Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han disguised himself as a powerful Taoist and scammed treasures from the Black-Corner Region’s Dou Emperors and Dou Wangs by promising to take them as disciples. He fled and dumped his disguise on Xiao Yan, leaving Xiao Yan to face the furious crowd as he escaped into Black Seal City.

• Xiao Han claimed to be a Dou Zun expert and offered to accept three disciples, prompting Elder Qing and the others to compete by giving him treasures.
• After collecting the crowd’s gifts, Xiao Han told them to turn around while he prepared to take them away, then fled alone.
• The crowd realized Xiao Han had tricked them and chased after him, furious and demanding their treasures back.
• Xiao Han found Xiao Yan at Black Seal City, handed him the Taoist robe and horsetail whisk, and claimed he needed to relieve his stomach before slipping into the city.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that dozens of powerful pursuers had targeted him, and the crowd attacked Xiao Yan, mistaking him for the fleeing fraud.

Xiao Han and Xiao Yan reconciled after Xiao Han shared the treasures he had swindled in Black Seal City, then traveled to Jia Nan Academy. They learned that Xun Er was waiting for Xiao Yan and Xiao Xueqin had entered the Inner Academy, while each man unknowingly laughed at the other for being called a bastard.

• Xiao Han gave Xiao Yan the Three Thousand Lightning Movement technique and a Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill, then Yao Lao told them about Han Feng.
• Xiao Yan vowed to kill Han Feng for betraying Yao Lao.
• Xiao Han and Xiao Yan traveled to Peace Town, verified their student identities, and boarded a Gryphon for Jia Nan City.
• An older student told Xiao Yan that Xun Er had stayed in the Outer Academy waiting for him, and Xiao Han laughed at Xiao Yan being called a bastard.
• The older student said Xiao Xueqin had advanced to Dou Ling and joined the Inner Academy, then called Xiao Han a little turtle bastard; Xiao Yan laughed at him.

Xiao Han and Xiao Yan arrived at Jia Nan Academy in time for the annual Inner Academy selection, where the final fifty contestants would qualify and the Top Five would earn access to the Scripture Depository. Xiao Yan reached the stage first, but when Xiao Han arrived with his Heavenly Emperor Sword, the floating platform exploded and sent the contestants flying.

• A senior explained the Inner Academy selection rules to Xiao Han and Xiao Yan as they traveled to Jia Nan City.
• Xiao Han and Xiao Yan headed to Jia Nan Academy, joking that they would take first and second place in the selection.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yu waited at the crowded selection venue while Vice Dean Hu Gan opened the event and contestants Wu Hao, Hu Jia, and Bai Shan took the stage.
• Xiao Yan arrived late and planted his black ruler in the stage before joining the contestants.
• Xiao Han arrived with the Heavenly Emperor Sword, which shattered the floating stage and blasted Xiao Yan and the others into the air.

Xiao Han destroyed Jia Nan Academy’s suspended battle stage and defended himself by claiming he had acted to protect the students. Vice Dean Hu Gan pardoned him, but Xiao Han insisted he would blow things up again if he thought it necessary.

• Xiao Han’s Crystal Long Sword destroyed the battle stage, leaving Xiao Yan, Wu Hao, Hu Jia, and Bai Shan crawling out of the ruins.
• The students recognized Xiao Han and reacted with shock, admiration, and anger as he faced Vice Dean Hu Gan and the academy elders.
• Xiao Han claimed the old battle stage would have collapsed during a melee and that he had destroyed it to protect everyone.
• Vice Dean Hu Gan pardoned Xiao Han after accepting his explanation, though the elders were furious about the damage.
• Xiao Han declared that he would keep blowing things up if it meant protecting the students, leaving Hu Gan and the elders nearly speechless.

Xiao Han’s arrival and destruction of the battle stage stirred Jia Nan Academy, while Xiao Xueqin hurried to see him after hearing he had arrived. The selection competition narrowed to six contenders for five Scripture Depository places, and Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Bai Shan challenged Xiao Han to leave.

• Xiao Xueqin learned from a red-clothed girl that Xiao Han had come to Jia Nan Academy and hurried down the mountain to find him.
• Hu Gan moved the selection competition to the Outer Academy square after Xiao Han blew up the Suspended Battle Stage.
• Xiao Han declined to fight in the melee and left Xiao Yan to protect Xun Er and fend off challengers.
• The melee reduced nearly a thousand students to fifty, then most withdrew until Xiao Han, Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Wu Hao, Hu Jia, and Bai Shan remained.
• Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Bai Shan targeted Xiao Han and demanded that he leave the arena, and Xiao Han asked whether he looked easy to bully.

