Chapter Summaries

Ning Luo defeated Sha Tie’s Black Fiend Team, paid Sha Tie for information about the final White Fiend Team, and led the new students out of the forest. At the finish line, the Inner Academy learned that Ning Luo had reached the Dou Ling class, and Luo Hou rose to face him.

• Ning Luo traded twenty days of Fire Energy to Sha Tie for information about the White Fiend Team, which Sha Tie said would likely wait at the finish line.
• Ning Luo led the group of new students toward the forest exit for the final battle.
• At the rocky finish area, Inner Academy students discussed the new students’ victories while the White Fiend Team waited among the rocks.
• Sha Tie and the others emerged from the forest, and Luo Hou realized they had been defeated.
• Sha Tie said Ning Luo had beaten them all and had reached the Dou Ling class, shocking the Inner Academy students.
• Luo Hou rose to challenge Ning Luo, dismissing Sha Tie’s warning that the fight might be difficult.

Ning Luo confronted Luo Hou and the White Fiend Team at the end of the Fire Energy Hunt, demanding their Fire Crystal Cards and declaring he could defeat them all. He fused his Azure Flame and Purple Flame into an Azure-Purple Fire Lotus and launched it at the charging team.

• More than forty new students emerged from the forest, led by Ning Luo and three others, and faced the White Fiend Team.
• Ning Luo demanded Luo Hou and his teammates hand over their Fire Crystal Cards, then said he could defeat them all.
• Luo Hou drew his sword as Ning Luo revealed his Azure Flame, surprising Elder Su and Elder Qing, who recognized it as a Heavenly Flame.
• Ning Luo fused his Azure Flame and Purple Flame into an Azure-Purple Fire Lotus, using Soul Power to stabilize it.
• The White Fiend Team charged, and Ning Luo flicked the fire lotus toward Luo Hou.

Ning Luo defeated Luo Hou and the other Inner Academy disciples with a single Azure-Purple Fire Lotus, winning the Fire Energy Hunt Competition for the new students. Elder Su stopped the fighting and awarded the students Fire Energy, while Ning Luo, Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao also received an unfamiliar Azure Fire Crystal Card.

• Luo Hou braced himself against Ning Luo's fire lotus with his Cold Iron Staff, but its frost melted and the blast swept him and the other disciples away.
• The new students realized Ning Luo had won the fight with one move, while Luo Hou sat stunned and the rocky slope was reduced to dust.
• Elder Su blocked the fire lotus's attack and declared the new students the winners of the Fire Energy Hunt Competition.
• The new students celebrated their victory, and Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao checked in with Ning Luo.
• Elder Su awarded every new student twenty days of Fire Energy and gave Ning Luo, Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao an Azure Fire Crystal Card and thirty additional days of Fire Energy.

Ning Luo and his companions entered the Inner Academy, received azure Fire Crystal Cards, and settled into a shared loft. That night, Ning Luo advanced to a three-star Dou Wang while the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python finished cultivating and demanded its usual nourishment.

• Elder Su explained the Inner Academy's Fire Crystal Card ranks and gave Ning Luo and the others azure cards containing their rewards.
• Ning Luo and his companions followed Elder Su into the Inner Academy and saw its vast grounds and the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Elder Su assigned Ning Luo, Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao a loft and urged them to form a group.
• Ning Luo and the others chose rooms in the loft, and Ning Luo cultivated that night beside the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.
• Ning Luo broke through to a three-star Dou Wang, fed the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python Companion Amethyst Crystal Source, and saw Medusa's illusory figure appear.

Ning Luo agreed to help the new students resist repeated tribute demands from senior students and decided to use the conflict to build a faction in the Inner Academy. He led Xun'er, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia to confront the seniors demanding Fire Energy.

• Ning Luo told Medusa that he planned to reach Dou Emperor before pursuing the Fallen Heart Flame and that his ultimate goal was to become a Dou Di.
• More than a dozen new students asked Ning Luo for help after several senior groups repeatedly demanded their Fire Energy as tribute.
• Ning Luo agreed to intervene, and the new students pledged to follow his lead.
• Ning Luo announced that he would establish a faction and dominate the Inner Academy, then led Xun'er, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia to the new student area.
• Ning Luo arrived as the new students faced eight senior students blocking the exit and demanding tribute.

