Chapter Summaries

Xiao Bai avoided the Xiao Family’s cultivation-method selection, strengthened his position and research operations, and waited as Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment team arrived in Wutan City. He learned that the academy held the Fallen Heart Flame and decided to claim it, while leaving Xiao Yan to deal with the smaller flame himself.

• Xiao Bai stayed away from the Dou Qi Pavilion and cultivated at the Mittel Auction House, where he secretly learned dou skills being prepared for auction.
• Xiao Bai left Xiao Yan’s preparations for Qi Gathering Powder to Ya Fei as Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid sales increased.
• Hai Bodong returned and reported that the Mo Family had been subdued and was researching explosives for Xiao Bai.
• Over the following months, Xiao Bai oversaw research in Yan City and Wutan City while his subordinates collected each family’s share.
• When Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment team arrived in Wutan City, Xiao Bai learned its location and recruitment process and resolved to take the large Fallen Heart Flame, intending to use Xiao Yan in his plan.

Xiao Bai arrived at Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment and sought an easier way through the huge crowd. After reuniting with Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mei, he followed Xiao Yu’s connection to the recruitment staff and passed through the soldiers’ cordon with them.

• Xiao Bai reached the crowded recruitment square and decided to look for a way to avoid the crush.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er arrived, and Xiao Yu offered to use her instructor’s position to get them through the recruitment process.
• Xiao Bai found the group and accepted Xiao Yu’s invitation to follow them.
• Xiao Yu showed a jade-green token to a soldier officer, who ordered the soldiers to let the group pass.
• Xiao Bai sighed that using the back door was worth it.

Xiao Yu led Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Xiao Bai, Xiao Ning, and Xiao Mei through a guarded passage to Jia Nan Academy’s admissions area, where they met her friend Xue Ni. Xue Ni became openly smitten with Xiao Bai, but news that Luo Bu had arrived and advanced to a four-star Dou Zhe changed Xiao Yu’s mood as the group prepared for their tests.

• Xiao Yu and the others passed through Senior Ke’s intimidating line of soldiers, while Xiao Bai remained unruffled and earned the officer’s admiration.
• The group reached the admissions tent, where Xue Ni warmly embraced Xiao Yu and introduced herself as her close friend and a four-star Dou Zhe.
• Xue Ni enthusiastically offered to help Xiao Bai and stayed close to him, drawing the others’ jealousy and prompting Xiao Yu to try to interrupt.
• Xue Ni told Xiao Yu that Luo Bu had arrived and advanced to a four-star Dou Zhe, making Xiao Yu’s expression darken.
• Xiao Yu looked to Xiao Bai and then Xiao Yan for help, but neither offered a useful response, while Xiao Ning wondered who she was looking down on.

Xiao Yan and the others reached the Jia Nan Academy admissions camp, where their strength passed the preliminary test. Luo Bu then tried to make them wait outside in the heat, and Xiao Yu confronted him over the rule.

• Xiao Yan rejected Xiao Yu’s attempt to pretend they were close, and Xue Ni learned how rapidly his strength had grown.
• Xiao Yu’s academy friends surrounded her and took notice of Xiao Bai, while Xiao Yu linked arms with him and acted shy.
• Luo Bu arrived and asked to meet Xiao Bai, then offered his Testing Crystal to test the newcomers.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Mei, Xiao Ning, and Xiao Bai each lit the crystal and passed the preliminary test.
• Luo Bu ordered the group to wait outside in the sun for half an hour, and Xiao Yu angrily challenged him.

Xiao Bai challenged Luo Bu’s rule that new students had to stand in the sun, so Luo Bu arranged for Ge La to fight him. Xiao Bai easily defeated Ge La and taunted Luo Bu, leaving them on the brink of a direct confrontation.

• Xiao Bai rejected Luo Bu’s rule and openly said he looked down on him, while Xiao Yu and the senior students tried to shield him.
• Luo Bu brought in Ge La and said Xiao Bai could settle the matter by lasting twenty exchanges against him.
• Ge La attacked Xiao Bai, but Xiao Bai dodged his blows while Xiao Yu and the women called out mock advice.
• Ge La used the Yellow-tier Advanced Dou Technique Wind Splendor Blade, but Xiao Bai struck his leg and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Luo Bu pressured Xiao Bai and accused him of hitting too hard, but Xiao Bai mocked Ge La’s weakness and challenged Luo Bu to fight.

Xiao Bai fought Luo Bu after challenging his rules, easily defeated him, and ignored Instructor Ruolin’s order to stop. Ruolin treated Luo Bu and confronted Xiao Bai about disobeying her.

