Recaps

After half a month in seclusion, Lin Feng broke through to the Dou Wang realm and discovered that his physical strength and wings had grown dramatically. His flight drew the attention of the Imperial Capital’s powerful figures, who gathered at the Alchemist Guild grounds to learn who had broken through.

• Xiao Yi Xian visited Lin Feng’s sealed chamber and told him the Jia Nan Academy recruitment would begin in three days.
• Lin Feng awakened after breaking through to Dou Wang, found his physical strength had increased, and manifested both Five-colored Wings and Pitch-black Wings.
• Lin Feng flew out with Xiao Yi Xian and carried her through the skies above the Imperial Capital.
• Jia Xingtian sensed Lin Feng’s breakthrough, left Yao Ye and Yao Yue, and flew to investigate.
• Fa Ma, along with powerful figures from the Mittel Family, Nalan Mansion, and Mu Family, sensed the breakthrough and headed toward the Alchemist Guild grounds.
• Fa Ma said the person responsible would arrive soon, then looked toward the sky in surprise.

Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian left the Imperial Capital for Jia Nan Academy, with Lin Feng hiding his Dou Wang strength from the Misty Cloud Sect. At the academy’s recruitment site, Lin Feng asked to join as an elder while Xiao Yi Xian sought admission as a student.

• Lin Feng asked Nalan Jie, Mitter Tengshan, and the other powerful figures to keep his cultivation secret, and they agreed.
• Lin Feng asked them to look after Maple Leaf Tower and the Crimson Fire Mercenary Group before leaving the Imperial Capital with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lin Feng summoned Xuan Wu with a flute and rode toward a city where Jia Nan Academy was recruiting students.
• Instructor Ruo Lin began the recruitment, but Lin Feng’s sudden voice startled her and prompted her to summon Elder Hu.
• Elder Hu questioned Lin Feng’s intentions, and Lin Feng explained that Xiao Yi Xian wanted to enroll while he wished to become an academy elder.

Lin Feng revealed that he was a Dou Wang and Fourth-grade Alchemist while helping Xiao Yi Xian enroll at Jia Nan Academy, where her extraordinary talent won her the highest assessment tier and a place in Instructor Ruo Lin’s class. After a leisurely afternoon together, Lin Feng left the inn at night, and an unseen attacker struck a young man cultivating at the Xiao Clan.

• Lin Feng stunned Elder Hu by revealing his Dou Wang aura, then agreed to take Xiao Yi Xian to meet Vice Principal Hu Gan and follow the academy’s enrollment procedures.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Instructor Ruo Lin that she was thirteen and a peak Nine-star Dou Master, earning an assessment above S-level and an invitation to join Ruo Lin’s class.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian completed the enrollment arrangements, then wandered through Wutan City and bought a bracelet after bargaining with a vendor.
• That night, Lin Feng reminded Xiao Yi Xian of something, dressed in black, and left the inn alone.
• At the Xiao Clan, a young man cultivating in his room stopped in frustration, and an unseen object struck him, knocking him onto the bed.

Lin Feng confronted Yao Chen in Xiao Yan’s room and negotiated for alchemy knowledge and the Poison Pill Method in exchange for information. After Lin Feng mentioned Han Feng, Yao Chen erupted in anger, then asked Lin Feng to hear his story.

• Lin Feng revealed that he had sensed Yao Chen inside Xiao Yan’s ring and claimed to be a disciple of Qing Hua.
• Lin Feng explained that he had come to investigate Xiao Yan and offered information in exchange for Yao Chen’s alchemy techniques and the Poison Pill Method.
• Lin Feng said his companion had the Calamity Poison Body and asked Yao Chen to teach him the Poison Pill Method.
• Lin Feng mentioned Han Feng, provoking Yao Chen into a furious outburst that shattered objects in the room.
• Yao Chen calmed down, thanked Lin Feng for protecting Xiao Yan, and asked him to listen to a story.

Lin Feng traded information about the Soul Hall and Han Feng to Yao Chen for alchemy techniques, pill recipes, and the Poison Pill Method. The next morning, Lin Feng told Xiao Yi Xian what had happened, but she urged him to keep the Poison Pill Method and held that staying by his side mattered more than advancing.

• Yao Chen asked Lin Feng about Han Feng and learned that Han Feng had become known as the Medicine Emperor in the Black Corner Region.
• Lin Feng raised the Soul Hall, making Yao Chen wary, then negotiated a collection of alchemy techniques and pill recipes from the first through Seventh Grade, plus the Poison Pill Method.
• Yao Chen handed Lin Feng the scrolls and read Lin Feng’s intelligence about the Soul Hall, including its connection to Yao Chen and Misty Cloud Sect.
• Lin Feng left after offering to help Yao Chen in the future for a price.
• The next morning, Lin Feng recounted the deal to Xiao Yi Xian and offered her the Poison Pill Method, but she told him to keep it.

Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to leave Wutan City for Jia Nan Academy with Instructor Ruo Lin and the new students. After Lin Feng summoned his fourth-rank mount, Xuan Wu, the group set off for the academy.

• Lin Feng broke Gao Chong’s lower-body bones after Gao Chong tried to harass Xiao Yi Xian, and Elder Hu ruled that the Enforcement Team should deal with Gao Chong.
• Instructor Ruo Lin showed Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian the academy’s Griffons and explained their role in student training.
• Elder Hu announced the group’s departure, and the new students learned to use Dou Qi beneath their feet to stay on the Griffons’ smooth backs.
• Lin Feng played a flute to summon Xuan Wu, startling the Griffons and the students.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian mounted Xuan Wu, and Instructor Ruo Lin led the group toward Jia Nan Academy.

Lin Feng warned Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment party about a deadly black storm and used a powerful barrier technique to protect them. The storm struck the barrier, whose ability to withstand it remained unknown.

• Lin Feng sensed a black storm approaching the Griffon formation and warned Instructor Ruo Lin.
• Instructor Ruo Lin ordered the riders to land, and the group sheltered beneath a massive rock wall.
• Lin Feng summoned five strange magical beasts that formed a barrier around the group.
• Elder Hong asked to study Lin Feng’s barrier Dou Technique, but Lin Feng declined to engage with him.
• The black storm slammed into Lin Feng’s barrier as everyone watched tensely.

Lin Feng protected the recruitment team from the Black Storm with his Five-Colored Barrier, then traveled with Elder Hu to Peace Town to seek approval for becoming an elder. After arriving, he saw the Death Spirit Tree and flew toward Jia Nan Academy, leaving the townspeople stunned by his young age and Dou Wang strength.

• Lin Feng held the Five-Colored Barrier against the Black Storm while Elder Hu and the other elders praised his strength and alchemy.
• After the storm passed, the recruitment team resumed its journey and reached Peace Town after three hours of flight.
• Lin Feng sent Xuan Wu to the mountains, then followed Elder Hu into town while Xiao Yi Xian stayed behind with the students.
• Lin Feng examined the Death Spirit Tree, and Elder Hu explained that the academy had used it to intimidate attackers.
• At Elder Hu's signal, Lin Feng spread his Dou Qi Wings and flew toward Jia Nan Academy, drawing astonished looks from the crowd.

Lin Feng secured a position as an elder at Jia Nan Academy by explaining his reasons for seeking refuge and revealing that he was a Fifth-grade Alchemist. Elder Hu then brought him to meet Elder Huo at the Alchemy Department.

• Elder Hu brought Lin Feng to Vice Principal Hu Gan, who questioned his extraordinary cultivation and Alchemy achievements.
• Lin Feng told Hu Gan that he sought the academy's protection and support because his teacher had guided him and taught him advanced Alchemy.
• Hu Gan agreed to accept Lin Feng as an elder, and Lin Feng revealed that he was a Fifth-grade Alchemist seeking medicinal ingredients to pursue Sixth-grade Alchemy.
• Hu Gan instructed Elder Hu to escort Lin Feng to the Alchemy Department and ordered a covert investigation into Lin Feng's past.
• Elder Hu led Lin Feng through the academy's medicinal fields and introduced him to Elder Huo.

Lin Feng impressed Elder Huo by identifying a rare spiritual herb and was revealed to be a Fifth-grade Alchemist at eighteen. Elder Huo brought him to the Exchange Area to assess his abilities, where Lin Feng prepared to demonstrate his alchemy before a gathered crowd.

• Lin Feng identified Elder Huo's herb as Blazing Misty Grass, a key ingredient for a Fifth-grade Pill.
• Lin Feng introduced himself as a new academy elder who would work under Elder Huo, and Elder Hu announced that Lin Feng was a Fifth-grade Alchemist at eighteen.
• Elder Huo offered to support Lin Feng's advancement and invited him to discuss alchemy, while Lin Feng said Elder Huo should judge him over time.
• Elder Huo led Lin Feng to the Exchange Area, and Elder Hu hurried after them, complaining that the two had left him behind.
• Elder Hu found the Exchange Area crowded around Lin Feng, who stood before a Large Cauldron with his eyes closed and was adjusting his breathing.

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.