Chapter Summaries

Ning Luo and Yun Yun defeated the Amethyst Winged Lion King with coordinated attacks, then entered his cave to search for the Purple Spirit Crystal. Ning Luo found a heat-emitting purple sphere in a deeper chamber and wondered what it was.

• Ning Luo's lightning attack severely wounded the Amethyst Winged Lion King, while its shockwave injured Xiao Yan and forced Yao Lao to flee with him.
• Yun Yun attacked the wounded Lion King with Extreme Wind, and Ning Luo restrained it with the Heavenly Beast Taming Art before engulfing it in Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King died, and Ning Luo took Qi Replenishing Pills before he and Yun Yun entered its cave dwelling.
• Ning Luo followed the left passage into a hot chamber and found a purple sphere resting on a platform of purple crystals.
• Ning Luo sensed that the sphere was the source of the heat and wondered whether it was the Purple Spirit Crystal.

Ning Luo and Yun Yun found the Young Amethyst Winged Lion King and the Purple Spirit Crystals, then Ning Luo absorbed the Companion Amethyst Crystal Source to evolve his Fire Control Art. The source’s aphrodisiac effects overwhelmed him, and he pinned Yun Yun to the ground.

• Ning Luo recognized the purple sphere as the Companion Amethyst Crystal Source and continued searching the cave with Yun Yun.
• Ning Luo found and killed the sleeping Young Amethyst Winged Lion King, then took the Purple Spirit Crystals and filled a Jade Bottle with the source.
• Yun Yun agreed to stand guard while Ning Luo swallowed the Companion Amethyst Crystal Source.
• Ning Luo refined the source’s purple energy, which entered his qi vortex and began expanding it.
• The source made Ning Luo feverish and lustful, and he grabbed Yun Yun by the waist and pinned her to the ground.

Ning Luo lost control under the influence of the Purple Crystal Companion Source and attacked Yun Yun, but regained consciousness as she accepted what was happening and chose to continue with him. Meanwhile, Yao Lao withdrew into Xiao Yan’s ring, leaving the badly injured and despairing Xiao Yan alone in the Monster Beast Forest, where He Yuan surrounded him.

• Ning Luo pinned Yun Yun down while the Purple Crystal Companion Source left him unconscious, and Yun Yun chose not to resist.
• Ning Luo regained consciousness and realized he had been attacking his Master, but heard Yun Yun ask him not to stop.
• Ning Luo kissed Yun Yun and decided to continue, promising himself he would make her happy despite the world’s judgment.
• Yao Lao took Xiao Yan away after Ning Luo’s attack and retreated into Xiao Yan’s ring after exhausting nearly all his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan brooded over his inability to catch up with Ning Luo and collapsed beneath a tree in the Monster Beast Forest.
• Several He Yuan appeared and pounced on the severely injured Xiao Yan, who could not fight back.

Ning Luo and Yun Yun became intimate while Yun Yun believed he was unconscious. After he revealed that he had been awake and confessed his love, Yun Yun returned his feelings and chose to accept their relationship despite their master-disciple bond.

• Ning Luo removed Yun Yun's clothes as she trembled and asked him to forget what happened when he woke.
• Ning Luo received several sign-in opportunities from the system but focused on Yun Yun.
• Several hours later, Ning Luo woke and told Yun Yun he had been awake since she made her decision.
• Ning Luo confessed that he had always loved Yun Yun and refused to let the world's judgment separate them.
• Yun Yun admitted she loved Ning Luo too and agreed to face their relationship together.

Ning Luo left the Misty Cloud Sect with Nalan Yanran to pursue the Fallen Heart Flame at Jia Nan Academy, after learning Xiao Yi Xian had departed to seek her own opportunity. As Jia Nan Academy's recruitment began, Ning Luo reached Fourteenth Grade?

• Ning Luo absorbed the Purple Crystal Companion Source and advanced to Three-Star Da Dou Shi before returning to the Misty Cloud Sect with Yun Yun.
• Ning Luo departed for Jia Nan Academy, and Nalan Yanran joined him; at Qingshan Town, he found Xiao Yi Xian's letter explaining that she had left to control her poison and grow strong enough to stand beside him.
• Xiao Yan recovered from the He Yuan's abuse and vowed to catch up to Ning Luo and defeat him in three years.
• Ning Luo returned to Wutan City with Nalan Yanran, reached Five-Star Da Dou Shi, and improved enough to refine basic Fourth Grade Pills.
• Jia Nan Academy began its annual recruitment, drawing students from the surrounding empires to the powerful neutral academy.

