Recaps

After transmigrating into the injured menial disciple Jiang Donghua, he activates an AFK cultivation system that steadily increases his Dou Qi. Lin Qingyao stops Zhang Hu from beating him and orders Zhang Hu punished, but Zhang Hu’s allies Zhao Tiezhu and Wang Mazi threaten him, leaving Jiang Donghua determined to grow stronger before they come after him again.

• Jiang Donghua wakes in the Azure Mist Sect as a badly injured menial disciple and activates the Infinite AFK System, which automatically grants him Dou Qi.
• Zhang Hu tries to strike Jiang Donghua, but Lin Qingyao intervenes and orders Zhang Hu to serve a month of confinement for harming a fellow disciple.
• Zhang Hu threatens Jiang Donghua as he leaves, while Jiang Donghua quietly vows to be ready when Zhang Hu returns.
• Zhao Tiezhu and Wang Mazi threaten Jiang Donghua with an apparent accident outside the sect, scatter his herbs, and crush several underfoot.
• Jiang Donghua checks his cultivation progress and resolves to break through before the month is over, then make Zhao Tiezhu and Wang Mazi answer for their threats.

Jiang Donghua used the system’s idle Battle Qi gains to reach Stage Five and heal his injuries, then confronted Zhao Tiezhu and Wang Mazi in the herb fields. He forced Wang Mazi to break Zhao Tiezhu’s leg and claimed control of the field work.

• Jiang Donghua tracked his rising Battle Qi while enduring Zhao Tiezhu and Wang Mazi’s taunts and threats.
• Jiang Donghua broke through to Battle Qi Stage Four in a secluded cave, healing his injuries and gaining greater strength.
• Ten days later, Jiang Donghua reached Battle Qi Stage Five and hid his breakthrough from Zhao Tiezhu and Wang Mazi.
• When Zhao Tiezhu tried to grab him, Jiang Donghua crushed his wrist, dislocated his shoulder, and struck him down.
• Jiang Donghua stopped Wang Mazi from fleeing and ordered him to break Zhao Tiezhu’s leg in exchange for sparing his life.
• Jiang Donghua told the servant disciples that they would handle the herb-field work from then on.

After emerging from confinement, Zhang Hu confronted Jiang Donghua, who had risen to the same cultivation stage and defeated him. Jiang Donghua crippled Zhang Hu’s cultivation and left, then planned to gather his gold coins and flee before the outer sect investigated his rapid progress.

• Zhang Hu left confinement and learned that Zhao Tiezhu and Wang Mazi had disappeared after Jiang Donghua taught them a lesson.
• Zhang Hu challenged Jiang Donghua at the medicinal fields, but Jiang dodged his attack and countered with blows that revealed they had reached the same cultivation stage.
• Zhang Hu tried to escape punishment by apologizing and offering his savings and a Yellow-grade Intermediate Combat Skill, but Jiang rejected his offer.
• Jiang Donghua dislocated Zhang Hu’s arm and struck his dantian, crippling his cultivation instead of killing him.
• Jiang Donghua left Zhang Hu among the menial disciples and decided to collect his gold coins and flee before outer sect disciples questioned his rapid advancement.

Jiang Donghua escaped the Azure Mist Sect and reached Battle Qi Stage Seven in Black Iron City, where he planned to seek admission to Jia Nan Academy. As he prepared for the selection, he worried about the continent’s unknown timeline and resolved to grow strong enough to survive any future disaster.

• Jiang Donghua took five hundred gold coins, fled the Azure Mist Sect, and rode a carriage to Black Iron City while sect disciples overlooked evidence of the missing servants in the medicinal fields.
• After learning Jia Nan Academy would recruit in ten days and required candidates to be at least Battle Qi Stage Seven and under eighteen, Jiang Donghua rented a courtyard and focused on cultivating.
• Jiang Donghua broke through to Battle Qi Stage Seven, meeting the academy’s minimum requirement, and decided that joining would provide safety, resources, and proper training.
• Jiang Donghua considered how the AFK System could help him advance at Jia Nan Academy and worried about when Xiao Yan and the Soul Clan’s catastrophe belonged in the timeline.
• Jiang Donghua resolved to seek information about the Misty Cloud Sect and set a goal of reaching Dou Wang before any disaster arrived.

