Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu returned to Jia Nan Academy and proposed a proactive plan to suppress the Falling Heart Flame before it broke free. Su Qian approved the plan, and the academy decided to attack in ten days.

• Su Qian met Lu Yu, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan, then brought them to the Inner Academy's elders' council.
• Hu Gan reported that cracks in the seal meant the Falling Heart Flame could escape within two months, and Su Qian proposed evacuating weaker students and reinforcing the seal with Cai Lin's help.
• Lu Yu urged the elders to strike first and said he could suppress the Falling Heart Flame if no outside force interfered.
• Zi Yan revealed her Seven-star Dou Zong strength, and Su Qian agreed that Lu Yu's plan was worth considering.
• Lu Yu explained that the Netherworld Heart Demon Flame could erase the Falling Heart Flame's intelligence, after which its origin could be divided and its rank reduced.
• Su Qian approved Lu Yu's plan, and the academy resolved to lay siege to the Falling Heart Flame in ten days.

Lu Yu welcomed Xiao Yan back from the Black Corner Region and learned of a Dou Zun’s ruins that might hold clues to the Yin-Yang Twin Flames. He warned Xiao Yan that Han Feng might attack the Academy, and Xiao Yan insisted on facing his former senior brother himself.

• Lu Yu, Zi Yan, and Cai Lin returned to their courtyard, where Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin had prepared dinner.
• Xiao Yan arrived after receiving the Academy’s emergency summons, and Lu Yu noticed that he had advanced to a seven-star Great Dou Master.
• Xiao Yan showed Lu Yu a fragment pointing to the Yin Yang Venerable’s ruins and asked him to help explore them for the Yin-Yang Twin Flames.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Yin Yang Venerable had a disturbing obsession with torturing snake-type magical beasts and collecting their organs.
• Lu Yu told Xiao Yan that Han Feng might attack the Academy and possessed the Sea Heart Flame, which Xiao Yan could use for the Fen Jue.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Han Feng was his traitorous senior brother and asked Lu Yu to let him defeat Han Feng himself and avenge their teacher.

Lu Yu, Cai Lin, Su Qian, and the Inner Academy elders broke the seal on the Falling Heart Flame, freeing it and launching a coordinated attack. In Maple City, a mysterious alchemist sensed the Strange Fire and summoned nearby factions and two powerful guests.

• Lu Yu gave Little Fairy Doctor a high-grade Spirit Tool to protect her and Qing Lin, then set out with Cai Lin to confront the Falling Heart Flame.
• Lu Yu activated his secret method and raised his strength to half-step Dou Zong as Su Qian and the elders prepared to break the seal.
• Su Qian and the elders shattered the barrier, and the Falling Heart Flame erupted from the Magma Sea and burst through the tower.
• Zi Yan struck the newly freed Falling Heart Flame, while Lu Yu, Cai Lin, Su Qian, and the elders attacked it together.
• A man in Maple City sensed the Strange Fire and ordered his subordinate to summon several factions and invite two powerful men.

Lu Yu and the Inner Academy elders weakened the Falling Heart Flame and sealed it inside the Pagoda Tower, while Han Feng arrived with Black Corner Region experts to claim it. Inside the tower, Lu Yu used three other Strange Fires to subdue the Falling Heart Flame and attack its soul, leaving it increasingly docile.

• Zi Yan repeatedly intercepted the Falling Heart Flame and struck it until Lu Yu and the elders weakened it to the strength of a Peak Dou Huang with their attacks and seals.
• Lu Yu entered the Thousand Layer Seal Array with Zi Yan and began subduing the Falling Heart Flame, while Su Qian and the elders remained outside to protect them.
• Han Feng arrived at the Inner Academy with dozens of Black Corner Region experts and demanded that Su Qian give him the Strange Fire.
• Lu Yu summoned the Pagoda Tower and drew the Falling Heart Flame inside, where three Strange Fires surrounded and restrained it.
• Lu Yu sent the Netherworld Heart Demon Flame to attack the Falling Heart Flame's soul, and its struggles weakened as its flames settled.

Han Feng’s forces attacked Jia Nan Academy, but Cai Lin and reinforcements surrounded them while Lu Yu emerged after dealing with the Falling Heart Flame. Lu Yu absorbed the Transparent Fire Python, advanced to Dou Zong, and struck down the Black Corner Region experts, leaving him ready to settle accounts.

