Recaps

Hu Gan brought the top five of the qualifying competition to Jia Nan Academy’s ancient Library Pavilion, where two gray-robed elders opened its spatial lock. After explaining the rules for claiming treasures, he sent Xiao Yan and the others inside to choose an item.

• Hu Jia resented Xiao Yan’s rough treatment, while Wu Hao declared that he would treat Xiao Yan as an opponent to surpass; Hu Gan warned them not to become enemies.
• Hu Gan led Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Little Doctor Immortal, Little Qing Lin, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao through a hidden passage to the Library Pavilion.
• Two gray-robed elders recognized Little Doctor Immortal’s Life Flame and opened the spatial lock protecting the pavilion.
• Hu Gan explained that each student could take only one item and could not force their way through an item’s energy layer.
• Xiao Yan and the others climbed the moss-covered stone steps and arrived at the pavilion entrance to begin choosing.

Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Little Doctor Immortal, Wu Hao, and Little Qing Lin entered Jia Nan Academy's Library Pavilion and seized treasures before its one-hour limit expired. Hu Gan escorted them back and warned them to cooperate when they entered the Inner Academy in two days.

• Hu Gan opened the Library Pavilion for the five newcomers and warned them to return within an hour.
• Xun'er caught a High Xuan class cultivation method, while Little Doctor Immortal obtained a Heavenly Jade Fruit.
• Xiao Yan captured a fleeing energy cluster and claimed the High Xuan class sound wave Dou Technique Lion-Tiger Golden Shattering Roar.
• The five left the Library Pavilion as its treasures returned to the energy shields, and the gray-robed guardians scanned them before ordering them to keep its secrets.
• Hu Gan brought the group back through the spatial passage and told them to rest for two days before entering the Inner Academy, advising them to cooperate against older students.

Xiao Yan perfected the Lion-Tiger Golden Shattering Roar before joining the other students selected for the Inner Academy. Hu Gan led the fifty students away from Jia Nan Academy on Griffon Beasts, and Xiao Yan’s group flew toward the hidden academy in the back mountains.

• Xiao Yan used the dragon qi within him to unleash the Lion-Tiger Golden Shattering Roar, which blasted the lake and overwhelmed nearby beasts.
• Xiao Yan met Xun'er at the valley entrance and left with her to enter the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er joined Little Doctor Immortal and Little Qing Lin among the fifty students gathered outside Hu Gan's study.
• Hu Gan addressed the students and arranged for them to travel in groups of five on ten Griffon Beasts.
• Xiao Yan's group boarded a Griffon Beast, and Hu Gan and three elders escorted the students as they departed Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan asked Wu Hao and Hu Jia about the Inner Academy, and Hu Jia said its students returned much stronger.

Xiao Yan and the other new students reached the Inner Academy through a hidden silver gate and received crystal cards marked with five. Elder Su explained that the cards contained valuable Fire Energy, then launched the Fire Energy Hunt Competition, leaving Xiao Yan’s group in the forest as older students prepared to hunt them.

• Hu Gan and the other elders escorted the students through dangerous mountains and opened a hidden silver gate to the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan and the students met Inner Academy elders Su and Qing, who warned that the academy’s older students had grown much stronger.
• Elder Su gave each newcomer a crystal card marked with five and explained that the older students could attack them to steal their Fire Energy.
• Elder Su began the Fire Energy Hunt Competition, challenging the newcomers to reach the Inner Academy while avoiding or defeating their pursuers.
• Xiao Yan’s group appeared in the forest, arguing as an unseen speaker called out to them.

Xiao Yan and his companions learned that older students were robbing newcomers of Fire Energy during the hunt, then defeated a group that tried to prey on them. Xiao Yan obtained a rough forest map from one of the defeated students, though its purchase had cost a full day of Fire Energy.

