Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng publicly refined a Fifth-grade Seven Star Spirit Wood Pill, teaching the Alchemy Department’s alchemists as he worked. Hu Gan then appointed him an elder of the Alchemy Department, while his granddaughter watched him with interest.

• Lin Feng identified the ingredients and began refining a Seven Star Spirit Wood Pill before the gathered alchemists.
• Lin Feng explained each refinement step, and the alchemists listened closely and recorded his teachings.
• Lin Feng completed the pill, and the alchemists cheered as he displayed the Fifth-grade pill.
• Hu Gan and other Dou Wang elders arrived, learned Lin Feng’s identity, and praised his talent.
• Hu Gan introduced Lin Feng as a Fifth-grade Alchemist and Dou Wang expert and appointed him an elder of the Alchemy Department.

After a month of secluded cultivation, Lin Feng advanced to Two-Star Dou Wang and sought an Earth-tier cultivation technique to control his increasingly unruly Dou Qi. He asked Elder Huo to arrange an exchange for the Sixth-grade Alchemy inheritance, leaving the matter in Elder Huo’s hands.

• Lin Feng ended his seclusion and reflected on his slow progress, his plan to save pills for later breakthroughs, and Hu Jia’s persistent attention.
• Lin Feng decided he needed an Earth-tier cultivation technique after recalling how dangerously his Dou Qi had rampaged during his breakthrough.
• Lin Feng left the secret chamber and went to check on Xiao Yi Xian, then visited Elder Huo after alchemists greeted him warmly.
• Lin Feng asked Elder Huo whether he could exchange the Sixth-grade Alchemy inheritance for an Earth-tier cultivation technique.
• Elder Huo explained that the academy had to approve any technique he passed on, but assured Lin Feng he would handle the matter, and Lin Feng entrusted it to him.

Elder Huo asked Hu Gan to help him obtain Lin Feng’s Sixth-grade Alchemy inheritance in exchange for an Earth-tier cultivation technique, and Hu Gan agreed to negotiate while clarifying the academy’s rules. Lin Feng left Xiao Yi Xian’s classroom to meet them and asked whether the trade had been approved.

• Elder Huo told Hu Gan that Lin Feng might exchange a Sixth-grade Alchemy inheritance for an Earth-tier cultivation technique.
• Hu Gan warned Elder Huo that Lin Feng would receive an opportunity to choose an Earth-tier technique after serving as an appointed elder for five years, and Elder Huo realized he had forgotten to tell him.
• Hu Gan agreed to help Elder Huo negotiate for the inheritance without damaging the academy’s reputation, and they went to find Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng greeted students from the Jia Ma Empire on his way to Instructor Ruo Lin’s class, where he quietly watched Xiao Yi Xian.
• Hu Gan summoned Lin Feng to a garden, where Lin Feng asked whether the academy had agreed to the trade.

Lin Feng exchanged his Sixth-grade Alchemy inheritance for the Earth-tier cultivation technique he urgently needed, and Hu Gan led him to the Library Pavilion. There, Elder Qian and Elder Bai were astonished to discover Lin Feng was a sixteen-year-old Dou Wang.

• Hu Gan and Elder Huo explained that Lin Feng could normally claim an Earth-tier cultivation technique after five years of service, but Lin Feng insisted on exchanging his alchemy inheritance for one immediately.
• Hu Gan agreed to the exchange and promised that the Academy would also act once on Lin Feng's behalf within its capabilities and rules.
• Lin Feng handed Elder Huo the Sixth-grade Alchemy inheritance, and Elder Huo became absorbed in studying it.
• Hu Gan led Lin Feng through a hidden spatial passage to the Library Pavilion and explained that elders selected techniques suited to their attributes there.
• Elder Qian and Elder Bai appeared to open the pavilion passage, and Elder Bai exclaimed in disbelief that Lin Feng was a sixteen-year-old Dou Wang.

Lin Feng consulted Qian Mu and Bai Lie about his Five Elements Physique and cultivation technique, but learned that the Five Elements Venerable had been killed by the Soul Hall. He entered Jia Nan Academy’s Library Pavilion to search for a suitable technique, where he found an extensive collection and began examining Earth Rank options.

• Qian Mu and Bai Lie recognized Lin Feng’s Five Elements Physique and told him about the powerful Five Elements Venerable, whose cultivation technique problem had apparently been resolved.
• The elders revealed that the Soul Hall had killed the Five Elements Venerable and destroyed his sect, though his insights might remain in unnamed caves.
• Bai Lie opened a spatial passage, and Lin Feng entered the Library Pavilion to search for a cultivation technique.
• After Lin Feng left, Hu Gan discussed his stalled cultivation with the elders and hoped Lin Feng might eventually refine a Pill to Break Dou Zong.
• Lin Feng found rows of Mysterious Tier techniques and examined Earth Rank options, including Blazing Sun Burns the World Technique, Dragon's Roar Tsunami Technique, and Thunderous Might Technique.

