Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan helped Xun'er refine a pill that strengthened her body and raised her cultivation, then the Outer Academy held its Inner Academy Selection Competition. Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the Dou Ling level and dominated his match against Lin Yan, while Hu Qian looked forward to the coming Fire Energy Hunting Competition.

• Xiao Yan gave Xun'er a Purple Jade Double Flame Pill and guided its energy through seven days of refinement, during which her Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame Sub-Flame protected her.
• Xun'er emerged at the Eight Star Dou Shi level, and Xiao Yu saw that she was stronger and taller after the pill’s effects.
• The Inner Academy Selection Competition began, and the crowd was stunned to learn that forty contestants had reached the Great Dou Shi level, with elders crediting Xiao Yan’s influence.
• Most contestants conceded against Pan's Gate members, while Lin Yan challenged Xiao Yan despite knowing he was outmatched.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Dou Ling aura and chased Lin Yan around the arena, prompting Hu Qian to say the Fire Energy Hunting Competition would be interesting.

Xiao Yan’s overwhelming strength impressed Jia Nan Academy’s elders and students, while Xun’er revealed that she was another peerless young powerhouse. After defeating her opponents, Xun’er reunited warmly with Xiao Yan, leaving the onlookers envious and dejected.

• Xiao Yan defeated Lin Yan and made Pan's Gate’s other top experts surrender rather than face the same humiliation.
• Xun’er entered the arena and swept through her opponents, defeating even a Nine Star Dou Shi with a single palm strike.
• Hu Qian realized that fourteen-year-old Xun’er had reached Eight Star Dou Shi and predicted that Jia Nan Academy would produce two supreme powerhouses.
• Xun’er defeated a Da Dou Shi from Pan's Gate, silencing the venue with her strength.
• Xun’er left the platform and smiled at Xiao Yan, who affectionately rubbed her head as the other students watched enviously.

Xiao Yan led Pan's Gate through the end of the Inner Academy selection and prepared to enter Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy. After declining the Scripture Pavilion opportunity and giving Pan's Gate two pill formulas, he left the Outer Academy with Xun'er and the other new entrants, eager to find the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Xiao Yan won the selection competition, while Xun'er placed eleventh, and every Outer Academy student who qualified joined Pan's Gate.
• Xiao Yan declined the Scripture Pavilion opportunity, so the chance to enter it went to Han Yue.
• Xiao Yan guided Pan's Gate's alchemists and gave them the Ice Heart Pill and Marrow Cleansing Cold Spirit Liquid formulas.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er said farewell to Xiao Yu, Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Instructor Ruo Lin before joining Hu Qian and the others on Lion Griffin Beasts bound for the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan looked toward the Inner Academy with anticipation for the Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Yan led the freshmen into the Inner Academy’s Fire Energy Hunting Competition, where they were expected to seize Fire Energy from their seniors. The chapter ended with Lin Yan’s team defeating a group of old students and demanding their Fire Energy.

• Hu Qian brought Xiao Yan and the freshmen through the spatial gate into the Inner Academy, where Elder Su and another elder explained the competition’s rules.
• The elders began the competition and sent the old students into the forest to hunt the freshmen, but Xiao Yan revealed that all fifty freshmen had gathered under his leadership.
• Xiao Yan reminded the freshmen that Fire Energy would speed their cultivation and ordered them to split into teams according to their plans.
• Lin Yan led four freshmen through the forest and was surrounded by old students who demanded their Fire Energy.
• Lin Yan and his team defeated the old students, then demanded that they hand over their Fire Energy.

Xiao Yan’s Pan’s Gate defeated the old students’ teams and gathered at the forest’s rocky exit, where the White Fiend Team challenged them. Xiao Yan overwhelmed Wang Heng and knocked out the team’s four other members, leaving the Inner Academy onlookers stunned.

