Recaps

Xiao Yan and his allies learned that Qinhuang Lost Valley and Ye Luotian’s forces had challenged them to fight at Shahepu in ten days, threatening the Xilin Mountain Range. After discovering the enemy had more Origin Transformation Realm experts than expected, Xiao Yan realized he needed reinforcements and thought of Lin She.

• Leng Bingshuang killed the yellow-robed man, and Xiao Yan played a recording in which Qin Shuo and Ye Luotian challenged them to battle at Shahepu in ten days and threatened to destroy the Xilin Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan crushed the jade slip and ordered Xiao Gate to prepare for the battle, then froze when Leng Bingshuang and Xiao Yi Xian stared at him coldly.
• Xiao Yi Xian briefed Xiao Yan and Xiao Gate’s senior members on the coming battle, and Tian Ying estimated that Qinhuang Lost Valley commanded more than fifty Dou Di experts.
• Leng Bingshuang revealed that Qinhuang Lost Valley had two additional Origin Transformation Realm experts, worsening Xiao Yan’s concern that Ghost Hall would also send powerful fighters.
• Xiao Yan realized he needed outside help and, after looking at Lin She, recalled another possible Origin Transformation Realm expert in the Western Region.

Xiao Yan brought Leng Bingshuang, Tian Ying, and the others to the lake containing the entrance to the Ancient Ruins and tried to reopen it with his Spiritual Strength. After the entrance resisted him for half an hour, a scarlet blood arrow shot out, and Leng Bingshuang rushed to shield him.

• Xiao Yan led the group to the lake, where Lin She and Leng Bingshuang recognized the entrance to the Ancient Ruins.
• Xiao Yan explained that he hoped to reopen the ruins and recruit the powerful expert inside, while Leng Bingshuang warned him about the danger.
• Xiao Yan teased Leng Bingshuang about worrying for him, and she blushed and turned away without getting angry.
• Xiao Yan used his Spiritual Strength to part the lake and reveal the scarlet barrier, but he could not open the entrance.
• After Xiao Yan strained against the barrier for half an hour, a blood arrow shot toward him, and Leng Bingshuang darted in front of him to block it.

Xiao Yan returned to the ruins with Lin She and sought out the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape. The ape awoke beneath the stone platform, and Xiao Yan prepared to free it from the seals.

• Lin She dispelled the blood arrow and opened the ruins entrance with his control over the Ancient Ruins.
• Xiao Yan and Lin She entered the ruins after Xiao Yan used pale blue flames to clear away the blood mist.
• Xiao Yan used his Spiritual Strength to locate the ferocious presence in the wooded mountains and led Lin She to it.
• Xiao Yan found the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape beneath a stone platform surrounded by six standing pillars and a broken seventh.
• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape awoke and roared, then called for help destroying the seven seals.

Xiao Yan returned to the Ancient Ruins and bargained with the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape to secure its freedom in exchange for joining his faction. After Xiao Yan broke the seal, he learned that the ape’s cultivation had fallen to Eight-Star Dou Di because another seal had suppressed its strength.

• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape recognized Xiao Yan as the human who had spied on him years earlier and was shocked by his rapid growth.
• Xiao Yan offered to free the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape if it joined his faction, and the ape refused.
• Xiao Yan and Lin She began to leave, prompting the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape to agree to join him.
• Xiao Yan used the Sevenfold Heaven-Breaking Ruler to smash the six stone pillars and release the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape.
• Xiao Yan questioned why the freed ape was only at Eight-Star Dou Di, and the ape explained that one of its two seals had suppressed its cultivation.

Xiao Yan learned that the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape could recover his cultivation with a Purple Jade Pill, but refining it in the ten days before Xiao Gate’s battle seemed impossible. The ape revealed a time-slowing node beneath the ruins’ stone platforms, and Xiao Yan entered the cave to see if he could use it.

• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape told Xiao Yan that a fifth-tier Purple Jade Pill could restore his cultivation and offered to join Xiao Yan’s faction if he refined it.
• Xiao Yan said there was not enough time before the battle with Qinhuang Lost Valley and started to leave with Lin She.
• The ape explained that a node beneath the seven stone platforms slowed time, potentially giving Xiao Yan enough time to make the pill.
• Xiao Yan instructed Lin She to watch the ape and leaped into the cave beneath the platforms.
• Xiao Yan found the energy node with his Spiritual Strength, approached it, and felt his Great Dao of the Void gather around him.

Xiao Yan took control of the Great Dao of the Void energy node and began refining the Purple Jade Pill inside its time-slowing space. Outside the ruins, Xiao Yi Xian asked Leng Bingshuang to walk with her so they could speak privately.

• Xiao Yan merged his Power of the Great Dao with the energy node, gaining control of it and discovering its time-slowing effect.
• Xiao Yan told Lin She that he had taken control of the node, while Lin She guarded the cave and the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape waited for the Purple Jade Pill.
• Xiao Yan activated the node’s power around himself, then summoned the Luo Heavenly Cauldron and began refining the pill with five sets of ingredients.
• After two outside days passed, Lin She and the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape remained in a standoff while Leng Bingshuang and the others waited outside the Ancient Ruins.
• Xiao Yi Xian approached Leng Bingshuang and asked her to take a walk in the woods to talk, and Leng Bingshuang agreed.

Xiao Yan completed the Purple Jade Pill and faced the Pill Lightning alone, using the lightning to strengthen himself. After entering the thunderclouds, he devoured and refined their remaining lightning with twenty black curtains, including energy nodes from the cave array.

• Pill Lightning appeared over the cave, and Lin She and the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape realized Xiao Yan had completed the Purple Jade Pill.
• High-level magical beasts charged toward the cave as Xiao Yan emerged and punched away the first bolt of lightning, then refined the lightning that entered his body.
• Xiao Yan withstood dozens of lightning bolts, using their power to raise his cultivation while Lin She and the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape watched in shock.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Wasteland-Spanning Finger against a stronger bolt, and their collision opened the void, where Xiao Yan disappeared.
• The Pill Lightning weakened and began drawing its power back as Xiao Yan was revealed inside the thunderclouds, refining lightning with twenty black curtains, half of them from the cave’s energy nodes.

Xiao Yan absorbed the lightning power, strengthening his cultivation and his Power of the Great Dao, then gave the Purple Jade Pill to the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape. When the ape recovered only to the Middle Origin Transformation Realm and tried to leave, Xiao Yan subdued him with Heavenly Flames and forced him to honor his promise before leading him and Lin She out of the Ancient Ruins.

• Xiao Yan refined the lightning power and advanced his cultivation beyond the Late Origin Transformation Realm.
• Xiao Yan gave the Purple Jade Pill to the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape, who swallowed it and broke the seal on his cultivation.
• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape recovered only to the Middle Origin Transformation Realm and accused Xiao Yan of deceiving him.
• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape tried to leave the ruins, but Xiao Yan covered him in Heavenly Flames and warned him not to mobilize his Origin Qi.
• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape agreed to join Xiao Yan's faction, and Xiao Yan led him and Lin She toward the edge of the Ancient Ruins.

Xiao Yan returned from the Ancient Ruins with the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape and reunited with his companions, then met Murong Xuan, who had come to see Leng Bingshuang. After learning that Murong Xuan had once been targeted by Qinhuang Lost Valley, Leng Bingshuang invited him to join the battle against them in ten days.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Ancient Ruins with the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape, whose bloodline fear made him tremble before Leng Bingshuang.
• Xiao Yan and his companions returned to the depths of the Xilin Mountain Range and found Murong Xuan surrounded by wary Xiao Gate experts.
• Murong Xuan recognized Xiao Yan, was shocked by his cultivation, and explained that he had come to speak with Leng Bingshuang.
• Xiao Yan recalled how Ye Luotian and Qin Yun had nearly killed Murong Xuan, prompting Leng Bingshuang to resolve to make Qinhuang Lost Valley pay.
• Leng Bingshuang told Murong Xuan to stay and reclaim his honor in the decisive battle against Qinhuang Lost Valley in ten days.