Lin Feng selected the Myriad Woods Return to Origin True Art to help suppress the instability in his Dou Qi while supporting his plans to cultivate a Wood-attributed Heavenly Flame. After promising Hu Gan he would refine a Pill to Break Dou Zong once he became a Sixth-grade Alchemist, Lin Feng went to find Xiao Yi Xian and walked in on her and the other women playfully tussling in the cafeteria.

• Lin Feng considered six Earth-tier techniques, ruled out the Thunderous Might, Sky Splitting Void Severing, Dragon's Roar Tsunami, and Profound Yellow Limitless techniques, then chose the Myriad Woods Return to Origin True Art over the Blazing Sun Burns the World Technique.
• Lin Feng left the Library Pavilion and promised Hu Gan he would refine a Pill to Break Dou Zong once he advanced to Sixth-grade Alchemist, provided Hu Gan supplied the materials.
• Lin Feng decided against entering Secluded Cultivation and went to the academy cafeteria to visit Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lin Feng arrived to find Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yu, and the other Female Students teasing and playfully fighting with one another.

Lin Feng reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, supported her cultivation, and reinforced the seal suppressing her Poison Body Origin. He then converted his cultivation technique in seclusion and emerged having reached the High-level Earth Rank.

• Lin Feng left the cafeteria with Xiao Yi Xian and told her he planned to enter the Inner Academy within a few months.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she had reached Three-star Great Dou Master, and Lin Feng gave her cultivation poisons and reinforced her Five Elements Seal.
• Lin Feng spent two days with Xiao Yi Xian before returning to a secret chamber to study the Myriad Woods Return to Origin True Art.
• Lin Feng began converting his Five Elements Art cultivation route to incorporate the Myriad Woods Return to Origin True Art.
• After completing the conversion in seclusion, Lin Feng opened his eyes and announced that he had reached the High-level Earth Rank.

After completing secluded cultivation, Lin Feng reached Peak Two-Star Dou Wang and assessed his strength before heading to the Administrative Building. There, he joined a meeting about retaliation against the Black Corner Region Forces and was introduced to the academy elders and Enforcement Team commander Wu Tianlang.

• Lin Feng completed the reconstructed High-level Earth Rank Five Elements Art and discovered that he had advanced to Peak Two-Star Dou Wang.
• Lin Feng assessed his abilities and concluded that he could contend with Five- to Six-Star Dou Wangs, while remaining wary of powerful soul hunters.
• Lin Feng left his secluded chamber and went to the Administrative Building to ask Hu Gan about the Inner Academy Trip.
• Lin Feng arrived as academy experts discussed striking back against the Black Corner Region Forces.
• Hu Gan introduced Lin Feng as the academy's youngest Dou Wang and a Fifth Grade Alchemy Master, earning him the elders' respect.
• Hu Gan introduced the Enforcement Team commander, Wu Tianlang, to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng learned that an academy instructor and a group of students had vanished in the Black Corner Region, then asked Hu Gan to take him to the Inner Academy for intensive cultivation. Hu Gan brought him through a spatial gate, and Lin Feng arrived at the Inner Academy.

• Hu Gan explained that a protecting elder’s Soul Jade remained intact, so the academy believed the missing instructor and students had been kidnapped; the academy dispatched Enforcement Team members to investigate and issued wanted notices.
• Lin Feng offered to help and then asked Hu Gan to take him to the Inner Academy; Hu Gan agreed to bring him there immediately.
• Hu Gan and Lin Feng flew toward the Inner Academy, and Lin Feng briefly outpaced Hu Gan before stopping and letting him slow down.
• Hu Gan opened a spatial gate in a mountain ravine, and he and Lin Feng passed through it into the Inner Academy.
• Hu Gan welcomed Lin Feng as buildings came into view beyond the Inner Academy’s forest.

Lin Feng entered Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy, met Grand Elder Su Qian, and learned that a hostile sect’s remnants had abducted Outer Academy students. He reached the Black Tower just as it opened, after Moon Spirit’s leader stopped to speak with him.

• Hu Gan explained that he had arranged Lin Feng’s meeting with Su Qian and asked Lin Feng to remember their pill agreement.
• Su Qian discussed the missing Outer Academy students with Hu Gan and offered to send Inner Academy elders and elite students against the sect’s remnants.
• Lin Feng declined Su Qian’s offer to tour the Inner Academy and headed toward the Black Tower after noticing a silver-haired woman with a stable Dou Ling aura.
• Lin Feng reached the Black Tower but realized he lacked a Crystal Card and Fire Energy, so he started to leave.
• The silver-haired leader of Moon Spirit asked Lin Feng whether he had a difficulty, and the Black Tower’s doors began to open as an ancient bell rang.

