Chapter Summaries

Xu Haoyu mastered the Wrath of Heavens Heart Sutra, fused it with the Guiyi True Art, and advanced to two-star Dou Wang. Li Xiantian then revealed that he intended to possess Xu Haoyu’s body, forcing Xu Haoyu to fight back inside his own soul.

• Xu Haoyu cultivated the Wrath of Heavens Heart Sutra for five days and achieved modest success as Heaven and Earth Energy gathered around him.
• Xu Haoyu fused the new method into the Guiyi True Art, broke through to two-star Dou Wang, and raised the Guiyi True Art to High-Level Earth Rank.
• Li Xiantian revealed that he wanted Xu Haoyu’s body so he could return to the continent, then used space power to immobilize him and entered his body.
• Li Xiantian severed the connection between Xu Haoyu’s soul, Dou Qi, and body and attempted to devour his soul.
• Xu Haoyu confronted Li Xiantian in the darkness of his soul and summoned a Black and White Giant Tiger formed from black-and-white flames to attack him.

Xu Haoyu used the Yin Yang Dual Flame to defeat Li Xiantian and burn away his soul. After Li Xiantian became a sphere of Soul Origin, Xu Haoyu swallowed it and fell into a deep sleep.

• Li Xiantian's Soul Strength hand was burned by the Yin Yang Dual Flame, and he realized Xu Haoyu's flame could threaten his soul.
• Li Xiantian summoned a great halberd and unleashed Azure Dragon's Roar, leaving Xu Haoyu unconscious in the blast.
• Li Xiantian tried to devour Xu Haoyu, but Xu Haoyu awakened and engulfed him in black-and-white flames.
• Xu Haoyu condensed the flames into a furnace and burned Li Xiantian until only a sphere of Soul Origin remained.
• Xu Haoyu swallowed the Soul Origin and fell into a deep sleep.

After absorbing Li Xiantian’s Soul Origin, Xu Haoyu reached the great completion of the Mortal Realm and returned to the Inner Courtyard. He learned the recipe for the Six-Rank Dou Ling Pill and prepared to refine it.

• Xu Haoyu woke after his Soul Strength reached the Mortal Realm’s great completion, having freed himself from Li Xiantian’s control.
• Xu Haoyu broke the Soul Seal on Li Xiantian’s Storage Ring, found an unusually heavy Bronze Halberd, and named the ring Xuan Xiao.
• Xu Haoyu flew back to the Inner Courtyard, where Dragon Abyss members greeted him and agreed to guard his room.
• Xu Haoyu broke the Soul Seal on Li Fufeng’s scroll and learned how to refine the Six-Rank Dou Ling Pill.
• Xu Haoyu gathered the ingredients for the Dou Ling Pill from his Storage Ring and prepared to begin refining it.

Xu Haoyu refined a low-grade Six-Rank Dou Ling Pill, causing a Heaven and Earth phenomenon that drew the Inner Courtyard’s elders and students. After confirming his new status as a Rank 6 Alchemist, he secured permission to cultivate at the bottom of the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.

• Xu Haoyu used the Yin Yang Dual Flame and his soul perception to refine the Dou Ling Pill’s ingredients and condense them into a pill.
• After three hours of nourishment, Xu Haoyu completed the pill, and a cyan pillar of light burst through the roof into the sky.
• Su Qian and the Inner Courtyard’s elders and students gathered outside Xu Haoyu’s room to investigate the phenomenon.
• Xu Haoyu showed the crowd his low-grade Six-Rank Dou Ling Pill and confirmed that he could refine Six-Rank Pills.
• Su Qian ordered a batch of Dou Ling Pills for the academy, and Xu Haoyu asked to cultivate at the bottom of the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• Su Qian granted Xu Haoyu’s request and promised to guard the seal while he cultivated there.

