Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan cured Lin Yan’s Fire Poison, practiced alchemy, and cultivated in the Number One Training Chamber while helping Medusa form a Heavenly Flame body. Medusa’s energy ran away, and she pinned Xiao Yan against the wall and kissed him.

• Xiao Yan used Nihility Devouring Flame to remove Lin Yan’s Fire Poison, and Lin Yan returned seven days later with the Azure Wood Immortal Vine.
• Xiao Yan spent ten days practicing alchemy and successfully refined a sixth-grade healing pill.
• Xiao Yan entered the Number One Training Chamber, where he cultivated with Medusa and helped her absorb Heart Flame to form a Heavenly Flame Serpent Body.
• After twenty days, Xiao Yan advanced to six-star Dou Ling while Medusa approached Dou Zong strength.
• Medusa’s energy ran away, and she blasted Xiao Yan into the wall before pinning him and kissing him.

Medusa lost control under the combined effects of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and the Fallen Heart Flame’s Fire Poison, but Xiao Yan restored her reason and offered to help stabilize her during further tempering. The chapter left Xiao Yan preparing to refine Zi Yan’s herbs after learning that she had taken two from the Inner Academy’s medicinal herb warehouse.

• Medusa pinned Xiao Yan down while she was overcome by primal desire, and Xiao Yan used the Asura Soul Severing Technique to wake her.
• Medusa slapped Xiao Yan, threw him out of the Cultivation Room, then dragged him back inside and asked whether he could use the Green Lotus Core Flame instead.
• Xiao Yan explained that he could use another Heavenly Flame to temper Medusa’s body and offered to prepare medicinal liquid to steady her mind, but Medusa chose to continue with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan asked Medusa for some of her venom, but Zi Yan called from outside the Cultivation Room, interrupting them.
• Xiao Yan left the room and found Zi Yan waiting with five herbs; she admitted that she had taken two from the Inner Academy’s medicinal herb warehouse.

Xiao Yan followed Zi Yan into the Inner Academy's medicinal ingredient warehouse and traded a Fifth Grade Pill for the Dragon Beard Ice Fire Fruit, then helped Medusa recover while struggling to resist her allure. The chapter ended with Xun Er arriving as Xiao Yan hastily covered up Medusa's presence.

• Zi Yan led Xiao Yan into the guarded medicinal ingredient warehouse, where he found the Dragon Beard Ice Fire Fruit needed for the Earth Spirit Pill.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan a low-rank Fifth Grade Pill to exchange for the fruit and rewarded her with an Earth Fire Lotus Seed before they fled from Elder Hao.
• Elder Hao found the fruit missing and discovered Xiao Yan's pill left in its place.
• After another month, Xiao Yan trained in the Number One Training Chamber but failed to advance beyond six-star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to help Medusa recover to the Sixth Tier, then complained that he could not afford the fire energy needed to train on a deeper level.
• When Xun Er came to Xiao Yan's door, he hid Medusa and began refining herbs, then wondered why he felt guilty despite doing nothing.

Xiao Yan prepared to sell pills in the Inner Academy despite the Medicine Gang’s dominance, refining three products and assigning Xiao Hall members to sell them. His Marrow Cleansing Cold Spirit Liquid drew a crowd after Lin Yan confirmed it could clear Fire Poison, and Xiao Yan offered jars for five days of Fire Energy.

• Xun Er visited Xiao Yan and told him the Medicine Gang controlled most pill sales in the Inner Academy, but Xiao Yan said he would compete with them openly.
• Xiao Yan recovered his strength and mass-produced Qi Recovery Pills, Small Blood Return Pills, and Marrow Cleansing Cold Spirit Liquid.
• Xiao Yan assigned Hu Jia and others to sell the pills at the arena and mission hall, while he and Xun Er took the spirit liquid to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Yan’s spirit liquid attracted Inner Academy students, and Lin Yan’s testimony that it had cleared his Fire Poison dispelled their doubts.
• Xiao Yan offered the Marrow Cleansing Cold Spirit Liquid for five days of Fire Energy per jar.