• Xiao Yan assessed the battle and worried that Jia Nan Academy’s elders were outmatched by Han Feng’s Dou Huang allies.
• Han Feng tried to break through the Thousand Layer Seal Array, but Cai Lin appeared and drove him back before summoning the Little Fairy Doctor, Qing Lin, Hua She’er, and their forces.
• A flashback showed Lu Yu arranging for Wu Ya, Cai Lin, and their allies to guard the academy in exchange for pills, with a jade talisman as the signal.
• Han Feng urged the Black Corner Region fighters to break out as Lu Yu emerged from the array holding the Falling Heart Flame and the Transparent Fire Python.
• Lu Yu swallowed the Transparent Fire Python, advanced from Seven-star Dou Huang to Dou Zong, and wounded Han Feng and the gathered experts with a single palm strike.

Lu Yu defeated the Black Corner Region attackers, spared Han Feng after taking his Sea Heart Flame and crippling his cultivation, and helped Jia Nan Academy recover the Falling Heart Flame. He began a repeat simulation as an Ice Spirit Clan descendant, outmaneuvered his father, and reached the end of the simulation with three rewards to choose from.

• Lu Yu killed the Black Corner Region experts, took Han Feng's Sea Heart Flame, reduced him to Peak Dou Ling, and let him flee with a warning that someone would kill him in half a year.
• Lu Yu returned the Falling Heart Flame to Su Qian, then told Wu Ya he planned to unite the Black Corner Region under a new faction.
• Jia Nan Academy reopened its Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and honored Lu Yu with a statue and the title of honorary dean.
• Lu Yu chose to repeat the Ice Spirit Clan descendant simulation, and his mother sent him to the clan's main branch after protecting him from his father's punishment.
• Lu Yu secretly won the Ice Spirit Old Ancestor's backing by claiming to have found the Western Heaven Battle Emperor's inheritance, then used his father's resources to cultivate while secretly preparing for his father's sacrifice attempt.
• The Old Ancestor killed Lu Yu's father when he tried to sacrifice him, and Lu Yu later earned third place at the Ice Spirit Grand Ceremony before ending the simulation with three rewards to choose from.

After choosing the Flame Ancestral Talisman as his simulation reward, Lu Yu met its Spirit and negotiated for its recognition. The Spirit granted him temporary use of the talisman, while requiring him to remove its five seals one by one before it would acknowledge him as its master.

• Lu Yu realized that repeated identity choices let him use memories from earlier simulations to improve later attempts.
• Lu Yu chose the Flame Ancestral Talisman over the Insect Control Heart Sutra because it suited his needs and could serve him at higher power levels.
• Lu Yu entered the talisman's crimson space and found its Fire Phoenix Spirit bound by five icy seals.
• Lu Yu offered the Spirit regular Heavenly Flame power and help removing the seals in exchange for its recognition.
• The Fire Phoenix agreed to recognize Lu Yu gradually as he removed each seal, and sent him a rune granting temporary use of the talisman.
• Lu Yu returned to his quiet room and sent the Flame Ancestral Talisman into his dantian.

Lu Yu helped Xiao Yan prepare for the Three-Year Pact, examined a relic fragment, and promised to train him. He gave the Sea Heart Flame to Little Fairy Doctor and reassured her that he still loved her, leaving her delighted as she went to refine it.

• Lu Yu told Xiao Yan that Han Feng’s cultivation was sealed for twenty years and suggested Xiao Yan kill him after reaching Dou Ling, before the Three-Year Pact.
• Lu Yu examined Xiao Yan’s copper fragment and advised waiting until Xiao Yan was stronger before exploring the Dou Zun relic; Xiao Yan asked Lu Yu to accompany him to the Three-Year Pact.
• Xiao Yan voiced doubts about the pact, then regained his resolve and agreed to undergo three months of training with Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu gave Little Fairy Doctor the Sea Heart Flame, which she accepted after he explained it was no longer useful to him.
• Little Fairy Doctor asked whether Lu Yu still liked her, and he kissed her forehead and reassured her; she kissed him and ran off to refine the Strange Fire.

Lu Yu completed several pills and spent time with Little Fairy Doctor, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan at the Inner Academy. He ended Xiao Yan’s arena training and prepared him to break through to Dou Ling before joining the Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s battles in the Black Corner Region.

