Recaps

After Lin Ming defeated Jin Feng and Shao Qing in their exhibition match, he explained that a Heavenly Flame had helped him reach Dou Wang Peak. The Strong Ranking’s top finishers entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower for body tempering, and Lin Ming realized the Fallen Heart Flame had finally erupted.

• Jin Feng and Shao Qing conceded after Lin Ming overpowered them, ending their exhibition match.
• Xiao Yan’s first-place finish boosted Pan Gate’s standing throughout the Inner Academy.
• Lin Ming told Jin Feng and Shao Qing that refining a Heavenly Flame had greatly increased his cultivation and helped him condense Dou Qi faster.
• Great Elder Su Qian led the eleven members of the Strong Ranking’s top ten into the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower for Heart Flame Body Tempering.
• Lin Ming watched them enter and said that the Fallen Heart Flame had finally erupted.

Lin Ming and the others witnessed a violent eruption from beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where a colossal invisible fire python emerged from the magma. The tower’s defenses held against its first attack, but the creature confronted everyone with murderous intent.

• A strange heartbeat pulse synchronized with the hearts of people near the tower, and a piercing screech followed a powerful rumble from within it.
• Great Elder Su Qian ordered the elders to go to the tower and students to evacuate, while an energy barrier sealed the tower’s upper section.
• Lin Ming flew to the tower, followed by Jin Feng and Shao Qing, and they saw a blood-red magma pillar shatter the barrier and strike the tower’s tip.
• A thin dark shield at the tower’s tip stopped the magma, and scattered rocks were crushed against the surrounding energy wall.
• An enormous invisible fire python emerged from the magma, fixed the assembled people with bloodthirsty intent, and horrified Shao Qing and Jin Feng.

The Formless Fire Python weakened the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower’s seal with its invisible flames, forcing Lin Ming and the others to retreat. Great Elder Su Qian assembled the elders and Lin Ming’s group to reinforce the barrier, but the python struck the tower as the seal began to recover.

• The Formless Fire Python unleashed a shrill Sound Wave and waves of invisible flames against the tower’s dark energy membrane.
• Lin Ming recognized the danger and retreated with Jin Feng and Shao Qing as the membrane neared collapse.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Xiuyai, Great Elder Su Qian, and the other elders emerged from the tower, and Su Qian ordered them to use the Headmaster’s sealing formation.
• Lin Ming, Jin Feng, and Shao Qing joined the formation and poured their Dou Qi into the seal, which began to repair the membrane.
• The Formless Fire Python launched a pillar of magma and crashed its enormous body against the tower top.

The Fallen Heart Flame Python broke free from the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, forcing Great Elder Su Qian and the elders to form a barrier to contain it. The beast’s attacks battered the formation, and the two sides remained locked in a stalemate.

• The Fallen Heart Flame Python burst through the tower’s seal, scattering magma and setting the surrounding area ablaze.
• Great Elder Su Qian ordered more than twenty elders to help him create the Thousand Layer Sealing Formation around the escaped flame.
• The Fallen Heart Flame Python coiled up and charged the energy net, but Su Qian repelled it with the formation’s rebounding force.
• The Python attacked again with invisible flames, and its attack and the elders’ energy net settled into a stalemate.

Great Elder Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders kept the Formless Fire Python trapped, but its attack sent a powerful flame-energy surge across the region. The Outer Academy hurried to respond as a man in Feng City recognized the Heavenly Flame and resolved to claim it, while the exhausted defenders remained locked in a stalemate.

• Great Elder Su Qian blocked the Formless Fire Python repeatedly with the energy net until the creature’s explosive Flame Snake briefly opened a gap and released a vast surge of energy.
• A man in Feng City sensed the surge, recognized it as a Heavenly Flame, and sent an associate away with orders before vowing to devour it.
• Outer Academy Vice Dean Hu Gan ordered all Dou Wangs and stronger experts to fly to the Inner Academy at full speed, fearing that the Black Corner Region would target the school.
• After hours of fighting, the Formless Fire Python’s flames had dimmed, but only a little more than ten elders remained to maintain the net, and Lin Ming had spent over half his Dou Qi.

The Outer Academy arrived and relieved Lin Ming while Su Qian prepared to seal the Formless Fire Python. After Su Qian forced the beast into the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, the crowd celebrated, but Lin Ming knew the Black Corner Region experts were coming.

