Recaps

Jiang Donghua used the jade slip Teacher had given him to search the Scripture Depository, but his first catches were unsuitable treasures. After proposing that the five share what they were seeking and help each other, he revealed that he needed a Fire attribute cultivation technique.

• Zhao Ming, Wang Han, Lin Xiu, and Bai Ling caught and rejected several techniques and combat skills that did not suit them.
• Jiang Donghua followed the jade slip’s pull and caught a Sixth-order Demonic Beast core instead of a technique, then returned it to the spatial barrier.
• Jiang Donghua used the jade slip to find two more Fire attribute items, but rejected them as unsuitable for his goal.
• Jiang Donghua proposed that the five state what they needed and seize useful items for one another to exchange later.
• Jiang Donghua broke the group’s hesitation by revealing that he needed a Fire attribute cultivation technique.

Jiang Donghua helped Wang Han seize a powerful Earth-attribute fist technique that suited him perfectly, strengthening the fragile cooperation among the five. The group continued searching for their desired treasures, with Jiang Donghua still seeking a Fire-attribute cultivation method.

• Wang Han, Lin Xiu, Zhao Ming, and Bai Ling described the skills and cultivation methods they hoped to find, and the five agreed to watch for one another’s targets.
• Wang Han grabbed a dense earthy-yellow light cluster, but he and Lin Xiu struggled to keep it from dragging Wang Han toward the spatial barrier.
• Jiang Donghua pierced the light cluster with concentrated blue flames and pulled out an ancient beast-hide scroll.
• The scroll contained the Mysterious Tier High-grade Mountain Collapse Tremor Fist, which could rival an Earth-tier Low Grade Combat Skill at Great Accomplishment.
• Jiang Donghua gave the scroll to Wang Han, who thanked him earnestly, and the incident eased the tension within the group.

Jiang Donghua captured the rare Bewitching Heart Demon Eye but gave it to Bai Ling because he was still searching for an Earth-grade cultivation technique. With time running short, Zhao Ming and Lin Xiu intensified their search for treasures Jiang Donghua might value.

• Zhao Ming, Lin Xiu, and Bai Ling found several Fire attribute techniques, but Jiang Donghua returned them because they were not what he sought.
• Jiang Donghua's jade slip pointed him toward a milky-white light cluster, which he captured and found to contain the Profound-tier High Grade Bewitching Heart Demon Eye.
• Jiang Donghua offered the pupil technique to Bai Ling, who eagerly accepted it.
• Zhao Ming and Lin Xiu realized they could trade useful treasures with Jiang Donghua and urgently searched for Fire attribute or Soul Force items.
• Jiang Donghua remained in place as his jade slip continued to give off faint warmth.

Jiang Donghua and the others struggled to capture a highly spiritual red-purple-black sphere until Bai Ling used the Bewitching Heart Demon Eye to daze it and retrieve its treasure. Her rapid mastery of the eye technique astonished Jiang Donghua, but she was left severely exhausted.

• Jiang Donghua found a uniquely colored sphere, but it evaded his attacks and resisted his Soul Force.
• Wang Han, Lin Xiu, and Zhao Ming each tried and failed to catch the sphere.
• Bai Ling used the Bewitching Heart Demon Eye to briefly bewilder the sphere and take the treasure inside.
• The sphere faded away, and Jiang Donghua recognized the treasure's ancient, tyrannical aura.
• Jiang Donghua realized Bai Ling had activated a Profound-tier High Grade eye technique after only minutes of practice, while Bai Ling turned pale and weak from the effort.
• Bai Ling handed the heavy treasure to Jiang Donghua as she swayed with exhaustion.

Jiang Donghua helped Bai Ling recover after she exhausted herself using an eye technique, then identified the treasure they had obtained as the Earth-tier Mid Grade Burning Heaven Furnace Art. The group reacted with shock and envy as Jiang Donghua realized the fire-based cultivation art was exceptionally suited to him.

• Wang Han recognized Bai Ling as a member of the Bai Family of Hundred Arts, and Jiang Donghua supported her when she nearly collapsed.
• Jiang Donghua gave Bai Ling a Spirit Condensing Pill, a Blood Vitality Pill, and a Fourth-grade Origin Nurturing Spirit Pill to restore her condition.
• After Bai Ling recovered enough to thank him, Jiang Donghua examined the dark red token he had obtained.
• Jiang Donghua discovered that the token contained the Earth-tier Mid Grade Burning Heaven Furnace Art, a cultivation art that forged a furnace in the dantian and enhanced fire-based Battle Qi.
• Zhao Ming, Wang Han, Lin Xiu, and Bai Ling were astonished by the art's grade and envied Jiang Donghua's good fortune.

