Recaps

Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb seeking the Soul Origin and the Origin Return Mantra, while confronting the Four Great Sects and discovering Ye Luotian’s schemes. He obtained Venerable Heavenly Severing’s Soul Origin for Xiao Xuan and ended the stretch facing Ye Luotian’s forces with Luo Ao and Luo Jin at his side.

• Xiao Yan condensed the Power of the Great Dao into steel needles, then killed Jian Ming and entered the tomb with the other factions.
• Xiao Yan and the Northern King overcame the tomb’s lightning guardians, opened the great hall, and fought their way into the underground city.
• Xiao Yan captured Murong Xuan, learned Murong Qianqian had vanished, and continued searching the city for the Soul Origin and Origin Return Mantra.
• Ye Luotian revealed his hidden Nine-Star Dou Di strength, killed Chen Zhen and Wu Jitian’s followers, and claimed the Dou Qi inheritance and the gathered Soul Origins.
• Xiao Yan found Venerable Heavenly Severing’s Soul Origin sealed in a statue and, with help from a jade bottle’s energy, met the venerable inside it.
• Venerable Heavenly Severing returned Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul and fused his Soul Origin into it, after which a powerful storm destroyed the hall.
• Murong Quan sacrificed himself to expose the formation beneath the city, and Xiao Yan saved Murong Xuan from Ye Luotian’s pursuing forces.
• Ye Luotian sent twenty Nine-Star Dou Di to attack Xiao Yan and his companions, but Xiao Yan froze them and their Dou Techniques as Luo Ao and Luo Jin appeared beside him.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Xuan, helped Cai'er and Zhu Family Village, then traveled north and entered the Obsidian Tower to cultivate. After confronting the Northern Wasteland Hall, Xiao Yan fought its Southern Hall Master, who sent the Northern King into the tower before Xiao Yan struck him with hidden steel needles.

• Luo Ao captured the Ghost Hall’s second hall master as a Soul Storm erupted inside the ancient tomb, and Xiao Yan rushed to find Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Xuan, received Venerable Heavenly Severing’s Origin Return Art, and escaped the collapsing tomb with him.
• Xiao Yan rescued Zhu Family Village from Pang Liu, uncovered five High-Grade Spirit Stones, and accepted Cai'er as his disciple while leaving her to grow stronger in the village.
• Xiao Yan headed north toward North Sea Academy, defeated Northern Wasteland Hall elders, and trained his nine avatars on the way.
• Xiao Yan entered the Obsidian Tower in Feng City, climbed to its sixth floor, defeated an energy being, and refined its core.
• The Southern Hall Master confronted Xiao Yan over Li Su’s death, and their battle left Xiao Yan injured after he failed to reach the seventh floor.
• The Southern Hall Master tried to trap Xiao Yan outside the tower, but the Northern King intervened and joined Xiao Yan in the fight.
• The Southern Hall Master hurled the Northern King into the Obsidian Tower, and Xiao Yan’s seventh ruler strike met his cyan Dou Qi python before five steel needles pierced his shield and struck him.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Southern Hall, survived Qin Xu’s assault with Xing Qian’s help, and reached the North Sea. In North Army City, he killed the ship’s formation master, then agreed to help repair the vessel with Xiao Xuan’s assistance.

• Xiao Yan exposed Master Hu’s fraud at the alchemist contest, killed a Hu Clan man, defeated Hall Master Su, and destroyed the Southern Hall.
• Xiao Yan traveled across the Red Silk Gobi, received a demand for four flame-related pills from Xing Qian, and fought a Red-Scaled Python whose essence blood he used to temper his body.
• The Southern Hall Master reported the destruction to Qin Xu, while black mist offered Qin Xu a reward for capturing Xiao Yan.
• At Mount Beiji, Qin Xu overwhelmed Xiao Yan, but Xing Qian intervened, revealed his Alchemist Alliance position, and escorted Xiao Yan away.
• Xiao Yan arrived in North Army City and killed Master Jin after Master Jin threatened to bar him from the ship.
• Liu Jin agreed to Xiao Yan’s demand for medicinal ingredients in exchange for help repairing the ship’s formation.
• Xiao Yan subdued the two elderly formation masters and began the repairs, then handed control of his body to Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Yan traveled to the North Sea, saved people from Sea Flood Dragon attacks, and won his way to an audience with Hai Mochen by defeating Shui Miao and climbing the academy’s stone steps. Hai Mochen gave him his portion of the Flame Mantra as trouble arose in the Undersea Void Realm, and an illusory figure offered a solution to the formation crisis.

• After completing the Phoenix Chick Pill, Xiao Yan faced its Pill Lightning while passengers tried to steal the pill, then finished the Golden Elephant Art and rescued the vessel from two Thorn Sea Lions.
• Xiao Yan reached Coiled Serpent Island and drove off a Sea Flood Dragon Clan attack, then continued alone toward North Sea Academy despite a map that proved difficult to follow.
• Xiao Yan subdued Sea Flood Dragon Clan guides, rescued Liu Xuan and three young women, and traveled with them to North Sea Academy.
• At the academy, Xiao Yan challenged Shui Miao to reach Hai Mochen and defeated him by revealing the tangible form of his Great Dao of the Void.
• Xiao Yan caught Shui Miao on the statue’s stone steps and climbed to the ninety-ninth platform, where Hai Mochen and Hai Zhantian awaited him.
• Hai Mochen gave Xiao Yan his portion of the Flame Mantra and advised him to build his strength steadily, while Hai Zhantian prepared to return to his clan.
• Hai Zhantian learned that the Undersea Void Realm’s underwater vortex was behaving abnormally and that the academy lacked a Fifth-Tier Formation Master to handle it.
• An illusory figure appeared beside Xiao Yan and said they did not need to search for a Fifth-Tier Formation Master.