Chapter Summaries

Zi Yu accepted sixteen new subordinates after the Golden Silver Elders and Elder Ban had secured their surrender, then rewarded Elder Ban with Ten Thousand Year Stone Milk and an Imperial Pill. Elder Ban was overwhelmed by the gifts and renewed his vow of loyalty, believing his chance to become a Dou Zong was finally within reach.

• The sixteen captives eagerly agreed to serve Zi Yu, and he confirmed their loyalty with the Heavenly Dao Master-Servant Contract.
• The Golden Silver Elders had recruited Elder Ban, who surrendered in exchange for help reaching the Dou Zong realm and brought several Dou Huangs and Dou Wangs into their camp.
• Zi Yu praised Elder Ban and promised him a bottle of Ten Thousand Year Stone Milk and an Imperial Pill.
• Zi Yu explained the Stone Milk's effects, then gave both treasures to Elder Ban as the other newcomers watched enviously.
• Elder Ban knelt, vowed to serve Zi Yu for life, and realized that his hoped-for breakthrough to Dou Zong might come true.

Zi Yu rewarded his followers with pills, Ten Thousand Year Stone Milk, Tokens, and Purple Flood Dragon Armor, then organized them into the Purple Dragon Guard and assigned them a merit system. After returning to Jia Nan Academy, he opened the Martial Spirit Continent interface and saw Feng Qingwu confronting her father, Huo Tianlin.

• Zi Yu gave cultivation resources to Elder Ban and the other fifteen subordinates according to their realms.
• Zi Yu named his eighteen followers the Purple Dragon Guard and distributed identity Tokens and Sixth Grade High Level Purple Flood Dragon Armor.
• Zi Yu revealed that he was a Sixth Grade High Level Alchemist and Artifact Refiner, then explained artifact refining to Jin Da and the others.
• Zi Yu told the Purple Dragon Guard to gather rare treasures and medicinal herbs for merit points, with Elder Ban assessing merit and the Golden Silver Elders auditing it.
• Zi Yu told his followers that he was a student of Jia Nan Academy, then left and returned to the academy.
• Zi Yu opened the Martial Spirit Continent interface and saw Feng Qingwu facing her father, Huo Tianlin, who did not know she had reached the middle stage of the Martial General realm.

Feng Qingwu defied Huo Tianlin and demonstrated overwhelming strength when he ordered the Imperial Guards to seize her. She appeared behind Yan Wuyou as he tried to subdue her, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Feng Qingwu mocked Huo Tianlin and struck his favored heir, knocking out several of his teeth.
• Huo Tianlin accused Feng Qingwu of killing the Heir of Prince Weining and ordered the Imperial Guards to capture her.
• Feng Qingwu blasted two high-stage Martial Master Imperial Guards into the city wall, alarming Huo Tianlin.
• Huo Tianlin offered a reward for Feng Qingwu's capture, and Yan Wuyou stepped forward to confront her.
• Feng Qingwu appeared behind Yan Wuyou as he reached for her.

Feng Qingwu defeated Yan Wuyou and revealed that she had reached the Martial General realm, prompting Huo Tianlin to reconsider her value to his ambitions. He offered her resources and a grand public ceremony, but Feng Qingwu remained unmoved by his sudden change of attitude.

• Feng Qingwu struck Yan Wuyou with her Heavenly Phoenix power, sending him flying and leaving him severely injured.
• Huo Tianlin asked whether Feng Qingwu had reached the Martial General realm, and she confirmed that she had.
• Huo Tianlin reflected on his desire to take control of the Huo Clan and how Feng Qingwu's talent could help him achieve it.
• Huo Tianlin apologized to Feng Qingwu and promised to prioritize her cultivation resources and announce her identity in a grand ceremony.
• Feng Qingwu felt no response to Huo Tianlin's offer because she had already seen through his selfish nature.

Feng Qingwu rejected Huo Tianlin’s offer to reconcile and defeated him after he attacked her, then severed her ties with the Sacred Flame Empire. Back in her room, she found Zi Yu waiting and offered to accept his punishment if he thought she had gone too far.

