Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er clashed as the Xiao Family prepared to receive Canaan Academy, whose recruitment had been moved up after turmoil in the region. The academy's delegation arrived, led by Mentor Ruo Lin, leaving Lu Yuan face-to-face with a familiar figure.

• Xiao Ning's lackeys discussed Xiao Yan's chances of entering Canaan Academy, while Xiao Ning waited for his sister Xiao Yu to return.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had reached the eighth stage of Dou Zhi Qi, though his unstable foundation meant he had resorted to a shortcut to qualify for the early assessment.
• Xiao Xun'er said Canaan Academy had advanced recruitment because the upheaval around Wutan City had affected the Northwest Continent and drawn the attention of powerful figures.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er exchanged sharp remarks, exposing the hostility between them to Xiao Mei and the others.
• Mentor Ruo Lin and the Canaan Academy delegation entered the Xiao Family grounds, and Lu Yuan recognized her.

Mentor Ruo Lin began Canaan Academy’s admissions test at the Xiao Family, where candidates had to demonstrate at least the eighth stage of Dou Zhi Qi. Xiao Yan passed with a dazzling display that impressed the instructors, while the chapter left his Second Trial still ahead.

• Ruo Lin explained the crystal test and began recording candidates for Canaan Academy’s admissions.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Ning she could not help with the Second Trial, and Xiao Ning passed the crystal test.
• Xiao Xun'er asked Lu Yuan how much strength he planned to reveal, while Lu Yuan refused to answer her questions and said he disliked trouble.
• Xiao Mei failed to light the crystal, leaving her hopeful that she could try again in a later year.
• Xiao Yan passed the test, and his crystal shone so brightly that Ruo Lin and the Canaan Academy students mistook him for a far more advanced cultivator.

Ruo Lin reflected on why Canaan Academy had to recruit in the dangerous Gama Empire despite the threat of two powerful families, then watched Xiao Xun'er take the entrance test. Xiao Xun'er's Dou Qi overwhelmed the testing crystal, leaving Ruo Lin convinced she was a prodigy and a valuable recruit.

• Ruo Lin recalled Su Qian's warning that Wutan City lay at the center of a conflict involving two families with multiple Dou Saints, and understood that the recruitment team faced grave danger.
• Ruo Lin considered why Canaan Academy had to continue recruiting in the Gama Empire and why its candidates had to travel onward without being taken directly back to the academy.
• Xiao Yan asked Lu Yuan whether he could overload and shatter the testing crystal, and Lu Yuan dismissed the idea as unnecessary.
• Xiao Xun'er stepped up to the testing crystal and released her Dou Qi, producing a brilliance greater than Xiao Yan's and causing the crystal to crack.
• Ruo Lin realized Xiao Xun'er could contend with a Dou Wang and was delighted that Canaan Academy had the chance to recruit her.

Lu Yuan passed the assessment with a display that pushed the crystal to the brink of exploding, then revealed he was already a Da Dou Shi. His answer left Ruo Lin, Xiao Yu, and the other students stunned as the chapter ended.

• Lu Yuan reflected on fate and watched Xiao Xun'er finish her test before injecting mana into the crystal and making it flare again.
• Yao Chen praised Lu Yuan's youthful side to Xiao Yan, and the two joked about Yao Chen's love life.
• The recorder entered Lu Yuan's name after his test, while Ruo Lin called him a monstrous being and Xiao Yu admitted she did not recognize him.
• Xiao Yu led Ruo Lin and several female students to meet Lu Yuan, Xiao Xun'er, and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Xun'er explained that Lu Yuan came from a branch of the Xiao Family, and Lu Yuan told Xiao Yu and Ruo Lin that he was a Da Dou Shi, leaving them speechless.

Lu Yuan left the crowd after Xiao Yu’s challenge, and Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Xiao Mei followed, leaving Xiao Yu embarrassed with the Canaan Academy students. As the testing continued, Xiao Yan confronted Xiao Xun'er about their broken relationship and warned Lu Yuan to stay cautious around her.

