Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian cultivated in the Qi Refining Tower for four days, strengthening his Dou Emperor cultivation and Guishui Thunder, while his reputation spread through the Inner Courtyard. Meanwhile, Han Xian grew furious over Pan Gate’s success and demanded that the Medicine Gang find a way to compete with its pills.

• Liu Qing tried to remove Xiao Tian’s pressure from Yao Sheng, but the pressure vanished and Liu Qing accidentally punched Yao Sheng across the ground.
• Xiao Tian and Zi Yan reached the cultivation rooms, where she warned him away from the Fallen Heart Flame and then left him to cultivate.
• Xiao Tian cultivated for four days, advancing to the middle-to-late stage of One-Star Dou Emperor and increasing his Guishui Thunder by half a wisp.
• Xiao Tian left the tower and saw Pan Gate members, who greeted him respectfully as he reflected that Xun Er and the others were managing the faction well.
• Han Xian berated the Medicine Gang’s alchemists for failing to counter Pan Gate’s pills.

Han Xian decided to challenge Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan through alchemy after learning they made Pan Gate’s pills, while Xiao Tian refined pills for Pan Gate and later for Zi Yan. Zi Yan left happily with her new pills, and Xun Er asked Xiao Tian who the unusually powerful girl was.

• Han Xian learned that Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan refined Pan Gate’s medicinal pills and planned to invite them to discuss the matter.
• Hu Jia gave Xiao Tian a Storage Ring full of medicinal herbs after he agreed to support her plans, and he spent the night refining pills.
• Xiao Tian sneaked into Xun Er’s room and slept beside her.
• Zi Yan visited Xiao Tian because she had finished the pills he had made for her and wanted more.
• Xiao Tian refined Zi Yan’s medicinal herbs into pills, and she ate one before happily leaving the attic.
• Xun Er asked Xiao Tian who Zi Yan was and why she had such powerful energy.

After the Medicine Gang challenged Pan Gate to an alchemy contest, Xiao Tian rejected its proposed stakes and said he wanted to make the wager much larger. Han Xian was shocked as Xiao Tian began to explain what he wanted.

• Xiao Tian told Xun Er and the others that Zi Yan was the Inner Academy’s mysterious Number One on the Strong Ranking.
• A Pan Gate member reported that the Medicine Gang had invited Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan to discuss Pan Gate’s Medicinal Pill sales, and Xiao Tian decided to visit them with Xiao Yan.
• On the way to the Medicine Gang’s base, Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan heard that Fu Ao’s cultivation had been crippled and Bai Shan had gone deranged, and both had been sent away from the Academy.
• Han Xian proposed an alchemy contest: if Pan Gate lost, it would stop selling Medicinal Pills and surrender its Prescriptions; if the Medicine Gang lost, it would give Pan Gate five trading spots.
• Xiao Tian dismissed Han Xian’s proposed stakes as too small and said they should make the contest a much bigger wager, leaving Han Xian shocked.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan wagered Pan Gate against Han Xian’s Medicine Gang in an alchemy contest, with the losing faction joining the winner. The duel was set for the next morning at North Square, and Pan Gate prepared to watch Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan compete.

• Xiao Tian challenged Han Xian to wager their gangs, and Han Xian accepted after Xiao Tian taunted him.
• Xiao Tian and Han Xian signed contracts, then agreed that Xiao Yan and Xiao Tian would refine the same pill, with Elder Hao choosing the prescription.
• The three arranged the contest for the next morning at North Square, and Elder Hao agreed to oversee it and reveal the prescription then.
• Xiao Tian warned Xiao Yan to prepare for a possible cauldron explosion, while Xiao Yan looked forward to being free from constant pill refining if they won.
• Han Xian returned to Medicine Gang Hall, convinced his alchemy skills would defeat Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Tian told Pan Gate about the contest, and Wu Hao and the others looked forward to watching the duel.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan faced Han Xian in a wagered alchemy duel, astonishing the Inner Academy with their grades, cauldrons, and Heavenly Flames. The three began refining the difficult Dragon Strength Pill, and the chapter ended as Xiao Tian carefully extracted the final two ingredients.

• Xiao Tian led Pan Men to North Square with Xiao Yan, where students and elders gathered to watch the duel against Han Xian.
• The crowd discovered Xiao Tian was a Fifth Grade Alchemist, leaving Han Xian shaken but unwilling to concede.
• Elder Hao announced that the contestants would refine the Fifth Grade Dragon Strength Pill, with three batches of herbs each and failure if all attempts failed.
• Xiao Yan produced Yao Lao's Black Demon Cauldron, while Xiao Tian brought out the Purple Abyss Cauldron, drawing attention from the elders.
• Han Xian summoned his Illusory Gold Flame, but Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames overwhelmed it before the three began refining.
• Xiao Tian extracted the Dragon Strength Pill's ingredients, and a faint sound from the platform prompted regretful looks from the crowd.

