Recaps

Xiao Yan impressed Zhou Tai with his spatial power, then went to Elder Luo to retrieve his Heavy Xuan Ruler. Elder Luo’s probe revealed a purple-gold dragon pattern across Xiao Yan’s bones, whose roar drew the attention of powerful figures across the continent and beyond.

• Xiao Yan struck Zhou Tai back and revealed his growing control over spatial force, prompting Zhou Tai to acknowledge his ability while warning him about the Alchemist Grand Meeting.
• Xiao Yan rebuked Zhou Tai for accepting Wei Yi, and Gu Li ended the gathering before Xiao Yan left the Alchemist Guild for Elder Luo’s residence.
• A black-robed figure watched Xiao Yan leave the guild and followed him toward the western side of Ancient Wilderness City.
• Xiao Yan entered Elder Luo’s inner courtyard to retrieve his Heavy Xuan Ruler, and Elder Luo’s probe exposed purple-gold bones marked with a divine dragon.
• The dragon pattern roared at Elder Luo, injuring him, while distant elders and a woman cultivating in a purple-gold space sensed the cry.

Xiao Yan entered Elder Luo’s vast Inner Academy and discovered that its ancient trees were powerful Ginseng Spirit Trees. Elder Luo’s trap sprung, and Xiao Yan was trapped in a cage of roots with no way to advance or retreat.

• Xiao Yan surveyed the immense mountain world and realized he could not use Sky Traversal in Elder Luo’s territory.
• Xiao Yan touched an ancient tree and sensed that the trees across the forest were rare Spirit Trees.
• Elder Luo revealed that he had prepared the Ginseng Spirit Trees as a gift in return for Xiao Yan injuring him.
• The ground near Xiao Yan erupted as thick roots swept toward him and formed a cage around him.

Xiao Yan recovered his strength inside the Spirit Trees’ root cage and launched an attack, only to discover that their roots could regenerate and that a strange wisp had entered his soul. He destroyed the wisp with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, while Elder Luo sensed the flame and realized a mysterious power was shielding Xiao Yan.

• Elder Luo used a surge of natural energy to restore Xiao Yan, stabilizing his Mid-Stage Three-Star Half-Emperor cultivation and bringing him close to a breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan attacked the three Spirit Trees with Condensed Fire Finger and Heavenly Flames, but their roots formed a sphere that began regenerating with powerful life force.
• A gray-black wisp slipped into Xiao Yan’s mind and resisted his Heavenly Flames, so Xiao Yan used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to destroy it.
• Elder Luo sensed a mysterious restriction around Xiao Yan that he could not penetrate, then detected the presence of an extremely pure Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan faced the three ancient Ginseng Spirit Trees in Elder Luo’s sealed space and fought them with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. As the trees prepared a powerful counterattack, Xiao Yan began gathering power for a long-unused technique.

• Xiao Yan realized he could neither escape Elder Luo’s space nor retreat from the three ancient trees, so he resolved to fight them.
• Xiao Yan formed a giant ruler from the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and attacked one of the trees with a crescent of Heavenly Flame.
• The three ancient trees formed a vine dragon, whose root thorns burned away against Xiao Yan’s flames before it gathered dark-green Dou Qi for a powerful attack.
• Xiao Yan decided to use a move he had not used in a long time, and a flame lotus began spinning in his pupils as power gathered in his ruler.
• An old fellow inside Xiao Yan opened his eyes in astonishment as the technique began to take shape.

Xiao Yan gathered his strength as the vine dragon drew on the earth’s veins and charged at him, shattering his crescent-moon attack. As the dragon reached him, Xiao Yan invoked the Heavenly Flames to transform his ruler and unleashed the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.

• Xiao Yan realized the vine dragon was drawing on the Qi of the earth’s veins, then poured his remaining Dou Qi into his giant ruler.
• The vine dragon charged straight at Xiao Yan and shattered the scorching crescent moon in its path.
• Elder Luo discovered that black presence had entered the three ancient trees and recognized that it had helped their power exceed his limit.
• Near exhaustion, Xiao Yan swallowed a Qi Recovery Pill as his armor and ruler transformed from bone-white ice into brilliant flames.
• Xiao Yan commanded the Heavenly Flames to return to their places, and flames including the Mysterious Yellow Flame, Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, Nihility Devouring Flame, and Emperor Flame entered his ruler.
• With the vine dragon about to reach him, Xiao Yan shouted, “Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler, strike!”