Lin Feng entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, received his elder Crystal Card, and learned the secret behind the tower and the sealed Venerable Sky Fire beneath it. He began secluded cultivation in a training room to test the Heart Flame’s effect on him.

• Elder Liu gave Lin Feng an elder Crystal Card loaded with one thousand Fire Energy, and Lin Feng offered to refine pills for him.
• Lin Feng entered the tower and descended to the bottom floor, where he found the heat and magma too dangerous to investigate further.
• Elder Liu explained the tower’s history, the seal beneath it, and the danger connected to Venerable Sky Fire, then warned Lin Feng to keep the information secret.
• Lin Feng decided not to attempt rescuing Venerable Sky Fire and chose an empty training room for secluded cultivation.
• Lin Feng activated the room and began guiding his Dou Qi through the Heart Flame despite the intense pain.

After emerging from cultivation at mid-stage Three-Star Dou Wang, Lin Feng agreed to refine pills for Moon Spirit in exchange for its help finding Zi Yan. He began making Ice Spirit Pills in a secret chamber while Han Yue led Moon Spirit members to search for Zi Yan.

• Lin Feng sensed that his cultivation had advanced to mid-stage Three-Star Dou Wang and left the cultivation chamber.
• Nangong Yun asked Lin Feng to refine a pill to resist Fire Poison, and he agreed if Moon Spirit helped him find Zi Yan.
• Lin Feng went to Moon Spirit, where Han Yue provided him with a secret chamber and arranged for ingredients and a search for Zi Yan.
• Han Yue dispatched most of Moon Spirit to the mountain range outside the academy to look for Zi Yan.
• Lin Feng chose to refine Ice Spirit Pills and began processing ingredients in three Medicine Cauldrons.

Lin Feng recruited Zi Yan to help him find a Spiritual Herb by offering her energy pellets, then delivered Ice Spirit Pills to Han Yue and the Moon Spirit members. He left with Zi Yan to claim a courtyard, while Han Yue and the others watched him go with admiration.

• Lin Feng told Zi Yan that Su Qian had recommended her treasure-finding talent and offered her energy pellets in exchange for help finding a Spiritual Herb.
• Zi Yan accepted Lin Feng's offer, ate several pellets, and tried to get the rest from his Storage Ring before agreeing to help.
• Lin Feng gave Han Yue the promised Ice Spirit Pills for the Moon Spirit members and left the secret chamber with Zi Yan.
• Han Yue admired Lin Feng as he departed, while Nangong Yun teased her about being lovestruck and Yin Wan'er admitted she was impressed.
• Lin Feng told Zi Yan he first needed to claim a courtyard, and she accidentally shoved him before he caught her as she walked the wrong way.

Lin Feng accompanied Zi Yan to the valley where she challenged the Snow Demon Sky Ape, but intervened when it went berserk and nearly injured her. After Lin Feng defeated the ape with his Five Elements Sealing Technique, Zi Yan asked him to spare it.

• Zi Yan and Lin Feng flew to the valley where the Snow Demon Sky Ape lived, and Zi Yan immediately challenged it to a rematch.
• Zi Yan and the Snow Demon Sky Ape traded powerful blows, surprising the ape with how much Zi Yan had improved.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape grew larger and went berserk, so Lin Feng struck it away before it could seriously injure Zi Yan.
• Lin Feng used the Five Elements Sealing Technique—Spirit Beast Transformation to defeat the Snow Demon Sky Ape.
• Seeing the wounded ape, Zi Yan remembered her own lonely past and asked Lin Feng to spare it.

Lin Feng and Zi Yan found the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s stalactite treasure, and Lin Feng collected the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk to refine a stronger body-tempering method. After secluded cultivation, he emerged in the Inner Academy as a four-star Dou Wang.

• Lin Feng knocked out the injured Snow Demon Sky Ape and followed Zi Yan into its cave, where they found stalactite liquid and the richer Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.
• Lin Feng collected most of the concentrated milk, leaving some behind, and promised to mix it with medicinal ingredients and candy flavor for Zi Yan.
• Back at Jia Nan Academy, Lin Feng combined the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk with an enhanced Body Strengthening Liquid and began secluded cultivation in a wooden barrel.
• Zi Yan repeatedly visited Lin Feng’s courtyard while he cultivated, grumbling that he had not given her the promised medicinal pills.
• Lin Feng’s cultivation energy surged through the secret chamber, and he emerged above the courtyard as a four-star Dou Wang.

Lin Feng improved his cultivation with body-tempering ingredients, gave Zi Yan a powerful strengthening elixir, and began refining pills for the Inner Academy in exchange for ingredients and instruction. After impressing the academy’s alchemists, he was found by Zi Yan, who demanded compensation in pills.