Xiao Han crushed Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Bai Shan in the selection and chose Bai Shan to leave, completing the Top Five. As the crowd departed, a maiden Xiao Han had not seen in two years arrived, and he embraced her while Xiao Yan and Xun Er embraced nearby.

• Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Bai Shan targeted Xiao Han, but he defeated all three in an instant.
• Xiao Han chose Bai Shan to leave the square, and Bai Shan departed without receiving a reason.
• Vice Dean Hu Gan announced Xiao Han, Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun Er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao as the Top Five, who would visit the Scripture Depository the next day.
• A maiden in a pale yellow dress arrived, and Xiao Han recognized her, embraced her, and smiled.
• Xiao Yan asked Xun Er to embrace him, and the jealous male students watched the two couples.

Xiao Han and Xiao Xueqin shared the moonlit night and discovered that they both possessed Divine Ice. The Seal Divine Ice remained with Xiao Xueqin, and the chapter ended with Xiao Han teasing her about staying the night.

• Xiao Han and Xiao Xueqin admired the moon together while he told her about his travels.
• Xiao Xueqin revealed the blue Divine Ice inside her and explained that it had sealed her meridians and could refine sealed Dou Qi.
• Xiao Han recognized it as the Seal Divine Ice and showed Xiao Xueqin his Thunder Divine Ice.
• Xiao Han declined Xiao Xueqin's offer to give him the Seal Divine Ice, which showed its displeasure at him and stayed with her.
• Xiao Han learned that Xiao Xueqin had received permission from the Great Elder to leave the Inner Academy, then teased her about not going back that night.

Xiao Han’s moonlit moment with Xiao Xueqin ended when Xun Er arrived and invited her to stay the night. Xiao Yan stayed behind to tease Xiao Han, who recognized his brother’s revenge as heavenly retribution.

• Xiao Han sat with Xiao Xueqin on the rooftop until a voice startled her and she pushed him away.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yan arrived, and Xun Er invited Xiao Xueqin to stay with her for the night.
• Xiao Xueqin agreed to leave with Xun Er, disappointing Xiao Han.
• Xiao Yan echoed Xiao Han’s earlier words about brothers sharing hardship and called the setback Heaven’s Retribution.
• Xiao Han realized Xiao Yan had ruined his opportunity on purpose and nearly collapsed in frustration.

Xiao Han entered the Scripture Depository to choose a Dou Technique and used Xiao Rou to summon its most powerful one. The enormous technique stopped just short of crushing him, then transformed into a scroll named Buddha-Demon Seal.

• Xiao Xueqin bid Xiao Han farewell and returned to the Inner Academy.
• Hu Gan led Xiao Han, Xiao Yan, and the other competition winners through a hidden passage to the Scripture Depository.
• The group entered the star-filled Scripture Depository, where streams of light contained Dou Techniques, and split up to choose separately.
• Xiao Han asked Xiao Rou to bring him the strongest Dou Technique, and a mountain-sized stream of light hurtled toward him.
• Xiao Rou stopped the stream of light before it hit Xiao Han, and it shrank into a scroll labeled High Di Class Dou Technique: Buddha-Demon Seal.

Xiao Han restored the missing third form of the Buddha-Demon Seal and spent two days monopolizing the Outer Academy's Training Ground to practice it. Before leaving for the Inner Academy, he reassured Xiao Yu about the Xiao family and warned the students not to bully her.

• Xiao Han spent a hundred thousand System Store points to restore the Buddha-Demon Seal's third form, the Buddha-Demon Suppressing Heaven Seal, then left the Scripture Depository with the scroll.
• Xiao Han convinced Vice Dean Hu Gan to let him keep using the Training Ground, claiming his practice was too dangerous for other students.
• Xiao Han drove off students who challenged his claim by smashing a massive stone block with one punch, and Hu Gan refused to hear their complaints.
• Xiao Yu visited Xiao Han, told him Xiao Yan had explained the Misty Cloud Sect's slaughter of the Xiao family, and said she admired the two men's actions.
• Xiao Han promised Xiao Yu that he and Xiao Yan would rebuild a stronger Xiao family, said she could contact him after he entered the Inner Academy, and threatened anyone who bullied her.