Xiao Tian refined a Dragon Strength Pill of exceptional quality while Xiao Yan and Han Xian struggled to complete theirs. The judges praised Xiao Tian’s pill, leaving the contest’s result poised for their final decision.

• Xiao Tian mastered the Dragon Strength Pill’s fusion process and began refining while Han Xian and Xiao Yan’s early attempts failed.
• Xiao Tian successfully formed a pill as the crowd watched, and Han Xian and Xiao Yan later completed their own pills.
• The judges inspected Xiao Yan’s good-quality pill, then examined Han Xian’s misshapen half-finished product after he admitted defeat.
• Elder Hao and the other judges praised Xiao Tian’s Dragon Strength Pill as exceptionally high quality and returned it to him.

Xiao Tian won the alchemy wager, securing Han Xian's agreement to merge the Medicine Gang into Pan Gate and earning the elders' favor. After celebrating with Pan Gate and sharing a tender moment with Xun Er, Xiao Tian went downstairs and found an unexpected visitor.

• The elders offered Xiao Tian future access to medicinal herbs, and he agreed to refine pills for them when needed.
• Elder Hao announced Xiao Tian as first, Xiao Yan as second, and Han Xian as last, then confirmed Pan Gate's victory and ordered Han Xian to merge into it within three days.
• Xiao Tian promised to help Han Xian and the other alchemists improve, while Su Qian left after sensing something familiar about him.
• Xun Er teased Xiao Tian about Han Yue, and Xiao Tian reassured her of his affection before leading Pan Gate back to its base.
• Xiao Tian arranged the Medicine Gang takeover, celebrated with Pan Gate, and was cared for by Xun Er after drinking; at noon, he went downstairs and found an unexpected person.

Xiao Tian teamed up with Zi Yan to search the Inner Academy Forest for medicinal herbs, promising to share the finds and refine her pills. After they found Jade Stone Wood, Zi Yan asked whether Xiao Tian truly meant that he treated her like family.

• Zi Yan delivered Grand Elder Su's message that Xiao Tian should visit him the next day.
• Xiao Tian gave Zi Yan pills and promised to refine her future pills if she helped him find medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Tian and Zi Yan entered the Inner Academy Forest, prompting Yan Hao and Lin Xiuya to turn back rather than risk trouble.
• Zi Yan sensed a buried Jade Stone Wood, and Xiao Tian dug it up and praised her talent.
• Zi Yan offered to make Xiao Tian her underling, then asked whether he really meant that he treated her like family.

Xiao Tianyi reassured Zi Yan that he considered her family, then took her to gather medicinal herbs and promised to refine them into pills for her. After returning to the Inner Academy, he settled the exhausted Zi Yan in a room and spent the night with Xun Er; the next morning, he went to a black attic.

• Xiao Tianyi told Zi Yan that he treated her as family, and she bit his shoulder while secretly wiping away her tears.
• Xiao Tianyi and Zi Yan gathered medicinal herbs, defeating the Demon Spirit Ghost Ape and leaving it three Earth Spirit Fruits.
• Xiao Tianyi promised to refine Zi Yan's share of the harvest into pills, and she shared one of her pills with him.
• Xiao Tianyi carried the sleepy Zi Yan back to the Inner Academy and asked Xun Er to arrange a room for her.
• Xiao Tianyi told Xun Er about the day's events before they fell asleep together, then went to a black attic the next morning.

Su Qian brought Xiao Tian to the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower and revealed the Inner Academy’s crisis with the Fallen Heart Flame. Xiao Tian proposed releasing it and having Free and Unfettered Hall help destroy it, leaving Su Qian to weigh the cost to the Inner Academy.

• Su Qian asked Xiao Tian about his Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Tian showed him the Qilin Burning Sky Flame.
• Su Qian took Xiao Tian to the magma pit beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower and explained that the Fallen Heart Flame was threatening the Academy’s Protective Barrier.
• Xiao Tian’s flame provoked the Fallen Heart Flame, which appeared as a Fire Python before retreating into the magma.
• Xiao Tian warned that the barrier might fail within half a year and said it could be reinforced or rebuilt, but Su Qian could not find the Academy’s absent Dean.
• Xiao Tian proposed releasing the Fallen Heart Flame and having Free and Unfettered Hall help eliminate it, while warning that the Inner Academy might never recover.

