Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi Xian obtained the Heaven-tier cultivation method while Xiao Yan left the Library Pavilion empty-handed, and Yang Chao received a mysterious opportunity from the two elders. Back at the academy, Nalan Chaoge questioned Xun'er about Xiao Yan’s childhood visits to nourish her meridians, leaving her pale with shock.

• Hu Jia complained to Hu Gan that Xiao Yan had attacked them over a scroll, but Hu Gan said the Library Pavilion had no rule against competing for items.
• The elders revealed that Xiao Yi Xian had obtained the Heaven-tier cultivation method connected to her Woeful Poison Body, while Xiao Yan lost every scroll he had collected and refused their offer to guard the pavilion.
• The two Gray Robe Elders granted Yang Chao an opportunity, and he kept its details secret as the group left the Library Pavilion.
• Nalan Chaoge waited for Xiao Yi Xian and Kimimaro to return, then asked Xun'er why she loved Xiao Yan and heard that his childhood visits to nourish her meridians had inspired her feelings.
• Nalan Chaoge challenged Xun'er's account, pointing out that Xiao Yan had been too young to know such a technique; Xun'er's face turned pale.

Xun'er confronted her feelings about Xiao Yan after Nalan Chaoge questioned his childhood treatment of her, then joined the group waiting for the Library Pavilion search to end. Xiao Yi Xian recovered the Heavenly Poison Scripture, while Xiao Yan left angrily after trying to take it, and Yang Chao revealed that Xun'er and Nalan Chaoge's secret actions had been discovered.

• Xun'er insisted that she still loved Xiao Yan and warned Nalan Chaoge not to interfere in their relationship or accept an engagement arranged by her father.
• Nalan Chaoge questioned why Gu Xun'er had been sent from the Gu Clan to the Northwest Continent, but she could not answer before Hu Gan and the others returned.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed Nalan Chaoge and Xun'er the old book they had sought, and the two celebrated their success.
• Kimimaro mocked Xiao Yan for returning empty-handed, and Xiao Yan walked away without answering Xun'er.
• Yang Chao told Xun'er that Xiao Yan had tried to take the Heavenly Poison Scripture, but Xiao Yi Xian had reclaimed it with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Yang Chao revealed that Xun'er and Nalan Chaoge had been discovered making secret arrangements in the Library Pavilion.

Nalan Chaoge and Xun'er were accused of improper behavior in the Library Pavilion, but the group eventually learned they had only cheated to obtain cultivation methods by marking energy orbs with heavenly flames. Yang Chao explained how he had witnessed their scheme, leaving everyone embarrassed over their misunderstanding.

• Kimimaro and the others misinterpreted Nalan Chaoge and Xun'er's actions in the Library Pavilion, and Nalan Chaoge offered to take responsibility.
• Hu Gan let the matter go after the senior elders declined to pursue it, while Nalan Chaoge and Xun'er apologized.
• Yang Chao clarified that he had seen Xun'er mark an energy orb with heavenly flames and Xiao Yi Xian use the Heavenly Flame Scroll to obtain a Heaven-tier cultivation method.
• Yang Chao recounted how he had spent what felt like several days with the two senior elders, though only two hours had passed outside.
• The group realized they had mistaken cheating in the Library Pavilion for a romantic encounter, and Xun'er blushed as everyone felt embarrassed.

Hu Gan announced the treasures recovered from the Library Pavilion, including a Heaven-tier cultivation method, as the top students prepared for the Inner Academy. Xiao Yi Xian discovered that her Heavenly Poison Scripture had mutated with the golden emperor burning heaven flame, leaving Nalan Chaoge injured and her own hair turning gray.

