Chapter Summaries

Tang San unleashed his Eight Spider Lances against the Huangdou Team but collapsed when they transformed into ribs, leaving Shrek defeated. Xiao Se then learned his exchange had removed the External Soul Bone from Tang San and met Long Kui and Queen Medusa, who asked when he would refine the Soul Fusion Pill.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Flander to remember Tang San’s hidden trump card as the Huangdou Team overwhelmed Shrek.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar discussed Tang San’s struggle, while Ning Rongrong thought Xiao Se could easily defeat the Huangdou Team.
• Tang San released the Eight Spider Lances, but they turned into ribs and caused him to scream and pass out, giving the Huangdou Team victory.
• Xiao Se received a System notification that he had exchanged Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances for a rack of ribs.
• Xiao Se summoned Long Kui and fed her and the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python grilled skewers, causing Queen Medusa to emerge.
• Queen Medusa asked Xiao Se to refine the Soul Fusion Pill, and he said he would do so after the Inner Courtyard Selection Competition.

Xiao Se said farewell to his friends before entering the final Inner Courtyard Selection match, where he faced four Great Fighters who joined forces against him. He drew a sword and prepared to test his sword intent as the battle began.

• Xiao Se reassured Xiao Yu and Xun Er that he would visit them after entering the Inner Academy, and he asked Ruo Lin to look after them.
• Xiao Se gave Ruo Lin Three-Patterned Spirit Clearing Pills, which she accepted after Xiao Yu, Xun Er, and Zhu Zhuqing urged her to do so.
• Xiao Se took the arena for the final match, drawing cheers from the gathered students and spectators.
• Hu Qian announced that the top five would fight in a free-for-all, with the longest-lasting student taking the highest ranking.
• The four Great Fighters surrounded Xiao Se to target him first, and Xiao Se drew an ordinary treasured sword to test his sword intent.

Xiao Se defeated Bai Cheng and the others with a sword strike enhanced by sword intent, then removed the lingering energy from their injuries. Han Yue conceded as well, leaving Xiao Se in first place and bringing the Inner Courtyard Selection Competition to an end.

• Bai Cheng and two allies attacked Xiao Se, while Han Yue chose not to join them.
• Xiao Se used three sword strikes to break their attacks, damage their weapons, and carve deep marks into the arena.
• Han Yue told Bai Cheng that even all four of them together could not withstand a single move from Xiao Se.
• Bai Cheng, his two allies, and Han Yue conceded, and Xiao Se removed the remaining sword intent from the injured men.
• Xiao Se took first place, Han Yue took second because Bai Cheng and the others were injured, and the competition ended.

Xiao Se reached Seven-Star Dou Ling and prepared to enter the Inner Academy with Little Fairy Doctor and Zhu Zhuqing. At the academy, Xiao Yu publicly clung to him, drawing attention from the students, before Hu Qian announced that Xiao Se and the others would take part in a special competition.

• Xiao Se advanced to Seven-Star Dou Ling and practiced the Ghost Valley Swordplay before leaving with Little Fairy Doctor and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Se's group arrived at Hu Qian's study, where students gathered to enter the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yu and Xun Er came to see Xiao Se off, and Xiao Yu embraced him in front of the gathered students.
• Hu Qian told Little Fairy Doctor she could enter the Inner Academy with him while Xiao Se and the others competed.
• Hu Qian introduced his granddaughter Hu Jia to Xiao Se, and Hu Jia snubbed him over their earlier encounter.

Xiao Se gave Hu Jia a Three-Patterned Spirit Clearing Pill, then traveled with the successful candidates through a hidden silver gate to the Inner Academy. He met Inner Academy elders Su and Qing, while Little Fairy Doctor was invited to meet the Great Elder and Xiao Se learned that a Fire Energy Hunting Competition awaited the newcomers.

• Hu Qian apologized for Hu Jia and asked Xiao Se for a Three-Patterned Spirit Clearing Pill; Xiao Se gave him one and accepted medicinal ingredients and a Xuan-class Dou Technique in return.
• Hu Qian led Xiao Se, Little Fairy Doctor, Zhu Zhuqing, and the other successful candidates on Griffin Beasts toward the Inner Academy.
• The group reached a mountain ravine, where Hu Qian opened a silver gate that led into a vast forest.
• Hu Qian introduced Little Fairy Doctor to Elder Su and Elder Qing, who recognized her Calamity Poison Body and seven-star Dou Huang cultivation.
• Hu Qian told Little Fairy Doctor that Xiao Se and the other newcomers would soon face the Inner Academy students in a Fire Energy Hunting Competition, then invited her to meet the Great Elder.
• Hu Qian introduced Xiao Se to Elder Su and Elder Qing, who were impressed by his alchemy and could not see through his strength.