• Huo Tianlin tried to make Feng Qingwu submit by invoking their father-daughter relationship and offering to help her against the Xie Family, but she refused and challenged him to attack.
• Feng Qingwu revealed her overwhelming strength, and Huo Tianlin used the Overlord Flame Fist against her.
• Feng Qingwu destroyed Huo Tianlin’s attack, beat him until he could no longer resist, and declared that she was severing all ties with him.
• Feng Qingwu left without anyone daring to stop her, and an Imperial Guard called for an imperial physician to treat Huo Tianlin.
• Feng Qingwu returned to her room and offered to accept any punishment from Zi Yu if he thought she had gone too far.

After Zi Yu supported Feng Qingwu over her actions against Huo Tianlin, she declared her plans to travel and cultivate until she could reunite with him. Zi Yu began equipping her for that journey with an enormous cache of powerful gifts, starting with six spirit weapons.

• Zi Yu told Feng Qingwu he would not judge her past actions and said she had dealt with Huo Tianlin decisively.
• Feng Qingwu, moved by Zi Yu's support, kissed him and said she wanted to cultivate until she could stay with him forever.
• Zi Yu spent sixty-five million Merit Points and prepared weapons, techniques, cultivation supplies, trump cards, and Spirit Crystals for Feng Qingwu.
• Zi Yu concealed their location and presented Feng Qingwu with six powerful spirit weapons.
• Zi Yu began explaining the abilities of the Primal Chaos Purple Gold Sword, the Purple God Gold Emperor Seal, and the Purple Gold Wind Lightning Pagoda.

Zi Yu gave Feng Qingwu an array of supreme weapons, cultivation manuals, medicines, and Spirit Crystals as betrothal gifts, then teased her about their mutual feelings. He produced five mysterious purple talismans, whose power he had yet to explain.

• Zi Yu gave Feng Qingwu three Saint Tier Mid-grade Spirit Weapons and explained their powers, then presented her with three cultivation manuals.
• Zi Yu gave Feng Qingwu two Spatial Jade Bracelets containing high-tier medicines and pills, as well as Spirit Crystals.
• Feng Qingwu tried to return some of the treasures, but Zi Yu told her to accept them as betrothal gifts because she was worth more to him than the gifts.
• Feng Qingwu realized Zi Yu had desired her for a long time and said she would have been bolder if she had known, leaving Zi Yu briefly feeling like the prey.
• Zi Yu took out five dark purple talismans marked with golden runes, and Feng Qingwu waited for him to explain them.

Feng Qingwu gave Zi Yu a set of powerful Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation Talismans, then returned with a suggestive gift. Meanwhile, Miao Ke'er dreamed of a past life in which she and her sisters died after losing their husband, and woke troubled by the names she had heard.

• Zi Yu explained that Feng Qingwu's five Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation Talismans could suppress and kill anyone below the Martial God realm, and Feng Qingwu thanked him affectionately.
• Miao Ke'er dreamed that Long Tianxue, Su Zhiqing, Feng Qingwu, and she lay dying after their husband had died; Su Zhiqing, Feng Qingwu, and Miao Ke'er each passed away, while Long Tianxue remained grieving.
• Miao Ke'er woke from the dream, recalled the women's names, and went outside to ease the inexplicable pain in her heart.
• Feng Qingwu returned to Zi Yu wearing revealing clothes and offered to serve him in bed, then began undoing his robe.

Zi Yu and Feng Qingwu became lovers before he departed, unaware that she had recovered memories of her past life and planned to reach the Sacred Domain. Back on the Dou Qi Continent, Zi Yu prepared to enter Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy and compete in the Fire Energy Hunt.

• Zi Yu and Feng Qingwu spent the night together, and Feng Qingwu said she was happy to have become truly intimate with him.
• The next morning, Zi Yu left Feng Qingwu, who revealed that she had regained her past-life memories and intended to cultivate toward the Martial God realm in the Sacred Domain.
• Zi Yu arrived at Jia Nan Academy’s Outer Court for the trip to the Inner Academy and considered the Fire Energy Hunt Competition favorable to him.
• Deputy Headmaster Hu Gan warned the fifty students about the Inner Academy’s fierce competition and told them to board the Griffon Beasts.
• Hu Gan found that he could no longer sense Zi Yu’s cultivation clearly and anticipated that the Inner Academy students would suffer in the competition.

Zi Yu accompanied the new students to the Inner Academy, where Hu Gan argued with the Blue-Robed Elder over the elder’s weapon research. The Fire Energy Hunt Competition began, and the older students prepared to pursue the newcomers.

