Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan entered the Inner Academy selection’s newly announced free-for-all final and overwhelmed its strongest students, while the academy officials watched to discover his true strength. The chapter ended as Xiao Yan revealed himself to be a Two-Star Dou Ling and unleashed the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler against the combined attacks.

• Little Vixen told Xiao Yan that the final would be a melee, and Hu Qian announced that the last five competitors standing would earn the top ranks.
• Xiao Yan challenged the other competitors to attack him, while Xun Er, Xiao Yu, and their companions prepared to handle the rest.
• Bai Shan, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao attacked Xiao Yan, but he defeated them with ease and left the crowd stunned.
• Bai Shan rallied Hu Jia and Wu Hao for a coordinated counterattack, and Xiao Yan invited the remaining competitors to join in.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Two-Star Dou Ling cultivation and began using the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler against the three powerful attacks.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the academy selection tournament with an Earth Rank Dou Technique, then bargained with Jia Nan Academy to secure additional rewards and places for his clan members. The tournament ended with five finalists chosen, while Sky Serpent Mansion turned its attention to Xiao Yan over a disputed prize.

• Xiao Yan unleashed the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, defeating Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Bai Shan, then bluffed Bai Shan into surrendering by pretending he could use the technique again.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er sat out the remaining fight as Xiao Ning, Xiao Yu, and the other Xiao Clan members took control of the arena, and Xiao Yan declared his resolve to stay with Xun Er.
• After the Xiao Clan secured the arena, academy leaders debated the tournament results and held a meeting with Xiao Yan, who persuaded them to add places and protect his clan members' chances at rewards.
• Jia Nan Academy announced extra Books Collection Pavilion places, and the final additional matches selected Wu Hao, Hu Jia, Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, and Bai Shan as the top five.
• At Sky Serpent Mansion, a leader angrily warned that Xiao Yan would pay if he took something belonging to the mansion.

The Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s leaders rejected Xiao Yan’s warning and discussed keeping Qing Lin, while Bai Ya and Lü Man worried about provoking him. At Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yan and the others entered the Books Collection Pavilion, where he used his strength and Soul Power to help his companions obtain valuable treasures and frustrate Bai Shan.

• The Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master dismissed Lü Man’s concerns about Xiao Yan and insisted that Qing Lin belonged to the mansion, while Bai Ya and Lü Man considered ways to protect her.
• Xiao Yan joined Xun Er, Xiao Yu, and the others at the Books Collection Pavilion after the selection competition, and the elders opened its entrance after sensing his unusual flame.
• Hu Qian explained that entrants could take only one item each and had to break its energy barrier, so Xiao Yan used Soul Pursuit to identify valuable light spheres.
• Xiao Yan disrupted Bai Shan’s attempt to claim an Earth Rank Dou Technique, causing him to crash into the pavilion’s energy wall and leave empty-handed.
• Xiao Yan broke the barrier around an Earth Rank defensive technique for Xiao Mei and sent her out with it, then helped his companions find rewards as their hour in the pavilion continued.

Xiao Yan used Mao Wu and the Nihility Devouring Flame to take more than twenty rewards from the Books Collection Pavilion, then returned to the Soul Offering Old Shop to seek a powerful sonic Combat Technique. Hun Lao Gui recognized Xiao Yan’s progress and weak Xiao Clan Dou God Bloodline, and Xiao Yan asked whether the shop had any sonic Combat Techniques above Earth Rank.

• Xiao Yan found an Earth Rank Low-Level cultivation method and gave it to Xun Er before staying behind to stop Bai Shan from claiming rewards.
• Xiao Yan used Mao Wu to swallow dozens of marked Light Spheres and overcame the Pavilion’s spatial rule to carry them out, while Bai Shan left empty-handed.
• Back at the Xiao Clan pavilion, Xiao Yan recovered more than twenty Light Spheres containing medicinal ingredients and two high-level Medicinal Pill formulas.
• Xiao Yan went to Peace Town, entered the Soul Offering Old Shop, and asked Hun Lao Gui for a sonic Combat Technique above Earth Rank.
• Hun Lao Gui noted Xiao Yan’s rise to Heaven Rank Protector and his newly awakened, weak Xiao Clan Dou God Bloodline.

