Chapter Summaries

Yao Chen captured Han Feng after Xiao Xun'er shattered his body, and Xiao Long extracted the Sea Heart Blue from Han Feng’s soul. Before they could leave, Protector Xuan of the Soul Hall appeared and demanded that Yao Chen be handed over.

• Yao Chen trapped Han Feng’s weakened soul-body in a bottle, intending to punish his former disciple.
• Xiao Long used the system to refine Sea Heart Blue from Han Feng and added the Heavenly Flame to his collection.
• Protector Xuan attacked Yao Chen with black chains, seeking to capture him for the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Xun’er blasted Protector Xuan out of hiding and showed him her strength.
• Protector Xuan identified himself as an Earth-tier Soul Hall Protector and asked Xiao Long and Xiao Xun’er to let him take Yao Chen.

Xiao Long arranged to use Protector Xuan Mu’s body for Yao Chen, and Xiao Xun’er captured him and removed his soul. Xiao Long then sent Xiao Xun’er to plunder the Blood Sect and Eight Fan Gate while he waited.

• Xiao Long proposed that Yao Chen inhabit Protector Xuan Mu’s body, and Yao Chen eagerly accepted.
• Xiao Xun’er trapped Protector Xuan Mu with the Ancient Emperor Mirror and revealed that she belonged to the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Xun’er extracted Mu Protector’s soul and handed it to Yao Chen, who stored it in a bottle.
• Xiao Long told Xiao Xun’er to plunder the Blood Sect and Eight Fan Gate for resources while he waited.

Xiao Long sold Han Feng’s possessions, questioned Mu Protector about the Soul Hall, and grew stronger after refining the Sea Heart Orchid. He left Xiao Xun’er’s request to refine the next Heavenly Flame unresolved.

• Xiao Long asked Mu Protector where he reported after collecting souls, then handed him to Yao Chen for torture and questioning.
• Xiao Long refined the Sea Heart Orchid over ten days, rose to three-star Dou Huang, and advanced the Flame Mantra to initial Earth-tier.
• Xiao Xun’er returned and guarded Xiao Long while he cultivated, and his fused Heavenly Flame stopped trembling in her presence.
• Xiao Xun’er asked Xiao Long to let her refine the next Heavenly Flame, but he refused, and she continued pleading with him.

Xiao Long promised Xiao Xun'er one of Jia Lan Academy’s Fallen Star Flames, then used a Pure Soul Lotus to restore Yao Chen’s Soul Power so he could prepare to craft him a body. After Yao Chen refined the Yin Yang Life Extending Pill and Pill Lightning drew attention to Maple City, Xiao Long’s group escaped to a secluded place and began the body-refining preparations.

• Xiao Xun'er punished Xiao Long until he promised to give her one of the two Fallen Star Flames in Jia Lan Academy.
• Xiao Long exchanged three thousand Exchange Points for a Pure Soul Lotus to restore Yao Chen’s Soul Power.
• Yao Chen refined the Seventh-grade Yin Yang Life Extending Pill, and Pill Lightning attracted powerful figures to Maple City.
• Xiao Xun'er shattered the lightning tribulation with a Mountain Splitting Seal, and Xiao Long led the group away from the area.
• Xiao Xun'er stood guard while Xiao Long asked Yao Chen if he was ready to have a body refined using the pill, a Dou Zong body, three Heavenly Flames, and diluted Emperor Blood.

Xiao Long used diluted Emperor Blood and Heavenly Flames to prepare Mu Protector’s body for Yao Chen’s rebirth. Meanwhile, Ling Ying found Xiao Xun’er in the Black Corner Region, where she refused to return to the Xiao Family.

• Yao Chen swallowed the Yin Yang Life Extending Pill and gave Xiao Long a strand of Soul Power for the rebirth process.
• Xiao Long used three Heavenly Flames to melt the ice preserving Mu Protector’s corpse, then infused its bones with diluted Emperor Blood.
• After nearly a day of tempering the skeleton with Heavenly Flames, Xiao Long signaled Yao Chen to merge his soul with the body.
• The Yin Yang Life Extending Pill restored vitality to the corpse as Xiao Long continued burning it to help Yao Chen’s soul merge with the body.
• Ling Ying found Xiao Xun’er in the Black Corner Region and urged her to return to the Xiao Family, but she refused.
• Ling Ying asked whether Xiao Xun’er had completed her mission to obtain the Tou She Ancient God’s jade, and she said she no longer wanted it after obtaining the Flame Mantra.

