Chapter Summaries

Ning Luo absorbed the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower’s concentrated Fire Attribute energy while cultivating, but his session was interrupted when Liu Fei and her companions claimed his room. Ning Luo refused to yield, and Leina appeared ready to challenge him.

• Ning Luo guided the tower’s Fire Attribute energy through his meridians and refined it into Dou Qi as he cultivated.
• Liu Fei arrived with her followers and stopped outside the cultivation room Ning Luo had occupied.
• Leina demanded that Ning Luo leave, but Ning Luo pointed out that the tower’s rules did not reserve the room for Liu Fei.
• Liu Fei claimed the room as her personal cultivation space, and Ning Luo mocked her claim.
• Leina threatened Ning Luo, who asked whether Leina meant to challenge him.

Ning Luo confronted Liu Fei and Leina over the training room, then nearly struck Leina with an Azure-Purple Fire Lotus before Elder He intervened. Elder He heard both sides and turned a cold gaze on Leina after Ning Luo explained what had happened.

• Leina challenged Ning Luo to leave the training room and apologize to Liu Fei, but Ning Luo declared that the room no longer belonged to them.
• Leina attacked Ning Luo, who dodged his blows and formed an Azure-Purple Fire Lotus in his palm.
• Ning Luo sent the fire lotus toward Leina, but Elder He shouted for him to stop and knocked Leina into a wall with a powerful force.
• Elder He demanded an explanation, and Liu Fei accused Ning Luo of taking the room and attacking Leina.
• Ning Luo recounted the truth, and Elder He glared coldly at Leina as he got up from the wall.

Elder He punished Leina, Liu Fei, and Ning Luo for their confrontation in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, then Ning Luo resumed cultivating and advanced to six-star Dou Wang. He moved to the tower’s fourth floor and later returned to Luomen, whose guards had grown stronger.

• Elder He fined Leina thirty days of Fire Energy, Liu Fei ten days, and Ning Luo five days, then warned everyone against breaking the tower’s rules.
• Ning Luo told Liu Fei he had spared her because she was a woman and returned to cultivation.
• A few days later, Ning Luo went to the fourth floor and refined more Green Ganoderma Fire Spirit Paste and Wind Speed Spirit Pills before cultivating.
• Ning Luo absorbed the tower’s energy and broke through to six-star Dou Wang; he noticed that Medusa seemed close to another breakthrough.
• Ning Luo returned to Luomen’s new students area and observed that its guards had grown stronger.

Ning Luo returned to Luomen, learned that the faction had grown during his seclusion, and decided to sell medicinal pills to fund its rewards. After Luomen gathered costly ingredients, he began refining pills with flames in his bare hand.

• Ning Luo returned to the new students' area, where Lin Yan demanded more pills and poison treatment, then asked Xun'er about Luomen and Bai Gang.
• Xun'er reported that Luomen had gained many powerful senior students, while Lin Yan and Wu Hao warned Ning Luo that he had angered Leina, Liu Fei, and her cousin Liu Qing.
• Hu Jia explained that Luomen was running low on Fire Energy, so Ning Luo proposed selling medicinal pills and learned that the Medicine Gang controlled most pill sales.
• Ning Luo decided Luomen would compete with the Medicine Gang, and Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao spent the next day buying medicinal ingredients.
• Ning Luo began refining the ingredients in Luomen's secret chamber, using azure flames from his hand instead of a medicine cauldron.

Ning Luo produced pills for Luomen to sell, and the first sales brought in a large amount of Fire Energy. The Medicine Gang retaliated by buying up medicinal ingredients and attacking Luomen’s sales operations, leaving Ning Luo facing a direct confrontation.

• Ning Luo refined 181 pills in three varieties and gave them to Xun'er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao to sell.
• After the first day's sales, Xun'er urged Ning Luo to buy ingredients before the Medicine Gang could interfere, and Ning Luo sent Luomen members to purchase supplies and rewarded those who helped sell the pills.
• Luomen sold nearly twice as many pills on the second day, while the Medicine Gang's leader ordered his people to buy every ingredient Luomen sought at double the price and arranged to meet Bai Cheng.
• A few days later, A Tai reported that Luomen's ingredient buyers had returned empty-handed and that their pill sellers had been attacked and their sales locations wrecked.
• Ning Luo slammed his palm on the table and stood up furiously after hearing A Tai's report.

