Recaps

Xiao Xuan revealed the Radiant Gold Bloodline, overturning Xiao Dingtian’s accusations and prompting Xiao Yan to leave the Xiao Clan. Before departing, Xiao Yan left Lian'er and Bai Hua in the clan’s care and gave Bai Hua a ring to suppress the forces inside him.

• Xiao Xuan revealed the Radiant Gold Bloodline, and Xiao Dingtian collapsed as his authority over the inner council crumbled.
• Xiao Yan turned away from the clan, and Xiao Xuan let him leave despite Xiao Yuheng’s attempt to persuade him to stay.
• Xiao Mingyuan hurried after Xiao Yan while the ancestral shrine opened for the clan’s bloodline inheritance ceremony.
• Xiao Yan reassured Lian'er that he was not abandoning her and left her in Xiao Xuan’s care.
• Xiao Yan placed a Pill Transformation Ring on Bai Hua’s wrist to suppress the two forces inside him and promised to seek the Heaven Inquiry Pill.
• Xiao Yan told Bai Hua he was leaving immediately and produced a wooden token.

After leaving the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan set out for the former Fire Banyan Clan’s territory, but a mysterious senior intervened and gave him a life-saving Formation Plate. The senior revealed only that he bore the Xiao surname, leaving Xiao Yan shaken and uncertain about his identity.

• Xiao Li approved of Xiao Yan’s decision to leave the Xiao Clan and told him he could enter the ancestral shrine another time.
• Xiao Mingyuan apologized to Xiao Yan, begged him to return someday, and gave him several tier-seven pills.
• Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Mingyuan that he would always bear the Xiao surname, then left Xiao City for the Flowing Fire Plain.
• Xiao Yan prepared to travel to the former Fire Banyan Clan’s territory using the Fire Banyan Token, but sensed an overwhelming presence and was forced to stop.
• A mysterious senior suppressed Xiao Yan’s power and gave him a golden Formation Plate, saying it could save his life when necessary.
• The senior said he bore the Xiao surname, and an old man in a distant city opened his eyes with brilliant golden light in his pupils.

Xiao Yan completed his physical training journey and entered the Flowing Fire Plain, seeking the Fire Banyan Ruins. After meeting Tang Ye and a mysterious white-robed man, he agreed to travel with them through the dangerous forest of living Fire Banyan Trees.

• Xiao Yan defeated a powerful magical beast using only his physical strength and produced a layer of golden light through his punches.
• Xiao Yan reached the Flowing Fire Plain, where he used the Fire Banyan Token to sense the buried ruins and set out to find their entrance.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the withered trees on the lava plain were alive and asked whether their roots reached into the magma.
• Tang Ye approached with a white-robed companion and invited Xiao Yan to travel with them.
• Tang Ye warned Xiao Yan that the Fire Banyan Trees could unleash underground magma against anyone crossing alone, and Xiao Yan agreed to join the two men.

Xiao Yan, Tang Ye, and Bai Zijing discussed the dangers and treasures of the Fire Banyan Tree Woods on the Flowing Fire Plain. With the lava power nearing an eruption, Tang Ye prepared to begin their attempt to obtain Fire Banyan Branches.

• Tang Ye introduced Bai Zijing to Xiao Yan and explained that the Fire Banyan Trees were remnants of the destroyed Fire Banyan Clan, still capable of erupting with deadly magma.
• Tang Ye revealed that the trees contained priceless Fire Banyan Branches, whose concentrated fire energy could be collected after the trees expended their gathered lava power.
• Bai Zijing recognized that Tang Ye wanted them to trigger the trees and seize the chance to collect branches, while Xiao Yan questioned why Tang Ye needed their help.
• Tang Ye claimed the branches were protected by barriers and that their power would gather again, so working together would let them collect more.
• Xiao Yan sensed energy building in the trees as the three men faced the imminent eruption, and Tang Ye announced that their operation would begin.