• Lu Yu refined pills for Wu Ya, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin, then gave a Peak Sixth-grade Imperial Pill to Little Fairy Doctor.
• At the Inner Academy Arena, Lu Yu watched Xiao Yan defeat a Three-star Dou Ling student and turned down a young girl's romantic gesture while holding Little Fairy Doctor's hand.
• Lu Yu teased Little Fairy Doctor about wanting both her and Xun'er, and Xiao Yan arrived after his match to joke about their public affection.
• Lu Yu ended Xiao Yan's arena special training and instructed him to take a Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill with Crimson Flame Flower to prepare for reaching Dou Ling.
• Lu Yu told Xiao Yan that after his breakthrough, they would spar and Xiao Yan could join Cai Lin and the others in fighting the major powers of the Black Corner Region as part of the planned Spirit Treasure Pavilion.

Lu Yu chose a Martial Spirit Academy student identity and simulated a rise from gifted disciple to Supreme elder, gaining powerful body arts, a divine sword art, and a fifth-level Spirit Array Master inheritance. After Xue Tianhe destroyed a divine artifact and left him gravely injured, Lu Yu vowed to eliminate him in a future simulation; the simulation ended with Lu Yu choosing one reward.

• Lu Yu selected the Martial Spirit Academy student identity and became the Third Elder’s personal disciple after excelling in the freshman assessment.
• Lu Yu formed a Second-grade Spirit Vein, learned the Blazing Heaven Glazed Body, and rose to second place on Martial Spirit Academy’s Heavenly Ranking.
• During the Spirit Academy Competition, Lu Yu obtained the Great Luo Heavenly Flame Sword, completed his body tribulation, and fought Mu Chen to a draw.
• Lu Yu joined forces with Wu Ling, passed the remaining Supreme tribulations, and became known with him as the Twin Pillars of Martial Academy.
• Lu Yu fought Xue Tianhe in the competition, but Xue Tianhe detonated his divine artifact, leaving both fighters gravely injured and Lu Yu unconscious.
• After years of recovery, Lu Yu reached the Supreme Stage, became a Martial Spirit Academy elder, and inscribed three inheritances into a jade slip before choosing among the simulation rewards.

Lu Yu distributed the Spirit Array inheritance and prepared to focus on alchemy while arranging for Xiao Yan to explore the Ancient Ruins. After Xiao Yan passed a month of training and revealed his Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus, he set out with a Sound Transmission Conch, while Lu Yu planned to cultivate until they reunited to visit the Cloud Mist Sect.

• Lu Yu chose the Inheritance Jade Slip, decided to study only the Spirit Gathering Array as needed, and copied the Spirit Array inheritance for others to use.
• Cai Lin reported that Magic Flame Valley had sheltered the Earth Flame Sect and other hostile factions after receiving the Earth Core Flame, and Lu Yu ordered his forces to ease their pursuit and investigate the flame.
• Lu Yu gave the Spirit Array inheritance to Little Fairy Doctor and explained that he intended to focus on alchemy.
• After a month of training, Xiao Yan demonstrated his Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus and passed Lu Yu's test.
• Xiao Yan decided to explore the Ancient Ruins, and Lu Yu lent him a paired Sound Transmission Conch and planned to meet him at Jia Nan Academy in three months before they traveled to the Cloud Mist Sect.

Lu Yu entered the magma world beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower to cultivate and followed the Falling Heart Flame’s summons to discover Yao Tianhuo, a stranded remnant soul. After refusing Yao Tianhuo’s unformed Strange Fire, Lu Yu examined his Dou Technique scroll and asked whether the old man knew formations.

• Lu Yu taught Little Fairy Doctor about Spirit Seals and demonstrated how two array masters could combine their efforts to create a powerful third-grade Spirit Gathering Array.
• Lu Yu gained Su Qian’s permission to cultivate beneath the tower, then descended into the magma world while Su Qian and the elders continued guarding the seal.
• Lu Yu concealed his presence with the Pagoda Tower and followed the summons of the Falling Heart Flame to a hidden halo containing a skeleton and another infant Falling Heart Flame.
• Yao Tianhuo appeared as a remnant soul, introduced himself as the former master of the Falling Heart Flame, and explained that he had been ambushed after failing to fuse two flames.
• Yao Tianhuo offered Lu Yu the unformed Falling Heart Flame, but Lu Yu declined and accepted a Dou Technique scroll instead.
• After inspecting the scroll, Lu Yu asked Yao Tianhuo whether he was skilled in formations.

Lu Yu recruited Yao Tianhuo to serve as the Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s Elder of Arrays for twenty years and cultivated for three months inside Yao Tianhuo’s concealed Spirit Gathering Array. He broke through to five-star Dou Zong and Mortal Realm Perfection before deciding to leave and find Xiao Yan.