Ning Luo led Luomen to confront White Gang after learning its members had caused trouble, and Lin Yan arrived to support him. Medicine Gang's leader Han Xian then joined White Gang, leaving the two groups facing a more dangerous confrontation.

• Ning Luo gathered Luomen and led its members to White Gang after learning White Gang had provoked them.
• Bai Cheng ordered White Gang to assemble its members and confronted Ning Luo outside the gang's headquarters.
• Ning Luo and Bai Cheng traded threats as their groups prepared to fight.
• Lin Yan appeared and said he would help Ning Luo because he owed him a favor.
• Han Xian arrived with Medicine Gang, mocked Lin Yan, and locked eyes with Ning Luo.

Ning Luo challenged Han Xian to settle their conflict in a pill-refining competition, with Luomen’s pill business and recipes at stake. The contest began at the Alchemist Plaza under Elder Hao’s supervision, but its result was not yet known.

• Ning Luo confronted Han Xian over the Medicine Gang’s suspected role in the Bai Gang’s attack on Luomen and proposed a pill-refining contest instead of a fight.
• Han Xian accepted and raised the stakes: if Ning Luo lost, Luomen would stop selling pills and surrender three pill formulas; if Han Xian lost, he would stop obstructing Luomen and give it five busy trading locations.
• Ning Luo and Han Xian agreed to use a formula selected by Elder Hao, who would also judge the contest, and set the competition for the next day.
• On the way back, Xun'er, Lin Yan, and Wu Hao discussed Han Xian’s skill, while Ning Luo kept his own Alchemist grade secret.
• The next day, Elder Hao opened the competition at the packed Alchemist Plaza and assured the crowd that he would judge fairly.

Elder Hao set Ning Luo and Han Xian a contest to refine the Fifth Grade Dragon Power Pill. As Han Xian worked with his Phantom Gold Fire, Ning Luo waited calmly before revealing an Azure Flame, leaving the audience astonished.

• Elder Hao offered Ning Luo and Han Xian a difficult test, and both accepted.
• Han Xian examined the formula and learned that the challenge was to refine a Fifth Grade Pill.
• Elder Hao announced that each contestant had three sets of ingredients and that the quality of failed pills would decide the result if neither succeeded.
• Han Xian summoned his golden cauldron and revealed his Phantom Gold Fire, which came from a Seventh-tier Phantom Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast.
• While Han Xian refined and the crowd wondered why Ning Luo had not started, Ning Luo revealed an Azure Flame and astonished the audience.

Ning Luo waited while Han Xian repeatedly failed to refine a Fifth Grade Pill, then revealed that he had never failed at one and successfully condensed a pill before the stunned crowd.

• Han Xian began refining a Fifth Grade Pill with golden flames while Ning Luo waited, drawing little attention from the elders and crowd.
• Han Xian failed twice, then attempted a third time and produced a mottled, misshapen pill that Elder Hao accepted.
• Han Xian challenged Ning Luo for not starting, and Ning Luo said he had never failed to refine a Fifth Grade Pill and had been waiting to watch Han Xian.
• The crowd mocked Ning Luo's claim, but he extracted the ingredients with his Azure Flames and fused them using Soul Power.
• Ning Luo formed a pale-red pill, and the venue fell silent as the crowd realized he had succeeded.

Ning Luo defeated Han Xian in the pill-refining competition by refining a Dragon Power Pill, securing the promised trading locations for Luomen. Over the following three days, Luomen took over the locations and sold nearly two hundred pills in a single day.

• Ning Luo finished refining a Dragon Power Pill, while Han Xian accused him of cheating and was rebuked by Elder Hao.
• Elder Hao and several elders inspected Ning Luo's pill, confirmed it was genuine, and declared Ning Luo the victor.
• Elder He ordered Han Xian to hand over five trading locations and remove the Medicine Gang's covert restrictions on Luomen; Han Xian conceded and warned Ning Luo that their conflict was not over.
• Elder Hao promised to ensure the Medicine Gang honored the wager, and Ning Luo left the plaza with Luomen amid cheers.
• Over the next three days, the Medicine Gang handed the five trading locations over to Luomen under Elder Hao's supervision.
• Luomen began selling pills at the locations, and nearly two hundred pills sold out in one day.

