Chapter Summaries

Instructor Ruo Lin explained Jia Nan Academy’s Outer and Inner Academies and warned the students about the Black-Corner Region as the recruitment party traveled. After they reached Peace Town, Vice Principal Hu Gan welcomed the students and announced a dangerous assessment would begin.

• Instructor Ruo Lin described the academy’s classes, departments, facilities, and ways students could earn access to higher-tier techniques.
• After ten days of flight, the recruitment party met its guards at the Black Domain Plains and crossed the Black-Corner Region, where Instructor Ruo Lin warned the students not to show weakness.
• The students arrived in Peace Town, saw the corpses displayed on the Death Spirit Tree, and rested before the next day’s trial.
• Xia Mo joined Xiao Yi Xian and the others as Hu Gan arrived and warned that the academy assessment could cause injuries and that Jia Nan Academy would accept no responsibility for accidents.

Li Wan'er and the Wutan City students crossed the forest and arrived at Jia Nan Academy, where she joined Yellow Class Two and chose a Black Rank technique. She met her new roommate Hu Jia, and the chapter ended as the academy’s new-student opening ceremony began.

• Li Wan'er led the Wutan City students through the forest and killed three powerful silver wolves when the pack attacked.
• Li Wan'er and the students reached Canaan City, registered at Jia Nan Academy, and joined Instructor Ruo Lin's Yellow Class Two.
• Instructor Ruo Lin told Li Wan'er she could choose a Black Rank cultivation method or Dou Technique, and Li Wan'er took Flame Palm from the pavilion.
• Li Wan'er met her roommate Hu Jia, agreed to share meals with her, and learned Hu Jia was an Eight-Star Dou Zhe from Canaan City.
• Li Wan'er introduced herself as Xiao Yu, a Nine-Star Dou Zhe from Wutan City, and the academy gathered for the opening ceremony the next morning.

Li Wan'er joined Jia Nan Academy’s Alchemy Department and passed the first-grade alchemist examination, then spent two months advancing her pill-refining skills and cultivation. By the time she returned to class, she had become a third-grade alchemist and a one-star Dou Shi, drawing admiration from students.

• Li Wan'er asked Instructor Ruo Lin how to join the Alchemy Department, and Instructor Ruo Lin took her to meet Instructor Lin Hai.
• Instructor Lin Hai explained the department’s rules, and Li Wan'er chose to take the first-grade alchemist examination.
• Li Wan'er refined a Spring Restoration Pill with a pill pattern, passed the examination, and received an Alchemist Badge.
• Li Wan'er spent two months refining pills and cultivating, becoming a third-grade alchemist and a one-star Dou Shi.
• Students admired Xiao Yu as she headed toward Yellow Class Two, while some warned others to keep quiet because the tomboy was nearby.

After a year of growth, Li Wan'er entered Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy Selection Competition and won her matches to reach the final fifty. As the top-five finalists prepared to enter the Inner Academy, Vice Principal Hu Gan urged them to work together and warned Lin Yan against going it alone.

• Over the year, Li Wan'er reached Da Dou Shi and refined pills for Ruo Lin and Hu Jia, while Ruo Lin advanced to Dou Ling and Hu Jia reached nine-star Dou Shi.
• Li Wan'er entered the selection competition, where she defeated Sha Tie with a swift green-lit strike and advanced through the matches.
• The competition narrowed to fifty qualifiers, including Xiao Yu, Yan Hao, Lin Yan, Han Yue, Wu Hao, and Li Wan'er.
• Vice Principal Hu Gan advised the finalists to prepare for the Inner Academy and cooperate when necessary.
• Hu Gan specifically warned Lin Yan to stop acting alone, and Lin Yan thanked him for his concern.

Li Wan'er entered the Jia Nan Inner Academy, chose a sixth-rank beast flame in the Library Pavilion, and followed students into the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower. There, the Fallen Heart Flame appeared inside her, and Elder Liu arrived to assess how long she could endure its scorching.

• Hu Gan brought the five top competitors to the Library Pavilion, where Qian Mu and Bai Lie opened its sealed entrance and warned them to take only one item.
• Li Wan'er ignored the low-level Earth-rank Dou Techniques and took a sixth-rank beast flame.
• Li Wan'er traveled through the Inner Academy to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower as students gathered for its opening.
• An aged voice ordered the tower opened, and Li Wan'er followed the crowd inside as the Fallen Heart Flame stirred within her.
• Older students mistook Li Wan'er's reaction for a freshman's lack of preparation, but Elder Liu arrived and explained that enduring the Heart Flame could reveal her potential.