Xiao Yan held back the Fire Banyan Forest’s magma while Tang Ye and Bai Zijing descended to obtain a Fire Banyan Branch. After Bai Zijing died and Tang Ye emerged with the branch, he revealed that the Fire-Scaled Lizards were closing in and drew their attention to Xiao Yan.

• Tang Ye urged Xiao Yan to shield him and Bai Zijing from the forest’s eruption of magma while they sought a Fire Banyan Branch.
• Xiao Yan blocked the falling magma with a palm strike, and Tang Ye and Bai Zijing plunged beneath the surface.
• Xiao Yan tried to probe the magma with his Spiritual Strength but withdrew when it burned his Soul Power, then waited as the forest flooded.
• Xiao Yan sensed mysterious creatures with scarlet eyes surrounding him and attacked one as the magma closed in.
• Tang Ye emerged from the magma and revealed that he had killed Bai Zijing, then told Xiao Yan the Fire-Scaled Lizards would hunt anyone seeking a Fire Banyan Branch.
• Tang Ye threw the Fire Banyan Branch toward Xiao Yan, causing the Fire-Scaled Lizards’ scarlet gazes to turn on him.

Xiao Yan confronted Tang Ye in the Fire Banyan Forest and used his strength and Heavenly Flames to overcome Tang Ye’s traps and attacks. After taking Tang Ye’s protective banner, Xiao Yan left him exposed to the Fire-Scaled Lizards.

• Xiao Yan recognized the Fire-Scaled Lizards and accused Tang Ye of luring travelers to their deaths.
• Xiao Yan struck Tang Ye with the Heavy Xuan Ruler, injuring his arm and revealing his superior combat strength.
• Tang Ye used his banner to shield himself from the magma and retreated into it, while Xiao Yan drove back the magma and Fire-Scaled Lizards with his flames.
• Xiao Yan broke through Tang Ye’s defense, seriously injured him, and seized the banner.
• Tang Ye begged Xiao Yan to return the banner, but Xiao Yan stored it away, leaving Tang Ye to be attacked by the Fire-Scaled Lizards.

Xiao Yan was trapped by a swarm of powerful Fire-Scaled Lizards whose shrieks disrupted his spatial techniques. He used Northern King to buy time, completed a Fire Lotus, and sent it exploding toward the encircling beasts.

• The Fire-Scaled Lizards surrounded Xiao Yan with more than a dozen beasts above Yuan Zong level, and their sound waves dispersed his spatial barriers.
• The giant beasts attacked Xiao Yan from all sides, injuring him and forcing him to abandon his massive ruler and flee upward.
• Xiao Yan sent Northern King to block the strongest beast’s attack, buying time to condense a Fire Lotus.
• Magma attacks struck from around Xiao Yan, and he used the Fire Lotus to burn through one beast’s tail.
• Xiao Yan launched the Fire Lotus toward the dozen or so Fire-Scaled Lizards, and it exploded near them.

With Xiao Yan exhausted after fighting the Fire-Scaled Lizard Beasts, Bai Zijing ambushed him and revealed that he belonged to the Bai Clan and was avenging his younger brother, Bai Ruoxuan. Xiao Yan and the Northern King struggled to withstand Bai Zijing’s attacks, and the chapter ended as Bai Zijing activated his Domain of Water to set up another arrow.

• The Fire-Scaled Lizard Beasts suddenly plunged into the magma, leaving Xiao Yan confused before Bai Zijing ambushed him and wounded his shoulder.
• Bai Zijing revealed he was from the Bai Clan and attacked Xiao Yan with Light of the Solar Corona, which Xiao Yan countered with Fire God's Wrath.
• Bai Zijing learned Xiao Yan was from the Xiao Clan and fired a steady stream of arrows at him while the Northern King defended him.
• Bai Zijing used Severing Break Arrow to pierce the Northern King’s body and nearly incapacitate the puppet.
• Bai Zijing invoked his Domain of Water and prepared to fire another arrow at Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flame, the Great Dao of the Void, and an avatar to evade Bai Zijing while freeing the Northern King. He left Bai Zijing raging after the avatar vanished, while the real Xiao Yan escaped.

• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flame to dispel Bai Zijing’s water arrows and fought back with the Heavy Xuan Ruler and Mountain and River Seal.
• Bai Zijing trapped the Northern King in a water prison while Xiao Yan used the Great Dao of the Void to flee.
• Xiao Yan’s avatar drew Bai Zijing toward the horizon while the real Xiao Yan emerged from the magma and freed the Northern King with a net of flame.
• Bai Zijing broke the avatar’s wrist and pierced its chest, but the body turned illusory and Xiao Yan taunted him before disappearing.
• Bai Zijing spat blood in fury and roared Xiao Yan’s name.

Two months after escaping Bai Zijing, Xiao Yan reached the peak of late-stage Three-Star Yuan Zong by cultivating with Scarlet Pearls in the Magma World. He found a Fire Banyan Branch and prepared to refine it in hopes of breaking through to Four-Star Yuan Zong.

• Xiao Yan used the Flame-Avoiding Water Banner to hide and cultivate beneath the magma, advancing to the peak of late-stage Three-Star Yuan Zong.
• Xiao Yan located a Fire Banyan Tree surrounded by dozens of Fire-Scaled Lizard Beasts and recalled how Tang Ye had used newcomers as bait to steal a branch.
• Xiao Yan concealed himself with the banner and crossed the magma past the Fire-Scaled Lizard Beasts without being detected.
• Xiao Yan used the Great Dao of the Void to pass through the scarlet barrier surrounding the Fire Banyan Tree.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the Fire Banyan roots could divide and absorb his Heavenly Flames, then used flames to distract them as he approached the Fire Banyan Branch.
• Xiao Yan decided to refine the Fire Banyan Branch amid the abundant molten-lava energy and attempt a breakthrough.

Xiao Xuan continued absorbing the Sacred Blood Crystal in the ancestral shrine while Xiao Yan broke through to Mid-Stage Four-Star Yuan Zong and traveled toward the Fire Banyan Ruins. In the forest, Xiao Yan intervened when four attackers cornered a battered young man he recognized.

• Xiao Dingtian urged the First Elder to wake Xiao Xuan, but the First Elder insisted the clan ritual was proceeding normally and waited.
• Xiao Dingtian reported that the Third Elder had gone to the Southern Region and sent no word for half a year, while the First Elder rebuked Xiao Dingtian for disparaging outsiders.
• Xiao Xuan absorbed power from the Sacred Blood Crystal and advanced from Early-Stage Yuan Zong to Peak Yuan Zong.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the magma beneath the Fire Banyan Tree at Mid-Stage Four-Star Yuan Zong and traveled for more than ten days toward the Fire Banyan Ruins.
• Four attackers defeated a young man in the forest and moved to kill him, but Xiao Yan appeared and caught one attacker’s strike.

Xiao Yan rescued Qin Yan from four Lava Fort elders and traveled with him toward the Fire Banyan Ruins. After half a month, they reached Lava Fort, the largest city on the Flowing Fire Plain.

• Xiao Yan recognized Qin Yan and drove off the four elders who had attacked him, killing two and defeating the others.
• Xiao Yan gave Qin Yan a healing pill, and Qin Yan recovered enough to continue traveling with him.
• Qin Yan told Xiao Yan that the four elders had targeted him for his Fire Banyan Token.
• Xiao Yan and Qin Yan traveled for half a month and arrived at Lava Fort.

Xiao Yan and Qin Yan arrived in Lava Fort and learned that its upcoming auction would feature a valuable map of the Fire Banyan Ruins. Meanwhile, Xiao Xuan broke through to Yuan Zun, prompting powerful figures across the region to take notice and a command placing him in charge of the Xiao Clan cabinet.