Jiang Donghua thanked Bai Ling for helping him obtain the Burning Heaven Furnace Art, then used his Soul Force to help Lin Xiu and Zhao Ming find treasures suited to them. After all five left the Scripture Depository with valuable gains, Dean Lei Tian gave them three days to prepare before leading them to the Inner Academy.

• Jiang Donghua promised Bai Ling that he would help her whenever she encountered trouble in Jia Nan Academy.
• Jiang Donghua searched for treasures with his Soul Force, helping Lin Xiu obtain the Leaf Shadow Following Wind Steps movement technique and Zhao Ming claim a lightning spear.
• The five students left the Scripture Depository with treasures, and Dean Lei Tian told them to gather at dawn in three days for the journey to the Inner Academy.
• Zhao Ming, Lin Xiu, Wang Han, and Bai Ling thanked Jiang Donghua and asked him to look after them in the Inner Academy before they went their separate ways.

Jiang Donghua told Elder Mo Xuan that he had obtained the Earth-tier Mid Grade Burning Heaven Furnace Art, easing his teacher’s worries. Mo Xuan gave him his treasured Storage Ring and prepared to leave for the Central Plains to settle old matters, while withholding the full reason.

• Jiang Donghua returned to Elder Mo Xuan and told him the jade slip had helped him obtain the Burning Heaven Furnace Art.
• Elder Mo Xuan was shocked and delighted when Jiang Donghua confirmed the art was Earth-tier Mid Grade.
• Mo Xuan said the cultivation art let him leave without worry and gave Jiang Donghua his Storage Ring containing pill formulas, alchemy notes, and medicinal herbs.
• Mo Xuan told Jiang Donghua that he was going to the Central Plains to settle old matters, and said there were things his disciple would not benefit from knowing.

Elder Mo Xuan revealed that he was heading to the Central Plains to seek revenge on the powerful Netherworld Sect, and entrusted Jiang Donghua with his treasured Storage Ring and lifelong alchemy resources. After Elder Mo Xuan departed, Jiang Donghua vowed to remember the blood debt and join the fight when he became strong enough.

• Elder Mo Xuan told Jiang Donghua that he planned to settle a blood debt with the Netherworld Sect, whose ancestor was a Peak Dou Zong.
• Elder Mo Xuan explained that his new Dou Huang strength and Sixth-grade Alchemist status gave him ways to pursue revenge despite the sect's power.
• Jiang Donghua wished his teacher safety but held back from asking to accompany him after seeing the pain and resolve in Elder Mo Xuan's eyes.
• Elder Mo Xuan unfurled his Battle Qi Wings and flew away, leaving Jiang Donghua to consider seeking information from Dean Lei Tian.
• Jiang Donghua inspected the Storage Ring and found it packed with rare alchemy materials, equipment, and pill formulas, including formulas of at least the sixth grade.
• Jiang Donghua put on the Storage Ring and vowed to remember Elder Mo Xuan's vengeance and join him once he grew stronger.

Jiang Donghua studied the Burning Heaven Furnace Art and discovered that it greatly increased his AFK System gains, bringing him close to breaking through to Dou Wang. Seeking to learn about his teacher Mo Xuan’s past and enemies, he found that the other Alchemy Department elders knew little and was directed to dean Lei Tian.

• Jiang Donghua examined the Burning Heaven Furnace Art and learned its cultivation route could refine his Battle Qi and help him reach Dou Wang.
• Jiang Donghua checked his AFK System and saw that the new Earth-tier method raised his total gain to 25 points per hour.
• Jiang Donghua decided to let the system cultivate while he investigated Mo Xuan’s past and the Netherworld Sect.
• Jiang Donghua asked Elder Bing Hong about Mo Xuan, but she knew little and suggested asking dean Lei Tian.
• Jiang Donghua questioned Elder Huang Dashan, who said Mo Xuan came from the Central Plains but kept his background secret.

Jiang Donghua asked Dean Lei Tian about Mo Xuan’s past and learned why his teacher had gone alone to the Central Plains. Lei Tian revealed that Mo Xuan’s childhood sweetheart, Ning Ling, had been abducted and killed by a core figure of the Netherworld Sect, leaving Mo Xuan driven by decades of grief and vengeance.

