Chapter Summaries

Xu Haoyu discovered that an Extraterrestrial Meteorite absorbed his flames, so he began nourishing it while preparing for the Inner Courtyard Selection Competition. At the competition, the draw paired him against Liang Buping of Heaven Rank Class Two in the seventh round.

• Xu Haoyu separated the Spirit Receptacle from a High-Level Storage Stone and tried to melt an Extraterrestrial Meteorite with his flames.
• Xu Haoyu realized the meteorite was secretly absorbing fire energy and decided to nourish it with flames over the following days.
• On the day of the Inner Courtyard Selection Competition, Xu Haoyu met Fire Elder and joined the Alchemy Department at Canaan Square.
• Vice-Dean Hu Qian explained the competition rules and announced that the top fifty students would enter the Inner Courtyard and the top five could choose treasures from the Treasure Pavilion.
• The judges began drawing matches and paired Xu Haoyu against Liang Buping of Heaven Rank Class Two in the seventh round.

Xu Haoyu easily defeated Liang Buping and dominated the Inner Courtyard Selection Competition, which concluded with him as champion. Hu Qian announced that Xu Haoyu and the four runners-up would visit the Treasure Pavilion after a few days of rest.

• Liang Buping challenged Xu Haoyu, but Xu Haoyu used white flames to form a winged white tiger that overwhelmed his attack and defeated him.
• The spectators praised Xu Haoyu, and Hu Qian and the elders judged him the clear favorite to win the championship.
• Xu Haoyu continued to defeat each opponent with ease as the competition went on for five days.
• Xu Haoyu defeated his final opponent and won the championship.
• Hu Qian announced that Xu Haoyu, Zhang Kaidi, Yu Huo, Jiang Miaomiao, and Lie Feng would visit the Treasure Pavilion after resting.

After winning the Inner Courtyard Selection Competition, Xu Haoyu attempted to refine the peak Rank 5 Ice Soul Pill in seclusion. He overcame the unstable energy that threatened to destroy his cauldron and completed the pill, leaving him celebrating his success.

• Xu Haoyu went to the Alchemy Department and locked himself in a fifth-floor room to attempt refining a Rank 5 Pill.
• Xu Haoyu extracted and stored the medicinal essences of the Ice Spirit Grass, Azure Frost Fruit, and Cold Marrow Branch.
• The Rank 5 ice-type Magical Core battered Xu Haoyu’s cauldron, so he formed a white fire curtain to withstand the impact.
• Xu Haoyu fused the ingredients’ essences with the Magical Core’s liquid energy and carefully shaped the pill embryo.
• The completed Ice Soul Pill drew Heaven and Earth Energy, and Xu Haoyu laughed as he realized he had succeeded.

After successfully refining a peak Rank 5 Ice Soul Pill, Xu Haoyu learned where he might find a rare medicine cauldron and went with the top five contestants to Jia Nan Academy’s hidden Treasure Pavilion. The guardians opened the sealed entrance, and the group entered with half an hour to choose a treasure.

• Xu Haoyu revealed that he had refined an Ice Soul Pill on his first try, shocking Fire Elder and the gathered alchemists.
• Xu Haoyu asked Fire Elder about finding a rare medicine cauldron, and Fire Elder suggested asking Elder Zhou Quan to forge one from precious ores.
• Xu Haoyu rested for a day and a night before an instructor summoned him to join the others at the Treasure Pavilion.
• Vice-Dean Hu Qian led Xu Haoyu, Zhang Kaidi, Yu Huo, Jiang Miaomiao, and Lie Feng through a hidden passage to the true Treasure Pavilion.
• Bai Lie and Qian Mu opened the Space Lock, and Hu Qian told the five contestants they had half an hour to choose a treasure.

Xu Haoyu entered the Treasure Pavilion with Zhang Kaidi, Yu Huo, Jiang Miaomiao, and Lie Feng and obtained the Earth Rank Middle Level Yin Yang Revolving Art, which suited his Light and Dark Attributes. Vice-Dean Hu Qian warned them of a test awaiting them in the Inner Courtyard, and Xu Haoyu recognized it as the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and planned to hunt rather than be hunted.

• Xu Haoyu let Zhang Kaidi, Yu Huo, Jiang Miaomiao, and Lie Feng chase treasures while he used his soul perception to search for one that truly appealed to him.
• Xu Haoyu caught a streak of light and seized the Yin Yang Revolving Art, a cultivation technique that could let Light and Dark Attribute Dou Qi be transferred between cultivators.
• Xu Haoyu realized that the technique could raise his Guiyi True Art to Earth Rank Middle Level because he possessed both Light and Dark Attributes.
• Xu Haoyu and the other four chose one treasure each and left the Treasure Pavilion after Bai Lie and Qian Mu sealed the Space Lock.
• Vice-Dean Hu Qian warned the five about a test before their Inner Courtyard studies, and Xu Haoyu recognized it as the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and resolved not to become prey.

