Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming led Miao Miao, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian into the Poison Cloud Sect to seize its resources without alerting its members. Zi Yan located the sect’s hidden treasure storehouse, where Miao Miao saw the chance for Xiao Yi Xian to grow stronger.

• Lin Ming’s group arrived at the Poison Cloud Sect, and a guard welcomed them without realizing Lin Ming had killed the sect master.
• Lin Ming chose not to attack the guard, reasoning that a disturbance could cause the sect’s members to flee with valuable resources.
• The guard recognized Miao Miao and wondered why she had arrived before the sect master, but Lin Ming dismissed him and continued onward.
• Lin Ming asked Zi Yan to find the sect’s treasures, and Zi Yan sensed their location to the west.
• Zi Yan guided the group past obstacles and restrictions to the treasure storehouse, where Miao Miao saw the resources as a chance for Xiao Yi Xian to rise in strength.

Lin Ming noticed that the Poison Cloud Sect’s supplies were missing their best items, and Zi Yan tracked down and killed Li Xiao, who had taken them. After the group collected the supplies, Lin Ming left the sect’s forces for Xiao Yi Xian to take over once she reached Dou Wang.

• Lin Ming questioned why the Poison Cloud Sect’s stores contained so few high-grade supplies and sensed someone fleeing.
• Zi Yan pursued the fugitive while Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Miao Miao began collecting the poison-related supplies.
• Zi Yan returned with Li Xiao’s corpse and confirmed that he had taken some of the missing high-grade supplies.
• Lin Ming told Xiao Yi Xian to return and take over the Poison Cloud Sect after advancing to Dou Wang.
• The group finished collecting the supplies and flew away from the Poison Cloud Sect.

Lin Ming refined a near-perfect Spirit Dou Pill and prepared to take it after reaching Seven-Star Dou King Peak. As he began refining the pill’s power, he considered the coming Strong Ranking Tournament and the expected attack on Jia Nan Academy.

• Lin Ming asked Miao Miao about Xiao Yi Xian, who remained in secluded cultivation, and told Miao Miao to watch for anything unusual.
• After reaching Seven-Star Dou King Peak, Lin Ming decided to refine a more perfect Spirit Dou Pill to improve his chances of reaching Nine-Star Dou King.
• Lin Ming spent a day refining the Spirit Dou Pill with Mysterious Yellow Flame, nurturing it until golden patterns covered its surface.
• Lin Ming stored the pill, rested for two days, and considered the coming Strong Ranking Tournament and Han Feng’s planned attack on Jia Nan Academy.
• Lin Ming took the perfect Spirit Dou Pill and began refining its power.

Lin Ming refined a Spirit Dou Pill and absorbed Heaven and Earth Energy for six days to build enough Dou Qi for a two-star breakthrough. He opened his eyes as his aura reached Eight-Star Dou King and continued to rise, with the Nine-Star breakthrough still underway.

• Lin Ming used the Mysterious Yellow Flame to refine the Spirit Dou Pill's medicinal power and purify the Heaven and Earth Energy he absorbed.
• Zi Yan concealed the energy vortex around Lin Ming's room with a barrier.
• After two days, Lin Ming finished refining the pill but continued cultivating because he wanted to reach Nine-Star Dou King rather than rely on luck.
• Lin Ming absorbed Heaven and Earth Energy for three more days, building up a deeper and more surging flow of Dou Qi.
• On the sixth morning, Lin Ming released his Dou Qi, and his aura broke through to Eight-Star Dou King and continued to rise.

Lin Ming broke through to Nine-Star Dou King and prepared to leave with Zi Yan. Before setting out, he entrusted Xiao Yi Xian to Miao Miao and gave her a Spirit Dou Pill to strengthen her ability to guard her.

• Lin Ming broke through from peak Eight-Star Dou King to Nine-Star Dou King and tested his increased strength.
• Lin Ming thanked Zi Yan for guarding him and learned that Xiao Yi Xian had shown no signs of movement.
• Lin Ming asked Miao Miao to watch over Xiao Yi Xian while he and Zi Yan handled other matters.
• Lin Ming gave Miao Miao a Spirit Dou Pill, and she accepted it after he urged her to use it to protect Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lin Ming told Zi Yan and Miao Miao to rest before they officially set out the next day.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan traveled through mountain ranges toward the Black Corner Region, gathering medicinal herbs and fighting Magical Beasts along the way. After nearly four months, they reached the Black Corner Region, where Lin Ming announced his return to Jia Nan Academy.

