Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yuan confronted Han Xian’s Medicine Gang and fought Yao Sheng after mocking them and demanding their Fire Energy. He gained the upper hand against Yao Sheng, who closed in with poisoned daggers, and Xiao Yuan answered with a sweeping spear technique.

• Xiao Yuan mocked Han Xian and learned that Yao Sheng, a Strong Ranking expert and Liu Fei admirer, had come to fight him.
• Xiao Yuan declared that he would take their Fire Energy and disband the Medicine Gang, then revealed his Mystic Ice Spear and growing aura.
• Yao Sheng formed his Netherwhale Water Barrier and layered water nets to restrain Xiao Yuan’s first spear strike, but Xiao Yuan broke through and disheveled his hair.
• Xiao Yuan froze Yao Sheng’s water nets and countered his claw attack with a spear thrust, disrupting Yao Sheng’s Douqi with alternating heat and cold.
• Yao Sheng retreated and drew poisoned daggers, then rushed Xiao Yuan at high speed as Xiao Yuan extended his spear.
• Xiao Yuan swept his spear toward the approaching Yao Sheng with the Six Harmonies Spear technique, Overlord Opens the Sea.

Xiao Yuan used the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations to counter Yao Sheng’s higher level and turned Yao Sheng’s Black Water World against him. He defeated Yao Sheng with Mystic Ice Dragon Flight and declared the match over.

• Yao Sheng and Xiao Yuan exchanged dangerous blows, but neither gained an advantage.
• Yao Sheng released his Black Water Douqi to suppress Xiao Yuan, who activated the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations and raised his strength to five-star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yuan blocked Yao Sheng’s rapid dagger assault until Yao Sheng’s attacks slowed, then forced him to retreat.
• Yao Sheng unleashed Black Water World, but Xiao Yuan used Heavenly Flames to evaporate and freeze the black liquid, trapping Yao Sheng in ice.
• Xiao Yuan formed Mystic Ice Dragon Flight and struck Yao Sheng as he broke through the ice, knocking him unconscious.

Xiao Yuan defeated the Medicine Gang’s leaders, seized their Fire Energy, and pressured its members to join or pay tribute to the Lion Heart Society. Elder Su then announced a ban on private fights and plundering Fire Energy, while Xiao Yuan promoted the society’s pills and planned to study alchemy with Xiao Yan before they trained in Three Thousand Lightning Movement.

• Xiao Yuan defeated Yao Sheng and Lei Na, then confronted Han Xian when he threatened him with academy rules.
• Xiao Yuan froze Han Xian, took his Fire Energy, and forced the Medicine Gang members to join the Lion Heart Society or surrender some of their Fire Energy.
• Elder Su announced an immediate rule forbidding private fights outside arenas and competition events, along with taking opponents’ Fire Energy.
• Xiao Yuan assured the crowd that the Lion Heart Society would maintain its pill prices and offer monthly promotions, then sent A Tai back with the members.
• Xiao Yuan told Xiao Yan that he would first learn alchemy from him before they cultivated Three Thousand Lightning Movement together.

After becoming a preliminary alchemist, Xiao Yuan joined Xiao Yan in a swamp to begin preparing for Three Thousand Lightning Movement. Xiao Yuan unexpectedly formed his own Wind and Thunder Power, and as a storm arrived, Xiao Yan began cultivating the movement technique while Xiao Yuan prepared to cultivate Demon Thunder Mirror.

• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan found a swamp after flying for three days, and Yao Lao had them test moving through it.
• Xiao Yan struggled against the swamp and its attacking black snakes, while Xiao Yuan used his attributes to form Wind and Thunder Power.
• Yao Lao explained that Three Thousand Lightning Movement required absorbing the Wind and Thunder Power sealed in its scroll, and Xiao Yuan demonstrated a powerful version he had formed himself.
• While they waited for a storm, Xiao Yuan practiced alchemy and Xiao Yan continued experimenting with Heavenly Flame fusion.
• When dark clouds and lightning arrived the next evening, Xiao Yan began cultivating Three Thousand Lightning Movement and Xiao Yuan prepared to cultivate Demon Thunder Mirror.

Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan cultivated from the Wind and Thunder Power sealed in the scroll, with Yao Lao helping Xiao Yuan imprint Three Thousand Lightning Movement. Xiao Yuan broke through to five-star Dou Ling and learned to use the technique, but Yao Lao explained that he still needed practice to master its first level.

• Xiao Yan opened the scroll, releasing silver lightning and images of figures demonstrating Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Yao Lao captured the images with his Soul Strength and imprinted them into Xiao Yan and Xiao Yuan, while Xiao Yuan's Demon Thunder Mirror drew down intense heavenly lightning.
• Xiao Yuan absorbed the Wind and Thunder Power through the images as the Black Demon Lightning strengthened, and he broke through two stars to reach five-star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yuan tested Three Thousand Lightning Movement and flashed from the mountain summit into the sky without using his Purple Cloud Wings.
• Yao Lao pointed out that Xiao Yuan had not yet mastered the technique's first level, Lightning Flash, and advised him to concentrate the Wind and Thunder Power for greater control.

Xiao Yuan returned to the Inner Academy after helping Xiao Yan master the first level of Three Thousand Lightning Movement, then learned Han Yue wanted his help retrieving Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid. Han Yue remained uncertain about his claimed strength as they discussed the Snow Demon Sky Ape guarding the fluid.

• Xiao Yan mastered Lightning Flash after sparring with Xiao Yuan, then stayed behind to attempt a Heavenly Flame fusion combat skill while Xiao Yuan flew back to the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yuan fed the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Amethyst Accompanying Source and worried that a powerful soul within it was awakening.
• A Tai told Xiao Yuan that the Lion Heart Society was thriving, Xun Er had dealt with members seeking leadership positions, and Han Yue had come asking for his help.
• Xiao Yuan visited Han Yue at Yue Ling's grounds and claimed his combat strength ranked among the Strong Ranking's top three, surprising her.
• Han Yue explained that she wanted a trustworthy team to retrieve Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid guarded by a Snow Demon Sky Ape, and questioned whether Xiao Yuan was strong enough to join.

Xiao Yuan joined Han Yue, Lin Xiuya, Yan Hao, and the young man in yellow to seek Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid in a valley guarded by a Snow Demon Sky Ape. After startling the ape from its cave, the group prepared to fight, and the ape warned them to leave.

• Xiao Yuan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to appear behind the young man in yellow and subdue him, convincing the group to take his strength seriously.
• Han Yue led the group to a valley whose cave held the Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid and was guarded by a fifth-tier magical beast.
• Yan Hao struck the valley with his iron hammer to draw out the Snow Demon Sky Ape, which emerged as an adult Three-Star Dou Wang.
• Lin Xiuya and the others agreed to fight while Han Yue watched from a tree, and Xiao Yuan revealed his boosted strength and black-and-white flames.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape warned the group to leave and not take the Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid.

Xiao Yuan and Lin Xiuya’s group fought the Snow Demon Sky Ape at the valley entrance, and Xiao Yuan’s strength let him withstand its powerful blows. Lin Xiuya unleashed his Azure Mysterious Wind Kill after Xiao Yuan protected him from the ape, sending the Snow Demon Sky Ape crashing into the ground.

• Lin Xiuya led the group into battle, and the Snow Demon Sky Ape struck Yan Hao hard enough to send him crashing through more than a dozen trees.
• Xiao Yuan joined the fight and matched the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s strength with his bare fists, while Lin Xiuya, Yan Hao, and the yellow-clothed youth attacked alongside him.
• Lin Xiuya began gathering power for his trump-card technique as the Snow Demon Sky Ape released freezing energy and charged at him in midair.
• Xiao Yuan blocked the ape’s strike with Myriad Flower Ice Mirror and black flames, buying Lin Xiuya time to form temporary Douqi wings.
• Lin Xiuya unleashed Azure Mysterious Wind Kill, and the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s ice sphere crashed into the rubble, carving a huge trench in the earth.

