Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan prepared to refine the Sea Heart Flame after Xuan Yi opened a Space Wormhole connecting Wutan City to the Central Continent. He swallowed the weakened flame, beginning the refinement while Xuan Yi stood guard.

• Xuan Yi opened a Space Wormhole in Wutan City, and the Ye Family planned to send a descendant to challenge Xiao Yan and pursue a marriage alliance.
• Hu Gan told Xiao Yan that Jia Nan Academy's Inner Courtyard Competition had begun, but refused to establish a formal partnership for using the Space Wormhole.
• Xuan Yi refined an Earth Spirit Pill with a Pill Pattern and agreed to guard Xiao Yan as he refined the Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan used the Ice Spirit Cold Spring to weaken the Sea Heart Flame, then swallowed its fire seed.
• Xiao Yan began refining the Sea Heart Flame, relying on the Green Lotus Core Flame, the Earth Spirit Pill, and his Peerless Prison Body to withstand its heat.

Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame and fused it with the Green Lotus Core Flame, creating the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame. The new Exotic Flame began transforming his body and reshaping his heart into its nest.

• Xiao Yan bound the Sea Heart Flame with the Green Lotus Core Flame and refined it along the Flame Mantra's route.
• Xiao Yan used Flame Mantra Dou Qi to bring the two Exotic Flames together and drive them to fuse.
• Xiao Yan guided the fusion with his Soul Power as the green and blue flames merged into an indigo flame.
• Xiao Yan completed the fusion and named the new Exotic Flame the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame.
• The Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame flowed through Xiao Yan's blood, transforming his body and gradually reshaping his heart.

Xiao Yan completed the fusion of the Sea Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, then welcomed the Ye Family to Wutan City and arranged an alchemy contest between Xin Lan and his disciple Yao Yue. Xin Lan won and became Xiao Yan’s disciple, leaving him to take responsibility for her training.

• Xiao Yan’s flames transformed into a new indigo flame, and the side effects of the fusion drove him to Xiao Yi Xian; Xuan Yi and Old Yao discussed the Flame Mantra’s potential.
• Over the next month, Xiao Yan advanced to nine-star Dou Ling and Xiao Yi Xian to four-star Dou Ling while Xiao Yan refined pills for his family and Xiao Lan.
• The Ye Family arrived in Wutan City, where Xiao Yan met Ye Zhong and proposed that Xin Lan compete against his disciple Yao Yue for a place as his disciple.
• Xin Lan and Yao Yue tied the first two rounds, but Yao Yue lost control of her flames in the third, giving Xin Lan the victory.
• Xiao Yan gave Ye Zhong an Earth Fire Lotus Seed for Xin Lan to refine, and Ye Zhong entrusted her to Xiao Yan.

After the Soul Hall ambushed Ye Zhong, Xuan Yi fought three Heavenly Venerates to protect Yao Chen, but Sage Xuan Tong intervened and killed them. The danger to Wutan City ended with Xuan Yi safe and the Soul Hall’s attackers dead.

• A massive hand crushed Ye Zhong’s space ship, killed the two Dou Zongs with him, and left Ye Zhong gravely injured.
• Eighth Heavenly Venerate and Ninth Heavenly Venerate confronted Xuan Yi and demanded Yao Chen’s soul and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Fourth Heavenly Venerate appeared after sealing the space and weakened Xuan Yi with his blood-based power.
• As Fourth Heavenly Venerate’s blood mist threatened to swallow Xuan Yi, Sage Xuan Tong appeared and wiped it away.
• Sage Xuan Tong restricted the three Heavenly Venerates and killed them with a casual strike.

After settling the battle, Xiao Yan traveled toward the Black Corner Region with Queen Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Xiao Lan to gather snake Magical Beasts. They discovered Snake Shedding Grass, giving Queen Medusa a chance to attempt another evolution when she reached Peak Dou Zong.

• Xuan Tong departed for the Kong Xuan Sect, and Xuan Yi collected Third Heavenly Venerate's corpse before returning to Yao Chen.
• Yao Chen left for the Pill Tower with Xuan Yi and Ye Zhong, while Xiao Yan chose to go to Jia Nan Academy after treating Ye Zhong.
• Xiao Yan brought Queen Medusa to the Black Corner Region and traveled with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Xiao Lan to capture snake Magical Beasts.
• Queen Medusa subdued an Iron Brand Poison Python, and Qing Lin branded it with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• The group found Snake Shedding Grass in the swamp, and Queen Medusa harvested it to aid her planned evolution at Peak Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan, helped Hai Bodong prepare to enter seclusion, and spent six months developing the Buddha’s Rage Fire Cannon from the Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus. After finally perfecting the technique, Xiao Yan began absorbing the surrounding fire attribute energy as his breakthrough to Dou Wang approached.