After a year of cultivation, Xu Haoyu had advanced to Seven-Star Dou Wang when the Fallen Heart Flame erupted with a year’s worth of accumulated power. Han Feng seized the distraction to invade Jia Nan Academy, leaving Su Qian to split the elders between defending the tower and confronting the attackers.

• Xu Haoyu cultivated at the bottom of the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, where the Fallen Heart Flame’s Formless Fire Python erupted and struck the seal.
• The tower shook, and the elders evacuated the students; Xu Haoyu left the tower after an elder warned him of the eruption.
• Han Feng sensed the eruption in Maple City and flew toward Jia Nan Academy, summoning the Black Ranking experts he had gathered.
• Su Qian and the elders reinforced the seal, suppressing the Fallen Heart Flame as it burned its origin essence to escape.
• Han Feng and the Black Ranking experts breached the Inner Courtyard’s spatial seal and attacked the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• Su Qian ordered the Second Elder and Third Elder to keep suppressing the Fallen Heart Flame, then led half the elders out to confront Han Feng’s forces.

Han Feng led Gold Silver Two Elders, Fan Lao, Yuan Yi, and other Black Ranking experts in an attack on Jia Nan Academy, claiming he wanted to free the Fallen Heart Flame. As the battle spread across the Inner Courtyard, Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan joined the defenders and became targets of Han Feng and Fan Lao.

• Su Qian urged Han Feng and the invading experts to withdraw, but Han Feng refused and promised his allies medicinal pills for causing trouble.
• Su Qian ordered the Inner Courtyard elders to attack and asked Elder Wan to summon reinforcements as both sides clashed in the sky.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan flew into battle, each defeating a Dou Wang before Han Feng and Fan Lao targeted them.
• Han Feng injured two elders and pursued Xu Haoyu for his Yin Yang Dual Flame, while Fan Lao targeted Zi Yan for her powerful body and blood.
• Gold Silver Two Elders provoked Su Qian over Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan, then kept him occupied as Han Feng and Fan Lao confronted the two youths.

Xu Haoyu and Han Feng clashed with their Heavenly Flames as Fallen Heart Flame broke free from the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower. Han Feng fought the escaped flame while Xu Haoyu joined Zi Yan against Fan Lao.

• Han Feng attacked Xu Haoyu with Sea Heart Flame, and Xu Haoyu countered with Yin Yang Dual Flame, though Han Feng held the advantage.
• The Formless Fire Python shattered the Crystal Seal, blasted through the tower roof, and escaped after the elders were injured by the backlash.
• Han Feng tried to recruit Fallen Heart Flame, but it ignored him and fixed its hatred on Xu Haoyu for stealing its energy.
• Han Feng summoned the Ocean Heart Saint Beast, and it battled the Formless Fire Python in the air.
• Xu Haoyu restored his Dou Qi, then used Yin Yang Dual Flame to evaporate Fan Lao's sea of blood before he and Zi Yan attacked him together.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan overwhelmed Fan Lao, forcing the Four-Star Dou Huang to flee after Xu Haoyu blocked his strongest attack. The Formless Fire Python then swallowed Xu Haoyu and carried him into the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, where Xu Haoyu considered using the Yin Yang Dual Flame to refine Fallen Heart Flame.

• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan kicked Fan Lao back and forth, severely injuring him.
• Fan Lao used Blood Transformation to heal himself temporarily and launched Great Blood Bodhi Devour at Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan.
• Xu Haoyu countered Fan Lao’s attack with Heaven Splitting Divine Palm, and Fan Lao fled from the black-and-white flames.
• The Formless Fire Python knocked away the Ocean Heart Saint Beast, forced Han Feng to dodge its magma attack, and swallowed Xu Haoyu.
• The Formless Fire Python returned to the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower with Xu Haoyu, while Han Feng abandoned his chance to pursue them.
• Xu Haoyu considered using the Yin Yang Dual Flame to refine Fallen Heart Flame and evolve his flame.

