried to enter. The southern hall master failed to seize control of the puppet, and Xiao Yan returned to Feng City and confronted him.

• For two months, the Northern King killed every challenger to the Obsidian Tower with a single punch, including a Nine-Star Dou Di expert.
• The eastern and western hall masters reached the peak of the late Nine-Star Dou Di stage, while the southern hall master advanced to the middle Origin Transformation Realm.
• The southern hall master recognized the Northern King and secretly plotted to control him, but waited for the other hall masters to leave.
• The southern hall master tried to break the spiritual imprint inside the Northern King but could not overcome the imprint Xiao Yan had placed.
• Xiao Yan appeared above the square, stomped on the southern hall master's shoulder, and revealed himself as the Northern King's master.

Xiao Yan returned to Feng City after five years and confronted the Southern Hall Master, revealing his Middle Origin Transformation Realm cultivation. The Southern Hall Master was killed, and Xiao Yan stopped two other onlookers from leaving as the Obsidian Tower closed.

• Xiao Yan greeted the Southern Hall Master and revealed that he had reached the Middle Origin Transformation Realm.
• Xiao Yan shattered the Southern Hall Master's right arm with a single punch, drawing a crowd to the square.
• The Southern Hall Master tried to flee, but the Northern King struck him down and killed him beneath the ground.
• Xiao Yan admired the Northern King's power, which he judged to be comparable to a Late Origin Transformation Realm expert.
• The Obsidian Tower closed, and Xiao Yan called out to two people who were trying to leave.

Xiao Yan stopped the Eastern and Western Hall Masters and invited them to join Xiao Gate, then announced that he had killed Qin Xu and destroyed the Northern Wasteland Hall. He produced Qin Xu’s corpse in Feng City, leaving the gathered crowd and the two hall masters shocked.

• Xiao Yan stopped the Eastern and Western Hall Masters as they tried to leave and invited them to join Xiao Gate.
• The two hall masters hesitated, fearing both Xiao Yan and retaliation from Qin Xu if they betrayed the Northern Wasteland Hall.
• Xiao Yan announced that he had killed Qin Xu on Mount Beiji and was establishing Xiao Gate in Feng City.
• Xiao Yan dropped Qin Xu’s mangled corpse into the square, shocking the Eastern and Western Hall Masters and the crowd.

After killing Qin Xu, Xiao Yan made the eastern and western hall masters join Xiao Gate and warned them to obey his rules. He offered them Origin Gathering Pills, while Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er’s formidable presences further convinced the two men that serving Xiao Yan could be worthwhile.

• Fang Tonghui and Liu Cheng recognized Qin Xu’s corpse and realized the Northern Wasteland Hall had lost its protection.
• Fang Tonghui and Liu Cheng pledged allegiance to Xiao Yan and tore off their Northern Wasteland Hall robes.
• Xiao Yan warned the new subordinates to follow Xiao Gate’s rules and hinted that he could punish those who disobeyed.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Heavenly Flames and Spiritual Strength, then offered to refine Origin Gathering Pills for Fang Tonghui and Liu Cheng.
• Fang Tonghui and Liu Cheng sensed Cai'er’s Middle Origin Transformation Realm strength and Xiao Yi Xian’s dangerous presence.

Xiao Yan established Xiao Gate in Feng City to prepare for future battles against the Hun Clan’s Ghost Fiend Gate and Ye Luotian. While Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er organized the city, Xiao Yan refined an Origin Gathering Pill, and Liu Jin arrived in Feng City.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian and Cai'er that he planned to build a faction to fight the Ghost Fiend Gate, which belonged to the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yan recalled Ye Luotian's ties to the Ghost Hall and decided he needed Xiao Gate's strength before returning to the Western Region.
• Xiao Yan began refining an Origin Gathering Pill with the Luo Heavenly Cauldron and his fused Heavenly Flame.
• During Xiao Yan's ten days in the stone chamber, Xiao Yi Xian, Cai'er, Fang Tonghui, and Liu Cheng brought Feng City's factions under Xiao Gate's control.
• Liu Jin, the master of the Dragon Marsh Workshop, arrived in Feng City and surprised Xiao Yi Xian.

After three factions returned to Feng City and threatened Xiao Gate, Xiao Yi Xian refused to surrender its members or disband the gate. Xiao Yan suddenly appeared, defeated the three Origin Transformation Realm leaders, and warned them not to return.

