Chapter Summaries

Bai Ge found a Ten-Thousand-Year Green Spirit Vine and selected several other treasures from Jia Nan Academy’s Library Pavilion, while Xiao Yan obtained an Earth Grade cultivation art. After another student was repelled for forcing a treasure, Bai Ge left the pavilion with Xiao Xun'er.

• As the treasures began flying from the walls, Xiao Xun'er caught a Mysterious Grade High Tier cultivation art scroll.
• Bai Ge seized the Ten-Thousand-Year Green Spirit Vine and explained to Xiao Yan that the light balls contained many kinds of treasures.
• Xiao Yan caught an Earth Grade Low Tier cultivation art, and one Dou Shi obtained a Mysterious-tier High-grade Fighting Skill.
• A second Dou Shi tried to force a treasure from its light barrier and was thrown into a wall, prompting Bai Ge to explain that each treasure could only be taken if its restriction allowed it.
• Bai Ge selected the Sky Jade Fruit, the Azure Sea Ghost Orchid, and a Sixth-tier Magic Core, then led Xiao Xun'er into the passageway to leave.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er left the Library Pavilion with their gains, and Bai Ge gathered the final ingredients for the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill. He explained that Heavenly Flame Venerate's resurrection still required several rare materials and four Heavenly Flames, leaving the process dependent on future preparations.

• Hu Gan led Bai Ge, Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yan, and the two Dou Shi out of the Library Pavilion after they obtained treasures and techniques.
• After the group departed, the two gray-robed men restored the space lock around the Library Pavilion.
• Bai Ge laid out the gathered ingredients and confirmed he had enough to refine one Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill.
• Bai Ge told Heavenly Flame Venerate that resurrection also required a Dou Zong skeleton, a Seventh Order magical beast's essence bloodline, and four Heavenly Flames.
• Bai Ge outlined how he expected to obtain the remaining resurrection materials, and Heavenly Flame Venerate agreed to wait.
• Bai Ge offered to refine Spirit Fusion Pills to help Heavenly Flame Venerate recover his soul faster.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er joined the top fifty qualifiers as they departed the Outer Academy for the mysterious Inner Academy. Hu Gan revealed a hidden gate in the mountains and led the group through it, leaving them to enter the Inner Academy beyond.

• Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er gathered with the other qualifiers, and Hu Gan arrived with several senior academy officials to address them.
• Ten Griffins arrived, and Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er rode together as Hu Gan and the other elders escorted the group through the mountains.
• The Griffins encountered dangerous magical beasts, but Hu Gan and the other escorts defeated those that attacked.
• The Griffin formation stopped at a mountain ravine, where Hu Gan revealed a silver white gate by striking the air with Dou Qi.
• Hu Gan and the elders entered the gate, and Bai Ge led Xiao Xun'er through after them.

Bai Ge and the other new students entered the Inner Academy’s Fire Energy Hunt Competition, where they had to protect their crystal cards from pursuing students. After a senior tried to harass Xiao Xun'er, Bai Ge intimidated him and led her into the forest.

• Hu Gan introduced Bai Ge to Su Qian as a powerful fighter and a young Fourth-grade Alchemist, then praised Xiao Xun'er’s Great Dou Master cultivation.
• Su Qian gave each of the forty-seven newcomers a crystal card worth five Fire Energy and explained the rules of the hunt.
• The new students rushed into the forest to escape the Inner Academy students, who would begin pursuing them after ten minutes.
• Bai Ge took Xiao Xun'er's hand and prepared to enter the forest, but a tall, thin student blocked them and made advances toward her.
• Bai Ge ordered the student to scram, and the intimidated man backed away as Bai Ge led Xiao Xun'er past the group and into the forest.

Bai Ge led Xiao Xun'er through the forest toward the Inner Academy while returning students began hunting freshmen for their Fire Energy. After Qiu Shan pursued a fleeing freshman into their path, he recognized Bai Ge and prepared to confront him without Elder Su Qian nearby.