Murong Xuan was drawn into Xiao Gate’s preparations for its looming battle with Qinhuang Lost Valley, while Xiao Yan welcomed another Origin Transformation Realm visitor, Bai Zhan. Bai Zhan said he had come to share important information and asked whether Xiao Yan remembered the Withered Leaf Gu.

• Leng Bingshuang and the others told Murong Xuan that Xiao Gate would fight Qinhuang Lost Valley, and he reluctantly agreed to take part.
• Murong Xuan explained that his clan wanted Leng Bingshuang to visit, but he stayed vague when she pressed him for details.
• On the fourth day of the waiting period, Xiao Yan and the others sensed a powerful newcomer approaching the Xilin Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan recognized the visitor as Bai Zhan, who revealed that he knew about Xiao Yan’s recent fight with Qinhuang Lost Valley and denied ties to Qinhuang Lost Valley or Ye Luotian.
• Bai Zhan said he had come to give Xiao Yan important information and asked whether he remembered the Withered Leaf Gu.

Bai Zhan warned Xiao Yan that Ye Luotian secretly controlled dozens of experts with the Withered Leaf Gu, including an Origin Transformation Realm expert. Xiao Yan realized his Heavenly Flames might free them, while his warning to Bai Zhan left Bai Ying shocked.

• Bai Zhan reminded Xiao Yan that he had resisted the Withered Leaf Gu and used it to advance his cultivation.
• Bai Zhan revealed that Ye Luotian controlled more than thirty Dou Di experts and an Origin Transformation Realm expert, making Qinhuang Lost Valley's forces far stronger than Xiao Yan had known.
• Xiao Yan realized he could use his Heavenly Flames to remove the Gu and free Ye Luotian's controlled experts.
• Xiao Yan questioned Bai Zhan's motives, then let him leave after warning him to speak openly rather than scheme against Xiao Gate.
• Bai Zhan hurried away, and Bai Ying heard Xiao Yan's warning from afar and reacted with shock.

Xiao Yan traveled alone to Pingshan Western Hollow in the Western Wilderness Region to free the experts Ye Luotian had hidden there. After killing the six guards and bypassing Ye Luotian’s restriction, he found Lü Zhongtian among the imprisoned group.

• Xiao Yan set out alone for the Western Wilderness Region after deciding to trust Bai Zhan’s information.
• Xiao Yan reached Pingshan Western Hollow and confirmed that six Nine-Star Dou Di guards were protecting the sealed experts.
• Xiao Yan killed all six guards before they could mobilize their Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan used the Great Dao of the Void to bypass Ye Luotian’s restriction without alerting him.
• Xiao Yan entered the prison and recognized Lü Zhongtian among the thirty-odd experts.

Xiao Yan traveled to Pingshan Western Hollow and freed Lü Zhongtian and more than thirty other experts from Ye Luotian’s control. He escaped with them, leaving Qinhuang Lost Valley’s forces without a major hidden advantage ahead of the coming battle.

• Bai Ying and Bai Zhan discussed whether Xiao Yan would rescue the prisoners, and Bai Ying warned that Xiao Yan should not be made an enemy.
• Xiao Yan met Lü Zhongtian and the other imprisoned experts, who explained that Ye Luotian controlled them with the Withered Leaf Gu.
• The prisoners urged Xiao Yan to kill them rather than let Ye Luotian use them in the coming battle.
• Xiao Yan gave each prisoner a small flame and explained that swallowing it would destroy the Withered Leaf Gu.
• Lü Zhongtian swallowed his flame first, recovered his cultivation, and confirmed that the Gu had been eliminated.
• The other experts swallowed their flames, regained their cultivation, and escaped with Xiao Yan through the Great Dao of the Void.

