Recaps

Li Yan helped the Undying Underworld Phoenix Clan seek the Black Devil Race’s support to escape the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan’s control. As the armies clashed, the Phoenix Four Clans and Black Devil Race carried out a coordinated crossing and struck suspected traitors.

• Ming Qi explained how the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan bound the four phoenix clans to its war against the Black Devil Race, while Li Yan learned that the Undying Underworld Phoenix Clan had secretly grown stronger with Silver Sand.
• Li Yan proposed helping the Undying Underworld Phoenix Clan leave the Jieyou Realm and secretly killed Han Ting, creating a temporary pause in the fighting as the investigation implicated You Cha.
• Li Yan told Mu Guyue about the clan’s predicament, and Ge Eryuan agreed that the Black Devil Race would consider supporting the Undying Underworld Phoenix Clan.
• Li Yan met Ming Qi and then Ming Feng, who agreed to discuss cooperation and relocate the four phoenix clans from the Jieyou Realm, with the Heavenly Demon Grassland as a possible destination.
• Ming Qi relayed the agreement while the Black Devil Race prepared for an assault, and Li Yan and Mu Guyue inferred that the phoenix clan had supplied reliable intelligence.
• The allied armies attacked from several directions, and the Phoenix Four Clans advanced toward the Black Devil Race’s forces.
• The Black Devil Race and Phoenix Four Clans passed one another without a direct clash, attacking suspected traitors as the phoenix clans killed or subdued their own sympathizers.

The Phoenix Four Clans betrayed the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan, helping the Black Devil Race break through the defenses and force the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan into Black Flame Mountain. As the Black Devil Race pursued through the mountain’s deadly gravity traps, Li Yan fought to save Mu Guyue from a powerful enemy.

• The Phoenix Four Clans turned against the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan while the Black Devil Race attacked, and Ming Feng led his clan through a spatial rift as the other clans escaped.
• The Black Devil Race and the Phoenix Four Clans breached the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan’s defenses, and the Phoenix Four Clans suffered heavy losses as they withdrew.
• After the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan’s ancestors sacrificed themselves to cover a retreat from Black Flame City, Li Yan joined Mu Guyue’s force entering Black Flame Mountain.
• Li Yan warned Mu Guyue that the enemy might ambush them deep in the mountain, then entered a stone forest where gravity traps pulled him into the rocks and a Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan cultivator attacked him.
• The Black Devil Race squads entered the stone forest and suffered casualties as the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan used its rocks and crushing gravity, while Mu Guyue entered alone and was attacked by stone puppets.
• A Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan cultivator overwhelmed Mu Guyue with his saber and gravity-controlled armor, and Li Yan charged in after his soul attack failed.
• Li Yan tore apart one attacker, then found Mu Guyue pinned by the forest’s gravity and shattered another cultivator’s hands and armor before dragging her away.

Li Yan helped the Black Devil Race survive the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan’s ambushes by disrupting their Black Flame Stone arts, then returned to Black Flame Mountain to investigate a sealed screen. He opened it with an earth-attribute attack and entered a hot cave where he found a dead silver-robed cultivator.

• Li Yan rescued Mu Guyue, pursued Meng Jingsheng into an underground cavern, and captured him before learning how the clan used Black Flame Crystals and Black Flame Mountain secret arts.
• Li Yan returned to the stone forest and discovered that adapting Five Elements Chaotic Cloak could disrupt the enemies’ control of their stone constructs and formations.
• Li Yan helped Mu Guyue, Luo Wuchao, and Wu Ran by breaking enemy secret arts, while the Black Devil Race fought the Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan across the stone forest.
• Li Yan withdrew with the others after the ambushes ended, and a Great Devil King praised his help and offered him a reward.
• Mu Guyue later told Li Yan that the Black Devil Race had defeated the enemy’s Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator, while two Body Integration Realm cultivators and some clansmen escaped.
• Li Yan obtained a command arrow, re-entered Black Flame Mountain, and used Meng Jingsheng to activate the Black Flame Crystal near the sealed screen.
• Li Yan tested the screen with arrays and elemental attacks, then used a pure earth-attribute punch to turn it into flowing sand and descended through it.
• Li Yan entered a hot cave where the mountain’s gravity had vanished and found a dead silver-robed male cultivator with no trace of a soul.

Li Yan left Black Flame Mountain after strengthening his Dao Paths, said farewell to Mu Guyue and Mu Sha, and traveled north before uncovering the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect’s scheme to lure Five Immortals Sect cultivators into a trap. He reached the Qianyu Sect to investigate and disrupt the plan, leaving the story as he reconnoitered its defenses and inhabitants.

• Li Yan captured and studied a black stone in the underground cavern, but it fused with Tuban and expanded the magic treasure with a new mountain and stronger spiritual energy.
• Li Yan spent over a year training inside Black Flame Mountain, then returned to Black Flame City and learned Mu Guyue had been sent on a mission.
• Li Yan warned Mu Sha about his dangerous killing aura, taught him a soul technique to disperse it, and urged him to consider finding a partner.
• The Black Devil Race rewarded Mu Guyue and Mu Sha with new posts, and Li Yan later gave them rare materials before leaving for the Cangxuan Realm.
• Li Yan followed two Yin-Yang Chaos Sect cultivators through a snowstorm, fought them, and captured Yu Mingshan and Sha Weigang after defeating them.
• Li Yan searched the prisoners’ memories and learned that the Qianyu Sect was a covert subsidiary plotting to lure Five Immortals Sect cultivators into a reverse ambush.
• Li Yan infiltrated the Qianyu Sect’s formation, subdued a sentry, and began scouting the sect while its Body Integration Realm ancestor remained inside.