Jiang Donghua passed Jia Nan Academy instructor Yan Feng’s preliminary selection in Black Iron City and drew the attention of the other candidates. After Zhou Yan accused him of using secret medicine, Yan Feng stopped their confrontation, leaving Zhou Yan openly hostile toward him.

• Yan Feng tested candidates under eighteen and accepted those whose Battle Qi reached Stage Seven or higher.
• Jiang Donghua passed the test after revealing that he had recently reached Stage Seven, and he joined the eight other qualified candidates.
• Liu Yuting questioned Jiang Donghua about his origins, and Liu Mingyu probed him about his master; Jiang Donghua claimed he had trained under a wandering Rogue Cultivator.
• Zhou Yan accused Jiang Donghua of using secret medicine, and Jiang Donghua dismissed the accusation.
• Yan Feng intervened before Zhou Yan could attack, and Zhou Yan glared at Jiang Donghua as the confrontation ended.

After the selection, Jiang Donghua accepted Liu Yuting's invitation to stay at the City Lord's Mansion, drawing Zhou Yan's resentment and threat. As the group prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy, City Lord Liu provided them with powerful magic-core weapons and armor for the dangerous journey.

• Yan Feng judged the nine selected youths, took a special interest in Jiang Donghua, and ordered them to gather at noon the next day to travel to Jia Nan Academy.
• Liu Yuting invited Jiang Donghua to stay at the City Lord's Mansion, and he accepted to avoid possible trouble from Zhou Yan.
• Zhou Yan mocked Jiang Donghua for relying on the City Lord's Mansion and warned him that the road ahead would not be easy.
• Liu Mingyu rebuked Zhou Yan, who left after casting Jiang Donghua a threatening glance.
• Jiang Donghua followed Liu Yuting and Liu Mingyu to the mansion, where City Lord Liu showed them magic-core weapons and armor prepared for their journey.

Jiang Donghua broke through from Battle Qi Stage Seven to Stage Eight during the journey to Jia Nan Academy, then advanced to one-star Dou Zhe after months on the road. His breakthrough impressed Yan Feng and the Liu siblings, while Zhou Yan’s attempt to sabotage him was stopped; the carriage continued toward the Black Corner Region.

• Liu Mingyu offered Jiang Donghua food and recalled that his father had urged him to build a relationship with Jiang because of his exceptional cultivation and battle qi.
• Jiang Donghua broke through to Battle Qi Stage Eight in the carriage, and Yan Feng shielded him while stopping Zhou Yan from using Soul-Shocking Powder.
• Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting congratulated Jiang Donghua, and Yan Feng praised the strength of his foundation.
• More than two months later, the carriage jolted and triggered Jiang Donghua’s breakthrough to one-star Dou Zhe.
• Jiang Donghua unlocked two clones and a higher idle gain as the carriage traveled toward the Black Corner Region.

Jiang Donghua learned the Crimson Flame Art from Yan Feng and rapidly stabilized his cultivation, while Yan Feng began to see him as a promising student who could help him win an instructor competition. When bandits attacked their carriage in the Black Corner Region, Yan Feng killed them all, then ordered the shaken students to loot their belongings.

• Yan Feng offered Jiang Donghua the Yellow-grade High-tier Crimson Flame Art, and Jiang Donghua quickly began circulating it steadily.
• Yan Feng realized Jiang Donghua’s cultivation talent might help him win the Yellow-grade Class Instructor competition and earn a Mysterious-grade Mid-tier Combat Skill.
• Jiang Donghua mistook Yan Feng’s intense interest in his talent for improper intentions, prompting laughter from the other passengers.
• A band of bandits attacked the carriage, and Yan Feng revealed his Da Dou Shi strength by burning several attackers with his Fire Python Heart Devour technique.
• The One-eyed Strongman pretended to surrender, but Yan Feng killed him before he could attack Liu Yuting and burned the remaining bandits’ bodies.
• Yan Feng ordered the frightened students to search the corpses and declared that he would keep nine-tenths of the spoils.