• Xiao Yan marked the location of the Snake Shedding Grass on a map and gave it to Queen Medusa before the group continued toward the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan asked Hai Bodong about his progress toward Dou Zong, and Hai Bodong credited his improved cultivation to a Di Tier Low Ice Attribute Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Yan encouraged Hai Bodong to enter seclusion, since the Xiao Clan had developed enough for Hai Bodong to leave it in Xiao Yan’s hands.
• Xiao Yan repeatedly tested the Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus, using Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame to stabilize its flames and redirect their energy into a focused blast.
• After six months, Xiao Yan successfully created the Buddha’s Rage Fire Cannon and began absorbing fire attribute energy as he approached a breakthrough to Dou Wang.

Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Wang and arrived at Jia Nan Academy, where Hu Gan tried to spare him the Inner Courtyard Competition. After Xiao Yan discussed the pressures faced by Alchemists with Gu Xun'er, she became suspicious of his insight and ordered her subordinates to investigate his Pill refining.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the Spirit Sealing Barrier Breaking Pill and refined the dense fire energy until he broke through to Dou Wang.
• Hu Gan noticed Xiao Yan's breakthrough and offered to guarantee his admission, but Xiao Yan insisted on competing and beating the other students.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Jia Nan Academy on Xiao Lan, then flew to his dormitory with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin while onlookers watched.
• Gu Xun'er asked Xiao Yan about the difficulties of being an Alchemist, and he argued that Alchemists needed rare skills to challenge the status quo.
• Gu Xun'er returned to her room and ordered her subordinates to investigate Xiao Yan's past Pill refining, including his costs and rewards.

Gu Xun'er reconsidered Xiao Yan’s influence in the Jia Ma Empire as the Inner Courtyard Competition ended with Xiao Yan and four others securing the top five places. The group reached Jia Nan Academy’s Library Pavilion, where two elders opened its Space Lock and gave them an hour to choose one protected item each.

• Gu Xun'er recalled reports of Xiao Yan’s pill-refining skill and how major factions in the Jia Ma Empire rallied around him.
• Hu Gan announced that Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Gu Xun'er, and Hu Jia would hold the top five places, open to challenge by other competitors.
• Wu Hao challenged Qing Lin and lost after several dozen exchanges, while Bai Shan abandoned his own challenge after noticing Xiao Yan’s gaze.
• Hu Gan led the five winners through a hidden passage to the Library Pavilion, where two Grey-robed Persons recognized Xiao Yan’s Exotic Flame and questioned him about it.
• Xiao Yan claimed his flame was the Green Lotus Core Flame, concealing his ability to fuse Exotic Flames, and Qing Lin accepted the elders’ temporary confiscation of her Snake Magical Beasts.
• The two Grey-robed Persons opened the Space Lock and allowed the five students one hour to choose one protected item each.

Xiao Yan and the others gathered powerful treasures and techniques in the Library Pavilion, then prepared for the Fire Energy Hunting Competition. After using Ancient Void Dragon essence blood to improve himself, Xiao Yan arrived with the top fifty participants at the competition grounds.

• Xiao Yan forced open powerful Energy Shields to obtain the Meteor Fire Art, Ancient Void Dragon essence blood, and the Green Maturation Pill recipe, which he gave to Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Hu Jia and Gu Xun'er each selected an item before the group left the Library Pavilion.
• During the following seven days, Xiao Yan used the essence blood to ripen and refine the Green Fate Fruit, advancing to a two-star Dou Wang and strengthening his physique and dragon aura.
• Hu Gan gathered the top fifty participants and arranged for them to ride Griffin Beasts to the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.
• Xiao Yi Xian summoned Xiao Lan, and the group flew through a spatial gate to the competition grounds under the elders' protection.

Xiao Yan and his companions began the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, where the Inner Courtyard seniors targeted them for their valuable crystal cards. After Xiao Yan’s group defeated ten seniors and took their Storage Rings, he studied the map and led everyone toward the finish line, expecting a major battle there.

• Su Qian gave the new students crystal cards and started the competition, while Xiao Yan suspected the Inner Courtyard elders had arranged an unfair challenge.
• Xiao Yan’s group hid in the forest as ten senior students surrounded them and demanded Fire Energy from their crystal cards.
• Xiao Yan knocked one senior unconscious, then stalled while the others discussed attacking him and destroying the forest where his teammates were hiding.
• Xiao Yan used a roar to stun the seniors, and his four companions used poison to subdue the others as the group defeated all ten.
• Xiao Yan took the seniors’ Storage Rings, distributed them among his companions, checked the forest map, and led the group toward the finish line.