• Hu Gan and the Outer Academy experts arrived and took over maintaining the energy net, allowing Lin Ming to recover his Dou Qi.
• Su Qian began preparing a sealing array while the Formless Fire Python remained coiled inside the energy net.
• The Formless Fire Python charged the net as Su Qian gathered the elders' and instructors' Dou Qi into a spatial boundary.
• Su Qian struck the Formless Fire Python with the boundary and forced it into the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Su Qian sealed the beast into the tower, and the crowd cheered as Lin Ming thought that the Black Corner Region experts had already arrived.

Han Feng led forces from the Black Corner Region into Jia Nan Academy to seize the Fallen Heart Flame, triggering a battle with the academy’s elders. As the fighting spread, Elder Ban singled out Lin Ming and two others, intending to kill them before they grew stronger.

• Han Feng appeared above the Inner Academy with his allies and demanded that Su Qian release the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Lin Ming recovered while Zi Yan woke in a secret room, discovered she had eaten all the medicinal pills, and set out to find him.
• Su Qian fought the Golden Silver Elders as Han Feng ordered his allies to hold off the academy’s forces and headed for the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Hu Gan sent nearly thirty academy experts to block Han Feng, but more than ten Black Corner Region fighters intercepted them.
• Elder Ban left the main battle to confront Lin Ming and two others, saying he would eliminate the young academy Dou Wangs.

Zi Yan and Lin Ming teamed up to fight Elder Ban, whose higher cultivation was offset by Zi Yan’s overwhelming strength and their coordination. After their attacks broke his defenses, Zi Yan’s kick continued toward him.

• Zi Yan struck Elder Ban with a punch that sent him flying and made him cough blood.
• Lin Ming told Jin Feng and Shao Qing to join the battle against the other elders, then teamed up with Zi Yan against Elder Ban.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan shattered Elder Ban’s two energy hands with a saber slash and Zi Yan’s attack.
• Zi Yan closed in and kicked Elder Ban, while Lin Ming used Roaring Lion's Chant to weaken his Wood Release defense.
• Zi Yan’s kick broke through the weakened defense and continued toward Elder Ban.

Zi Yan battered Elder Ban but could not finish him, and Elder Ban feigned an attack on her before targeting Lin Ming. Lin Ming anticipated the ambush and met Elder Ban’s Death Spirit Palm with his Mountain Rushing Flood Fist, leaving the fighters stunned by their apparent parity.

• Zi Yan slammed Elder Ban into a crater, badly injuring his arms, but he climbed out and charged at her again.
• Elder Ban pretended to attack Zi Yan, then veered toward Lin Ming, prompting Zi Yan to warn him.
• Lin Ming recognized Elder Ban’s true target and threw the Star Dragon Saber, which Elder Ban dodged before striking with his Death Spirit Palm.
• Lin Ming countered with Mountain Rushing Flood Fist, and their clash appeared evenly matched to the watching fighters.

Zi Yan and Lin Ming fought Elder Ban in the sky, with Zi Yan keeping him occupied while Lin Ming prepared a powerful Dou Technique. Lin Ming unleashed the attack with the Star Dragon Saber, leaving Elder Ban facing a blazing, dark-crimson fireball.

• Zi Yan rushed Elder Ban and battered his dark energy armor until it shattered, but Elder Ban’s Great Demonic Palm forced her back.
• Lin Ming intercepted the Great Demonic Palm with a Mysterious Yellow Flame Giant Snake and told Zi Yan to keep Elder Ban busy while he prepared a major attack.
• Zi Yan attacked Elder Ban again, preventing him from interrupting Lin Ming and forcing him to withstand her powerful strike.
• Lin Ming raised the Star Dragon Saber and slashed down with a dark-crimson fireball whose terrifying power alarmed the watching Black Corner Region experts.

Lin Ming’s Earth Tier Dou Technique devastated part of the Inner Academy and left Elder Ban gravely burned, while Fan Lao cornered Xiao Yan on the battlefield. As Xiao Yan braced for Fan Lao’s final attack, Old Yao’s Soul Power stirred inside him.