Li Wan'er entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, revealed her formidable cultivation and alchemy talent, and later explored the Magma World beneath it. After gaining fourth-tier alchemist certification, she encountered a purple-haired girl in the Endless Forest Sea as the girl approached a pool of silvery liquid and was caught in a sudden freezing trap.

• Li Wan'er awakened a violet flame, impressed Elder Liu, and chose to cultivate on the tower's fifth level.
• Li Wan'er absorbed Heart Flame energy in her cultivation room and sent her primordial spirit into the Magma World, where she considered the lizardmen and their Half-Saint.
• Li Wan'er revealed the strength of a nine-star Da Dou Shi, earned fourth-tier alchemist certification, and went out to gather experience and ingredients.
• Li Wan'er spotted a purple-haired girl fleeing magical beasts in the Endless Forest Sea after apparently stealing heavenly treasures.
• The girl found a pool of silvery liquid and approached it, but a ring of white light spread around her and freezing air hindered her movements.

Li Wan'er and Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy after spending a year hunting for herbs and materials in the Endless Forest Sea. At the Inner Academy Strong Ranking Tournament, Li Wan'er drew Deng Yan as her opponent, and the first match began.

• Li Wan'er rescued the injured Zi Yan, and the two joined forces to gather herbs and materials across the Endless Forest Sea for a year.
• Li Wan'er and Zi Yan returned to the Inner Academy, where they learned the Strong Ranking Tournament would begin that month.
• Li Wan'er took another examination for a fifth-tier alchemist certificate before the tournament started a month later.
• Grand Elder Su Qian opened the tournament, and the Strong Ranking students entered the arena, including Zi Yan.
• Li Wan'er drew red-background number seven and identified her opponent as Deng Yan, ranked twenty-eighth on the Strong Ranking.
• Grand Elder Su Qian announced the first match between the holders of blue-background number five and red-background number five.

The Strong Ranking Grand Competition continued as Wu Xing defeated Yan Hao and Li Wan'er swiftly knocked Deng Yan out of the arena. Lin Xiuya then faced Zi Yan, whose overwhelming strength forced him to evade her attacks as she grew furious.

• Wu Xing defeated Yan Hao with an icy palm strike, and Great Elder Su Qian declared him the winner.
• The first-round matches continued, with Yao Sheng, Qian Mo, Lin Yan, and Liu Qing competing.
• Li Wan'er dodged Deng Yan's Soul-Locking Hook, pulled him in by its chain, and knocked him out of the arena.
• Li Wan'er returned to the stands as the contestants discussed her strength and speculated about her cultivation technique.
• Lin Xiuya faced Zi Yan, avoided her powerful punches with evasive movement, and enraged her by refusing to stand still.

Li Wan'er’s standing in the Inner Academy grew as she became a sixth-grade Alchemist and helped Hu Jia and Ruo Lin with pills. She then entered the depths of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, where Venerable Tianhuo asked her to rescue him in exchange for the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Lin Xiuya admitted defeat to Zi Yan after their match, and the Strong Ranking Tournament’s first day continued until evening.
• Li Wan'er kept winning and chose not to challenge Zi Yan for first place; the following year, the tournament rankings remained unchanged as Li Wan'er was regarded as a Dou Wang and a renowned sixth-grade Alchemist.
• Li Wan'er gave Hu Jia two Dou Ling Breaking Realm Pills, asking her to keep one and deliver the other to Mentor Ruo Lin.
• Li Wan'er entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, killed the fire Lizardmen that approached, and passed through a barrier deep inside.
• Venerable Tianhuo appeared from a skeleton, explained that he had died after failing to refine the young Fallen Heart Flame, and offered it in exchange for Li Wan'er taking him out and helping restore his soul.

Li Wan'er traded a soul-restoring pill for Venerable Tianhuo's Five-Ring Flame Expelling Technique, then ventured into the magma depths and crushed the fire lizards she encountered. After absorbing vast fire energy and refining several flames, she broke through to peak One-Star Dou Saint and merged with her nascent soul.

• Li Wan'er accepted Venerable Tianhuo's Five-Ring Flame Expelling Technique scroll and gave him a soul-nourishing pill, promising to help him recover and later obtain a body.
• Li Wan'er revealed that an Ancient Void Dragon guarded the depths below, then sealed away the infant fallen heart flame and continued deeper into the magma passages.
• Li Wan'er summoned a fire dragon and slaughtered the attacking fire lizards, collecting the essence of many Dou Zun-level creatures and three Half-Saints.
• Li Wan'er refined the fire energy and infant fallen heart flame, fed it her other spiritual flames and Han Feng's sea heart flame, and raised it to high-rank Dou Zong strength.
• Li Wan'er's cultivation advanced without obstruction to peak One-Star Dou Saint, and her nascent soul merged with her physical body.

