Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu returned from the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, learned that Qing Lin had become a Three-star Dou Master, and began his monthly simulation. He chose an Ice Spirit Clan identity and discovered that his father was a powerful ascender who taught him the Way of Insect Control.

• Lu Yu left the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower after using most of his Fire Energy Points and recalled the rewards from his previous simulations.
• Little Fairy Doctor told Lu Yu that Qing Lin had reached Three-star Dou Master after absorbing the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.
• After Zi Yan left, Lu Yu asked Little Fairy Doctor to guard the door and began his simulation.
• Lu Yu rejected the Nine Nether Guard and Sacred Spirit Academy identities and chose to be an Ice Spirit Clan descendant whose father had ascended from the Gu Realm.
• The simulation showed that Lu Yu awakened an Ice Spirit Body, advanced rapidly, and began learning his father's Insect Control Heart Sutra.

Lu Yu’s simulation revealed that his father had used him as a substitute to survive the Heavenly Venerate Tribulation and ascend to Heavenly Supreme. Lu Yu chose the Insect Control Heart Sutra and considered using its spirit-insect cultivation path to develop Qing Lin’s talents.

• In the simulation, Lu Yu’s father secretly made him the substitute for the final Heavenly Venerate Tribulation, then used the transferred lightning to reach Heavenly Supreme.
• After the simulation ended, Lu Yu rejected the Nine-Beard Blood Ginseng Pill and Northern Darkness Ice Soul Scripture, choosing the Insect Control Heart Sutra.
• Lu Yu learned that a Spirit Insect Master could fuse their talent with a spirit insect to refine a Natal Gu that strengthened alongside its master.
• Lu Yu decided the inheritance could help Qing Lin develop her Jade Serpent Three Flower Eyes and Art of Snake Control, though he did not know which Gu insect would suit her.

After three months of seclusion, Lu Yu learned that he and Little Fairy Doctor had become famous in the Inner Academy, then spent half a month refining valuable pills to replenish their funds. He rejected Han Xian’s offer to buy his pill formula or take most of the profits, leaving the Medicine Gang to be seen out.

• Little Fairy Doctor told Lu Yu she had advanced to Dou Ling and reached eighty-sixth place on the Strong Ranking, where she was nicknamed the Heavenly Poison Girl; she teased him about his Sky Burning Finger title.
• Little Fairy Doctor reported that Lin Xiuyai and Liu Qing had asked Lu Yu to visit them, and she explained that their medicinal ingredients and funds were nearly exhausted.
• Lu Yu asked Little Fairy Doctor to give him the remaining ingredients so he could refine pills to sell, then spent the next half month making eight kinds, including the valuable Golden Origin Pill.
• Lu Yu returned to his courtyard and found Han Xian, leader of the Medicine Gang, offering to buy his pill formula or cooperate while taking sixty percent of the profits.
• Lu Yu refused Han Xian’s proposals and told Little Fairy Doctor to see the Medicine Gang out.

Lu Yu struck a deal with Han Xian for the Medicine Gang to sell his pills, then advanced to Fourth-grade Alchemist after half a month of practice. He left the Inner Academy with Little Fairy Doctor to visit Qing Lin, whom they spotted at the Outer Academy training field.

• Lu Yu refused Han Xian's request for a lower share and agreed to provide the Medicine Gang with twenty Golden Origin Pills each month for seventy percent of the profits.
• After half a month of practice with the Medicine Gang's ingredients, Lu Yu successfully refined a Fourth-grade Beast Power Pill and became a Fourth-grade Alchemist.
• A Medicine Gang disciple delivered Lu Yu 1,050 Fire Energy Points, bringing his total to 1,950; Lu Yu decided to visit Qing Lin before beginning seclusion.
• Lu Yu and Little Fairy Doctor obtained a travel pass from Elder Hao and showed it to Elder Su, who let them pass through the Inner Academy barrier.
• Lu Yu and Little Fairy Doctor reached the Outer Academy training field, where Qing Lin saw them and called out happily.