• Lin Ming’s attack shattered Elder Ban’s Energy Shield and reduced him to a badly burned, barely human figure.
• Han Feng recognized Lin Ming’s Mysterious Yellow Flame and suspected he had refined the Tier 6 Medicinal Pill, increasing Han Feng’s desire to kill him and seize his Heavenly Flame.
• Elder Ban fled the academy, and Zi Yan chased after him while Lin Ming stayed behind to recover his Dou Qi.
• Fan Lao recognized Xiao Yan as his son’s murderer and attacked him, forcing Xiao Yan to dodge until he could no longer avoid the strike.
• As Fan Lao prepared to smash Xiao Yan with bloody energy, Old Yao’s Soul Power stirred inside Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan’s display of Dou Emperor strength shifted the battle against the Black Corner Region, while Lin Ming recovered his Dou Qi below. The Fallen Heart Flame weakened its seal again, forcing Great Elder Su Qian and the fighters to face the immediate threat of its escape.

• Xiao Yan unleashed a Dou Emperor-level aura and engaged Fan Lao, leaving the Black Corner Region at a disadvantage.
• Lin Ming watched Xiao Yan fight and recovered his Dou Qi in preparation for the coming struggle over the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Fan Lao’s Earth Tier Dou Techniques collided, destroying more of the Inner Academy and frightening the Black Corner Region fighters.
• The Fallen Heart Flame accelerated its destruction of the weakened sealing membrane atop the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Great Elder Su Qian warned that the beast had broken through the seal again as its enormous flaming eyes emerged from the darkness.

The Fallen Heart Flame broke free of its seal and took the form of an enormous Formless Fire Python. Great Elder Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders tried to contain it again, but the Flame shattered their formation and fixed its greedy gaze on three unusual people.

• Great Elder Su Qian stopped fighting the Golden Silver Elders and ordered the Inner Academy elders to form a sealing array around the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Lin Ming joined the elders as they rebuilt the energy barrier, while Han Feng and Elder Jin watched from the Black Corner Region’s side.
• The Formless Fire Python rammed the barrier, then cracked it with a powerful tail strike.
• The Formless Fire Python smashed through the weakened energy wall and roared in triumph.
• The freed Flame surveyed the battlefield and stared with greed at three unusually powerful people.

The Fallen Heart Flame targeted Han Feng and charged at the Black Corner Region group, forcing Han Feng to rally his allies with a doubled reward. Han Feng led their counterattack, while Lin Ming and the Jia Nan Academy elders remained nearby.

• After Xiao Yan retreated, the Formless Fire Python chose Han Feng as its target and rushed toward the Black Corner Region group.
• Fan Lao fled, and many Black Corner Region experts followed, cutting their numbers in half.
• Elder Jin warned Han Feng that the group could not endure the Fallen Heart Flame's heat for long.
• Han Feng doubled his promised reward and ordered everyone to attack the Formless Fire Python together.
• Han Feng launched two dark-blue flame spears, and the Black Corner Region experts added a barrage of Dou Qi attacks.

Han Feng and the Black Corner Region experts attacked the Formless Fire Python, but its counterattack overwhelmed them and forced Han Feng to defend himself with his own Heavenly Flame. The Golden Silver Elders kept their distance and called on Han Feng to weaken the creature, leaving him to face it largely alone.

• The Black Corner Region experts struck the Formless Fire Python with a combined attack, knocking it from the sky but failing to injure it enough to stop it.
• The Formless Fire Python surged back and blasted the crowd with an Invisible Flames pillar, setting several experts ablaze.
• Han Feng rushed to rescue the burning experts, but the Formless Fire Python attacked him with a second flame pillar.
• Han Feng summoned his deep-blue flames to block the attack, and the collision forced him backward through the air.
• The Golden Silver Elders and the other experts withdrew from the fight and shouted for Han Feng to weaken the Formless Fire Python.

Han Feng used Sky Cold Qi to suppress the Formless Fire Python and struck it with his Sea Heart Flame, but the beast recovered and counterattacked. It sent Han Feng crashing toward the ground, while the Black Corner Region crowd watched from a safe distance.