Xiao Yan shattered the vine dragon with his Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler, but the creature regenerated and struck him down. As the dragon moved to swallow Xiao Yan, Elder Luo was held back by Hei Mu, and Gu You had yet to intervene.

• Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler to break the vine dragon apart.
• The vine dragon drew on power from beneath the roots, regenerated, and struck Xiao Yan, leaving him gravely injured and unconscious.
• Elder Luo tried to stop the vine dragon, but Hei Mu blocked him and warned that killing him would destroy the Ginseng Spirit Clan.
• Hei Mu taunted Elder Luo over his plan to use Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames against him.
• The vine dragon swallowed Xiao Yan and his giant ruler as Gu You did not intervene.

Xiao Yan destroyed the vine dragon and the Spirit Trees’ vine snakes, but Hei Mu unleashed Death Spirit Poison and summoned a deadly magical beast. Xiao Yan, exhausted and trapped in place, faced the beast’s killing blow as an emerald-green barrier rose around the mountain forest.

• Xiao Yan escaped the vine dragon by using Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler, then burned its body away.
• The three ancient trees attacked Xiao Yan with countless vine snakes, and he destroyed them with Flame Splitting Tsunami, nearly exhausting his Dou Qi.
• Hei Mu revealed that he had refined Death Spirit Poison and released it into the abyss, where it spread destruction across the forest.
• Elder Luo raised an emerald-green Dou Qi barrier that stopped the poison from spreading beyond the mountain forest.
• The black poison formed a terrifying magical beast that sealed Xiao Yan in place, and Hei Mu urged it to attack him.
• The beast fired a pillar of deathly light at the exhausted Xiao Yan.

Hei Mu trapped Elder Luo and Qing Mu behind barriers while his beast attacked the nearly unconscious Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames shielded him, but they weakened under the barrage as the elders struggled to break through and save him.

• Hei Mu blocked Qing Mu’s attempt to stop the beast’s attack and sealed Qing Mu and Elder Luo behind pitch-black barriers.
• The beast’s beam struck Xiao Yan, but his Heavenly Flames rose up and stopped it from reaching him.
• Elder Luo and Qing Mu recognized the Heavenly Flames protecting Xiao Yan and attacked Hei Mu’s barriers with all their strength.
• Hei Mu ordered the beast to bombard Xiao Yan again, and the increasingly weakened Heavenly Flame barrier began to falter.
• More than half the Heavenly Flames dispersed as Elder Luo and Qing Mu continued weakening Hei Mu’s barriers, leaving Xiao Yan’s life hanging by a thread.

Xiao Yan was saved from Hei Mu’s attacks by the jet-black ruler wielding Nihility Devouring Flame, while a mysterious figure lent him an immense amount of Dou Qi. The power nearly caused Xiao Yan’s body to burst, and after Gu You refused to help again, the beast swallowed him.

• Xiao Yan’s final defense shattered, but a jet-black ruler appeared and absorbed Hei Mu’s energy beam before it could hit him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame lent Xiao Yan power in repayment for his help, restoring his Dou Qi while overwhelming his body.
• Elder Luo and Qing Mu feared Xiao Yan was about to self-destruct, while Hei Mu recognized the borrowed power and attacked him again.
• Hei Mu sent the Death Spirit Poison beast’s black mist toward Xiao Yan and had the beast circle the ruler to attack from behind.
• Xiao Yan called to Gu You for help, but received no answer, and the beast swallowed him.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Death Spirit Poison beast and helped Elder Luo and Qing Mu break Hei Mu’s barrier, but Hei Mu remained defiant after his plan collapsed. The chapter ended with Hei Mu fixing a strange, ominous gaze on Xiao Yan, suggesting he still had another move.

• Xiao Yan used the Vajra Glazed Body to smash the giant beast, then used Nihility Devouring Flame on his ruler to purge the poison from his hands.
• The beast reappeared and struck Xiao Yan down, but he recovered and attacked it with Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.
• Xiao Yan’s ruler ray overwhelmed the beast and threatened Hei Mu’s barrier, but Hei Mu blocked it with pillars of black light.
• Xiao Yan opened a Void Wormhole and was swallowed by it; the blocked ruler ray then struck the beast, while Elder Luo and Qing Mu helped shatter the barrier.
• Hei Mu appeared weakened and admitted his thousand-year scheme had failed, but he claimed he could try again and stared strangely at Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan, Elder Luo, and Qing Mu confronted Hei Mu, but Hei Mu seized Qing Mu’s body and used him as a shield to escape with Xiao Yan. Elder Luo could not strike without risking Qing Mu’s life, and Hei Mu carried Xiao Yan into the depths of the earth.

