Chapter Summaries

At the Jade Pool Gathering, Xu Yi faced accusations from Dongye Ming and Xiong Wan that Suijie had accepted a contract to hire a killer. Xiong Wan presented a recording, but Xu Yi remained composed and challenged him to say when it had been made.

• Dongye Ming accused Suijie of taking payment to kill someone and urged the gathering to deny him the Bright Flame.
• Xu Yi accused Dongye Ming of acting on the Lie family's behalf and demanded evidence.
• Xiong Wan appeared and claimed Suijie had accepted his job, while A Da and the others vouched for Xu Yi's identity.
• Xu Yi denied knowing Xiong Wan, and the crowd turned against Xiong Wan until he showed a Ruyi Pearl recording of Suijie accepting a contract.
• Dongye Ming, Xiong Wan, and Lie Zhiqiang condemned Suijie, but Xu Yi asked Xiong Wan when the footage had been recorded.

Xu Yi refuted Xiong Wan’s accusation, exposed his supposed payment as absurd by displaying five hundred pieces of Profound Yellow Essence, and cleared his name before lighting the Bright Flame. The Jade Pool Gathering began, and Xu Yi refused Dongye Ming’s offered Sumeru Ring.

• Xu Yi argued that the footage was recorded before he received his inheritance and denied killing anyone for Xiong Wan’s ten pieces of Profound Yellow Essence.
• Xu Yi displayed five hundred pieces of Profound Yellow Essence, leaving Xiong Wan speechless and the crowd astonished.
• Nu Jiang ordered his men to throw Xiong Wan out, and Dongye Ming and Lie Zhiqiang accepted Xu Yi’s innocence.
• Xu Yi used the source token to light the bronze furnace’s Bright Flame, moving the four A’s to tears and officially opening the Jade Pool Gathering.
• Dongye Ming offered Xu Yi a Sumeru Ring, but Xu Yi declined it, saying he no longer needed help.

Xu Yi watched Zhu Youliang refine Witch Pills and secretly learned the technique, spotting mistakes that caused several failed attempts. After Zhu Youliang finally succeeded, he demanded that Patriarch Penhu send him his youngest daughter as a concubine.

• Nu Jiang celebrated the Sui clan’s worthy successors, and the trade fair began after the revelry.
• Xu Yi rewarded A Da and the other three chief retainers, then had them buy spirit medicines for him.
• Xu Yi watched Zhu Youliang publicly refine Witch Pills and learned the process by observing every detail.
• Xu Yi noticed Zhu Youliang make mistakes in the Five Elements sequence as two refinements failed before he eventually succeeded on his fifth attempt.
• Zhu Youliang dismissed Patriarch Penhu’s thanks and demanded that Penhu send him his youngest daughter as a concubine.

Zhu Youliang demanded that the Pen clan hand over Penjing in exchange for refining more Witch Pills, but Xu Yi intervened before he could take her. Zhu Youliang refused to continue refining pills unless Zhu Suijie knelt and apologized, leaving Xu Yi under pressure from the assembled clans as Nu Jiang threatened Zhu Youliang.

• The Penhu patriarch reluctantly ordered Chimao and Cangying to bring Penjing to Zhu Youliang in exchange for Witch Pills.
• Zhu Youliang demanded a place to rest and reached for Penjing while Nu Jiang and the Pen clan looked on helplessly.
• Xu Yi seized Zhu Youliang's hand, insulted him, and slapped him to the ground.
• Zhu Youliang refused to refine any more Witch Pills unless Zhu Suijie knelt and apologized, while Lie Zhiqiang and Dongye Ming challenged Xu Yi.
• Nu Jiang threatened to kill Zhu Youliang if he insulted the Sui clan, as pressure mounted around Xu Yi.

Xu Yi demonstrated his alchemy by refining hundreds of Witch Pills, winning Wuyuan’s admiration and giving the pills to the Pen clan. After Zhu Youliang threatened to leave, Xu Yi blocked him, and Lie Zhiqiang warned Xu Yi not to offend the Lie family.

• Xu Yi challenged Zhu Youliang’s alchemy and used the Sui clan’s Origin Fire to refine a radiant Witch Pill before an astonished crowd.
• Xu Yi produced hundreds of Witch Pills and gave them to Patriarch Penhu for the Pen clan’s warriors and families.
• A San reassured A Da, A Er, and A Si that Xu Yi was Zhu Suijie by recalling his childhood nickname, Badger.
• Nu Jiang celebrated Zhu Suijie’s inheritance and Wuyuan’s new alchemist, while accusing Zhu Youliang of exploiting the people and harming Wuyuan’s women.
• Zhu Youliang threatened to leave Wuyuan, but Xu Yi stopped him and declared he would not let him go.
• Lie Zhiqiang invoked the Lie family’s standing and warned Xu Yi against showing disrespect to Zhu Youliang.