Ning Luo reunited with Xiao Xun'er and agreed to take Jia Nan Academy's entrance exam. Xiao Yu led them through the guarded recruitment square, where they entered a passage surrounded by armed soldiers.

• Ning Luo visited the rear courtyard and reunited with Xiao Xun'er, who asked whether he planned to attend Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yu arrived and invited Ning Luo and Xiao Xun'er to follow her to the recruitment exam.
• The next day, Xiao Yu brought Ning Luo and Xiao Xun'er to the packed recruitment square and said her instructor was in charge.
• Xiao Yu showed a jade-green plaque to an officer, who ordered the soldiers to let them pass.
• Ning Luo and the others followed Xiao Yu through the soldiers' passage and felt the oppressive presence of the armed guards.

Xiao Yu brought Ning Luo and the others to the recruitment tent, where they met her friend Xue Ni and learned that Rob had joined the recruitment group as a Four-star Fighter. The women crowded around Xiao Yu as they prepared to take the newcomers for their tests.

• Senior Ke explained that Ruo Lin had arranged a killing-intent test, and he respectfully led Ning Luo and the others onward after realizing Ning Luo had not sensed it.
• Xue Ni greeted Xiao Yu at the tent and met Xun'er, Xiao Mei, Xiao Ning, and Ning Luo.
• Xue Ni teased Xiao Yu about Ning Luo and asked him to date her, prompting Xun'er and Nalan Yanran to cling to his arms.
• Xue Ni told Xiao Yu that Rob was among the recruits and had advanced to become a Four-star Fighter.
• Xue Ni offered to take the group for their tests, while Jia Nan Academy students gathered around Xiao Yu beneath the tent.

Xiao Yu reunited with her friends at the academy and brought Ning Luo, Xun'er, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Ning to take the preliminary test. After Rob passed them, he tried to force them to wait outside in the sun, but Xiao Yu and her friends challenged his use of the academy rules.

• Xiao Yu's female friends teased her about Ning Luo, and Rob arrived after overhearing their jokes and grew resentful toward him.
• Rob offered his testing crystal, and Xun'er, Nalan Yanran, Xiao Ning, and Ning Luo each passed the preliminary test.
• Rob told the group to wait outside in the sun for half an hour, claiming it was an admission rule.
• Xiao Yu confronted Rob, and her friends agreed that he was misusing an optional rule to make trouble.

Rob tried to force Ning Luo to spar with Ge La as punishment for refusing to go out in the sun, but Ning Luo challenged both Rob and Ge La instead. As the two men prepared to fight him, Ning Luo remained confident, while Xiao Yu knew his strength but warned him not to kill anyone.

• Rob used his temporary authority to order Ning Luo outside, then proposed that Ning Luo spar with Ge La for twenty exchanges.
• Xiao Yu tried to stop the confrontation, but Ning Luo asked if he could beat his opponents to death and agreed not to kill them because he needed to enter Jia Nan Academy.
• Ge La taunted Ning Luo, and Rob ordered him to hit Ning Luo hard.
• Ning Luo told Rob and Ci Ge to kneel and beg for mercy, then challenged both of them at once.
• Ge La approached Ning Luo, confident that he and the stronger Rob would teach the new student a lesson.

Ning Luo faced Ge La, Ci Ge, and Rob after they challenged him over the new students' refusal to stand in the sun. He defeated Ci Ge and Rob with ease, leaving the students and seniors stunned.

• Ge La and Rob approached Ning Luo while the new students and Xiao Yu watched.
• Ge La attacked Ning Luo, who struck him with one palm and sent him flying.
• Rob charged Ning Luo and was slapped across the face, losing two teeth.
• Rob used the high-grade Yellow-tier Dou Technique Windlight Blade, but Ning Luo blasted him backward with an invisible force.
• Rob fainted, and the onlookers stared in shock as Ning Luo defeated both senior students.

