Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yuan and the other newcomers entered the Inner Academy and learned that they had to cross a forest while older students hunted their Fire Energy. Xiao Yuan formed a team with Xiao Yan, Xiao Yu, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao and set out to rob the older students instead.

• Hu Qian led the students through a hidden silver door into the Inner Academy, where Elder Su and Elder Qing welcomed them and gave them Fire Crystal Cards.
• Elder Su explained that the newcomers had to cross the forest while older students could attack them for the Fire Energy on their cards, beginning the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.
• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan gathered Xiao Yu, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao to discuss how to handle the trial.
• Xiao Yan revealed Xiao Yuan's plan to team up and take Fire Energy from the older students, and Hu Jia and Wu Hao agreed to join.
• Xiao Yuan took command of the group and led them toward a nearby team of unfamiliar auras.

Xiao Yuan’s group ambushed and defeated a team of Inner Academy students to gather information and Fire Energy. After learning about the forest routes and the other teams, Xiao Yuan demanded that their leader hand over some Fire Energy.

• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan discussed the older students’ strength and decided to follow their team through the forest.
• Xiao Yuan’s group surrounded the five older students, and Xiao Yuan, Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao quickly defeated them.
• Xiao Yuan threatened the older student leader and questioned him about the forest route map and the teams participating in the competition.
• The older student leader handed over a rough map and revealed that ten teams were competing, including the powerful Black White Fiends.
• Xiao Yuan showed the leader his Fire Crystal Card and asked him to sponsor him with some Fire Energy.

Xiao Yuan and his companions ambushed Inner Academy teams in the forest, taking their Fire Crystal Cards and building up their fire energy. After defeating several groups, they faced a coordinated team and Xiao Yuan revealed Dou Ling-level strength, leaving the group poised to continue the competition with another victory.

• Xiao Yuan and the others defeated an older-student team and took nearly all the fire energy from their cards.
• Two elders watched the new students and praised their teamwork, while anticipating a possible clash with the Black White Fiends.
• Xiao Yuan's team ambushed and quickly defeated another five-person team, then hid to wait for an approaching group.
• A new team discovered the robbed students, and its captain suspected Luo Hou after feeling the strange icy qi.
• Xiao Yuan surprised the five newcomers with his Dou Ling-level aura, then used Mystic Ice Whirlwind Kill to injure them before Xiao Yan and the others finished the fight and took their fire energy.

Xiao Yuan’s team defeated the eighth veteran team and faced the Black and White Fiends, the final two teams in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition. Xiao Yan took on the Black Fiends while Xiao Yuan prepared to fight the White Fiends, whose captain Luo Hou joined his teammates in attacking.

• Rumors spread that Xiao Yuan’s team was hunting veteran teams, and seven veteran teams left the forest after losing enough Fire Energy to be disqualified.
• Xiao Yuan’s team defeated another five-person veteran team, bringing each of the six members two hundred Fire Energy points.
• Xiao Yuan sensed the Black and White Fiends approaching together, and ten veterans surrounded his group in the clearing.
• Sha Tie offered to let Xiao Yuan’s group leave if they surrendered their Fire Crystal Cards, but Xiao Yuan assigned Xiao Yan to fight the Black Fiends and sent the others to help him.
• Xiao Yuan activated the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations against the White Fiends, and captain Luo Hou led Ye Han and the other three in a coordinated attack.

Xiao Yuan used his Yin Yang Dual Flames to overwhelm Luo Hou and the White Fiends Team, while Xiao Yan and the others defeated the Black Fiends Team. The chapter left Xiao Yuan's opponents trapped by black ice as a Mystic Ice Giant Dragon descended upon them.

