Back From the Brink
Back From the Brink
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Back From the Brink

7.6 / 10 · 25 votes
2023
~43 min / ep
1 season
40 episodes
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Tian Yao is a dragon spirit who was betrayed by his lover and stripped of his dragon bones. He meets Yan Hui, a free-spirited young maiden who holds the key to help him regain his powers and his faith in love. Mysteries will abound as Yan Hui come to learn of her true origin.

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Cast

Seasons

  • Conspiracy

    1.Conspiracy

    09-05-202343 min

    Tianyao, Spirit Dragon of Luochuan is ready to marry Suying of Guanghan Sect. Actually she conspires to steal his dragon scales to forge an armor, in order to protect her true love...

  • Wedding of Tianyao and Yanhui

    2.Wedding of Tianyao and Yanhui

    09-05-202341 min

    The kidnapped Yanhui wakes up in the woodshed of Tianyao's house and is told by Aunt Zhou that tonight is her wedding. But Tianyao doesn't know about the wedding. When he comes bac...

  • Yanhui's Blood

    3.Yanhui's Blood

    3.0
    09-05-202350 min

    The three reach a mutual agreement and visit the place where the dragon bone was sealed. The snake spirit opens the barrier with his spiritual power. Yanhui sees the formation of t...

  • The Heart Protecting Scale

    4.The Heart Protecting Scale

    09-05-202347 min

    Yanhui cannot get rid of Tianyao whatever she does. She finally get a chance to escape from his attention during the night of full moon. Because of the dragon bone, an aura of Tian...

  • Fox Incense

    5.Fox Incense

    09-05-202343 min

    Wang Pengyuan is rejected by Yanhui again. He takes the opportunity to approach Yanhui after she drunk the Fox Incense. However, Yanhui is held hand by Tianyao. Under the influence...

  • Dragon Horns

    6.Dragon Horns

    10-05-202343 min

    Yanhui finds herself become abnormal so she asks Xiange why she would act like that. Xiange thinks Yanhui should love Tianyao. When Yanhui is absent-minded, Tianyao says he needs h...

  • The Owner of Qijue Agency

    7.The Owner of Qijue Agency

    10-05-202343 min

    Tianyao and Yanhui bring Feng Qianshuo to Wangyu Tower. Feng Qianshuo dislikes Tianyao. To defend Tianyao, Yanhui satirizes Feng Qianshuo. She also scolds him as a profitter after...

  • Mind's Eye

    8.Mind's Eye

    11-05-202340 min

    Tianyao is caught. Yanhui wants to visit him in the jail so she bribes the soldier. They discuss how they could escape from the jail and Tianyau asks Yanhui to steal the spirit tok...

  • The Dragon King

    9.The Dragon King

    12-05-202343 min

    When Tianyao and Yanhui go to the underground city with Xiange, they see many monsters here. Since Tianyao cures them with his Spirit Dragon Spell, they recognize his identity, The...

  • The Array of the Dragon Horn

    10.The Array of the Dragon Horn

    13-05-202346 min

    Yanhui obtains more spiritual power from other familiars but it is still not enough for her to break the array of the Dragon Horn. Bai Xiaosheng tells her that he can give her a ha...

  • Merging with Dragon Horn

    11.Merging with Dragon Horn

    14-05-202342 min

    To buy for time for Yanhui, Tianyao fights against Suying. However, Yanhui is not able to break the array of the Dragon Horn and she only asks for help from Bai Xiaosheng. He tells...

  • Bad-tempered Yanhui

    12.Bad-tempered Yanhui

    15-05-202345 min

    Yanhui becomes emoitional after coming to but Tianyao cannot comfort her with his dragon flame. Thus, he wants to enter Yanhui's mind's eye. Yet, He is stopped by Bai Xiaosheng. Ti...

  • The Mysterious Power

    13.The Mysterious Power

    15-05-202346 min

    Bai Xiaosheng is afraid that Zichen would ruin his plan so he lures him to the foggy forest. Yanhui also chases to the foggy forest, they disappeared due to some mysterious power.

  • Back To the Dragon Valley

    14.Back To the Dragon Valley

    16-05-202346 min

    Zichen no longer hates the monsters. He also respects Yanhui's decision of staying with Tianyao. Yanhui tells Tianyao, whose sword is back to the Dragon Valley when rescuing her so...

  • Yanhui and Tianyao

    15.Yanhui and Tianyao

    17-05-202343 min

    Yanhui argues with the elves, and Huan Xiaoyan, tortured by Phantom King, comes out of the ring, and uses magic to let the elves know that Tianyao is the Dragon King. Master Suying...

  • The Ring of the Phantom Clan

    16.The Ring of the Phantom Clan

    18-05-202343 min

    Tianyao rescued the mad Phantom King with Flaming Dragon Fan and brought him back to his senses. The Phantom King passed away and left the ring of the Phantom Clan to Xiaoyan. At t...

  • Misty Forest

    17.Misty Forest

    19-05-202342 min

    Tianyao rescued the elves and immediately went back to Dragon Valley to find Yanhui, but found that only Huan Xiaoyan was left in a coma. Bai Xiaosheng brought Yanhui back to the H...

  • The Obsidian River

    18.The Obsidian River

    22-05-202342 min

    Tianyao escorted Yanhui all the way back, but was found, when he was in a stalemate, he ran into Zhuli and Lingfei and others who were chasing after him. Yanhui came up a plan, usi...

  • Dark Aura

    19.Dark Aura

    22-05-202345 min

    When Yanhui went back to fetch the Heart Protecting Scale, Zhuli and Huan Xiaoyan accidentally obtained the compass left by Xue Lin to inhale the black energy. They are all sucked...