• Hu Gan told the plaza that the students had retrieved two High Mysterious Tier battle skills, one Earth-tier battle skill, and one Heaven-tier cultivation method.
• The top fifty students prepared to leave for the Inner Academy in three days and face the Fire Energy Capture Competition.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed Nalan Chaoge and Kimimaro that her poison gas now carried a faint golden flame that burned a tree to ash.
• Nalan Chaoge grabbed Xiao Yi Xian's hand, and the golden flame burned his arm despite his Dou Qi and green lotus core flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned them that her poison had fused with the heavenly flame and was beyond her control, while a lock of her hair turned grayish white.

Nalan Chaoge reassured Xiao Yi Xian after her Woeful Poison Body erupted and set out to find Xun'er for treatment of his burned arm. He suspected Xun'er had manipulated the Heavenly Poison Scripture, but she denied knowing what he meant and told him to leave before Xiao Yan arrived.

• Nalan Chaoge told Xiao Yi Xian that they were friends and promised to find a way to restore her, while warning her not to touch anyone or unleash her Woeful Poison Body.
• Nalan Chaoge explained that the golden emperor burning heaven flame had burned his arm and that he needed to find Xun'er for treatment.
• Nalan Chaoge left Xiao Yi Xian and Kimimaro, concealing his injured hand beneath his sleeve as he headed to the Academy.
• Nalan Chaoge suspected Xun'er had tampered with the Heavenly Poison Scripture by adding her heavenly flame, putting Xiao Yi Xian in danger.
• Xun'er acted disgusted when Nalan Chaoge confronted her, denied knowing what he meant, and ordered him to leave before Xiao Yan arrived.

Nalan Chaoge faced Xun'er’s demand to release Yao Chen and refused, despite her threats and Ling Ying’s warning. Xun'er discovered that the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame had fused with Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body and removed the lingering flames from Nalan Chaoge, while leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Nalan Chaoge sensed Ling Ying watching him and realized the Dou Zun was warning him to stay away from Xun'er.
• Xun'er offered to spare Nalan Chaoge and help Xiao Yi Xian if he released Yao Chen, but he refused and challenged her to kill him.
• Nalan Chaoge warned Xun'er that he could destroy Yao Chen and told her to have Xiao Yan confront him openly.
• Xun'er noticed Nalan Chaoge’s badly burned arm and realized Xiao Yi Xian had cultivated the Heavenly Poison Scripture, causing her poison to fuse with the Heavenly Flames.
• Xun'er used her golden flames to remove the lingering Heavenly Flames from Nalan Chaoge, then left to examine Xiao Yi Xian’s condition later.

Nalan Chaoge joined Su Qian in escorting the new students to the Inner Academy after Hu Gan thanked him for helping him break through to Dou Zong. As the griffon formation crossed the Primeval Forest, Su Qian ordered the group to avoid a nearby seventh-rank magical beast, despite Nalan Chaoge hoping to encounter it.

• Hu Gan announced that he had broken through to Dou Zong and publicly thanked Nalan Chaoge for helping him.
• Hu Gan assigned the students to groups of five for the journey to the Inner Academy, and Xun'er and Xiao Yan arrived late from the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yu asked Nalan Chaoge to spare the Xiao Family and preserve its lineage, then the griffon beasts took the students into the sky.
• Nalan Chaoge led the griffon formation while Su Qian guarded the rear as they crossed the Primeval Forest.
• Su Qian told Fan Lin to change their route to avoid a seventh-rank magical beast, while Nalan Chaoge silently hoped they would encounter it.

Nalan Chaoge learned that Xiao Yan had obtained a copy of Three Thousand Lightning Movement at the Black-Corner Region auction, while the Fragment Map he acquired was a fake. As the Griffon Beasts carried the students toward the Inner Academy, the group entered a dangerous stretch of forest and faced a sudden attack.

• A student told Nalan Chaoge that Xiao Yan and Xun'er had attended the Black-Corner Region auction, where Three Thousand Lightning Movement and a mysterious map were sold.
• Nalan Chaoge realized Xiao Yan had likely obtained another copy of Three Thousand Lightning Movement and that all three of Xiao Yan's Fragment Maps were fakes.
• The Griffon Beasts flew deeper through the forest as Nalan Chaoge and Su Qian struck down Magical Beasts that approached them.
• Su Qian warned Nalan Chaoge that a Seventh Rank Magical Beast had appeared nearby before, and Fan Lin redirected the Griffon Beasts toward the outer edge.
• A Magical Beast leaped from below and charged at the flock just as the Griffon Beasts changed direction.