• Pan’s Gate’s coordinated teams defeated old students and seized enough Fire Energy to more than triple their members’ holdings.
• Xiao Yan forced the Black Fiend Team’s two-star Dou Ling captain to surrender with a single move.
• Pan’s Gate reached the rocky field at the forest’s edge, where Inner Academy students discussed Xiao Yan’s strength and Wang Heng’s White Fiend Team prepared to stop them.
• Xiao Yan declined help from Pan’s Gate and faced Wang Heng and the four other White Fiend Team members alone.
• Xiao Yan struck Wang Heng with Eight Extremes Collapse, then knocked out the other four White Fiend Team members with three punches and a kick.
• Wang Heng spat blood as the crowd fell silent.

Xiao Yan led the freshmen into the Inner Academy after defeating Wang Heng’s White Fiend Team and collecting their Fire Energy. He met Grand Elder Su Qian, who agreed to support his plan to resolve the Fallen Heart Flame’s danger, and Xiao Yan promised to act within six months to a year.

• Xiao Yan’s group took the White Fiend Team’s Fire Energy, discovering that Wang Heng had eight hundred, and the elders rewarded the freshmen and their leaders with Fire Energy Cards.
• Xiao Yan led the freshmen into the Inner Academy, where an elder told him that Su Qian wanted to meet him personally.
• Xiao Yan settled into a pavilion with Xun'er, then went with an elder to meet Su Qian.
• Xiao Yan revealed a Heavenly Flame and offered to eliminate the Fallen Heart Flame’s danger and provide a tame replacement if Su Qian let him enter beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• Su Qian gave Xiao Yan two Purple Fire Crystal Cards and promised the Inner Academy’s support; Xiao Yan said he could resolve the problem within half a year to a year.

Xiao Yan strengthened Pan's Gate and began cultivating on the eighth floor of the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, where his Flame God Dharma Body stirred the Fallen Heart Flame. The tower's alarm forced students to evacuate, and Xiao Yan looked toward the enormous fire python as he prepared to deal with it.

• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan a Blood God Pill, and she swallowed it before asking Su Qian for help after eating an Imperial Zenith Fruit from the Inner Academy treasury.
• Xiao Yan exchanged his Fire Energy, gave Xun'er one of Su Qian's Purple Fire Crystal Cards, and saw Pan's Gate become a formidable new faction.
• Xiao Yan led Pan's Gate members into the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, where the Fallen Heart Flame helped several students break through.
• Xiao Yan entered the eighth floor to cultivate, and his Flame God Dharma Body devoured the fire poison while stirring the tower's energy.
• The tower ordered everyone to evacuate, and Xiao Yan opened his eyes and spotted the enormous invisible fire python.

Xiao Yan subdued Fallen Heart Flame, advanced his cultivation through the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, and built Pan's Gate's strength by supplying pills and fire energy. A year later, Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei arrived at Jia Nan Academy, while Xiao Yan reached Five Star Dou Ling.

• Xiao Yan used the Emperor Flame Seed's pressure to make Fallen Heart Flame docile, and Su Qian allowed him to cultivate on the tower's deepest floors.
• Xiao Yan spent seven days absorbing fire-attributed energy, then returned to Pan's Gate and gave Zi Yan pills while treating Lin Xiuya's injured hand.
• Xiao Yan helped Pan's Gate replenish its fire energy by selling medicines, while Zi Yan's reputation kept rivals from provoking the group.
• Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei arrived at Jia Nan Academy and learned from Xiao Yu that the Outer Academy's students feared Xiao Yan.
• After more than three months of cultivation in the tower, Xiao Yan advanced to Five Star Dou Ling.

After reaching Five Star Dou Ling, Xiao Yan learned that Yao Lao needed another month to awaken, so he continued cultivating and prepared for the Fallen Heart Flame. After refining pills for Pan's Gate, he left Jia Nan Academy and began crafting a powerful new pill designed specifically for himself.