Xiao Han and the other fifty successful candidates traveled to the Inner Academy, where Hu Gan explained the Fire Energy Hunting Competition they had to survive before entering. As the New Students set off through the forest, Xiao Han went back to sleep, and Xiao Yan and Xun Er continued without him.

• Hu Gan led Xiao Han and the other students by Gryphon to a hidden Silver Gate that opened into the Inner Academy’s forest.
• Hu Gan gave each New Student a Fire Energy Card and explained that they had to cross the forest while evading or defeating the Old Students waiting to capture them.
• Xiao Han grew bored during Hu Gan’s explanation and fell asleep beneath a tree.
• When Hu Gan announced the competition had begun, Xiao Han woke briefly, said he would sleep longer, and promptly fell asleep again.
• Hu Gan left Xiao Han behind as the New Students entered the forest in groups, and Xiao Yan reassured Xun Er that Xiao Han could handle himself.

Xiao Han tried to bypass the Fire Energy Hunting Competition by flying to the finish line, but two Inner Academy elders spotted him and forced him back to the ground. He then raced ahead while avoiding detection, and the elders remained convinced he was cheating despite finding nothing wrong with his Fire Energy Card.

• Xiao Han blocked the sensing signal on his Fire Energy Card and flew above the forest, intending to reach the finish line without fighting the Old Students.
• Two Inner Academy elders noticed Xiao Han Walking on Air, called him down, and watched as he used the Emperor Flashing Art to race through the jungle.
• Xiao Han avoided the other students and Old Students, prompting the elders to suspect he had found another way to cheat.
• The elders stopped Xiao Han and inspected his Fire Energy Card but found nothing unusual.
• Xiao Han joked that everyone avoided him because of his good looks, then continued on as the elders concluded he was definitely cheating.

Xiao Yan and the New Students defeated the Black Fiend Team and reached the forest’s finish line, where they discovered Xiao Han had already subdued the White Fiend Team. After waiting in vain for two elders, Xiao Han shouted that their wives had run off with someone else to wake them.

• Led by Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the others, the New Students broke through the Old Students’ encirclement and defeated the Black Fiend Team.
• Xiao Yan and the New Students reached the forest’s end, prepared to face the White Fiend Team for the competition’s final battle.
• The New Students found the White Fiend Team serving Xiao Han, who had been relaxing in a chair and eating watermelon.
• Xiao Han let Luo Hou and the White Fiend Team leave after all the New Students arrived, then asked Luo Hou to help him stand up.
• Xiao Han waited for two elders to appear, decided they had fallen asleep, and shouted that their wives had run off with someone else.

Xiao Han received the Fire Energy Hunting Competition’s first-place reward, a Scarlet Gold Fire Energy Card, after provoking the two elders with jokes about their wives. He then tried to persuade Xiao Xueqin to let him live with her, but she refused, citing Xun Er’s warning about men changing their hearts, and Xiao Han called Xun Er over to talk.

• Xiao Han teased the two elders about their wives running off with someone else and warned them to watch out for Old Wang next door.
• The elders gave Xiao Han the Scarlet Gold Fire Energy Card as the competition’s first-place reward.
• Xiao Han approached Xiao Xueqin and asked to live with her, but she refused because she thought he wanted to do bad things to her.
• Xiao Xueqin said Xun Er had warned her that men changed their hearts easily, so she would not give Xiao Han her first time too soon.
• Xiao Han turned toward Xun Er and asked her to come over so they could talk about life.

Xiao Han toured the Inner Academy with Xiao Xueqin and returned to his residence, where Xiao Yan asked him to help organize the new students against old students who were taking their fire energy. Xiao Han declined to join Xiao Yan’s force but backed his leadership, then suggested naming it the Heaven-Blasting Gang.

• Xiao Xueqin stopped Xiao Han from talking to Xun Er, then promised to give him her first time on their wedding day; Xiao Han agreed and took her around the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Han escorted Xiao Xueqin back to her residence, returned to his bamboo house, and cultivated through the night.
• Xiao Xueqin visited Xiao Han the next morning, and he embraced her before Xiao Yan and the other new students arrived with news that old students had beaten them over fire energy.
• Xiao Yan explained that he wanted to unite the new students into a force, and Xiao Han invited them into his house to discuss it.
• Xiao Han refused to join but supported Xiao Yan as leader, then suggested calling the new student force the Heaven-Blasting Gang.

