Recaps

Chen Xiao built his strength through cultivation and dangerous work in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, then avenged his family by helping bring down the Oba Family. After leaving Wu Tan City, he traveled toward the Tagor Desert and confronted Hai Bo Dong with a proposal.

• Chen Xiao used Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and Yan Return Strike to advance from a low-level cultivator to a Dou Zhe, then learned his Ice Attribute and obtained the Ice Emperor Scripture.
• Chen Xiao traveled to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, joined Wang Meng’s hunting party, and gained experience while facing dangerous magical beasts and a mercenary’s death.
• Chen Xiao found a hidden cave and took Roar of the Mad Lion, Eagle Wings, the Seven-Colored Poison Manual, and a Fragment Map for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Chen Xiao returned to Wu Tan City with treasure, reached Dou Shi by refining the Ice Spirit Flame Grass, and later spent years improving his cultivation and skills.
• Chen Xiao killed Oba Pa, and the Xiao Family and Gale Family raided the Oba estate, leaving it in ruins.
• Chen Xiao told the Xiao Family he had avenged his family and would leave, then promised Xun Er they would meet again at the Back Mountain summit.
• Chen Xiao visited Xiao Yi Xian before departing for the Tagor Desert, while Mu She sent Wang San and mercenaries after him before deciding to turn back against the defectors.
• Chen Xiao reached Mo City, entered Hai Bo Dong’s map shop, identified him as the Ice Emperor, and proposed a deal.

Chen Xiao made a deal with Queen Medusa to lift Hai Bo Dong’s seal, then gathered allies and treasures while traveling with Qing Lin. Back in Wu Tan City, he reached Dou Ling as Xiao Yan’s decline became apparent and Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment team arrived.

• Chen Xiao bargained with Hai Bo Dong to lift his seal in exchange for protection in the Tagor Desert, and Hai Bo Dong agreed to cooperate for half a year.
• Chen Xiao found Qing Lin in Stone Desert City, brought her to Desert City, and began teaching her to cultivate while training with Hai Bo Dong.
• Chen Xiao traveled with Hai Bo Dong, Teng Shan, Yun Yun, Nalan Jie, Yan Shi, and Feng Li to meet Queen Medusa, who accepted a deal to lift Hai Bo Dong’s seal for Chen Xiao’s future help.
• Queen Medusa lifted Hai Bo Dong’s seal after finding the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Hai Bo Dong and Teng Shan gave Chen Xiao pills, techniques, and map fragments.
• Chen Xiao, Qing Lin, Hai Bo Dong, and Teng Shan entered the underground magma caverns, where Qing Lin awakened her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and enslaved the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake.
• Chen Xiao received Earth Fire Lotus Seeds and the Earth Core Lotus Platform, then met Xiao Yi Xian and promised to help her overcome the Woeful Poison Body.
• Chen Xiao returned to Wu Tan City with Qing Lin, advanced to Dou Ling, and found that Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi was mysteriously declining.
• Chen Xiao trained with Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and received a letter from Xiao Yi Xian before Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment team arrived in Wu Tan City.

Chen Xiao entered Jia Nan Academy, claimed rewards from the Inner Academy trials, and grew stronger through cultivation and dangerous encounters. After reuniting with Xun Er and Qing Lin and seeing them off, he trained in the Black-Corner Region and returned to prepare for the Strong Ranking Tournament.

• Chen Xiao impressed Instructor Xi Wen with his strength, entered Jia Nan Academy, and earned a place among the finalists of the Inner Courtyard Selection Tournament.
• Chen Xiao and the other finalists entered the Library Pavilion, where he chose the Frost Ripple Ice Hell Scripture and later adjusted his cultivation to it.
• Chen Xiao won the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, received an Azure Fire Crystal Card, and settled into the Inner Academy.
• Chen Xiao teamed up with Zi Yan to defeat the Snow Demon Sky Ape and found a pool of diluted Earth Core Body Tempering Milk in its cave.
• Chen Xiao refined his Dou Qi, learned the first step of Three Thousand Lightning Movement, and reunited with Xun Er and Qing Lin, who gave him cultivation resources and the Emperor Seal Technique scroll.
• After Xun Er and Qing Lin left, Chen Xiao entered the Black-Corner Region, killed a fleeing Six-Star Dou Ling, and obtained several supplies and scrolls.
• Chen Xiao returned to the academy, told his friends he had reserved a top-three place in the Strong Ranking Tournament, agreed to ask Su Qian about Zi Yan visiting the Black-Corner Region, and ate a Heaven Jade Fruit.

Chen Xiao advanced his cultivation, returned to the Jia Ma Empire, and helped launch an auction that drew Xiao Yan into the start of his conflict with the Misty Cloud Sect. In the Tagor Desert, Queen Medusa evolved with the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Chen Xiao stayed in the Holy City until she reappeared as a Dou Zong arrived.

• Chen Xiao refined the Heaven Jade Fruit, entered the Strong Ranking Tournament, and endured Heart Flame Origin tempering before Su Qian agreed to let Zi Yan travel with him.
• Chen Xiao absorbed Heavenly Cold Qi, trained with Zi Yan in the Black-Corner Region, and broke through to Seven-Star Dou Wang before returning to Jia Nan Academy.
• Chen Xiao and Zi Yan reached the Jia Ma Empire, where Ya Fei prepared an auction and the Misty Cloud Sect delegation came to the Xiao Family to dissolve Nalan Yanran’s engagement to Xiao Yan.
• At the auction, Chen Xiao obtained the Poison Pill Condensation Method through a private exchange for the Fragment Map, while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen secured the map.
• Chen Xiao, Hai Bo Dong, and Zi Yan visited Queen Medusa to seek Ice Spirit Cold Spring, and she later invited Chen Xiao to take the Green Lotus Core Flame after her evolution.
• Queen Medusa exposed herself to the Green Lotus Core Flame and vanished in its flames, then reappeared as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python before transforming back into her adult form.
• Chen Xiao remained in the Holy City while Queen Medusa and the newborn snake soul competed for control, then flew out to meet a suspected Dan or Cao Family visitor as Queen Medusa sensed the arriving Dou Zong.