• Lu Yuan walked away from the crowd, and Xiao Yan followed after criticizing Xiao Yu and the Canaan Academy students for questioning him.
• Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Mei joined Xiao Yan, while Xiao Ning stayed beside Xiao Yu and Ruo Lin tried to smooth over the awkward exchange.
• Xiao Yu restrained herself from using her whip, apologized to the nearby students, and told them they could approach Lu Yuan if they wished.
• Ruo Lin advised the female students to wait for the Second Trial to reveal whether Lu Yuan was a Da Dou Shi before pursuing him.
• Xiao Yan accused Xiao Xun'er of scheming and reminded Lu Yuan that she had deceived him before, then left to ask about the Second Trial.

Lu Yuan and Xiao Xun'er argued over their relationship before he encouraged her to resolve things with Xiao Yan, while revealing that he was already married. When Canaan Academy students turned the Second Trial into a group gauntlet, Lu Yuan stepped in and defeated them all, leaving Xiao Yan with a lesson in combat.

• Xiao Xun'er pressed Lu Yuan about whether he trusted her, and he warned her not to treat her gifts or actions as creating an obligation between them.
• Lu Yuan urged Xiao Xun'er to explain things to Xiao Yan before he left, then told her he had wives, shocking her.
• Qing Lin worried that her cultivation was too slow, and Xiao Yan explained that Canaan Academy students would likely use the Second Trial to retaliate against the examinees.
• The Canaan Academy students announced a gauntlet in which all examinees could attack together, and Lu Yuan held Xiao Yan back as the Xiao Family Disciples were quickly defeated.
• Lu Yuan drew the Taixu Bone Sword, taught Xiao Yan that speed and body control mattered in close combat, and struck down every Canaan Academy student at the courtyard gate.

Lu Yuan asked Ruo Lin to grant Qing Lin a Canaan Academy place and preserve Xiao Yan’s student status while he trained elsewhere. Ruo Lin agreed to consider Qing Lin’s place if Lu Yuan defeated her, but offered Xiao Yan a chance to earn leave by enduring three moves from her.

• Xiao Yu scolded Xiao Ning for his weakness and told him to enter the courtyard; Xiao Ning ran inside, boasting that he would win Lu Yuan over for her.
• Xiao Xun'er explained that the fallen gatekeepers meant the Xiao Family Disciples could pass by standing up and entering the courtyard, and many of them followed her inside.
• Lu Yuan knocked down several female students who tried to stop him, then reminded Ruo Lin that powerful students could make requests of Canaan Academy.
• Lu Yuan requested an academy quota for Qing Lin and a long leave of absence for Xiao Yan while keeping his student status.
• Ruo Lin agreed to grant Qing Lin a place if Lu Yuan defeated her, but said she lacked authority to approve Xiao Yan’s request.
• Ruo Lin offered Xiao Yan a compromise: if he endured three moves from her, she would approve his leave, and Xiao Yan accepted.

Lu Yuan revealed that he was a Dou Ling, prompting Ruo Lin to concede and accept his request for an extra student slot. As Xiao Yan fought Ruo Lin, Xiao Xun'er asked how long Lu Yuan would remain at Canaan Academy, then left determined to keep pursuing him despite his rejection.

• Ruo Lin challenged Lu Yuan, but he demonstrated Dou Qi Condensed Weapon and revealed his strength as a Dou Ling, so she conceded and agreed to his first condition.
• Lu Yuan lent Xiao Yan spatial-attribute Dou Qi before Xiao Yan faced Ruo Lin, while Yao Chen criticized Xiao Yan's attitude and awkward Baji Collapse stance.
• Xiao Xun'er asked Lu Yuan how long he planned to stay at Canaan Academy, and he explained that he intended to complete his entry into the inner academy before moving on.
• Xiao Xun'er compared Xiao Yan's struggle against Ruo Lin with Lu Yuan's strength, and Lu Yuan explained that different worlds followed different rules.
• Xiao Xun'er told Lu Yuan that she would not be deterred by his delaying tactics, then left after declaring that she would keep pursuing him.

Lu Yuan said goodbye to Xiao Yan and traveled with Ruo Lin’s Canaan Academy recruitment group, helping keep the young recruits in line as they crossed the Gama Empire. After fifty-three days of recruitment ceremonies, Ruo Lin led the assembled students toward Canaan Academy.

