Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan defeated Lu Mu in the flame contest and drew the academy’s attention before the qualifying competition continued. The chapter ended as Blood Asura Wu Hao began his match against Yan Cheng.

• Xiao Yan defeated Lu Mu, won the flame contest, and earned cheers from the stands.
• Lu Mu accepted his loss and left the stage, while Xiao Yan noticed Bai Shan watching him coldly.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xun'er and quietly held her hand before Instructor Ruo Lin caught on and warned him to be discreet.
• The qualifying competition eliminated most contestants, and the judges announced a match between Yan Cheng and Wu Hao.
• Wu Hao appeared in his blood-red robes, prompting concern from the academy elders and fear among the spectators.
• Yan Cheng refused to forfeit and charged at Wu Hao with his weapon.

Wu Hao defeated Yan Cheng in two exchanges and challenged Xiao Yan, but Vice Dean Hu Gan stopped their confrontation and promised them a chance to fight the next day. Xiao Yan later reunited with Xiao Mei, whose regret over their damaged relationship remained unresolved, and returned to the packed square for the final day of the selection competition.

• Wu Hao swiftly disarmed Yan Cheng and held his blood-colored heavy sword to Yan Cheng's neck, winning the match.
• Wu Hao challenged Xiao Yan, but Hu Gan broke up their gathering auras and told them they could fight the next day.
• Xun'er, Bai Shan, and the red-clothed young woman won their matches, while Little Doctor Immortal and Little Qing Lin's opponents surrendered.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Mei at Instructor Ruo Lin's building, greeted her coolly, and left her regretting how she had treated him in the past.
• Xiao Yan and the others entered Jia Nan Academy through a guarded passage and took their seats at the crowded square for the final day.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the final round of the Inner Academy Qualifying Competition, a melee elimination match where contestants could form teams. As the early chaos gave way to organized groups, Xiao Yan and Xun'er were forced to join the fight, and several powerful opponents revealed themselves.

• Xiao Yan exchanged a silent challenge with Bai Shan, while Xun'er noted Bai Shan's talent and Hu Jia arrived at the arena.
• Hu Gan announced that the top fifty contestants would compete in a new melee elimination round, with rankings determined by how long they stayed in the arena.
• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, the Little Doctor Immortal, and Little Qing Lin entered the arena and agreed to rely on the four of them, with the two girls holding back their strength.
• The match began, and contestants clashed, retreated, and formed temporary teams as participants were knocked out.
• After Xiao Yan and Xun'er defeated a team of four, Xiao Yan released his Great Dou Master aura, and five other powerful auras rose around the arena.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er joined the arena's fight, with Xiao Yan confronting Bai Shan while Xun'er and their allies cleared out the other competitors. Bai Shan unleashed a powerful lightning attack that seemed to engulf Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan emerged unharmed beneath green flame.

• Xiao Yan led Xun'er, Little Doctor Immortal, and Little Qing Lin into the arena fight, and they began knocking competitors out.
• Bai Shan ordered his team to attack Xiao Yan and Xun'er while Wu Hao and Hu Jia moved against the other teams.
• Xiao Yan blocked Bai Shan's lightning spear attacks as Xun'er and the others fought their opponents.
• Bai Shan unleashed his Profound Rank High-grade combat skill, Shaking Thunder Ground Arc Explosion, and struck the place where Xiao Yan stood.
• Xiao Yan appeared unharmed, wrapped in green flame, and asked Bai Shan if he had had enough fun.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Bai Shan in close combat, then used the Heavenly Flame Three Profound Transformations to fight Bai Shan, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia together. He defeated all three with a fire lotus, leaving the arena crowd stunned and Old Man Huo interested in recruiting him for the Alchemy Department.

• Xiao Yan chased down Bai Shan with a close-range assault, disarmed him, and shattered his Dou Qi armor.
• Old Man Huo recognized Xiao Yan's azure flames as a Heavenly Flame and said he wanted Xiao Yan to join the Alchemy Department.
• Xiao Yan challenged Bai Shan, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia, then used the Green Lotus Transformation to raise his strength to the level of a Dou Ling expert.
• Xiao Yan struck all three with a single attack, forcing them to retreat as they prepared their strongest techniques.
• Xiao Yan merged purple and azure flames into a fire lotus and threw it at the three, blasting them into a stone wall and leaving them unable to rise.

Xiao Yan won the Qualifying Competition, earning a place among the top five and the right to enter the Library Pavilion. Five days later, he arrived with Xun'er and the others for their visit, where Wu Hao and Hu Jia were already waiting with Instructor Kulu.

• The judges ended the competition after Xiao Yan and the three young women cleared the platforms, naming Little Doctor Immortal, Qing Lin, Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Wu Hao as the top five.
• Bai Shan vowed revenge, Wu Hao resolved to surpass Xiao Yan, and Hu Jia resented how badly Xiao Yan had beaten her.
• Lu Mu praised Xiao Yan and invited him to visit the Alchemy Department, then Xiao Yan left the arena with Little Doctor Immortal, Xun'er, and Little Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan politely greeted Xiao Mei on an academy path but passed her by, leaving her hurt by the distance between them.
• Nearly five days later, Instructor Kulu came to Instructor Ruo Lin's pavilion and told Xiao Yan that the group would enter the Library Pavilion that afternoon.
• At the Library Pavilion, Wu Hao and Hu Jia waited while an old man read through documents.

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.