• After the ten-minute head start ended, the older students entered the forest to seize freshmen's Fire Energy.
• Bai Ge used his Spiritual Power to guide Xiao Xun'er toward the Inner Academy, while a group of five lost freshmen encountered a gang of hunters.
• A black-clad youth overpowered the freshmen, took their crystal card, and sent Qiu Shan to chase the one who escaped.
• Bai Ge heard a scream and explained to Xiao Xun'er that students were having their Fire Energy stolen.
• The fleeing freshman warned Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er that pursuers were coming, and Qiu Shan stopped when he recognized them.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er confronted Qiu Shan's team during the Fire Energy Hunt, and Bai Ge defeated Qiu Shan and took most of his Fire Energy. Four more figures approached as Qiu Shan seethed over the loss.

• Qiu Shan explained that his team came from two editions earlier and warned Bai Ge that older senior teams included Dou Spirit experts.
• Bai Ge revealed he intended to steal Qiu Shan's Fire Energy, then dodged Qiu Shan's attack and knocked him into a tree with one punch.
• Qiu Shan handed over his crystal card, and he explained that Fire Energy was used to cultivate in the Heaven's Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Bai Ge transferred fourteen of Qiu Shan's twenty-one Fire Energy points to his own card, leaving Qiu Shan with seven.
• Four figures raced over the treetops toward Bai Ge, Xiao Xun'er, and Qiu Shan.

Bai Ge refused to surrender his and Xiao Xun'er's fire energy and challenged Ye Ge's group of old students instead. Ye Ge and three teammates attacked, and Bai Ge prepared to fight while Xiao Xun'er watched the injured Qiu Shan.

• Ye Ge and three companions followed Qiu Shan's trail and found him kneeling before Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er.
• Qiu Shan admitted that Bai Ge had defeated him and stolen his fire energy.
• Ye Ge recognized Bai Ge as a Fourth-grade Alchemist and demanded that he hand over all his fire energy.
• Bai Ge refused and said he intended to rob the old students instead.
• Ye Ge ordered three teammates and himself to attack, while Bai Ge told Xiao Xun'er to watch Qiu Shan and summoned a Blood-colored Longsword.

Bai Ge defeated Ye Ge and his three companions, then took their Fire Energy and learned about the veteran teams Black White Guan Sha. After Mo Ye revealed the teams’ strength and tried to attach himself to Bai Ge, Bai Ge left with Xiao Xun'er to continue the hunt.

• Ye Ge and three companions attacked Bai Ge with their Dou Techniques, but Bai Ge used his Silver Eyes of Truth and Seven Kill Sword to dismantle their attacks and defeat them.
• Bai Ge forced Ye Ge to hand over his crystal card, raising his Fire Energy to fifty-four, while Xiao Xun'er received the other three cards and reached forty-one.
• Bai Ge asked the defeated group about dangerous teams, and Ye Ge warned him that Black White Guan Sha had powerful members and Dou Spirit captains.
• Mo Ye called after Bai Ge and revealed his name, hoping to gain his support, then told Qiu Shan he had warned Bai Ge so other veterans would suffer the same embarrassment.

Bai Ge explained how crystal cards could help him locate old students, then joined Xiao Xun'er in hunting them for their fire energy. They intercepted Xiao Yan and several old students, defeated the group, and demanded their crystal cards.

• Bai Ge told Xiao Xun'er that crystal cards had a detectable connection and said they would become hunters.
• Xiao Yan was surrounded by old students who demanded his crystal card.
• Luo Zheng and two companions arrived, saying newcomers had robbed them, but Bai Ge struck Luo Zheng down with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Bai Ge sent Xiao Xun'er after the white-robed young man, then knocked him away with an enlarged Clear Sky Hammer.
• Bai Ge defeated the other old students and demanded that they hand over their crystal cards.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er robbed old-student teams on their way to the Inner Academy, while Xiao Xun'er reasoned that Black White Guan Sha were likely waiting to ambush them. The chapter ended with Black White Guan Sha preparing to seize Bai Ge’s accumulated Fire Energy.

• Bai Ge took Fire Energy from five white-clad old students, and Xiao Xun'er collected it from Luo Zheng’s group; Bai Ge warned Xiao Yan to flee before the old students targeted him.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er continued toward the Inner Academy, robbing six old-student teams and accumulating nearly three hundred Fire Energy points.
• Xiao Xun'er concluded that Black White Guan Sha were probably waiting ahead on the only route into the Inner Academy, and Bai Ge agreed to confront them.
• Sha Tie and Luo Hou waited with the Black Sha and White Sha teams, hoping to take the Fire Energy Bai Ge had stolen from the old students.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er encountered Black White Guan Sha, who demanded their crystal cards, and Bai Ge challenged them. Bai Ge knocked out Bin Zi and overpowered Sha Tie’s Diamond Fist, leaving Sha Tie staggering with a trembling fist.