• Lin Ge and his companions beat five new students and took their Fire Energy, leaving two days' worth on their card.
• Wu Hao, Xun'er, Little Doctor Immortal, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan watched the robbery, and Xiao Yan led the group onward without concern.
• Xiao Yan's group surrounded five blue-clothed older students who had just robbed another team of newcomers.
• Wu Hao and the others quickly overwhelmed the older students, while Xiao Yan subdued a purple-clothed student and questioned him.
• The purple-clothed student handed Xiao Yan a crude forest map and explained that the Inner Academy required competitors to buy it for one day of Fire Energy.

Xiao Yan learned how fire energy powered training in the Inner Academy and joined the Hunting Competition, where he and his companions began robbing veteran students for their Fire Crystal Cards. After taking fire energy from two teams, the group fled deeper into the forest as another team found their unconscious captives.

• The purple-clothed student told Xiao Yan that fifty veterans were competing, described the formidable Black-White Gate Fiends, and explained the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, fire energy, and the Strong Ranking.
• Xiao Yan took the purple-clothed student's Fire Crystal Card, and his group decided to hunt more veteran students for fire energy.
• Xiao Yan and his companions defeated another veteran team, took enough fire energy to give each of them twenty-five days, and left the captives tied to trees.
• Xiao Yan sensed another team approaching and led his excited companions away through the forest.
• A team arrived, found the five unconscious veterans tied up, and cut them loose.

Xiao Yan’s group repeatedly robbed veteran teams during the Fire Energy Hunt, drawing the remaining veterans into a showdown. After overpowering them and taking their Fire Energy, the five passed the trial and were formally recognized by Elder Su.

• Xiao Yan and his companions ambushed veteran teams, stole their Fire Energy, and spread panic throughout the forest.
• Veterans who fell below ten Fire Energy were forced to leave, while other teams searched for Xiao Yan’s group and the remaining veterans eventually allied against them.
• Xiao Yan’s team confronted the fifteen allied veterans, revealed their superior strength, and summoned Little Qing Lin’s three snakes to overwhelm them.
• Xiao Yan’s group took the allied teams’ Fire Energy, then Elder Su stopped the fight and ordered the veterans to escort them out.
• Elder Su announced that Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, Little Doctor Immortal, Little Qing Lin, and Wu Hao had passed the Inner Academy trial.

After entering the Inner Academy, Xiao Yan and his companions learned that veteran students were repeatedly extorting Fire Energy from the new students. Xun'er and Wu Hao proposed that Xiao Yan form a faction to unite them, and Xiao Yan was left to decide what to do.

• Elder Su awarded the victorious new students Fire Energy and gave Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, Little Doctor Immortal, Little Qing Lin, and Wu Hao Azure Fire Crystal Cards before leading them into the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan and the new students surveyed the vast basin that housed the Inner Academy, and Xiao Yan wondered whether he would eventually meet the girl he sought there.
• Xiao Yan trained overnight with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and fed it Associated Amethyst Essence afterward.
• A Tai and other new students told Xiao Yan that veteran student teams were repeatedly demanding tribute and blamed their treatment on the new students' performance in the hunt competition.
• Xun'er suggested that Xiao Yan use his standing among the new students to form a faction, and Wu Hao supported her proposal.

Xiao Yan confronted older students extorting Fire Energy from the new students and forced them to return what they had taken. A Tai then proposed that Xiao Yan form a faction for the new students, and Xiao Yan began considering the idea.

• Xiao Yan decided to leave the pavilion with Xun'er and the others after hearing about the new students' trouble.
• A Tai refused to pay another tribute fee to the older students, who threatened the new students with violence.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward, threatened the older students with his heavy ruler, and ordered them to surrender their Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yan had the new students take the older students' Fire Energy and return the fees that had been extorted from them.
• A Tai suggested that Xiao Yan create a self-protection faction and explained how factions operated in the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan asked A Tai how many students attended the Inner Academy and learned about its five-year system and alternative admissions.