Xiao Yan traded pills and Soul Points for the Earth Rank Low-Level Beast Skill Ancient Dragon's Roar, then entered the Inner Academy with the new students. When the Fire Energy Hunting Competition began, he immediately attacked the Inner Academy students and demanded their Fire Energy Cards, including those of the Elders.

• Xiao Yan exchanged his Soul Points and medicinal pills with Hun Lao Gui for the Beast Skill Ancient Dragon's Roar, which required Dragon Qi to practice.
• Xiao Yan meditated on Ancient Dragon's Roar and Three Thousand Lightning Movement before Xun Er arrived to take him to the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan joined the new students as Hu Qian led them through a silver gate into the Inner Academy.
• Elder Su gave the newcomers Fire Energy Cards and announced the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, warning that Inner Academy students would try to steal their fire energy.
• Xiao Yan knocked down the student who had whistled at Xun Er, demanded the Inner Academy students' Fire Energy Cards, and ordered the Elders to hand over theirs as well.

Xiao Yan dominated the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, defeating Inner Academy veterans and collecting Fire Energy from them and the new students. He then set out with Bai Shan toward the exit, where Bai Feng and the Black White Twin Fiends Team prepared to face him.

• Xiao Yan defeated an Inner Academy veteran, then challenged the remaining seniors and revealed that he wanted to draw out stronger opponents.
• After the seniors attacked together, Xiao Yan overwhelmed them with Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, and Elders Su and Qing ordered them to surrender their Fire Energy Cards.
• Xiao Ning collected the veterans' cards for Xiao Yan, who then took Fire Energy from the new students while sparing Hu Jia and Wu Hao in exchange for a favor.
• Vice Dean Hu Qian suggested Xiao Yan form a faction, while Elder Su promised an extra reward if he broke through the Black White Twin Fiends Team.
• Xiao Yan ordered Bai Shan to lead him to the exit, as Bai Feng and Luo Hou discussed the new Two-Star Dou Ling student and Bai Feng revealed his grudge against Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and the new students confronted the Black White Twin Fiends Team during the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, and Xiao Yan tested his strength before overpowering Bai Feng and Luo Hou. He took their Fire Energy and earned rewards for his group, leaving the new students with a strong start in the Inner Academy.

• Bai Shan appealed to Bai Feng, but Xiao Yan revealed that he had drawn the Black White Twin Fiends Team into a trap to rob them of Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yan and the others faced the ten members of the Black White Twin Fiends Team, with Xun Er, Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao engaging the other eight while Xiao Yan fought Bai Feng and Luo Hou.
• Xiao Yan tested his Dou Qi against the two captains, then transformed with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and defeated Bai Feng.
• Xiao Yan took the Black White Twin Fiends Team's Fire Energy Cards, bringing his own card to nearly three thousand points, and the elders awarded each new student twenty days of Fire Energy.
• Elder Su and Elder Qing gave Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao Azure Fire Energy Cards and an additional thirty days of Fire Energy.

Xiao Yan entered the Inner Academy, received a Crimson Fire Energy Card, and decided to establish a faction called Xiao Hall. The next morning, new students sought his help after veteran students demanded protection fees, and Xiao Yan asked why he should help them.

• Elder Su explained the Fire Energy Card system, rewarded Xiao Yan and the other five with Azure cards, then upgraded Xiao Yan's reward to a Crimson card before leading the new students into the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan learned that Inner Academy factions could recruit students and use rented bases, then gave Xun Er two thousand Fire Energy to rent land and establish Xiao Hall.
• Xiao Yu and the others learned that the Xiao Clan had joined the Misty Cloud Sect, Jia Ma Imperial Family, and Snake-People Empire in forming the Flame Alliance.
• The next morning, Xiao Yan found Wu Hao and Hu Jia sparring after both advanced to Six-Star Da Dou Shi, then agreed to visit the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower with Wu Hao.
• A Tai and other new students told Xiao Yan that veteran students had demanded protection fees from them twice, and Xiao Yan asked why he should help.