• Xiao Yan and Qin Yan entered Lava Fort and heard that the city was preparing an auction connected to the Fire Banyan Ruins.
• Wan Xing told Xiao Yan and Qin Yan that the auction’s final item was a map brought out of the ruins by a Yuan Zun expert at great cost.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from a year of seclusion and broke through to Yuan Zun, shocking the Xiao Clan elders.
• Xiao Yitian awakened in the black tower in Shuyang City as Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough sent out a powerful presence.
• Ouyang Yu sensed Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough and declared that he would use the opportunity to settle matters with him.
• A golden-eyed figure in Tianyang City ordered Xiao Yuheng to abolish the Xiao Clan’s three cabinet leadership positions and appointed Xiao Xuan to lead the cabinet.

Xiao Yan and Qin Yan arrived in Lava Fort for the auction of the map to the Fire Banyan Ruins, where powerful factions and experts had gathered. As the auction began, a formation master secured the platform, and Xiao Yan waited to see the mysterious map.

• The Xiao Clan Ancestor ordered Xiao Yuheng to act, leaving Xiao Dingtian, Xiao Jinghong, and Xiao Qian shaken as their faction lost influence.
• Xiao Yan spent the days before the auction in Lava Fort refining and absorbing his remaining Scarlet Pearls, but gained little from them.
• Xiao Yan and Qin Yan saw Ouyang Miao and Bai Zijing arrive, and Xiao Yan wondered whether the Xiao Clan had also sent people.
• Xiao Yan and Qin Yan entered the auction house, paid for seats, and took stock of the guards, elders, and powerful attendees.
• A purple-robed elder activated a formation over the auction platform, and Xiao Yan anticipated the unveiling of the Fire Banyan Ruins map.

Xiao Yan and Qin Yan attended Lava Fort’s auction, where powerful factions bid on rare techniques, pills, and other treasures. Zi Yun revealed a living mass of lightning called Lei Yuan, and Xiao Yan stared at it with fervent interest.

• Zi Yun opened the auction while Xiao Yan sensed Lava Fort’s powerful elders and the many experts gathered in the hall.
• A rare sonic Dou Technique sparked fierce bidding and sold to a hunched old man for nearly two million High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Xiao Yan and Qin Yan dismissed the auctioned Fire Banyan Token, while Qin Yan won a secret art suited to him and Xiao Yan failed to secure the items he wanted.
• A Cloud Immortal Sect member joined the bidding as Zi Yun and two Lava Fort elders formed a spatial cage on the platform.
• Zi Yun identified the living lightning inside the cage as Lei Yuan, a cultivation treasure raised by the Void Lightning Beast clan, and Xiao Yan watched it with fervent interest.

Xiao Yan bought the Lei Yuan at the auction and absorbed it into the Great Dao of the Void. After hours of bidding, the Lava Fort’s Qingmian Zhuo appeared to present the final item, the map linked to the Fire Banyan Ruins.

• Zi Yun offered the Lei Yuan for bidding, and the crowd hesitated over its price and the coming Fire Banyan Ruins treasure.
• Three bidders raised the price to two thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones before Xiao Yan bid five Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and won the Lei Yuan.
• Xiao Yan used the Great Dao of the Void to swallow the Lei Yuan, surprising Zi Yun.
• The auction continued for hours, while the gathered factions waited for the map connected to the Fire Banyan Ruins.
• Qingmian Zhuo, the Lava Fort’s second-in-command and a Yuan Zun expert, appeared and revealed a wrinkled sheet of red parchment as the final auction item.

At the Lava Fort auction, Qingmian Zhuo revealed a map of Stone Rock Valley in the Fire Banyan Ruins, setting off fierce bidding among powerful factions. Xiao Yan chose not to compete, and Bai Zijing outbid Ouyang Miao to win the map.

