Recaps

Xiao Yi Xian ate a Red Blood Lotus and rapidly advanced to Peak Dou Zhe, while Xiao Yan warned her about the dangers of the Woeful Poison Body. She set off for the Chu Yun Empire with the Amethyst Winged Lion King to gain experience and seek a way to control her constitution.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian a Red Blood Lotus, and she found it delicious because the Woeful Poison Body made her crave poison.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the flower’s Poison Qi and broke through from Ninth Stage Dou Qi to Peak Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan explained that the seven-colored line meant her constitution was accumulating dangerous energy, and he warned her not to gather too much Poison Qi.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian a Storage Ring filled with poisonous ingredients and arranged for the Amethyst Winged Lion King to take her to the Chu Yun Empire.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King carried Xiao Yi Xian out of the cave while Xiao Yan remained behind with the Little Lion King.

Xiao Yan gathered the Deadly Mad Bird and Nether Snake King to form an alliance, revealing a powerful Magical Beast legion and provoking the Nether Snake King against Yun Shan. The overlords pledged to accompany him to the Three-Year Agreement and confront the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao survived an unexpected sound-wave attack, then learned that the Deadly Mad Bird and Nether Snake King had arrived to pledge allegiance.
• Xiao Yan left the cave with the Little Lion King and greeted the two Magical Beast overlords as their alliance leader.
• The Deadly Mad Bird reported an army of thirteen Fifth-Order Magical Beasts, two thousand Fourth-Order Magical Beasts, and a hundred thousand lower-order beasts, while the Nether Snake King reported twenty elite beasts.
• Xiao Yan provoked the Nether Snake King by claiming Yun Shan had boasted of defeating it, and the Nether Snake King revealed that it had reached Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan invented a story about the Three-Year Agreement and the Misty Cloud Sect, prompting the Deadly Mad Bird and Nether Snake King to volunteer to accompany him and challenge Yun Shan.

Xiao Yan established the Flame Alliance with the Nether Snake King and the Deadly Mad Bird, promising rewards to strengthen their forces. He left the Magical Beast Mountain Range with ten powerful beasts and arrived at Black Rock City to pursue an alchemist qualification before heading to the Tagor Desert.

• Xiao Yan named the alliance the Flame Alliance and promised its members pills in exchange for gathering resources and expanding their territory.
• The Nether Snake King summoned twenty elite Magical Beasts, who pledged their allegiance to Xiao Yan as Alliance Leader.
• Xiao Yan announced that he would leave the Magical Beast Mountain Range and asked to take several Fifth-Order Magical Beasts with him.
• The Deadly Mad Bird offered its own beasts, and Xiao Yan selected ten Dou Wang Magical Beasts to protect the Xiao Clan and the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yan gave the ten beasts directions through Black Rock City and the Tagor Desert, then flew with them to Black Rock City, where he anticipated meeting Frank and Otto.

Xiao Yan arrived at Black Rock City with ten powerful magical beasts, alarming the city’s leaders until he explained that he had come to take the alchemist examination under the alias Yan Xiao. He left Frank, Otto, and He Qian eager to befriend him after they mistook his entourage for proof of a formidable backing.

• Ten Dou Wang-level magical beasts approached Black Rock City, and He Qian, Frank, and Otto went out to confront them while Otto sent a signal requesting help from the imperial capital.
• Xiao Yan called out that he was Yan Xiao and had come to take the alchemist examination, calming Frank and He Qian.
• He Qian introduced himself and eagerly offered to escort Xiao Yan to register for the examination.
• Frank and Otto inferred that the Nether Snake King might be behind Xiao Yan’s entourage and regretted not greeting him first.
• Frank, Otto, and He Qian tried to win Xiao Yan’s favor by offering examination help and promoting their disciples and family members, but Xiao Yan politely declined their overtures.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Alchemist Guild in Black Rock City with ten Fifth-Order Magical Beasts and registered for an alchemist examination. Frank and Otto tried to introduce him to their disciples, Xue Mei and Lin Fei, and they were stunned when they saw his registration details.