Nalan Chaoge rescued students from a magical beast ambush and then eagerly set out to confront a seventh-rank magical beast, joined by several students and Great Elder Su Qian. He proposed turning the encounter into a chance to establish a guarded passage between the Outer Academy and Inner Academy.

• A concealed magical beast startled the Griffon Beast Team and knocked two students from their mounts, but Nalan Chaoge struck it down while Kimimaro pulled the students to safety with bone spikes.
• The flying party sensed a seventh-rank magical beast nearby, and Fan Lin reported that it was a different one from the beast they had avoided.
• Nalan Chaoge volunteered to face the beast, and Xiao Yi Xian, Kimimaro, Yang Chao, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao joined him.
• Nalan Chaoge proposed establishing a guarded road between the Inner Academy and Outer Academy so people could travel between them without elder escorts.
• Su Qian agreed to join the confrontation, and he ordered Fan Lin to land the Griffon Beasts so they could meet the magical beast.

Nalan Chaoge and the others searched the forest for a seventh-rank magical beast, only to discover that an enormous tree was a demon feeding on magical beasts underground. The tree demon ensnared the group, and Nalan Chaoge cut them free before ordering a retreat as the Griffon Beasts panicked.

• Nalan Chaoge led Xiao Yi Xian, Kimimaro, Yang Chao, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao into the forest to find the missing magical beast while the others searched for medicinal herbs.
• Nalan Chaoge found no magical beasts within twenty kilometers, and Yang Chao suggested the hidden attacker might not be a magical beast at all.
• Nalan Chaoge used Sky Cover Formation and discovered that the great tree's roots had trapped countless magical beast remains underground.
• The tree demon attacked the group with roots, but Nalan Chaoge severed them with Chidori Sharp Spear and ordered everyone to retreat.
• The nearby Griffon Beasts suddenly panicked.

Nalan Chaoge and the others fought a powerful Tree Demon while Su Qian regrouped the students, but Xiao Yan and Xun'er remained behind and were attacked. Xiao Yan was dragged underground and Xun'er was captured by the demon, leaving Nalan Chaoge to confront it again.

• Nalan Chaoge used Amaterasu and Fire Release attacks against the Tree Demon, then sent the others to help Su Qian while Xiao Yi Xian stayed to assist him.
• Su Qian gathered the students and Griffon Beasts, then discovered that Xiao Yan and Xun'er had not returned.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er fought the Tree Demon, and Xiao Yan chose not to reveal Yao Chen's power because doing so might expose them to Nalan Chaoge.
• Xiao Yan was dragged underground after saving Xun'er from a root, and the Tree Demon captured Xun'er and carried her inside its trunk.
• Nalan Chaoge saw Xun'er disappear into the Tree Demon and used the Summoning Technique to confront it.

Nalan Chaoge summoned Enma to help Xiao Yi Xian fight the thousand-year-old tree demon, but the tree demon trapped Nalan and kept attacking despite the Great Fire Heavenly Prison. The chapter ended with Enma confronting the tree demon while Nalan remained enclosed in branches and protected himself with a layer of crystal.

• Nalan Chaoge summoned Enma, who used Exploding Kunai Shadow Clone Jutsu to blast apart one of the tree demon’s trunks.
• Nalan Chaoge hardened the ground to prevent the tree demon from escaping underground, and Xiao Yi Xian wielded Enma’s transformed Adamantine Staff while covering it with poison and flames.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s attacks damaged the tree demon, which gathered roots into a humanoid form and dismissed Nalan Chaoge’s Great Fire Heavenly Prison.
• The tree demon ensnared Nalan Chaoge and struck Xiao Yi Xian, while Enma raised an Earth-Style Wall to block a massive root aimed at Nalan.
• Su Qian realized Xun’er was missing and set off to search for her as the tree demon attacked Enma with roots.
• Nalan Chaoge coated himself in crystal inside the branch cage to keep the tree demon’s needlelike hairs from piercing him.