Xiao Yuan and the others fled the crater after the wounded Snow Demon Sky Ape awakened its Berserk Bloodline and attacked them. Xiao Yuan rescued Han Yue, sent her and the others away, then faced the transformed beast with his Nine Tribulation Demon Thunder Spear.

• Lin Xiuya's attack left the Snow Demon Sky Ape buried in a crater, but a blood-red glow warned the group that it was still alive.
• Xiao Yuan urged everyone to retreat, but the awakened Snow Demon Sky Ape struck Lin Xiuya and then chased Han Yue.
• Xiao Yuan rescued Han Yue from the beast's blow, gave her Recovery Pills, and told Yan Hao to take her and the others away.
• After sensing that the others had escaped, Xiao Yuan summoned a green lightning spear and confronted the berserk Snow Demon Sky Ape.
• Xiao Yuan unleashed the Nine Tribulation Demon Thunder Spear, struck the beast with a bolt of lightning, and pierced its brow.

Xiao Yuan killed the Snow Demon Sky Ape and searched its valley for the Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid, finding and collecting both its potent source and the diluted liquid. He reunited with Lin Xiuya, who hurried him away to join the others.

• Lin Xiuya, Yan Hao, and the others escaped the Snow Demon Sky Ape and worried about Xiao Yuan as a thunderstorm gathered over the valley.
• Xiao Yuan recovered from his injuries, stored the Snow Demon Sky Ape's corpse, and used his Soul Strength to find a hidden underground cavern.
• Xiao Yuan discovered the Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid's original source inside a giant stalactite and collected most of it while leaving some behind.
• Xiao Yuan gathered the diluted Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid and started back through the cave.
• Lin Xiuya returned to check on Xiao Yuan, then took him toward the others' hiding place.

After obtaining Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid, Xiao Yuan shared it with Lin Xiuya, Yan Hao, Han Yue, and the yellow-clad young man, then used the original liquid to temper his body and advance to nine-star Dou Ling. He left cultivation to practice his techniques, but a curious white-robed girl with pale-purple hair appeared close to his face, startling him.

• Lin Xiuya told Yan Hao, Han Yue, and the yellow-clad young man that Xiao Yuan had escaped the Snow Demon Sky Ape and obtained Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid, which Xiao Yuan divided among them.
• Xiao Yuan returned to the Lion Heart Society, left Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid for Xiao Yan, and entered the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda to cultivate.
• After two months of cultivation, Xiao Yuan reached eight-star Dou Ling and swallowed the original Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid to temper his body.
• Xiao Yuan endured the intense body-tempering process, then absorbed the energy released by his transformed body and advanced to nine-star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yuan stopped cultivating to prepare to practice his Dou Techniques, but a white-robed girl with pale-purple hair appeared inches from his lips, and he quickly moved away in alarm.

Xiao Yuan met Zi Yan in the Fire Energy Training Room, where she demanded his Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid and offered a Blood Python Branch in trade. He agreed to refine the herb for her, and the two left together, with Zi Yan dragging him toward the tower exit.

• Zi Yan recognized that Xiao Yuan had consumed Earth Core Body Tempering Fluid and demanded some for herself.
• Xiao Yuan refused to trade the fluid for Zi Yan's valuable Blood Python Branch, so she angrily chewed on the herb raw.
• Xiao Yuan offered to refine the Blood Python Branch, and Zi Yan agreed to follow him after learning he was a Third Grade alchemist.
• Xiao Yuan and Zi Yan ran into Lin Xiuya, who fled after greeting Zi Yan, whom she had beaten up before.
• Zi Yan grabbed Xiao Yuan and hurried him toward the tower exit, and he could not break free.

After returning from seclusion, Xiao Yuan prepared the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s essence blood to test its effects on the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. Her transformation triggered a powerful change, and she emerged from the seven-colored light as an alluring woman, warning Xiao Yuan not to stare.