Xiao Yan formed the new-student faction Pan Gate, then went with Wu Hao to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where he recognized its hidden significance. After entering the tower, Xiao Yan quickly rescued Wu Hao from the dangerous reaction that afflicted first-time entrants.

• Xiao Yan agreed to lead the new students, named their faction Pan Gate, and was declared its chief.
• Xiao Yan left Pan Gate's organization to Xun'er, Wu Hao, Hu Jia, and the others, then traveled with Wu Hao through the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan climbed a tree and spotted the underground Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, realizing it was the treasure site sought by powerful factions.
• Xiao Yan and Wu Hao joined the crowd as the tower opened, then entered alongside the veteran students.
• Xiao Yan recognized the danger affecting first-time entrants and pulled Wu Hao out of the tower's burning effect, surprising the veteran students.

Xiao Yan and Wu Hao learned that their instant escape from the tower’s heart flame was unprecedented, while Han Yue warned Xiao Yan that gathering all new students into Pan Gate would anger the Inner Academy’s factions. Xiao Yan stood by his choice, and Han Yue offered to help if trouble arose before leaving for the tower’s sixth floor.

• Han Yue quieted the older students mocking the newcomers, and Elder Liu praised her strength when she said she planned to train on the sixth floor.
• Han Yue and Elder Liu explained that Xiao Yan and Wu Hao had set a record by instantly freeing themselves from the heart flame’s scorching.
• Elder Liu introduced Han Yue to Xiao Yan, and she invited him to join her faction, Moon Spirit.
• Xiao Yan said he had established Pan Gate with all the new students, and Han Yue warned that other factions would resent losing their chance to recruit them.
• Xiao Yan refused to back down, and Han Yue offered to help if Pan Gate needed it before heading to the sixth floor.

Elder Liu showed Xiao Yan and Wu Hao the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where they witnessed the Fallen Heart Flame emerge from the central pit before a spatial cage forced it back underground. Afterward, Elder Liu warned them to keep the incident secret and advised the newly formed Pan Gate to avoid contesting high-grade training rooms until it gained more strength.

• Xiao Yan and Wu Hao toured the tower's first level as Elder Liu explained its training-room grades, fees, and rules.
• Xiao Yan saw spatial distortions rising from the central pit, and Elder Liu pulled him and Wu Hao away from danger.
• The Formless Fire Python surged from the pit but was trapped by a spatial cage and eventually retreated underground.
• Elder Liu told Xiao Yan and Wu Hao to keep the encounter secret and avoid approaching the tower's central area.
• Elder Liu advised Xiao Yan and Wu Hao that Pan Gate should avoid fighting for high-grade rooms until it could produce a Dou Ling expert.

Xiao Yan and Wu Hao returned to Pan Gate’s lodging area to find Bai Shan and the Bai Gang trying to poach new students and threatening Xun’er and Hu Jia. Xiao Yan crushed Fu Ao’s challenge with overwhelming force, leaving the Bai Gang fleeing, while Xun’er took his hand as he calmed down.

• Elder Liu explained the strength required for factions to become first-rate and offered Xiao Yan a good middle-grade training room for Pan Gate’s future visits.
• A new student told Xiao Yan and Wu Hao that Bai Shan and the Bai Gang were pressuring Pan Gate, so the two hurried back to the lodging area.
• Fu Ao demanded that Pan Gate hand over new students, including Xun’er, and ordered Bai Shan’s group to attack when Xun’er refused.
• Xiao Yan and Wu Hao arrived just as the groups were about to clash, and Xiao Yan challenged Fu Ao to single combat with terms restricting the Bai Gang’s future challenges.
• Fu Ao tried to raise the stakes by demanding fifteen students and Xun’er, so Xiao Yan unleashed his killing intent and twisted Fu Ao’s body with a single touch.
• The terrified Bai Gang members carried away the disfigured Fu Ao and fled, and Xun’er took Xiao Yan’s hand as he tried to calm himself.