Ling Ying discovered that Xiao Xun'er had lost her virginity and reported the matter to the Ancient Clan after she threatened him into silence. Xiao Long reunited with Xiao Xun'er, who feared growing old and being abandoned, and reassured her before asking what she would do if he aged first.

• Ling Ying used a disk that showed ten stars and realized Xiao Xun'er had lost her virginity.
• Xiao Xun'er threatened Ling Ying with her Dou Zun pressure and ordered him not to tell anyone.
• Ling Ying left and sent news of the matter to the Ancient Clan, believing its patriarch had to decide what to do.
• Xiao Long joined Xiao Xun'er on the swing, and she complained that he had not given her delicious food.
• Xiao Xun'er asked whether Xiao Long would love her if she grew old, and he promised he would never let that happen.
• Xiao Long asked what Xiao Xun'er would do if he became old while she remained young, and she blushed as she imagined it.

Xiao Long and Xiao Xun'er waited for Yao Chen to recover, and Yao Chen emerged as a Half-Saint. He chose to keep working with them while he cultivated before confronting the Soul Hall.

• Xiao Long teased Xiao Xun'er until she agreed to serve him, then carried her into their room.
• Three days later, Xiao Xun'er worried that Yao Chen might become powerful enough to threaten Xiao Long, but Xiao Long said he had a way to weaken him if necessary.
• Yao Chen awakened and announced that he had reached the Half-Saint realm.
• Xiao Long congratulated Yao Chen and asked what he planned to do next.
• Yao Chen said he would cultivate in seclusion until he became a Dou Saint and proposed continuing their cooperation.
• Xiao Long agreed and gave Yao Chen a Grade Nine Human Pill.

Xiao Long arrived at Jia Lan Academy with Yao Chen and Xiao Xun'er to negotiate for Fallen Star Flame while hoping to find Xiao Yan. After spotting Xiao Mei, he left Yao Chen to meet the dean and dragged her away.

• Xiao Long gave Yao Chen a Ninth-grade Human Pill, and promised Xiao Xun'er a Golden Pill to calm her jealousy.
• Xiao Long, Yao Chen, and Xiao Xun'er went to Jia Lan Academy to seek Fallen Star Flame and look for Xiao Yan.
• Teacher Ruo Lin led the three visitors to Outer Court Dean Hu Gan's office.
• Xiao Long spotted Xiao Mei, left Yao Chen to handle the negotiation, and forcibly dragged Xiao Mei away with him.

Xiao Long brought Xiao Mei to a Small Forest at Jia Lan Academy and asked about the Xiao Family members who had enrolled, discovering that Xiao Yan was not among them. Xiao Yu arrived to check whether Xiao Long was bullying her sister, and the chapter ended as she looked to Xiao Mei for an answer.

• Xiao Long sat with Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Mei in a Small Forest and asked Xiao Mei how many people from their generation of the Xiao Family had joined Jia Lan Academy.
• Xiao Mei said that five had enrolled, including herself, her younger brother, and the grandsons of several Elders.
• Xiao Long realized Xiao Yan had not come to the academy and wondered where he had gone.
• Xiao Yu arrived after hearing that someone had taken Xiao Mei away and accused Xiao Long of bullying her.
• Xiao Yu turned to Xiao Mei to ask whether Xiao Long had bullied her.

Xiao Long teased Xiao Yu and summoned her to meet him at midnight, then toured Jia Lan Academy with Xiao Xun'er. The chapter ended with Bai Shan approaching Xiao Xun'er and offering her a rose.

• Xiao Yu confirmed that Xiao Long had not bullied her, and Xiao Long asked whether she planned to stay at Jia Lan Academy.
• Xiao Long flirted with Xiao Yu, squeezed her thigh, dodged her slap, and spanked her before inviting her to meet him at midnight.
• Xiao Long took Xiao Xun'er around Jia Lan Academy while other students tried unsuccessfully to get her attention.
• Bai Shan approached Xiao Xun'er with a rose and asked to become friends.