• Elder Luo and Qing Mu surrounded Hei Mu with Xiao Yan, and Qing Mu pleaded with Hei Mu to abandon their ancient grudge.
• Hei Mu pretended to relent, then possessed Qing Mu and merged with his body, revealing that he had prepared to take it over.
• Elder Luo attacked Hei Mu, but stopped when Hei Mu threatened to kill Qing Mu along with himself.
• Hei Mu immobilized and captured the exhausted Xiao Yan, ignoring his offer to take him as a disciple after Xiao Yan refused.
• Qing Mu briefly struggled for control, preventing Elder Luo from striking, and Hei Mu escaped underground with Xiao Yan while Elder Luo departed in defeat.

Hei Mu trapped Xiao Yan and claimed he would refine him into a puppet, but his threats were a bluff because he was severely weakened. As Hei Mu struggled against the presence inside his body, pitch-black vines suppressed Qing Mu’s returning influence and restored Hei Mu’s control.

• Hei Mu bound Xiao Yan with dark green vines and conjured the evil spirits and Soul-Burning Lamp, then destroyed both objects as he taunted him.
• Hei Mu told Xiao Yan he intended to refine him into a puppet and promised to make him a powerful, loyal servant.
• Hei Mu sealed Xiao Yan inside a huge ball of vines, then weakened and curled up as the black presence around him dispersed.
• Hei Mu’s body trembled as emerald-green light returned, and he resisted the presence inside him, refusing to give it control easily.
• Pitch-black vines and a dense black presence covered Hei Mu’s body, suppressing the emerald-green light and restoring his hollow black eyes.

Xiao Yan nearly died after exhausting himself, but Gu You rescued him and began restoring his strength. As the Alchemist Grand Meeting final began, a terrifying spatial vortex opened above the plaza and an unknown elderly figure emerged.

• Xiao Yan fell into a near-unconscious state, but Gu You's white flame drove away the sinister Qi threatening him.
• Gu You destroyed the vine prison, caught Xiao Yan, and used the Flame Mantra to help him recover without forcing Dou Qi into his body.
• Crowds gathered at the Void Plaza for the final and mocked Mo Zhai, who silenced them with a threatening glare.
• Gu Li opened the final competition and announced a showdown between two high-level alchemists, then grew uneasy when the newly appointed chief alchemist was absent.
• A massive spatial vortex appeared above the plaza, and an elderly figure stepped out as the Half-Emperor experts stared in astonishment.

Elder Luo arrived at the Alchemist Grand Meeting and announced that it would be postponed for a month, drawing shock from the gathered experts. When Mo Zhai challenged his authority by invoking the Pill Tower, Elder Luo appeared before him and crushed him with overwhelming pressure.

• Elder Luo arrived at the Void Plaza, and Gu Li and more than thirty Half-Emperor experts bowed to him.
• Elder Luo announced that the Alchemist Grand Meeting would be postponed for one month, surprising Gu Li and the crowd.
• Mo Zhai realized that a particular person was absent and stepped beside Gu Li to address Elder Luo.
• Mo Zhai questioned Elder Luo's right to interfere with the guild and Pill Tower event.
• Elder Luo appeared before Mo Zhai and subjected him to terrifying pressure, breaking his bones.

Elder Luo postponed the Alchemist Grand Meeting for a month after crushing Mo Zhai, while Xiao Yan remained missing inside the mysterious space. Luo Jin arrived seeking news of Xiao Yan, but Elder Luo sent him away despite fearing Xiao Yan had little chance of survival.

• Elder Luo struck Mo Zhai into a crater and warned that he had spared him only because he still had a contest with Yan Xiao.
• Elder Luo announced that the Alchemist Grand Meeting would be postponed for one month, then left as the crowd recovered from his oppressive presence.
• Gu Li dismissed the gathering and departed, while wondering where Xiao Yan had gone.
• Inside the mysterious space, Elder Luo feared he could not rescue Xiao Yan from Hei Mu's domain, though he sensed something unusual about Xiao Yan's Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Luo Jin entered the mysterious space and asked Elder Luo about Xiao Yan, but Elder Luo reassured him vaguely and sent him away.