Xiao Yan used Marrow Cleansing Cold Spirit Liquid to build demand and promote Xiao Hall’s pill business in the Inner Academy. After the liquid’s effectiveness was confirmed and Xiao Hall’s sales surged, the Medicine Gang came to cause trouble, and Xiao Yan prepared to face them.

• Xiao Yan used Lin Yan’s experience with Fire Poison to sell Marrow Cleansing Cold Spirit Liquid for five Fire Energy per jar, while Xun Er helped create urgency by suggesting a reward for Xiao Hall disciples.
• Xiao Yan sold thirty jars before claiming he was out of stock, then Hu Jia confronted him over the large supply of Qi Recovery Pills he had asked her to sell.
• Elder Liu confirmed that a student who used the spirit liquid had no Fire Poison, prompting students to rush to buy it from Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan opened Xiao Hall’s pill business, aiming to use the spirit liquid’s reputation to compete with the Medicine Gang and expand sales beyond the Inner Academy.
• Xun Er worried that the Medicine Gang might restrict access to medicinal ingredients, but Xiao Yan dismissed them and said he would respond if they interfered.
• Xiao Yu arrived with her Thunder Bat Sky Wings and warned that the Medicine Gang had come to cause trouble, while Xiao Yan joked with her and got up to confront them.

Xiao Yan confronted Han Xian over the Medicine Gang’s efforts to undermine Xiao Hall and revealed a Fourth Grade spirit liquid that could counter Fire Poison on the tower’s seventh floor. He accepted Han Xian’s alchemy challenge, raising the stakes so that a Medicine Gang loss would force the gang to merge into Xiao Hall under his leadership.

• Xiao Ning confronted Han Xian at the Medicine Gang’s base over its herb monopoly and low-priced pills, but Han Xian mocked Xiao Hall’s lack of alchemists and threatened to call on stronger students.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Xun Er and reminded Han Xian that he could ask Zi Yan, the Strong Ranking’s top student, for help.
• Xiao Yan announced that he could refine the Fourth Grade Marrow Cleansing Ice Spirit Liquid, which could cleanse Fire Poison from the tower’s seventh floor, and said he would auction three bottles a day for Fifth Grade main medicinal herbs.
• Han Xian realized Xiao Yan’s new spirit liquid could shift the Strong Ranking contest and challenged him to an alchemy bet, demanding Xiao Yan’s formulas and a ban on Xiao Hall selling pills if Xiao Yan lost.
• Xiao Yan accepted, agreeing to surrender the formulas if he lost, but stipulated that if Han Xian lost, the Medicine Gang would merge into Xiao Hall and its disciples could not leave before graduation.

Xiao Yan wagered that he would take over the Medicine Gang if he defeated Han Xian in an alchemy contest, and Elder Hao set the duel around refining a valuable Fifth Grade Dragon Strength Pill. Han Xian began refining with his Illusory Gold Flame while Xiao Yan watched, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Xiao Yan challenged Han Xian to wager the Medicine Gang against ten thousand Fire Energy, and Han Xian accepted a contest to compare the quality of their pills.
• Elder Hao arranged the duel for North Plaza and selected the Fifth Grade Dragon Strength Pill as the recipe, providing both contestants with matching ingredients.
• Xiao Yan let Han Xian begin first, saying he would start after Han Xian had successfully refined the pill.
• Han Xian revealed his Illusory Gold Flame, which came from a juvenile Seventh-Tier Illusion Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast, then started refining the ingredients in his golden cauldron.

Han Xian successfully refined a Dragon Strength Pill and challenged Xiao Yan to take his turn, only for Xiao Yan to produce three superior pills with startling speed. Xiao Yan revealed himself to be a Rank 5 Alchemist, leaving Han Xian stunned.

• Han Xian overcame a failed first attempt and refined a Dragon Strength Pill, impressing the crowd and earning Elder Hao's confirmation.
• Han Xian turned to find Xiao Yan asleep, and Xun Er woke him after several hours so he could take his turn.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, refined all the ingredients at once, and produced three Dragon Strength Pills in a fraction of Han Xian's time.
• Xiao Yan gave one pill to Elder Hao and revealed a Rank 5 Alchemist robe, while Han Xian stared at him in disbelief.