After defeating Fu Ao, Xiao Yan rallied Pan Gate to train in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower while Bai Cheng ordered his faction to obstruct them. When Bai Cheng confronted Xiao Yan at the tower, Xiao Yan ignored his greeting and told him to get lost.

• Pan Gate members resolved to grow stronger, and Xiao Yan announced they would begin training in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower the next day.
• A Tai told Xiao Yan that Bai Cheng led Bai Gang, ranked thirty-fourth on the Strong Ranking, and commanded several Dou Ling experts and dozens of other members.
• Bai Cheng learned Fu Ao would take years to recover and ordered Bai Gang to stop selling medicinal pills to Pan Gate and block its Fire Energy channels before he entered the tower to train.
• Xiao Yan led more than forty Pan Gate members to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where they waited for its doors to open.
• Bai Cheng approached Xiao Yan with a greeting, but Xiao Yan and his companions ignored his offered hand, and Xiao Yan told Bai Cheng to get lost.

Xiao Yan confronted Bai Cheng’s hostility, entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower with Pan Gate, and secretly dealt with the Fallen Heart Flame fire python before cultivating. After Little Doctor Immortal’s pills helped Pan Gate establish a profitable business, Bai Gang attacked its supply and sales operations, and Xiao Yan set out to confront them.

• Bai Cheng clashed with Xiao Yan, but Han Yue intervened and rebuked Bai Cheng before he left for the tower.
• Xiao Yan and Pan Gate entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where the group benefited from the heart flame’s refining effects.
• Xiao Yan secretly erased the intelligence of the Fallen Heart Flame fire python and spent a month restoring his cultivation to the Dou Emperor level.
• Little Doctor Immortal proposed refining pills to support Pan Gate’s fire energy income, and the group’s pill business soon gained a foothold.
• A Tai reported that Bai Gang had blocked Pan Gate’s ingredient purchases and wrecked most of its pill-selling locations, injuring members who resisted.
• Xiao Yan ordered A Tai to gather Pan Gate and led them to confront Bai Gang.

Xiao Yan led Pan Gate to confront Bai Gang after learning it had attacked them, and Bai Cheng admitted the Medicine Gang had hired him. Lin Yan joined Pan Gate’s side, while Little Doctor Immortal revealed she was a sixth-tier alchemist, escalating the standoff with Han Xian and the Medicine Gang.

• Xiao Yan led Pan Gate to Bai Gang’s plaza, and Bai Cheng gathered his members to meet them.
• Xiao Yan confronted Bai Cheng, who revealed he had been entrusted to teach Pan Gate a lesson, prompting Xiao Yan to identify the Medicine Gang as the force behind it.
• Lin Yan arrived, declared that he owed Pan Gate a favor, and backed them against Bai Gang.
• Han Xian arrived with the Medicine Gang and challenged Xiao Yan, while Lin Yan accused the Medicine Gang of arranging the attack.
• Little Doctor Immortal revealed six silver ripples on her alchemist robes and said she led Pan Gate’s Alchemy Department, shocking Han Xian and the gathered students.
• Han Xian threatened Lin Yan with the stronger experts above him on the Strong Ranking, while Xiao Yan and Han Xian continued their verbal standoff.

Xiao Yan challenged Han Xian to settle the Medicine Gang’s blockade of Pan Gate through an alchemy contest, with the winner gaining pill formulas or valuable trading locations. At North Plaza, Elder Hao began the competition by revealing a difficult formula that neither Little Doctor Immortal nor Han Xian had seen before.

• Xiao Yan proposed that Little Doctor Immortal and Han Xian compete in pill refinement, wagering Pan Gate’s pill sales and formulas against the Medicine Gang’s five busiest trading locations.
• Xiao Yan and Han Xian agreed to have Elder Hao choose a formula and judge the contest, then set the competition for the next day at North Plaza.
• Little Doctor Immortal confidently assured Xiao Yan and Pan Gate’s disciples that Han Xian’s Fourth-grade alchemy was nothing to fear.
• News of the contest spread through the Inner Academy, and a huge crowd gathered at North Plaza the next morning.
• Elder Hao brought out his chosen formula and warned Little Doctor Immortal and Han Xian that the competition would be difficult, while Han Xian accepted confidently.