• Xiao Yuan faced Luo Hou and the White Fiends Team alone as older students watched, while Xiao Yan, Hu Jia, Wu Hao, Xun Er, and Xiao Yu fought the Black Fiends Team.
• Xiao Yuan unleashed his Yin Yang Dual Flames and Scorching Fire Incineration, slowing the White Fiends Team's Douqi and forcing Luo Hou to shield his teammates with Hunyuan Cold Whirlwind Staff.
• Xiao Yuan's black snowflakes covered Luo Hou's ice shield and began freezing the team's feet to the ground as the older students realized his Heavenly Flames were suppressing all five opponents.
• Xiao Yan and his companions defeated Sha Tie and the Black Fiends Team, and Xiao Yuan dismissed Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations after deciding his third brother had already won.
• Luo Hou's ice pillar missed Xiao Yuan, and Luo Hou and his teammates found themselves trapped by black ice before a Mystic Ice Giant Dragon descended over them.

Xiao Yuan led the freshmen to victory in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, earning fire energy and Azure Fire Crystal Cards for the six teammates. After entering the Inner Academy and settling into their shared residence, Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yu explored the academy and planned to cultivate at the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda.

• Xiao Yuan defeated Luo Hou and the White Fiends Team, took their fire energy, and shared the spoils with his teammates.
• Elder Su announced the freshmen's victory and awarded Xiao Yuan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yu, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao Azure Fire Crystal Cards with thirty days of fire energy each.
• Elder Su led the six winners into the Inner Academy and assigned them a shared pavilion, where they agreed to look after one another.
• Elder Su explained that students used fire energy to cultivate in the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda and to obtain resources from the academy's pavilions.
• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yu explored the Inner Academy, found the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda, and agreed to cultivate there together.

Xiao Yuan agreed to help the new students stop the Inner Academy’s old students from repeatedly extorting Fire Energy, seeing a chance to unite them into a faction. He began confronting the collectors by kicking one old student down, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Xiao Yuan reached Nine Star Great Fighter and fed the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Amethyst Accompanying Source before joining the others for breakfast.
• A Tai told Xiao Yuan that several old-student groups had repeatedly charged the new students Tribute Fees and beaten those who could not pay.
• Xiao Yuan rejected the idea of collecting Tribute Fees himself and agreed to meet the new students at the exit with his companions.
• Xiao Yuan and the others found A Tai facing old students who demanded more Fire Energy and threatened to beat the new students.
• Xiao Yuan rushed forward and kicked one of the old students away, declaring that he would show them what it meant to act on impulse.

Xiao Yuan defended the new students from the Inner Academy factions demanding Tribute Fees and led A Tai to Green Mountain’s headquarters to confront its members. He unleashed his strength and Mystic Ice Dragon Flight, leaving Green Mountain’s fighters injured and dazed.

• Xiao Yuan defeated the older students blocking the new students and demanded that all collected Tribute Fees be returned by sunset the next day.
• Xiao Yuan assigned the new students to begin forming a faction while he went with A Tai to Green Mountain’s base.
• A Tai told Xiao Yuan that the White Gang and Medicine Gang had taken Fire Energy, while Green Mountain’s members had beaten the new students.
• Xiao Yuan confronted Green Mountain’s vice leader and challenged the faction to attack him together.
• Xiao Yuan raised his strength to the level of a Three-Star Dou Ling, then struck Green Mountain’s members with Mystic Ice Dragon Flight and left them crying out in pain.

Xiao Yuan formed the Lion Heart Society with A Tai as Chief Administrator and led the freshmen to attack the White Gang after demanding their stolen Fire Energy back. He fought Fu Ao, a Three-Star Dou Ling, with the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations, and their battle continued as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yuan defeated Green Mountain Vice Leader and continued toward the White Gang with A Tai and the freshmen.
• Xiao Yuan promised A Tai compensation and a future opportunity to join his Black-Corner Region faction, then named their new group the Lion Heart Society and made A Tai its Chief Administrator.
• Xiao Yuan and the freshmen attacked the White Gang headquarters, and A Tai identified Fu Ao as one of its four Dou Lings.
• Xiao Yuan demanded the White Gang return the freshmen’s Fire Energy, then declared he would take all of theirs when Fu Ao refused.
• Xiao Yuan used Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations: Yin-Yang Change to raise his aura to Three-Star Dou Ling and clashed with Fu Ao in a fierce spear-and-trident battle.