Li Wan'er completed her breakthrough to Spirit Transformation, endured the fire tribulation, and strengthened the Fallen Heart Flame before returning to Jia Nan Academy. There, she watched Xiao Yan defeat Han Xian in an alchemy contest, though Han Xian insisted he would win a rematch.

• After ten months of adjustment, Li Wan'er broke through to Spirit Transformation and endured the fire tribulation, tempering her body and feeding its fire energy to the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Li Wan'er returned to her house and merged with her spiritual-sense clone, then spotted Xiao Yan competing against Han Xian.
• Xiao Yan and Han Xian completed their pills at nearly the same time and presented them to Elder Huo for judgment.
• Elder Huo declared Xiao Yan the winner because he had purified his medicinal liquid one more time, and Han Xian accepted the result after examining both pills.
• Xiao Yan offered his pill to Elder Huo as thanks, then asked Han Xian whether he accepted the result; Han Xian claimed Xiao Yan had been lucky and challenged him to a rematch.

Xiao Yan secured a three-month truce with Han Xian and chose a shop for his pill business before visiting his cousin Xiao Yu at Jia Nan Academy. Xiao Yu welcomed Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Hu Jia, and the chapter ended with the cousins trading teasing remarks about Xiao Yan's reputation and rapid cultivation.

• Xiao Yan arranged to challenge Han Xian again in three months, provided the Medicine Gang left him alone, and Elder Huo agreed to help enforce the deal.
• Han Xian paid Xiao Yan ten thousand fire energy and offered him deeds to three shops, and Xiao Yan later chose one of them.
• Yao Chen urged Xiao Yan to watch for a heavenly flame in the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, and Xiao Yan discussed visiting his cousin Xiao Yu.
• Hu Jia led Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er to Xiao Yu's residence, where they helped her water medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yu praised their progress and teased Xiao Yan as a lecher, while Xiao Yan complimented her achievements at Jia Nan Academy.

Li Wan'er reunited with Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, teased Xiao Yan, and gave them pills to help them advance. The next day, Xiao Yan entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and used Yao Chen's Bone Spirit Cold Flame to peer into its shaft, where something startled him.

• Li Wan'er deduced that Xiao Yan carried traces of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and learned he had inherited Yao Chen's teachings, while Yao Chen grumbled from inside the Storage Ring.
• Zi Yan arrived for more pills, exchanged medicinal ingredients with Li Wan'er, and met Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Hu Jia.
• Li Wan'er explained Zi Yan's strength and gave Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er pills that could help them break through to Dou Ling.
• The next day, Xiao Yan and the others stood outside the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, and Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen about the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao Chen used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to reveal what lay in the tower's shaft, and Xiao Yan's body stiffened as the darkness faded.

Xiao Yan witnessed the imprisoned Fallen Heart Flame’s true form before the story moved ahead a year, as Li Wan'er prepared a Saint-level corpse for Yao Tianhuo. Yao Tianhuo entered the body, but immediately screamed in pain.

• Yao Chen pulled Xiao Yan away from the cave entrance as the invisible fire python emerged from the darkness and battered against a spatial cage.
• The fire python retreated into the cave, and a voice from Xiao Yan’s storage ring identified it as the Fallen Heart Flame imprisoned to supply the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• A year passed: Xun'er had been taken away by the Gu Clan, Li Wan'er had reached one-star Dou Emperor, Zi Yan had become a Dou Emperor, and Xiao Yan had advanced to high-level Dou Ling.
• Li Wan'er appeared in the Black Domain Plains with a one-star Dou Saint corpse and told Yao Tianhuo she would refine a body for him.
• Li Wan'er infused the corpse with vitality, and Yao Tianhuo entered its glabella when she gave the signal.
• Yao Tianhuo screamed less than a breath after entering the corpse.

Li Wan'er revived Yao Tianhuo in a Dou Saint-refined body, and he agreed to follow her to Jia Nan Academy. There, she reunited with Instructor Ruo Lin and learned that Xiao Yan had fallen into the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Li Wan'er used the Fallen Heart Flame to fuse Yao Tianhuo's soul with his new body, and he revived as a six-star Dou Zun.
• Yao Tianhuo thanked Li Wan'er and pledged to follow her, then chose to return with her to Jia Nan Academy.
• Li Wan'er met Instructor Ruo Lin in Peace Town, heard that Xiao Ning had reached the peak Dou Shi realm, and gave Ruo Lin a third-tier medicinal pill for him.
• Ruo Lin told Li Wan'er that Xiao Yan had fallen into the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower during an upheaval in the Inner Academy.
• Li Wan'er reflected that Xiao Yan might refine the Magma World's Fallen Heart Flame, then returned to her Inner Academy pavilion with Yao Tianhuo.