• Xiao Yan landed outside the Alchemist Guild with his magical beasts, and Frank and Otto eagerly escorted him inside.
• Frank and Otto summoned Xue Mei and Lin Fei, hoping the young women would take an interest in Xiao Yan as a potential partner.
• Xue Mei and Lin Fei doubted that the fourteen- or fifteen-year-old Xiao Yan could be an alchemist, but said they would judge him after his examination.
• Xiao Yan registered for examinations and followed a guard upstairs to the testing area.
• Frank and Otto checked Xiao Yan's registration and learned that he was a fourteen-year-old Seven-Star Dou Zhe seeking First-Rank, Second-Rank, and Third-Tier Alchemist examinations, shocking Xue Mei and Lin Fei.

Frank and Otto prepared to assess Yan Xiao after learning that the young Dou Zhe claimed the skills to qualify as a Third-Tier Alchemist. Yan Xiao began his demonstration before a gathering crowd, summoning a seven-colored dragon whose heat and icy chill revealed a Heavenly Flame.

• Frank and Otto hurried to the assessment hall to meet Yan Xiao, while Xue Mei and Lin Fei followed to witness his abilities.
• Yan Xiao entered the empty hall and prepared to show his alchemy skills as Otto and Frank directed Xue Mei and Lin Fei to watch from the sidelines.
• A group of alchemists rushed in to observe Yan Xiao, and Frank used Dou Qi to move them into the spectator seats.
• Yan Xiao chose a stone platform and summoned a seven-colored dragon, prompting the crowd to identify it as a Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan used fire to form a nine-headed cauldron and began refining a Power Accumulation Pill, astonishing the alchemists who watched him. He finished in just fifteen minutes and revealed a flawless pill, leaving the spectators in disbelief.

• Frank and Otto concluded that Xiao Yan’s seven-colored flame was an exceptionally powerful mutated Beast Flame rather than a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan drew the Power Accumulation Pill formula and replaced the medicinal cauldron with a cauldron shaped from his fire.
• The alchemists, including Lin Fei, Xue Mei, Frank, Otto, and Yao Lao, were stunned that Xiao Yan could use fire as a cauldron while still a Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan put all the medicinal ingredients into the fire cauldron at once and refined them as the spectators debated his method.
• After a quarter of an hour, Xiao Yan finished refining and revealed a perfectly round, crystal-clear Power Accumulation Pill.

Xiao Yan impressed Frank and Otto by refining a perfect Power Accumulation Pill and demonstrating an unusual flame-control technique. After restoring his Dou Qi, he began the Third-Tier Alchemist examination by refining Qi Gathering Powder.

• Frank examined Xiao Yan's freshly refined Power Accumulation Pill and praised its purity, Pill Patterns, and potency.
• Otto ate the pill, felt his Dou Qi improve, and asked Xiao Yan how he had refined it so quickly.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated how tiny flames could penetrate a medicinal ingredient and burn away everything but its essence, earning Frank's admiration.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Mantra to absorb nearby Fire Attribute Dou Qi and fully restore his stamina.
• Otto skipped the second-rank examination and invited Xiao Yan to attempt the Third-Tier Alchemist examination, which Xiao Yan accepted.
• Xiao Yan formed a fire cauldron and began refining Third-Tier Qi Gathering Powder.

Xiao Yan passed the third-tier alchemist examination by refining a Qi Gathering Powder, which he gave to Lin Fei. After requesting his alchemist robe and registration, he asked Frank for help finding a map shop near the Tagor Desert, and Otto recommended one in Desert City.

• Xiao Yan carefully refined a Third-Tier Qi Gathering Powder, demonstrating his skill to the watching alchemists and spectators.
• Lin Fei asked Xiao Yan for the pill, and he gave it to her; Otto praised her while Frank silently urged Xue Mei to be more forward.
• Xiao Yan asked Frank to provide his alchemist robe and register his information after the examination.
• Xiao Yan asked Frank for a map shop recommendation because he planned to travel to the Tagor Desert.
• Otto recommended the Ancient Map shop in Desert City, while Frank grew jealous that Otto had helped Xiao Yan.

After becoming a Third-Tier Alchemist, Xiao Yan agreed to enter the Jia Ma Empire's Alchemist Grand Meeting in two and a half years. He left the guild and offered He Qian a recommendation to join the Flame Alliance.