• Lu Yu offered Yao Tianhuo a Dou Zun-level Array Dao Inheritance and help escaping in exchange for joining the Spirit Treasure Pavilion for twenty years, and Yao Tianhuo agreed.
• Yao Tianhuo accepted the inheritance, pledged his service, and offered to build a Spirit Gathering Array for Lu Yu.
• Lu Yu refined a Peak Sixth-grade Soul Nurturing Pill, restoring Yao Tianhuo’s soul to peak Mortal Realm.
• Yao Tianhuo built a Level Four Spirit Gathering Array within a Spirit Concealment Array, and Lu Yu cultivated there for three months.
• Lu Yu advanced to five-star Dou Zong and Mortal Realm Perfection, then prepared to leave because he expected Xiao Yan to have returned from the ruins.

Lu Yu accompanied Xiao Yan to the Cloud Mist Sect for the Three-Year Pact, where Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran with one strike and ended their engagement dispute. After declaring them strangers, Xiao Yan left the outcome of the duel behind him.

• Qing Lin and Little Fairy Doctor told Lu Yu that the Heavenly Snake Manor had a One-star Dou Zun Manor Master and six peak seventh-tier magical beast elders, and Lu Yu said he would visit after dealing with Xiao Yan's affairs.
• Lu Yu and Little Fairy Doctor met Xiao Yan outside Jia Nan Academy, learned he had obtained only the Yang Flame, and traveled with him to the Cloud Mist Sect.
• Lu Yu warned the Cloud Mist Sect elders not to interfere unfairly with the Three-Year Pact, then encouraged Xiao Yan to show his progress.
• Nalan Yanran attacked first, but Xiao Yan crushed her sword strike with one swing of his Mysterious Heavy Ruler and defeated her.
• Nalan Yanran admitted defeat but stood by her decision to break the engagement, while Xiao Yan said they were strangers from then on and left the pact behind.

Lu Yu formed trade alliances for the Spirit Treasure Pavilion and recruited Xiao Yan as its elder alchemist, giving him rare alchemy treasures. After spending the lantern festival with the Little Fairy Doctor, Lu Yu and she became lovers.

• Lu Yu invited Hai Bodong, Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and others to discuss the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, while Vulture Protector and another black-robed figure watched him from Cloud Mist Mountain and plotted to capture his soul body.
• Lu Yu proposed trade partnerships linking the Black Corner Region, the Cloudy Empire, and the Jama Empire, then secured support from the Mitel Family, the Alchemist Guild, and the Mu Family by offering valuable pills and contracts.
• Lu Yu asked Xiao Yan to join the Spirit Treasure Pavilion as an elder alchemist and gave him the Crimson Flame Cauldron, an Eighth-grade Alchemist inheritance, and the embryonic Earth Core Flame.
• Lu Yu and the Little Fairy Doctor attended the imperial capital's lantern festival together, and she invited him to stay with her that night.
• Lu Yu and the Little Fairy Doctor kissed and spent the night together.

After refining three Sect Breaking Pills, Lu Yu began a simulation as a Sword Domain disciple and became Sword Lord Fei Liu’s registered disciple. The simulation ended after he developed a powerful sword-based Dharma Body, and he was offered three rewards to bring back.

• Lu Yu successfully refined three Sect Breaking Pills for Jia Xing Tian, Little Fairy Doctor, and the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, then prepared to recover under Venerable Sky Flame’s guard.
• Lu Yu chose the Sword Domain Disciple identity, becoming a Heavenly Spiritual Vein and Sword Seed bearer accepted as Sword Lord Fei Liu’s registered disciple.
• Lu Yu advanced rapidly through the Sword Domain, won its competitions, became an inner-region disciple, and learned the method for forging a Natal Sword Artifact.
• Lu Yu investigated the Sacred Demon Palace’s collusion with the Outer Realm Evil Tribe and used Sword Lord Fei Liu’s sword talisman to survive the elders pursuing him.
• After Lu Yu’s discovery helped prevent the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s resurrection, the Green Shirt Sword Saint created the Sword Sun Undying Body for him.
• The simulation offered Lu Yu the Azure Nether Sword, a Supreme Pill, or his Inheritance Jade Slip as a reward.

Lu Yu chose the Sword Sun Undying Body inheritance, studied methods for soul cultivation and forging a Natal Sword Artifact, and arranged a path to restore Venerable Sky Flame’s physical body. Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Dou Zong, while Xiao Yan left to visit his family in Wutan City.

