Recaps

Xiao Yan accepted Clan Head Liu’s invitation and met Liu Ya, the Liu Clan’s Origin Return Realm guardian. After learning that Xiao Yan’s group was bound for the Far Southern Land, Liu Ya offered the clan’s flying beasts to speed their journey.

• Xiao Yan accepted Clan Head Liu’s invitation after recognizing Liu Ya’s voice as that of the Liu Clan’s powerful guardian.
• Xiao Yan and his companions met Liu Ya, who dismissed the Liu Clan members Xiao Yan had killed as good-for-nothings and welcomed the group.
• Liu Ya learned that Xiao Yan’s group had come from Qingyang City and asked whether they had fought the Sea Cloud Palace master; Xiao Yan confirmed it.
• Xiao Yan asked Liu Ya not to reveal their departure to Fu Yulong, and Liu Ya promised the Liu Clan would not help the Sea Cloud Palace.
• Xiao Yan told Liu Ya that the group was traveling to the Far Southern Land, and Liu Ya offered the Liu Clan’s flying beasts to carry them there faster.

Xiao Yan and his companions accepted Liu Ya’s invitation and visited the Liu Clan’s flying-beast grounds to arrange travel to the Far Southern Land. The chapter ended with Liu Ya demanding three hundred Spirit Stones per person, surprising the group because he had never mentioned a fee.

• Xiao Yan accepted Liu Ya’s invitation to stay at the Liu Clan residence, though Liu Ya’s delighted smile kept him wary through the night.
• The next morning, Liu Ya and Liu Changsheng guided Xiao Yan and his companions to a canyon where the Liu Clan kept its flying beasts.
• Liu Ya proudly showed off the clan’s suspended pavilion bridge, but it cracked beneath a Purple-Winged Bird, prompting Liu Ya to order Liu Changsheng to double the beasts’ training.
• Xiao Yan and Luo Jin spotted a young woman in a blue dress whose cultivation was at the Late Origin Transformation Realm.
• Liu Ya said the clan’s strongest flying beasts could reach the Far Southern Land in about ten days, then surprised Xiao Yan by asking for three hundred Spirit Stones per person.

Xiao Yan and his companions paid Liu Ya for their journey and tried to rent a Wind Vulture Beast, only to find that a woman had claimed the last available one. As the group considered settling for a slower beast, Liu Changsheng revealed there was another Origin Transformation Realm flying beast, but left his explanation unfinished.

• Liu Ya charged Xiao Yan's group 2,100 Spirit Stones for their stay and an escort, and Mu Leng paid the bill when Xiao Yan could not afford it.
• Liu Ya led the group to rent a Wind Vulture Beast, but the person in charge said the only remaining Origin Transformation Realm beast had already been chosen.
• Xiao Yan and Luo Jin asked the woman in a blue dress to transfer the Wind Vulture Beast, but she refused and ordered it to fly away.
• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape suggested using a slower beast, and Liu Changsheng told the group that another Origin Transformation Realm flying beast existed, but there was a catch.

Xiao Yan learned that the Liu Clan’s other flying beast was an uncontrollable magical beast with a powerful bloodline, and he asked to see it. The group found a Blood Flame Bird in a cave filled with spent Spirit Stones, where the awakened bird immediately challenged the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape.

• Liu Changsheng revealed that the Liu Clan had another flying beast, but Liu Ya explained that no one could control it after its bloodline awakened in adulthood.
• Xiao Yan asked Liu Ya to take the group to see the beast, and Liu Ya agreed after considering the Spirit Stones Xiao Yan had given him.
• Liu Changsheng led the group through a tunnel into a spacious cave, where they saw piles of drained Spirit Stones and a giant bird resting in the sunlight.
• Xiao Yan and the others recognized the bird as a Blood Flame Bird, a rare magical beast whose clan had once held great status.
• The Blood Flame Bird opened his eyes, fixed his gaze on the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape, and roared at the monkey for calling him by name.

Xiao Yan confronted the Blood Flame Bird after it attacked the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape, then tried to force the stubborn bird to take the group to the Far Southern Land. The bird refused even after an hour of being beaten, so Xiao Yan decided to pluck its feathers instead.