Ning Luo drove away senior students who were extorting the new students and agreed to lead them in forming a faction. The new group chose the name Luomen and made Ning Luo its leader.

• Ning Luo confronted the senior students blocking the road and declared that the new students would not pay them.
• Ning Luo unleashed his pressure, drove off the senior students, and warned them not to threaten his group.
• A Tai proposed that Ning Luo gather the new students into a faction, and Xun'er and Hu Jia supported the idea.
• Ning Luo agreed to lead the new students in establishing a faction in the Inner Academy.
• Ning Luo named the faction Luomen, and A Tai announced that Ning Luo would lead it.

Ning Luo and Wu Hao entered the Inner Academy’s Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where the tower’s heat affected them as soon as they stepped inside. Ning Luo protected them both with his Azure Flames, drawing astonished reactions from the gathered students as Elder Liu arrived.

• Ning Luo and Wu Hao traveled through the Inner Academy and found a vast crowd gathered around the buried Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Several dozen students from a powerful faction arrived and occupied the best spots before the tower opened.
• An aged voice ordered the tower opened and invited the students inside, and Ning Luo led Wu Hao through the gates.
• The tower’s heat made Ning Luo and Wu Hao turn red and emit white vapor, prompting students to warn that new arrivals could burn from within.
• Ning Luo released Azure Flames around himself and Wu Hao, and they walked through the heat as the onlookers exclaimed that he wielded Heavenly Flames.
• A student announced that Elder Liu was approaching, and the crowd parted to make way for him.

Ning Luo used his Heavenly Flames to enter the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where he met the powerful senior Han Yue. Their handshake shocked the gathered students and drew their hostility toward him.

• Azure Flames surrounded Ning Luo and let him walk through the tower’s flames while Wu Hao remained stuck.
• Elder Liu and the crowd realized Ning Luo possessed Heavenly Flames, and Han Yue said she wanted to see how long he could endure.
• Han Yue announced she would cultivate on the sixth level, and Elder Liu remarked that she had reached the strength needed to enter it.
• Elder Liu introduced himself to Ning Luo, explained that he would tell him about the tower’s rules, and introduced him to Han Yue and her faction, Moon Spirit.
• Ning Luo offered Han Yue his hand, and she unexpectedly shook it, prompting the students to glare at him.

Ning Luo toured the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower with Elder Liu, learned why Luomen’s formation might provoke rival factions, and discovered a clue to the Fallen Heart Flame beneath the tower. The chapter ended with Ning Luo asking whether his three-star Dou Wang strength could make Luomen a first-rate faction.

• Han Yue offered Ning Luo a place in her faction, but he explained that the new students had formed Luomen under his leadership.
• Han Yue warned Ning Luo that gathering all the new students would prevent other factions from recruiting and could bring trouble; she offered to help him if needed.
• Elder Liu showed Ning Luo the tower’s training rooms and pulled him away from a forbidden central black hole after Ning Luo suspected it concealed the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Elder Liu warned Ning Luo not to reveal what he had seen or approach the tower’s center again, then advised him not to compete for high-grade training rooms yet.
• Ning Luo asked whether a faction needed a Dou Ling to be second-rate and a Dou Wang to be first-rate, considering his own three-star Dou Wang strength.

Ning Luo left the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and returned to find Bai Shan and the Bai Gang pressuring Luomen’s new students. When Fu Ao demanded fifteen students, including Xun'er, Ning Luo accepted the challenge and warned the Bai Gang they would face his wrath.

• Elder Liu told Ning Luo that factions with three or four Dou Ling experts could be considered first-rate and offered him a better mid-level cultivation room for his next visit.
• Ning Luo and Wu Hao returned to the new students' residential area and learned Bai Shan’s group was forcing Xun'er and Hu Jia to fight.
• Bai Shan and Fu Ao mocked Luomen and demanded that Ning Luo hand fifteen new students over to the Bai Gang.
• Fu Ao wagered that if he won, the Bai Gang would take fifteen students, including Xun'er, and if he lost, they would leave Luomen alone for half a year.
• Ning Luo accepted Fu Ao’s terms after Xun'er urged him to fight, and threatened the Bai Gang with his wrath.