Yan Feng discovered that Jiang Donghua had no combat skills and lent him two techniques to prepare for the Jia Nan Academy selection tournament. Jiang Donghua secretly set both skills to offline cultivation and planned to surprise his instructor.

• Yan Feng defeated another attacker, then questioned Jiang Donghua about what combat skills he had learned.
• Jiang Donghua admitted he had no combat skills and claimed he had been saving money to buy manuals.
• Yan Feng lent Jiang Donghua the Yellow-tier Advanced technique Blazing Palm and ordered him to master it before the selection tournament.
• That night, Yan Feng also gave Jiang Donghua Cloud-Chasing Steps and urged him to begin learning it.
• Jiang Donghua activated offline cultivation for both techniques and resolved to advance to Two-star Dou Master before surprising Yan Feng.

Jiang Donghua broke through to Two-star Dou Master during the journey to Jia Nan Academy, then assigned his clones to train two Battle Skills. As the instructors gathered, he concealed his strength and kept his true cultivation secret.

• Jiang Donghua broke through from One-star to Two-star Dou Master as Yan Feng guarded him, astonishing the others in the carriage.
• Jiang Donghua offered Zhou Yan a sea buckthorn berry, and Zhou Yan responded with fear and resignation rather than resentment.
• Jiang Donghua assigned Clone 1 to train Cloud-Chasing Steps and Clone 2 to train Blazing Palm.
• The instructors and their students arrived at the wasteland gathering point, and Yan Feng shielded his group from their probing questions.
• Jiang Donghua concealed his strength as a One-star Dou Zhe and told Liu Yuting that he was keeping a trump card up his sleeve.

Jiang Donghua relied on the AFK System to cultivate combat skills continuously while concealing his strength among the gathered students and instructors. After wealthy youths mocked Black Iron City and challenged his standing, he invited them to test their abilities at the trial grounds the next day.

• Jiang Donghua checked the AFK System and saw his Blazing Palm and Cloud-Chasing Steps progressing simultaneously around the clock.
• Jiang Donghua observed the powerful instructors at camp and concealed his cultivation as a One-star Dou Zhe.
• Richly dressed youths mocked Jiang Donghua and Black Iron City, prompting Liu Yuting to defend her family's collection of combat skills.
• Jiang Donghua challenged the youths to show their abilities at the trial grounds, and Old Man Mo warned them to take him seriously.
• Old Man Mo told the young scions that nearly all of them were only at the Dou Zhe realm, except Lin Xiuyuan, who had reached the peak of Two-star Dou Master.

Jia Nan Academy sent a thousand Griffins to collect the new students, with Dean Lei Tian’s presence frightening the Black Corner Region’s bandits into retreat. At Yan Feng’s camp, Jiang Donghua impressed the instructors by calming a Griffin, and the students flew toward the academy.

• Old Man Mo and the other instructors recognized Jiang Donghua as a Two-star Dou Master with an exceptionally solid foundation, while Yan Feng anticipated the next day’s trial.
• Jia Nan Academy’s Elder dispatched one thousand Griffins toward the Black Corner Region to collect the new students.
• The One-eyed Strongman and other local forces retreated after spotting Lei Tian and the six Peak Dou Wangs accompanying the Griffin flock.
• Yan Feng shielded the students from the Griffins’ intimidating presence as the beasts arrived at his camp.
• Jiang Donghua calmly mounted a Griffin, whose savagery subsided under the pressure of his Dou Qi.
• The students climbed onto the Griffins and flew toward Jia Nan Academy.

Jiang Donghua arrived at Jia Nan Academy with Yan Feng and the other students, where the final-batch instructor qualifications were to be decided through student matches. After the Battle Qi Stage Nine students suffered quick defeats, Elder Wang healed and encouraged them before calling for the Dou Zhe contestants to draw lots.