• The Blood Flame Bird attacked the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape with flaming stones and a pillar of fire, burning him and blasting him backward.
• Xiao Yan blocked the Blood Flame Bird’s feathers, dodged its sudden attack, and slammed it into the cave floor.
• Xiao Yan demanded that the Blood Flame Bird take them to the Far Southern Land, then repeatedly battered it when it refused; Liu Ya and Liu Changsheng worried about the consequences but were relieved the bird remained alive.
• After nearly an hour, the Blood Flame Bird still refused to cooperate, so Xiao Yan called Old Yuan to hold it down while he threatened to pluck it.

Xiao Yan forced the Blood Flame Bird to agree to carry him and his companions to the Far Southern Land by threatening to pluck out its crest. After the bird yielded, Xiao Yan called everyone to prepare for departure.

• Xiao Yan had the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape beat the Blood Flame Bird until it could no longer resist.
• Xiao Yan threatened to pluck the Blood Flame Bird's golden crest unless it agreed to lead them.
• The Blood Flame Bird agreed to carry Xiao Yan and his companions to the Far Southern Land.
• Liu Ya eased the Origin Qi he had prepared to intervene, and Xiao Yan told everyone to prepare to set off.

Xiao Yan and his companions left Liu Cang City on the Blood Flame Bird and traveled toward their destination, while Liu Ya explained why the Liu Clan needed to keep its distance from Xiao Yan. As they approached a clash in the sky, Luo Jin recognized a voice and prepared to act.

• Liu Ya praised Xiao Yan's strength but warned Liu Changsheng that the Liu Clan should avoid involvement because of the forces behind Fu Yulong and the Sea Cloud Palace.
• After noticing the damage to the canyon, Liu Ya ordered his people to chase Xiao Yan and make him pay, but the group had already left.
• Xiao Yan and his companions spent two days traveling on the Blood Flame Bird, with Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian cultivating while Luo Jin admired the scenery and thought of someone he had met.
• Hearing a battle ahead, Xiao Yan told the Blood Flame Bird to slow down and go around it.
• Luo Jin recognized one of the voices from the battle and tensed as he gathered Origin Qi.

Xiao Yan and Luo Jin encountered the blue-gowned woman from the canyon being attacked by three gray-robed men. Luo Jin intervened to protect her, and Xiao Yan helped drive the attackers away, leaving Luo Jin to greet her again.

• Luo Jin directed the Blood Flame Bird toward the battle instead of avoiding it, and Xiao Yan recognized the woman being attacked.
• The blue-gowned woman fought off the three men but grew exhausted and was wounded as they closed in on her.
• Luo Jin rushed between the woman and two attackers, knocking them away with a single palm strike.
• Xiao Yan appeared and sent the two men flying again, while the remaining attacker fled.
• Luo Jin greeted the woman and remarked that they had met three times.

Xiao Yan confronted Li Bingrui after she hinted that she knew him and that he would soon meet certain people again, but she displayed her strength and departed before answering his questions. Xiao Yan and his companions continued south and arrived at Hopeless City in the Far Southern Land three days later.

• Li Bingrui recognized Xiao Yan and spoke cryptically about people whose presence she sensed on him before leaving on the Wind Vulture Beast.
• Xiao Yan blocked Li Bingrui and demanded answers, but she formed an ice spike near his brow to show that he had underestimated her.
• Xiao Yan let Li Bingrui go after realizing she had held back her strength, and she called back her name as she departed.
• The Blood Flame Bird recognized Li Bingrui and recalled that she had once beaten him so badly that he fled his clan.
• Xiao Yan and his companions traveled without further incident for three days and reached Hopeless City in the Far Southern Land.

Xiao Yan and his companions reached Hopeless City, where he saw how powerful and prosperous the Far Southern Land was and learned more about its Three Sects. They continued toward Burning Flame Valley with time to spare before its sect competition.

• The Blood Flame Bird accepted Xiao Yan’s tier-five medicinal pills, warned him not to antagonize Li Bingrui, and flew away.
• Xiao Yan led his companions into Hopeless City and reflected that he had finally reached the Far Southern Land on his way to Burning Flame Valley and the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva.
• The group saw the city’s many powerful cultivators, including numerous Origin Return Realm experts, and attracted attention themselves.
• Xiao Yan asked Zhou Tai about the Three Sects of the Southern Region, and Zhou Tai named the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect as the third faction alongside Burning Flame Valley and the Heavenly Puppet Sect.
• Zhou Tai explained that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect was founded by a powerful magical beast and was the Far Southern Land’s only sect whose disciples were magical beasts.

Xiao Yan learned about the tense balance among the Far Southern Land’s three major factions and entered Hopeless City with his companions. While the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s master ordered Xiao Yan killed, Xiao Yan found a Mirror-Breaking Flower that might help restore the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape’s cultivation.