• Lin Feng reached Four-star Dou Wang and found that his physical strength and meridians had improved after combining Earth Core Body Tempering Milk with the enhanced Body Strengthening Liquid.
• Zi Yan eagerly ate the pills Lin Feng gave her until she discovered the bottle was empty, and Lin Feng handed her a much larger bottle of strengthening elixir after she got angry.
• Lin Feng and Zi Yan agreed to enter the mountains together for training in half a month.
• Lin Feng refined pills for the Inner Academy’s alchemists, learning new recipes and sharing the finished pills evenly with the academy.
• After Lin Feng finished refining a Dragon Strength Pill, Zi Yan appeared and demanded that he compensate her with a few pills.

Lin Feng and Zi Yan stopped raiding the mountains after Su Qian rescued them from a near Beast Tide, then spent more than a month cultivating and refining pills. When the academy prepared an operation against the Bandits who had betrayed it, the pair joined the expedition, and Su Qian thanked Lin Feng for befriending Zi Yan before she fled to keep him from revealing her past.

• Lin Feng and Zi Yan abandoned their mountain expeditions after Su Qian warned them about the Seventh-order Demonic Beasts, then entered secluded cultivation with the herbs they had gathered.
• Lin Feng reached Four-star Advanced Dou Wang and successfully refined Five Elements Pills, while Zi Yan brought news that the academy had found the Bandits who had killed its students and elder.
• Zi Yan persuaded Lin Feng to join the operation against the Bandits, and the two announced themselves as the Black Wind Twin Fiends.
• Su Qian briefed the students on the operation and warned them about the dangers before leading the team to prepare.
• Su Qian thanked Lin Feng for helping Zi Yan and began to recount her past, but Zi Yan grabbed Lin Feng and ran toward the Griffon to stop him.

Jia Nan Academy led an expedition against Luo Nuetian’s Iron Clothes Sect, only to find the Golden Silver Elders supporting the bandits. The battle reached a stalemate, and Lin Feng and Zi Yan quietly disappeared amid the fighting.

• Su Qian led Jia Nan Academy’s forces to encircle Luo Nuetian and the Iron Clothes Sect in a valley.
• Su Qian revealed the Golden Silver Elders, who joined Luo Nuetian after arguing over their promised payment.
• An Iron Clothes Sect disciple launched the battle, and both sides fought across the valley.
• Luo Nuetian battled Wu Tianlang while the Golden Silver Elders held off Su Qian, leaving the main forces in a stalemate.
• Lin Feng and Zi Yan vanished from the battlefield unnoticed.

Lin Feng and Zi Yan secretly killed Iron Clothes Sect elders and sabotaged the remaining fighters, turning the battle decisively in Jia Nan Academy’s favor. With the Iron Clothes Sect’s forces collapsing, Lin Feng turned his attention to the two battles overhead.

• Lin Feng persuaded Zi Yan to use stealth attacks, and they teleported into the valley under cover of his Soul Force.
• Lin Feng and Zi Yan ambushed an Iron Clothes Sect elder while Elder Hu and another elder distracted him, then vanished again.
• Lin Feng, Zi Yan, and Jia Nan Academy’s elders killed several Iron Clothes Sect Dou Wang elders, leaving only one alive.
• The last Iron Clothes Sect Dou Wang ordered the disciples to gather, then tried to self-destruct to help them escape.
• Lin Feng struck the elder before he could complete his attack, and the fleeing Iron Clothes Sect disciples collapsed one after another.
• Zi Yan collected the fallen fighters’ Storage Rings as Lin Feng watched the battles overhead and declared it was time to end the fight.

Luo Nuetian negotiated with the Golden Silver Elders for help, then abandoned them and fled after they blocked Su Qian and Wu Tianlang. Su Qian revealed the academy had further support and let the elders escape after they surrendered their possessions and promised not to oppose Jia Nan Academy.

• Luo Nuetian offered the Golden Silver Elders double payment to hold Su Qian and Wu Tianlang back for fifteen minutes while he gathered the Iron Clothes Sect dead.
• The Golden Silver Elders agreed, and Elder Yin and Elder Jin engaged Wu Tianlang and Su Qian as Luo Nuetian approached the valley.
• Luo Nuetian mocked the elders and fled, leaving them to discover he had deceived them.
• Elder Jin asked Su Qian and Wu Tianlang to let the Golden Silver Elders leave, but Su Qian said the academy could deal with all of them and hinted that the Outer Academy Vice Principal was nearby.
• Su Qian offered to spare the Golden Silver Elders if they surrendered their possessions and swore not to oppose Jia Nan Academy, and they tossed away their Storage Rings before escaping in opposite directions.