Xiao Yan traveled to Li Sacred City to seek the Alchemist Alliance’s help in the coming battle. After proving that Han Dong had invited him to join the Alliance, he was allowed to meet Han Dong.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Alchemist Alliance’s headquarters in Li Sacred City and was stopped at the gate until he showed his Alchemist Badge.
• Jia Ming tried to shove Xiao Yan aside for Master Zhao, but Xiao Yan dodged him and entered after presenting his badge.
• Xiao Yan met Han Dan, a deacon who explained the Alliance’s rule for first-time visitors seeking an audience.
• Han Dan saw Han Dong’s name on Xiao Yan’s badge and led him upstairs to meet the vice president.

Xiao Yan waited to meet Vice President Han Dong, but Zhao Chuanchen and his disciple Jia Ming tried to make him leave. Xiao Yan knocked them both down, and Han Dong intervened before he could strike Zhao again.

• Han Dan brought Xiao Yan to the vice president’s waiting room, where Zhao Chuanchen and Jia Ming were waiting.
• Zhao Chuanchen claimed his appointment gave him priority and urged Xiao Yan to return another day, but Han Dan said the vice president should decide whom to see.
• Xiao Yan told Zhao Chuanchen that he came from Xiao Gate, and Zhao and Jia Ming dismissed him as a junior from an obscure faction.
• Jia Ming released the pressure of a Five-Star Dou Di and threatened Xiao Yan, who sent him flying into a wall with an invisible force.
• Xiao Yan slapped Zhao Chuanchen to the floor after scolding him, but Han Dong opened the stone door and asked Xiao Yan to spare Zhao for his sake.

Xiao Yan visited the Alchemist Alliance to return the Phoenix Chick Pill and ask for its cooperation against Qinhuang Lost Valley. Xing Qian confirmed Xiao Yan’s strength was genuine but refused to involve the Alliance in the regional conflict because of its obligations to the Pill Tower.

• Zhao Chuanchen recognized Xiao Yan and fled the Alchemist Alliance with Jia Ming.
• Han Dong told Xiao Yan that Xing Qian had returned and would soon leave the Alliance.
• Xing Qian was astonished by Xiao Yan’s Late Origin Transformation Realm cultivation and tested him in a brief clash, revealing his own Origin Return Realm strength.
• Xing Qian recognized the Heavenly Flame in Xiao Yan’s palm and accepted the Phoenix Chick Pill, praising Xiao Yan’s cultivation and alchemy.
• Xiao Yan asked the Alchemist Alliance to join forces with him, but Xing Qian refused, citing the Alliance’s neutrality and ties to the Pill Tower.

Xiao Yan received a powerful pill from Xing Qian after the Alchemist Alliance refused to join his coming battle against Qinhuang Lost Valley. He warned Xing Qian and Han Dong that Ye Luotian was backed by a Central Region faction, the Ghost Hall, leaving them shocked.

• Xing Qian refused to send Alchemist Alliance fighters to help Xiao Yan but gave him a sixth-tier Dragon Bone Pill.
• Xing Qian explained that the pill could temporarily raise Xiao Yan’s cultivation, but warned him about its limits and dangerous consequences if misused.
• Xing Qian and Han Dong asked how Xiao Yan planned to face Qinhuang Lost Valley’s four Origin Transformation Realm experts.
• Xiao Yan said his side would have greater strength and explained that Ye Luotian had helped bring Qinhuang Lost Valley out of seclusion by destroying rival sects and consolidating the Four Great Sects.
• Xiao Yan revealed that outside forces from the Central Region operated in the Western Region and that the Ghost Hall was secretly supporting Ye Luotian.