Ning Luo fought Fu Ao after accepting his challenge, hiding his true strength while the two clashed with a sword and trident. Fu Ao unleashed a Dou Qi shark for a decisive attack, and Ning Luo prepared to stop holding back.

• Ning Luo accepted Fu Ao’s challenge, ignored the spectators’ taunts, and met his charge with a Heavenly Jade Divine Sword surrounded by Azure Flames.
• Ning Luo’s sword strike sent Fu Ao flying, but Fu Ao recovered and attacked again with his trident as the two fought across the field.
• Hu Jia asked whether Ning Luo could win, Wu Hao admitted he could not tell, and Xun'er confidently said Ning Luo would prevail because he was holding back.
• Fu Ao condensed his Dou Qi into a huge shark around his trident and charged at Ning Luo.
• Ning Luo said he no longer felt like playing with Fu Ao as the Dou Qi shark rushed toward him.

Ning Luo defeated Fu Ao with his Azure Flame and drove Bai Shan and the Bai Gang members away. He planned to take Luomen into the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, then learned Bai Gang's leader, Bai Cheng, was a six-star Dou Ling ranked thirty-fourth on the Strong Ranking.

• Ning Luo's Azure Flame sword strike destroyed Fu Ao's Dou Qi shark and sent the three-star Dou Ling flying unconscious.
• Ning Luo challenged Bai Gang to face his wrath, and Bai Shan led the group away while members carried off Fu Ao.
• Ning Luo dismissed the spectators, then told Luomen to gather the next day and enter the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower together.
• Ning Luo asked A Tai about Bai Gang and learned its leader, Bai Cheng, was Bai Shan's cousin, a six-star Dou Ling, and ranked thirty-fourth on the Strong Ranking.
• Xun'er called the Strong Ranking unimpressive, and Ning Luo agreed.

Ning Luo prepared Luomen to train in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower while Bai Cheng considered how to respond to Fu Ao’s defeat. At the tower, Ning Luo matched Bai Cheng’s force in a handshake, and Han Yue warned Bai Cheng not to provoke him.

• A Tai described Bai Gang’s strength, and Ning Luo told Luomen to enter the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower to train.
• Bai Cheng rebuked Fu Ao for failing to gauge Ning Luo’s strength, then said he would train in the tower for several days and leave the gang’s affairs to his subordinates.
• Ning Luo led more than forty Luomen members to the tower the next morning and encountered Bai Cheng and Bai Gang.
• Bai Cheng greeted Ning Luo and clasped his hand, but Ning Luo met his surging Dou Qi and forced him to withdraw in pain.
• Han Yue arrived with her faction and warned Bai Cheng that he would regret provoking Ning Luo.

Ning Luo entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower with his companions and began cultivating in an intermediate room, using the Fallen Heart Flame to temper his Dou Qi. His cultivation surged toward the strength of a four-star Dou Wang.

• Bai Cheng led his people into the tower after mocking Ning Luo, and Han Yue warned Ning Luo to watch the Bai Gang.
• The tower opened, and Ning Luo’s group entered; Han Yue parted from them and reminded Ning Luo to keep an eye on the Bai Gang.
• Ning Luo told Xun'er that the tower held the Fallen Heart Flame and teased her by saying his more important reason for coming to the academy was right before his eyes.
• An instructor sent by Elder Liu led Ning Luo and the others to an intermediate cultivation room, where they found places to cultivate.
• Ning Luo used the Fallen Heart Flame to circulate and temper his Dou Qi, rapidly increasing his strength toward that of a four-star Dou Wang.

Ning Luo advanced to four-star Dou Wang, reached the second floor of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, and forced four students out of a cultivation room. The chapter ended with the elders discussing renewed instability in the thing beneath the tower.

• Ning Luo awakened from cultivation at four-star Dou Wang, while Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao also finished tempering.
• Ning Luo followed the crowd to the second floor, where the air was hotter and instructors guarded access to the central area.
• Ning Luo entered an intermediate cultivation room and found four independent students cultivating there.
• The four students reacted greedily to Ning Luo's Azure Fire Crystal Card, so he overwhelmed them with his Dou Qi and drove them away.
• The elders gathered in a hall, where one elder said that the thing had started becoming unstable again.