• Lu Yuan gave Xiao Yan a map, arranged for Ya Fei to handle financial matters in the Gama Empire, and left him to continue his own journey toward Canaan Academy.
• Xiao Yan promised Lu Yuan he would repay his kindness, and Lu Yuan departed with the Canaan Academy convoy as Xiao Yan watched it leave.
• Lu Yuan traveled through several cities with Ruo Lin’s group, where new students joined after recruitment ceremonies and the group relied on Hybrid Demonic Beast Horses for transportation.
• Several young men grew jealous of Lu Yuan over Xiao Xun'er, so Lu Yuan beat them after they provoked him; Ruo Lin let him handle the disputes.
• After fifty-three days of recruitment and a two-day rest in the final city, Ruo Lin led the group toward Canaan Academy.

Ruo Lin met another Canaan Academy recruitment mentor near Peaceful Town and claimed her recruits included two Super S-Ranks, though he dismissed her words as a joke. As the group entered Peaceful Town, Bai Shan approached Xiao Xun'er, who identified Lu Yuan as her boyfriend, leaving Lu Yuan visibly displeased.

• Ruo Lin compared recruitment results with a male mentor and said she had found two Super S-Rank students, including one stronger than everyone in his group combined.
• Ruo Lin and the male mentor agreed to escort their recruits into Peaceful Town and handle enrollment procedures and uniforms.
• Xiao Xun'er teased Lu Yuan about an unseen romantic rival, and he told her she would never see that person again.
• The group reached Peaceful Town, where flying was forbidden and the Canaan Academy Enforcement Team maintained order.
• Bai Shan introduced himself as Bai Cheng's younger brother and tried to approach Xiao Xun'er, who rejected him and called Lu Yuan her boyfriend.

Lu Yuan and Xiao Xun'er reached Peaceful Town, where Bai Shan challenged Xiao Xun'er's claim that Lu Yuan was her boyfriend but backed down without starting a fight. The prospective students received uniforms and learned that their entrance examination would require them to cross a Magical Beast Forest and reach Canaan Academy within a week.

• Bai Shan declared his love for Xiao Xun'er and demanded that her boyfriend meet him, but Xiao Xun'er dismissed him and rode on without naming Lu Yuan.
• Bai Shan vowed to prove his strength at Canaan Academy, while Ling Ying and Yang Hao recognized the danger of his provoking Lu Yuan and Xiao Xun'er.
• Ruo Lin and the male instructor let the exchange pass because Bai Shan and Lu Yuan had not directly fought.
• Ruo Lin and the male instructor registered the prospective students and distributed Canaan Academy School Uniforms.
• Xiao Yu explained that the prospective students would take an entrance examination by crossing a Magical Beast Forest filled with magical beasts and reaching Canaan Academy within a week.

Lu Yuan explained to Xiao Xun'er that his dragon blood made magical beasts submit and described the dangers and benefits of becoming a Human-Dragon Hybrid. The pair remained at their campfire, where Xiao Xun'er quietly changed the subject rather than asking him to transform her.

• Bai Shan arrived at Lu Yuan and Xiao Xun'er's camp after a Green-Eyed Golden-Headed Eagle chased him, and the Xiao Family Disciples fed themselves while keeping him bound.
• A Xiao Family youth taunted Bai Shan about Lu Yuan and Xiao Xun'er, then beat him when he threatened them with his brother Bai Cheng.
• Xiao Xun'er asked Lu Yuan why magical beasts treated him like their leader, and he explained that his Human-Dragon Hybrid bloodline exerted natural authority over them.
• Lu Yuan told Xiao Xun'er that dragon blood could improve aptitude and grant Magic Immunity and Physical Immunity, but that the painful transformation carried risks.
• Xiao Xun'er noticed Lu Yuan's skewers were burning and changed the subject; Lu Yuan said he liked them a little burnt.

Lu Yuan trained Xiao Ning and the other Xiao Family Disciples in the Magical Beast Forest through repeated life-and-death ordeals, healing them and pushing them to improve. After seven days, they emerged from the forest with dramatically increased strength and combat ability.