• Hu Gan led the new students and Zi Yu through the Inner Academy’s hidden entrance after magical beasts attacked their Griffon Beasts.
• Hu Gan mocked the Blue-Robed Elder for neglecting academy duties to research weapons, and another elder stopped their argument.
• Zi Yu learned about the Blue-Robed Elder’s efforts to improve weapons and considered offering him help.
• The Blue-Robed Elder explained the Fire Energy Crystal Cards and started the Fire Energy Hunt Competition; the fifty new students ran into the forest.
• Half an hour later, the older students set out to pursue the newcomers, while a group of twenty or thirty gathered elsewhere in the forest.

Xiong Xuan and other veteran Inner Academy students gathered to plan how to defeat Zi Yu, then learned he had killed three low-level Dou Lings and began treating him as a serious threat. Xu Liang proposed exploiting Zi Yu’s lower cultivation realm, and the group listened as he began explaining the plan.

• Xiong Xuan warned Hu Yong not to underestimate Zi Yu and reminded the gathered students that the elders had promised each of them two years' worth of Fire Energy for defeating him.
• Zheng An revealed that Zi Yu had killed three low-level Dou Lings while defending the academy’s recruitment team from Mo Yan Valley attackers.
• Xiong Xuan and the others reconsidered their chances after hearing of Zi Yu’s strength, and Xiong Xuan asked how they should deal with him.
• Xu Liang suggested that Zi Yu’s cultivation realm remained his greatest weakness, since he had entered the academy at Nine-Star Dou Master only half a year earlier.

Xu Liang devised a plan for the Inner Academy students to wear Zi Yu down through repeated attacks, while Su Qian intended the contest to temper them. Zi Yu waited in extravagant comfort for Bai Cheng’s group, and the chapter ended with him greeting them dismissively.

• Xu Liang explained that the students could defeat Zi Yu by exploiting their numbers and exhausting his Dou Qi, and the group prepared to follow his plan.
• Su Qian told Hu Gan that the Inner Academy students were unlikely to beat Zi Yu, but he wanted the contest to give them experience and growth.
• Zi Yu noticed that his challengers had so far been weak, then spotted Bai Cheng’s group approaching and prepared wine and a grandmaster’s chair to await them.
• Bai Cheng and his companions arrived, angered by Zi Yu’s relaxed display, and Bai Cheng demanded to know if he was Zi Yu.
• Zi Yu complained that Bai Cheng had kept him waiting and said he had waited until the flowers wilted.

Zi Yu humiliated and defeated Bai Cheng and four other Inner Academy students, then extorted their Fire Energy before letting them go. The watching elders concluded they would need to be especially cautious around him.

• Zi Yu taunted Bai Cheng and the four students, giving them a chance to flee before he finished his wine.
• Bai Cheng and the others attacked Zi Yu, but he swiftly sent all five flying and injured them.
• Zi Yu demanded the students hand over all but five days' worth of their Fire Energy as compensation.
• The five gave Zi Yu 132 days' worth of Fire Energy and swore it was everything they had.
• Zi Yu let the students leave, while the watching elders resolved to be careful around him.

Zi Yu recognized that the Inner Academy teams were trying to exhaust him, but his power made their attrition strategy ineffective. As Xiong Xuan, Hu Yong, and Zheng An gathered their remaining fighters to ambush him, the observing elders debated why they could not sense his true cultivation.

• Zi Yu noticed the hidden elders watching him, and Su Qian confirmed that he had discovered them.
• After Zi Yu defeated three teams in succession, he realized the teams had been sent to wear him down and concluded the plan would fail.
• Xiong Xuan, Hu Yong, Zheng An, and Xu Liang agreed to gather their remaining fighters and ambush Zi Yu instead of attacking in separate teams.
• Xiong Xuan sent a Two-star Dou Ling scout to find Zi Yu while the others prepared the ambush.
• Su Qian told Hu Gan that Elder Qian Bai could not see through Zi Yu's strength, and the elders suspected he used a secret art to conceal his cultivation.

Zi Yu confronted Xiong Xuan and the Inner Academy veterans who had ambushed him, then demonstrated that their combined strength could not challenge him. He left them crushed under the pressure of his Peak Dou Ling aura, having accepted a wager for their Fire Energy.

• Su Qian wondered whether Xiong Xuan and the others could force Zi Yu to reveal his true strength, and the veterans set an ambush after learning Zi Yu’s route.
• Zi Yu exposed the ambush, remained unharmed by the veterans’ attacks, and mocked their weakness.
• Zi Yu named the cultivation realms of the veterans and offered to return their stolen Fire Energy if one of them could withstand his pressure; Xiong Xuan accepted the wager.
• Zi Yu released his aura, and the veterans collapsed in terror as Xiong Xuan realized defeating Zi Yu was impossible.