Li Wan'er gave the academy’s two elders insights that helped them break through to Dou Zun, making Jia Nan Academy an even greater power in the Black-Corner Region. Months later, students gathered at the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, where Su Qian reflected on Xiao Yan as the academy continued to believe he was dead.

• Li Wan'er had Tianhuo write down his insights on breaking through to Dou Zun and sent them to the two elders in the Dou Technique Pavilion.
• Xiao Ning entered the Inner Academy, stayed in Li Wan'er's pavilion, and received advice from her and Yao Tianhuo.
• Half a year later, Qian Mu and Bai Lie broke through to Dou Zun, their surging power collapsing buildings in the Inner Academy.
• Su Qian congratulated Qian Mu and Bai Lie, while experts across the Black-Corner Region regarded Jia Nan Academy with increased wariness.
• Students gathered for the Inner Academy's monthly free cultivation day, and Su Qian looked at Xiao Yan's statue and said that Xiao Yan might have become difficult even for him to defeat.

Xiao Yan emerged from the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower after the Fallen Heart Flame erupted, stunning the Inner Academy. After reuniting with Su Qian and the others, he began a test of his strength against Lin Xiuya.

• Su Qian sensed a dangerous heat inside the tower and ordered the doors closed and the crowd to evacuate.
• The tower’s tip shattered, and a pillar of magma erupted, but Xiao Yan froze the falling magma and announced his return.
• Wu Hao and Su Qian recognized Xiao Yan and rejoiced at finding him alive.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Su Qian, who asked whether he had advanced to Dou Wang, then accepted Lin Xiuya’s challenge.
• Xiao Yan burned away Lin Xiuya’s wind-energy sword and attacked him with a jade-green flame-covered hand, prompting Lin Xiuya to form a deep cyan energy net.

Xiao Yan learned that the Xiao Clan had been attacked and that Xiao Li had only three years to live, so he and Li Wan'er returned to the Jia Ma Empire to seek a cure and investigate. They arrived as Yun Yun's wedding to Gu He began at the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan defeated Lin Xiuya in one move, and Su Qian judged him to be at Peak Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Zhan had disappeared after luring away the Xiao Clan's pursuers, while Xiao Li had three years left to live after taking the Life-Eroding Pill.
• Li Wan'er offered to make an Azure Nether Longevity Pill for Xiao Li but said she still needed rare ingredients, then agreed to return to the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan's group reached Jia Ma Sacred City and heard that Yun Yun was marrying Gu He, then traveled to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Shan welcomed the wedding guests, and Gu He approached the veiled bride as the ceremony began.

Xiao Yan and his allies interrupted Gu He and Yun Yun’s wedding at Misty Cloud Sect to settle the Xiao Clan’s blood feud, while Li Wan'er revealed Xiao Yu’s status as an Eighth-Rank Alchemist. Soul Hall’s Wu Protector attacked Xiao Yu, but Skyfire overwhelmed him and crippled his cultivation, leaving him to face a soul search.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the wedding with allies and accused Misty Cloud Sect of destroying the Xiao Clan, declaring that he had come to settle their grievances.
• Gu He challenged Xiao Yan and said he wanted Yun Yun to recognize that only he was worthy of her, while Li Wan'er assigned Liu Qing to handle Gu He and ordered her other allies to confront Misty Cloud Sect’s forces.
• Li Wan'er revealed that Xiao Yu was a Dou Zong and an Eighth-Rank Alchemist, warning Yun Shan that powerful experts would answer her call for help.
• Wu Protector emerged from black mist, identified himself as a Soul Hall protector, and launched a chain attack at Xiao Yu.
• Skyfire erased Wu Protector’s attack, caught him when he tried to flee, and crippled his cultivation before threatening to search his soul.

Xiao Yan defeated the Misty Cloud Sect and killed Yun Shan, then vowed to destroy the sect over the Xiao Clan’s suffering and his teacher’s capture. Li Wan'er stopped him and warned that the Soul Hall and Xun'er's powerful clan were threats he would need strength to face.

• Li Wan'er burned a Soul Hall lackey to ashes, and Xiao Yan wondered whether the Soul Hall wanted something from the Xiao Clan.
• Yun Shan attacked Zi Yan with Wind-Slaying Annihilation Force, but Zi Yan froze the strike and smashed him into the ground.
• Xiao Yan killed Yun Shan, and Yun Yun pleaded with him to stop destroying the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Li Wan'er slapped Xiao Yan and warned that killing the sect would not free his captured father or teacher, urging him to focus on becoming stronger.
• Li Wan'er revealed that Xun'er came from an Emperor Clan, leaving Xiao Yan stunned by the possibility of a surviving Dou God clan.