• Xiao Yan sensed Yao Lao stirring in the Bone Flame Ring, but Yao Lao said he needed another month before awakening.
• Xiao Yan returned to Pan's Gate, reunited with Xun'er, and told her he would soon leave and later enter seclusion beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• Xiao Yan refined pills for seven days while Pan's Gate alchemists observed, then distributed most of the pills as rewards.
• Xiao Yan traveled far from Jia Nan Academy to avoid drawing attention to Yao Lao's awakening and began refining his newly devised Three-Vein Purple Profound Pill with three Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan refined and consumed a Three-Vein Purple Profound Pill, advancing to Eight Star Dou Ling while Yao Lao’s soul power grew within the Bone Flame Ring. In Maple City, Protector Ao announced Han Feng’s death and incited widespread slaughter to harvest souls; the chapter ended with Yao Lao awakening at the Heavenly Sovereign mid-stage.

• Xiao Yan refined a Three-Vein Purple Profound Pill with three Heavenly Flames, then consumed it and rose from Five Star Dou Ling to the peak of Seven Star Dou Ling.
• Protector Ao arrived in Maple City, declared Han Feng dead, and provoked the city and surrounding factions into killing each other to collect their souls.
• Xiao Yan cultivated for seven more days and broke through to Eight Star Dou Ling.
• Yao Lao awakened and released immense Soul Power across thousands of li, revealing that he had reached the Heavenly Sovereign mid-stage.

After Yao Lao recovered his Soul Power to the Heavenly Sovereign mid-stage, Xiao Yan took him to Jia Nan Academy and began refining Fallen Heart Flame. As Xiao Yan disappeared into the sealed Magma Ocean to confront the flame, Su Qian suspected that the mysterious supreme expert was Xiao Yan’s teacher and ordered the witnesses to keep silent.

• Yao Lao recovered his Soul Power and reached the Heavenly Sovereign mid-stage, astonishing experts across the Northwest Continent and alarming Protector Ao.
• Xiao Yan brought Yao Lao back to the Bone Flame Ring, returned to Jia Nan Academy, and told Su Qian he was ready to deal with Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian opened the seal beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, and Xiao Yan leaped inside as Fallen Heart Flame began to break free.
• Fallen Heart Flame attacked Xiao Yan in the Magma Ocean, but Xiao Yan seized it with an immense invisible force and fought it below the surface.
• Su Qian connected Xiao Yan’s invisible force to the earlier Soul Power eruption and suspected the supreme expert was Xiao Yan’s teacher.
• Su Qian ordered the guarding elder to keep the incident secret and left him watching the Magma Ocean.

Xiao Yan subdued and refined Fallen Heart Flame in the Magma Ocean, then fused it into his Flame God Dharma Body and advanced to Six-Star Dou Wang. He unveiled the Chaos Furnace, a Peerless Mystical Power, while the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower remained weakened and Su Qian awaited Fallen Heart Flame’s recovery.

• Yao Lao restrained Fallen Heart Flame while Xiao Yan used the Emperor Flame Seed’s power to capture and erase the intelligence of its Source Fire Seed.
• Xiao Yan refined Fallen Heart Flame into his own Source Fire Seed and fused it into the Flame God Dharma Body, while Fallen Heart Flame’s waning power weakened the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• Su Qian assured the Inner Academy that the tower would recover, though its declining cultivation benefits left the students dissatisfied and caused him growing concern.
• Xiao Yan emerged from his fusion and his cultivation surged to Six-Star Dou Wang as his Dou Qi Sea Urchin burst apart.
• Xiao Yan summoned his strengthened Flame God Dharma Body, combined his three Heavenly Flames, and demonstrated the enormous Chaos Furnace.

Xiao Yan refined the remaining Fallen Heart Flame, then descended into the Magma Ocean and encountered Skyfire Venerable, whom Yao Lao rescued from his skeleton. After leaving the hidden space, Xiao Yan drove back the Flame Lizard race and met a mysterious phantom who recognized his Sovereign Dharma Body; Xiao Yan identified him as the Tou She Ancient God.