Little Doctor Immortal and Han Xian began a contest to refine the fifth-grade Dragon Strength Pill after Elder Hao chose the difficult formula to test their alchemy skills. As the competition started, Han Xian revealed his Illusion Gold Flame while Little Doctor Immortal began heating her cauldron with her Life Flame.

• Elder Hao gave Han Xian and Little Doctor Immortal the Dragon Strength Pill formula, and Little Doctor Immortal identified the pill as fifth-grade.
• Elder Hao set the contest rules: each alchemist had three sets of ingredients, and the first to refine the pill would win.
• Han Xian taunted Little Doctor Immortal before they took their places at the stone platforms.
• Little Doctor Immortal brought out an ordinary Medicine Cauldron, while Han Xian displayed a dazzling golden cauldron and revealed his Illusion Gold Flame.
• Little Doctor Immortal sent her green Life Flame into her cauldron and began heating it.

Little Doctor Immortal and Han Xian competed to refine the fifth-tier Dragon Strength Pill, but Han Xian’s failures and shaken composure left him with only a misshapen, incomplete pill. Little Doctor Immortal continued her calm final attempt, and the chapter ended before her result was revealed.

• Han Xian and Little Doctor Immortal began refining the Dragon Strength Pill as the observers doubted their chances of success.
• Little Doctor Immortal worked smoothly while Han Xian hesitated, then failed his first attempt at extracting and fusing the ingredients.
• Han Xian made it through extracting the ingredients on his second attempt, but a lapse in concentration burned his medicinal essence to ashes.
• Little Doctor Immortal resumed refining with renewed speed after quietly realizing how to proceed, while Han Xian began his final attempt with little confidence.
• Han Xian produced a mottled, irregular half-finished pill and handed it to Elder Hao for assessment.

Little Doctor Immortal completed a genuine fifth-tier Dragon Strength Pill and defeated Han Xian in the pill-refining contest. Elder Hao confirmed her win, leaving the elders impressed by her skill.

• Han Xian presented a mottled half-finished pill, while Elder Hao and Xiao Yan doubted that he had successfully refined it.
• Little Doctor Immortal condensed her medicinal ingredients into a pill and carefully completed the refining process.
• Little Doctor Immortal produced a finished Dragon Strength Pill, and Han Xian accused her of cheating.
• Xiao Yan shielded Little Doctor Immortal, and Elder Hao reprimanded Han Xian before inspecting the pill with several elders.
• The elders confirmed the pill was genuine, Han Xian accepted the result, and Elder Hao announced Little Doctor Immortal as the winner.

After Little Doctor Immortal defeated the Medicine Gang in the alchemy competition, Pan Gate claimed the wagered trading spots and began selling pills. Xiao Yan organized alchemists to share the work, and Pan Gate settled into a position capable of competing with the Medicine Gang as its members resumed training.

• Elder Hao confirmed Han Xian’s defeat, secured the five trading spots and the end of the Medicine Gang’s ingredient restrictions for Pan Gate, and lowered Pan Gate’s sales tax to one-tenth.
• Over the next three days, Pan Gate took over the five trading spots and sold nearly two hundred pills in one day, while Little Doctor Immortal and Xiao Yan struggled to meet demand.
• Xiao Yan proposed recruiting alchemists, and Xun’er found three unaffiliated tier-three alchemists whom Xiao Yan accepted into Pan Gate after assessing them.
• After observing the new recruits, Xiao Yan gave them copies of three pill formulas and trained them, easing the burden on Little Doctor Immortal.
• Pan Gate’s pill sales stabilized enough to challenge the Medicine Gang, while Xun’er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao trained in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and Xiao Yan remained at the nine-star Dou Saint level.