• Qingmian Zhuo used his Yuan Zun presence to quiet the auction hall and announced that the map led to Stone Rock Valley.
• Auction attendees bid pills, treasures, and a rare cultivation secret method for the map.
• Xiao Yan considered bidding but decided to save his Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones for Lian'er and avoid drawing hostility.
• Ouyang Miao offered ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, prompting smaller factions to withdraw from the bidding.
• Bai Zijing competed with Ouyang Miao and won the map with twenty Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, fifteen Fire Banyan Branches, and two high-level seventh-tier Wind Transformation Pills.

After leaving Lava Fort, Xiao Yan parted from Qin Yan and drew several pursuers away. In a separate scene, Ouyang Yu and Xiao Yitian departed to settle their old rivalry, while Xiao Xuan received the Orchid Sword and was urged to visit the Northern Territory Sword Tomb.

• Xiao Yan and Qin Yan detected Lava Fort experts following them, and Xiao Yan's killing intent drove the pursuers away.
• After the two left Lava Fort, Xiao Yan parted from Qin Yan, then headed off alone as three figures emerged from the forest and followed him.
• At Xiao City, Xiao Xuan asked Ouyang Yu and Xiao Yitian whether they had a Heaven Inquiry Pill, but both had already used theirs.
• Ouyang Yu gave Xiao Xuan the Orchid Sword, then agreed to leave with Xiao Yitian to settle their past rivalry.
• The great elder warned Xiao Xuan that one of the two men would fall and recommended that he visit the Northern Territory Sword Tomb for his and Xiao Yan's sake.

Xiao Yan used the Lei Yuan to strengthen the Northern King and drove off three lightning-attribute cultivators who had pursued him. He set out toward the Fire Banyan Ruins, but sounds of fighting and two unfamiliar presences caught his attention.

• Xiao Yan stopped on a crimson peak and lured the three pursuers toward the Lei Yuan he had revealed.
• When the three attacked, Xiao Yan brought out the Northern King and placed the Lei Yuan inside the puppet, unleashing a burst of lightning that sent the pursuers flying.
• The two old men retreated, and the Northern King struck the burly man before he fled as well.
• Xiao Yan observed that the Northern King had reached near Mid-Stage Eight-Star Yuan Zong and that dragon scales covered most of his body.
• Xiao Yan prepared to head for the Fire Banyan Ruins, then heard fighting nearby and sensed two unfamiliar presences.

Xiao Yan found Bai Ruoxuan capturing two descendants of the Fire Banyan Clan on the Flowing Fire Plain and rescued them from the Bai Clan. Bai Rong confronted Xiao Yan, and Bai Ruoxuan ordered his protector to deal with him.

• Bai Ruoxuan and his men surrounded two wounded Fire Banyan Clan members and prepared to take them captive.
• Xiao Yan recognized Bai Ruoxuan and watched as Bai Rong, a Yuan Zun expert, protected him from an attack.
• Bai Ruoxuan ordered his men to keep the captives alive and use their knowledge to find the Fire Banyan Clan’s hidden treasures.
• Xiao Yan used the Great Dao of the Void to snatch the two captives away and evade Bai Rong’s attack.
• Bai Ruoxuan recognized Xiao Yan and ordered Bai Rong to fight him.

Xiao Yan fought to evade Bai Rong, a Yuan Zun, until he trapped him in the Xiao Clan’s Eight-Direction Purgatory Formation. With Bai Rong contained, Xiao Yan turned his attention to Bai Ruoxuan.

• Bai Rong attacked Xiao Yan, who dodged with his movement techniques and the Great Dao of the Void while sustaining injuries.
• Xiao Yan used the golden Formation Plate and unleashed a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, but Bai Rong emerged unharmed.
• Xiao Yan escaped into the black curtain and activated the Formation Plate, trapping Bai Rong inside the Eight-Direction Purgatory Formation.
• Bai Rong recognized the Xiao Clan formation and struggled against its killing formations as Xiao Yan watched from outside.
• Xiao Yan realized Bai Rong would not escape soon and turned his gaze toward Bai Ruoxuan.