Xiao Yan recovered and stabilized his strength after half a month of cultivation in the void. He sensed Hei Mu nearby and set out to kill him before Hei Mu could recover further.

• Xiao Yan absorbed natural energy and refined his Dou Qi while violent spatial storms raged around him.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes, unleashing a beam of flame that shattered the void before he restored the space with a wave of his hand.
• Xiao Yan finished recovering to his peak and stabilized his Late-Stage Three-Star Half-Emperor strength.
• Xiao Yan concluded that Hei Mu was weakened and that this was his best chance to kill him, with Elder Gu as a possible backup.
• Xiao Yan sensed Hei Mu's powerful energy fluctuation, gathered his Dou Qi, and vanished toward him with killing intent.

Hei Mu recovered in the void and decided to seek out Xiao Yan, only to find that Xiao Yan had escaped his seal and regained his peak strength. The two traded taunts before Hei Mu attacked, beginning their fight.

• Hei Mu absorbed natural energy for half a month but made little progress recovering, and he cursed the force still resisting his suppression.
• Hei Mu recalled Xiao Yan's Great Dao of the Void and unusual Heavenly Flames, then decided to kill him while he was still sealed.
• Hei Mu froze in shock when Xiao Yan appeared before him, fully recovered from his injuries.
• Xiao Yan taunted the weakened Hei Mu, who flew at him with a dark-green Dou Qi claw.
• Xiao Yan charged straight toward Hei Mu's attack without fear.

Xiao Yan battled Hei Mu in the collapsing void, matching the ancient evil spirit’s claw with his flame-enhanced dragon claw. After they separated, Xiao Yan unleashed a massive pillar of flame at Hei Mu, who answered with a pillar of dark green Dou Qi; their attacks collided and changed the color of the space.

• Hei Mu charged at Xiao Yan with a claw attack, boasting that he would devour him.
• Xiao Yan formed a Fire Lotus in his eyes and covered his right arm with flames and purple-gold dragon scales before striking Hei Mu’s claw.
• Their clash shook the mysterious space, and Hei Mu acknowledged Xiao Yan’s strength while vowing to eat him.
• Xiao Yan retreated with the Heavenly Severing Steps and fired a colossal pillar of flame from the Fire Lotus in his eyes.
• Hei Mu countered with a pillar of dark green Dou Qi, and the two attacks collided.

Xiao Yan and Hei Mu continued their brutal fight, with Xiao Yan relying on his immense physical strength and Heavenly Flames against Hei Mu’s sinister techniques. Hei Mu’s Heart-Shattering Palm shattered Xiao Yan’s empowered body and left his heart, soul, and strength severely damaged.

• After they retreated from their clash, Xiao Yan unleashed the Vajra Glazed Body and charged at Hei Mu with a giant, flame-wreathed fist.
• Hei Mu used the Heart-Shattering Palm to meet Xiao Yan’s punch, but Xiao Yan’s physical power forced him half a step backward.
• Xiao Yan realized the palm was a true Intent Class Dou Technique as it seemed to shatter his heart and scatter his soul.
• Xiao Yan’s Vajra Glazed Body collapsed, and he flew backward vomiting blood as his Heavenly Flames weakened and his soul power was nearly exhausted.
• Hei Mu taunted Xiao Yan about the limits of bodily cultivation, and Xiao Yan recognized the attack as an Intent Class Dou Technique.

Hei Mu brutally battered Xiao Yan and targeted his heart, but Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames and scaled body helped him withstand the attacks. Xiao Yan seized an opening and struck Hei Mu with a heavy punch, breaking a bone in his face.

• Hei Mu kicked Xiao Yan through the void, inflicting severe injuries as Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames protected his vital meridians.
• Hei Mu attacked Xiao Yan's heart with his Heart-Shattering Palm, but flames burst from Xiao Yan and forced Hei Mu to defend himself with a vine root.
• Hei Mu struck Xiao Yan again and tried to pierce his chest, but scales on Xiao Yan's skin stopped his claw.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Hei Mu's wrist and pulled him down, then landed a heavy punch that broke a bone in Hei Mu's face.