• Sha Tie and Luo Hou gathered Black White Guan Sha to confront Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er on the forest path.
• Bai Ge mocked the seniors and refused to hand over his crystal card, while Sha Tie ordered the Black Sha Team to attack.
• Bai Ge summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and sent Bin Zi crashing through trees with one strike.
• Sha Tie charged Bai Ge with his Diamond Fist, but Bai Ge’s hammer shattered the spiked gauntlet and forced Sha Tie backward.
• Sha Tie steadied himself after stumbling back dozens of steps, his right fist trembling.

Bai Ge overwhelmed the Black Sha Team with the Clear Sky Hammer, then boosted his strength and joined forces with Xiao Xun’er’s Long-tailed Fire Fox against their reinforcements. The chapter ended as Bai Ge unleashed the Heavenly Demon Force Field, drawing people and debris toward him.

• Sha Tie lost a clash with Bai Ge’s Clear Sky Hammer and called on Luo Hou for help, agreeing to give him seventy percent of the Fire Energy.
• Luo Hou and the White Sha Team joined the fight, but Bai Ge swallowed a pill and used the Green Lotus Core Flame to raise his strength to Luo Hou’s level.
• Sha Tie ordered his subordinates to capture Xiao Xun’er, but she summoned the Long-tailed Fire Fox to attack them with spiritual beams, a psychic barrier, and Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Bai Ge drove back Luo Hou and Sha Tie, then activated the Heavenly Demon Force Field and pulled nearby people, branches, leaves, and rocks toward himself.

Bai Ge defeated the Black White Guan Sha teams and collected their crystal cards before continuing with Xiao Xun'er to the Inner Academy. Su Qian welcomed Bai Ge as the first newcomer to reach the academy in six years.

• Bai Ge used the Heavenly Demon Force Field and Clear Sky Hammer to defeat Sha Tie, Luo Hou, and the Black White Guan Sha members.
• Luo Hou acknowledged Bai Ge’s victory and handed over his crystal card, and Bai Ge collected the rest of the cards for himself and Xiao Xun'er.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er crossed the forest and reached the Inner Academy’s entrance.
• Su Qian greeted Bai Ge and welcomed him to the Inner Academy.

Su Qian led the new students into the Inner Academy and explained how Fire Energy and Fire Crystal Cards worked. Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er received exceptional rewards for keeping their Fire Energy and robbing older students, while Xiao Yan and three others received smaller rewards.

• Su Qian waited for the new students, praised Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er for their bold performance, and explained that preserved Fire Energy would earn rewards.
• Xiao Yan arrived, followed by the remaining students and older students, including Black White Guan Sha's group.
• Su Qian led the new students up the bluestone steps and into the basin where the Inner Academy stood, then showed them their accommodations.
• Su Qian checked the six students who had preserved their Fire Energy and took Bai Ge, Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yan, one girl, and two boys to his office.
• Su Qian awarded Bai Ge a green Fire Crystal Card with one hundred days of cultivation, Xiao Xun'er one with seventy days, and the other four blue cards with ten days each.
• Su Qian explained the Fire Crystal Card ranks and the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, then showed the students how to transfer their Fire Energy and dismissed them.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er settled into a loft in the Inner Academy, then faced a Bai Gang confrontation over the Newcomer Tribute Fee. Bai Cheng revealed that he wanted Bai Ge to join his gang, offering him its fifth seat in exchange for overlooking a grudge involving Bai Shan.

• Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er chose a secluded loft, arranged their belongings, and spent the night there.
• The next morning, Bai Gang members blocked Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er and demanded a tenth of Bai Ge's Fire Energy as a Newcomer Tribute Fee.
• Bai Ge insisted the customary fee was only two points and challenged the group to take his Fire Energy by force if they could defeat him.
• Bai Cheng arrived and explained that Bai Shan was his cousin, then accused Bai Ge of causing Bai Shan not to come to the Inner Academy.
• Bai Cheng offered Bai Ge the Bai Gang's fifth seat if he joined, warning that he would face trouble if he refused.