• Miao Miao saw Xiao Yi Xian in a poisonous pool and was shocked that her hair had turned silver and her cultivation had reached the peak of Dou Ling as she attempted to break through to Dou Wang.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan searched mountain ranges for medicinal herbs, escaped a Seventh Order super Magical Beast, and continued their journey more cautiously.
• After nearly four months of travel and battles, Xiao Yan's cultivation rose from the Nine-Star Dou King realm to the Dou Wang Peak.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached the Black Corner Region, and Lin Ming laughed and declared that he had returned to Jia Nan Academy.

After months of traveling through the Mountain Forest, Lin Ming and Zi Yan reached Magic Flame City in the Black Corner Region. Lin Ming recognized it as Magic Flame Valley’s territory, considered the valley’s power and the value of its Heavenly Demon Puppet refining method, and entered the city with Zi Yan to rest before continuing to Jia Nan Academy.

• Lin Ming and Zi Yan found Magic Flame City after traveling inward across the black plain.
• Lin Ming recognized the city as territory controlled by Magic Flame Valley and recalled Old Ghost Di Mo’s power and history with Jia Nan Academy.
• Lin Ming considered Magic Flame Valley’s Flame Manipulation Art and the Heavenly Demon Puppet refining method, which he hoped to acquire in the future.
• Lin Ming concluded he was not yet strong enough to obtain the puppet method and would need to reach at least Dou Emperor strength.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan headed through the city gate to rest before continuing toward Jia Nan Academy.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan arrived in Magic Flame City, rested at an inn, and explored the city the next day. They reached Nong Yan Pavilion, Magic Flame Valley’s imposing central establishment, and Lin Ming recognized its guards as a sign of the valley’s strength.

• Lin Ming and Zi Yan checked into two rooms at the Magic Friend Inn and slept until the next morning.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan explored Magic Flame City, where Lin Ming dismissed the low-grade Beast Flames sold along the streets.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan found Nong Yan Pavilion, a massive fire-phoenix-shaped building owned by Magic Flame Valley.
• Lin Ming led Zi Yan into Nong Yan Pavilion after noting that its guards included two Da Dou Shi cultivators.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan visited Nong Yan Pavilion and chose its Flame Dealing passage, where a short spatial formation transported them into the pavilion’s interior. The chapter left Lin Ming surveying the vast collection of flames inside.

• Wan'er approached Lin Ming and Zi Yan and explained the pavilion’s Flame Dealing and Item Dealing services.
• Lin Ming chose to visit Flame Dealing, and Wan'er led him and Zi Yan through the left passage.
• Wan'er explained that a short spatial formation led into the pavilion’s Flame Dealing area, and Lin Ming entered with Zi Yan.
• The formation transported Lin Ming and Zi Yan into a vast hall filled with flames of many kinds and grades.
• Lin Ming realized that the pavilion kept its high-grade flames inside.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan toured a display of powerful beast flames while Wan'er explained their origins and rarity. Lin Ming considered why his Mysterious Yellow Flame had not devoured his Flame Gold Earth Heart Fire and suspected that the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Technique prevented flames from consuming one another.

• Wan'er described the displayed flames, noting that most came from Fifth-Order Magical Beasts and some surpassed the Fifth Order.
• Wan'er explained how difficult it was to obtain Flame Gold Flame from a Golden Flame Python’s shed skin.
• Lin Ming reflected that his Flame Gold Earth Heart Fire had evolved toward becoming a Heavenly Flame and might become the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Lin Ming realized that Mysterious Yellow Flame had never tried to devour his other flame, unlike the flames Xiao Yan refined.
• Lin Ming suspected the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Technique resolved the devouring conflict between Five Elements items.

Lin Ming learned that Nong Yan Pavilion mainly collected Beast Flames for Magic Flame Valley’s elders, offering valuable Cultivation Methods and Dou Techniques in exchange. He recognized that the Pavilion’s displays and explanations encouraged people to risk obtaining flames for these rewards.

