Recaps

After learning that Xun'er was imprisoned by the Ghost Hall, Xiao Yan crossed the Western Wilderness Region and became embroiled in the Fang Clan’s conflict with the Wang Clan. He revealed his Five-Star Dou Di strength as the battle began, leaving Wang Xiang facing a suddenly unfavorable confrontation.

• Xiao Yan secured Lightning Punishment Oaths from the four sect masters, then left Shahepu to temper his cultivation in the desert and discovered the Ghost Hall’s presence.
• A Ghost Hall man showed Xiao Yan an image of the imprisoned Xun'er, and Xiao Yan attacked him after learning she had been captured.
• Xiao Yan defeated the Ghost Hall man, but collapsed in the Gobi Desert and was rescued by A Lie and Feng Lun’s caravan.
• At Wuyou City, Xiao Yan stopped Jin Ge from attacking the mercenaries, healed Feng Lun, and then left without accepting Fang Ruyan’s request for help.
• Ye Luotian absorbed the wounded Ghost Hall man’s remnant soul, while Xiao Yan reached Helan City and recognized Yuan Qing during the Fang Clan’s dispute with the Wang Clan.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help the Fang Clan, then recognized Xu Songming among the Wang Clan’s allies when the three-day deadline expired.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Five-Star Dou Di pressure, overwhelming the gathered opponents, and drove back Master Yuan when he tried to rescue Xu Songming.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Wang Clan’s forces, secured resources for the Fang Clan, and traveled to Golden Radiance City to bid for a Fusang Flower. After clashing with the city’s formation masters, he absorbed a strange wind that greatly strengthened him and prepared to refine a Spirit Awakening Pill for the auction.

• Xiao Yan killed the Wang Clan’s six Dou Di experts, helping the Fang Clan take over the Wang Clan’s residence and treasury.
• Xiao Yan refined seven Soul Origins for Xiao Xuan, searched the captured Storage Rings, and learned that a Fusang Flower would be auctioned in Golden Radiance City.
• Xiao Yan left Helan City after telling Yuan Qing that the Fang Clan needed to rely on its own strength, then strengthened his nine incarnations on the journey west.
• At Golden Radiance City’s gate, Xiao Yan fought the formation masters who challenged him, but Qin Yun intervened and allowed him to enter without paying the passage fee.
• Xiao Yan defeated Liu Meng and six other formation masters outside the auction house, then entered with Vice President Wu Gang and confirmed the flower’s disputed identity.
• Xiao Yan decided to prepare a fourth-tier Spirit Awakening Pill to compete for the Fusang Flower and began cultivating in the auction house’s guest pavilion.
• A strange yin wind battered Xiao Yan’s soul, then entered his body and consumed his Dou Qi before expanding his cyclone space and breaking an unknown barrier.
• Xiao Yan gained a larger cyclone space and Heavenly Severing Steps reached the Cloud-Soaring Grand Realm, so he summoned the Northern King and began preparing the Spirit Awakening Pill.

Xiao Yan completed a fourth-tier pill, survived its Pill Lightning with the Northern King’s help, and won the Long Lin Fruit before exposing a scammer and obtaining the real Fusang Flower. Qin Yun then lured Xiao Yan to the city-protecting formation and framed him for its destruction, leaving Xiao Yan facing Cheng Zhihui as his Dou Qi recovered.

• Xiao Yan refined the Spirit Awakening Pill and used Spirit Ascension to raise its quality, while the Northern King absorbed its Pill Lightning and grew stronger.
• After recovering, Xiao Yan attended Golden Radiance City’s auction, traded Ice Spirit Cold Liquid for the Long Lin Fruit, and bought several medicinal herbs.
• At the private exchange for the Fusang Flower, Xiao Yan saw through the black-robed man’s Nightmare Flower illusion, defeated him, and took the real flower from his Storage Ring.
• Qin Yun led Xiao Yan to the black stone pillar and ordered Yan He and three Nine-Star Dou Di experts to attack him while Qin Yun moved toward the formation.
• Xiao Yan broke free and fought the attackers, but the pillar collapsed and released a column of light, revealing that Qin Yun had targeted the strange formation.
• President Fan and the Formation Master Association confronted Qin Yun and Xiao Yan, while Qin Yun denied responsibility and claimed Xiao Yan had attacked the formation.
• Qin Yun urged Fan Siyuan to test Xiao Yan, and Cheng Zhihui charged as Xiao Yan secretly recovered his Dou Qi and opened his eyes with firelight in them.

Xiao Yan survived Golden Radiance City’s destruction, strengthened his body and soul, and mastered new techniques while the city faced Qin Yun’s assault. He prepared for the one-year appointment at the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb and reached Early-Stage Six-Star Dou Di.

• Xiao Yan defeated Cheng Zhihui and escaped Golden Radiance City, but Fan Siyiyuan, Qi Ming, Huo Lie, and other fighters pursued him as he tried to break through the city’s weakened formation.
• Han Dong protected Xiao Yan while he completed a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus, which shattered the formation and reduced Golden Radiance City to ruins, and Qin Yun survived by using Cheng Zhihui’s injured body as a shield.
• Xiao Yan fled with Han Dong, then used the Long Lin Fruit to awaken his Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline, master the Strength Elephant Art, and defeat the yellow-robed elder who sought the fruit.
• Xiao Yan restored his meridians with tendon-cleansing powder, then absorbed the Fusang Flower’s soul power and fought off its attack on his Soul Origin with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• As Xiao Yan refined the Soul Bead and reached the fourth tier of Spiritual Strength, Qin Yun attacked Golden Radiance City with five Nine-Star Dou Di after Fan Siyuan refused to join him.
• Xiao Yan discovered that six Fusang Flower petals had left their imprint on his soul and were feeding his Soul Bead pure Spiritual Strength, then traveled west toward the one-year appointment.
• Xiao Yan found the entrance to the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb at Wilderness Cliff but could not break its barrier, so he practiced the Wilderness-Spanning Finger and Golden Elephant Art against it until he reached Six-Star Dou Di.
• After three months of cultivation, Xiao Yan advanced to Early-Stage Six-Star Dou Di, judged that he could rival an ordinary Nine-Star Dou Di, and prepared to settle his grudges with the Four Great Sects at the tomb.