• Over three months, Xiao Yi Xian organized Feng City and built Xiao Gate while Cai'er drove off factions demanding that she hand over Fang Tonghui and Liu Cheng.
• The three factions joined forces and returned to Feng City with three Origin Transformation Realm experts, demanding Xiao Gate disband and its Northern Wasteland Hall members be surrendered.
• Cai'er tried to block the three experts' oppressive presence, but Xiao Yi Xian stopped her from confronting them further.
• Xiao Yi Xian refused their demands and said they would have to discuss disbanding Xiao Gate with Xiao Yan when he returned.
• Xiao Yan appeared, punched all three leaders into the city, and warned them that he would kill them if they returned to Feng City.

Xiao Yan forced three Origin Transformation Realm experts to pay for the damage they caused before unveiling the five Origin Gathering Pills he had refined. He sent the Northern King to devour their Pill Lightning, but the lack of a major change left him wondering how to help it advance further.

• Xiao Yan stopped the three injured experts as they tried to flee, pressured them into leaving more than a hundred Spirit Stones each, and sent them running.
• The people of the city cheered for Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yi Xian, Liu Jin, and the others saw how greatly his victory strengthened Xiao Gate’s standing.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had refined five Origin Gathering Pills after three months of work and sent the Northern King to confront the resulting Pill Lightning.
• The Northern King smashed apart the lightning and spent half an hour devouring it as Xiao Yan hoped it would advance toward the Origin Return Realm.
• The Northern King returned with little visible change, and Xiao Yan concluded that fifth-tier Pill Lightning was no longer enough to greatly improve its strength.

Xiao Yan reviewed Xiao Gate’s growth in Feng City and offered Origin Gathering Pills and an Ultimate Transformation Pill to persuade three experts to accompany him to the Western Region. The three agreed to prepare for the journey, which Xiao Yan planned to begin in three months.

• Xiao Yi Xian reported that Xiao Gate had recruited many Dou Di experts and taken control of Feng City’s businesses.
• Fang Tonghui and Liu Cheng brought their families into Feng City and pledged their families’ loyalty to Xiao Gate.
• Xiao Yan presented three Origin Gathering Pills, then explained that he had founded Xiao Gate to gather strength against a powerful enemy in the Western Region.
• Xiao Yan promised the three experts the pills and an additional Ultimate Transformation Pill if they accompanied him, while leaving their families in the Northern Region.
• The three experts agreed to go, and Xiao Yan told them to prepare for the journey in three months.

Xiao Yan strengthened Xiao Gate, then chose a select group of experts to accompany him to the Western Region while the rest remained to guard Feng City. After traveling through a teleportation array, he arrived in the Western Region and declared that he had returned for Ye Luotian.

• Xiao Gate rapidly expanded its territory and forces, but infighting and defections left it disorganized and reduced its Dou Di experts to fifty-seven.
• Xiao Yan appeared above Feng City and promised rewards to those who joined his campaign into the Western Region, then tested them with his oppressive presence.
• Six people earned fifth-tier medicinal pills within ten minutes, and after Xiao Yan eased the pressure, thirty-one High-Level Dou Di joined his expedition.
• Xiao Yan led the chosen experts, alongside Liu Jin and two others, through Wu City's teleportation array to the Western Region.
• Xiao Yan arrived in the Western Region and said he had returned for Ye Luotian.

Xiao Yan led the Xiao Gate to Qingtuo Mountain, where they crushed the Withered Leaf Sect’s remaining elders and questioned a grand elder about Ye Luotian. After hearing the old man’s report, Xiao Yan killed him and headed for the Xilin Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yan led the Xiao Gate south to Qingtuo Mountain, the former territory of the Four Great Sects.
• Xiao Yan’s group killed several Withered Leaf Sect elders and captured a yellow-robed grand elder for questioning.
• Xiao Yan pressured the grand elder into revealing Ye Luotian’s situation, and his expression grew increasingly grim as he listened.
• Xiao Yan killed the grand elder and ordered the group to go to the Xilin Mountain Range.

Qinhuang Lost Valley and Ye Luotian invaded the Xilin Mountain Range to capture Leng Bingshuang, leaving Tian Ying and his allies facing an overwhelming attack. Leng Bingshuang finally intervened to protect Tian Ying, and the invaders recognized her Great Dao of Ice.

• The yellow-robed elder explained that Qinhuang Lost Valley and Ye Luotian had spent four years conquering the Western Region and had expanded into the Western Lin Region.
• Qinhuang Lost Valley and Ye Luotian attacked the Xilin Mountain Range, burning its forests and slaughtering magical beasts as they sought to capture Leng Bingshuang.
• Tian Ying confronted the invaders, while the blue-robed middle-aged man taunted Leng Bingshuang about her injuries and cold poison.
• The middle-aged man attacked Tian Ying, but Lin She took the blow and was badly wounded.
• The middle-aged man struck at Tian Ying again, and Leng Bingshuang appeared with a mirror of ice to block the attack.