• Xiao Yuan gave Zi Yan flavored pills, learned she was a magical beast, and promised to make her more if she brought him medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yuan returned to the Lion Heart Society and learned that Xiao Yan had become famous after refining a Tier 5 Pill, while Lin Xiuya was nearing the Dou Wang Stage.
• Xiao Yuan extracted the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s magic core and essence blood, hoping to use the bloodline power to strengthen himself.
• Su Qian learned that Fallen Heart Flame was surging more frequently and ordered precautions against an eruption and a possible attempt by Han Feng to seize it.
• Xiao Yuan fed a drop of the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s essence blood to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, who grew enormous before shrinking and transforming into an alluring woman.
• The transformed woman warned Xiao Yuan, “Eyes... don't want them anymore?”

Xiao Yuan confronted Medusa after the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s essence blood brought her out, and their tense encounter shifted into an unexpected embrace. Medusa vanished back into the snake, leaving Xiao Yuan to discover the blood had awakened a hidden berserk ability before he flew after Su Qian.

• Medusa emerged and accused Xiao Yuan of raising her as a pet, while Xiao Yuan argued that the Snake-People Tribe needed Medusa rather than the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Su Qian arrived and Medusa attacked him, but Xiao Yuan intervened and stopped her sword just short of his head.
• Xiao Yuan pulled Medusa into his arms, and the Heaven Swallowing Python’s struggle for control prevented Medusa from killing him.
• Medusa warned Xiao Yuan that she would kill him next time, then reverted to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and affectionately rubbed against his hand.
• Xiao Yuan learned that his essence blood had awakened a hidden berserk ability in the snake and flew after Su Qian and the Great Elder.

Xiao Yuan told Su Qian that he had reached Nine-Star Dou Ling, then agreed to help the Inner Academy prepare for Fallen Heart Flame’s imminent outbreak by advancing to Dou Wang. After comforting Xun Er about her coming departure, he underwent Source Heart Flame body tempering and began breaking through with the Ice Spirit Pill.

• Su Qian learned Xiao Yuan was a Nine-Star Dou Ling with combat strength enough to kill a Five-Star Dou Wang, and asked him to advance so he could help protect the Inner Academy from Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian told Xiao Yuan that Gu Xun Er would soon leave the academy, and Xiao Yuan promised to support her and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yuan spent a month consolidating his cultivation, helping Xiao Yu practice, and studying alchemy before entering the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda with Su Qian.
• Xiao Yuan endured three days of Source Heart Flame body tempering, strengthening his body and bringing himself to the verge of Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yuan swallowed the Ice Spirit Pill and refined its energy with the Yin Yang Dual Flames as his aura steadily rose.

Xiao Yuan emerged from a lengthy breakthrough as a Dou Wang after linking his five Qi Gathering Palaces and refining his Mystic Ice Douqi. Back at the pavilion, Zi Yan asked him to help claim a guarded medicinal herb, and they agreed to search the deep mountains together the next day.

• Su Qian contained the eruption from Xiao Yuan's breakthrough with a Space Blockade, then congratulated him and gave him a sealing-method scroll.
• Xiao Yuan told Su Qian he planned to practice Dou Techniques and alchemy, and Su Qian advised him to keep his advancement quiet and avoid the Strong Ranking Tournament.
• Xiao Yuan returned to the pavilion and found Zi Yan waiting because she had finished all the pills he had made for her.
• Zi Yan revealed that she could sense rare medicinal herbs in the deep mountains and showed Xiao Yuan the herbs she had gathered.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Yuan to help defeat the magical beast guarding a tasty herb, and Xiao Yuan agreed in exchange for her help finding herbs; they planned to leave the next day.

Xiao Yuan and Zi Yan went to a mountain in Jia Nan Academy's Back Mountain to seek a rare treasure guarded by a peak Fifth Order magical beast. Xiao Yuan confronted the Human-Faced Snake outside its cave and, after a dangerous exchange, raised his strength to Six-Star Dou Wang and prepared to exploit its weaknesses.