• Zhou Tai explained that the three Southern Region powers maintained their balance through mutual distrust, and Xiao Yan suspected Li Bingrui had a powerful teacher.
• Zhou Tai reassured Xiao Yan that they could leave after obtaining the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, and Xiao Yan led the group into Hopeless City.
• The Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s master learned that a human had killed members of his race and ordered an underling to kill Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and his companions settled into Hopeless City and explored its shops for valuable materials.
• At the Hundred Herbs Pavilion, Xiao Yan spotted a Mirror-Breaking Flower that could help the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape recover his cultivation.

Xiao Yan visited the Hundred Herbs Pavilion in Hopeless City to find Mirror-Breaking Flowers for refining pills, while manager Hu Yanzao tried to inflate their value. Just as Xiao Yan hesitated over what to do, a young man in brocade robes declared that he wanted every remaining flower.

• Xiao Yan spotted a Mirror-Breaking Flower and considered using it to refine pills for his party.
• Hu Yanzao introduced himself as a Hundred Herbs Pavilion manager and said the shop had received more Mirror-Breaking Flowers.
• Xiao Yan asked the price, and Hu Yanzao explained that the pavilion required exchanges for ingredients of equal or greater value.
• Hu Yanzao praised the flower’s potential to produce valuable Mirror-Breaking Pills and urged Xiao Yan to see its profit-making potential.
• A young man in brocade robes interrupted and announced that he wanted all the remaining Mirror-Breaking Flowers.

Xiao Yan encountered a wealthy young man named Fang and his powerful guard, Master Lan, at the Hundred Herbs Pavilion. After recognizing that Fang was poisoned, Xiao Yan offered to cure him and revealed a Heavenly Flame to convince Master Lan.

• Fang wanted to buy all five Mirror-Breaking Flowers, but Master Lan warned him that the Fang Clan did not need them.
• Master Lan's Late Origin Return Realm cultivation silenced the people mocking Fang and caught Xiao Yan's attention.
• Master Lan decided to leave with Fang and told Hu Yanzao to keep the Mirror-Breaking Flowers.
• Xiao Yan called out to Master Lan and said Fang seemed to be afflicted by poison that he might be able to cure.
• Master Lan dismissed Xiao Yan's claim, so Xiao Yan summoned a pale blue Heavenly Flame, shocking him.

Xiao Yan revealed his Heavenly Flame to Master Lan, who asked him to cure Fang Zhicong’s poison. After agreeing, Xiao Yan obtained all of the Hundred Herbs Pavilion’s Mirror-Breaking Flowers, while Hu Yanzao charged substantial fees for the transaction.

• Master Lan recognized Xiao Yan’s pale blue flame as a Heavenly Flame and introduced himself and Fang Zhicong while apologizing for his earlier discourtesy.
• Lan Ye explained that Fang Zhicong’s poison was draining his cultivation and could be cured by a Heavenly Flame or sufficiently powerful cultivation, then asked Xiao Yan to help.
• Xiao Yan agreed to expel Fang Zhicong’s poison and asked Hu Yanzao to set aside the Mirror-Breaking Flower for him.
• Lan Ye paid for every Mirror-Breaking Flower in the Hundred Herbs Pavilion’s stock and supplied the other medicinal ingredients Xiao Yan needed.
• Hu Yanzao charged Xiao Yan thousands of Spirit Stones in labor fees, making Xiao Yan realize how profitably the pavilion had arranged the deal.

Xiao Yan learned how the Hundred Herbs Pavilion used its monopoly on high-grade medicinal ingredients to profit from auctions while exploiting mercenaries. He then examined the unconscious Fang Zhicong, and Lan Ye realized Xiao Yan’s Spiritual Strength was comparable to that of a Fifth-Tier Alchemist.

• Lan Ye explained that the Hundred Herbs Pavilion controlled high-grade medicinal ingredients in Hopeless City and used auctions to secure its real profits.
• Xiao Yan reflected that the Pavilion’s dominance persisted because the other shops lacked the strength to challenge it.
• Lan Ye asked whether Xiao Yan was an alchemist, and Xiao Yan confirmed that he was.
• Lan Ye brought Xiao Yan to a residence where Fang Zhicong lay unconscious after Lan Ye had knocked him out.
• Xiao Yan released his Spiritual Strength to examine Fang Zhicong, and Lan Ye recognized its power as comparable to a Fifth-Tier Alchemist’s.

Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames to cleanse most of the poison from Fang Zhicong’s limbs, restoring his meridians and improving his condition. He left the rest of the treatment for another day and told Lan Ye he was staying at the Helan Relay Station.

• Xiao Yan examined Fang Zhicong and found that poison had invaded his organs, Qi cyclone, Soul Origin, meridians, and bones.
• Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flames to drive the poison from Fang Zhicong’s limbs while Lan Ye watched anxiously.
• Xiao Yan cleared most of the poison from the limbs in about an hour and a half, leaving Fang Zhicong’s meridians and bones renewed.
• Xiao Yan told Lan Ye that the poison in Fang Zhicong’s internal organs would have to wait until their next session.
• Xiao Yan left to return to his companions and told Lan Ye he was staying at the Helan Relay Station.

Xiao Yan returned to the guesthouse and told his companions about saving Fang Zhicong and Lan Ye, then revealed his plan to trade for the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva. He left everyone astonished by producing a seven-thousand-year-old Thousand-Fan Tree whose leaves could serve as valuable bargaining chips.

• Xiao Yan returned to the guesthouse, where Luo Jin and the others had been waiting anxiously for him.
• Xiao Yan recounted how he had saved Fang Zhicong and Lan Ye, and explained that the Fang Clan’s head was likely an Origin King expert who might owe him a favor.
• Luo Jin asked how they would trade for the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva at Burning Flame Valley, since their group had nothing suitable to offer.
• Xiao Yan revealed a seven-thousand-year-old Thousand-Fan Tree bearing more than a hundred leaves, including some with five thousand years of medicinal age.
• Xiao Yan’s companions realized that the Thousand-Fan Leaves could be exchanged for the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, while Xiao Yan credited the Life Spirit Flame for helping the tree grow.

Lan Ye asked Xiao Yan to accompany him to the Fang Clan to continue treating Fang Zhicong's poison, offering the clan's resources and a guest elder position in return. Xiao Yan accepted and left Helan Relay Station with his companions, while four men followed them from the eastern gate.

• Lan Ye waited outside Xiao Yan's quarters after seeing Fang Zhicong improve from the previous day's treatment.
• Lan Ye invited Xiao Yan to the Fang Clan to expel the poison completely and promised him access to the clan's resources and a guest elder position.
• Xiao Yan agreed to go, then asked to bring Luo Jin and his other companions along.
• Lan Ye accepted Xiao Yan's companions, and the group left Helan Relay Station through the east gate toward the Fang Clan.
• Four middle-aged men emerged outside the eastern gate and pursued Xiao Yan's group.

Xiao Yan’s group discovered that the four figures pursuing them were the Four Elders of East Valley, sent by the Heavenly Puppet Sect to attack Lan Ye. The elders unleashed four powerful puppets, and Xiao Yan’s companions joined Lan Ye to face them as the battle began.

• Lan Ye and Zhou Tai bonded while Xiao Yan introduced the members of his group.
• Xiao Yan and Lan Ye confronted the four experts who had been following them and suspected they served the Heavenly Puppet Sect.
• The pursuers revealed themselves as the Four Elders of East Valley and summoned four middle-stage Origin Return Realm puppets.
• Xiao Yan’s group stepped forward to support Lan Ye, and Xiao Yan refused the elders’ demand to leave.
• The Four Elders ordered their puppets to attack Xiao Yan and his companions.

Lan Ye and Xiao Yan fought the East Valley elders’ puppets while protecting Fang Zhicong, and the elders confronted Xiao Yan over his Heavenly Puppet Sect puppets. Xiao Yan defeated their combined spear technique with his Heavenly Flames, leaving the four elders facing his overwhelming attack.

• The four puppets attacked Lan Ye, Xiao Yan, Luo Jin, and their companions while the East Valley elders targeted Fang Zhicong.
• Lan Ye asked Xiao Yan to protect Fang Zhicong, and Xiao Yan sent his Origin Return Realm puppet to aid Luo Jin’s group before rushing to Fang Zhicong’s side.
• Lan Ye was struck in the chest after noticing Xiao Yan’s puppet, while the other fighters gained the advantage against the East Valley puppets.
• The East Valley elders recognized Xiao Yan’s puppets and accused him of killing the Tian Brothers and stealing their puppets.
• The four elders combined their Origin Qi into a spear, but Xiao Yan’s Sevenfold Heaven-Breaking Ruler shattered it with Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan defeated the Four Elders of East Valley and destroyed one of their puppets, then gave Lan Ye a medicinal pill after finding him wounded. As Xiao Yan recovered, Lan Ye grew increasingly suspicious about Xiao Yan’s connection to Fang Zhicong and the others.