• Xiao Bai challenged Luo Bu to enforce his rules with strength, and Luo Bu attacked him with the Mountain Splitting Earth Crushing Palm.
• Xiao Bai’s white-light defense pierced through Luo Bu’s attack, and he struck Luo Bu in the abdomen and kicked him into a tent.
• Instructor Ruolin arrived and briefly treated Luo Bu before sending students to take him to an alchemist.
• Ruolin asked Xiao Bai why he had ignored her order to stop, and Xiao Bai cheekily claimed she had only told him to stop his hand, not his foot.

Xiao Bai faced Instructor Ruolin after defeating Luo Bu, and his confidence impressed the gathered students. During Jia Nan Academy’s potential assessment, he reported that he was a sixteen-year-old Six Star Dou Zhe, leaving Ruolin stunned by his strength beyond the academy’s S-rank scale.

• Xiao Yu identified Xiao Bai as her cousin and offered to take responsibility for the conflict with Luo Bu, but Xiao Bai said he had nothing to apologize for.
• Instructor Ruolin tried to pressure Xiao Bai with her aura, but he remained unfazed and joked that her breeze was weak.
• Ruolin ended the confrontation peacefully and led the new students into a nearby tent to explain Jia Nan Academy’s potential rankings.
• Ruolin asked Xiao Bai to report his strength, and he claimed to be a sixteen-year-old Six Star Dou Zhe.
• Ruolin froze in shock, realizing Xiao Bai’s strength exceeded the limits of S-rank.

Xiao Bai’s Six Star Dou Zhe potential astonished the students and instructors at registration, while Xiao Xun’er and Xiao Yan also revealed their exceptional histories. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan bargaining with Instructor Ruo Lin for a year of leave by agreeing to withstand twenty exchanges with her.

• Xiao Bai’s Six Star Dou Zhe strength shocked Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun’er, Xiao Yu, Ge La, Luo Bu, and the other students.
• Instructor Ruo Lin praised Xiao Bai’s talent, and Xiao Bai drew attention to Xiao Xun’er, who was also a Six Star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Xun’er recounted Xiao Yan’s cultivation history and declared that he was the strongest among them.
• Instructor Ruo Lin ended registration and announced that the new students would leave for Jia Nan Academy in seven days.
• Xiao Yan asked Instructor Ruo Lin for a year of leave, and they agreed that he would earn it by lasting twenty exchanges against her.
• Xiao Bai handed out watermelon while watching Xiao Yan and Instructor Ruo Lin negotiate.

Xiao Bai watched Xiao Yan secure his leave from Jia Nan Academy, then prepared to strengthen his control over Wutan City before leaving. He introduced Hai Bodong to the Three Corpse Brain God Pill, a pill that offered cultivation benefits but caused unbearable pain if not taken every three months.

• Xiao Bai shared chilled watermelon with the students while Xiao Yan and Instructor Ruolin prepared to fight.
• Ruolin summoned a powerful blue whip and attacked Xiao Yan with the Mysterious Tier Intermediate Dou Technique, Water Mandala; Xiao Bai sensed Yao Lao's subtle intervention and knew Xiao Yan would secure his leave.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu invited Ruolin to stay with the Xiao Family, hoping to use the academy's influence to raise their clan's standing in Wutan City.
• Xiao Bai returned to the Mittel Auction House, asked Hai Bodong about unrest, and said they needed ways to keep Wutan City's clans under control.
• Xiao Bai showed Hai Bodong the Three Corpse Brain God Pill and explained that missing its three-month dose caused tormenting pain, frightening Hai Bodong.

Xiao Bai ordered Hai Bodong to use the Three Corpse Brain God Pills to force Wutan City's families and merchants to fund his plans, while his body continued growing stronger through its furnace-like Cheat. Three days before Xiao Bai left for Jia Nan Academy, Hai Bodong delivered the first grenade, and Xiao Bai ordered more made for the journey.

• Xiao Bai sent Hai Bodong to distribute Three Corpse Brain God Pills and collect liquid funds from Wutan City's families and merchants.
• Hai Bodong made Jia Lie Bi and the Jia Lie Family swallow the pills, then continued enforcing Xiao Bai's orders across the city.
• Xiao Bai sensed how his Cheat's furnace refined his Dou Qi and strengthened his body, and planned to leave Hai Bodong behind to protect Ya Fei and oversee the work.
• Hai Bodong brought Xiao Bai a grenade with the power of a Da Dou Shi's strike, and Xiao Bai ordered the Mo Family to manufacture more before his departure for Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Bai traveled to Jia Nan Academy with a Storage Ring full of grenades, then settled into student life and began learning about the wider Dou Qi Continent. The chapter left him curious about the continent’s many races and eager to encounter them firsthand.