Xu Haoyu battled the weakened Formless Fire Python in the Scarlet Lava and overcame its attacks with the Yin Yang Dual Flame. He pulled the Fallen Heart Flame origin from the serpent’s throat and held it in his hand.

• The Formless Fire Python burrowed into the Scarlet Lava, weakening to early-stage Dou Emperor strength, and Xu Haoyu escaped its jaws.
• Xu Haoyu punched the serpent, swung it by its tail, and hurled it into a rock wall.
• The Formless Fire Python gathered its energy in its throat and fired a flame pillar, but Xu Haoyu blocked it with the Black and White Taiji Pattern.
• Xu Haoyu struck the serpent with two palm imprints, destroying its head and tail before it could recover.
• Xu Haoyu reached into the serpent’s throat and pulled out the writhing Heavenly Flame origin of Fallen Heart Flame.

Xu Haoyu fused the Yin Yang Dual Flame with the Fallen Heart Flame, creating a new Heavenly Flame through the balance of yin and yang. After surviving the dangerous process, he searched deeper in the Scarlet Lava for the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame to replace the one taken from Jia Nan Academy.

• Xu Haoyu prepared to fuse the Fallen Heart Flame with the Yin Yang Dual Flame, relying on the balance inherent in his first Heavenly Flame.
• Xu Haoyu drew the Fallen Heart Flame into his dantian, where it clashed violently with the Black and White Twin Fish and left him gravely injured.
• Xu Haoyu used his soul perception to guide the fusion, remaining immersed in the process until he regained consciousness after an unknown amount of time.
• Xu Haoyu confirmed that the two flames had formed a stronger, illusory black-and-white Heavenly Flame and realized his success depended on the Yin Yang Dual Flame.
• Xu Haoyu decided to find the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame to replace the one taken from Jia Nan Academy, then searched deeper into the Scarlet Lava.

Xu Haoyu found the Young Fallen Heart Flame and agreed to free Yao Tian Huo in exchange for it. After escaping the collapsing space, he returned to the surface and broke through the Crystal Seal, as chaos spread through the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.

• Xu Haoyu followed the Fallen Heart Flame’s aura through the magma and found the Young Fallen Heart Flame beside Yao Tian Huo’s remains.
• Yao Tian Huo offered the Young Fallen Heart Flame in exchange for Xu Haoyu taking him out of the Underground Lava World, and Xu Haoyu agreed.
• Yao Tian Huo severed his connection to the flame, placed his bones and soul in a Storage Ring, and urged Xu Haoyu to escape as the isolated space collapsed.
• Xu Haoyu fled the collapsing space with the Young Fallen Heart Flame and the Storage Ring, then spent a day returning to the magma’s surface.
• Xu Haoyu used Earth Crack Lava Surge to shatter the Crystal Seal while the elders inside the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower struggled to contain the chaos.

Xu Haoyu returned alive after defeating the Fallen Heart Flame and learned that the Black-Corner Region was preparing to challenge Jia Nan Academy. He agreed to join the academy’s planned Decapitation Strike against Han Feng’s forces, then returned to Dragon Abyss.

• Su Qian and the elders watched Xu Haoyu emerge from the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower with the Fallen Heart Flame reduced to a tiny, newly born flame.
• Su Qian welcomed Xu Haoyu back and explained that the Inner Courtyard would nurture the weakened Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian told Xu Haoyu that two months had passed and that Han Feng was helping organize a Black Alliance in Maple City.
• Xu Haoyu agreed to join Jia Nan Academy’s planned Decapitation Strike, which Su Qian said would begin within three to five days.
• Xu Haoyu returned to Dragon Abyss, where the gang members cheered upon seeing their Gang Leader again.

Xu Haoyu returned to Dragon Abyss, reunited with Zi Yan, and joined Jia Nan Academy’s elders in a surprise attack on Maple City. The chapter ended as their first volley devastated half the city and caught Han Feng and the Black Alliance off guard.