• After looting Bai Shan, Lu Yuan let him go and decided to deal with Bai Cheng and the Bai Gang, Bai Shan’s backer.
• Lu Yuan explained that the forest would train the Xiao Family Disciples’ strength, experience, judgment, and teamwork, then led them into a series of brutal exercises.
• Lu Yuan repeatedly had Ironclad Rhinoceroses trample Xiao Ning and the others in a swamp, healing their injuries and teaching them to dodge and control their strength.
• Lu Yuan set insect swarms on the group to train them to fight through pain and other impairments, then drilled their balance beside a waterfall.
• Lu Yuan helped the Xiao Family Disciples cultivate, bringing them all to the Dou Practitioner realm and Xiao Ning to three-star Dou Practitioner.
• After seven days, Lu Yuan led Xiao Ning and the others out of the Magical Beast Forest, their spirits and strength transformed.

Lu Yuan corrected Xiao Ning and the Xiao Family Disciples’ faulty map estimates and taught them to verify information and think independently. He then led them toward the Magical Beast Forest exit to ambush incoming examinees and seize their supplies, with Xiao Xun'er joining them.

• Xiao Ning and the Xiao Family Disciples reported their cultivation levels, and Lu Yuan corrected Xiao Ning’s estimate of the distance to the forest exit from forty kilometers to fifty-two.
• Lu Yuan warned Xiao Ning and the others that trusting appearances and unverified information could get them killed, then urged them to think independently.
• Lu Yuan proposed that the group block the exit, defeat incoming freshmen, and take their supplies before they enrolled at Canaan Academy.
• Xiao Ning and the others raised concerns about being outnumbered, but Lu Yuan reassured them that he and Xiao Xun'er could help hold the line.
• Lu Yuan set rules against exploiting opponents and ordered the group to move out, then followed them while thinking of Xiao Yan’s progress under Yao Chen.

Xiao Ning and the Xiao Family Disciples blocked the Magical Beast Forest exit and demanded supplies from the prospective students, defeating anyone who resisted. Bai Shan rallied a group to fight them, while the commotion drew Hu Qian and Wu Tianlang toward the scene; elsewhere, Lu Yuan stopped the Enforcement Team from responding.

• Xiao Ning defeated three attackers with brutal tactics and demanded that the students emerging from the forest surrender their valuables or fight.
• Bai Shan arrived, challenged Xiao Ning, and rallied the prospective students to resist the Xiao Family Disciples.
• Xiao Ning rejected Bai Shan's demand for a fair one-on-one duel, and both groups charged into a brawl.
• Hu Qian and Wu Tianlang flew toward the commotion after noticing the flock of startled birds above the forest.
• The Enforcement Team could not reach the brawl because Lu Yuan stopped them, leaving a squad captain staring at the ice spear in Lu Yuan's hand.

Xiao Ning used his instincts and the combat lessons Lu Yuan taught him to knock Bai Shan unconscious, while the Xiao Family Disciples fought other examinees and collected tolls. Lu Yuan restrained the Enforcement Team, then explained the situation to Wu Tianlang and Hu Qian, arguing that the toll-taking did not break Canaan Academy rules.

• A Xiao Family youth charged into the nearby examinees and scattered their formation as the Xiao Family Disciples moved to control the crowd.
• Bai Shan circled Xiao Ning and taunted him, then attacked with Lightning Finger after deciding Xiao Ning's stillness was a bluff.
• Xiao Ning followed Bai Shan's killing intent, turned toward his true position, and knocked him unconscious with a palm strike.
• Lu Yuan waited beside Xiao Xun'er as Wu Tianlang and Hu Qian arrived to find the Enforcement Team members incapacitated.
• Lu Yuan identified himself as Xiao Yuan, described the toll-taking and his reasons for restraining the Enforcement Team, and asked Wu Tianlang and Hu Qian to judge the matter by the academy's rules.

Lu Yuan persuaded Wu Tianlang and Hu Qian to verify his identity by contacting Mentor Ruo Lin, while the two watched him leave for the gate. The chapter then showed Wu Hao and Hu Jia fighting Xiao Ning, who revealed his brutal training and entered a state in which instinct took control of his body.