Xiao Yan learned that Ghost Hall was backing Ye Luotian, but the Alchemist Alliance refused to form an alliance and only promised to monitor events. As the Western Region gathered at Shahepu for Xiao Yan’s battle with Qinhuang Lost Valley, Ye Luotian discovered that more than thirty experts had vanished from Pingshan Western Hollow.

• Xing Qian and Han Dong recognized the danger of Ghost Hall but declined Xiao Yan’s alliance proposal, promising instead to watch events and protect him if necessary.
• Xing Qian and Han Dong discussed Ghost Hall’s apparent plan to use Qinhuang Lost Valley to gain control of the Western Region, then decided to investigate before reporting to their higher-ups.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xilin Mountain Range, where Xiao Yi Xian and the others welcomed him, and Leng Bingshuang felt her hatred toward him fading.
• On the ninth day, Xiao Yan led his experts toward Shahepu as forces from across the Western Region gathered for the coming battle.
• Ye Luotian found that more than thirty experts, including Lü Zhongtian, had disappeared from beyond his intact restriction in Pingshan Western Hollow, and he razed the place in rage.
• On the appointed tenth day, Xiao Yan arrived at Shahepu with his party, where the battle’s outcome would determine the Western Region’s future.

Xiao Yan and his party arrived in Shahepu, where their strength shocked the city as they waited for Qinhuang Lost Valley. When Qin Shuo’s force arrived, Xiao Yan confronted them and noticed that Ye Luotian was missing.

• Xiao Yan brought his party, including five Origin Transformation Realm experts, into Shahepu and waited for Qinhuang Lost Valley.
• Xiao Yan warned the Xiao Gate members not to underestimate their opponents and promised them rewards for victory.
• Xiao Yan sensed Qinhuang Lost Valley approaching and led his group into the air to face Qin Shuo’s force.
• Qin Shuo declared that Xiao Yan and Leng Bingshuang would die that day, and Xiao Yan retorted that the outcome was not decided.
• Xiao Yan saw three Origin Transformation Realm experts among Qinhuang Lost Valley’s forces and noticed that Ye Luotian was absent.

Xiao Yan launched Xiao Gate's attack on Qinhuang Lost Valley after Ye Luotian failed to appear. Ye Luotian then arrived with Ghost Hall reinforcements, including an Origin Return Realm expert, turning the battle against Xiao Gate as Xing Qian and Han Dong watched from afar.

• Leng Bingshuang noticed Ye Luotian was missing, while Xiao Yan suspected he knew where Ye Luotian had gone.
• Qin Shuo feared Ye Luotian had abandoned Qinhuang Lost Valley after seeing Xiao Yan's five Origin Transformation Realm experts.
• Fang Tonghui and Liu Cheng urged Xiao Yan to attack, and Xiao Yan ordered Xiao Gate to charge.
• Ye Luotian descended between the forces with thirteen Ghost Hall members, including ten High-Level Dou Di, two Origin Transformation Realm experts, and an Origin Return Realm expert.
• Xing Qian confirmed the newcomer was an Origin Return Realm expert and chose to watch with Han Dong rather than intervene.
• The Ghost Hall reinforcements shifted the balance, leaving Xiao Gate facing a perilous battle.

Xiao Yan faced Ye Luotian’s Qinhuang Lost Valley forces and Ghost Hall allies, leaving his side badly outnumbered. Just as the battle began, Lü Zhongtian arrived with more than forty rescued Dou Di experts to reinforce Xiao Yan.

• The black-robed Ghost Hall leader confronted Xiao Yan, who ignited his pale blue Heavenly Flames and vowed to settle their scores.
• Qin Shuo and the black-robed leader argued over their alliance, but Ye Luotian persuaded Qin Shuo to join forces against Xiao Yan.
• Qin Shuo ordered Qinhuang Lost Valley to attack Xiao Yan’s group, leaving Xiao Yan’s allies shaken by the opposing force.
• More than forty experts charged in to support Xiao Yan, and Lü Zhongtian explained that they were the Dou Di he had rescued from Pingshan Western Hollow.