• Xu Haoyu returned to Dragon Abyss, where Zi Yan revealed she had joined as deputy gang leader because she was worried about the group.
• Xu Haoyu refined Pills for Zi Yan for several days before an elder informed him that the Decapitation Strike was beginning.
• Su Qian and Hu Qian rallied Jia Nan Academy’s experts to avenge the attack on the Inner Courtyard and set out for Maple City with Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan.
• Han Feng urged Black Ranking experts in Maple City to elect him leader of the Black Alliance, offering wealth, rewards, and free alchemy.
• Su Qian’s forces launched a surprise barrage on Maple City, destroying half its streets as Han Feng shouted for everyone to take cover.

Jia Nan Academy attacked the Black-Corner Region experts, and Xu Haoyu confronted Fan Lao. After using Fan Lao to hone his combat skills, Xu Haoyu ignited the Heart Fire inside him and killed him, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Su Qian rejected Han Feng’s threat and ordered the Jia Nan Academy experts to kill their opponents.
• Xu Haoyu chose Fan Lao as his target, and Fan Lao was shocked to see him alive after the Formless Fire Python incident.
• Xu Haoyu fought Fan Lao while using the battle to temper his skills and letting Fallen Heart Flame seep into Fan Lao’s body.
• Fan Lao used Blood Transformation and unleashed Great Blood Bodhi Devour, but Xu Haoyu ignited Fan Lao’s Heart Fire and disrupted the attack.
• Xu Haoyu smashed Fan Lao’s head, took his Storage Ring, and burned his corpse with Heavenly Flames.

Xu Haoyu confronted Han Feng after killing Fan Lao and revealed a Flame Outer Garment that raised his strength to match Han Feng’s. Their battle began as Xu Haoyu charged with a Golden Wheel Slash against Han Feng’s Sea Heart Halberd.

• After Fan Lao died, Han Feng realized Xu Haoyu’s flames included the Fallen Heart Flame and feared he had also cultivated the Flame Mantra.
• Xu Haoyu left Hu Qian to deal with the other enemies and faced Han Feng to settle their old score.
• Han Feng mocked Xu Haoyu and claimed he would take both of his Heavenly Flames.
• Xu Haoyu used the Heaven-Rank Dou Technique Ghost Possession to form a Flame Outer Garment and raise his strength to the Dou Zong level.
• Han Feng summoned the Sea Heart Halberd as Xu Haoyu charged and unleashed Golden Wheel Slash.

Xu Haoyu killed Han Feng and helped Jia Nan Academy win the battle against the Black Alliance. After Su Qian ordered the academy to wipe out the remaining Black-Corner Region factions, Xu Haoyu left with Zi Yan to raid them for wealth.

• Xu Haoyu shattered Han Feng’s halberd, overcame his attacks, and snapped his neck before sealing his soul and the Sea Heart Flame in a jade bottle.
• Xu Haoyu announced Han Feng’s death, which rallied Jia Nan Academy and panicked the remaining Black Alliance members.
• Zi Yan killed Yuan Yi, while Su Qian and Hu Qian defeated the Gold Silver Two Elders and the academy’s forces wiped out the other Black Alliance fighters.
• Su Qian ordered Hu Qian to send Wu Tianlang and the Law Enforcement Team to eliminate the surviving Black-Corner Region factions.
• Xu Haoyu asked Su Qian for permission to leave with Zi Yan, then said he would take her to raid the remaining factions for wealth.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan looted the Eight Gates Sect’s and Black Emperor Sect’s treasure vaults, finding rare herbs and several valuable treasures. Xu Haoyu left with a Five Elements array scroll, a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment, and Heaven Demon Phoenix remains, while planning further raids across the Black-Corner Region.