Xiao Yan recruited the new students into Xiao Hall, confronted the Qing Gang over its tribute demands, and declared that any faction that had collected Fire Energy must repay double. He entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and surprised Han Yue by showing her a crimson Fire Energy Card as he sought access to its fifth level.

• A Tai asked Xiao Yan to protect the new students from excessive tribute demands, and Xiao Yan offered protection to those who joined Xiao Hall and paid monthly contributions.
• Xiao Yan confronted eight Qing Gang students at the dormitory entrance, captured one, and ordered him hung from a tree while demanding that factions return double the Fire Energy they had collected.
• Xiao Yan left the new members with Xun Er and the others, then went with Wu Hao to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower as news of his declaration stirred anger among the Inner Academy factions.
• Xiao Yan used Black Flame to devour the Heart Flame affecting him and Wu Hao, then continued deeper into the tower while Wu Hao stayed to learn how to cultivate there.
• Han Yue told Xiao Yan that new students had to spend a week on the first level and that entering the fifth required an Azure Fire Energy Card, so Xiao Yan showed her a crimson Fire Energy Card.

Xiao Yan entered the sixth level of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, where the Fallen Heart Flame sensed the Heavenly Flames in his body and briefly emerged from its seal. After cultivating with the Heart Flame and discussing how to free and subdue the intelligent Heavenly Flame with Mao Wu, Xiao Yan was joined by Queen Medusa, who demanded that he rebuild her body.

• Han Yue chose the sixth floor, and Elder Liu allowed Xiao Yan to enter it despite his status as a new student because he possessed Heavenly Flames.
• The Fallen Heart Flame emerged from the tower's central pit, but a Dou Zun's spatial seal forced it back inside.
• Elder Liu opened the barrier to the sixth floor, where Xiao Yan began cultivating and found that the Heart Flame rapidly refined his Dou Qi.
• After a day of cultivation, Xiao Yan and Mao Wu discussed using the Fallen Heart Flame to break its seal and how to handle its strength and intelligence.
• Queen Medusa emerged from Xiao Yan's Storage Ring on a Green Lotus and asked when he would rebuild her body.

Xiao Yan persuaded Queen Medusa to help subdue the Fallen Heart Flame, then fought Yao Sheng in the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower. After learning that twelve factions were challenging Xiao Hall, Xiao Yan arrived and proposed a ten-thousand-Fire-Energy stake if they lost.

• Xiao Yan convinced Queen Medusa that the Fallen Heart Flame could help her grow stronger, and she agreed to help him subdue it in exchange for results and a Soul Fusion Pill.
• Medusa absorbed the Heavenly Flame energy in the cultivation room, while Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to accelerate her growth.
• Yao Sheng confronted Xiao Yan over the missing energy, and Xiao Yan struck him before defeating his attacks in a brief fight watched by the Great Elder.
• Xiao Yan left the tower and learned from Xiao Mei that several factions were trying to take the new students while Xun Er held them off.
• Xiao Yan returned to find twelve factions challenging Xiao Hall, and he proposed that they pay him ten thousand Fire Energy if they lost.

Xiao Yan declared war on Yao Sheng and the veteran student gangs, while the Inner Academy elders discussed the growing instability of the Fallen Heart Flame and Xiao Yan’s possible role in containing it. As the seven days before the duel passed, Xiao Yan trained alone to master the Ancient Dragon’s Roar but had not yet managed to produce a proper roar.

• Fu Ao refused Xiao Yan’s wager and threatened to overwhelm Xiao Hall with the other gangs, so Xiao Yan warned that he would sabotage their Cultivation Rooms if they targeted the freshmen.
• Yao Sheng arrived with Lei Na and Liu Fei, then challenged Xiao Yan, who declared that Xiao Hall would fight the veteran gangs at the Duel Plaza in seven days.
• Great Elder Su Qian told the elders that the Fallen Heart Flame was growing unstable and might counterattack within a year, and he urged them to accommodate Xiao Yan because his Heavenly Flame could prove useful.
• Xiao Yan covered the freshmen’s Fire Energy costs for seven days of cultivation in the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower while he trained in the forest to master the Ancient Dragon’s Roar.
• Xiao Yan studied the scroll’s soul-memory of an Ancient Void Dragon roaring, but after seven days of practice he still could not produce the technique’s proper sound.