• Jiang Donghua and Liu Yuting flew with Yan Feng to Jia Nan Academy, where the final batch of new students landed before a huge crowd.
• Dean Lei Tian announced that instructors would compete through student matches to determine qualifications and priority for Yellow-tier class resources.
• Battle Qi Stage Nine students challenged stronger opponents, but Shi Lie and other Dou Zhes defeated them quickly.
• Yan Feng mocked the defeated students and told Jiang Donghua he would take him to the Scripture Depository if he won.
• Elder Wang eased the injured students' pain and encouraged them, then told the instructors to call their Dou Zhes forward to draw opponents.

Jiang Donghua defeated several opponents in the arena tournament, revealing his mastery of Cloud-Chasing Steps and Blazing Palm. He beat Lin Xiuyuan through their clashes and Fire-attribute advantage, leaving Jiang as the tournament’s feared contender.

• Jiang Donghua defeated Chen Yan with Cloud-Chasing Steps and Blazing Palm, surprising the instructors with his skill.
• Jiang Donghua watched other contestants fight and concluded that most had barely begun mastering their combat techniques.
• Jiang Donghua defeated Liu Tu so quickly that the instructors predicted Yan Feng would win the Yellow-grade Class Instructor position.
• Jiang Donghua and Lin Xiuyuan exchanged attacks, but Lin Xiuyuan’s Wood-attribute Battle Qi was weakened by Jiang’s Fire attribute.
• Lin Xiuyuan conceded and stepped off the platform, and Elder Wang declared Jiang Donghua the winner.

Yan Feng led Jiang Donghua and the other top freshmen to Jia Nan Academy’s Scripture Depository to claim their rewards. After the guardians opened the tower and explained its rules, Jiang Donghua entered and raced toward the upper floors.

• Yan Feng celebrated becoming a Yellow-grade Class Instructor, then took Jiang Donghua to the Scripture Depository to claim his promised Mysterious-grade Combat Skill.
• Yan Feng summoned Lin Xiuyuan, Zhao Wuchen, Ouyang Xue, and Shi Lie, explaining that the top five freshmen could each choose a reward.
• Yan Feng and the students reached the floating nine-story tower, where Elder Duan and the other guardians prepared to open it.
• Elder Duan announced that students could reach the third floor, instructors the fourth, and everyone had one hour to bring out their chosen rewards.
• Yan Feng urged Jiang Donghua to head straight for the Mysterious-grade Combat Skills, and Jiang Donghua rushed toward the stairs as the other students followed.

Jiang Donghua struggled to catch the fast-moving treasure orbs on the Scripture Depository’s third floor, then joined his classmates in a coordinated plan to capture them. Their teamwork succeeded repeatedly, while stronger students who competed alone lost their chance at a golden orb.

• Jiang Donghua entered the third floor and watched students fail to catch the swift light orbs, while a Five-star Dou Master briefly seized a golden one.
• Jiang Donghua realized the students could trap the orbs by working together after a group surrounded a purple orb and obtained a Mysterious-grade Mid-tier Movement Technique.
• Jiang Donghua proposed that he and Lin Xiuyuan drive orbs toward Shi Lie, Zhao Wuchen, and Ouyang Xue, who would intercept them.
• The five classmates coordinated their techniques to capture an azure orb containing the Mysterious-grade Low-tier Cold Marrow Art and continued catching treasures together.
• Elder Duan and another elder watched the students from the Stargazing Platform as powerful students fighting among themselves caused a golden orb to explode.

Jiang Donghua struggled to find a cultivation method among the light spheres, then fought off rival students with his companions to seize a Mysterious-grade Mid-tier Fire attribute cultivation method. He secured the jade slip and stood with his allies as the Chixiao City students withdrew.

