Recaps

Xiao Yan built influence in Star Luo City by selling pills and making alliances, while an assassination attempt and Yu Xiaogang’s forbidden experiments drew him into a growing conflict. The arc ended with Dai Mubai ambushing Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing as they left the city.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Huohuo found the Green Lotus Core Flame, but Queen Medusa caught them, and Yao Lao offered her pills in exchange for it, and they left without the flame.
• Back in the Douluo World, Xiao Yan refined Blood Coagulation Powder and Qi Gathering Pills, partnered with the Hundred Herbs Pavilion and the Zhu Family, and supplied the Holy Hall.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing attended Dai Weisi’s investiture, where a Soul Saint assassin accused Xiao Yan of promising to help him, and Dai Weisi later said the assassin was tied to Dai Mubai’s faction.
• Yu Xiaogang restored Dai Mubai’s damaged limbs with parts from a ten-thousand-year Shadow Devil Lizard, and Dai Mubai agreed to the forbidden procedure so he could take revenge.
• At the Treasure Pavilion auction, Xiao Yan bought a Jade Fire Golden-Eyed Beast’s horn as the factions competed for goods, including his pills.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing found a cloaked man draining Soul Power from bound civilians in the slums, and he escaped after attacking them, leaving the victims dead.
• After half a month without finding the attacker, Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing left Star Luo City, but Dai Mubai ambushed them on the forest road and shattered two of Xiao Yan’s Netherworld Lock chains.

Xiao Yan survived an ambush in Star Chasing City, took control of its Spirit Hall Main Hall, and gained his sixth Soul Ring. He discovered a passage to the Battle Through the Heavens World and then traveled to Spirit City for Bibi Dong’s selection tournament.

• Xiao Yan defeated Dai Mubai and fended off a black-cloaked attacker, while Dai Mubai escaped with the attacker and later joined Yu Xiaogang’s experiments under Bibi Dong’s authority.
• After three months, Dai Mubai emerged as a conscious, clawed and scaled weapon, while Xu Mu plotted with Dai Wusi to steal Xiao Yan’s pill formulas and kill him.
• Xiao Yan returned from cultivation to find Zhu Zhuqing under attack by seven Soul Masters, killed the attackers, and then killed Xu Mu when he tried to claim the formulas.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing hid from Dai Wusi’s citywide search, then returned to the Spirit Hall Main Hall and exposed Xu Mu’s conspiracy to Zhou Yuan and Han Qing.
• Xiao Yan executed Xu Mu’s followers and used Barrier-Breaking Pills and a contribution system to consolidate control of the hall, while Liu Erlong left for Spirit City and Oscar departed Shrek Academy to gain experience.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where Xiao Yan killed a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and absorbed its Soul Ring, reaching level sixty-one and gaining Fallen Heart: Soul-Burning Wave.
• Xiao Yan opened a portal to the Battle Through the Heavens World, met Xiao Huohuo beneath Jia Nan Academy, and learned that Medusa had swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame and become a Seven-Colored Little Snake.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Spirit Hall Main Hall, accepted Ghost Douluo’s invitation to Bibi Dong’s tournament, sent the Dark Hall underground, and traveled alone to Spirit City, where he learned he and Hu Liena were favored contestants.

Xiao Yan won Spirit Hall’s selection competition, escaped Bibi Dong, and crossed into Jia Nan Academy to save Xiao Huohuo from the Fallen Heart Flame. He then infiltrated Han Feng’s Black Alliance, became an elder, and began working with Fan Lao while the factions’ rivalries threatened to deepen.

• Xiao Yan defeated Zhang Lie, Yan Lie, the Mysterious Ice Turtle Soul King, and Hu Liena, then Bibi Dong named him Spirit Hall’s holy son and Hu Liena its holy maiden.
• Bibi Dong tried to force Xiao Yan to reveal his Second Martial Soul, but he escaped through a portal to Jia Nan Academy, where the Fallen Heart Flame swallowed Xiao Huohuo.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, entered the sealed magma with Zi Yan’s help, and found Xiao Huohuo protected by Yao Lao inside the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan helped Xiao Huohuo recover and restrained the Fallen Heart Flame’s heart flame so Xiao Huohuo could swallow and refine it, then left the academy to seek information in the Black-Corner Region.
• Disguised as Tang San, Xiao Yan entered Maple City and joined Han Feng, Fan Lao, and other faction leaders as they formed the Black Alliance against Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan defeated Xiong Lie and Elder Ban in demonstrations, and Han Feng appointed him an elder of the Black Alliance.
• Xiao Yan offered to protect Fan Lao and the Blood Sect in exchange for intelligence, while warning Fan Lao that Han Feng was using faction rivalries to consolidate power.
• Han Feng redistributed territories in favor of stronger factions, and Xiao Yan advised Fan Lao to avoid provoking the Eight Gates as the Blood Sect lost valuable land and resources.

Xiao Yan left Black Rock City for the Central Plains, but Luo Cheng’s attack on the Space Wormhole stranded him in unfamiliar territory. After joining the Lin Clan’s struggle against Yellow Springs Pavilion, Xiao Yan uncovered Lin Zhenshan’s betrayal and faced Yin Li’s assassins at Qingzhu Pavilion.

• Han Feng assigned Xiao Yan to command the Black Alliance’s front lines, and Xiao Yan left a Soul Division Martial Soul double in Black Rock City before heading for Tianya City.
• Luo Xiaoyao blocked Xiao Yan from entering the Space Wormhole, and after he defeated Gao Yuan, Luo Cheng attacked and caused a spatial collapse that swept Xiao Yan away.
• Xiao Yan awoke injured, found Lin Zhentian’s caravan under attack, and defeated the assassins, including their masked Dou Emperor leader.
• Lin Zhentian brought Xiao Yan to the Lin Residence in Tianbei City, where Xiao Yan discovered Lin Zhenshan had informed Yellow Springs Pavilion that he was injured.
• Xiao Yan broke through to level 55 as Lin Zhenshan conspired with Yin Li to seize control of the Lin Clan and arrange Xiao Yan’s death.
• Lin Zhenshan led Yin Li and six assassins to Qingzhu Pavilion, but Xiao Yan emerged unharmed and fought back, killing a Four-Star Dou Emperor with Cold Heart Lotus Explosion.
• Yin Li regrouped with the surviving assassins and prepared to continue the fight against Xiao Yan.