After defeating Han Xian, Xiao Yan absorbed the Medicine Gang into Xiao Hall and became famous as the Inner Academy’s Medicine God. Two months later, having advanced to a Rank 6 Low-Level alchemist, he prepared to use Black Demon to refine the Rank 6 High-Level Earth Spirit Pill before the Strong Ranking Tournament.

• Xiao Yan revealed his Rank 5 Alchemist Robe, and Han Xian admitted defeat and agreed to leave the Medicine Gang for Xiao Hall.
• Xiao Yan offered Medicine Gang disciples alchemy instruction and pill formulas if they joined Xiao Hall, and Han Xian agreed to tally who would follow him.
• Elder Hao asked Xiao Yan about the low-level Fifth Grade Healing Pill, and Xiao Yan confirmed it was his.
• Han Feng dismissed Xiao Yan’s Medicine God reputation but became interested in his Heavenly Flame and the Fallen Heart Flame, hoping to improve his incomplete Flame Mantra.
• Over the next two months, Xiao Yan refined pills for powerful clients, advanced to Rank 6 Low-Level, and began preparing to refine the Rank 6 High-Level Earth Spirit Pill with Black Demon.

Xiao Yan refined a high-grade Sixth-Grade Earth Spirit Pill, drawing Great Elder Su Qian to the mountain peak. Su Qian asked Xiao Yan to help suppress the increasingly violent Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan left the decision open while considering whether he could use the crisis to refine it.

• Xiao Yan used his Fused Heavely Flame and Mao Wu’s help to refine the Earth Spirit Pill through a day and night of painstaking work.
• Xiao Yan completed the pill, whose blue light pillar alerted the Great Elder, who initially feared Han Feng had entered the Inner Academy.
• Great Elder Su Qian arrived, recognized Xiao Yan, and reacted with astonishment and respect when he learned Xiao Yan had refined the pill.
• Su Qian explained that the Fallen Heart Flame was growing more violent and could destroy the Inner Academy if its seal failed.
• Su Qian asked Xiao Yan to help suppress the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan requested time to consider while privately weighing whether the elders could help him refine it.

Xiao Yan cultivated after refining a high-rank Medicinal Pill, then flew to a valley where Inner Academy students were fighting a Snow Demon Sky Ape over Earth Core Body Tempering Milk. He rescued Han Yue and helped defeat the ape, leaving the group ready to claim the treasure.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the drifting pill mist while cultivating, but found his Soul Power stuck at Sixth-Rank Peak.
• Xiao Yan heard a powerful beast roar and flew with Mao Wu to a valley, where Lin Xiuya, Yan Hao, Han Yue, and three other students were battling a Snow Demon Sky Ape.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape revealed that it guarded Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, then unleashed its bloodline power and drove the students into retreat.
• The ape targeted Han Yue, but Xiao Yan struck it aside with the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler and caught her as she fell.
• Xiao Yan used the Ancient Dragon's Roar to halt the berserk ape, then joined the six students in defeating it.
• The Strong Ranking experts praised Xiao Yan's strength, and Xiao Yan urged them to collect the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xiao Yan and his team kill the Snow Demon Sky Ape and find its cave.
• They discover the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, but Xiao Yan knows it's not the real one.
• They each take one-seventh of the 'milk' and leave. Xiao Yan secretly takes the real one with Mao Wu's help.

Character Developments

• Xiao Yan shows leadership and strategic thinking, outsmarting the others.
• Lin Xiuya shows determination and confidence in his strength.
• Han Yue shows fairness in letting Xiao Yan take the first portion.

Significant Themes

• Greed and selflessness: Xiao Yan takes more than his share, but also lets others have some.
• Trust and deception: Xiao Yan deceives the others about the milk, but they trust him.
• Power and ambition: Xiao Yan aims for first place in the tournament.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Yan and Lin Xiuya: They express their desire to face each other in the tournament.
• Xiao Yan and Han Yue: Han Yue lets Xiao Yan take the first portion, showing respect for his contribution.
• Xiao Yan and Mao Wu: They work together to take the real Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.