• Zi Yan led Xiao Yuan to the mountain and explained that a strange peak Fifth Order beast guarded the treasure in a cave.
• Xiao Yuan used Listening to the Wind's Whisper to locate the treasure, then entered the cave while Zi Yan concealed herself nearby.
• The Human-Faced Snake ambushed Xiao Yuan, but he escaped the cave and confirmed that the beast was still at peak Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yuan provoked the Human-Faced Snake with his dragon aura, then fought it in the air as it overwhelmed his spear and shattered his Myriad Flower Ice Mirror.
• Xiao Yuan combined his wings, activated Yin-Yang Change, and raised his aura to Six-Star Dou Wang before attacking the Human-Faced Snake from behind with a Heavenly Flame spear.

Xiao Yuan and Zi Yan defeated the Human-Faced Snake and discovered a Yin Yang Water-Fire Lotus in the Mountain Cave. After Xiao Yuan absorbed it and its Soul-Nourishing Pearl, a new Water-Fire Form remained in his lower abdomen.

• Xiao Yuan used his Heavenly Flames and Zi Yan's punch to defeat the Human-Faced Snake, then captured its fleeing soul and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Yuan recovered while Zi Yan guarded him, and they later entered the Mountain Cave's inner chamber together.
• Xiao Yuan found a Yin Yang Water-Fire Lotus containing a pearl rich in Soul Strength, and Zi Yan agreed to let him take it in exchange for help finding medicinal herbs.
• The lotus entered Xiao Yuan's body, while its pearl moved into his soul sea and began nourishing his Soul Strength.
• Xiao Yuan learned that the pearl could nurture his soul and store Soul Strength, but the Water-Fire Form left behind in his lower abdomen remained unrefined.

Xiao Yuan returned to Jia Nan Academy after cultivating with Zi Yan and learned that Xiao Yan had won the Strong Ranking Tournament but was badly injured. He gave Yao Lao the Soul Nourishing Pearl to help restore his strength, then recovered Xiao Yan and spent time with Xiao Yu, while privately anticipating Han Feng’s arrival.

• Xiao Yuan reached the Three-Star Dou Wang level after absorbing the energy in the Water-Fire cave, then helped Zi Yan gather Medicinal Herbs and refined them into pills.
• Xiao Yuan and Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy after the Strong Ranking Tournament, which Xiao Yan had won by defeating Liu Qing and Lin Xiuya.
• Xiao Yuan treated Xiao Yan’s injuries, warned him to avoid risking his life, and gave Yao Lao the Soul Nourishing Pearl so he could restore his strength.
• Xiao Yuan cautioned Xiao Yan to recover before the Fallen Heart Flame went berserk, and Xiao Yan resolved to heal quickly and grow stronger.
• Xiao Yuan rested with Xiao Yu in the Inner Academy Back Mountain, and they kissed after teasing each other.

Xiao Yuan cultivated the Six Qi Transformations while Xiao Yan and Xun Er spent time together before Xun Er was recalled by her clan. As Xiao Yan vowed to reunite with her, Xiao Yuan appeared and struck down Ling Quan for attacking him.

• Xiao Yuan began cultivating Shao Yin Sovereign Fire Qi with the Fallen Heart Flame’s projected Heartfire in the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er relaxed together after a barbecue, but Xun Er sensed a group approaching and pushed Xiao Yan into the forest to hide.
• Ling Quan arrived with nine Black Annihilation Army members on Four-Winged Unicorns and announced that he had come to escort Xun Er back to her clan.
• Ling Quan asked Xiao Yan about the Xiao Clan’s portion of a key, then Xun Er warned Xiao Yan not to reveal that he possessed the Tou She Ancient God Jade and urged him not to seek her until he was powerful enough.
• Xiao Yan embraced and kissed Xun Er, then vowed to reach whatever level of strength was needed to reunite with her.
• Ling Quan charged at Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yuan appeared, knocked him away with an Azure Lightning-charged kick, and confronted the group.