Xiao Yan’s group defeated the Inner Courtyard’s top Power Ranking students and negotiated a Fire Energy reward from Su Qian. After the other New Students arrived, Su Qian welcomed them to the Inner Courtyard.

• Xiao Yan’s group reached the competition grounds and introduced themselves to the five top-ranked Senior Students.
• Xiao Yan bribed Zi Yan with a Dou Ling Pill, then defeated Lin Xiuyai, Liu Qing, Yan Hao, and Qin Zhen with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Su Qian stopped Xiao Yan from taking the Senior Students’ Storage Rings and awarded the New Students eight hundred days of Heavenly Fire Energy for four rings.
• Xiao Yan’s group joined the battered New Students after they arrived, and Su Qian led everyone toward the Inner Courtyard.
• Su Qian welcomed the New Students as they saw the vast basin and its towering buildings.

Xiao Yan brought Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where they descended to the Sixth Layer to cultivate. There, Fallen Heart Flame tempered Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi and released dormant medicinal energy, pushing his cultivation toward Three Star Dou Wang.

• Xiao Yan took Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the tower, where each overcame the first wisp of Fallen Heart Flame through their own abilities.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Elder Liu to let them bypass the upper levels by showing his alchemist badge and offering a Calm Heart Pill.
• Elder Liu led the three down to the Sixth Layer, where Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian began cultivating in separate rooms while Qing Lin waited to break through to Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yan used the Green Lotus, Blood Burning Paste, and his Green Fire Crystal Card to cultivate amid the Sixth Layer’s dense Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Fallen Heart Flame tempered Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi and released dormant medicinal power in his body, advancing his cultivation toward Three Star Dou Wang.

After nearly two months of cultivation, Xiao Yan left the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower and found Gu Xun'er struggling to sustain the Gu Family faction. He advised her on how to build its strength, then learned that Xiao Yi Xian had reached the Dou Wang Peak and was waiting for him.

• The Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame interrupted Xiao Yan's cultivation, and he discovered he had advanced to the Five-Star Dou Wang Peak during nearly two months in the tower.
• Xiao Yan returned to the dormitory and learned Gu Xun'er had founded the Gu Family to protect new students, but the Medicine Gang had driven out its pill stall and injured its sellers.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Xun'er to clarify her goal and focus on her own strength and development before distributing resources to the faction.
• Xiao Yan suggested that his joining the Gu Family or Gu Xun'er revealing her strength would make the faction formidable, then greeted Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yi Xian had reached the Dou Wang Peak, taken first place on the Power Ranking, and been waiting for him.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian searched Jia Nan Academy’s Medicinal Herb Repository for ingredients to refine Bone Strengthening Powder, but found only enough for one batch. They left with Zi Yan to search the mountains for more herbs, while Elder Hao arranged for the Alchemy Department to observe Xiao Yan’s upcoming Sixth Grade Pill refinement.

• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed Xiao Yan’s Fire Toxin, and the next day she told him that she had obtained Earth Heart Body Tempering Milk with Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan explained that Bone Strengthening Powder required several additional herbs, then took Xiao Yi Xian to search the Medicinal Herb Repository.
• Xiao Yan found two Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flowers and one Vajra Bodhi, then discovered Zi Yan eating herbs and offered to refine them for her.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian found only one Dragon Blood Ganoderma, while Zi Yan admitted she had eaten two others.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan left to search the mountains for herbs, and Xiao Yan told Elder Hao he would refine Sixth Grade Pills so the Alchemy Department could observe.

Xiao Yan gathered the ingredients for Beast Nurturing Spirit Liquid and demonstrated his flame control by refining them before a crowd of Alchemists. The chapter ended as he added Earth Heart Body Tempering Milk and the three prepared medicinal liquids collided in the cauldron.

• Xiao Yan and Elder Hao agreed that Alchemists seeking to observe had to refine Second Grade Beast Nurturing Spirit Liquid and pass Zi Yan's inspection.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan gathered Vajra Bodhi and Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flowers, while Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian obtained Dragon Blood Ganoderma and another Vajra Bodhi.
• Elder Hao prepared a platform for Xiao Yan, and Alchemists gathered to watch, including Elder Huo, who had submitted a hundred portions of Beast Nurturing Spirit Liquid.
• Xiao Yan refined the Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flower and Dragon Blood Ganoderma into a violet-red medicinal liquid, then extracted a golden medicinal liquid from the Vajra Bodhi.
• Xiao Yan added Earth Heart Body Tempering Milk to the cauldron, and the three prepared medicinal liquids collided.

Xiao Yan refined Bone Strengthening Powder, obtained a rare Phantom Gold Fire through Gu Xun'er, and entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower with Xiao Yi Xian to cultivate. After the powder smoothly advanced him to six-star Dou Wang, he swallowed the Phantom Gold Fire and began cultivating.