Xiao Xun'er swiftly defeated Bai Shan after he mistook her command to leave as being directed at Xiao Long. Meanwhile, Yao Chen visited Jia Lan Academy and asked Su Qian to hand over the sealed Fallen Star Flame, leaving Su Qian considering the request.

• Xiao Xun'er told Bai Shan to scram, and he mistakenly assumed she was speaking to Xiao Long.
• Bai Shan confronted Xiao Long, and Xiao Xun'er knocked him down and clarified that she had meant Bai Shan.
• The onlookers were shocked that Xiao Xun'er had easily defeated the Outer Sect's nine-star Dou Practitioner, and students thereafter avoided provoking her.
• Yao Chen visited Jia Lan Academy, and Su Qian asked what had brought him there.
• Yao Chen asked Su Qian to give him the Fallen Star Flame, and Su Qian acknowledged that the academy could not subdue it but hesitated over handing it over.

Yao Chen negotiated with Su Qian to obtain Fallen Star Flame, offering ten Eighth-grade Pills and a Three-pattern Green Spirit Pill formula in exchange for evacuating the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower. Later, Xiao Long waited for Xiao Yu in the forest, and she arrived dressed loosely while Xiao Xun'er secretly watched them.

• Yao Chen offered Su Qian ten Eighth-grade Pills for Fallen Star Flame, then added his Three-pattern Green Spirit Pill formula when Su Qian raised concerns about the academy's cultivation tower.
• Su Qian agreed to the exchange, and Yao Chen told him to evacuate the disciples before he took Fallen Star Flame.
• Su Qian warned Yao Chen that Mang Tianchi had been unable to refine Fallen Star Flame, but Yao Chen revealed that he had reached Half-Saint.
• Xiao Long went alone to the Small Forest to wait for Xiao Yu, while Xiao Xun'er secretly followed him.
• Xiao Yu arrived after Xiao Long had dozed off, and he teased her about her loose, seductive outfit.

Xiao Long teased Xiao Yu, then forced three Earth-tier manuals on her while groping her, leaving her furious and earning her a disciplinary penalty. Three days later, powerful experts gathered around Jia Lan Academy's Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower.

• Xiao Long offered Xiao Yu increasingly valuable cultivation techniques in exchange for a date, but she rejected him and left.
• Xiao Long chose a fire cultivation method, a whip technique, and a sword technique for Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei, then caught up with Xiao Yu and stuffed the manuals into her chest while groping her.
• Xiao Yu shouted that she would kill Xiao Long, while he escaped and headed toward Xiao Xun'er's room; Xiao Yu later put the manuals in her Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yu's outburst disturbed Jia Lan Academy at night, and she received a disciplinary penalty the next day.
• Three days later, powerful experts gathered around the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower, and every one of them could use Dou Qi Transformation Wings.

Su Qian and the Jia Lan Academy Elders opened the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower’s seal, releasing Fallen Star Flame, which had grown to Dou Zun strength. Yao Chen cut off its energy source and attacked, slicing its enormous flame body in two.

• Su Qian gathered the Inner Academy Elders to lift the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower and break its seal on Fallen Star Flame.
• Fallen Star Flame burst from the magma and blasted Su Qian and the Elders back, injuring several Dou Wangs.
• Yao Chen confronted Fallen Star Flame and used Spirit Absorption to gather fire-attributed energy from the underground world.
• Fallen Star Flame charged Yao Chen, who struck it with Qi Fusion Slash and cut its flame body in two.

Xiao Xun'er devoured one cluster of Fallen Star Flame before Xiao Long could act, and Xiao Long then went to Jia Lan Academy’s medicinal herb repository to find Zi Yan. He found the gluttonous girl there, setting up a meeting that could help her reunite with her father, Zhu Kun.

• Xiao Xun'er devoured the weakened Fallen Star Flame with her Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame and left to refine it.
• Xiao Long thanked Jia Lan Academy’s Elders and promised them Dou Spirit Pills, then postponed going underground so he could find Zi Yan.
• Xiao Long entered Jia Lan Academy’s medicinal herb repository and collected herbs from its shelves.
• Zi Yan appeared while eating a huge radish and accused Xiao Long of stealing medicinal herbs.