• A guard delivered Xiao Yan's black Third-Tier Alchemist robe, and Frank offered to handle his registration details.
• Frank invited Xiao Yan to compete in the upcoming Alchemist Grand Meeting, and Xiao Yan agreed after Yao Lao encouraged him.
• Lin Fei introduced herself to Xiao Yan, but he awkwardly fled, leaving her disappointed as Xue Mei comforted her.
• Xiao Yan left the Alchemist Guild, saw He Qian, and offered to recommend him to the Flame Alliance.

Xiao Yan traveled to Desert City to seek Hai Bodong and found another fragment of the Demonic Flame Remnant Map in his shop. Hai Bodong refused to sell it and threatened Xiao Yan, leaving their reunion tense and unresolved.

• Xiao Yan gave He Qian a letter of recommendation to the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair, then led his group of Magical Beasts toward the Tagor Desert.
• He Qian decided to join the Flame Alliance and flew off toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan reached Desert City, descended on a seven-colored fire dragon, and entered the city.
• Xiao Yan found the Demonic Flame Remnant Map in the Ancient Map shop, and Yao Lao recognized it as another fragment linked to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Hai Bodong refused to sell the fragment and threatened Xiao Yan with an ice blade.

Xiao Yan challenged Ice Emperor Hai Bodong and defeated him in a fight, then demanded the other map fragment and information about the Heavenly Flames. He offered to undo Hai Bodong’s sealing technique in exchange, but Hai Bodong refused.

• Xiao Yan identified the map seller as Hai Bodong and provoked him into a fight.
• Hai Bodong attacked with ice barriers, but Xiao Yan’s seven-colored fire dragon broke through them and destroyed the shop.
• Hai Bodong launched a barrage of ice spikes, and Xiao Yan countered with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, leaving Hai Bodong charred and injured.
• Xiao Yan demanded Hai Bodong’s other map fragment and information about the Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan offered to undo Hai Bodong’s sealing technique in exchange, but Hai Bodong refused despite wavering at the offer.

Xiao Yan broke Hai Bodong’s Snake Tribe Seal and secured the map and map fragment in exchange. After revealing his strength as a Dou Zong, Xiao Yan recruited Hai Bodong into the Flame Alliance and sent him to the Nether Snake King with a letter of recommendation.

• Hai Bodong agreed to surrender the map and map fragment if Xiao Yan could break his seal, and Xiao Yan accepted the deal.
• Yao Lao lent Xiao Yan his power, allowing him to reach Four-Star Dou Zong strength and destroy the Snake Tribe Seal.
• Hai Bodong’s strength returned to the Dou Huang Realm, and he gave Xiao Yan the map and map fragment.
• Xiao Yan declined Hai Bodong’s offer to guide him, then revealed that he had come to recruit him for the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan gave Hai Bodong a letter of recommendation and instructed him to take it to the Nether Snake King at the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s lair.

Xiao Yan left Hai Bodong and traveled toward Stone Desert City, treating his injuries and preparing gifts for Xiao Ding and Xiao Li. He arrived with ten Dou Wang magical beasts, whose public landing caused panic throughout the city.

• Xiao Yan departed after telling Hai Bodong about the Flame Alliance, while Hai Bodong headed for the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yan ended Yao Lao’s possession, discussed his strained body with his master, and took a Bone-Growing Pill to heal his injuries.
• Xiao Yan chose Stone Desert City as his destination and found two cultivation scrolls in Yao Lao’s collection to give to Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Stone Desert City with ten Dou Wang magical beasts and planned to assign five to protect his brothers and leave the others with the Xiao Clan.
• The beasts landed on buildings across the city, prompting the crowds, mercenaries, and city troops to react in fear and prepare for battle.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in the Tagor Desert and explained his return with a fabricated story about secretly sustaining ten powerful magical beasts. His tale moved the gathered soldiers and mercenaries, while Yao Lao realized it could shame the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the city on the Crimson Feather Bird and ordered the city lord to find Xiao Ding and Xiao Li without harming them.
• The city lord brought Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to Xiao Yan, and the brothers embraced and reunited.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the ten magical beasts were Fifth-Order beasts, alarming the troops and astonishing Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• Xiao Yan claimed he had discovered the beasts in a mountain cave and sacrificed his Dou Qi for three years to protect the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan's story moved the crowd to tears, and the soldiers denounced the Xiao clansmen for mistreating him.
• Yao Lao heard Xiao Yan's account from inside his ring and thought the story would leave the Xiao Clan deeply ashamed.