• Jiang Donghua visited Dean Lei Tian and asked about Mo Xuan’s past and the Netherworld Sect.
• Lei Tian initially refused to speak, saying Mo Xuan had chosen to bear his burden alone, but agreed after Jiang Donghua promised not to act rashly.
• Lei Tian explained that Mo Xuan and Ning Ling had been talented Inner Academy students and childhood sweethearts who traveled together after graduation.
• A core figure from the Netherworld Sect abducted Ning Ling for her special physique and used her as a Cultivation Cauldron.
• Mo Xuan found Ning Ling dead after enduring countless hardships, then returned to Jia Nan Academy and devoted himself to cultivation and alchemy until he became a Dou Huang and Sixth-grade Alchemist.

Jiang Donghua searched Mo Xuan’s Storage Ring and discovered three seventh-grade pill recipes and a vast collection of other alchemical treasures. After finding an Emperor Pill recipe among the sixth-grade recipes, he realized the ring held an inheritance powerful enough to transform the fortunes of major factions.

• Jiang Donghua returned to his pill-refining room, troubled by Mo Xuan’s tragic past and the Netherworld Sect.
• Jiang Donghua inspected Mo Xuan’s Storage Ring and discovered several sealed seventh-grade pill recipes.
• A soul imprint of Mo Xuan appeared, praised Jiang Donghua’s progress, and told him to study the recipes when he was ready.
• Jiang Donghua’s Soul Force could not withstand the seventh-grade recipes’ information, so he turned to the sixth-grade collection.
• Jiang Donghua found the Emperor Pill recipe and recalled that it could raise a Dou Huang’s strength by one star and temper the body.

Jiang Donghua tried to read the Sixth-grade Top-tier Emperor Pill recipe despite lacking the skill to comprehend it, and the effort left him unconscious for two days and one night. After waking, he found the recipe on his idle panel, where it had begun to gain mastery slowly.

• Jiang Donghua realized his Fourth-grade Alchemist abilities were insufficient to refine the Emperor Pill and decided to use idling to learn its recipe.
• Jiang Donghua forced his Soul Force into the recipe, endured overwhelming pain, and memorized only its basic framework before collapsing unconscious.
• Two days and one night later, Jiang Donghua woke with a splitting headache and found he could barely remember the recipe's details.
• Jiang Donghua checked his idle panel and found Emperor Pill listed at 90/2000, gaining 0.5 points per hour.

The top fifty Outer Court students began the journey to Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy, where their final trial would test whether they could reach it safely. The Inner Academy elders noticed Jiang Donghua’s peak Dou Ling cultivation and left the students in the dangerous forest with Fire Energy Cards to protect.

• Lei Tian gathered the fifty Outer Court elites and led them through the academy’s barrier toward the forest route to the Inner Academy.
• The Inner Academy elders were shocked to discover that Jiang Donghua had reached peak Dou Ling and teased Lei Tian for hiding such a powerful student.
• An Inner Academy elder explained that the students’ Fire Energy Cards were their entry tokens and essential storage items, and told them to protect the cards as they made their way to the Inner Academy.
• The Inner Academy elders vanished, leaving the fifty students alone in the forest to face their final trial.

Jiang Donghua led a large alliance of freshmen into the forest for the Fire Energy Hunting Competition. Inner Academy hunters decided to gather reinforcements to ambush the group, unaware that Jiang Donghua was far stronger than they believed.

• Freshmen gathered around Jiang Donghua and asked him to lead them safely through the forest, and he agreed to command the alliance.
• Jiang Donghua led the large group into the forest as five concealed Inner Academy hunters watched them go.
• Fan Shuihua and the other hunters judged the alliance too strong to attack alone and decided to recruit nearby teams.
• The hunters spread the claim that Jiang Donghua was a weak leader and began weaving a larger ambush around the freshman alliance.

Jiang Donghua led the freshmen through the forest as bait, then detected an ambush by twenty Inner Academy seniors and prepared his allies to face them. The alliance learned of the danger and braced for the coming fight, with Jiang Donghua promising to handle any opponents his companions could not defeat.