Xiao Long encountered Zi Yan while stealing medicinal herbs and persuaded her to let him take them in exchange for medicinal pills. Zi Yan devoured the pills and agreed to the deal, leaving Xiao Long free to collect the herbs.

• Xiao Long asked Zi Yan why she was at the medicinal herb grounds, and she claimed she was borrowing herbs she had found herself.
• Xiao Long offered medicinal pills in exchange for the herbs and told Zi Yan he would repay Jia Lan Academy.
• Zi Yan inspected the pills, crushed the bottle, and ate five of them at once.
• After finishing the remaining pills, Zi Yan believed Xiao Long was an Alchemist and let him take the herbs in exchange for many more pills.

Xiao Long and Zi Yan emptied a warehouse of medicinal ingredients, then he tried to recruit her by promising pills. He revealed that her father was alive and at Jia Lan Academy, leaving Zi Yan eager to know whether he was safe.

• Xiao Long and Zi Yan took all the medicinal ingredients from the warehouse, and Xiao Long spent over ten thousand Exchange Points upgrading his System Mall to store them.
• Xiao Long invited Zi Yan to join him and promised she could eat pills every day, but Zi Yan suspected he had ulterior motives.
• Xiao Long asked Zi Yan whether she wanted to see her father, and she tearfully said she had believed her parents abandoned her.
• Xiao Long told Zi Yan that her mother had likely died and her father had been trapped by a Dou Di, prompting Zi Yan to cry harder.
• Xiao Long reassured Zi Yan that her father was alive and not in danger, then said he should be at Jia Lan Academy.

Xiao Long took Zi Yan beneath the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower, where he sensed a second cluster of Fallen Star Flame. He led her and Yao Chen toward it, and they found a faint flame on a skeleton, while Yao Chen captured a Flame Lizard Tribe member along the way.

• Zi Yan begged Xiao Long to take her to see her father, and he carried her and Yao Chen into the underground world.
• Yao Chen marveled at the violent Dou Qi, while Xiao Long sensed a reaction from the Heavenly Flame in his body.
• Xiao Long led Zi Yan and Yao Chen deeper into the underground world, promising Zi Yan she would see her father that day.
• Yao Chen sealed and set aside a sixth-tier Dou Huang from the Flame Lizard Tribe for later study.
• The group found a faint Fallen Star Flame atop a skeleton, and Yao Chen and Zi Yan recognized its aura as different from the flame sealed in the tower.

Xiao Long gave Yao Chen a juvenile Fallen Star Flame in exchange for help obtaining two powerful Heavenly Flames after Yao Chen reached One-star Dou Saint. They discovered Heavenly Flame Venerate’s soul inside a skeletal corpse, and Xiao Long tried to recruit him by promising to restore his soul and create a body for him.

• Xiao Long handed Yao Chen the juvenile Fallen Star Flame and asked him to help seize the Pill Tower’s Three Thousand Burning Flames and Fentian Valley’s Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Flame once he became a One-star Dou Saint.
• Yao Chen accepted the Fallen Star Flame but postponed refining it until they finished examining the area.
• Yao Chen detected a soul inside the skeletal corpse and called Heavenly Flame Venerate out of hiding.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate appeared, wary of Xiao Long and his companions, whose strength surpassed his own.
• Xiao Long explained that Yao Chen could restore Heavenly Flame Venerate’s soul and that he could create a body for him, then invited him to join their group.

Xiao Long gave Heavenly Flame Venerate a Pure Soul Lotus to restore his soul and continued with Zi Yan toward the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. He left Yao Chen and Heavenly Flame Venerate above the magma pool while he and Zi Yan went down to investigate the powerful beings below.

• Yao Chen angrily threatened Heavenly Flame Venerate for doubting that he was an eighth-tier Alchemist, weakening the already fragile soul further.
• Xiao Long spent three thousand Exchange Points on a Pure Soul Lotus and let Heavenly Flame Venerate use it to recover his soul power.
• Xiao Long warned Yao Chen to keep a low profile because Zhu Kun was a peak Dou Qi Continent expert.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate warned Xiao Long that a terrifying being lay beneath the magma pool, but Xiao Long said he already knew.
• Xiao Long told Yao Chen and Heavenly Flame Venerate to stay behind, then prepared to descend with Zi Yan.