• Xiao Yan successfully refined a Sixth Grade Pill, then gave Zi Yan Bone Strengthening Powder and brought her back to the dormitory.
• Xiao Yan refined another Bone Strengthening Powder, asked the alchemists for a quality Beast Flame, and rejected Han Xian's attempt to use him as a mediator with the Gu Family.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan to gather Medicinal Herbs for the Form Transformation Pill, and she flew off to search for them.
• Gu Xun'er brought Xiao Yan the Phantom Gold Fire that Han Xian had offered through her, and Xiao Yan explained how he would have retaliated against the Medicine Gang.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached the sixth floor of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where Xiao Yan took Bone Strengthening Powder and advanced to six-star Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Phantom Gold Fire and entered cultivation.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian advanced their cultivation, then the Strong List Tournament ended quickly after Su Qian changed its format. Gu Xun'er refused Ling Quan’s attempt to escort her away and stayed at Jia Nan Academy, where she learned Xiao Yan had given his place in the tower to Qing Lin and left her the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• Xiao Yan reached Nine Star Dou King, while Xiao Yi Xian advanced to Five Star Dou Huang, and both ended their cultivation ahead of the Strong List Tournament.
• Xiao Yan refined Dou Ling Pills for four elders and made a Primal Qi Augmentation Pill for his own cultivation.
• Su Qian changed the Strong List Tournament so the top ten advanced automatically, and only two Dou Ling Peak cultivators challenged Yan Hao before losing.
• Ling Quan arrived with the Black Annihilation Army to escort Gu Xun'er back, but she ordered him to leave and said she would return later.
• Gu Xun'er discovered Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan were absent from the tower’s top-ten group, while Qing Lin said Xiao Yan had given her his slot.
• Qing Lin gave Gu Xun'er the Tou She Ancient God Jade that Xiao Yan had left for her.

Gu Xun'er realized Xiao Yan had repeatedly given the Gu Clan valuable things in exchange for little, while Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Emperor in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower. After leaving the tower, he headed to the Xiao Clan to refine Sect Breaking Pills, as Su Qian worried that Jia Nan Academy might not be able to contain Fallen Heart Flame much longer.

• Qing Lin gave Gu Xun'er the Tou She Ancient God Jade from Xiao Yan, and Gu Xun'er reconsidered how their past deals had benefited the Gu Clan.
• Xiao Yan spent three days preparing before swallowing the Primal Qi Augmentation Pill and cultivating amid an Energy Tide for a month.
• Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Emperor and considered attempting to refine a Seventh Grade Pill, then left the tower after meeting Su Qian.
• Su Qian told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Clan had prepared ten sets of herbs for Sect Breaking Pills, so Xiao Yan went to the Xiao Clan.
• Su Qian worried that Fallen Heart Flame could overwhelm the academy's defenses and hoped Thousand Hundred Elders would soon reach Dou Zun.

Xiao Yan arrived in Yan City, refined Sect Breaking Pills for Mulan Valley, and then headed toward Jia Nan Academy. There, the Fallen Heart Flame erupted from beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and broke through its seal.

• Xiao Yan met Queen Medusa in Yan City and learned that Jia Ma Empire had gained several Dou Zong experts.
• Xiao Yan entered the Pill Soul Realm while refining Sect Breaking Pills and produced seven, giving five to Queen Medusa for Mulan Valley.
• Xiao Yan flew toward Jia Nan Academy after Queen Medusa asked whether he needed help there.
• Su Qian investigated strange sounds beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and found the Fallen Heart Flame beginning to rampage.
• Su Qian warned the Inner Courtyard to evacuate and sealed the tower's opening, but the Fallen Heart Flame shattered the barrier and surged upward.

The Fallen Heart Flame broke through the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and fought Su Qian and the Elders, then unleashed magma across the Inner Courtyard. After the Outer Courtyard reinforcements helped contain it, the Fallen Heart Flame noticed a powerful aura and grew greedy for its source.

• The Fallen Heart Flame shattered the tower’s final energy shield and burst out as an Invisible Fire Python.
• Su Qian and eighteen Elders formed a Formation to contain the weakened Invisible Fire Python while they waited for reinforcements.
• The Invisible Fire Python used a tiny snake to pierce the Formation, badly wounding the eighteen Elders and forcing Su Qian to face it alone.
• The Fallen Heart Flame flooded the Inner Courtyard with magma, then sensed a high-quality aura and decided to devour its owner.
• Four Outer Courtyard Dou Emperors joined Su Qian to seal the Invisible Fire Python, which began filling the tower tip with magma; Su Qian warned the others that it might shrink and escape through one point.