• Lu Yu selected the Inheritance Jade Slip and learned the Soul Slaying Sword Scripture, the Sword Sun Undying Body cultivation method, and the method for refining a Natal Sword Artifact.
• Lu Yu considered cultivating two soul methods together and identified Godfall Black Iron as a compatible material for a future sword embryo.
• Lu Yu gave Venerable Sky Flame a method for rebuilding his physical body and promised to gather the materials and refine the Bone-Generating Blood-Melding Pill.
• Lu Yu and Venerable Sky Flame watched Xiao Yi Xian break through to the Dou Zong Stage.
• Xiao Yan told Lu Yu he was returning to Wutan City to see his father and clansmen, and Lu Yu gave him a Sound Transmission Conch before he left.

Lu Yu reunited with Xiao Yan at the Xiao Family estate and took him and Little Fairy Doctor to the Black Corner Region. At Black-Seal City, Lu Yu prepared the Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s auction and received the Netherworld Flame Remnant Map he had sought.

• Lu Yu gave Hai Bodong an Imperial Pill and asked him to oversee supplies for the Spirit Treasure Pavilion in the Jama Empire.
• Lu Yu and Little Fairy Doctor arrived at the Xiao Family estate, where Xiao Zhan welcomed Lu Yu and reunited him with Xiao Yan.
• After five days with the Xiao Family, Lu Yu used his control of space to take Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor to the Great Plains of the Black Corner Region, shielding them from a Black Storm with his tower.
• Lu Yu arrived at Black-Seal City and met with Wu Ya, who reported that preparations for the Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s auction were complete.
• Wu Ya presented Lu Yu with the Netherworld Flame Remnant Map, which he had obtained after disposing of the rogue cultivator who had possessed it.

Lu Yu oversaw Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s first Black Corner Region auction, where Wu Ya established the Pavilion’s strength and its rare pills and cultivation method drew fierce bidding from powerful factions. The auction ended with Su Mei buying the Azure Origin Pill for thirty-five million gold coins, while Lu Yu chose to remain out of reach as the faction leaders waited to meet him.

• Lu Yu rewarded Wu Ya with a Sect Breaking Pill and replaced the auction’s planned finale with a low Rank 7 Azure Origin Pill.
• Lu Yu and his companions arrived at Black Seal Auction House, where Wu Ya used his Half-step Dou Zong pressure to silence the crowd and warn rival faction leaders against challenging Spirit Treasure Pavilion.
• Su Mei won the Purple Smoke Barrier for 1.9 million Gold Coins, and Tie Wu bought the demonstrated Purple Jade Barrier-Breaking Pills for 3 million Gold Coins.
• Old Man Yin Gu won the Emperor Breaking Pill for 9 million gold coins, and the Black Skull Tomb’s Great Elder bought the Profound Yellow Art for 10 million gold coins.
• Su Mei outbid Tie Wu and the Black Skull Tomb’s Great Elder, purchasing the Azure Origin Pill for 35 million gold coins.
• As the faction leaders waited to meet him after the auction, Lu Yu told Wu Ya to see them out rather than meet them himself.

Lu Yu planned to destroy Magic Flame Valley, helped Xiao Yan prepare to confront Han Feng, and began a new identity simulation as the Luoshen Clan Son-in-Law. The simulation ended with Lu Yu offered a choice between a Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Pill, an Inheritance Jade Slip, and the Sky Water Sword.

• Lu Yu ordered Wu Ya to gather elites and prepare to erase Magic Flame Valley, planning to use its resources and recruit war orphans for the Spirit Treasure Pavilion.
• Lu Yu gave Xiao Yan a Purple Jade Barrier-Breaking Pill that raised him to Seven-star Dou Ling, then learned Xiao Yan could control two Heavenly Flames and intended to kill Han Feng himself.
• Lu Yu entered seclusion to simulate cultivating two soul techniques and chose the Luoshen Clan Son-in-Law identity.
• In the simulation, Lu Yu married Luoli, joined the Martial Spirit Academy with her, and they advanced through cultivation and won the Spirit Academy Competition.
• When the Blood God Clan attacked the Luoshen Clan, Lu Yu arranged for Luoli to summon the Flame Emperor Xiao Yan, who defeated the enemy and healed Luo Tianshen.
• At the simulation's end, Lu Yu obtained an Inheritance Jade Slip containing techniques and divine arts, then had to choose between it, a Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Pill, and the Sky Water Sword.