Recaps

The Left Envoy proposed killing Han Feng with Canaan Academy before the fallen heart flame’s existence became known, hoping to claim Han Feng’s sea heart flame. Su Qian agreed to cooperate, and the Left Envoy said they would lure Han Feng into a trap.

• Bai Shan challenged the Left Envoy, who refused to fight and let Bai Shan leave in frustration.
• The Left Envoy learned that Bai Shan was an Outer Courtyard Da Dou Shi who liked Xun Er and had clashed with Xiao Yan.
• Hu Qian introduced Su Qian, the Inner Academy’s Great Elder, and the Left Envoy revealed his plan to kill Han Feng.
• Su Qian agreed that Canaan Academy should strike Han Feng before he could move against the academy over the fallen heart flame.
• The Left Envoy said Han Feng’s sea heart flame would belong to him and proposed luring Han Feng into a trap.

Han Feng accepted Gu He's challenge to a Pill Battle at Canaan Academy after realizing that refusing would damage his standing in the Black-Corner Region. Nalan Ye told Xiao Yan that Han Feng was coming, and Xiao Yan revealed his hatred for the traitor who had betrayed Yao Lao, while agreeing to return Han Feng's Exotic Flame after helping Little Fairy Doctor.

• Han Feng learned of the northern war and suspected Nalan Ye had arranged Gu He's challenge to build his reputation and influence in the Black-Corner Region.
• After weighing the danger to his reputation and business, Han Feng accepted Gu He's challenge and announced he would travel to Canaan Academy.
• Nalan Ye gave Xiao Yan Han Feng's reply, and Xiao Yan declared that he intended to kill Han Feng for betraying Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan thanked Nalan Ye for arranging the chance to confront Han Feng and offered to help Little Fairy Doctor form a Poison Pill once they obtained Han Feng's Exotic Flame.
• Nalan Ye reminded Xiao Yan that he had promised Han Feng's Exotic Flame to Gu He and asked him to return it after Little Fairy Doctor was cured.

The Inner Academy Selection Tournament ended with Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Hu Jia, Bai Shan, and Wu Hao taking the top five places, while the Left Envoy rewarded the first five contestants to leave the circle. As the academy prepared for the upcoming Pill Battle, Medicine Emperor Han Feng arrived in Canaan City.

• Hu Qian announced an all-out melee for the tournament’s ranking match, and seven contestants immediately tried to leave the circle.
• Ling Ying identified the first five eliminated contestants, and the Left Envoy gave them brocade pouches containing pills, cultivation methods, and Dou Techniques.
• The melee ended with Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Hu Jia, Bai Shan, and Wu Hao as the last five contestants standing.
• Hu Qian closed the Inner Academy Selection Tournament and took the top five to Canaan Academy’s Books Collection Pavilion after a day of rest.
• As people from the Black-Corner Region gathered in Canaan City ahead of the Pill Battle, Han Feng arrived on a flying magical beast bearing Maple City’s insignia.

Nalan Ye welcomed Han Feng to Canaan Academy, where Han Feng and Gu He began a contest between Sixth-Rank Alchemists. As they refined their pills through the night, Nalan Ye planned to seize his chance to attack Han Feng and use the Sea Heart Flame for several purposes.

• Hu Qian welcomed Han Feng and his entourage to Canaan Academy, where Han Feng asked after Nalan Ye and challenged Gu He's decision to serve him.
• Han Feng urged Gu He to leave Nalan Ye, but Gu He refused, and the two alchemists agreed to compete by refining Sixth-Rank Pills.
• Hu Qian announced the contest, and Han Feng and Gu He began refining their pills before a crowd at the academy.
• Nalan Ye discussed Cai Lin's body reconstruction and planned to use the Sea Heart Flame for Xiao Yan, Little Fairy Doctor, Cai Lin, and Gu He.
• As the contest continued into the night, Nalan Ye waited for Han Feng to near completion so he could attack.

As Gu He and Han Feng’s Pill Battle neared its end, the narrator and Canaan Academy prepared to assassinate Han Feng and surround him with overwhelming force. Ling Ying’s attempt failed, and Han Feng was left facing the academy’s elders as he offered to pay twice whatever the narrator had promised them.

• With Han Feng nearing completion of his pill, the narrator instructed Ling Ying to strike first and Hu Qian to lead Canaan Academy’s elders into battle if the assassination failed.
• Ling Ying attacked Han Feng, but the Sea Heart Flame surged out of control and knocked him away before he could land a fatal blow.
• Ling Ying struck Han Feng’s cauldron as he retreated, causing it to explode and forcing Han Feng and his seven guards to evade the blast.
• Hu Qian ordered the academy’s students to evacuate, accused Han Feng of betraying and murdering Venerable Yao, and led the elders in surrounding him.
• Han Feng challenged Hu Qian’s accusations and offered twice whatever the narrator had promised Canaan Academy.

