Chapter Summaries

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.

Xiao Yan faced Liu Qing after defeating Bai Cheng, and Xun'er slapped Liu Fei for insulting him before Liu Qing challenged Xiao Yan to the Strong Ranking Grand Competition. Two days later, Xiao Yan learned that he had taken Bai Cheng’s thirty-fourth place on the Strong Ranking and heard that Hu Jia was recovering and nearing a breakthrough.

• Liu Qing arrived at the arena, acknowledged Xiao Yan’s victory over Bai Cheng, and referred to their indirect grudge over Liu Fei.
• Xun'er rebuked Liu Qing, then slapped Liu Fei after she insulted Xiao Yan; Liu Qing intervened, and Xiao Yan called Xun'er back.
• Lin Xiuyuan and Yan Hao arrived, and Liu Qing said he would not challenge the exhausted Xiao Yan but would face him at the Strong Ranking Grand Competition a month later.
• Xiao Yan accepted Liu Qing’s challenge, and the crowd witnessed the tension ease.
• Two days later, Xun'er told Xiao Yan that Hu Jia was recovering from her injuries and showed signs of approaching the nine-star Great Dou Master level.
• Xiao Yan learned that defeating Bai Cheng had earned him the thirty-fourth position on the Strong Ranking.

Xiao Yan learned more about the upcoming Strong Ranking Grand Competition and visited Elder Hao to secure medicinal ingredients for Little Doctor Immortal. He left with an agreement to trade her pills for ingredients, while the identity of the feared first-ranked student remained unrevealed.

• Lin Yan visited Xiao Yan, whose medicinal liquid had nearly cleared Lin Yan's fire poison, and told him the competition would begin in one month.
• Lin Yan said Liu Qing ranked third, Lin Xiuyuan ranked second, and warned Xiao Yan not to anger the mysterious first-ranked student.
• Lin Yan challenged Xiao Yan to spar, but Xiao Yan refused and sent him away.
• Xiao Yan flew past students watching Pan Gate and headed to the Inner Academy's medicinal ingredient storage to help Little Doctor Immortal.
• Elder Hao agreed to let Xiao Yan take one medicinal ingredient for every pill Little Doctor Immortal refined that satisfied him.

Xiao Yan entered the Inner Academy’s medicinal storeroom to find the Ice-Fire Dragon Whisker Fruit and gathered several rare ingredients along the way. He found the fruit, but a powerful little girl took it, and he used alchemy to persuade her to trade some of her medicinal ingredients for a pill.

• Elder Hao gave Xiao Yan a White Jade Tablet to unlock the medicinal storeroom and reminded him to return and fulfill their deal.
• Xiao Yan searched the storeroom, collected rare ingredients including a Blood Python Branch, and found the Ice-Fire Dragon Whisker Fruit.
• A little girl in white took the Ice-Fire Dragon Whisker Fruit and bit into a Vajra Bodhi as if it were a snack.
• Xiao Yan stopped the girl from eating the fruit, recognized her extraordinary physical strength, and made a pill from the fruit to show her his alchemy skills.
• The impressed little girl offered Xiao Yan a pile of precious medicinal ingredients in exchange for the pill.

Xiao Yan brought Zi Yan out of the medicinal storehouse and refined medicinal pills for her, learning that she had been transformed by Form Transformation Grass and lived alone before the Inner Academy’s Great Elder took her in. Zi Yan left after offering to protect Xiao Yan, revealing that she ranked first on the Inner Academy Strong Ranking.

• Xiao Yan restored the medicinal storehouse barrier and brought Zi Yan to Elder Hao, who scolded her for taking medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan collected ingredients for the Dragon Strength Pill and told Elder Hao that the Little Doctor Immortal would refine it.
• While refining pills for Zi Yan, Xiao Yan learned she had eaten Form Transformation Grass and could not return to her beast form until she reached Dou Huang strength.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan she had grown up alone in the deep mountains before the Inner Academy’s Great Elder brought her to the academy.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan the pills, and she asked him to refine more in exchange for protecting him.
• Zi Yan introduced herself and revealed that she was first on the Inner Academy Strong Ranking before she hurried away.

Xiao Yan refined a Sixth-grade Emperor Dragon Pill while caring for the little girl, and the pill’s eruption alerted Jia Nan Academy and Han Feng to a powerful alchemical presence. The Great Elder prepared the academy for the Fallen Heart Flame’s coming eruption as he went to investigate the disturbance.

• Xiao Yan continued cultivating in the rear mountains and refined increasingly advanced pills for the little girl, who eagerly sampled them.
• Xiao Yan formed a Sixth-grade Pill, erased its pill tribulation, and drew the attention of the Inner Academy’s Great Elder and Han Feng.
• The Great Elder ordered the elders to guard the Fallen Heart Flame, prepare to evacuate the tower, and watch for Han Feng and the Black Corner Region factions.
• The Great Elder learned that Xiao Yan had reached nine-star Dou Ling and taught Little Doctor Immortal alchemy, so he ordered the elders not to hinder Xiao Yan.
• The Great Elder set out to investigate the Sixth-grade Pill’s energy fluctuation, while Han Feng decided not to enter Jia Nan Academy’s territory.
• Xiao Yan took the little girl away from the mountain where he refined the pill and told her it was a Sixth-grade Emperor Dragon Pill.