After pill demand overwhelmed Ning Luo, he arranged for Xun'er and the others to recruit Alchemists while he spent time watching arena matches and training. In the back mountains, he discovered Han Yue and several Strong Ranking experts confronting a Snow Demon Sky Ape, and learned they had come seeking something inside its valley.

• Ning Luo told Xun'er and the others to recruit Alchemists discreetly and investigate each recruit for ties to the Medicine Gang.
• Ning Luo watched fights in the arena with Wu Hao and trained in the back mountains instead of returning to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Ning Luo followed a powerful beast roar into the forest and found a Snow Demon Sky Ape guarding a valley while six people surrounded it.
• Ning Luo recognized Han Yue among the group and identified Yan Hao and Lin Xiuyai as top Strong Ranking experts.
• Han Yue assured Yan Hao that the treasure she had mentioned was real, while Lin Xiuyai argued that claiming it could help them advance before the competition.

Ning Luo watched Lin Xiuyai and four other peak Dou Lings confront the Snow Demon Sky Ape to seize the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, hoping to wait and take the treasure afterward. Lin Xiuyai revealed he had reached the Dou Wang level, but the battle left him badly drained as the Snow Demon Sky Ape proved difficult to subdue.

• Han Yue urged the group to defeat the Snow Demon Sky Ape before others from the Black Corner Region came for the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, and Lin Xiuyai assigned her to watch the surroundings.
• Ning Luo recognized the treasure from the original novel and decided to wait for the group and the beast to weaken each other so he could take it.
• Lin Xiuyai, Yan Hao, and three others attacked the Snow Demon Sky Ape, which roared and launched itself into the air to counter them.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape struck at Lin Xiuyai, who revealed Dou Qi wings and used Azure Profound Wind Kill to blast the beast away.
• Lin Xiuyai told Yan Hao and the others that the beast had nearly killed him and that using his newly condensed Dou Qi wings had consumed too much Dou Qi.

Ning Luo rescued Han Yue from the Snow Demon Sky Ape after it badly injured Lin Xiuyai and targeted her. The Inner Academy students learned that Ning Luo was a new student and connected him to the team that won the Fire Energy Hunt Competition.

• Lin Xiuyai warned the others about the growing red glow in the pit as the Snow Demon Sky Ape emerged.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape struck Lin Xiuyai, sending him crashing into the forest, then charged at Han Yue.
• Ning Luo rushed in and carried Han Yue away from the ape's attack.
• Han Yue recognized Ning Luo and thanked him for rescuing her.
• Yan Hao learned Ning Luo was a new student, and a yellow-clad man recalled that Ning Luo had led the victorious new student team in the Fire Energy Hunt Competition.

Ning Luo parted ways with Lin Xiuyai’s group and planned to return to the valley at night to claim the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk from the Snow Demon Sky Ape. He arrived after dark with the Sky Swallowing Python, whose growing resemblance to Queen Medusa unsettled him.

• Lin Xiuyai offered Ning Luo a share of the rare treasure guarded by the Snow Demon Sky Ape and asked him to keep their hunt secret.
• Ning Luo declined to return to the Inner Academy with Lin Xiuyai, Yan Hao, and Han Yue, then resolved to attack the Snow Demon Sky Ape during its weakened period that night.
• Ning Luo flew back to the valley after nightfall and released the Sky Swallowing Python from his sleeve.
• The Sky Swallowing Python gulped down nearly a third of Ning Luo’s Companion Amethyst Crystal Source before settling on his shoulder.
• Ning Luo noticed the Sky Swallowing Python’s bewitching resemblance to Queen Medusa as he stroked its head.

Ning Luo entered the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s cave and searched its depths for the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk. He found a hidden underground cavern where the milk collected beneath glowing stalactites, and discovered jade-colored liquid inside one of them.

• Ning Luo approached the valley, and the Snow Demon Sky Ape emerged from its nest with its strength diminished after awakening its bloodline.
• Ning Luo ordered the Sky Swallowing Python to stop the Snow Demon Sky Ape, and the Python struck it into the mountainside.
• Ning Luo searched the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s cave and uncovered a buried passage at the rear wall.
• Ning Luo followed the winding underground passage, using Azure Flame sparks to scout ahead.
• Ning Luo reached a glowing stalactite cavern and found Earth Core Body Tempering Milk collected in a hollow beneath a stalactite.
• Ning Luo inspected the stalactite and saw viscous jade-colored liquid moving within it near a circular opening.