Nalan Ye tried to turn the crowd against Han Feng while concealing his plans for the Black-Corner Region, and Han Feng countered by warning its experts that Nalan Ye meant to control them. Hu Qian finally led Canaan Academy’s attack, and Han Feng met the assault with the Sea Heart Flame.

• Nalan Ye urged Hu Qian to kill Han Feng, but Han Feng praised Nalan Ye’s past exploits to make the onlookers fear his influence.
• Han Feng accused Nalan Ye of plotting to dominate the Black-Corner Region and warned its experts that his death would leave them dependent on Nalan Ye and Gu He for Sixth-Rank pills.
• Nalan Ye denied intending to control the region and claimed he wanted Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame for Gu He, threatening Han Feng with torture if he refused to surrender it.
• Nalan Ye threatened the Black-Corner Region’s experts with retaliation from the Gama and Chuyun United Empire and Canaan Academy if they interfered.
• Hu Qian declared that Canaan Academy opposed any northern invasion, then used Body Flicker to attack Han Feng and ordered the elders to join him.
• Han Feng unleashed the Sea Heart Flame as a towering sea of fire against the attackers.

Han Feng and his seven companions were overwhelmed by Canaan Academy’s elders until Su Qian arrived and drove off the Black-Corner Region experts. An early eruption of the Fallen Heart Flame drew Su Qian’s attention away, and the chapter ended with Han Feng merging the Sea Heart Flame with another flame as Su Qian prepared to strike.

• Han Feng was wounded while the Canaan Academy elders pressed their attack, and he urged the Black-Corner Region experts to help him.
• Su Qian arrived, identified himself as Canaan Academy’s Great Elder, and stopped the experts from interfering.
• Han Feng’s seven companions abandoned him when Su Qian’s presence made escape seem impossible.
• Su Qian sensed a sudden eruption of powerful auras near the Inner Academy, and the narrator suspected the Fallen Heart Flame had erupted early.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to withdraw and prepared to kill Han Feng, who mocked him and began merging the Sea Heart Flame with another flame.

Nalan Ye recognized Han Feng’s red-and-blue flame technique as a threat and tried to lead Little Fairy Doctor and the others away, but Han Feng revealed that he had created it himself and unleashed it against Su Qian. Su Qian’s counterattack fed the Other Shore Flower with Heaven and Earth Energy, and their powers clashed in a spreading sea of fire.

• Han Feng merged the Beast Fire and Sea Heart Flame into a flame flower, prompting Nalan Ye to panic and urge Little Fairy Doctor, Ling Ying, Yun Heng, and Gu He to retreat.
• Little Fairy Doctor pointed out Han Feng’s severe injuries and reasoned that his technique likely had restrictions, while Ling Ying doubted a Dou Emperor could perform a technique beyond Heaven Rank.
• Han Feng named his technique the Other Shore Flower and revealed that it had once helped him escape Gu Ling, the Wind Venerable.
• Han Feng tossed the Other Shore Flower at Su Qian, who struck it with concentrated Heaven and Earth Energy.
• The Other Shore Flower expanded into a vast sea of flames that consumed Su Qian’s energy, and Su Qian gathered more energy into spiritual liquid to clash with the fire.

Han Feng survived Su Qian’s attack and used the destruction at Canaan Academy to turn the confrontation into a standoff. Su Qian and the academy’s elders withdrew, leaving the narrator and the Little Fairy Doctor’s group facing Han Feng and his allies.

• Han Feng detonated the Other Shore Flower, badly injuring Su Qian and devastating Canaan Academy.
• Hu Qian and the elders moved to surround Han Feng, but Han Feng summoned more than a dozen Black-Corner Region experts to his side.
• Han Feng accused Canaan Academy of dishonorable conduct and demanded an explanation, while Su Qian offered to let him leave safely.
• The narrator warned Su Qian that handing him over would not resolve Canaan Academy’s conflict with Han Feng over the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Hu Qian blamed the Jialian Empire, then led Su Qian and the elders away to attend to the academy’s students, leaving the narrator and the Little Fairy Doctor’s group facing Han Feng’s forces.

Han Feng surrounded the narrator and his allies at Canaan Academy, but Xiao Yan arrived and challenged him. Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng with his exotic flames, and after Yao Lao accepted that he could not save his former disciple, Xiao Yan resolved to kill him.