The Strong Ranking Tournament began, and Xiao Yan easily defeated Bai Cheng and Yao Sheng before being paired against Liu Qing in the third round. Xiao Yan entered the match determined to win the tournament and face Zi Yan, while Liu Qing vowed to defeat him.

• The Inner Academy’s students gathered for the Strong Ranking Tournament, and Xiao Yan arrived with Xun Er, Xiao Yu, and the other Xiao Clan People.
• Xiao Yan met Lin Xiuya, Han Yue, and Liu Qing before the elders began the tournament and paired contestants by drawing lots.
• Xiao Yan defeated Bai Cheng with one Eight Extremities Collapse punch and then kicked Yao Sheng out of the arena.
• Xiao Yan wondered about Xun Er’s true strength, but their conversation ended when Su Qian announced Xiao Yan’s match against Liu Qing.
• Zi Yan offered to take Xiao Yan’s place, but Xiao Yan declared that he aimed to take first place and challenged her to beat him.
• Liu Qing stepped onto the stage and vowed to defeat Xiao Yan, who said he hoped Liu Qing would provide a proper warm-up.

Xiao Yan fought Liu Qing in the tournament, overpowering him in close combat before defeating his strongest spear technique with the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler. The Great Elder declared Xiao Yan the victor.

• Liu Qing opened the match with the Golden Demon Claw, but Xiao Yan shattered it with Lion's Roar and charged into close combat.
• Xiao Yan used his superior perception and physical strength to suppress Liu Qing, whose counterattacks failed to overcome him.
• Liu Qing used the Great Coffin Splitting Claw against Xiao Yan's Eight Extremities Collapse, and their clash shattered the fighting platform and injured both fighters.
• Liu Qing drew the Mountain Splitting Spear and unleashed Great Rock Split, while Xiao Yan summoned the Heavy Xuan Ruler and prepared his finishing move.
• Xiao Yan's Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler overwhelmed Liu Qing's attack and devastated the arena, and the Great Elder declared Xiao Yan the victor.

After Xiao Yan defeated Liu Qing and Xun'er easily defeated Lin Xiuya, Xiao Yan challenged Zi Yan for first place in the Strong Ranking Tournament. Xiao Yan transformed into a Dou Wang and fought her head-on, but Zi Yan's overwhelming physical strength kept him on the defensive until he powered up further with the Eight-Winged Demon Tiger’s image.

• The Great Elder told Liu Qing that Xiao Yan’s strength came from his willingness to risk his life, while Lin Xiuya admitted he could not defeat Xiao Yan.
• Xun'er evaded Lin Xiuya’s attacks and knocked him out of the arena, then told Xiao Yan her advanced techniques were a woman’s secret.
• Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing reclaimed spots in the top ten, Han Yue won tenth place, and the elders ranked Zi Yan first and Xiao Yan second.
• Xiao Yan challenged Zi Yan for first place, explaining that he wanted to hit her back after months of being beaten during their training.
• Xiao Yan used Skyfire Three Mysterious Change to reach Dou Wang strength, but Zi Yan caught and threw him, then outmatched him with her strength and speed.
• After Zi Yan’s punch sent him flying, Xiao Yan activated Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and summoned the Eight-Winged Demon Tiger’s image to strengthen his body.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan fought a fierce battle in the Jia Nan Academy square, trading blows with their strongest abilities. After their clash left both exhausted, Xiao Yan revealed the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame’s Source Fire Seed and prepared his final move.

• Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to take on the appearance of an Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger and struck at Zi Yan, who countered with Space Power.
• Zi Yan landed a powerful spatial hammer strike that broke Xiao Yan’s beast spirit image and wounded his back, but Xiao Yan healed himself with Life Flame.
• Xiao Yan took up the Heavy Xuan Ruler and exchanged a prolonged series of weapon blows with Zi Yan, whose fists clashed head-on with the ruler.
• Xiao Yan used Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler—Ten Thousand Beast Fire Wave against Zi Yan’s purple-light punch, and both attacks damaged each other as their strength ran low.
• Xiao Yan revealed the Source Fire Seed of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and announced his final move, Beast Spirit Descent.