Lü Zhongtian arrived with reinforcements, stabilizing the battle between Xiao Gate and Qinhuang Lost Valley before the conflict shifted toward a clash between their strongest fighters. As Hall Master Gui faced Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan revealed the Northern King, an Origin Transformation Realm puppet, and ordered it to kill Ye Luotian.

• Lü Zhongtian brought eleven old friends to help Xiao Yan, and their arrival brought the fighting to a stalemate.
• Ye Luotian realized Xiao Yan had rescued the people from Pingshan Western Hollow and removed his Withered Leaf Gu.
• Hall Master Gui sent ten black-robed Dou Di experts into battle, prompting Xiao Gate’s members to charge forward.
• Hall Master Gui claimed Xiao Yan as his opponent while the other fighters paired off against Qinhuang Lost Valley’s experts, leaving Leng Bingshuang to face Qin Shuo and Ye Luotian.
• Xiao Yan struck Ye Luotian with the Northern King, revealing the puppet’s Origin Transformation Realm strength, then ordered it to kill him.

Xiao Yan and Hall Master Gui became the decisive combatants as the other fighters engaged across the battlefield. Xiao Yan gained the upper hand in their brutal close-quarters fight, ending the chapter as he shattered Hall Master Gui’s Origin Qi-coated sleeve.

• After the Northern King and Ye Luotian clashed, Leng Bingshuang and the others fought Qinhuang Lost Valley’s Origin Transformation Realm experts while the Dou Di fighters engaged.
• Hall Master Gui attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan evaded his claw and countered with the Wasteland-Spanning Finger against Hall Master Gui’s Yin Bone Claw.
• Xiao Yan and Hall Master Gui exchanged brutal blows for a quarter of an hour, but Hall Master Gui’s attacks failed to overcome Xiao Yan’s physical strength.
• Xiao Yan drove Hall Master Gui back and struck at his head, then blasted apart the black sleeve Hall Master Gui had raised to block the punch.

Xiao Yan battered Hall Master Gui and used a surprise avatar attack, but Hall Master Gui countered with the Power of the Great Dao. Hall Master Gui then unleashed his Great Dao of Darkness, plunging the battlefield into total darkness.

• Xiao Yan struck Hall Master Gui with a powerful punch, knocked off his mask, and sent him flying.
• Hall Master Gui attacked Xiao Yan with black chains, then ambushed him from behind, but Xiao Yan blocked the claw with his scaled fist.
• Xiao Yan's avatar used the Sevenfold Heaven-Breaking Ruler, but Hall Master Gui's viscous Power of the Great Dao absorbed the attack.
• Hall Master Gui destroyed Xiao Yan's avatar before it could self-destruct and covered himself with the strange liquid.
• Hall Master Gui spread his Great Dao of Darkness across the battlefield, engulfing Xiao Yan in darkness.

Xiao Yan fought Hall Master Gui inside the Domain of Darkness, where the Great Dao of Darkness concealed Gui and overwhelmed Xiao Yan with hidden attacks. Xiao Yan disrupted Gui’s assault with an unfamiliar technique and struck him with the Heart-Shattering Palm.

• Xiao Yan searched the Domain of Darkness with his Spiritual Strength but could not locate Hall Master Gui.
• Hall Master Gui attacked from concealment with a black spear, and Xiao Yan blocked it with Heavenly Flame armor, the Golden Elephant Art, and the Ancient Dragon Phoenix Armor.
• Xiao Yan began fusing the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Sea Heart Flame to form a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, but Hall Master Gui bombarded him and used the Great Dao of Darkness to weaken his armor.
• Hall Master Gui appeared and pulled Xiao Yan’s hands apart, stopping the flames from fusing, but a black steel needle twisted and injured Gui’s arm.
• Xiao Yan appeared before Hall Master Gui and struck his heart with the Intent Class Dou Technique, Heart-Shattering Palm.