Nalan Chaoge summoned Susanoo’s fourth form to protect Xiao Yi Xian and Su Qian from the Thousand-Year Tree Demon, a High-level Seventh Tier Beast that could manipulate space. The treant confronted Nalan Chaoge and demanded to know why he was interfering, leaving him momentarily stumped.

• Nalan Chaoge realized the tree demon refined dou qi from natural energy, while old Enma and Xiao Yi Xian dodged its attacks.
• Nalan Chaoge broke free of the Energy Orb and summoned fourth-form Susanoo, then caught Xiao Yi Xian after a tendril struck her.
• Su Qian arrived and was surrounded by severed roots that sprouted into small maneating trees, so Nalan Chaoge called Enma back and attacked the giant tree.
• The tree split open to reveal a small treant, and Nalan Chaoge’s strike exposed its ability to manipulate space.
• The treant teleported beside Su Qian and attacked him, but Nalan Chaoge shielded Su Qian with Susanoo and faced the treant’s challenge.

Nalan Chaoge stopped fighting the tree demon and negotiated for his captured friends, but Xun'er broke free and unleashed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame before the agreement was settled. After the tree demon released Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan noticed Xun'er was wearing Nalan Chaoge's robe.

• Nalan Chaoge released Su Qian and apologized to the tree demon, which agreed to return its captives in exchange for help extinguishing the fire.
• The tree demon opened its trunk, and Xun'er escaped while unleashing the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame across the fallen tree.
• Nalan Chaoge gave his robe to the exposed Xun'er, and the tree demon brought Xiao Yan up from underground in a root cocoon.
• Xun'er rushed to Xiao Yan, who woke and then stared in surprise at her wearing Nalan Chaoge's robe.

Nalan Chaoge befriended the lonely treant and offered him the Nalan surname, prompting the treant to insist that Chaoge become his big brother. Chaoge also realized the treant’s territory could form a protected route between Jia Nan Academy’s Outer and Inner Academies, and Su Qian hinted he had a way to make the treant’s wish come true.

• Xiao Yan questioned why Nalan Chaoge had rescued him, and Chaoge pointed out that Xiao Yan had not resisted the Tree Demon.
• Xun'er attacked the little treant, but Nalan Chaoge stopped her and declared the treant their friend.
• Nalan Chaoge introduced the group and proposed naming the treant Nalan Treant; the treant then demanded to become Chaoge’s brother.
• Nalan Chaoge explained that the treant’s twenty-kilometer territory could create a protected road between the Outer and Inner Academies.
• Su Qian asked whether the treant truly wanted to be Xiao Ge’s brother, then said he had a way to make it happen.

Nalan Chaoge made peace with Nalan Treant and arranged for him to guard a passage between Jia Nan Academy’s Outer and Inner Academies. The group then gathered rare herbs through the Primeval Forest, with Nalan Treant guiding them.

• Su Qian persuaded Nalan Treant to call Nalan Chaoge his big brother, and the treant apologized to Xun'er for trying to make her his wife.
• Nalan Chaoge asked Nalan Treant to create and guard a road between the Outer and Inner Academies, and the treant agreed while giving Xun'er a Na Ring containing valuable treasures.
• Nalan Treant restored his burned tree form, sank underground, and promised to protect the passage; he also insisted on staying wherever Nalan Chaoge went.
• Kimimaro met Nalan Treant and jokingly established that the treant was her second big brother.
• The students postponed their trip to the Inner Academy and spent a day gathering rare fifth- and sixth-grade medicinal herbs under Nalan Treant's guidance.