Ning Luo collected the true Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and some diluted milk before escaping the cave and leaving the battlefield with the Sky Swallowing Python. When he offered the serpent Purple Crystal Source, it spoke in Queen Medusa’s voice, and Ning Luo teased that he was raising her as his wife.

• Ning Luo carefully scooped more than half of the pure Earth Core Body Tempering Milk into a Jade Bottle and left some behind.
• Ning Luo filled two more bottles with the diluted milk, then left the cave and flew toward the valley entrance.
• Ning Luo saw that the Sky Swallowing Python had badly wounded the Snow Demon Sky Ape and called the serpent away from the battlefield.
• Ning Luo and the Sky Swallowing Python flew to a mountain peak, where he offered it Purple Crystal Source.
• The Sky Swallowing Python spoke in Queen Medusa’s voice, and Ning Luo teased that he was raising her as his wife.

Ning Luo prepared a medicinal bath with Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and dozens of herbs to temper his body. As he cultivated, the energy expanded his Dou Crystal and advanced him to an eight-star Dou Wang.

• Queen Medusa asked Ning Luo whether he had gathered the ingredients for the Spirit Fusion Pill, and he promised to refine it despite not yet being a Sixth-grade Alchemist.
• Ning Luo gathered dozens of medicinal ingredients and added them with ten drops of Earth Core Body Tempering Milk to a wooden tub.
• Ning Luo entered the medicinal bath and cultivated as its energy flooded his body and tempered his bones and meridians.
• Ning Luo's Dou Crystal expanded, breaking through its capacity limit and advancing him from a seven-star Dou Wang to an eight-star Dou Wang.
• Ning Luo directed the remaining energy through the Flame Mantra until it flowed into his enlarged Dou Crystal.

Ning Luo completed his breakthrough and returned to the Inner Academy, where he learned the Bai Gang had driven Luomen members from the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and injured Hu Jia. He headed for the Arena to confront them while Xun'er and the others watched Wu Hao fight Bai Cheng.

• Ning Luo transformed his Dou Crystal, unleashed a powerful aura, and destroyed the wooden tub during his breakthrough.
• Ning Luo returned to the Inner Academy and found the New Student District deserted.
• A Tai told Ning Luo that Bai Gang members had forced Luomen out of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and injured Hu Jia.
• Ning Luo declared that the Bai Gang should disappear and set off for the Arena.
• At the Arena, Xun'er and Hu Jia watched Wu Hao struggle against Bai Cheng as Han Yue, Lin Xiuyai, and Yan Hao discussed the conflict and Liu Qing's involvement.

Ning Luo entered the arena after Xun'er stepped forward to face Bai Cheng, and he fought Bai Cheng in a fierce clash. Ning Luo unleashed a sudden surge of power, leaving Lin Xiuyai and Yan Hao convinced Bai Cheng had challenged the wrong opponent.

• Bai Cheng injured Luomen's red-clad fighter and mocked Luomen as its members jeered back.
• Xun'er entered the arena to fight Bai Cheng, but Ning Luo arrived before their battle began.
• Ning Luo warned Bai Cheng that he would die for continuing to cause Luomen trouble, and the two prepared to fight.
• Bai Cheng attacked with his earth-element Dou Qi and spear while Ning Luo calmly blocked and countered him.
• Ning Luo's Dou Qi suddenly surged, surprising Lin Xiuyai as Yan Hao predicted Bai Cheng might lose his Strong Ranking position.

Ning Luo overwhelmed Bai Cheng in their arena battle, forcing Bai Cheng to swallow a pill from Han Xian that greatly increased his strength. Bai Cheng then launched his Mysterious Earth Condensing Vortex at Ning Luo, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Bai Cheng attacked Ning Luo with a barrage of spear shadows, but Ning Luo shattered them and sent Bai Cheng crashing to the ground.
• Bai Cheng conjured a sand serpent with his spear and clashed with Ning Luo, but Ning Luo sent him flying again and pressed his close-quarters attack.
• Yan Hao and Lin Xiuyai watched Ning Luo fight and remarked that he had not yet shown all his strength.
• Bai Cheng swallowed a purplish-red pill from Han Xian, causing his Dou Qi and strength to surge.
• Ning Luo unleashed physical punches that formed air cannonballs, while Bai Cheng countered with his Mysterious Earth Condensing Vortex.