• The narrator taunted Han Feng and summoned Xiao Yan as apparent reinforcements, while Xun Er's guard secretly killed a Dou Wang who attacked Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan revealed the azure lotus core flame and bone spirit cold flame, then launched a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus at Han Feng, who countered with his Other Shore Flower.
• The flames devoured Han Feng's red fire and suppressed the sea heart flame before surrounding him and burning through his defenses.
• Han Feng begged Yao Lao for mercy, but Yao Lao lamented that he could not cure his former disciple's sickness of the mind.
• Xiao Yan said martial arts would send Han Feng to the Land of Rebirth, then formed an enormous flaming lotus around him.

Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng, who self-destructed in a final attempt to kill him, but a mysterious spatial defense protected Xiao Yan. The Black-Corner Region powerhouses fled, while the narrator warned Xiao Yan not to let Han Feng’s soul escape.

• Xiao Yan recalled how Han Feng’s Other Shore Flower shattered his confidence in the Rage Fire Lotus and filled him with fear and killing intent.
• Xiao Yan attacked Han Feng with a sea of flames, and Han Feng stopped fleeing and self-destructed near him.
• Yao Lao reassured Xiao Yan as spatial force distorted the space around him and shielded him from the explosion.
• The narrator warned Xiao Yan not to let Han Feng’s soul escape, then ordered the watching Black-Corner Region powerhouses to leave.
• The powerhouses feared Xiao Yan’s strength and scattered into the night.

After Han Feng's death, Xiao Yan confirmed the Sea Heart Flame was masterless, but Canaan Academy refused to admit the group to the Inner Courtyard. Back in Canaan City, Xiao Yan discussed refining the flame while Gu He pressed him about its transfer and his Azure Lotus Core Flame.

• The narrator and Xiao Yan confirmed Han Feng was dead and the Sea Heart Flame was masterless.
• The group traveled to Canaan Academy's Inner Courtyard, but its residents ignored their calls to open the spatial gate, so they returned to Canaan City.
• The narrator told Gu He that Xiao Yan would temporarily borrow the Sea Heart Flame to help treat Little Fairy Doctor.
• Gu He asked Xiao Yan to transfer the Sea Heart Flame and recognized his Azure Lotus Core Flame, prompting Xiao Yan to claim he had found it in the Black-Corner Region.

Wu Protector gave Nalan Ye the Bodhi Transformation Saliva and tried to recruit him to help destroy Canaan Academy, but reconsidered after learning how powerful it was. Nalan Ye brought the saliva to Xiao Yan and urged him to prepare the medicines and refine the Sea Heart Flame so the Little Fairy Doctor could form her Poison Pill.

• Wu Protector praised Nalan Ye for killing Han Feng and handed him the Bodhi Transformation Saliva.
• Wu Protector offered Nalan Ye rewards for working with the Hall of Souls and ordered him to help wipe out Canaan Academy.
• Nalan Ye warned Wu Protector that Canaan Academy had several Dou Zong experts, prompting him to leave and reconsider his plan.
• Nalan Ye visited Xiao Yan, who said he had gathered the ingredients for the supplementary medicinal pills with Ya Fei's help.
• Nalan Ye told Xiao Yan to refine the pills and absorb the Sea Heart Flame to help the Little Fairy Doctor form her Poison Pill.

The narrator reassured Little Fairy Doctor that Xiao Yan’s rare flames could help cure her Calamity Poison Body, then kissed her and was poisoned by her. Xiao Yan’s successful sixth-rank pill drew Hu Qian and the others to the room, where Hu Qian noticed the narrator’s condition.

• The narrator told Little Fairy Doctor that Xiao Yan would soon be able to cure her Calamity Poison Body, though she doubted his ability.
• After a sixth-rank pill’s medicinal fragrance and purple pillar appeared over Canaan City, the narrator excitedly tackled Little Fairy Doctor and kissed her.
• Little Fairy Doctor revealed that she had poisoned the narrator, then gave him a Universal Antidote Pill to suppress the pain while she prepared an antidote.
• Ya Fei, Xiao Yan, Ling Ying, Hu Qian, and others entered after Xiao Yan finished refining the pill, and Hu Qian asked the narrator if he had been poisoned.

The narrator recovered from poison, entered the Canaan Inner Academy with Hu Qian, and reunited with Xiao Meier. Half a month later, Xiao Yan prepared to help the Little Fairy Doctor form her Poison Pill in the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.