• Jiang Donghua drove light spheres toward his companions while repeatedly finding only combat skills, and Shi Lie took over herding them when Jiang Donghua was injured.
• Ouyang Xue spotted an azure-gold light sphere that Zhao Wuchen identified as containing a cultivation method of at least Mysterious-grade Mid-tier.
• Three students from Chixiao City attacked to claim the sphere, while a Five-star Dou Master from the Mysterious-grade class also tried to seize it.
• Jiang Donghua kicked the black-robed student away from the sphere, and his companions helped fend off the attackers until the student abandoned the contest.
• Jiang Donghua endured the sphere's lightning and used Purple Spirit Flame to break it open, obtaining a jade slip containing Burning Fire, a Mysterious-grade Mid-tier Fire attribute cultivation method.
• The Chixiao City students saw Jiang Donghua's companions gather around him and withdrew to pursue another light sphere.

Jiang Donghua and his teammates registered their Scripture Depository gains, then went to the cultivation rooms, where he tried his free session and tested the Sky-Burning Incantation. The chapter left him cultivating with a much faster Battle Qi flow and an idle gain of 10 points per hour.

• Jiang Donghua registered the Sky-Burning jade slip as a Mysterious-grade Mid-tier cultivation method, and his teammates registered their gains.
• The three Scripture Depository guardians discussed Jiang Donghua’s unusual Fire attribute and its potential for alchemy.
• Lin Xiuyuan led Jiang Donghua and the others to the cultivation rooms, where Elder Zhao gave the five freshmen free-trial tokens.
• Jiang Donghua entered a Yellow-grade cultivation room and tested its defenses before beginning to cultivate.
• Jiang Donghua used the Sky-Burning Incantation, felt his Battle Qi surge, and saw his total idle gain reach 10 points per hour.

Jiang Donghua discovered that cultivation rooms increased his idle gains, then moved into Block C, Number 7, where his roommates explained the academy’s rankings and Contribution Points. He learned that monthly assessments could demote students and that earning Contribution Points would be essential for accessing valuable resources.

• Jiang Donghua cultivated in a Yellow-grade room and saw his total idle gain rise to 11 points per hour, but realized he needed money to afford higher-grade rooms.
• Elder Zhao sent Jiang Donghua out when his trial ended and remarked that the newcomer had Fire-attribute Battle Qi.
• Jiang Donghua arrived at Block C, Number 7, and met his roommates Zhou Mang, Wen Ziyu, and Shi Lei.
• Jiang Donghua learned that dorm assignments reflected strength, monthly assessments could demote students, and his placement in Block C seemed unusually favorable for a Two-star Dou Master.
• Jiang Donghua asked how to earn Contribution Points, and his roommates described academy missions and skilled work such as pill refinement and artifact forging.

Jiang Donghua’s dormmates urged him to test for talent in alchemy and formations, sharing their envy of those professions’ wealth and status. He agreed to take the Soul Force test the next day, unaware that Jia Nan Academy elders had already sensed his pure Wood within Fire.

• Zhou Mang, Shi Lei, and Wen Ziyu discussed the expense and difficulty of formation work as Jiang Donghua listened.
• Shi Lei and Zhou Mang complained that lacking Soul Force talent had left them unable to become Alchemists, while Wen Ziyu explained the demands of alchemy.
• Jiang Donghua’s dormmates encouraged him to test for alchemy and formation talent, and Wen Ziyu gave him a crystal to steady his mind during the Soul Force test.
• Jiang Donghua agreed to take the test the next day, though he worried privately about whether he had talent.
• Jia Nan Academy elders had already sensed pure Wood within Fire in Jiang Donghua.

Jiang Donghua and Lin Xiuyuan tried the academy’s department talent assessments, but failed at formations and talismans. Jiang qualified for the Alchemy Department with his Fire affinity, leaving Lin Xiuyuan stunned and envious.

• Jiang Donghua learned from Lin Xiuyuan that students could take talent assessments to transfer into the Alchemy, Formation, or Talisman Departments.
• Lin Xiuyuan led Jiang to the Formation Department, where an elder rejected him for weak Soul Force, and a talisman instructor dismissed Jiang’s unsteady drawing.
• Lin Xiuyuan despaired over his failed assessment, then realized Jiang had Fire affinity and dragged him to the Alchemy Department.
• Jiang touched the Alchemy Department’s crystal ball, which glowed red and qualified him to enter.
• Lin Xiuyuan reacted with shock as Jiang joked that his luck was good.