Bai Cheng tried to force Bai Ge to join the Bai Gang and threatened him after he refused. Qing Lin arrived with Bai Men, stopped Bai Cheng from attacking, and showed interest in recruiting Bai Ge, leaving Bai Cheng to depart with a renewed grudge.

• Bai Ge rejected Bai Cheng's ultimatum and challenged him to prove his strength, while Xiao Xun'er stood by Bai Ge.
• Bai Cheng prepared to attack Bai Ge after explaining that he had planned to recruit him but would avenge Bai Shan if Bai Ge refused.
• Qing Lin arrived with her followers and criticized Bai Cheng for using the academy's rules to threaten a new student.
• Qing Lin said Bai Men was interested in recruiting Bai Ge, and her Dou Ling subordinates pressured Bai Cheng into backing down.
• Bai Cheng left with his subordinates, blaming Bai Ge for his humiliation and vowing to take revenge later.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er joined Qing Lin’s Bai Men and followed her to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower. They learned the tower was mostly buried underground, then entered just before its doors closed behind the students.

• Bai Ge thanked Qing Lin for helping him, and she invited him to join Bai Men; he accepted.
• Xiao Xun'er asked to join Bai Men, and Qing Lin welcomed her after Bai Ge praised her talent.
• Qing Lin hosted Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er at a welcoming banquet, then led them to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Qing Lin showed Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er that the tower was buried underground, with only its spire and entrance above the surface.
• When the tower opened, Bai Ge, Xiao Xun'er, and Qing Lin rushed inside ahead of the crowd, and the entrance closed behind them.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er experienced the Falling Heart Flame’s ability to purify Dou Qi inside the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, with Qing Lin explaining how to withstand it. They continued cultivating for twenty-eight minutes, drawing the attention of a silver-haired woman as more students entered.

• The Falling Heart Flame began burning impurities from Bai Ge’s and Xiao Xun'er’s Dou Qi when they entered the tower.
• Qing Lin explained the flame’s effects and apologized for not warning Xiao Xun'er, who then used her Dou Qi to endure and benefit from it.
• Xiao Xun'er recognized the flame as the Falling Heart Flame and began cultivating while relying on her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame for resistance.
• Other cultivators watched and wagered on how long Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er could last, but both passed the twenty-minute mark.
• After the tower’s gate opened and new students entered, Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er had endured for twenty-eight minutes, prompting a silver-haired woman to ask what was happening.

Han Yue learned that Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er had endured the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower far longer than ordinary newcomers and was shocked by Bai Ge’s reputation and strength. After Xiao Xun'er stopped cultivating and waited beside him, Bai Ge opened his eyes when the tower doors opened at the forty-minute mark.

• Han Yue arrived at the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and told Elder Liu that she wanted to cultivate on the sixth floor.
• Elder Liu told Han Yue that Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er had lasted nearly thirty minutes in the tower, far beyond what newcomers usually managed.
• Han Yue guessed how long the pair had endured, then asked who they were and learned about Bai Ge’s victory over Sha Tie and Luo Hou.
• Qing Lin greeted Han Yue and said she had invited Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er to join her Bai Men.
• Xiao Xun'er stopped cultivating after nearly forty minutes and waited beside Bai Ge, who opened his eyes as the tower doors opened.

Bai Ge left the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower with Xiao Xun'er, agreed to help protect Han Yue's Moon Spirit, and later used his spatial abilities to visit Qing Lin. His unexpected arrival while she was bathing left Qing Lin alone and embarrassed after he hurried outside.

• Bai Ge left the tower with Xiao Xun'er after deciding she could not keep cultivating there, while Qing Lin stayed behind.
• Han Yue introduced herself and invited Bai Ge to become Moon Spirit's guest elder, explaining she would need someone to protect the faction if she became an academy elder; Bai Ge agreed.
• Qing Lin revealed that she ranked second on the Strong Ranking because of her ability to control Serpentine Magical Beasts, including a seven-headed Fire Spirit Snake.
• That night, Bai Ge used a spiritual mark and his spatial abilities to appear in Qing Lin's room while she was bathing.
• Bai Ge awkwardly left the room and told Qing Lin to come see him after her bath, while Qing Lin pouted and called him foolish.