Xiao Yuan defeated Fu Ao and the White Gang members who confronted him, then set out for the Medicine Gang despite A Tai’s warning about the White Gang’s strength. On the way, Han Yue stopped him and advised him not to go, greeting him as her junior after accepting his offered handshake.

• Xiao Yuan used Mystic Ice Dragon Flight to defeat Fu Ao and demanded Fire Crystal Cards from the remaining White Gang members.
• Xiao Yuan froze a White Gang manager and injured the members who tried to surround him, then had A Tai collect Fire Energy from them.
• Xiao Yuan drained Fu Ao’s Fire Crystal Card and ordered A Tai to lead the group to the Medicine Gang despite learning that White Gang leader Bai Cheng was a Six-Star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yuan reassured A Tai that he was not afraid of provoking Bai Cheng and said he could kill a Six-Star Dou Ling if necessary.
• Han Yue approached Xiao Yuan and advised him not to go to the Medicine Gang, then accepted his handshake and greeted him as her junior.

Xiao Yuan defended the Lion Heart Society’s right to unite the new students and rejected Han Yue’s warning against provoking the Medicine Gang. After exposing the Medicine Gang’s pill furnaces and clashing with Han Xian, Xiao Yuan launched a powerful attack, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Han Yue warned Xiao Yuan that gathering all the new students would anger Inner Academy factions, and Xiao Yuan argued that those factions had driven the students together by exploiting them.
• Xiao Yuan told Han Yue that the Lion Heart Society had a peak Fourth Grade Alchemist who could refine Three-striped Qingling Pills, and Han Yue agreed to consider cooperation with the society.
• Xiao Yuan instructed A Tai to abolish the new student Tribute Fee for future recruits and led the group to demand Fire Energy from the Medicine Gang.
• When the Medicine Gang ignored them, Xiao Yuan used Heavenly Flame to disrupt its pill furnaces, forcing Han Xian and the others outside.
• Han Xian charged Xiao Yuan, who revealed his strength as a Three-Star Dou Ling and attacked with Mystic Ice Whirlwind Fist.

Xiao Yuan defeated Han Xian and the Medicine Gang, established the Lion Heart Society, and led the freshmen into the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda. There, he discovered the Heart Flame and learned he might eventually cultivate two personal flames, then began testing the invisible flame with his Douqi.

• Xiao Yuan defeated Han Xian and the Medicine Gang, took their Fire Crystal Cards, and left with A Tai and the others.
• Xiao Yuan formed the Lion Heart Society, restored the freshmen's Fire Energy to thirty days, and led them toward the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda.
• Su Qian secretly watched Xiao Yuan and wondered what powerful forces or experts had helped him grow so strong.
• Xiao Yuan and the freshmen entered the underground pagoda, where the Heart Flame began burning inside their bodies.
• Xiao Yuan contained the Heart Flame with the Yin Yang Dual Flames, learned about cultivating the Shao Yin Sovereign Fire and Shao Yang Prime Fire, and sent Douqi into the invisible flame.