Lu Yu gave Qing Lin the Insect Control Heart Sutra and advised her to wait for a more powerful Natal Gu, then stayed in the Outer Academy to train her. Half a month later, Liu Qing and Lin Xiuyai challenged Lu Yu to a wagered fight over his Sky Burning Finger.

• Lu Yu gave Qing Lin the Insect Control Heart Sutra and explained that her Natal Gu should be a species capable of reaching the ninth tier rather than her Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, Little Red.
• Lu Yu promised to stay with Qing Lin for half a month and train her in combat, while Little Fairy Doctor offered to teach her poison and detoxification techniques.
• Lu Yu spent the next half month training Qing Lin in a forest in the Outer Academy, correcting her attack rhythm and testing her defenses.
• Liu Qing and Lin Xiuyai found Lu Yu and offered him one thousand Fire Energy Points for a fight; Lin Xiuyai made a second thousand conditional on Lu Yu defeating them both.
• Lu Yu accepted the wager, eager to win the Fire Energy Points he needed to break through to Dou Wang.

Lu Yu defeated Liu Qing and earned Lin Xiuyai’s public concession in a duel for the Strong Ranking Second position. With 3,950 Fire Energy points, he planned to enter seclusion in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and break through to Dou Wang.

• Lu Yu faced Liu Qing in the Arena, where their clash of spear and flame techniques ended with Liu Qing’s defeat.
• Liu Qing unleashed his self-created Great Mountain Split, but Lu Yu broke through its golden torrent with his Fire Thread and won.
• Lin Xiuyai challenged Lu Yu to a single move, summoning the Earth-tier Azure Whirlwind Kill with his Azure Nether Sword.
• Lu Yu’s fire dragon met Lin Xiuyai’s giant azure sword, and Lin Xiuyai admitted defeat, noting that he had used the sword’s power.
• Lin Xiuyai gave Lu Yu one thousand Fire Energy points and the Strong Ranking Second position, leaving Lu Yu ready to pursue a Dou Wang breakthrough.

After defeating his opponent, Lu Yu refused Han Xian’s offer to become vice gang leader and entered four months of seclusion in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower. He broke through to Two-star Dou Wang, with his cultivation stabilized and Dou Qi Manifestation Wings formed.

• Lu Yu rejected Han Xian’s offer to make him vice gang leader, warned him not to cause trouble, and stopped pill refining for four months.
• Lu Yu said goodbye to Little Fairy Doctor, accepted her Clear Heart Pill, and began cultivating in Training Room No. 1.
• During his first three months of seclusion, Lu Yu obtained three Crimson Flame Flowers to assist his breakthrough.
• After reaching Peak Nine-star Dou Ling and refining his cultivation, Lu Yu used the Crimson Flame Flowers to break through to Dou Wang.
• Lu Yu’s cultivation rose to Two-star Dou Wang, and he formed blue-red Dou Qi Manifestation Wings.

After breaking through to Two-star Dou Wang and obtaining the Azure Flame Sword, Lu Yu sought a way to become an Honorary Elder so he could cultivate on a higher level of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower. Elder Hao explained that Great Elder Su Qian and Vice Dean Hu Gan oversaw elder appointments, leaving Lu Yu to approach them.

• Lu Yu emerged from seclusion with the Azure Flame Sword and decided he needed a Scarlet Fire Crystal Card to reach the seventh level of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Lu Yu returned to Little Fairy Doctor and Zi Yan, shared news of his breakthrough to Two-star Dou Wang, and said he planned to apply for Honorary Elder status.
• Lu Yu visited Elder Hao at the External Affairs Hall and asked what was required to become an Honorary Elder.
• Elder Hao said Great Elder Su Qian and Vice Dean Hu Gan personally oversaw elder appointments, so Lu Yu would have to seek them out.

Lu Yu sought an Honorary Elder position so he could cultivate on the upper floors of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, and Deputy Dean Hu Gan explained the requirements. After Lu Yu offered two improved pill formulas, Hu Gan accepted their value but assigned him an assessment: kill Fan Cheng, a Blood Sect elder suspected of abducting academy students.