Xiao Se, Zhu Zhuqing, and Han Yue entered the forest for the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, but Xiao Se decided to rob the old students instead of merely crossing through. After defeating team after team, they left most of the old students with only the guaranteed minimum Fire Energy, and the robbed students gathered to complain.

• Elder Su began the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and told the new students to cross the forest while old students tried to seize their Fire Energy.
• Han Yue joined Xiao Se and Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Se proposed hunting the old students for their Fire Energy.
• Xiao Se defeated Mu Bai and four other old students, then took their Fire Crystal Cards and shared the stolen Fire Energy with Han Yue and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Se's group repeatedly ambushed old students after they robbed new students, reducing nearly every card they took to the seven-day minimum.
• More than thirty old students gathered in a clearing and complained that a powerful new student had robbed them.

Xiao Se and his team defeated the senior students who tried to surround them, leaving them scorched and stripped of their clothes. The elders declared the freshmen victorious, and Xiao Se’s arrival marked a change in the Inner Academy.

• Xiao Se reassured Zhu Zhuqing that the senior students had survived his controlled Beast Flame, though they were badly burned and their clothes destroyed.
• Xiao Se, Zhu Zhuqing, and Han Yue left the forest as the embarrassed senior students fled behind them.
• At the rocky gathering place, Little Fairy Doctor predicted that Xiao Se had caused the trouble after the elders wondered why the senior students had not returned.
• A steward reported that Xiao Se’s team had stolen the senior students’ Fire Energy and that thirty or forty seniors had surrounded them.
• Xiao Se returned with the scorched senior students trailing behind him, and Elder Su declared the Fire Energy Hunting Competition a victory for the freshmen.

After the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, Xiao Se and the other new students entered the Inner Academy, where the Little Fairy Doctor arranged for them to stay at her residence. Once Zhu Zhuqing and Han Yue went upstairs, Xiao Se brought the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python out to give the Little Fairy Doctor a gift.

• Elder Su awarded the new students Fire Energy and led them into the Inner Academy; Xiao Se, Zhu Zhuqing, and Han Yue received Azure Fire Crystal Cards and extra Fire Energy.
• The Little Fairy Doctor told Xiao Se that she had received a purple Fire Crystal Card and invited him and Zhu Zhuqing to stay at her residence.
• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Xiao Se with a kiss on the cheek as the group looked out over the Inner Academy.
• The Little Fairy Doctor settled Han Yue and Zhu Zhuqing upstairs and assigned Xiao Se the large room on the first floor.
• Han Yue told Xiao Se she planned to form a faction for female students, and he offered to help if she ran into trouble.
• After Zhu Zhuqing and Han Yue went upstairs, Xiao Se brought out the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and gave the Little Fairy Doctor a bottle of red liquid.

Xiao Se gave Little Fairy Doctor the Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone to help manage the growing poison in her Calamity Poison Body. With Xiao Se guiding the fusion, the Soul Bone began merging into her back, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• The Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python eagerly drank the fire-element spiritual liquid Xiao Se had prepared for it.
• Xiao Se explained that the Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone could absorb poison, increase attack power, and evolve, then gave it to Little Fairy Doctor for her Calamity Poison Body.
• Little Fairy Doctor accepted Xiao Se's gift and undressed so he could place the External Soul Bone against her back.
• Xiao Se warned Little Fairy Doctor that fusing with the Soul Bone would be painful, and she said she could endure it.
• Xiao Se used Ice Fire Dragon Flame to turn the Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone into purple energy, which began merging into Little Fairy Doctor's body.

Little Fairy Doctor emerged from Xiao Se’s room after gaining strength from refining the Eight Spider Lances, while Zhu Zhuqing remained jealous of Xiao Se’s intimacy with her. When new students asked for help against the old students’ protection-money shakedowns, Zhu Zhuqing persuaded Xiao Se to intervene.

• Little Fairy Doctor told Han Yue and Zhu Zhuqing that Xiao Se had helped her refine a treasure, raising her cultivation to eight-star Dou Huang.
• Xiao Se joined Zhu Zhuqing and Han Yue for breakfast, and Zhu Zhuqing stomped on his toes while keeping her distance because she was jealous.
• Han Yue and Zhu Zhuqing left to help Han Yue establish her faction, while Xiao Se planned to refine pills before encountering the Fallen Heart Flame.
• More than a dozen new students asked Xiao Se to help them after old students’ factions extorted protection money from them.
• The new students called Zhu Zhuqing Xiao Se’s sister-in-law and asked her to speak for them, so she persuaded Xiao Se to help and went with him to investigate.

