Chapter Summaries

Su Mei stopped her mother from attacking Dai Wei and revealed that the backlash from her broken Purple Lotus Heart Bewitching Seal had damaged her soul and left Dai Wei imprinted in her heart. The middle-aged woman understood what Su Mei meant, while Dai Wei was left stunned by the revelation.

• The middle-aged woman prepared to attack Dai Wei and promised to heal Su Mei before leaving the Black Corner Region with her.
• Su Mei stopped her mother and pleaded with her not to hurt Dai Wei.
• Su Mei explained that Dai Wei had broken her Purple Lotus Heart Bewitching Seal, causing severe damage to her soul.
• Su Mei admitted that Dai Wei's mark had been imprinted in her heart, and the middle-aged woman recognized what she meant.
• Dai Wei watched in disbelief as the conversation unexpectedly implicated him.

Dai Wei killed Fan Jian and the Blood Sect elders, then offered to heal Su Mei’s soul injury. He restored her sea of consciousness with the Ice Heart Art, and Su Rong prepared to take her daughter home.

• Dai Wei killed Fan Jian with a single strike from the White Tiger Seven Star Sword.
• Su Rong trapped and killed the fleeing Blood Sect elders and Rakshasa Gate traitors.
• Su Rong said her grievances with Dai Wei were settled, but he offered to heal Su Mei’s soul injury.
• Su Mei trusted Dai Wei, and Su Rong promised Rakshasa Gate would obey him if he healed her daughter.
• Dai Wei used the Ice Heart Art to repair Su Mei’s sea of consciousness and revive the purple lotus within it.
• Su Mei woke feeling better than ever, and Su Rong agreed to take her home.

Su Mei revealed that she had reached the Dou Wang realm, helping Su Rong settle the Rakshasa Gate’s crisis, while Dai Wei gained a new martial art and aided the destruction of the Blood Sect. After returning to Jia Nan Academy with the Blood Sect’s First Elder, Dai Wei tested the Returning Yuan Blood Hand and discovered that his Golden Core rejected the stolen Dou Qi.

• Su Mei displayed the strength of a one-star Dou Wang and reassured the Rakshasa Gate’s disciples, while Su Rong’s old reputation as the Rakshasa Woman frightened the elders.
• Dai Wei accepted Su Mei’s attempts to grow closer during the banquet and learned the Returning Yuan Blood Hand in a cultivation room.
• Su Rong led the Rakshasa Gate against the weakened Blood Sect, while Dai Wei sent the Wind Demon Azure-Eyed Vulture to help capture its First Elder.
• Su Rong gave Dai Wei an Imperial Pill, a Blood Flame Ganoderma, and a seventh-rank Demonic Beast Core, and Dai Wei also requested the captured First Elder.
• Dai Wei returned to Jia Nan Academy with the First Elder and used the Returning Yuan Blood Hand to drain his Dou Qi, which the Golden Core rejected as impure.

Dai Wei's golden core rejected foreign battle qi and refined it into a sealed golden pill. He decided such pills would be more useful for helping his family, friends, sect members, and disciples grow stronger than for advancing his own cultivation.

• Dai Wei's golden core compressed battle qi potent enough to raise a nine-star Dou King to Dou Emperor into a golden pill.
• The golden core rejected the energy as insufficiently pure and sealed it inside the pill to prevent leakage.
• Dai Wei concluded the pill could help others break through, while his own cultivation was already advancing quickly.
• Dai Wei recognized the Returning Yuan Blood Hand as a useful skill for strengthening his power despite its limited value to him personally.

Dai Wei defeated Luo Weilong and the remaining Inner Academy students in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, taking their Fire Energy. After entering the Inner Academy with more than three thousand days of Fire Energy and gaining the Dragon Subduing Divine Leg, he found the elders waiting for him.

• Dai Wei defeated Luo Weilong’s teammates and took their Fire Energy as Luo Weilong watched.
• Luo Weilong used Overbearing Dragon Fist, but Dai Wei overwhelmed him with Divine Wind Howl and took his Fire Energy.
• Dai Wei told the immobilized Luo Weilong about his past in the Black Corner Region, leaving him terrified of what the Inner Academy would become.
• Dai Wei gained more than two thousand days of Fire Energy and the Dragon Subduing Divine Leg from Luo Weilong’s Startling Dragon fate.
• Dai Wei entered the Inner Academy, where the elders overseeing the competition were waiting for him.

Dai Wei tormented Yu Yang to break his fragile confidence, then challenged him to live up to the Blazing Sun Sword name. Yu Yang awakened his resolve, broke through to the Dou Wang realm, and met Dai Wei’s swordplay as dawn broke over the Inner Academy.

• Four years after Dai Wei entered the Inner Academy, Luo Weilong rose to third place on the Strong Ranking, while Yu Yang remained the only student to have reached the peak of the Dou Ling realm.
• With Hu Gan and the elders’ approval, Dai Wei spent three months relentlessly beating Yu Yang, repeatedly sending him to Elder Tang’s Pill Room for treatment.
• On a rainy night, Dai Wei showed Yu Yang the Inner Academy students cultivating through the storm and challenged him to prove he deserved the title Blazing Sun Sword.
• Yu Yang drew his sword with renewed resolve and unleashed the Blazing Sun Sword techniques, while Dai Wei criticized each strike and provoked him.
• Yu Yang consumed the Fire Poison in his meridians, broke through to the Dou Wang realm, and unleashed a powerful strike against Dai Wei.
• Dai Wei answered with the Sun Devouring Swordplay, and their sword energies exploded apart, dispersing the storm as the sun rose.