While training in the Remote Mountains and Forests, Xiao Yan encountered a White-Clothed Little Girl whose strength and physical power far surpassed his own. After she attacked him for disturbing her sleep, Xiao Yan challenged her to a fight and found himself pushed back even after boosting his strength.

• Xiao Yan struggled to grasp the essentials of Ancient Dragon's Roar but made steady progress training Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• A White-Clothed Little Girl appeared and unleashed a roar that blasted the forest apart, revealing her Dou Wang strength.
• The White-Clothed Little Girl struck Xiao Yan and sent him flying, then fought him after he recovered and counterattacked with Eight Extremities Collapse.
• Xiao Yan used Life Flame to heal his broken bones and activated Skyfire Three Mysterious Change and Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to strengthen himself.
• The White-Clothed Little Girl overpowered Xiao Yan in a clash of fists, so he launched Eight Extremities Collapse—Ten Thousand Beasts Collapse Fist.

Xiao Yan fought the White-Clothed Little Girl to temper himself, discovering that her bloodline let her control space and redirect his attacks. He escaped her reflected Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler with Lightning Flash, achieving the movement technique’s first successful use.

• Xiao Yan’s full-strength punch failed to overcome the White-Clothed Little Girl, who revealed that she was a Magical Beast transformed by eating Transformation Grass.
• Xiao Yan drew the Heavy Xuan Ruler and gained a slight advantage by combining its weight with his Soul Power to press the girl back.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, but the White-Clothed Little Girl used her spatial bloodline skill to stop and reverse the attack.
• Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to evade the reflected ruler glow and appeared more than twenty meters away.
• Xiao Yan celebrated after realizing he had successfully used Lightning Flash for the first time.

Xiao Yan practiced Lightning Flash with Zi Yan, then negotiated for her help mastering Ancient Dragon's Roar in exchange for a future Transformation Pill. He arrived late at the faction battle with Zi Yan beside him and challenged the opposing students to attack together.

• Xiao Yan used Lightning Flash successfully but stumbled during his next attempt, then fought Zi Yan until Skyfire Three Mysterious Change expired and he collapsed from pain and exhaustion.
• After taking a Healing Pill, Xiao Yan learned the little girl's name was Zi Yan and promised to refine a Transformation Pill for her once he reached the required level, in exchange for her help with Ancient Dragon's Roar.
• At the Duel Plaza, Xiao Yu and Xun Er waited for Xiao Yan while Han Yue and Elder Liu discussed his poor odds against the two hundred older students.
• Yao Sheng and Liu Fei prepared for the battle, while Bai Shan refused to join the Bai Gang's side and Fu Ao mocked Xiao Yan for not appearing.
• Xun Er prepared to fight in Xiao Yan's place, but Xiao Yan arrived with Zi Yan using a Flight Dou Technique and told Elder Liu that the opponents could come at him together.

Xiao Yan arrived at the gang battle with Zi Yan, whose identity as the Strong Ranking’s number one shocked the old students. After Zi Yan declined to participate, Xiao Yan unleashed Dragon Might and his Earth Class Ancient Dragon’s Roar against the Old Student Alliance, leaving the battle’s outcome poised in his favor.

• Xiao Yan arrived with Zi Yan, and Yao Sheng and Bai Cheng recognized her as the Brute Force King, number one on the Strong Ranking.
• Xiao Yan told the elders Zi Yan would not join Xiao Hall’s side, and the two groups entered the arena with about forty newcomers facing nearly two hundred old students.
• When the referee started the duel, Xiao Yan enclosed his allies in a Soul Barrier and released Dragon Might amplified by the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Ancient Dragon’s Roar, shattering the old students’ weapons, armor, and Dou Qi Armor and knocking out those below Dou Ling strength.
• The Dou Ling old students resisted the roar but suffered bleeding ears as Zi Yan watched, confident Xiao Yan did not need her help.