• Elder Hao gave Lu Yu a letter for Deputy Dean Hu Gan and directed him to the Outer Academy study.
• Hu Gan explained that Lu Yu could become an Honorary Elder by making a major contribution and passing an assessment.
• Lu Yu presented two improved pill formulas, and Hu Gan was astonished by the Purple Jade Barrier-Breaking Pill's ability to raise a Dou Ling's cultivation by two stars.
• Hu Gan explained that the Falling Heart Flame was sealed beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and said candidates for upper-floor access had to prove their loyalty.
• Hu Gan identified Fan Cheng, the Blood Sect's Fourth Elder, as a suspect in the disappearance of four Inner Academy students and ordered Lu Yu to bring back his head.

Lu Yu accepted Hu Gan’s mission to kill Fan Cheng of the Blood Sect and received a Spirit Dou Pill, then prepared for the operation while studying a powerful Dou Technique. Hu Gan later revealed that Fan Cheng might ambush auction-goers near Black Skull City, leaving Lu Yu to plan his move at Ghostly Soul Canyon.

• Hu Gan explained that Lu Yu’s Strange Fire and secret technique made him suited to kill Fan Cheng, offered him a Spirit Dou Pill, and assigned him the task.
• Lu Yu returned to his courtyard and learned that Little Fairy Doctor had gone to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower to cultivate.
• Lu Yu refined sweeter pills for Zi Yan, who promised to protect him and Little Fairy Doctor.
• Little Fairy Doctor returned, and Lu Yu began studying the Di-tier intermediate Dou Technique Sky Burning Sea Boiling Palm.
• Hu Gan told Lu Yu that the Blood Sect might ambush auction-goers near Black Skull Tomb and that Fan Cheng was likely to appear.
• Hu Gan identified Ghostly Soul Canyon as the likely ambush site for the auction in three days, and Lu Yu took the map to plan his approach.

Lu Yu entered Black Skull City and attended the Black Skeleton Auction, where he waited for the Blood Sect to make its planned ambush. The auction began, and its first grand finale treasure, the Soul-strengthening Soulless Flower, was revealed, drawing the crowd’s attention.

• Lu Yu entered Black Skull City and headed to the Black Skull Auction House, intending to use the auction as bait for the Blood Sect.
• Lu Yu showed his academy entry token and took a seat in a corner, observing the arriving groups from Heavenly Snake Manor, the Eight Gates, and the Beast Taming Sect.
• Hei Yuan opened the auction, and the first items—including a fire-attribute longsword and a serpent Magical Beast core—were sold.
• Hei Yuan presented the Soulless Flower, explaining that it could slightly strengthen Soul power and that bidding required a Fifth-grade Pill.
• The crowd reacted with excitement and surprise as bidders recognized the Soulless Flower as a rare treasure.

Lu Yu won the Soulless Flower at auction to help him cultivate the Heavenly Fire Forging God Art, then used it to lure out the Blood Sect. After killing the Eight Gates’ Mysterious Character Hall Master and five Dou Ling experts, he sensed a Dou Huang aura and a blood-red pillar of light rising from Ghostly Soul Canyon.

• Lu Yu bid a sixth-grade Spirit Dou Pill, a fifth-grade Restoration Pill, and diluted Earth Core Body Tempering Milk to win the Soulless Flower.
• Lu Yu left the auction and went to Ghostly Soul Canyon, expecting members of the Blood Sect to follow him.
• The Mysterious Character Hall Master of the Eight Gates and five Dou Ling experts ambushed Lu Yu and demanded the Soulless Flower.
• Lu Yu killed all six men with a single attack from the Azure Flame Sword.
• A blood-red pillar of light rose from Ghostly Soul Canyon, and Lu Yu sensed a Dou Huang aura and suspected the Blood Sect's sect master had arrived.

Lu Yu infiltrated the battle between the Blood Sect and Black Skull Tomb, then seized his chance to kill Fan Cheng and escape toward Jia Nan Academy. Fan Lao discovered the charred remains and erupted in fury.