• Bai Ling told Jiang Donghua that five Inner Academy seniors had watched the group before withdrawing, and he said he hoped more would attack.
• Four teams of Inner Academy seniors assembled an ambush, confident they could overwhelm the freshmen.
• Jiang Donghua sensed the twenty Battle Spirit seniors ahead and quietly warned Zhao Ming, Bai Ling, Wang Han, and Lin Xiu.
• Lin Xiu worried that the five Battle Spirit experts could not handle twenty opponents, but Jiang Donghua told them to fight whoever they could and leave the rest to him.
• Bai Ling, Zhao Ming, and the others warned the freshmen, who fell silent and prepared themselves for the ambush.

Jiang Donghua exposed and scattered an ambush of old students with his icy flame, then ordered his companions to choose opponents. Wang Han struck first against the leader surnamed Shi, and the new students launched their counterattack.

• Jiang Donghua called out the hidden old students and used his deep blue flame to freeze their hiding places and force them into the open.
• The old student surnamed Shi dismissed Jiang Donghua as a pill-dependent alchemist and demanded the group surrender its Fire Energy Cards.
• Jiang Donghua told his companions to choose opponents and said they could call on him if they struggled.
• Wang Han charged the old student surnamed Shi and drove him back with a powerful punch.
• Zhao Ming, Bai Ling, and Lin Xiu attacked opponents with similar auras while the Da Dou Shi students formed a defensive formation.

Jiang Donghua revealed overwhelming strength when he defeated Hong Tao and five other senior students who attacked him together. The battlefield fell silent as everyone questioned whether he was really a new student.

• Jiang Donghua prepared to join the battle after the senior students overwhelmed the new students.
• Hong Tao ambushed Jiang Donghua with Water Python Bind, but Jiang Donghua destroyed the water pythons and struck Hong Tao unconscious with one palm.
• Five senior students surrounded Jiang Donghua and attacked him with Mysterious-grade Combat Skills.
• Jiang Donghua used Heavenly Gang Overlord Fist to shatter their attacks and knock all five senior students unconscious.
• The battlefield went silent as both groups stared at Jiang Donghua in shock.

Jiang Donghua defeated the ambushing Inner Academy students and their fire energy was transferred to the new students’ cards. With his total exceeding five hundred, Shi Jinshui resolved to report Jiang’s strength as firsthand intelligence.

• Jiang Donghua shattered the combined attack of five Dou Lings, frightening the remaining old students into fleeing.
• Bai Ling and the other new students held off the escapees while Jiang Donghua swiftly captured them, and Wang Han knocked down Old Student surnamed Shi.
• Shi Jinshui questioned whether Jiang Donghua was truly an Outer Court student, and Jiang nodded without elaborating.
• Bai Ling urged Jiang Donghua to collect the spoils, and Zhao Ming, Wang Han, Lin Xiu, and the others searched the captured old students for their Fire Crystal Cards.
• Bai Ling transferred the old students’ fire energy to Jiang Donghua’s card, distributing the remaining share among the new students who had helped.
• Jiang Donghua’s card total passed five hundred, while Shi Jinshui decided to sell his account of Jiang’s strength as firsthand intelligence.

The Inner Academy elders watched Jiang Donghua overwhelm the old students and marveled at his strength and mysterious background. As he led the new students through the forest, he discovered another group of five old students and appeared beside them with astonishing speed.

• The elders saw Jiang Donghua defeat the old students and take their Fire Energy, then speculated about his alchemy skills and possible Central Plains origins.
• The elders concluded that Jiang Donghua was a valuable Inner Academy student and looked forward to seeing what he would do there.
• Five old students complained that they had found no new students until their captain sensed a large group approaching.
• The five spotted Jiang Donghua leading the new students, and he noticed their hiding place.
• Jiang Donghua suddenly appeared within five paces of the five old students, leaving them stunned by his speed.

Jiang Donghua defeated five old students who attacked him and took their Fire Crystal Cards, then told Bai Ling and the new students that he had become strong by practicing casually. The group was left stunned by his answer.

• The captain ordered the five old students to attack Jiang Donghua after he demanded their Fire Crystal Cards.
• Jiang Donghua used Heavenly Gang Overlord Fist to unleash a shockwave that shattered their attacks and sent all five flying.
• The injured old students handed over their Fire Crystal Cards, leaving each card with only seven Fire Energy.
• Jiang Donghua returned to the new student group, where Bai Ling asked how he had cultivated such strength.
• Jiang Donghua said he had practiced casually in his spare time and somehow ended up this strong, leaving the new students dumbfounded.