Dai Wei left Jia Nan Academy and reunited with Yun Yun at Misty Cloud Sect after five years apart. Yun Shan had been tempted to seek the Soul Hall’s help to break through to Dou Zong, and the chapter ended with Dai Wei noticing the emotional strain Yun Yun had endured.

• Yu Yang and Luo Weilong promised to challenge Dai Wei again, and Dai Wei left the Inner Academy on the Wind Demon Azure-Eyed Vulture.
• Yun Shan, frustrated by his stalled cultivation, considered crushing the Soul Hall’s black metal card to accept its offer of help.
• Dai Wei arrived at Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Shan mistook the vulture for an enemy and attacked it.
• The Wind Demon Azure-Eyed Vulture’s Wind Demon's Loss technique matched Yun Shan’s Extreme Wind, Meteor Strike, before Yun Yun stopped the fight.
• Yun Yun recognized Dai Wei, welcomed him back, and asked about the five years they had been apart.
• Dai Wei noticed signs of emotional strain in Yun Yun and felt tenderness and guilt toward her.

Dai Wei reunited with Yun Yun, eased the sorrow she had carried for five years, and joined the Cloud Mist Sect as a guest elder. He then asked Yun Shan and Yun Yun whether anyone from the Soul Hall had contacted them.

• Dai Wei used a strand of soul power to clear Yun Yun's grief, helping her break through to three-star Dou Emperor.
• Yun Yun asked Dai Wei whether he still intended to join the Cloud Mist Sect, and he agreed.
• Dai Wei requested the position of guest elder, and Yun Shan approved Yun Yun's decision to grant it.
• Dai Wei asked Yun Shan and Yun Yun to dismiss everyone else, then questioned whether anyone from the Soul Hall had contacted them.

Dai Wei proved his strength to Yun Shan, claimed the Black Shark metal fragment, and settled on Cloud Mist Mountain to cultivate with Yun Yun. When Nalan Yanran returned, Dai Wei mocked her cultivation and sent her high into the sky on the Wind Demon Azure-Eyed Vulture, leaving her frightened but aware of his power.

• Dai Wei defeated Yun Shan with Wind God's Leg, won the Black Shark metal fragment, and then defeated Yun Yun to obtain Cloud-Dispelling Palm.
• Dai Wei taught Cloud-Dispelling Palm to Yun Yun, while Yun Shan opened the Cloud Mist Sect's secret arts to Dai Wei; Dai Wei and Yun Yun cultivated and sparred together as their strength grew.
• Nalan Yanran returned to Cloud Mist Mountain, and Dai Wei ridiculed her for being a ninth-stage Dou Zhi Qi at twelve.
• Dai Wei ordered the Wind Demon Azure-Eyed Vulture to carry Nalan Yanran above the clouds, frightening her until Yun Yun caught her and gave her a calming pill.
• After recovering, Nalan Yanran glared at Dai Wei but remembered that he had defeated a Dou Huang.

Dai Wei criticized Nalan Yanran for starting cultivation too late, then ordered her to train with him and Yun Yun for five years. After Yun Yun urged her to accept, Nalan Yanran agreed to the arrangement.

• Dai Wei rebuked Nalan Yanran for visiting her injured grandfather instead of cultivating, and Yun Yun explained that Nalan Jie’s Scorch Poison could only be removed by Heavenly Flames.
• Yun Yun defended Nalan Yanran, saying she had permitted her to visit her grandfather.
• Dai Wei said Nalan Yanran was far too late to have reached Dou Zhe by age twelve and ordered her to train with him and Yun Yun for five years without leaving the mountain.
• Yun Yun urged Nalan Yanran to agree, and Nalan Yanran accepted because she trusted her teacher.

Dai Wei took Nalan Yanran to the Xiao Family to pursue an engagement cancellation without Yun Yun feeling they had used their power to pressure anyone. They secretly approached Xiao Yan, whose fallen cultivation had not broken his resolve, and Nalan Yanran praised him as their first meeting began.

• Yun Yun repeatedly warned Dai Wei and Nalan Yanran not to pressure the Xiao Family before they departed for Wutan City.
• Dai Wei explained that helping Xiao Yan recover his talent might make the Xiao Family grateful, but the engagement would need to be canceled by Xiao Yan himself.
• Dai Wei told Nalan Yanran to behave like an ideal future daughter-in-law and suggested she discover Xiao Yan's closeness with Gu Xun'er.
• Dai Wei and Nalan Yanran secretly entered the Xiao Family's rear mountain and saw Xiao Yan lament his inability to retain Dou Qi while Gu Xun'er watched nearby.
• Nalan Yanran revealed herself, praised Xiao Yan, and drew his suspicion as he demanded to know who she was.