After months of reflection, Xiao Yan returned to Jialan Academy and learned that the Bai Gang had injured Hu Jia and challenged Pan Gate. He rushed to the arena, where Wu Hao was losing to Bai Cheng and Xun'er and Little Doctor Immortal prepared to intervene.

• Xiao Yan questioned whether to follow his future memories, meditated alone for several months, and returned to Jialan Academy.
• Xiao Yan found Pan Gate's new student area deserted and learned from A Tai that Bai Gang members had driven Pan Gate out of a training spot and injured Hu Jia.
• Xiao Yan heard that Wu Hao had challenged Bai Cheng, then led Pan Gate members toward the arena.
• At the arena, Xun'er considered fighting Bai Cheng, but Little Doctor Immortal offered to take her place.
• Han Yue, Lin Xiuyuan, and Yan Hao watched the battle and discussed Bai Cheng's ties to Liu Qing and Xiao Yan's hidden strength.
• Wu Hao continued fighting Bai Cheng, but Bai Cheng held the advantage as their weapons collided.

Little Doctor Immortal defeated Bai Cheng in their opening clash, but he ordered the Bai Gang to attack Pan Gate, prompting Xiao Yan to arrive and take him on. As the factions clashed around them, Xiao Yan and Bai Cheng began a fierce duel, which continued with Bai Cheng unleashing a sand-snake attack against Xiao Yan’s Heavy Xuan Ruler.

• Wu Hao was injured by Bai Cheng and began activating his final trump card, but Little Doctor Immortal calmed him and took his place in the arena.
• Little Doctor Immortal sent Bai Cheng flying and knocked away his spear, but Bai Cheng recovered and ordered the Bai Gang to fight Pan Gate.
• Xiao Yan appeared before the Pan Gate disciples as Bai Cheng’s forces charged, while Little Doctor Immortal, Xun'er, and Little Qing Lin held back the Bai Gang’s stronger fighters.
• Xiao Yan advanced on Bai Cheng and broke through his spear-shadow attacks with the Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Bai Cheng drove Xiao Yan back with a spear thrust, then summoned a sand snake that slammed into Xiao Yan’s ruler.

Xiao Yan fought Bai Cheng to a standstill after losing the Heavy Xuan Ruler, then Bai Cheng took a pill that greatly boosted his strength. Xiao Yan responded by beginning to unleash even more power, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Bai Cheng knocked the Heavy Xuan Ruler from Xiao Yan’s grasp, but Xiao Yan used lightning movement and bare-handed attacks to drive Bai Cheng into a desperate roll.
• Xiao Yan and Bai Cheng traded fierce close-range blows until they appeared evenly matched, while Pan Gate gained momentum against the Bai Gang.
• Bai Cheng grew anxious, took the purplish-red pill Han Xian had given him, and used his increased strength to strike Xiao Yan’s arm and send him backward.
• Xiao Yan acknowledged Bai Cheng’s willingness to use any means to win and began raising his aura from six-star Dou Ling through nine-star Dou Ling.

Xiao Yan revealed his nine-star Dou Ling strength and defeated Bai Cheng in their arena battle, securing victory for Pan Gate. As the arena erupted in celebration, a sharp, domineering aura targeted Xiao Yan, and he challenged the unseen senior to fight.

• Xiao Yan revealed his true nine-star Dou Ling strength and overwhelmed Bai Cheng's attacks with his speed and physical power.
• Bai Cheng formed an earth-attributed Dou Qi armor, but Xiao Yan struck it with Eight Extremities Collapse and shattered it with a hidden force.
• Bai Cheng spat blood and collapsed unconscious, prompting the Bai Gang disciples to surrender and Pan Gate to celebrate its victory.
• Little Doctor Immortal, Little Qing Lin, and Xun'er returned to Xiao Yan's side, their high-star Dou Ling auras still strong.
• Xiao Yan sensed a domineering aura targeting him and challenged the unseen senior to fight.