• Lu Yu entered the valley and watched Fan Lao fight Black Underworld Elder while the Blood Sect and Black Skull Tomb clashed below.
• Lu Yu spotted Fan Cheng fighting a Black Skull Tomb elder and waited for an opening without drawing attention.
• Fan Cheng killed the elder, landed beside the corpse, and reached for its Storage Ring.
• Lu Yu unleashed his flame techniques and killed Fan Cheng with a single palm strike, then burned the body and took two Storage Rings.
• Lu Yu escaped toward Jia Nan Academy using Purple Cloud Wings, and Fan Lao noticed the charred corpse and roared in anger.

Lu Yu fled toward Jia Nan Academy, but Fan Lao caught up and attacked him. Lu Yu used his remaining trump cards to escape into the academy’s protected territory, then was surrounded by Heping Town’s Enforcement Team.

• Lu Yu replenished his Dou Qi with Golden Origin Pills and flew for days toward Jia Nan Academy, while his Earth Core Flame weakened.
• Fan Lao tracked Lu Yu with a blood-colored mark and struck him with the Sea of Blood Palm, overpowering him in their first clash.
• Lu Yu detonated the Mysterious Turtle Seal to engulf Fan Lao in an energy storm and continued fleeing toward Jia Nan Academy.
• Fan Lao caught up again, but Lu Yu used the Snake Seal Curse to suppress his Dou Qi and detonated the Azure Flame Sword to wound him.
• Lu Yu reached Jia Nan Academy’s protected area, forcing Fan Lao to stop, then staggered into Heping Town and was surrounded by its Enforcement Team.

Lu Yu returned to Jia Nan Academy after killing Blood Sect's Fourth Elder, Fan Cheng, and was appointed the academy's seventeenth Honorary Elder with 17,500 Fire Energy Points. He chose to exchange 5,000 points for Origin Heart Flame to nourish his Earth Core Flame, then visited Qing Lin and returned to find Little Fairy Doctor and Zi Yan waiting at home.

• The Enforcement Team accepted Lu Yu's letter from Hu Gan and let him enter Heping Town, while Hu Gan and the grand elder agreed he had passed their test and deserved compensation.
• Lu Yu reported Fan Cheng's death to Hu Gan and received the title of Jia Nan Academy's seventeenth Honorary Elder and a Fire Crystal Card containing 17,500 points.
• Hu Gan explained that Lu Yu's points included compensation for his pills and a reward for killing Fan Cheng, then described the academy's exchange catalog and Origin Heart Flame.
• Lu Yu decided to spend 5,000 points on a cluster of Origin Heart Flame and was told to rest while the academy prepared it.
• Lu Yu visited Qing Lin at the Outer Academy and gave her several bottles of pills.
• Lu Yu returned to his residence, where Little Fairy Doctor offered him tea and Zi Yan demanded the treats he had promised.

After recovering from his exhaustion, Lu Yu reviewed the spoils from his enemies and helped Little Fairy Doctor secure valuable cultivation resources. He then began another simulation to search for rare ingredients and news of the Azure Jade Lotus Root, and the chapter left him choosing among three new identities.

• Little Fairy Doctor brought Lu Yu medicinal soup, and he decided to conserve the Earth Core Flame while studying the Dou Technique Xun'er had given him.
• Lu Yu gave Little Fairy Doctor the academy exchange manual, and she identified two poisonous herbs that would benefit her cultivation.
• Lu Yu found a bottle of Blood Poison in the Blood Sect elder's Storage Ring, and Little Fairy Doctor said it could provide a year of cultivation resources.
• Lu Yu recovered the Corpse Puppet Hundred Refinements manual from Black Skull Tomb's Storage Ring and kept it despite its costly requirements.
• Several days later, Lu Yu started a simulation to seek Soul Illuminating Pill ingredients and information about the Azure Jade Lotus Root.
• The simulation offered Lu Yu identities as a Tiangang Sword Sect disciple, a Martial Spirit Academy student, or a Thunder Demon Sect disciple.

Lu Yu chose to enter the Thunder Demon Sect and, in the simulation, rose from a prodigious young disciple to the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s inheritor. After gaining powerful techniques and refining Netherworld Heart Demon Flame, the simulation ended with Lu Yu choosing one of three rewards.