Xu Haoyu cultivated the Yin Yang Rotation Art in a secluded mountain cave, fusing it with the Guiyi True Art and strengthening his Light and Darkness Dou Qi. The process broke through his limits, leaving him as a One Star Dou Ling with an Earth Rank Middle Level Guiyi True Art.

• Xu Haoyu left Canaan City for a hidden mountain cave so he could safely cultivate the Yin Yang Rotation Art.
• Xu Haoyu studied the art and used his Myriad Laws Body to cultivate pure Light and Darkness Attribute Dou Qi.
• Xu Haoyu spent seven days drawing in Heaven and Earth Energy until both streams of Dou Qi reached Nine Star Da Dou Shi strength.
• Xu Haoyu fused the two streams into his Seven-Colored Dou Crystal and compressed it through eighty-one pulses.
• Xu Haoyu's crystal transformed into a Nine-Colored Sea Urchin Dou Crystal, and he broke through to One Star Dou Ling.
• Xu Haoyu celebrated his breakthrough and realized he would need stronger cultivation arts to advance the Guiyi True Art further.

After returning to Jia Nan Academy as a Dou Ling, Xu Haoyu joined the top fifty students preparing to enter the Inner Courtyard. Vice-Dean Hu Qian led them through the Back Mountain to a hidden silver gate, where their journey into the Inner Courtyard began.

• Xu Haoyu returned to Jia Nan Academy, and Vice-Dean Hu Qian told him to report the next morning so the students could depart for the Inner Courtyard.
• Xu Haoyu packed his belongings and arrived at Canaan Square, where the other selected students noticed his increased strength.
• Xu Haoyu confirmed to Zhang Kaidi and the others that he had reached the Dou Ling level, earning the students' awe and respect.
• Hu Qian arrived with griffin beasts and led the fifty students toward the depths of the Back Mountain, fending off attacking flying magical beasts along the way.
• Hu Qian opened a silver gate in the air and told the students that the Inner Courtyard lay beyond it.

Xu Haoyu entered the Inner Courtyard and began the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, where new students had to protect their Fire Crystal Cards from senior students. He defeated five seniors and took their fire energy, leaving the forest with 135 points.

• Hu Qian introduced Xu Haoyu to Elders Liu and Wan as the selection champion, who had advanced from Nine Star Da Dou Shi to One Star Dou Ling.
• Elder Liu and Elder Wan gave each of the fifty new students a Fire Crystal Card with five points of fire energy and explained the competition rules.
• Xu Haoyu rushed into the forest first, followed by Zhang Kaidi, Yu Huo, and the other students.
• Xu Haoyu confronted five senior students and demanded their Fire Crystal Cards, but the strongest senior challenged him instead.
• Xu Haoyu defeated all five seniors and took their fire energy, raising his card's total from five to 135 points.

Xu Haoyu confronted the Black Fiends Team and White Fiends Team, overpowering their leaders and then unleashing a devastating palm technique against all ten older students. Elder Liu and Elder Wan intervened just in time, leaving them astonished by the strength of his attack.

• Xu Haoyu continued robbing older students and drew the attention of the competition’s strongest teams, the Black Fiends Team and White Fiends Team.
• Hu Tie challenged Xu Haoyu and attacked him with Iron Tiger Crushing Fist, but Xu Haoyu struck him down with Thousandfold Strike.
• Hu Tie urged the remaining students to attack together, and Luo Shan led both teams in a combined assault.
• Xu Haoyu countered with Heaven Splitting Divine Palm, sweeping away their techniques and threatening to overwhelm all ten students.
• Elder Liu and Elder Wan arrived and extinguished Xu Haoyu’s palm imprint before it could finish the teams.

Xu Haoyu received a green Fire Crystal Card with 800 Fire Energy for his performance in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and entered the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower for the first time. Inside, his Extraterrestrial Meteorite began trembling with excitement, suggesting the tower might reveal its secret.

• Elder Liu rewarded Xu Haoyu with a green Fire Crystal Card, and Xu Haoyu transferred his 521 Fire Energy onto it, bringing his total to 1,321.
• Elder Wan escorted Xu Haoyu into the Inner Courtyard, arranged his residence, and led him to the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• The Tower Guardian Elder warned Xu Haoyu to start on the lower floors and gave him a Heart Fire Seed to protect him from the tower's Heart Fire.
• Xu Haoyu entered the tower and activated the Heart Fire Seed to dispel the invisible flame that had begun scorching him.
• Xu Haoyu sensed the Fallen Heart Flame's peculiar aura, then discovered that the Extraterrestrial Meteorite in his Storage Ring was trembling with unease and excitement.