Xiao Yan used the Ancient Dragon's Roar to devastate the older students challenging Xiao Hall, then fought Bai Cheng and Yao Sheng with Xun Er's support. Xun Er revealed she had reached Dou Ling, and together they defeated the two Strong Ranking opponents.

• Liu Qing, Lin Xiuya, and other Strong Ranking students left the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to investigate the Dragon Roar.
• The spectators and elders realized Xiao Yan's Ancient Dragon's Roar had injured the souls of most of the older students, while Xun Er recognized its Ancient Void Dragon origin.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Zi Yan had corrected his Dragon Language pronunciation, allowing him to use the Ancient Dragon's Roar.
• Xun Er reached Dou Ling and agreed to handle the injured older students while Xiao Yan faced Bai Cheng and Yao Sheng.
• Xiao Yan used Skyfire Three Mysterious Change, the Heavy Xuan Ruler, and another Dragon Roar to gain the upper hand against Bai Cheng and Yao Sheng.
• Xun Er joined Xiao Yan after defeating Lei Na and Fu Ao, and they struck Bai Cheng and Yao Sheng until both fell from the arena.

Xiao Yan led Xiao Hall to victory over the veteran students, earning respect throughout the Inner Academy and drawing the attention of its top Strong Ranking experts. After distributing the wager’s Fire Energy and challenging the top ten, he spent the next two months training with Zi Yan, who easily defeated him.

• After Xiao Yan and Xun Er defeated Bai Cheng and Yao Sheng, the remaining veteran students surrendered, and Elder Liu declared Xiao Hall the winner.
• Liu Qing arrived with several top Strong Ranking experts and prepared to challenge Xiao Yan, but Zi Yan intervened, and Liu Qing agreed to leave the matter for the Strong Ranking Tournament.
• Xiao Yan used Liu Fei as a warning against arrogance, then told Xiao Hall’s disciples not to bully the weak.
• Xiao Yan divided the ten thousand Fire Energy among the new students, Xiao Hall’s development, himself, and Xun Er.
• Two months after the faction battle, Zi Yan punched Xiao Yan out of the sky and into a pit during their training.

After reaching Five-Star Dou Ling, Xiao Yan prepared for the Strong Ranking Tournament and sought a way to protect himself from the Fallen Heart Flame while cultivating. He visited the Inner Academy Trading Zone with Xun Er and found a key ingredient for the Earth Spirit Pill at Lin Yan’s stall.

• Xiao Yan sparred with Zi Yan but still could not defeat her, then borrowed her Number One Training Chamber in exchange for making medicinal pills taste like candy.
• Xiao Yan realized he needed an Earth Spirit Pill to guard against the Fallen Heart Flame burning him from within, but he lacked its ingredients.
• Xiao Yan went to find Xun Er, and they walked together to the Inner Academy Trading Zone.
• At Lin Yan’s stall, Xiao Yan noticed Lin Yan’s fire-poisoned eyes and spotted an Azure Wood Immortal Vine, a main ingredient for the Earth Spirit Pill.

Xiao Yan encountered Lin Yan selling the Azure Wood Immortal Vine and offered to remove the Fire Poison threatening Lin Yan’s life in exchange for it. After spending the day with Xun Er, Xiao Yan returned to find Lin Yan anxiously waiting for him to begin the treatment.

• Xiao Yan approached Lin Yan’s stall to buy the Azure Wood Immortal Vine, and Lin Yan demanded four hundred days of Fire Energy.
• When Xun Er offered to pay, Xiao Yan pulled her back and warned Lin Yan that he would die if he accepted the payment, then offered to clear his Fire Poison.
• Lin Yan challenged Xiao Yan’s ability, but agreed to give him the vine after Xiao Yan completely removed the poison.
• Xiao Yan told Lin Yan to meet him at Xiao Hall that night, then left to spend the day with Xun Er.
• After Xiao Yan and Xun Er returned, Lin Yan hurried over and pleaded for Xiao Yan to treat him.