Xiao Yan endured Hei Mu’s Heart-Shattering Palm and battered him with a series of attacks, but Hei Mu’s origin remained unharmed. Xiao Yan began fusing his Heavenly Flames with the borrowed Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and the chapter ended with Hei Mu’s claw trapped in ice and charred by flames.

• Xiao Yan seized Hei Mu by the neck and explained that the Heart-Shattering Palm had nearly damaged his heart and soul, then punched him in the chest.
• Xiao Yan struck Hei Mu with Eight Extremes Collapse and detonated the force inside him, sending him flying without damaging his origin.
• Xiao Yan summoned Elder Gu’s Bone Spirit Cold Flame and prepared to fuse it with his own Heavenly Flames.
• Hei Mu returned unharmed, while Xiao Yan used Heavenly Severing Steps to evade his attacks across the void.
• Hei Mu trapped a spot in the void with his claw, but when he pulled it back, ice encased it and the claw inside had been charred black.

Hei Mu tried to stop Xiao Yan from fusing five Heavenly Flames, but Xiao Yan endured his attacks and completed a Five-Colored Fire Lotus. The chapter ended as Xiao Yan unleashed the technique at the terrified Hei Mu.

• Hei Mu broke free of the ice around his burned hand, then realized Xiao Yan was combining five Heavenly Flames and prepared to interrupt him.
• Hei Mu coated himself in dark-green Dou Qi armor and poisonous black slime before striking Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan escaped with Heavenly Severing Steps as the Bone Spirit Cold Flame burned Hei Mu.
• Hei Mu used Heaven-Seizing Claw to trap Xiao Yan beneath a massive invisible claw while Xiao Yan concentrated on controlling the five flames.
• Xiao Yan exhausted his Dou Qi and forced the Heavenly Flames to fuse, forming a Five-Colored Fire Lotus as Hei Mu recoiled in fear.
• Xiao Yan shouted the name of Buddha Fury Fire Lotus and thrust the completed technique toward Hei Mu.

Xiao Yan’s Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus clashed with Hei Mu’s Heaven-Seizing Claw, and the two techniques unleashed increasingly destructive forces across the void. The Fire Lotus was surrounded and hidden beneath countless black arrows, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Xiao Yan and Hei Mu struggled to withstand the gale as their Dou Qi ran low and each worried about the other’s technique.
• Hei Mu feared Xiao Yan might have a powerful faction backing him, but decided to continue trying to kill him.
• Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus collided with Hei Mu’s Heaven-Seizing Claw, and golden flames and spatial storms erupted around them.
• The Fire Lotus’s scattered petals formed a sharp spatial barrier that shattered the claw’s spatial storms.
• The Fire Lotus expanded into a vast mass of flame as Heaven-Seizing Claw formed countless black arrows that surrounded and obscured it.

Xiao Yan’s five-Heavenly-Flame Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus destroyed Hei Mu’s Heaven-Seizing Claw attack, leaving the two to prepare for a decisive clash. As the Fire Lotus spun faster, it formed a hidden spatial vortex whose pressure surprised even Xiao Yan.

• The Fire Lotus’s spinning flames tore apart the spatial fissures and swept Hei Mu’s countless arrows into nothing.
• Xiao Yan watched Hei Mu’s failed attack and answered his fury with a cold sneer.
• Xiao Yan and Hei Mu faced each other in the void as the Fire Lotus and Heaven-Seizing Claw gathered power for a decisive strike.
• The Fire Lotus accelerated until it appeared as a spinning wheel, while the surrounding Void Space looked calm.
• Xiao Yan sensed a funnel-shaped spatial vortex beneath the Fire Lotus that swallowed space and grew dense with crushing pressure.

Xiao Yan and Hei Mu prepared their powerful techniques, Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus and Heaven-Seizing Claw, for a decisive clash in the Endless Void. Hei Mu strengthened his claw with essence blood and soul power, and the two attacks collided as the battle truly began.

• Hei Mu recognized the potential of Xiao Yan's Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus and reflected on the danger and rarity of high-level Dou Techniques.
• Heaven-Seizing Claw devoured power from the Endless Void, forming armor that could strengthen and replenish the technique.
• Hei Mu drew out a drop of essence blood, weakening himself as he prepared to increase Heaven-Seizing Claw's power.
• Hei Mu fused the essence blood with his Dou Qi and soul power, sending the resulting energy into Heaven-Seizing Claw.
• Xiao Yan's wave of flame surged toward the enormous claw, which spread its fingers and struck at the attack.