• Xiao Yan refined the remaining Fallen Heart Flame into thirteen Origin Heart Flame spheres and stored them in his Chaos Furnace.
• Xiao Yan followed Fallen Heart Flame to a hidden space, where Yao Lao seized Skyfire Venerable's remnant soul after it tried to restrain him.
• Xiao Yan calmed Yao Lao, befriended Skyfire Venerable, and accepted his Five Round Separating Fire Method and Snow White Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan took the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame and drove back the attacking Flame Lizard and the creatures approaching with it using his Flame God Dharma Body.
• A mysterious phantom with an Emperor's might appeared, recognized Xiao Yan's Sovereign Dharma Body, and departed after Xiao Yan called himself the Person of Tribulation.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao and Skyfire Venerable that the mysterious old man was the Tou She Ancient God.

Xiao Yan returned from the Magma Ocean as a powerful Dou Wang after refining the original Fallen Heart Flame, and he gave Su Qian a docile infant Fallen Heart Flame for Jia Nan Academy. After reuniting with Xun'er and returning to Pan's Gate, he learned that the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower would reopen, while Su Qian announced a Dou Ling Pill reward for anyone who could defeat Xiao Yan.

• Skyfire Venerable and Yao Lao reacted with shock after learning the mysterious old man was Tou She Ancient God, while Xiao Yan emerged from the Magma Ocean.
• Xiao Yan gave Su Qian an intelligent infant Fallen Heart Flame and revealed that he had refined the original flame to reach Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan returned to Pan's Gate, reunited with Xun'er, and promised Han Yue that the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower would reopen soon.
• Xiao Yan agreed to refine pills for Zi Yan after spending time alone with Xun'er.
• Su Qian reopened the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, and students rushed inside as Xiao Yan's group arrived.
• Su Qian offered a Dou Ling Pill to anyone who could defeat Xiao Yan.

After Su Qian offered a Dou Ling Pill to anyone who defeated Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan fought Wang Fugui and Ye Han together and overwhelmed them with his Six-Star Dou Wang strength. He then demonstrated his power against Zi Yan, leaving Xun'er astonished by how far he had surpassed what she thought possible.

• Su Qian announced a Dou Ling Pill reward for defeating Xiao Yan, and Zi Yan drove away the students who came to challenge him.
• Xiao Yan accepted Wang Fugui and Ye Han's challenge and invited both Dou Wang experts to attack him at once.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Six-Star Dou Wang aura and shattered Wang Fugui and Ye Han's attacks with a flame-formed hand.
• Xiao Yan defeated Ye Han and Wang Fugui with a single palm strike each, ending the challengers' attempts to win the pill.
• Xiao Yan held Zi Yan back with one hand as she tried to push forward, while Xun'er watched in shock at his strength and rapid growth.

Xiao Yan agreed to become Jia Nan Academy’s honorary elder and used the Chaos Furnace to convert all his Dou Qi into spiritual energy, advancing to the Spirit Soul Stage. After Pan’s Gate gathered for a party, Han Yue accidentally emerged from her room in a state of undress, startling Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan promised Zi Yan he would refine a Transformation Pill for her when they went to Central State if she behaved.
• Su Qian offered Xiao Yan the position of honorary elder, and Xiao Yan accepted after learning it would not restrict his travels and could give him access to academy resources.
• Xiao Yan converted his Dou Qi into spiritual energy over ten days, progressing through the Spirit Origin and Spirit Wheel stages to the Spirit Soul Stage.
• Pan’s Gate members returned from the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, and several talented students, including Lin Xiuya and Lin Yan, had advanced to Dou Ling.
• Pan’s Gate prepared a party, but Han Yue stepped out of her room drenched in sweat and barely dressed, causing her to retreat when she noticed Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan reunited with Pan's Gate, shared the nourishing flesh of a Seventh Rank Blood Transformation Demon Bull with its members, and promised Zi Yan more meat. Meanwhile, Soul Hall dispatched Blood River, Black White Heavenly Venerable, and over a hundred Protectors to begin a blood-soaked campaign across the Northwest Continent and search for a possible trace of Yao Chen.