• Lin Ming asked Wan'er what Nong Yan Pavilion required for its Flame Gold Flame, and she explained that trades exchanged flames of comparable strength.
• Lin Ming reasoned that flame-for-flame exchanges would be rare and concluded that the Pavilion’s main purpose was likely to collect Beast Flames.
• Lin Ming asked Wan'er whether collecting flames was the grounds’ purpose, and she confirmed that it was common knowledge.
• Wan'er listed the Cultivation Methods and Dou Techniques Nong Yan Pavilion offered for different grades of Beast Flames.
• Lin Ming understood that the Pavilion used its valuable rewards and displayed flames to encourage visitors to seek Beast Flames and trade them.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan visited Nong Yan Pavilion in Magic Flame City, where Lin Ming learned that Heavenly Flames could supposedly be exchanged for Earth Tier techniques but judged that most owners would trade them with alchemists instead. After buying a few items, they flew back to Jia Nan Academy, arriving with the Strong Ranking Tournament approaching.

• Zi Yan asked whether a Seventh Order Beast Flame could buy Earth Tier techniques, and Wan'er explained that Heavenly Flames were the stated exchange for them.
• Lin Ming reasoned that Heavenly Flame owners would usually refine them or trade them to alchemists such as Han Feng rather than exchange them at Nong Yan Pavilion.
• Lin Ming asked Wan'er to take him and Zi Yan to the Item Dealing area, where he bought a few items after looking around.
• Lin Ming and Zi Yan left Magic Flame City the next morning and flew toward Jia Nan Academy.
• More than half a month later, Zi Yan recognized Peace Town, and Lin Ming celebrated their return to Jia Nan Academy.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Lin Ming reunited with his old friend Chen Yuanlong at Peace Town. They separated to visit their respective elders, and Lin Ming headed for the Alchemy Department to see Elder Huo.

• Chen Yuanlong’s Enforcement Team stopped Lin Ming and Zi Yan at Peace Town, but Chen Yuanlong recognized Lin Ming and welcomed his old friend.
• Lin Ming congratulated Chen Yuanlong on nearing a breakthrough to Dou Wang, and they promised to celebrate together after Chen Yuanlong’s secluded cultivation.
• Lin Ming told Zi Yan to visit the Great Elder while he went to see Old Huo, and they agreed to meet again soon.
• Lin Ming descended toward the Alchemy Department, where students mistook him for an elder visiting Elder Huo for pill refining.

Lin Ming returned to Jia Nan Academy and reunited with Steward Yang and Elder Huo. He revealed that he had gathered ingredients for two Imperial Pills and planned to refine them at the academy, astonishing both alchemists.

• Steward Yang stopped the crowd of students from making a commotion and recognized Lin Ming arriving at the Alchemy Department.
• Steward Yang welcomed Lin Ming and led him to Elder Huo's room, where Elder Huo invited Lin Ming inside.
• Elder Huo asked about Lin Ming's cultivation, and Lin Ming explained that he had advanced to the Dou Wang stage after leaving the academy.
• Lin Ming told Elder Huo that he and Zi Yan had found ingredients for two Imperial Pills and that he intended to refine them at the academy.
• Elder Huo and Steward Yang were shocked because refining an Imperial Pill required the skill of a highly accomplished Tier 6 alchemist.

Lin Ming prepared to refine the Tier 6 Peak Imperial Pill and tested Elder Huo’s medicinal cauldron with a lower-tier pill. He revealed his Mysterious Yellow Flame to Elder Huo and finished familiarizing himself with the cauldron, leaving the Imperial Pill refinement still ahead.

• Lin Ming met Elder Huo after three days of preparation, and they went to the Alchemy Room to use Elder Huo’s medicinal cauldron.
• Lin Ming warned Elder Huo not to be too shocked, then revealed the Mysterious Yellow Flame as he ignited the cauldron.
• Elder Huo recognized the flame as the Mysterious Yellow Flame, ranked twenty-three on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, and praised Lin Ming’s prospects as an alchemist.
• Lin Ming refined Qi Gathering Powder to test the cauldron, using the Mysterious Yellow Flame to process the materials and a Magic Core.
• Lin Ming completed the Qi Gathering Powder and drew it from the cauldron, having become familiar with the Six-Flame Mouth Medicine Cauldron.