Xiao Yuan extracted the Fallen Heart Flame’s projected fragments from the new students and explored the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda with Elder Liu. At the tower’s central abyss, he saw an enormous invisible fire python emerge, leaving him to recognize it as the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Elder Liu and Elder Su began pulling Heart Flame fragments from the suffering new students, but Xiao Yuan woke on his own and offered to help.
• Xiao Yuan used his Yin Yang Dual Flames to extract the fragments from every student and absorb them for cultivation, astonishing the elders and onlookers.
• Elder Su instructed Elder Liu to guide Xiao Yuan and, on the Great Elder’s orders, give him conveniences where possible.
• Elder Liu showed Xiao Yuan the pagoda’s cultivation rooms and explained their grades and fees, while A Tai and the other students were assigned a mid-grade room.
• Xiao Yuan peered into the central abyss and saw distorted space surge upward; Elder Liu pulled him away as an ancient, terrifying presence emerged.
• Xiao Yuan saw an enormous invisible fire python through his flame-wrapped eyes, and the Yin Yang Dual Flames inside him reacted as he wondered if it was the Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Yuan entered the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda’s third floor and used the Fallen Heart Flame’s projection to refine his Dou Qi while cultivating. As the elders discussed the growing threat posed by the Fallen Heart Flame, Xiao Yuan reached the Dou Ling bottleneck and began advancing after taking a Golden Punishment Pill.

• The Invisible Fire Python attacked the Space Cage around the abyss, then retreated, and Xiao Yuan concealed what he had witnessed from Elder Liu.
• Elder Liu escorted Xiao Yuan to a third-floor training room, where Xiao Yuan deterred two students who coveted his Azure Fire Crystal Card and began cultivating.
• Xiao Yuan endured the Fallen Heart Flame’s heat as it tempered his body and refined his Dou Qi.
• Su Qian and the elders discussed the Fallen Heart Flame’s growing instability and ordered that Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan receive assistance.
• After five days of cultivation, Xiao Yuan reached the Dou Ling bottleneck, swallowed the Golden Punishment Pill, and began circulating his metal-attribute cultivation method.

Xiao Yuan returned from five days of cultivation with his strength newly advanced to the Dou Ling level and found the Lion Heart Society organized under Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan. The White Gang arrived at the society’s territory, setting up a confrontation as the chapter ended.

• Bai Cheng learned from the injured Fu Ao that Xiao Yuan had defeated him using powerful flames and hidden strength, then led the White Gang toward the new students’ residential area.
• Xiao Yuan broke through to the Dou Ling level, spoke with Su Qian, and left the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda after five days of cultivation.
• Xiao Yuan returned to the Lion Heart Society and learned that Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan had established guards and other rules for the faction.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yuan that Xiao Yan and Xun Er were buying medicinal herbs, Hu Jia was visiting the Dou Techniques Pavilion, and Wu Hao had gone to the arena.
• A Lion Heart Society member announced that people from the White Gang had arrived.

Xiao Yuan confronted Bai Cheng at the New Student Zone after the White Gang leader came to demand an explanation for Xiao Yuan's attack on his members. With Han Yue present, Xiao Yuan challenged Bai Cheng to a duel, and their battle began with Xiao Yuan pressing an aggressive assault against the stronger Dou Ling.

• Xiao Yuan arrived at the New Student Zone and faced Bai Cheng and the White Gang, then burned Bai Cheng's hand and damaged his clothes during their greeting.
• Bai Cheng accused Xiao Yuan of injuring White Gang members and demanded that he disband the Lion Heart Society if he lost a duel.
• Han Yue arrived with her faction and stopped Bai Cheng from bullying the new students, while Xiao Yuan thanked her and chose to face Bai Cheng himself.
• Xiao Yuan raised his strength to the Four-Star Dou Ling level with the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations, and Bai Cheng prepared his earth-element spear.
• Bai Cheng charged Xiao Yuan, but Xiao Yuan counterattacked with the Mystic Ice Dragon Spear and forced Bai Cheng onto the defensive before he regained his footing and fought back.

Xiao Yuan fought Bai Cheng in a fierce spear battle, overcoming the Strong Ranking expert’s attacks and defensive Douqi Armor. He enlarged his Mystic Ice Giant Dragon to shatter Bai Cheng’s defense and end the battle with Bai Cheng defeated.