Jiang Donghua’s growing freshman force advanced through the forest as old students avoided them, while the Black Fiend Team resolved to defend the Black and White Pass’s pride with a nighttime sneak attack. The five infiltrated the outskirts of the freshmen’s camp and waited for an opening.

• Jiang Donghua’s group swelled to more than thirty freshmen as it rescued stragglers and pressed deeper into the forest.
• Old students spread warnings about Jiang Donghua’s strength and fled or detoured rather than risk losing their Fire Energy.
• The Black Fiend Team lamented the danger to their saved Fire Energy, and Captain Gao Quan learned the other old-student teams would not join them.
• Gao Quan decided the Black Fiend Team would attack the freshmen at night and target their leader or other core members.
• Gao Quan and the other four Black Fiend members crept toward the freshmen’s campsite and waited in hiding for a chance to strike.

Jiang Donghua surprised the Black Fiend Team by revealing that he had been watching them, then challenged all five members to attack together. He repelled their combined strike with one punch, leaving them enraged and ready to fight again.

• Yan Sen sensed Jiang Donghua behind the Black Fiend Team and alerted Gao Quan and the other members.
• Gao Quan recognized Jiang Donghua as a Six-star Dou Ling, but Jiang Donghua taunted the team and invited them to attack together.
• Gao Quan ordered the Black Fiend Team to strike, and all five members unleashed their strongest Mysterious Tier High-grade Combat Skills.
• Jiang Donghua countered the combined attack with his Heavenly Gang Overlord Fist, forcing all five members back while remaining unharmed.
• Jiang Donghua praised the team for taking his punch, enraging them, and Tu Meng prepared to attack him again.

Jiang Donghua overwhelmed the Black Fiend Team, whose members mistook him for a top-ranked Inner Academy fighter and surrendered their fire energy. He collected their Fire Crystal Cards and headed back to the freshman camp.

• The freshmen panicked at the distant clash, but Bai Ling, Zhao Ming, and Lin Xiu calmed them by reminding them to trust Jiang Donghua.
• The Black Fiend Team reeled from Jiang Donghua’s Heavenly Gang Overlord Fist and realized he was far stronger than a Six-star Dou Ling.
• Jiang Donghua prepared two more fists charged with silver lightning, prompting Gao Quan and the others to surrender immediately.
• Gao Quan handed over the team’s Fire Crystal Cards, and Jiang Donghua accepted them before returning toward the camp.

After the Black Fiend Team surrendered to Jiang Donghua, Inner Academy seniors focused their hopes on the White Fiend Team and its captain, Chen Ming. Jiang Donghua and his freshmen reached the stone gate to confront them, and Jiang immediately demanded their Fire Crystal Cards.

• News spread that Jiang Donghua had forced the Black Fiend Team to surrender and hand over its Fire Energy, prompting debate about whether numbers and pills had secured the freshmen's victory.
• Inner Academy seniors placed their hopes on the White Fiend Team, led by Strong Ranking's twenty-fifth, Chen Ming, to stop Jiang Donghua's team.
• The White Fiend Team waited at the stone gate as senior students and elders, including Ye Tianxing, gathered to watch.
• Jiang Donghua led dozens of freshmen out of the forest and stopped thirty meters from Chen Ming and the White Fiend Team.
• Jiang Donghua greeted the five senior students and asked them to take out their Fire Crystal Cards, prompting Chen Ming to unleash his Battle Qi.

Jiang Donghua faced Chen Ming and the White Fiend Team after demanding their Fire Crystal Cards, refusing his teammates’ help and challenging all five senior students alone. The White Fiend Team unleashed its powerful Dragon Submerging Sea Formation, and Jiang Donghua met their ice-water flood dragon with his Heavenly Gang Overlord Fist.

• Chen Ming warned Jiang Donghua that the White Fiend Team would not be intimidated, while his four teammates joined their Battle Qi into a powerful combined presence.
• Bai Ling and Wang Han cautioned Jiang Donghua about the team’s coordination and offered to help, but he told them to keep the other senior students back.
• Chen Ming ordered the Dragon Submerging Sea Formation, and the five White Fiend Team members summoned a gigantic ice-water flood dragon.
• Jiang Donghua advanced without retreating, transformed his right arm with the Heavenly Gang Overlord Fist, and struck the charging flood dragon in the head.