Ning Luo demonstrated strength far beyond the new students, defeated Ci Ge and Rob, and intimidated Rob after the senior threatened him. Instructor Ruo Lin arrived and warmly reunited with Xiao Yu, praising Ning Luo's talent.

• The new students admired Ning Luo, and Xiao Yu said his strength seemed to be above the Dou Master level.
• After Jia Nan Academy revived Ci Ge and Rob, Ning Luo dismissed Rob's threats and warned that he could keep him from leaving Wutan City.
• Rob concealed his fear of Ning Luo and resolved to hire someone to retaliate, while Ning Luo considered eliminating Rob as a future threat.
• Instructor Ruo Lin appeared and praised Ning Luo's talent, and Xiao Yu happily embraced her.
• Xiao Yu teased Instructor Ruo Lin about her gentle charm trapping any man who caught her eye.

Ning Luo checked in and gained the Eye of Control and the Method of Concealment while Instructor Ruo Lin welcomed the new students and explained Jia Nan Academy’s potential assessment. The registration began with students stating their names, levels, and ages.

• Ning Luo checked in and obtained the Eye of Control, which could control or mentally influence people depending on their spiritual power.
• Ning Luo checked in again and obtained the Method of Concealment, which could hide his cultivation even from a Dou Saint.
• Ruo Lin invited the new students into the tent, healed some of Rob and Ge La’s injuries, and explained Jia Nan Academy’s potential grades.
• Ruo Lin began registering the students by asking them to state their names, levels, and ages.
• Hei Yan introduced himself as having nine stages of Dou Qi and being twenty years old.

During Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment, Nalan Yanran, Xiao Xun'er, and Ning Luo revealed extraordinary cultivation, each earning an S-grade rating. Ning Luo tested his newly acquired Eye of Control on Rob and Ci Ge, forcing them to kneel and then commandingly making them kill each other, leaving everyone horrified.

• Nalan Yanran reported that she was a fifteen-year-old Seven-star Fighter, earning an S-grade rating.
• Xiao Xun'er reported that she was fifteen and an Eight-Star Dou Practitioner, earning a second S-grade rating.
• Ning Luo reported that he was a fifteen-year-old Nine-Star Fighter, earning a third S-grade rating and shocking the recruiters and students.
• Rob and Ci Ge apologized to Ning Luo, but Ning Luo used the Eye of Control to make both men kneel.
• Ning Luo commanded Rob and Ci Ge to kill each other, and they ignored Instructor Ruo Lin's attempts to stop them and fatally stabbed one another.

After Ning Luo was admitted to Jia Nan Academy, he parted from Ya Fei and promised to return for her. He then arrived at the academy, took leave, and set out for the Tagor Desert to seek the Green Lotus Core Flame before Xiao Yan could find it.

• Instructor Ruo Lin dismissed everyone after the academy deaths, which remained unexplained, and Ning Luo's group was admitted to Jia Nan Academy.
• Ning Luo spent a day with Ya Fei before leaving; she confessed her feelings, and he agreed to return and take responsibility for her.
• Ning Luo, Nalan Yanran, Xiao Ning, Xiao Yu, and Xun'er arrived at Jia Nan Academy, where Ning Luo said he would return after going to the Tagor Desert.
• Ning Luo took leave from Jia Nan Academy and flew toward the Tagor Desert in search of the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Ning Luo entered Desert City in the Tagor Desert and found a mysterious map fragment in an old map shop. He recognized its routes as belonging to the map that could lead to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and suspected the shop’s elderly mapmaker was Ice Emperor Hai Bodong.

• Ning Luo arrived in the Tagor Desert and noted that its Earth and Fire energy suited cultivation of those attributes.
• Ning Luo bypassed Desert City's entrance tax by using the Eye of Control on a soldier and entered the city.
• Ning Luo went into the Ancient Map shop to find a map and browsed its maps while the elderly shopkeeper worked.
• Ning Luo found a damaged picture among discarded maps and recognized its routes from a fragment he had seen with Xiao Yi Xian in the Monster Mountain Range.
• Ning Luo identified the picture as part of the map to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and wondered whether the old mapmaker was Ice Emperor Hai Bodong.