Lin Ming began refining the Tier 6 Peak Imperial Pill, extracting the medicinal power from Wuluo Flower Root with precise control. He contained the ingredient’s violent energy in Elder Huo’s cauldron and began removing its impurities.

• Lin Ming arranged the Imperial Pill’s ingredients and began refining them in Elder Huo’s Six-Snake-Mouth Medicine Cauldron.
• Lin Ming extracted the Wuluo Flower Root’s medicinal power and removed its depleted husk at the precise moment it turned to ash.
• Elder Huo recognized Lin Ming’s exceptional control and felt satisfied that he had completed his apprenticeship.
• The extracted liquid released violent threads of energy that struck the cauldron, but Lin Ming’s Mysterious Yellow Flame forced them back into the liquid.
• Lin Ming heated the liquid until it boiled and began driving out its impurities.

Lin Ming completed the extraction and fusion stages of refining an Imperial Pill, causing a powerful energy fluctuation to erupt when its prototype formed. The Alchemy Department mistook the pill’s refiner for Elder Huo and celebrated his apparent breakthrough to a 6th Grade Alchemist.

• Lin Ming spent nearly two hours extracting impurities from the Wuluo Flower Root and sealed the purified liquid in a jade bottle.
• Lin Ming extracted the remaining medicinal materials and a Tier 5 Magic Core over several days.
• Lin Ming carefully fused the extracted ingredients until the Imperial Pill Prototype formed and sent powerful energy ripples through the Alchemy Department.
• The energy fluctuation destroyed pills in nearby cauldrons, and Steward Yang silenced the alchemists who came out to complain.
• The alchemists realized the energy came from Elder Huo's alchemy room and assumed Elder Huo was refining a Tier 6 Medicinal Pill.

Lin Ming’s pill refinement sent a powerful energy pillar over Jia Nan Academy, revealing to the academy elders and Xiao Yan that Lin Ming had returned as a top-tier alchemist. The Great Elder went to see him, while Xiao Yan resolved to seek Lin Ming’s Ice Fire Dragon Whisker Fruit after the Strong Ranking Tournament; Han Feng also noticed the disturbance but chose not to investigate.

• Lin Ming’s medicinal cauldron erupted with a towering beam of energy, and Old Huo watched in shock and relief.
• The Great Elder warned Qin Xuan to keep watch over the Fallen Heart Flame and learned that the energy disturbance came from a Tier 6 Peak pill, which he attributed to Lin Ming.
• The Great Elder and Zi Yan left to investigate Lin Ming’s pill refinement.
• Old Yao sensed the disturbance while Xiao Yan cultivated, identified Lin Ming by the Mysterious Yellow Flame’s aura, and agreed to seek him after the tournament for the Ice Fire Dragon Whisker Fruit.
• Han Feng sensed the pill’s formation from across the mountain range but decided not to enter Jia Nan Academy to investigate.

Lin Ming completed the Imperial Pill and gave it to Zi Yan, who left to refine it. The Great Elder then offered Lin Ming a position as an academy elder without restricting his freedom, and Lin Ming accepted.

• Lin Ming finished refining the Imperial Pill and collected it as the energy pillar dissipated.
• The Great Elder and another figure emerged from a spatial rift, and Zi Yan reached for the pill but it dodged her.
• Lin Ming explained the pill’s spirituality, sealed it in a jade bottle, and gave it to Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan embraced Lin Ming, then blushed and ran off to refine the pill.
• The Great Elder thanked Lin Ming and offered him an academy elder position; Lin Ming accepted after learning he could leave whenever he wished.

The Inner Academy gathered at Central Plaza for the Strong Ranking Tournament, where Lin Xiuyai and Liu Qing prepared to settle their rivalry. Lin Ming arrived with the elders, startling former classmates and other experts, before Su Qian called the Strong Ranking contenders into the arena.

• Students and factions arrived at Central Plaza as Lin Xiuyai and Liu Qing faced each other with hostility.
• Lin Ming appeared on the high platform alongside the elders, and Han Yue recognized him as her and Lin Xiuyai's former class leader.
• Han Yue, Xiao Yan, Liu Qing, and others reacted to Lin Ming's arrival.
• Su Qian addressed the crowd and ordered the Strong Ranking contenders to enter the arena.
• The contenders leapt into the arena, ready to compete.