Xiao Yan helped his brothers strengthen the Desert Iron Mercenary Group by taking control of Stone Desert City and giving Xiao Ding five powerful magical beasts. The display of strength drew a crowd eager to join, leaving Xiao Ding’s mercenary group poised to grow rapidly.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li told Xiao Yan that they had founded the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, though it had not yet become influential.
• Xiao Yan claimed Stone Desert City for himself and gave its city lord ten third-grade Bone-Growing Pills as compensation, inviting him to join the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• The city lord pledged to serve Xiao Ding, and Xiao Yan offered his eldest brother five of his ten magical beasts to protect the mercenary group.
• Xiao Ding chose the Blazing Flame Horse Beast, Shadow Phoenix, Golden Demon Illusion Deer, Spectral Night Tiger, and Wind Blade Wolf, and the five beasts descended to serve him.
• City guards and mercenaries, impressed by the beasts’ power, rushed to Xiao Ding to compete for places in the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.

Xiao Yan found Qing Lin, a starving and traumatized child, in a secluded street and recognized her as the future possessor of the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. He offered her shelter and protection in his city, then asked whether she truly wanted to stay and join his group.

• Xiao Yan escaped the crowd and discovered Qing Lin curled up in an alley, suffering from heatstroke.
• Xiao Yan gave Qing Lin water and comforted her as she feared he would hurt her.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Yan her name and tried to leave because she felt ashamed of her appearance.
• Xiao Yan stopped Qing Lin, offered to take her in, and cleaned her face.
• Qing Lin worried that people would despise her as a mixed-blood descendant and said she did not want to trouble Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Lin he would protect her and asked whether she wanted to stay and work for his group.

Xiao Yan cared for Qing Lin by buying her clothes, bringing her to an inn, and helping her bathe and clean up. After Qing Lin emerged in fresh clothes, Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that he could not see through her nature, and Xiao Yan began steering him toward the possibility that her mixed heritage gave her a special talent.

• Qing Lin accepted Xiao Yan's help and let him lead her to a clothing shop, where he bought her a bag of modest clothes.
• Xiao Yan took Qing Lin to an inn, booked a room, and ordered a feast for them.
• Xiao Yan prepared a warm bath behind a folding screen, and Qing Lin washed, changed, and resolved to repay him.
• Qing Lin emerged in her new clothes, and Xiao Yan praised her beauty.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that Qing Lin was unusual and that he could not see through her true nature.
• Xiao Yan inwardly asked Yao Lao whether a child of a human and a Snake-Person could possess a special talent.

Xiao Yan deliberately shared his painful past with Qing Lin to awaken her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, then asked whether she would still follow him. Qing Lin accepted, confessed her affection, and the two spent hours together before dinner arrived.

• Yao Lao deduced that Qing Lin might possess the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, which could control most snake-type magical beasts, and explained that emotional stimulation might awaken them.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Lin about losing his Dou Qi, being scorned, and having his engagement broken, prompting her empathy and causing three spinning green petals to appear in her eyes.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Qing Lin would still follow him despite his having helped her out of pity, and Qing Lin said she would repay his kindness and admitted she had fallen for him.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin playfully teased and tickled each other for several hours until a waiter brought their meal.
• Xiao Yan found Qing Lin staring hungrily at the food and handed her a chicken leg.

Xiao Yan encouraged Qing Lin to test whether her unusual eyes could control snake-type Magical Beasts, and she agreed to try. They left Stone Desert City and entered the dangerous Tagor Desert, where Xiao Yan warned her to stay close.