• Xiao Yan shattered the Four Elders of East Valley’s combined attack and knocked all four out of the fight with his flaming ruler.
• Three puppets rescued the Four Elders and carried them away, while Xiao Yan drove one puppet into the ground and destroyed its head.
• Xiao Yan gave Lan Ye a medicinal pill and confirmed that Luo Jin and the others were unharmed.
• Xiao Yan sat down to recover his Origin Qi as Lan Ye reflected on Xiao Yan’s offer to cure Fang Zhicong and his defeat of the Four Elders.

Lan Ye brought Xiao Yan and his companions safely to the Fang Clan stronghold of Donghua City, where they learned that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect was pressuring Fang Clan Head Fang Chi over an antidote. Lan Ye led Xiao Yan to the reception hall, where Mao Xun forced Fang Chi to choose between the clan’s loyalty and his son’s life.

• Lan Ye and the others reached Donghua City, the Fang Clan’s stronghold, after two days of travel.
• Lan Ye recognized the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s carriage and learned that its people had come to visit Fang Zhicong.
• Lan Ye invited Xiao Yan into the Fang Clan residence, suspecting the sect’s visit concerned a deal that could threaten the clan.
• Lan Ye led Xiao Yan and his companions to the reception hall, bypassing the Fang Clan members who tried to question them.
• Mao Xun offered Fang Chi an antidote in exchange for the Fang Clan’s betrayal, and the three elders rejected his demand.
• Mao Xun challenged Fang Chi to choose whether to save his son, Fang Zhicong.

Mao Xun pressured Fang Chi to make the Fang Clan submit to the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect in exchange for a pill to cure Fang Zhicong’s poison. Just as Fang Chi was about to agree, Lan Ye interrupted the confrontation and announced that he had found another way to cure the young master.

• Mao Xun told Fang Chi that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect would only give him the antidote if the Fang Clan joined the sect, forcing Fang Chi to choose between his clan and his son.
• Fang Chi began to agree after Mao Xun threatened to leave, but Lan Ye burst into the hall and knocked Mao Xun down.
• Lan Ye attacked Mao Xun until Fang Chi stopped him with an invisible barrier and ordered Lan Ye outside.
• Lan Ye told Fang Chi that he had found a way to cure Fang Zhicong’s poison, and Fang Chi leapt up in shock.

Lan Ye announced that he had found a way to purge Fang Zhicong’s poison, undermining Mao Xun’s attempt to force the Fang Clan to submit to the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect. Xiao Yan then stepped forward to claim he could cure Fang Zhicong and challenged Mao Xun’s mockery by erupting in flames.

• Lan Ye told Fang Chi that he had found a way to purge Fang Zhicong’s poison, prompting relief among the Fang Clan.
• Mao Xun challenged Lan Ye to prove his claim and insisted that only the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect had the antidote.
• Fang Chi wondered how Mao Xun knew that he had invited the master of Burning Flame Valley to examine Fang Zhicong.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Luo Jin and the others, introduced himself, and said he had come to purge Fang Zhicong’s poison.
• After Mao Xun mocked Xiao Yan’s ability, Xiao Yan erupted in flames and asked whether Mao Xun thought he was worthy.

Xiao Yan revealed his Heavenly Flames and won Fang Chi’s support, forcing Mao Xun to flee after the Fang Clan rejected the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect. As Mao Xun plotted to kill Fang Zhicong, Fang Chi questioned Xiao Yan about his connection to the Heavenly Puppet Sect.

• Xiao Yan displayed his Heavenly Flames, shocking Fang Chi and the Fang Clan elders and making Mao Xun realize the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s plan had failed.
• Fang Chi promised Xiao Yan the Fang Clan’s rewards and a personal favor if he purged Fang Zhicong’s poison.
• Lan Ye attacked Mao Xun, but Fang Chi ordered him to let Mao Xun go and send a message that the Fang Clan would not betray its faction or join either rival sect.
• Mao Xun fled the reception hall and encountered Fang Zhicong alone, then produced a dark green pill and resolved to kill him.
• Fang Chi learned that Xiao Yan was a Fifth-Tier Alchemist and asked what relationship he had with the Heavenly Puppet Sect, freezing the atmosphere.