Ning Luo visited Hai Bodong’s shop in the Tagor Desert to buy a map and ask about a fragment connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. After Ning Luo revealed that he knew Hai Bodong’s strength had been sealed by a Snake Poison Mark, Hai Bodong attacked him to test his abilities.

• Ning Luo asked Hai Bodong for a detailed desert map and questioned him about a similar fragment, but Hai Bodong refused to sell his fragment.
• Ning Luo claimed he had seen a similar fragment at an auction and asked where Hai Bodong had found his; Hai Bodong said he had dug it up in the desert.
• Ning Luo offered a high price for the fragment, but Hai Bodong refused again.
• Ning Luo told Hai Bodong he was afflicted with a Snake Poison Mark and inferred that he had once been a Dou Emperor whose strength had fallen to the Dou Ling level.
• Hai Bodong saw black qi in his palm and grew wary, then rushed at Ning Luo as icy mist filled the shop.

Ning Luo fought Hai Bodong to prove he was strong enough to obtain the Fragmented Map, using his purple flames and revealing that he was a Six-Star Da Dou Shi. Hai Bodong armed himself with an ice spear and Ice Spirit Armor as Ning Luo’s aura intensified, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Ning Luo used his purple flames to resist Hai Bodong’s frost, and Hai Bodong explained that Ning Luo had to defeat him to obtain the Fragmented Map.
• Hai Bodong attacked with an Ice Mirror and spiral ice spikes, while Ning Luo countered with his flames and his self-created Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique.
• Ning Luo burned through Hai Bodong’s ice threads and raised his strength to the Six-Star Da Dou Shi realm.
• Hai Bodong formed an ice spear and Ice Spirit Armor as Ning Luo’s surging aura blew away much of the mist.

Ning Luo defeated Hai Bodong in their fight and claimed the Fragmented Map he had won. Hai Bodong revealed that he possessed a second piece and proposed a deal, leaving Ning Luo to hear his terms.

• Hai Bodong attacked Ning Luo with ice spikes, but Ning Luo shattered them and broke Hai Bodong's ice spear with his divine sword.
• Ning Luo burned through Hai Bodong's ice mirrors and defeated his Mystic Ice Whirlwind Kill with Divine Flame Slash, sending him crashing into a bookshelf.
• Ning Luo asked Hai Bodong for the Fragmented Map he had won, and Hai Bodong admitted he had underestimated him.
• Hai Bodong revealed that he had divided the map into two pieces and still held the other one.
• Ning Luo guessed Hai Bodong wanted to make a deal and asked him to state his terms.

Ning Luo agreed to help Hai Bodong break Queen Medusa’s seal once he became a Sixth Grade Alchemist, in exchange for Hai Bodong acting as his guide through the Tagor Desert. Hai Bodong also revealed a detailed map marking three places where a Heavenly Flame might be found.

• Hai Bodong recognized Ning Luo’s flames as a Heavenly Flame and asked him to refine a pill that could break Queen Medusa’s seal.
• Ning Luo told Hai Bodong he could not yet refine the required sixth-grade pill but agreed to help him in the future.
• Ning Luo demanded that Hai Bodong guide him through the Tagor Desert, and Hai Bodong reluctantly agreed.
• Hai Bodong said the pill’s ingredients were mostly gathered but that the Sand Mandala herb was still missing.
• Hai Bodong gave Ning Luo a detailed desert map showing three locations that might contain a Heavenly Flame.

Ning Luo ignored Hai Dongbo’s warning and traveled west into Queen Medusa’s territory to search for the Green Lotus Core Flame. After Snake People surrounded them, Ning Luo swiftly killed several attackers, and the remaining fighters prepared to retaliate.

• Hai Bodong pointed out three possible Heavenly Flame locations and warned Ning Luo to avoid the western site near Queen Medusa’s territory.
• Ning Luo chose to travel west because he believed the Green Lotus Core Flame was there, and he and Hai Dongbo crossed the desert.
• Ning Luo used his Soul Perception to detect a buried Yellow Sand Scorpion, killed it, and collected its venomous stinger.
• Ning Luo and Hai Dongbo reached Snake People territory, where Snake People emerged from the sand and attacked them.
• Ning Luo killed a Nine-Star Fighter Snake Person and injured several others, prompting their leaders to prepare a counterattack.