Xu Yi exposed Zhu Youliang as an impostor, killed him, and defeated Lie Zhiqiang before winning the Witch Clans’ gratitude by offering to refine Witch Pills without payment. The chapter ended with Xu Yi receiving the White Bone Jade Box he had sought, which he hoped to open with his White Bone Key.

• Xu Yi revealed that Zhu Youliang had once been Wang Youliang and accused him of falsely claiming the Zhu surname.
• Zhu Youliang fled, but Xu Yi burned him to ash with the Sui clan’s Origin Fire and knocked Lie Zhiqiang unconscious.
• Xu Yi told Nu Jiang that awakening his Bloodline Inheritance had allowed him to master the Origin Fire.
• Xu Yi refused repayment from the clan patriarchs for refining Witch Pills, and news of his generosity spread through the Jade Pool Gathering.
• Dongye Ming discussed Xu Yi’s growing influence with a Black Robed Elder and considered whether his rise might benefit the Sui clan.
• The Lai Feng clan gave Xu Yi a White Bone Jade Box, which he had long sought to pair with his White Bone Key.

After leaving the Five Plains in the care of the Sui Clan's Four Attendants, Xu Yi broke through to the Divine Diagram Second Realm and studied the Primordial Fire Technique from the white-bone jade box. He could not master its full power, but he learned to create more than thirty fire-seed clones.

• Xu Yi and the Sui Clan's Four Attendants exchanged gifts for resources and distributed them to poor households in the Five Plains.
• Xu Yi told the Four Attendants to stay behind, gather information, and conceal his departure while he traveled to the West Sea.
• Xu Yi refined Witch Pills, hid them at Wu Bei Mountain for the Four Attendants to collect, and then rested before beginning his breakthrough.
• After using more than three thousand pieces of Profound Yellow Essence, Xu Yi entered the Divine Diagram Second Realm and let Heaven's will baptize his Spiritually Communicating Treasure.
• Xu Yi studied the Primordial Fire Technique's Wrath of Burning Heaven, then used the Sui clan's Origin Fire to create more than thirty fire seeds for a downgraded Shadow Clone Technique of Fire.

Xu Yi arrived at the Dao Palace for further study and learned that aristocratic scions Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian had been plotting against him. He ignored their provocations and went to sleep, then joined the other officials heading to their first instruction at Zhaohui Hall.

• Xu Yi finished preparing supplies, received a jade token from Director Yu, and decided not to rely on her connection at the Dao Palace.
• Xu Yi reached Donglai City early and watched prominent officials arrive with extravagant displays before entering the Dao Palace after it opened.
• An attendant warned Xu Yi that Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian resented him and that his cave residence was next to theirs.
• Xu Yi ignored Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian’s sarcastic taunts, secured his cave residence, and went to sleep.
• Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian discussed schemes to provoke Xu Yi, then the officials set out for instruction at Zhaohui Hall.

Xu Yi used the reception professor’s authority to drive Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian from Zhaohui Hall after they mocked him, then revealed himself to the class. Professor Wang Pang reviewed the incident and supported Xu Yi before beginning the orientation lesson.

• Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian bragged to the other Aristocratic Clan scions that Xu Yi had hidden from them.
• Xu Yi entered Zhaohui Hall pretending to be the reception professor and ordered Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian to scrub Dao Palace’s stone stairs.
• Professor Wang Pang arrived while Xu Yi was posing as an ordinary student, and the class erupted when he introduced himself as Xu Yi.
• Chu Yi accused Xu Yi of impersonating a professor, but Wang Pang showed a recording of the incident and defended Xu Yi’s response.
• Wang Pang explained the rules, course schedule, evaluations, and rewards to the students.

Xu Yi provoked the aristocratic scions, then drew the attention of Profound Mechanism Class instructor Yi Bingwei by walking up to her and reaching toward her face. After he caught her ruler and was accused of molesting her, he claimed she shared some responsibility and prepared to explain.

• Xu Yi taunted Chu Yi and the other scions for failing to help Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian, then revealed he had warned the pair not to contact outsiders while sweeping the steps.
• Yi Bingwei entered the hall, identified herself as the class instructor, struck Chu Yi with her ruler, and ordered him and his companions to stand at the back.
• Xu Yi stared at Yi Bingwei and walked toward her despite Huang Mei's warnings, leaving the hall stunned.
• Yi Bingwei accused Xu Yi of molesting her when he reached toward her face, but Xu Yi caught her ruler and released it when she challenged him.
• Xu Yi apologized for his presumption, then told Yi Bingwei she bore some responsibility too.

Xu Yi charmed his way out of trouble with Yi Bingwei, whose resemblance to Xuan Xuan unsettled him. After class, Chu Yi told Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian that Xu Yi had deceived them by posing as the receiving professor, leaving them furious.