Xiao Yan unveiled his Heavenly Flame Dou Technique, Beast Spirit Descent, and fought Zi Yan to a draw in the Strong Ranking Tournament. After recovering, he shared a kiss with Xun Er, while Ling Ying watched from outside and chose not to report it.

• Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and his Soul Power to summon the Eight-Winged Flame Devil Tiger and unleash Mad Devil Flame against Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan answered with a punch empowered by her bloodline and an obscure Dragon Might, and their clash destroyed the square before knocking them both unconscious and out of bounds.
• The tournament ended with Xiao Yan and Zi Yan tied for first place and Xun Er in third, while the Inner Academy marveled at their battles.
• After recovering, Xiao Yan reflected on the fight until Xun Er visited and gave him a black scroll.
• Xiao Yan pulled Xun Er into his arms, and they kissed beneath the moonlight as Ling Ying watched outside and kept silent.

Xiao Yan received the Ancient Clan’s Earth Rank High-Level Emperor Seal Technique from Xun Er and learned its first two forms. The next day, he joined the Inner Academy’s top ten for Heart Flame Source body refinement, intending to use the opportunity and medicinal pills to break through to Dou Wang.

• Xun Er stopped Xiao Yan’s advances, gave him the Emperor Seal Technique, and explained the Mountain Splitting Seal and Sea Flipping Seal.
• Xun Er privately ordered Ling Ying to keep the gift secret from the Ancient Clan, then postponed discussing news from the clan until after the Heart Flame refinement.
• Xiao Yan told Medusa to wait in his room, then met Xun Er and the other top-ranked students at the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan pills to cheer her up before Su Qian led the group down to the tower’s eighth level and the Heart Flame Source chamber.
• Su Qian placed the students on jade platforms and sealed the chamber as Xiao Yan prepared pills and resolved to use the Heart Flame Source to advance to Dou Wang.

Xiao Yan used the Heart Flame Source to refine a Dou Ling Pill’s energy before swallowing a Ba Wang Pill to force his breakthrough from Dou Ling to Dou Wang. As the others completed their tempering, a surge from Xiao Yan’s jade platform coincided with the seal beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower coming under pressure, and Xun Er stayed behind to protect him.

• Xiao Yan swallowed a Dou Ling Pill, reached Nine Star Dou Ling, and used the Heart Flame Source to purify and reduce his Dou Qi before taking a Ba Wang Pill.
• Xiao Yan endured the Ba Wang Pill’s swelling energy and the Heart Flame’s burning as the other students continued their three-day body tempering; two students failed and were removed from the tower.
• Xun Er finished tempering early and waited for Xiao Yan, while Zi Yan left; Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing later broke through to Dou Wang, and the others learned Xiao Yan was attempting the same with a Ba Wang Pill.
• A powerful suction erupted from Xiao Yan’s jade platform as Su Qian sensed the weakened seal at the tower’s lowest level and ordered everyone to evacuate.
• Xun Er sent the others out, sealed the entrance with golden Flame, and stayed behind because Xiao Yan still needed more time.

Xiao Yan survived the Fallen Heart Flame’s eruption, broke through to Dou Wang, and advanced his Soul Power to half-step Seventh Grade. Later, Ling Quan arrived with the Black Submerging Army to take Xun Er back to her clan, and Xiao Yan stepped forward to oppose them.

• Su Qian reinforced the seal as the Fallen Heart Flame attacked, and Xun Er used her golden Flame to burn away escaping heart fire while Xiao Yan finished gathering spirituality and led her out of the tower.
• Xiao Yan learned he had broken through to Dou Wang and half-step Seventh Grade Soul Power, then returned with Xun Er to Xiao Hall as the elders contained the Fallen Heart Flame.
• After a day of rest, Xiao Yan and Xun Er spent time together before powerful auras approached and Xun Er told him to hide.
• Ling Quan arrived with the Black Submerging Army and announced that the clan had ordered him to escort Xun Er back.
• Xiao Yan emerged from hiding, learned from Ling Ying that Xun Er had to obey her clan’s order, and declared that no one would take her away while he stood there.