Xu Haoyu cultivated in a fifth-level training room while an Extraterrestrial Meteorite absorbed the tower’s fire energy and cracked open. Its black-and-white flame emerged, provoking Fallen Heart Flame into a violent riot that the Inner Courtyard elders rushed to suppress.

• Xu Haoyu entered a fifth-level Intermediate Training Room and used its dense Heart Fire aura to cultivate.
• Xu Haoyu set down the Extraterrestrial Meteorite, which absorbed the room’s fire energy as he cultivated with the Guiyi True Art.
• After several hours, Xu Haoyu watched the meteorite turn red, crack apart, and reveal a black-and-white flame containing two swimming fish.
• Fallen Heart Flame sensed the newly emerged flame and began striking the Thousand-Layer Seal beneath the tower.
• Grand Elder Su Qian and the other elders arrived and reinforced the seal to suppress Fallen Heart Flame.

Xu Haoyu discovered the Yin Yang Dual Flame inside the Extraterrestrial Meteorite and began absorbing its origin. As he struggled to draw the flame into his dantian, Li Xiantian awakened and revealed his plan to use Xu Haoyu as a vessel for possession.

• Xu Haoyu recognized the black-and-white flame as the infant Yin Yang Dual Flame and approached it using his yin- and yang-attributed Dou Qi.
• Xu Haoyu reached into the flame, retrieved its two swimming-fish-shaped origins, and swallowed them.
• The Heavenly Flame origin scorched Xu Haoyu from within, so he swallowed an ice-blue pill and gathered the energy toward his dantian while his body froze.
• Li Xiantian emerged from a Storage Ring, recognized the Heavenly Flame, and resolved to let Xu Haoyu grow stronger before attempting to possess his body.

Xu Haoyu completed absorbing the Yin Yang Dual Flame, housing its Black and White Twin Fish in a Spirit Receptacle and discovering that he could wield and merge their opposing flames. He left the tower pondering whether the Yin Yang Dual Flame could teach him how to absorb multiple Heavenly Flames without the Flame Mantra.

• Xu Haoyu drew the Black and White Twin Fish into his dantian, where their source power tempered and strengthened his body.
• Xu Haoyu placed a Spirit Receptacle in his dantian and lured the Black and White Twin Fish inside by using his Beast Flame seed as bait.
• Xu Haoyu emerged from the ice, dressed, and found that his physique had grown stronger even though he remained a one-star Dou Ling.
• Xu Haoyu summoned the Yin Yang Dual Flame as separate black and white flames, then merged them into one.
• Xu Haoyu reflected on yin-yang balance and considered whether the Yin Yang Dual Flame could help him absorb other Heavenly Flames without the Flame Mantra.

Xu Haoyu left the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower with the Yin Yang Dual Flame refined and the Extraterrestrial Meteorite in hand, then learned the tower would remain closed for three days. Grand Elder Su Qian noticed Xu Haoyu’s Heavenly Flame and called him over as he was leaving.

• Xu Haoyu retrieved the cracked Extraterrestrial Meteorite, intending to ask Elder Zhou Quan about forging it into a medicinal cauldron.
• Xu Haoyu sensed the Fallen Heart Flame below and calmed the newborn Yin Yang Dual Flame with Yin Yang Dou Qi.
• The Tower Guardian Elder warned Xu Haoyu to leave whenever the Fallen Heart Flame rioted and told him the tower would reopen in three days.
• Grand Elder Su Qian and the elders quelled the riot, and Su Qian suspected Xu Haoyu possessed the Yin Yang Dual Flame.
• Su Qian called Xu Haoyu over and asked whether he was one of the year's new students.

After meeting Grand Elder Su Qian at the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, Xu Haoyu searched the Inner Courtyard for Elder Zhou Quan to commission a High-Level Storage Ring. Zhou Quan agreed to forge it, and Xu Haoyu then presented an Extraterrestrial Meteorite to ask about making a High-Level Medicine Cauldron.

• Su Qian recognized Xu Haoyu as a young Dou Ling, encouraged him to make a name for himself, and let him leave.
• Xu Haoyu explored the Inner Courtyard and found Zhou Quan's blacksmith shop on its western side.
• Xu Haoyu asked Zhou Quan to forge a High-Level Storage Ring from his fist-sized piece of High-Level Storage Stone.
• Zhou Quan examined the stone, accepted the leftover scraps as payment, and told Xu Haoyu to return in about ten days.
• Xu Haoyu showed Zhou Quan a split Extraterrestrial Meteorite and asked whether it could be used to forge a High-Level Medicine Cauldron.