• Xu Yi praised Yi Bingwei’s beauty with a poem, and she let him return to his seat after learning his name.
• Xu Yi wondered whether Yi Bingwei was Xuan Xuan, but Huang Mei told him she was only someone who looked like her.
• Yi Bingwei complained to Director Yu through the Ruyi Pearl that Xu Yi had tried to touch her, while Director Yu and Xiao Tao doubted her account.
• Xu Yi left class as Chu Yi and the others searched the mountains for Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian.
• Chu Yi revealed that Xu Yi had impersonated the receiving professor and tricked Fang Shihui and Jia Zhaoxian, who reacted with fury.

Jia Zhaoxian and his allies confronted Xu Yi in the Purple Bamboo Forest and challenged him to settle their feud on the Gentleman Stage. Xu Yi accepted, and Jia Zhaoxian pushed for Zuo Shihui to be their champion, leaving the group preparing for the fight.

• Jia Zhaoxian and Fang Shihui rallied Chu Yi and their companions to confront Xu Yi after learning their humiliation had spread.
• Jia Zhaoxian and the others found Xu Yi playing chess in the Purple Bamboo Forest and tried to provoke him before a crowd of onlookers.
• Xu Yi rebuked Jia Zhaoxian for risking public disgrace with his insults, while Fang Shihui and the others mocked Xu Yi and challenged him to fight.
• Xu Yi accepted their challenge to settle matters on the Gentleman Stage and said he wanted to drive them out of the Dao Palace.
• Jia Zhaoxian urged the group to send Zuo Shihui onto the stage because of his Third-order Acquired Spiritual Treasure and newly mastered Ice River Storm.

Xu Yi challenged Jia Zhaoxian’s group to a wager, betting seven hundred Profound Yellow Essence against a chessboard filled with doubling numbers of Profound Yellow Pills. After the written agreement was approved, Xu Yi and Zuo Shihui took the Gentleman Stage, where the duel was about to begin.

• Chu Yi offered Zuo Shihui the Thunder Abyss Stone, and Jia Zhaoxian’s group agreed to unite against Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi proposed a wager in which he would pay seven hundred Profound Yellow Essence if he lost, while his opponents would fill all sixty-four squares of a chessboard with doubling numbers of Profound Yellow Pills if they lost.
• Jia Zhaoxian and the others signed Xu Yi’s written agreement, believing the wager was mainly intended to insult them.
• Xu Yi and the group went to South Mountain, where Instructor Feng approved the agreement and explained the rules for the match.
• Xu Yi and Zuo Shihui entered the Gentleman Stage as students gathered to watch, including Yi Bingwei and her companion.

Xu Yi fought Zuo Shihui on the Gentleman Stage, where Zuo Shihui suppressed Xu Yi’s lightning and wielded the Soul Hooking Sword and Ice River Storm. Xu Yi broke free of the frost attack, leaving Zuo Shihui shocked by how little his treasure could harm him.

• Yi Bingwei and the Yellow-clothed woman discussed Xu Yi before his duel with Zuo Shihui began.
• Xu Yi unleashed powerful lightning, but a hidden treasure Zuo Shihui possessed made the lightning vanish.
• Zuo Shihui brought out a Third-order Acquired Spiritual Treasure, the Soul Hooking Sword, and refused Instructor Feng’s suggestion to put it aside.
• Zuo Shihui struck Xu Yi with the Soul Hooking Sword and Ice River Storm, compressing the flames Xu Yi summoned around himself.
• Xu Yi’s flames burst outward and shattered the frost storm, astonishing the crowd and revealing that the Soul Hooking Sword had little effect on him.

Xu Yi defeated Zuo Shihui and claimed his treasures, then demanded that Jia Zhaoxian fulfill their agreement. The chapter ended with Xu Yi insisting Jia’s payment of 67,542 Profound Yellow Pills was short, while the onlookers waited for the count.

• Zuo Shihui unleashed the Seven-Colored Divine Phoenix, the Soul Hooking Sword, and Ice River Storm, but Xu Yi emerged victorious and left him motionless.
• After Instructor Feng declared Xu Yi the winner, Xu Yi took Zuo Shihui’s Starry Sky Ring and Soul Hooking Sword.
• Jia Zhaoxian and Chu Yi demanded the treasures back, but Xu Yi argued that the duel’s winner was entitled to the spoils and challenged anyone to fight him.
• Jia Zhaoxian gave Xu Yi Profound Yellow Essence and then scattered Profound Yellow Pills, but Xu Yi counted only 67,542 and said the amount fell short of their agreement.