  • The Ghostly Eulogy

    20.The Ghostly Eulogy

    23-05-202341 min

    Bai Xiaosheng took the Yanhui back to the place where the screen was, and told him that if he wanted to obtain "The Ghostly Eulogy", he had to work together with a pair of Taoist-s...

  • Enter the Screen

    21.Enter the Screen

    24-05-202345 min

    While Zhuli and Huan Xiaoyan were still distressed about opening the compass, the compass flew away from Zhuli's hand. As they were about to enter the secret room but was blocked b...

  • Have someone in mind

    22.Have someone in mind

    24-05-202346 min

    Maobijing is obsessed with Qingqiu's rules, "The Ghostly Eulogy" requires people from the Xuan Yao and Xuan Yao clans to practice at the same time, and even asks for the two to get...

  • Translation get stolen

    23.Translation get stolen

    25-05-202340 min

    When Zhuli and Huan Xiaoyan were monitioring the translation process of "The Ghostly Eulogy", Zhao Yu came and said that Chang Lan wanted to summon Zhuli. Zhuli left, leaving Huan...

  • Wedding

    24.Wedding

    26-05-202342 min

    Tianyao and Yanhui busy on preparing their wedding. Meanwhile, Bai Xiaosheng is missing. Zhuli tells Tianyao and Yanhui that Xiaosheng will be back when their wedding ceremony is e...

  • The Flower Bulletin

    25.The Flower Bulletin

    29-05-202343 min

    Bai Xiaosheng and Tianyao was hunted down by the Qingqiu clan. Fortunately, Feng Qianshuo, dressed as a monster, helped them and took them to a hidden place. It turns out that Feng...

  • Cultivate

    26.Cultivate

    29-05-202341 min

    Yanhui and Tianyao came to the place where Chenyi lived. Tianyao asked Yanhui if the jealousy he showed in the face of Yinghuo's frivolity to him before was because he was moved by...

  • Confession

    27.Confession

    30-05-202344 min

    Yanhui woke up and saw Tianyao, she wept with joy and confessed her love loudly. Bai Xiaosheng told Tianyao and Yanhui that Dark Phantom had been injured. Tianyao remembered that h...

  • The Great Battle

    28.The Great Battle

    31-05-202344 min

    Changlan deliberately provokes a battle between the two clans. Yanhui and others discuss the plan to stop imminent war. Everyone joined forces, took back Changlan's power and broke...

  • Sanchong Mountain

    29.Sanchong Mountain

    5.0
    31-05-202345 min

    Zhuli confessed to Huan Xiaoyan, and Huan Xiaoyan went to Yanhui to discuss it in a panic. The three chatted about Qingqiu wedding customs together. Tianyao plans to retrieve his b...

  • The Soul-Annihilating Whip

    30.The Soul-Annihilating Whip

    01-06-202346 min

    Lingxiao brings Yanhui back to Chenxing Mountain, and is trapped on the Starfall Terrace. Suying wants to kill Yanhui. Lingxiao resignedly damages her Heart Protecting Scale with h...

  • Life-Swapping Spell

    31.Life-Swapping Spell

    02-06-202343 min

    After Lingxiao left, Lingfei, who was bewitched by The Dark Phantom because of hatred, came secretly and start killing, Zichen rushed to stop Lingfei but failed. Yanhui was entrenc...

  • A Dragon Egg

    32.A Dragon Egg

    05-06-202343 min

    Yanhui jumps in the Obsidian River, shocking the world. She directly rushes into the Dragon Vein Formation at the foot of Sanchong Mountain, and rescues Tianyao. He breaths weakly...

  • Reborn

    33.Reborn

    05-06-202345 min

    When Yanhui completely collects dragon consciousness, she brings it back to Qingqiu. The Leader Chenyi tells her that she needs to wait for him to be reborn, and when he would wake...

  • Tongluo Village

    34.Tongluo Village

    06-06-202342 min

    To help Tianyao recover his memory soon, Yanhui take him back to the Tongluo Village and Dragon Valley. Zhuli and Huan Xiaoyan are engaged, and Xiange is pregnant, Feng Qianshuo de...

  • Frost Blossom

    35.Frost Blossom

    07-06-202340 min

    Yanhui noticed the abnormality in Tongluo Village, and thought it was related to the dark aura. Unexpectedly, she met the lost and delirious Master Qiyun on the road. Lingxiao foun...

  • The Deadly Curse

    36.The Deadly Curse

    07-06-202345 min

    Tianyao was exhausted and unconscious, and Ling Xiao took care of him, while Yanhui helped Cha to absorb the dark aura. Waking up, Cha immediately went for Master Qiyun. Tianyao ca...

  • Puppetry Technique

    37.Puppetry Technique

    08-06-202339 min

    The Spirit Dragon Flame swept away the dark aura in Dark Phantom's minds eye. In anger, Dark Phantom made Bai Xiaosheng his own puppet force him to bewitch Suying. Suying, now bewi...

  • Harves and extract

    38.Harves and extract

    09-06-202344 min

    When Dark Phantom learned that Xuelin was studying her own skills and fell in love with Chenyi, he felt resentful, attacked the two and spread the plague everywhere. Fuyin wanted t...

  • Ling Xiao's Sacrifice

    39.Ling Xiao's Sacrifice

    12-06-202345 min

    Because of the change of the stars, Ling Xiao decides to investigate Dark Phantom's mind's eye. Although Dark Phantom's body is destroyed, it could be formed with the dark aura. It...

  • Back To the Brink

    40.Back To the Brink

    12-06-202342 min

    Yanhui returns to the Dragon Valley, and everyone knows she and Tianyao are still struggling so they want to help them fight against Dark Phantom. Because of the lack of the Heart...

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