• Han Feng revealed two jade bottles of Sky Cold Qi and shattered them to engulf the Formless Fire Python in freezing mist.
• Han Feng formed a deep-blue Flame Drill from his Sea Heart Flame and pierced the Formless Fire Python’s scales.
• The Formless Fire Python recovered its strength, reignited its flames, and sent fire surging toward Han Feng.
• Han Feng blocked the incoming flames, but the Formless Fire Python vanished and appeared behind him.
• The Formless Fire Python struck Han Feng with its tail and sent him plummeting toward the ground as the Black Corner Region crowd watched.

The Formless Fire Python pursued Xiao Yan and attacked him with waves of invisible flames, but he used Old Yao’s support to strike its weakness and force it to reveal the Fallen Heart Flame. The revealed flame rose into the sky as the battle to claim it began.

• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan to retreat, and the Formless Fire Python abandoned its pursuit of Han Feng to attack him.
• The Formless Fire Python chased Xiao Yan and struck at him with its tail, but Xiao Yan narrowly dodged.
• The Formless Fire Python vanished among invisible flames and launched a surprise attack, which Xiao Yan blocked with streams of Green Flames.
• The Formless Fire Python sent flames crashing down on Xiao Yan, and Old Yao’s Soul Power helped him prepare a counterattack.
• Xiao Yan closed the distance with the Formless Fire Python and pierced beneath its mouth with a Green Flame Great Spear.
• The Formless Fire Python vanished, revealing the Fallen Heart Flame as the contest for it began.

Xiao Yan and Han Feng fought over Fallen Heart Flame while the battle between the Inner Academy and the Black Corner Region raged around them. As Han Feng unleashed a powerful attack, Xiao Yan drew two Heavenly Flames together, and Lin Ming realized Buddha Flame Fire Lotus was about to appear.

• Xiao Yan and Han Feng rushed toward Fallen Heart Flame as Su Qian tried to stop Han Feng and the two sides resumed fighting.
• Xiao Yan reached Fallen Heart Flame but was trapped by its Heart Flame, then dodged Han Feng’s attack as Han Feng was caught by the same force.
• Xiao Yan struck Han Feng while he was immobilized, and their ensuing negotiation failed before they resumed fighting.
• Han Feng and Xiao Yan clashed with their flame techniques, and Han Feng recognized that Xiao Yan was practicing the same cultivation method as their former master.
• Han Feng poured Sea Heart Flame into his trident for a powerful attack as Xiao Yan drew together the cyan and white flames, prompting Lin Ming to anticipate Buddha Flame Fire Lotus.

Xiao Yan compressed two Heavenly Flames into a Green-White Fire Lotus and launched it at Han Feng’s Sea Flame Halberd. Their collision unleashed a devastating explosion, leaving Xiao Yan and Han Feng plummeting from the sky as a mushroom-shaped fire cloud rose above them.

• Xiao Yan endured severe injuries to form a Green-White Fire Lotus from the green and cold white flames.
• Xiao Yan fired the lotus at Han Feng and declared that he would settle matters with his senior brother.
• Han Feng countered with Sea Flame Halberd, sending a deep-blue fire dragon toward the lotus.
• Great Elder Su Qian ordered the academy’s elders to scatter as the two attacks collided.
• The collision’s flame storm battered the Black Corner Region experts, while the Fallen Heart Flame swallowed some of the scattered flames.
• A huge Green-White Mushroom Fire Cloud erupted, and two bloodied figures plunged from the sky.

After Xiao Yan and Han Feng were rescued from their fall, the Fallen Heart Flame began devouring the energy from the explosion. Lin Ming used the Flame Gold Earth Heart Fire to seize part of that energy, but the Fallen Heart Flame grew stronger, forcing the Inner Academy to evacuate as the elders formed an array.

• The Golden Silver Elders and Su Qian caught Han Feng and Xiao Yan, learned both were badly injured, and prepared to retreat with the Black Corner Region experts.
• An elder carried the unconscious Xiao Yan away while the Fallen Heart Flame began absorbing the green-white mushroom cloud.
• Lin Ming sent out the Flame Gold Earth Heart Fire to compete with the Fallen Heart Flame for the explosion's energy and dodged its counterattack.
• The two flames consumed the mushroom cloud, with Lin Ming's flame taking about one third before he recalled and swallowed it.
• The strengthened Fallen Heart Flame released a violent surge, prompting the Black Corner Region experts to flee and Su Qian to order the students to evacuate and the elders to complete their array.
• Elder Huo warned that Lin Ming was still inside the array, and Su Qian shouted for him to come out.