Xiao Se intervened when senior students tried to extort fire energy from Bai Cheng and the new students. He challenged their leader and left the crowd stunned after defeating the one-star Dou Spirit with a single technique.

• Xiao Se, Little Kitten, and Han Yue reached the exit and found senior students demanding tribute from Bai Cheng and the new students.
• Bai Cheng refused to pay, and the hammer-wielding senior student threatened to injure him and his companions.
• Xiao Se stepped forward and told the senior students that no one would give them fire energy.
• The hammer-wielding senior student revealed himself as a one-star Dou Spirit and attacked Xiao Se with Heavenly Horse Meteor Hammer.
• Xiao Se used eight stacked azure mountain phantoms to knock away the hammer and send the senior student crashing through a building.

Xiao Se defeated older students who tried to extort the new students, then went to a secluded valley to refine the Soul Fusion Pill with Queen Medusa standing guard. After two failed attempts, he reached the pill-condensing stage and prepared for the final phase of the refinement.

• Xiao Se used Eightfold Stack to defeat the hammer-wielding older student and warned the others not to demand extra Fire Energy from new students.
• The new students asked Xiao Se to lead them, but he declined, while Han Yue's Sky Moon faction gained members and the boys joined Bai Cheng's White Gang.
• Xiao Se chose a secluded valley in the Demon Beast Mountain Range and prepared his sixth-tier Medicine Cauldron and ingredients for the Soul Fusion Pill.
• Queen Medusa appeared from the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and agreed to guard Xiao Se as he began refining the pill.
• Xiao Se failed twice before succeeding on his third attempt, and by dusk he had reached the pill-condensing stage.
• Xiao Se told Queen Medusa to kill any approaching magical beasts, avoid harming friendly Inner Academy instructors, and return to her snake form while he completed the final stage.

Xiao Se refined the Soul Fusion Pill in a valley, creating a spectacular phenomenon that drew Little Fairy Doctor, Su Qian, and the Inner Academy’s elders. After completing the difficult pill-retrieval process, he collapsed from exhaustion, and Little Fairy Doctor caught him.

• Xiao Se asked Hong Kui to watch for visitors while he finished refining the Soul Fusion Pill.
• Xiao Se formed the pill, and its jade-green light and pillar of radiance spread across the valley.
• Little Fairy Doctor and the Inner Academy’s elders sensed the Rank 6 Pill and hurried to the valley.
• Su Qian and the others waited while Xiao Se completed the pill-retrieval process, and Elder Su identified him as Little Fairy Doctor’s boyfriend.
• Xiao Se finished the pill nearly depleted of Dou Qi, and Little Fairy Doctor caught him as he collapsed.
• Xiao Se told Little Fairy Doctor that refining the Soul Fusion Pill fulfilled one of his promises, despite wasting two sets of ingredients.

After recovering from refining the Soul Fusion Pill, Xiao Se gave it to Queen Medusa and told her she was free to leave, but she soon returned and insisted on traveling with him. Xiao Se, Little Fairy Doctor, and Long Kui then arrived at the Burning Sky Refining Tower, where the Inner Academy students were gathering to enter.

• Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders praised Xiao Se for refining a Rank 6 Pill and sought to earn his goodwill.
• Xiao Se recovered for several hours, then chose to spend three days with the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python before her soul fused with Queen Medusa.
• Queen Medusa appeared after the fusion, and Xiao Se gave her the Soul Fusion Pill and told her to return to her people.
• Medusa left but soon came back for her belongings and said she would follow Xiao Se until her younger sister was found.
• Xiao Se, Little Fairy Doctor, and Long Kui reached the Burning Sky Refining Tower, where Little Fairy Doctor warned Xiao Se about its dangerous invisible energy.

Xiao Se and Little Fairy Doctor cultivated in the Burning Sky Refining Tower, where his Ice Fire Domain let them benefit from the Heart Fire. He then visited the medicinal warehouse to find the Little Female Dragon and arranged to trade for ingredients, leaving him poised to approach her.

• Elder Li welcomed Xiao Se and Little Fairy Doctor into the Burning Sky Refining Tower.
• Xiao Se used his Ice Fire Domain to protect them from the Heart Fire and tested his fused flame against the Invisible Fire Python.
• Xiao Se and Little Fairy Doctor cultivated for two hours, and she found that the Heart Fire purified and condensed her Poison Dou Qi.
• Xiao Se and Little Fairy Doctor went to the medicinal warehouse, where he asked Elder Hao for ingredients and seeds.
• Elder Hao offered the ingredients in exchange for a Fifth-Rank Dragon Strength Pill, and Xiao Se agreed while keeping his interest in the Little Female Dragon secret.