• Lu Yu rejected the Tiangang Sword Sect and Martial Spirit Academy options and began a simulation in the Thunder Demon Sect, where he quickly won the Outer Sect Competition and learned the Mysterious Thunder Body Tempering Art.
• Lu Yu advanced to the Heaven Transformation Stage, created the Thunder Sovereign Shakes Heaven Palm, and followed a mysterious call into the Thunder Demon Abyss with the help of his parents and sect master Qin Tiangang.
• At the abyss’s depths, the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder swept Lu Yu into the Heart Demon Thunder Palace, where he accepted the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s inheritance trials and awakened his Thunder Spirit Body.
• Lu Yu passed three trials, reached Fourth-grade Supreme, learned the Three Yang Radian Thunder Method, and returned from the palace after being told to come back once he reached Earth Supreme.
• Lu Yu killed and refined the weakened Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder, transformed it into a Divine Soul Stage Netherworld Heart Demon Flame seed, and recorded three techniques in an Inheritance Jade Slip.
• The simulation ended and offered Lu Yu a choice between a Heavenly Spirit Lotus Seed, the Netherworld Heart Demon Flame seed, and the Inheritance Jade Slip.

Lu Yu chose the Netherworld Heart Demon Flame from his simulation rewards so he could temper his soul for the Heavenly Fire Forging God Art. He began refining the flame in a hidden cave in Jia Nan Academy’s Back Mountain, with Zi Yan guarding the entrance.

• Lu Yu decided the Netherworld Heart Demon Flame was more useful to him than the other simulated rewards because of its soul-attacking properties.
• Lu Yu asked Zi Yan to find him a hidden place in the Back Mountain and guard him while he cultivated.
• Zi Yan led Lu Yu to a concealed cave, accepted pills as payment, and waited outside.
• Lu Yu summoned the Netherworld Heart Demon Flame, used the Great Pagoda Art and Snake Seal Curse to suppress it, and confined the Earth Core Flame inside the Pagoda Tower.
• Lu Yu swallowed a Blood Lotus Pill, then took the Netherworld Heart Demon Flame seed and Ice Spirit Cold Spring to begin refining the flame.

Lu Yu refined the Netherworld Heart Demon Flame, advancing to Five-star Dou Wang and tempering the Pagoda Tower to ninety percent. After making pills for Zi Yan, he and she witnessed Little Fairy Doctor break through to the peak of nine-star Dou Ling.

• Lu Yu used the Great Pagoda Art and his Soul power to suppress and refine the Netherworld Heart Demon Flame despite its struggle against the Earth Core Flame.
• The Netherworld Heart Demon Flame submitted and became a dark Fire Lotus inside the Pagoda Tower, while Lu Yu rose to Five-star Dou Wang and gained Thunder-fire Armor.
• Lu Yu discovered that refining the Strange Fire had tempered the Pagoda Tower to ninety percent and considered whether Strange Fires could help turn it into a sacred object.
• Zi Yan noticed Lu Yu's breakthrough, and he refined her Spirit Ginseng and Purple Heart Grass into sweet pills.
• Lu Yu and Zi Yan returned to the courtyard as Little Fairy Doctor's poison mist formed a vortex and her cultivation surged to the peak of nine-star Dou Ling.

Little Fairy Doctor rapidly advanced to peak Nine-star Dou Ling after refining Blood Poison, while Lu Yu went to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower to obtain the Origin Heart Flame. In seclusion, he had the Earth Core Flame devour it, restoring the flame to its peak and strengthening it beyond its former power.

• Little Fairy Doctor emerged from seclusion at peak Nine-star Dou Ling after refining Fifth-grade Blood Poison, and she encouraged Zi Yan to seek heavenly treasures to grow stronger.
• A Jia Nan Academy student summoned Lu Yu to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where vice principal Hu Gan told him the Origin Heart Flame was ready.
• Lu Yu followed Hu Gan to the seventh floor, received the Origin Heart Flame inside its protective barrier, and entered a secluded Cultivation Room.
• Lu Yu broke the barrier and released the weakened Earth Core Flame to devour the Origin Heart Flame.
• The Earth Core Flame consumed the Origin Heart Flame, recovered its peak state, and grew stronger than before.