Zi Yu subdued the Inner Academy senior students in the Fire Energy Hunt Competition and collected their Fire Energy, shocking Su Qian and the elders with his Peak Dou Ling strength. The competition ended, and Elder Zhao arrived at the finish line as the new students gathered there.

• Zi Yu asked the Inner Academy senior students if they would continue, and they surrendered their Fire Energy before leaving.
• Su Qian questioned Elder Shen about the powerful force inside Zi Yu when he first entered the academy, and Elder Shen recalled Ling Qingzhu treating him overnight.
• Su Qian concluded that everyone had their own opportunities and sent the elders to handle the competition’s aftermath.
• The Fire Energy Hunt Competition ended with the new students battered and most of the senior students impoverished after losing their Fire Energy to Zi Yu.
• An Inner Academy elder remarked on Zi Yu’s extraordinary strength, and Elder Zhao arrived at the finish line with several elders behind him.

Zi Yu won first place in the Fire Energy Hunt Competition and received a Crimson Fire Crystal Card, then entered the Inner Academy with the other new students. After news spread that he had defeated the old students who ambushed him, many Inner Academy students prepared to challenge him.

• Mi Chao questioned Zi Yu about arriving unharmed, and Zi Yu claimed the old students had given him Fire Energy out of pity.
• An elder announced Zi Yu as the competition’s first-place winner and awarded him a Crimson Fire Crystal Card and three hundred days of Fire Energy.
• Zi Yu told the elder he would give him Fifth-grade Pills, then presented him with a bottle of Calm Heart and Soothe Spirit Pills before entering the Inner Academy.
• News spread that Zi Yu had defeated the old students who ambushed him, and the other old students cursed Xiong Xuan and Hu Yong’s group for failing to stop him.
• Several Inner Academy old students resolved to teach Zi Yu a lesson and restore their prestige.

Zi Yu faced senior students who targeted his Fire Energy, pretending to be harmless until he revealed the Ice Soul Poison Wolf Fang Club. The seniors abandoned their plans and tried to leave, but Zi Yu blocked their retreat.

• Several Inner Academy seniors dismissed rumors about Zi Yu but targeted him after learning about his Fire Energy.
• Zi Yu greeted the senior students with an innocent expression, confusing them and alarming Xiong Xuan, Zheng An, and the others.
• A Four-star Dou Ling senior demanded Fire Energy as a tuition fee, while Zi Yu pretended not to understand the gesture.
• Zi Yu revealed his Ice Soul Poison Wolf Fang Club and explained that its cold poison could torment anyone it struck.
• The senior students sensed danger and tried to leave, but Zi Yu moved to block their path.

Zi Yu beat several Inner Academy senior students who tried to rob him of his Fire Energy, then avoided punishment by blaming his spiked club. After the elder dismissed the incident, Zi Yu thought about taking Zi Yan as a mount and remembered Feng Qing'er.

• Zi Yu used his Ice Soul Poison Wolf Fang Club to overwhelm the senior students who demanded his Fire Energy, leaving them badly injured.
• A Dou Wang elder and several instructors arrived, and Zi Yu claimed the club had attacked the seniors on its own.
• The elder concluded that the seniors had started the fight, ordered them taken to their dormitories, and warned Zi Yu about stronger Inner Academy students.
• After the elder left, Zi Yu considered Zi Yan as a potential mount and recalled Feng Qing'er of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Zi Yu reunited with Han Yue after entering the Inner Academy, where she warmly offered to explain its rules and her sisters teased her about her feelings for him. The next morning, Han Yue came to see him again, while the System claimed Zi Yu was close to winning her over.

• Zi Yu recognized Han Yue, whom he had rescued in the Black Corner Region, when she arrived with her younger sisters.
• Han Yue joyfully greeted Zi Yu, and Xiu Ya and Yuan Xiang teased her about worrying over him.
• Han Yue offered to introduce Zi Yu to the Inner Academy, and she began explaining how it worked.
• The next morning, Han Yue and her sisters came to see Zi Yu, and the System teased him about their relationship.
• Zi Yu denied that anything was developing between them, while the System insisted he could win Han Yue over.