Recaps

Xiao Yan traveled through the Great Thousand World, grew stronger, and joined the fight against the Blood Shadow Cult’s attempt to open the Gate of Darkness. After helping close the rift at Soul-Severing Cliff, he parted from Ling Xue and continued onward with a token that might help him find the cult’s remnants.

• Xiao Yan reached the Great Thousand World, learned about Origin Qi, and fought his way into Northern Region City before joining an expedition into the Black Wind Abyss.
• Xiao Yan gathered Spiritual Origin Crystals, defeated dangerous beasts and rivals, and used a black jade fragment that deepened his understanding of space and later transported him to the Mist Forest.
• Xiao Yan traveled with Li Xuantong to Tianbei City, where he fought Blood Shadow Cult remnants and won the Northern Region Youth Strongest Expert competition.
• Xiao Yan joined Li Xuantong’s force at Soul-Severing Cliff, destroyed a summoned python, and took the Space Fragment, but the Blood Shadow Cult Master struck him and the Void Origin Stone fragment sent him far away.
• The Sand Keeper treated Xiao Yan in the Crimson Sand Desert and taught him about the Origin Stabilizing Divine Stone, which Xiao Yan obtained after killing the Sand Prison Emperor.
• Xiao Yan found Ling Xue in a snowy wasteland and learned that her Ice Spirit Power and his Heavenly Flame could help seal the Darkness Node at Soul-Severing Cliff.
• Xiao Yan and Ling Xue reached Soul-Severing Cliff, where they found Zhou Xiaotian’s forces fighting the Blood Shadow Cult and attacked the cult’s ritual site.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Darkness Core and closed the rift, while Ling Xue killed the Blood Shadow Cult Master, after recovering, they parted ways as Xiao Yan continued onward with the cult master’s token and the Void Origin Stone fragment.

Xiao Yan gathered Heavenly Flames, inherited the Pill God's legacy, and restored the Pill Realm's seal as the Lord of Darkness threatened the Great Thousand World. He prepared purification pills for the Great Thousand Alliance and reached Initial Heavenly Sovereign while rescuing the Luo God Clan before the planned battle at Soul-Severing Cliff.

• Xiao Yan defeated Qin Yan's ambush, escaped with the Netherworld Core Flame, and broke through to the Origin Emperor Realm.
• Xiao Yan befriended Su Xiaoxiao, won alchemy competitions in Ten Thousand Medicines Valley, and killed Old Freak Blood Fiend.
• Xiao Yan confronted the Shadow of Darkness and helped Elder Bai restore the seal containing an avatar of a Lord of Darkness.
• Xiao Yan joined Xuan Kongzi's Ancient Pill Hall expedition, received the Pill God's inheritance and Burning Heaven Cauldron, and helped prepare the Great Thousand Alliance.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen collected the Netherworld Ghost Flame, entered the Pill Realm, and recovered its scattered Heart of the Pill Realm fragments.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Pill Realm Origin Fire, advanced to Initial Origin Venerate, and reunited the eight fragments to restore the Pill Realm's seal.
• Xiao Yan gathered rare ingredients, advanced to Intermediate Origin Venerate, and refined thirty-three Primordial Purification Pills for the march on Soul-Severing Cliff.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen sought the Luo God Clan's help, and Xiao Yan reached Initial Heavenly Sovereign while destroying the dark king general attacking Luo Li's clan.

Xiao Yan advanced from Flame Dominator to Realm Lord and joined the All-Heavens Guard as the Shadow Clan’s forces began invading worlds. After destroying a Void Mothership, he traveled with Blazing Sun to investigate a suspected Shadow Clan envoy, where a powerful enemy attacked them.

• Xiao Yan formed the Endless Fire Domain, helped defeat the Evil Clan Sovereign, and entered the Dominator Realm while Lin Dong and Mu Chen pursued their own breakthroughs.
• Xiao Yan united the Outer World Domain’s planes and led the fight against the Realm-Devouring Demon, then used the restored planes’ Realm Lord insights to advance with his companions.
• Xiao Yan inherited the Flame God’s legacy, advanced to the Intermediate Realm Lord level, and won the Time Hourglass fragment at the Star Dou Gathering.
• Xiao Yan restored the Heaven Burning Sword, obtained the Heart-Clearing Jade, and defended the Flame God’s legacy before joining the Council of the Heavens’ investigation of Law-Devouring Beasts.
• Xiao Yan helped defeat the Law-Devouring Beast King, became acting deputy commander of the Heaven Battalion, and fought demonic threats in the Netherworld Realm, Mystic Ice Realm, and Black Domain.
• Xiao Yan destroyed a Void Mothership and its Void Envoy with the Heaven Battalion, but the Grand Elder warned that the Shadow Clan would retaliate.
• Xiao Yan joined Blazing Sun and three elders at Soul-Severing Cliff to investigate the Shadow Clan, where a black figure attacked them with black spears.

Xiao Yan defeated the Shadow King, gathered the Seeds of Creation, and reshaped the heavens’ defenses against decay and nothingness. After helping establish a cosmic cycle and aiding the Shattered Galaxy, he encountered an Emissary that erased laws, memories, and existence, then retreated with Qing He permanently damaged.

• Xiao Yan led the Vanguard Battalion and the All-Heavens Alliance in defeating the Shadow King and closing the Shadow Rift.
• Xiao Yan investigated the Rotten Realm Spiders, found the Seeds of Balance, Life, and Order, and joined them with the Core of the All-Heavens to repair its law barriers.
• Xiao Yan entered the Sea of Deathly Silence and destroyed the Annihilation Origin Core, ending the Rotten Realm Spiders’ threat and earning the Guardian of Order token.
• Xiao Yan and Qing He navigated the Lost Trace Nebula, where Xiao Yan discovered a Chaos Source Star and learned to guide chaos alongside order.
• Xiao Yan faced the Nothingness Shadows and the Lord of Nothingness’s envoys, redirected their attack, and closed the Gate of Nothingness.
• Xiao Yan helped establish the Balance Tower, whose cycle joined order and nothingness, then worked with the Star Patrollers to aid the collapsing Shattered Galaxy.
• Xiao Yan investigated a vanished galaxy after the Rift of Oblivion erased Xiao Yu from memory and records, but an Emissary of Returning to Silence damaged Qing He and began erasing the fleet.
• Xiao Yan ordered the fleet to retreat, returning toward the heavens with Qing He’s damage permanent and the blank patch on his sealed petal enlarged.