Qin Shuo and Leng Bingshuang fought in the Xilin Mountain Range after Qin Shuo learned that Xiao Yan had cured her cold poison, but Ye Luotian intervened when Leng Bingshuang gained the advantage. As Ye Luotian moved to kill her, a black-robed figure appeared and struck at him with pale-blue flames.

• Leng Bingshuang revealed that her cold poison was gone and faced Qin Shuo, who planned to avenge his son and settle their old score.
• Qin Shuo and Leng Bingshuang exchanged hundreds of blows, and Leng Bingshuang gradually gained the upper hand.
• Ye Luotian struck Leng Bingshuang from behind, wounding her and disrupting her Origin Qi.
• Ye Luotian injured Tian Ying and the others, then approached Leng Bingshuang and raised his palm to kill her.
• A black-robed figure appeared before Leng Bingshuang and slammed a pale-blue-flame-covered hand into Ye Luotian's palm.

Xiao Yan arrived in time to save Leng Bingshuang and Tian Ying's group, then fought Qin Shuo and the Qinhuang Lost Valley experts. Ye Luotian escaped with the badly injured Qin Shuo, while Leng Bingshuang suddenly fell unconscious as ice spread over her body.

• Xiao Yan blasted Ye Luotian away, gave Leng Bingshuang a medicinal pill, and carried her to Tian Ying and the others.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Qin Shuo and attacked him as Qin Shuo charged with two short spears.
• Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames melted Qin Shuo's spears, and his fist broke Qin Shuo's chest before Xiao Yan killed the other Qinhuang Lost Valley experts.
• Ye Luotian returned, blasted Xiao Yan back, and fled with Qin Shuo.
• Leng Bingshuang lost consciousness as a thin layer of ice spread across her body.

Xiao Yan struggled to save Leng Bingshuang after she swallowed an extreme cold ice soul to gain power against Qin Shuo. As he tried to contain its deadly cold, Leng Bingshuang began absorbing it herself, and Xiao Yan recognized signs of an extreme yin physique.

• Xiao Yan discovered that the extreme cold ice soul Leng Bingshuang had swallowed was freezing her organs and draining her vitality.
• He melted the ice around her and used Heavenly Flames to protect her mind and limbs from the cold Qi.
• Xiao Yan spent two hours expelling the yin-cold power from Leng Bingshuang's meridians while carefully avoiding further injury.
• He began refining the power remaining in the extreme cold ice soul, but a suction force in Leng Bingshuang's Qi vortex pulled the cold power toward it.
• Leng Bingshuang's body grew colder and ice-blue lines appeared on her arms, leading Xiao Yan to identify her condition as an extreme yin physique.

Leng Bingshuang’s Extreme Yin Physique erupted after she absorbed the Extreme Cold Ice Soul, and she attacked Xiao Yan while freezing the volcanic cavern around them. As her power neared the Origin Return Realm, Xiao Yan resolved to stop her by using his fiery physique and taking responsibility for what followed.

• Leng Bingshuang awakened with her eyes turned pale and attacked Xiao Yan with a chilling presence.
• Xiao Yan dodged her rapid strikes as she unleashed the Great Dao of Frost and froze the cavern, including its magma.
• Xiao Yan recalled Yao Lao’s theory that an utterly firm and fierce physique might counter the Extreme Yin Physique.
• With Leng Bingshuang close to the Origin Return Realm, Xiao Yan used the Three Image Technique, covered himself in flames, seized her hand, and tore her dress apart with an invisible force.

Xiao Yan advised Cai’er about moving forward and tried to mediate the tension between Xiao Yi Xian and Leng Bingshuang, only for both women to slap him. A messenger from Qinhuang Lost Valley delivered Xiao Yan a jade slip and was killed by Leng Bingshuang.

• Xiao Yan sent Tian Ying and the thirty-odd Dou Di experts to rest in his cave dwelling.
• Xiao Yan stopped Cai’er from confronting Leng Bingshuang and urged her to think about her own path instead of remaining trapped in the past; Cai’er left after remembering her brother.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Leng Bingshuang exchanged a tense stare, then slapped Xiao Yan together when he stepped between them.
• A yellow-robed Mid Seven-Star Dou Di from Qinhuang Lost Valley delivered a jade slip to Xiao Yan and tried to flee.
• Leng Bingshuang struck the messenger from behind Xiao Yan and killed him instantly.