• Xiao Yan joined Xun'er, Han Yue, and Zi Yan at Pan's Gate's square, where members welcomed him and Lin Yan lamented how far Xiao Yan had outpaced them.
• Xiao Yan roasted the Blood Transformation Demon Bull's leg with Heavenly Flame and shared the meat with Pan's Gate, whose members felt its effects on their bodies.
• Xiao Yan let the members take the remaining beef and promised Zi Yan that he had enough to feed her for a while.
• Venerable Mo Yu greeted Blood River, Black White Heavenly Venerable, and their forces at Soul Hall's rebuilt branch in the Frost Empire.
• Blood River revealed that Soul Hall planned to unleash its Northwest Continent campaign early and search for a Heavenly Sovereign Soul that might be Yao Chen.
• More than a hundred Soul Hall Protectors began spreading across the Northwest Continent, while several headed toward the Black-Corner Region in pursuit of Soul Bodies and Yao Chen.

Xiao Yan cultivated to the peak of the Rongtian Realm while building Pan's Gate into the Inner Academy's leading faction. As unrest spread through the Black-Corner Region and the Northwest Continent, he decided to leave Jia Nan Academy and settle matters in the Black-Corner Region.

• Xiao Yan advanced to the Rongtian Realm by refining magical cores and treasures, then continued cultivating until he reached its late stage and peak.
• Xiao Yan helped Pan's Gate members cultivate, and all forty original followers reached the Dou Ling level as the faction grew to more than a hundred members.
• Xiao Yan decided that further progress required devouring more Heavenly Flames and prepared to leave Jia Nan Academy after dealing with matters in the Black-Corner Region.
• Han Yue told Xiao Yan that factions were being wiped out and Dou Emperor experts were dying amid growing unrest across the Black-Corner Region and Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Yan suspected Soul Hall might be behind the upheaval and told Xun'er and Han Yue to gather Pan's Gate for an important task.

Xiao Yan gathered Pan's Gate and led its Dou Ling members into the Black-Corner Region to destroy the Blood Sect and other forces responsible for atrocities. At Blood Mountain, Pan's Gate engaged the sect while Xiao Yan killed Fan Lao and refined him inside the Chaos Furnace.

• Xiao Yan gathered nearly a hundred Pan's Gate members and announced a campaign to destroy the Blood Sect and cleanse the Black-Corner Region of cruel forces.
• After informing the Grand Elder, Xiao Yan led seventy or eighty Dou Ling experts out of the Inner Academy and reached the Blood Region after a day and a night of travel.
• Lin Xiuya reported the Blood Sect's strength, and Xiao Yan approved a plan assigning Zi Yan, Lin Xiuya, Liu Qing, Han Yue, and Xun'er to engage its Dou Wang experts.
• At dawn, Pan's Gate surrounded Blood Mountain, where Xiao Yan confronted Fan Lao and killed his son Fan Ling with a flame spear.
• Pan's Gate attacked the Blood Sect, while Xiao Yan trapped Fan Lao in the Chaos Furnace, destroyed his body and soul, and refined him in an instant.

Xiao Yan led Pan's Gate in destroying the Blood Sect and other demonic factions across the Black-Corner Region, while their brutal methods forced the remaining villains to unite. The chapter ends with Xiao Yan learning that the Soul Hall-backed Soul Devouring Sect has formed a Demonic Alliance in Maple City.

• Xiao Yan secretly refined Fan Lao into spiritual energy while Pan's Gate defeated the Blood Sect's fighters; he then saved Lin Yan from a dying Dou Wang and revealed that Fan Lao was dead.
• Pan's Gate freed the Blood Sect's captives, divided its spoils, and watched Xiao Yan burn the sect's blood-soaked grounds and sinister cultivation methods.
• Xiao Yan led Pan's Gate to destroy the Demon Devouring Sect and other demonic factions, deepening the group's unease at the suffering behind their wealth.
• After three Dou Emperor-led factions fell, the remaining demonic powers grew fearful and accepted the Soul Devouring Sect's invitation to unite in Maple City.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Soul Hall-backed Soul Devouring Sect had formed a Demonic Alliance with the Black-Corner Region's remaining demonic factions.