Jiang Donghua entered the Alchemy Department and began its second test under steward Mo Xuan, learning to balance Fire and Wood spiritual power to form alchemy fire. He successfully produced a stable flame and was left concentrating on maintaining it for a quarter of an hour.

• Jiang Donghua entered the Alchemy Department hall and met Mo Xuan, a Fifth-grade Alchemist and steward overseeing the second test.
• Mo Xuan brought Jiang Donghua to the alchemy hall, where a freshman failed to control a furnace and was sent to meditate for three days.
• Mo Xuan instructed Jiang Donghua to ignite a pill furnace with Fire-attribute Battle Qi and keep it burning for a quarter of an hour.
• Jiang Donghua summoned a crimson flame on his first attempt, then searched his body for Wood attribute spiritual power.
• Jiang Donghua guided the Wood energy into the furnace, transforming the unstable flames into a steady blue-red alchemy fire.
• Mo Xuan told Jiang Donghua to maintain the balanced flame, and Jiang Donghua focused on controlling both energies.

Jiang Donghua chose to learn the difficult Bone-Mending Pill, while Mo Xuan gave him ten batches of ingredients and warned him he would be expelled if he could not make a pill within a year. After Lin Xiuyuan congratulated him and treated him to a meal, he pointed out how costly the ingredients and equipment would be.

• Jiang Donghua chose the Bone-Mending Pill over two easier healing medicines, and Mo Xuan gave him ten batches of herbs with a one-year deadline to succeed.
• Jiang Donghua absorbed the prescription’s alchemy knowledge and worried that hostile apprentices might sabotage his practice.
• Lin Xiuyuan waited outside the Alchemy Department, learned Jiang Donghua had been accepted, and struggled with envy before inviting him to eat.
• Lin Xiuyuan listed the high prices of the Bone-Mending Pill’s ingredients and warned that a first-tier medicine cauldron cost a hundred thousand gold coins.

Jiang Donghua searched for Yan Feng, who had fled to escape the effects of the Body-Burning Incantation, then returned to class and discovered he had eidetic memory. He began planning to improve his cultivation before focusing on pill refining, while wondering whether the AFK System had granted him the memory.

• Jiang Donghua searched the training ground, rear mountain, and instructors’ dormitory for Yan Feng, finding signs that he had fled.
• Yan Feng hid from the wicked fire stirred by the Body-Burning Incantation, whose warning said excessive yang energy could make cultivation dangerous.
• Jiang Donghua read the manual, panicked at its implications, and decided to find another way to obtain the medicine cauldron.
• Jiang Donghua checked the AFK System and realized that reaching beginner level in Bone-Mending Pill refining would take more than twenty days.
• Jiang Donghua decided to focus on reaching the Dou Master realm first so he could gain another cultivation clone.
• Jiang Donghua found that he could recall every detail in the Herbal Compendium and wondered whether the system had given him eidetic memory.

Jiang Donghua intervened when Chen Xiao, Chu Feibai, and Liu Shiqing harassed Liu Yuting and Liu Mingyu, but Instructor Lin stopped the confrontation before it turned into a fight. Afterward, the three students plotted to cripple Liu Mingyu that night, counting on an unknown backer to protect them from Jiang Donghua.

• Jiang Donghua found Liu Yuting surrounded by Chen Xiao, Chu Feibai, and Liu Shiqing while Liu Mingyu was being blocked and beaten.
• Jiang Donghua challenged the three students, but Instructor Lin intervened and ordered everyone to disperse.
• Instructor Lin warned Liu Yuting to seek her help if the harassment happened again, while Jiang Donghua asked Liu Mingyu for the students' names.
• Chen Xiao, Chu Feibai, and Liu Shiqing discussed Jiang Donghua's strength and their failed attempt to get information about the Ice Control Art.
• Liu Shiqing proposed crippling Liu Mingyu, and Chen Xiao agreed that they would act that night.