• Xiao Zhan learned that Wutan City’s major factions had formed an alliance that excluded the Xiao Family, but he decided to rely on Jia Nan Academy and ignore their hostility.
• Xiao Bai finished making three thousand grenades and boarded Instructor Ruo Lin’s Griffin convoy to Jia Nan Academy.
• An old man at the entrance ceremony warned the new students that their former status meant nothing at the academy and that family-backed revenge would be punished.
• Xiao Bai was assigned to Yellow Tier Class Two, with Ruolin as his homeroom instructor, and received a single dormitory room.
• Xiao Bai attended broad lessons on magical beasts, rare treasures, and the continent’s history, learning about races such as the Barbarians, Snake People, and Ghost Race.

After three months at Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Bai spent his days studying and hunting for treasures, until Instructor Ruolin asked him to represent Yellow Tier Class Two in an upcoming class competition. He dismissed the academy’s rewards as boring, leaving Ruolin stunned.

• Xiao Bai spent most of his time studying in the library and quietly got along with Xiao Xun'er, while his reputation grew after he beat Xue Beng and Ruolin defended him from the instructor’s complaint.
• Xiao Bai tried to leave class to visit the student marketplace, but Ruolin grabbed his clothes and stopped him.
• Ruolin brought Xiao Bai to her residence and asked how he was finding his studies at Jia Nan Academy.
• Ruolin told Xiao Bai that the academy’s class competition would take place in five days and asked him to compete for Yellow Tier Class Two.
• Xiao Bai rejected the offer after hearing the rewards, calling them boring.

Xiao Bai agreed to compete in the freshmen tournament after Ruolin promised to consider a personal reward if he won first place. When Yellow Tier Class Two’s match arrived, Xiao Bai led his team into the arena amid their classmates’ cheers.

• Ruolin warned Xiao Bai that other freshmen were strong, and Xiao Bai accepted her offer of a personal reward for first place.
• Several days later, Jia Nan Academy held its freshmen class tournament, and Ruolin drew the fourth match for Yellow Tier Class Two.
• The tournament began with Mysterious Tier Class One defeating Yellow Tier Class Five after its opponents faltered under pressure.
• After watching the earlier matches, Xiao Bai led Xiao Xun'er and the other three teammates toward the arena for Class Seven versus Class Eight.
• Ruolin wished Xiao Bai luck, and the students of Yellow Tier Class Two cheered for their team.

After winning the inter-class tournament, Xiao Bai received a powerful Dou Technique and became popular among the students. A week later, Bai Shan confronted him over his closeness to Xiao Xun'er, but Xiao Bai dismissed him, leaving Bai Shan furious and ready to fight.

• Xiao Bai and Xiao Xun'er led Yellow Tier Class Two to an overwhelming victory and gained attention from fellow students.
• Xiao Bai accepted Radiant Burst, a Mysterious Tier Intermediate Dou Technique suited to his Dou Qi attribute.
• Xiao Bai left Instructor Ruo Lin's residence after receiving the personal reward she had promised him.
• Bai Shan stopped Xiao Bai and invited him to join his faction, but Xiao Bai said he had never heard of him and shoved past him.
• Bai Shan, who admired Xiao Xun'er and resented her closeness to Xiao Bai, became furious and prepared to hurt Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai fought Bai Shan after Bai Shan attacked him on an academy road, then used explosives to leave him unconscious. The Vice Principal arrived to investigate, and Xiao Bai claimed Bai Shan was a friend who had insisted on showing off a powerful Dou Technique.

• Yun Shan tried to stop Xiao Bai, but Bai Shan took offense at Xiao Bai’s contemptuous look and challenged him.
• Bai Shan attacked Xiao Bai with his lightning spear, but Xiao Bai caught the spear tip with his bare hand.
• Bai Shan used Myriad Thunder Army, blasting apart the road, but Xiao Bai emerged with little apparent harm.
• Xiao Bai tossed ten smoke-producing explosives into the dust, and the explosions left Bai Shan unconscious in a crater.
• The Vice Principal arrived and questioned Xiao Bai, who said Bai Shan was his friend and had insisted on demonstrating a Dou Technique.