Xu Haoyu had Zhou Quan test the extraterrestrial meteorite, then used the Yin Yang Dual Flame to melt it so Zhou Quan could forge it into a medicine cauldron. He left with an agreement for Zhou Quan to make him a high-level Storage Ring and cauldron, and planned to earn Fire Energy by refining pills.

• Zhou Quan discovered he could not melt Xu Haoyu's extraterrestrial meteorite with his own flames and said he could not forge it into a cauldron himself.
• Xu Haoyu used the Yin Yang Dual Flame to remove the meteorite's impurities, leaving its dark iron essence.
• Zhou Quan recognized Xu Haoyu's Heavenly Flame and learned he was a peak Fifth-Rank Alchemist, then offered to forge the cauldron without charging a forging fee.
• Xu Haoyu agreed to pay for the supplementary ores and to assist Zhou Quan during the forging, while expressing interest in learning cauldron-making techniques.
• Xu Haoyu left after Zhou Quan agreed to let him buy on credit, and decided to refine and sell pills to earn Fire Energy.

Xu Haoyu spent two days refining Rank 4 Pills after buying a medicinal cauldron and ingredients, then found the other new students waiting outside his dormitory to ask him to lead a faction. He invited some of them inside to discuss forming it.

• Xu Haoyu bought a four-mouthed medicinal cauldron and a large supply of herbs at the Inner Courtyard market, haggling for a lower price.
• Xu Haoyu practiced controlling the Yin Yang Dual Flame and refined Rank 4 Pills for two days, filling many bottles and jars.
• Xu Haoyu prepared to leave and sell the pills, but found many fellow newcomers gathered outside his dormitory.
• Jiang Miaomiao explained that the newcomers wanted to form a faction under Xu Haoyu to protect themselves from senior students.
• Xu Haoyu recognized that the faction could help him with errands and invited some of the students inside to discuss it.

Xu Haoyu gathered the unaffiliated new students and established Dragon Abyss, putting them to work selling the pills he had refined. He then went to the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower to cultivate while considering the Fallen Heart Flame and the smaller flame beneath the magma.

• Xu Haoyu agreed to lead the new students and laid out a plan for selling pills and sharing faction profits according to members’ contributions.
• Lie Feng asked to buy pills, and Xu Haoyu allowed internal purchases at the original price while reserving monthly pill quotas for members.
• Xu Haoyu named the faction Dragon Abyss, and the group finalized its rules and formally registered its members.
• Xu Haoyu appointed Zhang Kaidi, Yu Huo, Jiang Miaomiao, and Lie Feng as protectors and assigned them to sell the pills.
• Xu Haoyu entered the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, descended to the fifth floor, and began cultivating while studying the Yin Yang Dual Flame in his Spirit Receptacle.

Xu Haoyu advanced his cultivation and planned to use the Inner Courtyard’s Fallen Heart Flame to strengthen the Yin Yang Dual Flame. When older students tried to extort the new students’ pill profits, he drove them off, but the wealth he had earned drew the attention of Strong Ranking experts.

• Xu Haoyu saw that one barb of his Sea Urchin Dou Crystal had shortened nearly halfway and resolved to feed the Yin Yang Dual Flame energy from the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xu Haoyu left the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower and found older students demanding tribute from the new students gathered outside his dormitory.
• Jiang Miaomiao told Xu Haoyu that the older students wanted protection fees after the new students’ pills sold well.
• Xu Haoyu released his Dou Ling aura, ordered the older students to leave, and challenged anyone who objected to settle the matter in the Arena.
• Zhang Kaidi and Jiang Miaomiao gave Xu Haoyu the day’s 1,300 Fire Energy points, and he returned 300 as compensation and supplied more pills to sell.
• News of Xu Haoyu’s wealth and strength spread through the Inner Courtyard, attracting the attention of some Strong Ranking experts.

Xu Haoyu challenged Xiao Lang after the ninth-ranked Strong Ranking expert demanded half the profits from his pill business. Xu Haoyu defeated Xiao Lang in one move, claiming the ninth spot and leaving the Inner Courtyard stunned.

• Xiao Lang demanded half the profits from Xu Haoyu's pill business in exchange for protection, and Xu Haoyu challenged him to an arena match.
• Xu Haoyu's Dragon Abyss members doubted he could defeat the six-star Dou Ling, but followed him to the arena.
• Xu Haoyu registered for the match and considered how winning ninth place would qualify him for the Strong Ranking Competition and a chance to temper his body with the Original Heart Flame.
• Xiao Lang unleashed Wolf Fang Mad Demon Fist, but Xu Haoyu dodged his attack and struck him with Thousandfold Strike, knocking him down in one move.
• The audience watched in disbelief as Xu Haoyu claimed Xiao Lang's ninth-place ranking on the Strong Ranking.