• Hu Qian visited the narrator, denied that the academy had refused them entry, and led the group into the Inner Academy after the Little Fairy Doctor gave the narrator an antidote.
• The narrator drank the foul antidote and followed Hu Qian through a gateway into the academy’s ancient small world.
• The narrator reunited with Xiao Meier, comforted her, and boasted that he had helped defeat Han Feng.
• Half a month later, Xiao Yan refined the sea heart flame and prepared to help the Little Fairy Doctor form her Poison Pill in the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.

The Left Envoy entered the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower and used Cai Lin’s recovered soul to suppress the Fallen Heart Flame in his body. Xiao Yan and the Little Fairy Doctor began preparing to form her Poison Pill in a sealed chamber, while the Left Envoy stayed nearby to cultivate and wait.

• Hu Qian led the group to the tower and warned Xiao Yan that its interior had special effects.
• The Left Envoy entered the tower, and Cai Lin’s power helped him refine the Fallen Heart Flame’s first wisp.
• Xiao Yan refined a wisp of Heart Flame and chose to help the Little Fairy Doctor form her Poison Pill inside the tower.
• Hu Qian sealed off a section of the first level and gave the Left Envoy a Cyan-Purple Crystal Card with more than three thousand fire energy points.
• The Little Fairy Doctor entered a private chamber with Xiao Yan, while the Left Envoy had Ling Ying stand guard and began cultivating in a neighboring chamber.

While waiting for Third Brother and Little Fairy Doctor to emerge from cultivation, the narrator explored the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower and became increasingly fixated on the secrets beneath it. After being barred from the lower floors, he secretly began lowering himself toward the seventh floor at night.

• The narrator left the chamber where Third Brother and Little Fairy Doctor were cultivating and descended through the tower to the sixth floor.
• Han Yue met the narrator on the sixth floor, praised him for killing Han Feng, and repaid the seventy thousand gold coins he had lent her for the Thunder Bat Wings.
• Han Yue warned the narrator that only Academy Elders could enter below the sixth floor, and guards stopped him when he tried to descend to the seventh.
• The narrator found an opening in the center of the sixth floor and became obsessed with reaching the Magma Fire Sea beneath the tower.
• Late at night, the narrator quietly returned to the opening and lowered himself toward the seventh floor without using the Purple Cloud Wings.

Nalan Ye followed Cai Lin into the magma beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, where she shattered his Dou Crystal and revealed her plan to resist him. He destroyed the imprint on her soul origin in return, and Cai Lin’s remnant soul vanished, leaving Nalan Ye gravely injured and grieving their broken bond.

• Nalan Ye realized he had been drawn into the magma and discovered that Cai Lin’s surge of soul power had shattered his Dou Crystal, causing his Dou Qi to escape.
• Cai Lin appeared before Nalan Ye and explained that she had spent two years preparing to free herself from his control and refusing to submit.
• Nalan Ye used the imprint on Cai Lin’s soul origin to shatter it, inflicting severe pain on her.
• Cai Lin’s remnant soul faded and vanished completely while Nalan Ye watched from the volcanic rock.
• Nalan Ye reflected on how he had once hoped to help Cai Lin rebuild her body, but their relationship had ended in betrayal and violence.

Nalan Ye survived the fall into the Magma Fire Sea but was badly injured and lost most of his cultivation as he struggled to regain control of his Dou Qi. Near the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, he found Cai Lin alive and learned that she had used the Soul Severing Technique to escape his control.

• Nalan Ye let his rampaging Dou Qi dissipate until only enough remained to keep his cultivation, then took a low-grade Healing Pill for his injuries.
• Nalan Ye struggled toward the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, hoping its guards would help him.
• Nalan Ye saw Cai Lin behind him and begged for rescue at the tower, but Cai Lin had sealed off his cries.
• Cai Lin explained that she had let Nalan Ye believe he had killed her and described how she had split her Soul Origin with the Soul Severing Technique.
• Cai Lin declared that her people would never be slaves.

Cai Lin dragged the narrator deep into the cavern, intending to bargain with the Fallen Heart Flame for power to form a body and escape Canaan Academy. After she crushed his legs, the Fallen Heart Flame emerged from the lava lake.

• Cai Lin broke the narrator’s right leg with her Soul Power tail and dragged him away from the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• Cai Lin explained that the narrator’s knowledge and success had made her distrust his promises to help her form a body and reach Dou Zong.
• Cai Lin slammed Soul Power into the lava lake to draw out the Fallen Heart Flame, hoping to negotiate with it.
• Cai Lin crushed and blasted apart both of the narrator’s legs as he protested her plan.
• The Fallen Heart Flame rose from the bubbling lava lake in response to Cai Lin’s invitation.