• Xiao Yuan gained an early advantage over Bai Cheng with his strength and spear techniques, then countered Bai Cheng’s barrage of spear shadows.
• Xiao Yuan blocked Bai Cheng’s sand snake attack with an ice-crystal spear defense and knocked Bai Cheng’s weapon away.
• Bai Cheng recovered and fought Xiao Yuan to a near standstill, then used Mystic Earth Convergence as a hidden attack.
• Xiao Yuan summoned a Mystic Ice Giant Dragon and sent Bai Cheng flying, but Bai Cheng trusted his Douqi Armor to protect him.
• Xiao Yuan enlarged the Mystic Ice Giant Dragon, which broke Bai Cheng’s armor and left him defeated.

Xiao Yuan defeated Bai Cheng and drove off the White Gang, then discussed the Lion Heart Society’s pill business with Han Yue. The chapter ended with Han Yue accepting Xiao Yan’s prices as Xiao Yuan warned her about the risks of Green Spirit Pills.

• Xiao Yuan defeated Bai Cheng, took the White Gang leader’s Fire Energy, and sent the remaining White Gang members away with the unconscious Bai Cheng.
• Xiao Yuan reunited with Xiao Yu, Han Yue, Xiao Yan, and Xun'er, then led them into the pavilion to discuss business.
• Xiao Yuan introduced Xiao Yan as the Lion Heart Society’s alchemist, and Xiao Yan presented pills for Han Yue to consider buying.
• Xiao Yan set prices for recovery, healing, Ice Clarity, and Green Spirit Pills, while Xiao Yuan explained that Green Spirit Pills could cause backlash if their medicinal power was too much to endure.
• Han Yue said the Green Spirit Pill prices were acceptable, and Xiao Yuan advised her to judge the buyers’ abilities before purchasing.

Xiao Yuan risked refining Black Demon Lightning to begin cultivating the Demon Thunder Mirror, while Xiao Yan’s pill sales spread through the Inner Academy. The chapter ended with Han Xian ordering the Medicine Gang to buy up the Lion Heart Society’s medicinal herbs at double the price.

• Han Yue made Yue Ling the Lion Heart Society’s first customer faction, and Xiao Yan began preparing its pill order.
• Xiao Yuan refined the Black Demon Lightning sealed between his brows and preliminarily mastered the Demon Thunder Mirror, discovering it could grow into a Heaven Rank body-tempering technique.
• Xiao Yan delivered the pills and entered the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda, while Xiao Yuan focused on learning the Nine Tribulation Demon Thunder Spear.
• Xiao Yuan’s victory over Bai Cheng earned him the thirty-fourth Strong Ranking position, but he refused challengers by claiming he was recovering from injuries.
• Han Yue promoted the Lion Heart Society’s pills across the Inner Academy, threatening the Medicine Gang’s sales monopoly.
• Han Xian learned that Xiao Yan made the Lion Heart Society’s pills and ordered the Medicine Gang to buy every medicinal herb the Society purchased at double the price.

Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan learned that the Medicine Gang, White Gang, and Lie Shan members had disrupted the Lion Heart Society’s herb purchases and pill sales, so they led their allies to confront the White Gang. At the square, Han Xian arrived and claimed the White Gang had acted for the Medicine Gang, leaving Xiao Yuan facing the gathered groups.

• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan discussed their cultivation, while Xiao Yan said several of their allies were training or at the arena.
• A Tai reported that the Lion Heart Society’s herb buyers had returned empty-handed and their pill sellers had been attacked, with the White Gang and Lie Shan members involved.
• Xiao Yan identified Lei Na as someone he had injured, and A Tai said Yao Sheng ranked seventeenth on the Strong Ranking and was likely a seven-star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yuan gathered the Lion Heart Society and led them toward the White Gang, while Xiao Yan agreed to face Lei Na if needed.
• At the White Gang’s entrance, Xiao Yuan confronted Bai Cheng over the attacks, and Bai Cheng said he had acted on someone else’s behalf.
• Han Xian arrived with Medicine Gang members and claimed the White Gang had acted for his group, prompting Xiao Yuan to tease him about his Fire Energy.