Xiao Bai faced an academy investigation after beating Bai Shan, but Jia Nan Academy’s leaders chose to use the incident to push him toward the Inner Academy. Ruolin confronted Xiao Bai, while a wildly embellished tale of brotherhood and romance spread among the students.

• Xiao Bai told the Vice Principal that Bai Shan was his friend and that he had avoided moving him because he was a germaphobe, then the disciplinary team took them away.
• Jia Nan Academy’s leaders reviewed Xiao Bai’s background, praised his talent, and decided to send him to the Black Corner Region as a trial.
• Ruolin visited Xiao Bai’s dormitory and angrily scolded him for attacking Bai Shan and being caught at the scene.
• Students circulated Xiao Bai’s fabricated story that Bai Shan had injured himself to give Xiao Bai a chance to win the love of a girl they both liked.
• Ruolin looked at Xiao Bai and imagined that he was quietly grieving over Bai Shan’s supposed sacrifice.

Xiao Bai left Jia Nan Academy for the Black Corner Region, where he had to survive for half a year and defeat twenty Da Dou Shi and three Dou Ling. After entering the lawless region, he headed toward Skeleton City and rested beneath a tree a day’s journey away.

• Ruolin gave Xiao Bai a jade token containing a task to survive alone in the Black Corner Region for half a year and defeat twenty Da Dou Shi and three Dou Ling.
• Xiao Bai left Jia Nan Academy, prepared supplies, and traveled to Peace Town, where he saw the corpses hanging from the Spirit Severing Tree.
• Xiao Bai entered the Black Corner Region, changed out of his academy uniform, and witnessed killings amid its storms and lawlessness.
• Xiao Bai chose to travel to Skeleton City, fought off would-be robbers, and escaped after taking gold and valuables from a marketplace owner and his wife.
• Xiao Bai reached a hill near Skeleton City and rested beneath a tree in the shade.

Xiao Bai fought off a band of Black Bandits with grenades and enhanced pistols, killing most of them and forcing the survivors to surrender. He recruited the eight remaining bandits as subordinates and made them swallow the Three Corpse Brain God Pill.

• A group of Black Bandits surrounded Xiao Bai and demanded his belongings after confirming he was traveling alone.
• Xiao Bai attacked with grenades and dual pistols, killing the bandits’ Five-star Great Dou Shi leader and many of his men.
• Xiao Bai finished off the gravely wounded bandits and killed one man who hesitated to accept his offer of submission.
• The remaining eight bandits agreed to become Xiao Bai’s subordinates.
• Xiao Bai gave the eight survivors the Three Corpse Brain God Pill and made them swallow it.

Xiao Bai arrived at Moonbright Mountain with Dai Lin and confronted Ma Li, the Black Bandits’ chief. After Ma Li ordered Xiao Bai killed, Xiao Bai had Dai Lin turn against the bandits and offered Ma Li a chance to surrender.

• Dai Lin led Xiao Bai into the Black Bandits’ stronghold at Moonbright Mountain and told Ma Li that the deputy chief had been delayed in Skeleton City.
• Ma Li questioned Dai Lin for bringing Xiao Bai back alive and ordered him to kill Xiao Bai and dispose of the body.
• Dai Lin asked Xiao Bai what to do, and Xiao Bai ordered him to make his move.
• Dai Lin rushed to the entrance and called on his men to stop the people outside, leaving Xiao Bai alone with Ma Li in the hall.
• Ma Li asked Xiao Bai who he was, and Xiao Bai offered to spare Ma Li if he surrendered and became his subordinate.
• Ma Li rejected Xiao Bai’s offer and challenged him to show his strength.

Xiao Bai fought Ma Li inside the stronghold while Dai Lin’s forces struggled to hold off the defenders. After a huge grenade blast destroyed the hall, Xiao Bai ordered the battlefield searched and discovered that Ma Li had survived, leaving him to be treated and given a Three Corpse Brain God Pill.

• Dai Lin held out against several Dou Shi while Xiao Bai faced Ma Li inside the hall.
• Xiao Bai’s bullets failed to pierce Ma Li’s Dou Qi Armor, and Ma Li sent a fire serpent to attack him.
• Xiao Bai threw a large pile of grenades into the fire serpent, causing an explosion that collapsed the hall and engulfed it in flames.
• Xiao Bai emerged unharmed and ordered Dai Lin to search the ruins for Ma Li and eliminate any remaining resistance.
• Xiao Bai’s men found Ma Li severely injured and unconscious, and Xiao Bai ordered them to treat him and feed him a Three Corpse Brain God Pill.