The Inner Academy elders discussed the growing threat of the Fallen Heart Flame and Ning Luo’s potential importance in dealing with it. After cultivating for four days, Ning Luo broke through to five-star Dou Wang and returned to find Luomen members waiting for him.

• The Grand Elder warned that the Fallen Heart Flame was becoming more violent and told the elders to support Ning Luo, who might be needed when it erupted.
• Students watched Ning Luo cultivate for four days in the second-level room, noting that he was the new students’ leader and had defeated Fu Ao.
• Ning Luo emerged from cultivation after reaching five-star Dou Wang, having spent eight days’ worth of Fire Energy.
• Ning Luo hurried back toward the residential area, worried about Xun'er and the others.
• Ning Luo mistook four Luomen members for troublemakers before they greeted him as their boss and explained that Xun'er had arranged their badges.

Ning Luo returned to Luomen, reunited with Xun'er, and met Ling Ying, who warned that the Gu Clan was growing impatient over the Xiao Family's key. The chapter ended with Ning Luo alone beneath the night sky, realizing he still had a long way to go before he could stand against the Gu Clan.

• Ning Luo entered Luomen and learned from Tie Mu that Xun'er had organized a rotating guard squad for the residence.
• Ning Luo found Xun'er watering flowers, embraced and kissed her, and learned that Hu Jia was at the Dou Technique Pavilion while Wu Hao was at the arena.
• Ling Ying appeared, introduced himself as the protection the clan head had arranged for Xun'er, and told Ning Luo that his strength was not yet enough to protect her.
• Ling Ying told Xun'er that the Gu Clan was dissatisfied with her lack of progress in obtaining the Xiao Family's key and that some clan members might resort to force.
• Xun'er dismissed the clan's concerns and sent Ling Ying away from the Inner Academy to hide in the deep mountains.
• Ning Luo sat alone on the pavilion's top floor and recognized that he still could not confront the Gu Clan.

Ning Luo reassured Xun'er that he knew she meant him no harm, then spoke with Medusa before deciding to enter seclusion in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower. He left Luomen in Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao's care and asked where to find medicinal herbs and Magical Cores.

• Ning Luo comforted Xun'er and kept his knowledge of her Gu Clan origins to himself.
• Ning Luo summoned Medusa, teased her about jealousy, and declared that he wanted to make her his wife.
• Wu Hao told Ning Luo he had fought eight Arena matches, winning three and losing five, and recommended the Arena as a place to train.
• Ning Luo announced that he would cultivate on the fifth or sixth floor of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and entrusted Luomen to Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao.
• Xun'er told Ning Luo that the eastern district trading market sold medicinal herbs and Magical Cores for Fire Energy.

Ning Luo searched the Inner Academy trading district for medicinal ingredients and found a Green Wood Immortal Vine, which he sought in exchange for curing its seller’s fire poison. After revealing his Azure Flames and identifying himself as Luomen’s leader, Ning Luo asserted that only someone with Heavenly Flames could cure the man.

• Ning Luo traveled to the eastern trading district and spent nearly thirty days of Fire Energy buying medicinal ingredients.
• Ning Luo found a Green Wood Immortal Vine at a stall and learned the gray-clothed seller wanted four hundred days of Fire Energy for it.
• Ning Luo offered to expel the seller’s fire poison in exchange for the vine and warned that it was eroding the man’s sanity.
• Ning Luo introduced himself as Luomen’s leader and revealed his Azure Flames to persuade the seller of his ability.
• Ning Luo said he could cure the fire poison only because no one else in the academy possessed Heavenly Flames.

Ning Luo negotiated with Lin Yan to receive the Green Wood Vine in exchange for gradually purging the Fire Poison from his body, then entered the third level of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower to cultivate. He began absorbing the dense Fire Attribute energy in a cultivation room.

• Ning Luo pressured Lin Yan into agreeing to give him the Green Wood Vine once the Fire Poison was completely purged.
• Ning Luo gave Lin Yan fifteen Ice Spirit Pills to suppress the Fire Poison while explaining that treatment would take time.
• Lin Yan promised to protect Luomen from Bai Gang and Wolf Fang while Ning Luo cultivated in seclusion.
• Ning Luo showed his Azure Fire Crystal Card to the instructors and entered the third level of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Ning Luo began cultivating, and the room’s dense Fire Attribute energy surged into his body and was absorbed.