Recaps

Xiao Yan won the Fire Plume Flower and a Saint Class technique fragment at the Spatial Auction, then faced the Huo and Bai Clans when he left Xuan City. Injured after escaping their attack, he fled into a forest and entered the lair of a Nine-Star Half-Emperor magical beast.

• Xiao Yan entered the Spatial Auction in disguise and won the Jade Bone Fruit, then watched the Bai and Huo Clans compete for a powerful Magic Core.
• Xiao Yan outbid Lin Zehong and Xu Songming for the Fire Plume Flower, paying with Spirit Stones after Xu Songming’s promise bound him to the sale.
• Xiao Yan recognized the final Saint Class technique fragment as important to Xiao Xuan and won it from Huo Ting after a long bidding contest.
• Bai Zhan sent a message outside the auction, and Xiao Yan confirmed his identity to the auction elder before leaving the venue.
• Huo Ting, Bai Ying, and their allies confronted Xiao Yan outside Xuan City, but Xiao Yan withstood Huo Ting’s pressure and fled using the Heavenly Severing Steps.
• Huo Ting and Bai Ying cornered Xiao Yan in Bai Clan territory and attacked him until a black-robed elder intervened, while Xiao Yan escaped badly injured.
• Xiao Yan evaded the clans’ search through the night, then entered a cave to escape the pursuers and encountered a Nine-Star Half-Emperor magical beast.

Xiao Yan escaped the Huo Clan’s pursuit, refined the Bodhi Restoration Pill and Emperor Tribulation Pills, then entered Leng Bingshuang’s ice palace to treat her. Leng Bingshuang took the pill and left Xiao Yan unconscious as her cold poison spread through him.

• Xiao Yan hid in A Bao’s cave, drove off the Huo Clan pursuers, and later escaped with A Bao after Bai Zhan killed Lin Zehong and gave Xiao Yan his Magic Core.
• Xiao Yan reached the Xilin Mountain Range, learned about the Origin Return Art fragment and Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul, then began refining the Bodhi Restoration Pill for Leng Bingshuang.
• After five months of refining, Xiao Yan completed the pill, and the Northern King endured the Pill Lightning, growing to Early-Stage Two-Star Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan recovered, refined four Emperor Tribulation Pills for Tian Ying, Yan Shi, Xiong Gang, and A Bao, then went with Tian Ying to see the One-Horned Whale Serpent.
• Xiao Yan found Leng Bingshuang’s ice palace and tried to warm her with Heavenly Flames, but the cold force inside her repeatedly swallowed the flames.
• Gu You explained how Xiao Yan could safely channel Heavenly Flames to counter Leng Bingshuang’s cold poison, but she woke, ordered him away, and fainted.
• Xiao Yan continued warming Leng Bingshuang until the cold poison threatened her organs, then she confronted him with her sword as he fainted and dropped the Bodhi Restoration Pill.
• Leng Bingshuang took the pill as compensation and left Xiao Yan on the ice bed, while her cold poison spread through his right hand and meridians and Gu You hesitated to intervene.

Xiao Yan obtained the Ice Soul and Ice Spirit Cold Liquid, refined the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and broke through to Dou Di. As the Hun Clan seized Xun'er and the Four Great Clans attacked Tian Ying and his companions, Xiao Yan completed his Emperor Tribulation and rushed toward the battle.

• Xiao Yan survived the eruption of the Ice Spirit Cold Spring, descended to its depths with Gu You, and obtained a piece of Ice Soul before Leng Bingshuang gave him Ice Spirit Cold Liquid.
• Xiao Yan refined the Ice Spirit Pill, then swallowed and subdued the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, fusing it with his Heavenly Flames and reaching Dou Di.
• Hei Mu emerged from the Soul Bead, but Xiao Yan used Gu You’s preparations to destroy Hei Mu’s remnant soul and absorb its energy, advancing to Three-Star Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan continued cultivating while the Hun Clan intruders arrived at Twin Emperors' Abyss and demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade, which Xiao Yan had taken.
• The intruders captured Xun'er, while Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian tried to stop them but could not prevent their escape through a spatial passage.
• Xiao Yan reached Late-stage Four-Star Dou Di and began his Emperor Tribulation as the Four Great Clans confronted Tian Ying, Yan Shi, Xiong Gang, and A Bao in the Xilin Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan endured and absorbed the tribulation lightning, reached the peak of Late-stage Four-Star Dou Di, and sensed his companions losing ground to Zhuo Lin, so he rushed toward the fight.

Xiao Yan emerged from the Emperor Tribulation, fought the Four Great Clans, and escaped Ye Luotian's scheme with Leng Bingshuang's help. His journey toward the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb brought him into conflict with the Four Great Sects and into the Alchemist Alliance, before both sides agreed to swear an oath over opening the tomb in one year.

• Xiao Yan saved his wounded companions, revealed his Four-Star Dou Di cultivation, and summoned the Northern King and clones while drawing Bai Ying to his side.
• Ye Luotian used medicinal pills to infest the Four Great Clans with Withered Leaf Gu, but Xiao Yan destroyed his group's Gu with Heavenly Flames and Leng Bingshuang drove Ye Luotian away.
• Xiao Yan parted ways with Bai Ying and learned from Tian Ying that the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb contained the Origin Return Art.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Jin Yao in Yan City, revealed his advancement to Five-Star Dou Di, and forced Zhao Mian to flee.
• Xiao Yan traveled west, broke the Battle Martial Sect elders' Hexagram Formation, and departed after the Great Elder conceded.
• Chen Zhen, Wu Jitian, Jian Ming, and Ye Luotian confronted Xiao Yan in Shahepu and demanded the Heavenly Severing Steps.
• Han Dong intervened and recruited Xiao Yan into the Alchemist Alliance, but the four sect masters continued to demand the Heavenly Severing Steps.
• Xiao Yan threatened to destroy the Heavenly Severing Steps and offered to help open the tomb in one year, and the four sect masters agreed to swear a lightning punishment oath together with him.