• Lu Yuan offered to stay under Wu Tianlang and Hu Qian's watch while Enforcement Team members fetched Mentor Ruo Lin to confirm his identity.
• Wu Tianlang released the Enforcement Team members from Lu Yuan's Dou Qi restraint, and the squad leader left to find Mentor Ruo Lin.
• Wu Tianlang and Hu Qian discussed the clash at the gate, with Hu Qian worrying that Wu Hao and his granddaughter Hu Jia would face the Xiao clan disciples.
• Wu Hao and Hu Jia fought Xiao Ning together, but his Baji Quan sent them both flying and left Hu Jia's whip broken.
• Xiao Ning explained that his survival and training had made him more formidable, then declared himself the mountain Wu Hao and Hu Jia would have to overcome.
• Wu Tianlang identified Xiao Ning's altered state as unconsciousness, in which instinct controlled the body and could raise a fighter's performance beyond their conscious limits.

Wu Tianlang explained how repeated life-and-death battles could awaken the unconscious state, and Hu Qian wondered how Xiao Ning had mastered it so young. Lu Yuan revealed that he had trained the Xiao family disciples amid Magical Beasts, while Xiao Ning continued dominating the new students and mocking their fighting skills.

• Wu Tianlang described the unconscious state as a brief surge of power born from repeated near-death battles and praised Xiao Ning for mastering it at such a young age.
• Hu Qian questioned where Xiao Ning had found enough deadly opponents, and Lu Yuan said he had placed the Xiao family disciples inside an encirclement of Magical Beasts.
• Xiao Xun'er and Qing Lin recalled how Lu Yuan had forced the disciples to endure repeated lethal trials, while Wu Tianlang and Hu Qian watched the fight at the forest entrance.
• The Xiao family disciples overwhelmed the new students, and several surrendered their Storage Rings, angering Hu Qian.
• Xiao Ning caught Hu Jia's whip and dragged her into Wu Hao's attack, dislocating her shoulder before knocking Wu Hao away with a feint and a punch.
• Xiao Ning picked up Wu Hao's heavy sword, criticized his technique, and continued taunting the defeated new students.

Lu Yuan intervened when the prospective students’ numbers threatened to overwhelm Xiao Ning and the Xiao Family Disciples, while Xiao Xun'er faced the girls. He revealed himself as Xiao Yuan, a fifteen-year-old Dou Ling, and challenged the boys to decide whether they would fight him one at a time or all together.

• Xiao Xun'er warned Lu Yuan that Xiao Ning and the others could not hold out much longer, but Lu Yuan decided they had earned a passing grade and would not let others take their supplies without defeating them first.
• Hu Qian and Wu Tianlang silently allowed Lu Yuan to intervene, and Lu Yuan told Xiao Xun'er to handle the girls while he took the boys.
• Xiao Xun'er landed in the battlefield and released her Dou Qi, intimidating most of the prospective students; Xiao Ning lowered his head and tended to his wounds.
• Lu Yuan arrived on an Ice Spear, and Hu Jia recognized that he was a Dou Ling, shocking Wu Hao and the other prospective students.
• Lu Yuan introduced himself as Xiao Yuan, said he was fifteen and had proposed the gate-blocking operation to test the Xiao Family members, then challenged the male students to choose between fighting him one at a time or all together.

At the Magical Beast Forest exit, Lu Yuan faced the freshmen’s refusal to fight and effortlessly subdued Wu Hao after taking the others’ supplies. Hu Qian and Wu Tianlang discussed Lu Yuan’s likely future in the Inner Academy and Han Yue’s possible marriage-contract dilemma as Lu Yuan left the forest.

• Several freshmen asked to surrender their supplies rather than fight, while Wu Hao and another student argued over whether they should resist Lu Yuan.
• Hu Qian and Wu Tianlang discussed how older students might target Lu Yuan and debated whether he should delay entering the Inner Academy; they also considered Han Yue’s chances of winning him over despite her marriage contract.
• Wu Hao challenged Lu Yuan, who asked whether anyone else would fight and received no answer.
• Lu Yuan pulled the Storage Rings and supplies from everyone except Wu Hao, then appeared before Wu Hao and struck him before he could react.
• Lu Yuan explained that Wu Hao would recover after neutralizing the Dou Qi in his body, then left the Magical Beast Forest as Ruo Lin watched in confusion.