Cai Lin extracted the Left Supervisor’s soul and persuaded the Fallen Heart Flame to help her recover, while using his corpse to activate the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill. He realized she had hidden blood essence in his body and had outmaneuvered him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Cai Lin tried to persuade the Fallen Heart Flame to lend her power in exchange for helping it escape Canaan Academy.
• The Left Supervisor urged the Fallen Heart Flame to distrust Cai Lin, so she tore his soul from his living body and branded his Soul Origin with her Soul Imprint.
• Cai Lin persuaded the Fallen Heart Flame to let her use its power, then burned the Left Supervisor’s corpse while suppressing his attempts to escape.
• Cai Lin’s hidden blood essence emerged from the burned remains, and the Left Supervisor realized she had planted it in his body years earlier.
• Cai Lin combined her blood essence with the medicinal power released from the Left Supervisor’s Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill.

Cai Lin used the fallen heart flame and the narrator’s blood essence to restore her cultivation, then began trying to break through to Dou Zong while forming a physical body. Flame Lizard Tribe members emerged from beneath the magma and overwhelmed her with their numbers, forcing her to fight them while attempting her breakthrough.

• Cai Lin absorbed the narrator’s blood essence and drew on the fallen heart flame to restore her aura to the Dou Huang peak.
• Cai Lin chose to form a physical body as she broke through to Dou Zong and began gathering the cavern’s energy.
• Flame Lizard Tribe members emerged from beneath the magma and disrupted Cai Lin’s breakthrough.
• Cai Lin burned the first attackers with the fallen heart flame, but hundreds more gathered, including powerful Great Lizardmen.
• Cai Lin descended into the magma to fight while breaking through, and seven or eight Great Lizardmen surrounded her.

Cai Lin was overwhelmed by the Great Lizardmen’s attacks, knocking the narrator out of her body and leaving him trapped above the magma. As he fled into the magma, a Strange Rune protected his soul, but the Lizardmen pursued him deeper into the lake.

• The Great Lizardmen battered Cai Lin with Magma Fire Pillars, breaking her defenses and knocking the narrator out of her body.
• The narrator dodged the Lizardmen’s Magma Fireballs but found no escape from the cavern, so he plunged into the magma rather than be caught.
• The magma burned away at the narrator’s soul until he discovered that a Strange Rune was protecting him.
• The narrator suspected Wu Protector had secretly placed the rune inside his soul, but Lizardmen caught up and struck him.
• The narrator fled deeper into the magma, pursued by the Lizardmen.

Nalan Ye fled the pursuing Lizardmen through the magma and stumbled into a hidden space containing Heavenly Flame Venerable’s remains and the Fallen Heart Flame. He met Yao TianHuo, who discovered several conflicting marks on Nalan Ye’s soul and revealed that he was the legendary Heavenly Flame Venerable.

• Nalan Ye plunged deeper into the magma to escape dozens of pursuing Lizardmen as Wu Protector’s remaining power began to run low.
• Nalan Ye entered a white-lit hidden space and found a skeleton bearing the Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Lizardmen gathered outside the space but could neither see nor enter it, leaving Nalan Ye trapped inside.
• Yao TianHuo appeared from the skeleton and suspected Nalan Ye of belonging to the Hall of Souls after sensing Wu Protector’s power.
• Yao TianHuo examined Nalan Ye and found marks from the Hall of Souls and the Ancient Clan, along with a Soul Imprint from an unknown third party.
• Yao TianHuo identified himself as Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Nalan Ye reacted in disbelief at meeting a legendary Venerable.

Xiao Yan helped the Little Fairy Doctor compress the toxins in her body so she could form a Poison Pill, while refining Bodhi Transformation Saliva for her. He discovered a Bodhi Seed hidden in the medicinal ingredient, secretly stored it away, and then applied the refined saliva to her forehead as her cultivation continued.

• Xiao Yan warned the Little Fairy Doctor that she had to compress the toxins herself and form a Poison Pill or they would erupt and endanger the crowded Canaan Inner Courtyard.
• The Little Fairy Doctor endured the pain and agreed to persevere, determined not to waste Xiao Yan's efforts to cure her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan refined the Bodhi Transformation Saliva with the Azure Lotus Core Flame, and an emerald-green Bodhi Seed formed from its sediment.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to keep the Bodhi Seed, and Xiao Yan placed it in a Cold Jade Box and hid it in his Ring of Holding.
• Xiao Yan applied the refined Bodhi Transformation Saliva to the Little Fairy Doctor's forehead, and its medicinal power flowed toward her dantian.