Xu Yi’s wager left Jia Zhaoxian and six others owing an astronomical amount of Profound Yellow Essence, and Instructor Feng ruled that their written agreement was binding. With expulsion from Dao Palace looming, Jia Zhaoxian and the others swallowed their pride and begged Xu Yi for forgiveness.

• Zhang Cheng calculated that the wager’s total exceeded 1.5 million billion Profound Yellow Essences, stunning the crowd.
• Jia Zhaoxian and the others protested the agreement, but Xu Yi insisted they had signed it and Instructor Feng upheld its terms.
• Xu Yi told them they could either pay the debt or accept expulsion from Dao Palace and the loss of their Official Status.
• When Xu Yi tried to leave, Jia Zhaoxian and the others surrounded him, then bowed and begged him to forgive them.

Xu Yi forced Jia Zhaoxian and the others to accept a debt settlement, then met Ruan Hongchen and discovered her Charm Technique was countered by his Crimson Flame Thunder Monkey Aspect. He learned Yi Bingwei had been sent to help him by Director Yu, and the chapter left him sharing wine with Yi Bingwei as she asked how he and Director Yu had met.

• Xu Yi demanded that Jia Zhaoxian and the others each pay two thousand Profound Yellow Essence within three days and repay the remaining debt within a hundred years, and their families agreed.
• Xu Yi mingled with the crowd before Ruan Hongchen approached and used her Charm Technique on him.
• Xu Yi manifested the Crimson Flame Thunder Monkey Aspect, knocking Ruan Hongchen unconscious and countering her charm.
• Yi Bingwei explained that Ruan Hongchen was a Heavenly Demon Charm Snake, then revealed that Director Yu had given Xu Yi the jade pendant and asked her to help him.
• Xu Yi invited Yi Bingwei to drink at Taoran Pavilion on Third Mountain, where she asked how he had met Director Yu.

Xu Yi confirmed that Yi Bingwei was not Xuan Xuan, then left her after sharing a melancholy poem about rain and lost years. Back at his cave, he collected the Profound Yellow Essence from Jia Zhaoxian and the others before Qi Tian arrived and tried to dump filthy water on him.

• Xu Yi told Yi Bingwei how he had met Director Yu and dealt with Yuwen Tuo, then asked about her past and learned she did not recognize him.
• Xu Yi recited a poem about listening to rain at different stages of life and left Taoran Pavilion.
• Wu Pin confronted Yi Bingwei, accused her of secretly meeting Xu Yi, and vanished after she threatened to expose him.
• Xu Yi returned to his cave and collected seven Sumeru Rings containing fourteen thousand Profound Yellow Essence from Jia Zhaoxian, Fang Shihui, and the others.
• Qi Tian threw a Sumeru Ring at Xu Yi, but it burst and spilled filthy water; Xu Yi ordered Jia Zhaoxian to identify him.

Xu Yi refined his Profound Yellow Essence while Qi Tian became assistant squad leader and continued making trouble for him. After enduring days of unfair treatment from instructors and Qi Tian, Xu Yi finally challenged Qi Tian’s order to report to the Hall of Reflection, giving Qi Tian the reaction he had been waiting for.

• Qi Tian confronted Xu Yi, but Jia Zhaoxian and six others swore on the Seven-Inch Nail-Head Book to stay out of Xu Yi’s affairs and left Qi Tian behind.
• Xu Yi sealed his cave abode and spent the night refining Profound Yellow Essence, consuming twenty-one pieces before heading to morning class.
• Xie Dongfeng appointed Qi Tian as assistant squad leader, and Xu Yi saw no reason to worry about the appointment.
• Xu Yi endured repeated hostility from four instructors and was ordered to stand through Wu Boji’s class.
• Qi Tian ordered Xu Yi to skip his next class and help Zhuo Sangui at the Hall of Reflection, but Xu Yi challenged him to name who had issued the order.
• Qi Tian was secretly pleased when Xu Yi finally resisted after days of enduring his provocations.

Xu Yi challenged Qi Tian’s abuse of his assistant-instructor position, then went to Yi Bingwei to learn why she had been avoiding him. After hearing her explanation, he insisted that Professor Wu’s dispute had nothing to do with him and urged Yi Bingwei to clear things up.

• Xu Yi refused Qi Tian’s orders and accused him of using his position to persecute him, drawing support from Zhang Caiwei and Bai Lan.
• Qi Tian invoked Professor Wu’s authority, scattering the crowd, while Xu Yi headed to the Thought Hall and wondered who was behind the pressure.
• After chopping cassia trees and replenishing his spirit liquid, Xu Yi went to Yi Bingwei’s cave abode, but she initially refused to answer him.
• Xu Yi threatened to write poems about Yi Bingwei and make their relationship public, prompting her to open the cave doors.
• Yi Bingwei invited Xu Yi inside the wards and explained the situation, and Xu Yi said he had been wronged and told her to explain matters to Professor Wu.