• Qing Lin eagerly ate with Xiao Yan, then fed him and explained that she thought of herself as a greedy cat rather than a little dog.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Lin about a legend that people descended from humans and the Snake-People Tribe could control snake-type Magical Beasts with unusual eyes.
• Qing Lin agreed to test her eyes after Xiao Yan encouraged her, and Yao Lao remarked that the Flame Alliance would soon gain another genius.
• Qing Lin walked openly through the city with Xiao Yan, declined a stranger’s offer of bread, and resolved to live without hiding behind a mask.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin reached the desert outside Stone Desert City, where he warned her about Magical Beasts and told her to stay close.

While searching the desert with Qing Lin, Xiao Yan overheard Snake-People discussing Lady Yue Mei’s plan to draw snake-type magical beasts into a beast tide and attack Stone Desert City. He captured a female Snake-Person and helped Qing Lin use her ability to control her, then prepared to question her about the plot.

• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin hid from a passing group of Snake-People, and Xiao Yan overheard them describe Lady Yue Mei’s plan to provoke a beast tide and seize Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan decided to capture a Snake-Person for Qing Lin to control and knocked out the last member of the passing group.
• Xiao Yan returned with the unconscious Snake-Person, and Qing Lin used her eye ability to place three green petals in both of the captive’s eyes.
• Xiao Yan woke the female Snake-Person and turned her toward Qing Lin, whose ability made the captive lose consciousness again.
• Xiao Yan asked Qing Lin to question the female Snake-Person about the Snake-People Tribe’s plot.

Xiao Yan learned that Yue Mei’s forces planned to attack Stone Desert City before dawn with a horde of snake-type Magical Beasts, followed by a full invasion. He returned to the city with Qing Lin and the captured Snake-Person to warn Xiao Ding and Xiao Li and prepare its defenses.

• The female Snake-Person told Xiao Yan that Yue Mei’s forces had stirred up seventy percent of the desert’s snake-type Magical Beasts and planned a surprise attack before dawn.
• Xiao Yan asked Qing Lin to help subdue the attacking Magical Beasts with her eyes, and she agreed despite her fear.
• Xiao Yan borrowed Yao Lao’s soul power and set out with Qing Lin and the captured female Snake-Person for Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan arrived atop the city wall and asked a mercenary for Xiao Ding and Xiao Li’s location.
• The mercenary directed Xiao Yan to the largest courtyard by the east city gate, where the ten Fifth-Order Magical Beasts were stationed.

Xiao Yan returned to Stone Desert City with Qing Lin and a female Snake-Person and warned Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and the gathered mercenaries that a massive Snake-People attack was imminent. After rejecting their attempt to pressure him into helping, he promised to protect his companions and accept the Snake-People Tribe’s challenge.

• Xiao Yan hurried back to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s courtyard with Qing Lin and the female Snake-Person, where Xiao Ding and Xiao Li were welcoming new recruits.
• Xiao Yan announced that seventy percent of the snake-type magical beasts in the Tagor Desert would attack Stone Desert City at daybreak, followed by a full-scale Snake-People assault on the Jia Ma Empire’s border.
• Xiao Yan made the female Snake-Person confirm the coming war, prompting the mercenaries to beg him to save the city and lead them in battle.
• Xiao Yan rebuked the mercenaries for trying to force his help, then said he would protect the Desert Iron Mercenary Group because they were his companions.
• Xiao Yan declared that he accepted the Snake-People Tribe’s challenge.

Xiao Yan reassured the mercenaries and revealed that Qing Lin could control snake-type magical beasts, making her part of his plan to defend Stone Desert City. He left to search a location marked on the Heavenly Flames map while the others prepared for the coming invasion.

• Xiao Yan lifted the exhausted mercenaries to their feet and promised a way to resist the Snake-People Tribe and its beasts.
• Xiao Yan introduced Qing Lin and explained that her special eyes could control many snake-type magical beasts.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li recognized the plan to use Qing Lin and the ten Fifth-Order Magical Beasts to hold off the invasion until reinforcements arrived.
• Xiao Ding sent the city lord to seek help from Black Rock City and report the crisis to the emperor, while Xiao Yan ordered everyone to gather at the city gates in an hour.
• Xiao Ding took Qing Lin to the Crimson Feather Bird and assigned it to protect her and bring her near the snake-type magical beasts.
• Xiao Yan examined the Heavenly Flames map east of Stone Desert City and asked Yao Lao whether they could find a Heavenly Flame at the marked location.