Lin Ming was swallowed by the Fallen Heart Flame as Great Elder Su Qian sealed it beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, trapping Lin Ming inside as well. In the Magma World, Lin Ming protected himself with a pill and began refining the Fallen Heart Flame.

• The Fallen Heart Flame chased Lin Ming, and Su Qian waited for him to escape before beginning the sealing array.
• The Fallen Heart Flame swallowed Lin Ming, then tried to break through the formation, but Su Qian bound it with a black energy net.
• Su Qian struck the Fallen Heart Flame with his blood and energy, while Lin Ming attacked from within and helped drive it into the Magma World beneath the tower.
• Su Qian sealed the tower’s final level and ordered everyone to keep out, then collapsed from the effort.
• Inside the Magma World, Lin Ming swallowed a protective pill and reached for the weakened Fallen Heart Flame to begin refining it.

Lin Ming captured the Fallen Heart Flame and swallowed it to refine it with his five-colored qi vortex. After half an hour, the refinement was complete, and he laughed in the magma world.

• Lin Ming used the Mysterious Yellow Flame to shield himself from the Fallen Heart Flame’s defenses and exposed its core as a milky-white flame snake.
• Lin Ming grabbed the flame snake, then sat on a green lotus pedestal and activated his five-colored qi vortex.
• Lin Ming swallowed the Fallen Heart Flame, and the flame’s heat triggered a surge of Dou Qi through the vortex.
• The five-colored torrent overwhelmed the flame snake and carried it through Lin Ming’s meridians as its divine sense faded.
• Half an hour later, Lin Ming saw the refined invisible flame radiating at his dantian and laughed in the magma world.

Lin Ming fused the Fallen Heart Flame with the Mysterious Yellow Flame inside the Five-Colored Qi Vortex, producing a tender green flame. The successful refinement activated the route to the third level of the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Technique, which would provide a cultivation method suited to his future growth.

• Lin Ming used the Mysterious Yellow Flame and the Five-Colored Qi Vortex to restrain the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Lin Ming accelerated the vortex and increased its pressure until the two Heavenly Flames began merging.
• The Fallen Heart Flame and Mysterious Yellow Flame completely fused into a tender green flame.
• Lin Ming felt a new circulation route appear and realized refining the Fallen Heart Flame had activated the third level of the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Technique.
• Lin Ming recognized that the third level was equivalent to an Earth Tier Low-grade cultivation method.

After a year of cultivation in the Magma World, Lin Ming broke through from Dou Wang to Dou Emperor. His newly expanded Soul Power revealed a red-scaled creature deep beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.

• Lin Ming opened the third layer of the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Technique and began advancing to Dou Emperor.
• A year after the battle, Su Qian learned from Qin Xuan that the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower’s cultivation effect was weakening, though the Fallen Heart Flame showed no unusual movement.
• Qin Xuan told Su Qian that Zi Yan believed Lin Ming was alive and had been searching for medicinal materials to improve her cultivation.
• Lin Ming opened his eyes, released a powerful aura, and rose into the air above the Azure Lotus Pedestal as a Dou Emperor.
• Lin Ming swept the Magma World with his Soul Power and detected a red-scaled, upright lizard deep in the magma.

After advancing to the Dou Emperor realm, Lin Ming used his Soul Power to find Heavenly Flame Venerate’s hidden chamber and the Juvenile Stage Fallen Heart Flame. He escaped a pursuing swarm of Flame Lizards by entering the chamber and confirmed that another Fallen Heart Flame lay beside the skeleton.

• Lin Ming extended his Soul Power through the magma and discovered a glowing barrier surrounding a skeleton, which he recognized as Heavenly Flame Venerate’s hiding place.
• Lin Ming left a Soul Imprint on the Lotus Pedestal and descended through the magma, dodging fireballs and killing several Flame Lizards to collect their Bead Bodies.
• A large swarm of Flame Lizards pursued Lin Ming, so he sprinted toward the hidden chamber while powerful red figures joined the pursuit.
• Lin Ming passed through the barrier, which vanished behind him, and the Flame Lizards and red figures eventually left the area.
• Lin Ming examined the skeleton and confirmed that another Fallen Heart Flame was hidden there.