Xiao Se visited Canaan Academy’s medicinal warehouse and befriended Zi Yan by turning her bitter medicinal fruit into tasty, energy-rich pills. He took Zi Yan to his pavilion, where she promised to return with more ingredients, while the Little Fairy Doctor suspected Xiao Se had a loli complex.

• Elder Hao gave Xiao Se a White Jade Token to enter the medicinal warehouse and find Earth Spirit Fruit seeds.
• Xiao Se found Zi Yan eating an Ice Fire Dragon Beard Fruit and used pink flames to turn some of it into a tasty pill.
• Zi Yan introduced herself, called Xiao Se a good person, and accepted a jade bottle of more pills made with candy.
• Xiao Se invited Zi Yan to his pavilion, and she promised to bring medicinal ingredients when she ran out of pills.
• After Zi Yan left, the Little Fairy Doctor reacted with disgust to Xiao Se calling her adorable.

After receiving a strange exchange and a permanent Soul Land Travel Ticket from the System, Xiao Se gave Zi Yan a huge supply of pills. Zi Yan then told him about a treasure guarded by a Snow Heaven Demon Ape, and Xiao Se secured her Essence Blood so he could use a secret technique to defeat it.

• After more than twenty days of alchemy practice, Xiao Se refined two Soul Fusion Pills and one Earth Spirit Pill and reached eight-star Dou Spirit.
• Xiao Se exchanged two walnuts for Peach Eating Boy's "balls" and drew a permanent Soul Land Travel Ticket.
• Zhu Zhuqing visited Xiao Se, but their reunion was interrupted by Zi Yan, who had run out of pills.
• Xiao Se refined more than a thousand pills for Zi Yan, who ate several handfuls and stored the rest.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Se that a Snow Heaven Demon Ape in the Deep Mountain of the Inner Academy guarded a treasure, and Xiao Se said he could defeat it with a secret technique.
• Xiao Se asked Zi Yan for Essence Blood from a powerful magical beast, and she spat some into a teacup, leaving him concerned about the saliva mixed in.

Xiao Se raised his cultivation to Nine-Star Dou Spirit using Zi Yan’s Void Ancient Dragon Essence Blood and prepared to travel to Soul Land with Little Fairy Doctor and Zhu Zhuqing. He accompanied Zi Yan to the Inner Academy to retrieve Earth Core Tempering Milk and began fighting the Snow Demon Sky Ape, leaving its shield shattered.

• Xiao Se cultivated Fire God's Wrath’s second level and reached Nine-Star Dou Spirit after using Zi Yan’s Void Ancient Dragon Essence Blood.
• Xiao Se told Little Fairy Doctor he would help raise her External Soul Bone in Soul Land, and Zhu Zhuqing decided to join after sensing her martial soul could gain more soul rings.
• Xiao Se and Zi Yan flew to a valley in the Inner Academy, where the Snow Demon Sky Ape confronted them.
• Xiao Se activated the Fire Dragon King's left arm Soul Bone skill and unleashed thousands of Strange Fire Giant Swords against the Snow Demon Sky Ape.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape’s Dou Qi shield shattered, and Xiao Se prepared to press his attack.

Xiao Se killed the Snow Demon Sky Ape and explored its cave with Zi Yan, who found and drank diluted Earth Core Tempering Milk. Xiao Se collected the true Earth Core Tempering Milk while leaving some behind, then prepared to return with Zi Yan.

• Xiao Se used Hundred Steps Flying Sword to kill the Snow Demon Sky Ape and took its ice-attributed magic core.
• Zi Yan pulled Xiao Se into the ape's cave to search for treasure, and they found an underground stalactite world.
• Zi Yan drank all the diluted Earth Core Tempering Milk from a stone groove.
• Xiao Se found the true Earth Core Tempering Milk inside a giant stalactite and collected most of it in two Jade Bottles.
• Xiao Se gave one Jade Bottle to Zi Yan and said it was time to head back.

Xiao Se returned to Tian Dou City and unexpectedly ran into Flander and the Shrek group. After declining Ning Rongrong’s invitation to meet her father, he prepared to leave, but Dai Mubai confronted him about Zhu Zhuqing.

• Zi Yan returned to the Inner Academy to savor the Earth Core Tempering Milk, while Xiao Se went back to his residence and prepared to travel with Little Fairy Doctor and Zhu Zhuqing.
• The System transported Xiao Se to the Tea House in Tian Dou City where he had departed from, and he emerged onto the street in front of the Shrek group.
• Flander apologized to Xiao Se for Shrek Academy’s past actions, and Xiao Se accepted his apology.
• Ning Rongrong greeted Xiao Se and invited him to meet her father, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Master, but Xiao Se declined because he would not stay long.
• Dai Mubai stopped Xiao Se and demanded to know where he had taken Zhu Qing.