• Zi Yan gathered medicinal herbs in the Eight Gates Sect’s vault while Xu Haoyu searched for Three Thousand Lightning Movements and found a scroll describing the Five Elements Life and Destruction Grand Array.
• Xu Haoyu took the scroll and discovered a fragment of a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame remnant map, then collected more treasures before leaving with Zi Yan.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan bought rare herbs in Black Emperor City, then sneaked into the Black Emperor Sect’s underground treasure vault that night.
• Zi Yan swept up the vault’s medicinal herbs while Xu Haoyu found the remains of a Heaven Demon Phoenix and considered seeking the Sky Goose Nine Transformations Wings from the Golden Goose Sect.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan looted the Black Emperor Sect treasury and escaped with the Bodhi Transformation Saliva, then infiltrated Demon Flame Valley’s treasury and took several valuable scrolls. They left without being detected, and Xu Haoyu planned to gather the materials needed to make a Heavenly Demon Puppet.

• Xu Haoyu found the Bodhi Transformation Saliva in the Black Emperor Sect treasury, and Zi Yan gave it to him in exchange for a promise of as many flavored Pills as she wanted.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan finished looting the treasury, escaped Black Emperor City, and headed for Demon Flame Valley.
• After learning Earth Demon Old Ghost was in seclusion, Xu Haoyu melted a quiet passage into Demon Flame Valley’s treasury with Heavenly Flames.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan defeated the treasury’s fifth-tier snake-type Magical Beast, then searched separately while Zi Yan collected medicinal herbs.
• Zi Yan retrieved two protected boxes containing the Earth-Rank Middle-Level cultivation method Thunderclap Mirror, the Dou Skill Awakening of Insects Lightning Method, and the Heavenly Demon Puppet scroll.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan left the treasury and escaped, while Xu Haoyu considered how to find materials for the puppet and noted that the Flame Manipulation Art and seventh-tier Magical Core were absent.

After Jia Nan Academy's crackdown left the Black-Corner Region in turmoil, Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan returned to the Inner Courtyard and sorted through their spoils. Xu Haoyu persuaded Zi Yan to travel the continent with him after graduation, then began harvesting materials from a powerful Magical Beast corpse.

• Su Qian withdrew Jia Nan Academy's forces after they destroyed the Black Alliance and its connected factions, leaving the Black-Corner Region's smaller groups to fight over the resulting power vacuums.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan returned to the Inner Courtyard with their loot, and Xu Haoyu gave Zi Yan more than ten batches of Pills made from her medicinal ingredients.
• When Xu Haoyu brought out a Magical Beast corpse, Zi Yan instinctively reacted with hostility, and Xu Haoyu suggested that the beast had been an enemy of her true form.
• Zi Yan explained her lonely childhood, and Xu Haoyu proposed that they travel the continent together after graduation; Zi Yan agreed.
• Xu Haoyu removed the corpse's Bone Wings for a flying Dou Technique and refined its claws with Heavenly Flames, while Zi Yan took the finger bones to have them made into gauntlets.
• Xu Haoyu burned the remaining flesh and discovered that the Magical Beast had possessed both wind- and fire-attribute Dou Qi.

Xu Haoyu processed a magical beast corpse, seized Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame and fused it with his own, then claimed Han Feng’s possessions. After three days, he resolved to leave Jia Nan Academy now that it was time to graduate.

• Xu Haoyu refined five drops of Cyan Crimson Blood from the corpse, then used one drop to extract its peak seventh-tier Magical Core for a future Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xu Haoyu released Han Feng from a Jade Bottle, rejected his offer to serve as a personal alchemist, and forcibly removed the Sea Heart Flame before sealing Han Feng away again.
• Xu Haoyu asked Zi Yan to guard him while he refined the Sea Heart Flame, then spent three days fusing it with his existing Heavenly Flame.
• Xu Haoyu judged that his new flame ranked among the Heavenly Flame Ranking’s top ten and took Han Feng’s possessions, including a Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron.
• Xu Haoyu decided he could not yet enter seclusion because he had other matters to handle and was ready to graduate from Jia Nan Academy.