Xiao Han abandoned the idea of joining Xiao Yan’s group and decided to establish the Qin Pavilion with Xiao Xueqin, planning to recruit Old Students and a powerful figure. He went to the Medicine Warehouse and knocked out its two guards with a clump of white powder so he could get inside.

• Xiao Yan and the New Students rejected Xiao Han’s proposed Heaven-Blasting Gang name and left to form their own group.
• Xiao Han told Xiao Xueqin he would establish the Qin Pavilion, and she agreed to recruit Old Students.
• Xiao Han used the Inner Academy map to find the Medicine Warehouse and went there to recruit a powerful figure.
• The two White-robed Elders refused to let Xiao Han enter the Medicine Warehouse, so he showed them white powder that made them collapse.

Xiao Han recruited Zi Yan into Qin Pavilion by offering her candy, while Xiao Yan established Pan Gate with the new students. When Bai Cheng and other old-student leaders surrounded Pan Gate to seize its members, a newcomer declared that he would take all the old students instead.

• Xiao Han found Zi Yan eating herbs in the Medicine Warehouse and persuaded her to join Qin Pavilion with a promise of daily candy.
• On the second day in the Inner Academy, Xiao Yan formed Pan Gate, while Xiao Han recruited over a dozen old students to establish Qin Pavilion.
• Bai Cheng led Bai Gang and other old-student forces to surround Pan Gate and threaten to disband it and take its new members.
• Bai Cheng claimed Xun Er for Bai Gang as the other leaders prepared to divide the new students.
• As Xiao Yan prepared to fight, an unknown speaker announced that he would take every old student present.

Xiao Han arrived at Pan Gate with Qin Pavilion and announced that he would rob the Old Students, despite their warnings about the consequences. He summoned Zi Yan, whose devastating punch silenced the crowd, and challenged anyone who still doubted him.

• Xiao Han arrived at Pan Gate with Xiao Xueqin and Qin Pavilion, declaring that he would rob the Old Students gathered there.
• Xiao Han pretended to reconsider after an Old Student warned that Qin Pavilion would make enemies of the Inner Academy factions, then said they would beat the senior brothers half to death and rob all the Senior Sisters.
• Bai Cheng warned Xiao Han to leave and mocked his chances against hundreds of Old Students.
• Xiao Han summoned Zi Yan and promised her a big meal and candy to help him.
• Zi Yan punched the ground, sending deep cracks across it and terrifying the Old Students.
• Xiao Han asked whether anyone still doubted he would beat the senior brothers and rob the Senior Sisters.

Xiao Han used Zi Yan’s presence to force the Old Students to join Qin Pavilion and ordered Zi Yan to beat the Senior Brothers. He lectured his new followers about recruiting people by virtue, despite having coerced them into joining.

• Xiao Han asked whether anyone doubted him, but the Old Students stayed silent because they feared Zi Yan.
• The Senior Sisters accepted Xiao Han’s invitation and joined Qin Pavilion, while Xiao Han told Zi Yan to beat the Senior Brothers half to death.
• Bai Cheng offered to lead Bai Gang into Qin Pavilion, and the other Old Students followed by saluting Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han scolded the Old Students for failing to rob the New Students and urged them to recruit members by winning people over with virtue.
• The gathered students stared at Xiao Han in stunned silence as he praised himself for his virtuous recruitment methods.

Xiao Han saw that Qin Pavilion’s members ignored his authority while Chen Feng and Chen Deng effectively ran the faction, so he decided to assert himself. He ordered Xiao Xueqin to summon every member for an announcement the next morning, preparing to rectify Qin Pavilion.

• Xiao Han’s Qin Pavilion rapidly expanded after hundreds of Old Students joined, but its members remained divided and many only followed Zi Yan.
• Qin Pavilion members greeted Zi Yan while ignoring Xiao Han, and Chen Feng and Chen Deng revealed that they had taken charge of the faction’s affairs.
• Chen Feng belittled Xiao Han and invited Xiao Xueqin to a banquet in front of him, but Xiao Xueqin refused.
• Xiao Xueqin criticized the brothers, and Zi Yan offered to teach them a lesson in exchange for candy.
• Xiao Han declined Zi Yan’s help and told Xiao Xueqin to summon all Qin Pavilion members to gather the next morning for an important announcement.