Nalan Chaoge and the students gathered valuable medicinal herbs on their way to the Inner Academy, leaving them so wealthy that they had little interest in its fire energy competition. Su Qian brought them to the Inner Academy’s hidden entrance and opened the spatial gate for them to enter.

• Nalan Chaoge organized the students into teams to gather herbs and clear a path, while Su Qian joined them and agreed to delay their return.
• The students filled their Na Rings with herbs, and Nalan Chaoge expelled two who fought over a plant until they returned and apologized.
• Nalan Chaoge teased Xun'er over the crystals, magic cores, and herbs Nalan Treant had given her, and she delighted in claiming them as her own.
• Su Qian led everyone to the Inner Academy and heard them offer to surrender their five starting fire-energy points because they had already collected so many valuable treasures.
• Su Qian opened a massive spatial gate, welcomed the students into the Inner Academy, and watched them file through as the gate closed behind them.

The new students entered the Inner Academy by pooling their fire energy and tricking the senior students into fighting over it. At a meeting about building a road between the academies, Nalan Chaoge offered to build and maintain it in exchange for the right to use it.

• Elder Su explained the fire energy hunting competition, but Yang Chao gathered the new students’ fire energy and offered it to the Inner Academy teams instead of letting them hunt the group.
• The new students left the Black Fiend Team and White Fiend Team to fight over the Black Crystal Card, then hurried through the forest toward the Inner Academy.
• Elder Qing led the new students to their dormitory area and told them they would have to manage their own rooms and cultivation.
• Su Qian’s elders debated the risks and costs of building a road through the Primeval Forest between the Inner Academy and the Outer Academy.
• Nalan Chaoge offered to build and maintain the road himself, on the condition that he would own its usage rights.

Nalan Chaoge secured the elders’ signatures for building a road through the Primeval Forest and told Su Qian that he wanted access to the Inner Academy’s cultivation tower. The next morning, Kimimaro reported that Xiao Yan and Xun'er had formed Pan Gate, while Yang Chao’s Tianji Sect prepared to recruit students with fire energy.

• Nalan Chaoge persuaded Elder Zhao and the other elders to sign an agreement allowing the road project, then discussed his intentions and Su Qian’s request for help sealing a heavenly flame.
• Nalan Chaoge and Su Qian agreed to share the profits from the road construction.
• Kimimaro visited Nalan Chaoge before dawn, showed off his Red Fire Crystal Card, and said his faction had over one hundred thousand fire energy points.
• Kimimaro told Nalan Chaoge that Xiao Yan and Xun'er had left their group and formed Pan Gate with more than a dozen new students.
• Yang Chao’s Tianji Sect offered two hundred monthly fire energy points to Five-star Great Dou Shi who joined, as senior students demanded tribute from the newcomers.

Yang Chao defeated three faction leaders who came to collect tribute, then led a raid on senior students and built the Tianji Sect’s fire-energy reserves. Kimimaro joined his faction, while Nalan Chaoge agreed to begin road construction and wondered whether to take the Fallen Heart Flame from Jia Nan Academy.

• Yang Chao challenged three faction leaders, swiftly cut their necks, and seized their Crystal Cards, leaving each faction ten days of fire energy.
• Yang Chao gathered Kimimaro and others to collect tribute from senior students who had taken part in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, recovering two thousand points and gaining nearly five hundred more.
• Yang Chao and Kimimaro exchanged their fire energy at the Medicinal Herb Warehouse, where Kimimaro revealed he held more than seventy thousand points.
• Kimimaro joined the Tianji Sect, and Yang Chao announced a monthly reward of two hundred fire-energy points for members at Five-star Great Dou Shi strength or above.
• Nalan Chaoge told Kimimaro that road construction would begin in the next few days and asked Yang Chao to gather medicinal herbs.
• Nalan Chaoge looked at the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and wondered whether to take the Fallen Heart Flame, knowing Jia Nan Academy would be finished without it.