Xiao Yan faced Bai Ruoxuan and four Yuan Zong after Bai Rong’s intervention failed, using his Heavenly Flames and the Northern King to overcome them. He killed Bai Ruoxuan while Bai Rong watched helplessly from the killing formation.

• Xiao Yan gave pills to the Fire Banyan Clan pair and taunted Bai Ruoxuan, who ordered his four Yuan Zong allies to attack.
• Xiao Yan killed a Six-Star Yuan Zong with the Northern King and forced back an Eight-Star Yuan Zong.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and Heaven Flipping Seal to repel another Eight-Star Yuan Zong.
• The Northern King struck down a Six-Star Yuan Zong and seized Bai Ruoxuan, leaving the remaining attackers unable to intervene.
• Xiao Yan ignored Bai Rong’s threat and crushed Bai Ruoxuan’s head, killing him.

After Bai Ruoxuan’s death, Bai Rong flew into a rage and tried to break free of the Eight-Direction Purgatory Formation while Bai Sheng and Bai Mie moved to stop Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan drew on the Fire Banyan Clan members’ Heavenly Flames and formed a Fire Lotus, leaving Bai Mie horrified as his attack closed in.

• Bai Rong roared after Bai Ruoxuan died and gathered Origin Qi to break through the Eight-Direction Purgatory Formation.
• Bai Sheng and Bai Mie surrounded Xiao Yan and the Northern King, and Xiao Yan struck Bai Sheng with the Northern King while escaping to the Fire Banyan Clan members.
• Xiao Yan asked the two Fire Banyan Clan members to lend him their Heavenly Flames and revealed five flames of his own.
• One Fire Banyan Clan member supplied the Volcanic Stone Flame, and Xiao Yan fused it with his five flames while Bai Mie pursued him.
• Bai Mie swung a stone wall at Xiao Yan, who opened his palms and revealed a scarlet-streaked Fire Lotus.

Xiao Yan defeated Bai Mie but was nearly killed by Bai Rong before a mysterious force swept him and the others away through magma. Several days later, Xiao Yan recovered in a ruined world and met Huo Xing and Huo Xin’s elder, who turned his attention to Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan’s Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus left Bai Mie near death, and Bai Sheng feared Xiao Yan’s strength.
• Bai Rong escaped the Eight-Direction Purgatory Formation by sacrificing his cultivation and attacked Xiao Yan, overpowering the Northern King.
• Magma swallowed Xiao Yan, the Northern King, and the two Fire Banyan Clan members just before Bai Rong could kill Xiao Yan.
• Several days later, Xiao Yan recovered in a ruined red world, and Huo Xing and Huo Xin thanked him for saving them.
• An old man emerged from the magma, scolded Huo Xing for taking Huo Xin outside, and studied Xiao Yan closely.

Xiao Yan followed Huo Qing through the Fire Banyan Ruins and learned that Huo Xing and Huo Xin were the clan’s last survivors, with Stone Rock Valley no longer safe because its map had brought outsiders to the Flowing Fire Plain. Huo Qing asked Xiao Yan to accept the Fire Banyan Clan’s gratitude, then summoned a mountain of Fire Banyan Branches before him.

• Huo Qing identified himself as the guardian of Huo Xing and Huo Xin and told Xiao Yan they were the Fire Banyan Clan’s last sparks.
• Huo Qing led Xiao Yan and the siblings through the ruins into Stone Rock Valley, explaining that a leaked map had drawn outside forces to the area.
• Huo Qing showed Xiao Yan the dead Fire Banyan Spirit Tree, the foundation of the clan, and made Huo Xing and Huo Xin meditate beneath it.
• Huo Qing asked Xiao Yan to accept the clan’s gratitude for saving the siblings, acknowledging that Xiao Yan had sought the Volcanic Stone Flame within them.
• Huo Qing summoned Fire Banyan Branches from beneath the trees across the Flowing Fire Plain, forming a small mountain of branches before Xiao Yan.