Xiao Tian secured Jia Nan Academy’s agreement to release the Fallen Heart Flame, offering help from Free and Unfettered Hall and revealing a second, unformed flame in the magma. He arranged for Xiao Yan to have a chance to subdue the flame, then left to handle another matter.

• Su Qian asked Xiao Tian how they would deal with the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Tian offered three Dou Zong from Free and Unfettered Hall to assist before his younger brother dealt with it.
• Xiao Tian revealed that he had sensed a second, unformed Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian agreed that Jia Nan Academy would ally with Free and Unfettered Hall in exchange for the information.
• Su Qian reduced Pan Gate’s fee to one-tenth and gave Xiao Tian access to the Inner Academy Medicinal Herb Treasury.
• Xiao Tian told Xun Er and the others about the reduced fees, then informed Xiao Yan that he had secured him a chance to subdue the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan vowed to seize the opportunity despite the danger, and Xiao Tian left to arrange another matter.

Xiao Tian refined Imperial Zenith Pills, strengthened Pan Gate, and learned that Yun Yun and Ya Fei were both pregnant. He arranged for Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Mittel Tengshan to take over their duties and returned to the Free and Unfettered World with the two women.

• Xiao Tian refined four high-grade Imperial Zenith Pills after several failed attempts, then found Yun Yun waiting in his room and spent the night with her.
• Over the next two months, the Medicine Gang merged into Pan Gate, which grew into the Inner Academy's leading force in Fire Energy, while Xiao Tian advanced to Two-Star Dou Emperor.
• The system announced a hidden reward for Xiao Tian's bloodline descendant, and he discovered that Yun Yun was pregnant.
• Xiao Tian and Yun Yun went to find Ya Fei and confirmed that she was pregnant too.
• Xiao Tian asked Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Mittel Tengshan to take over Yun Yun and Ya Fei's work, then returned to the Free and Unfettered World.

Xiao Tian used Physique Cards to help protect the unborn children of Ya Fei and Yun Yun and began preparing medicinal pills for them. As the women gathered in the Free and Unfettered World, Xiao Zhan celebrated the news of becoming a grandfather, while Xiao Tian refined pills in his palace.

• Xiao Tian learned from the system that the unborn children already possessed special physiques, then used two Physique Cards to strengthen them and protect them from harm.
• Queen Medusa and Qing Lin returned to visit Ya Fei and Yun Yun, and Medusa's curiosity about pregnancy and children amused the group.
• Xiao Tian reassured Qing Lin that they would wait until her changing physique had stabilized before having children.
• Xiao Tian told Xun Er the news, and she joined the other women while Xiao Zhan celebrated becoming a grandfather at the Xiao Family Stronghold.
• Xiao Tian searched for pills to nourish the fetuses and their mothers, gathered ingredients, and began refining two Rank 6 Intermediate Medicinal Pills, causing a Heaven and Earth Anomaly.

Xiao Tian gave Yun Yun and Ya Fei pills to nourish their unborn children, then strengthened the Xiao Family before negotiating with Su Qian over the Academy’s plans and the threat posed by Han Feng. As the Strong Ranking Tournament approached, challengers scrambled to climb the rankings while Xiao Tian and Zi Yan remained unchallenged.

• Xiao Tian gave Yun Yun and Ya Fei Qi Replenishing Fetus Strengthening Pills and Fetus Nourishing Ganoderma Pills, and they embraced him after taking them.
• Xiao Tian activated the Xiao Family members’ bloodlines, raising their talent and strength and advancing Xiao Tian to Four-Star Dou Huang.
• Xiao Tian met Su Qian, agreed to help defend the Academy from Han Feng and other Black-Corner Region forces, and secured the Academy’s support for his Free and Unfettered Hall.
• Hu Jia questioned Xiao Yu about Xun Er and Xiao Tian’s absences, but Xiao Yu refused to explain.
• As the Strong Ranking Tournament neared, hidden challengers rushed to improve their positions, while no one dared challenge Zi Yan or Xiao Tian.

Xiao Tian and Xun Er attended the Strong Ranking Tournament, where Pan Gate gathered to watch and compete. As the top-ranked fighters arrived and Xiao Tian invited Han Yue to join them, Xun Er and Han Yue shared a private conversation that left Xiao Tian puzzled; the chapter ended with Xiao Tian pressing Xiao Yan to aim for the top ten.

• Xiao Tian and Xun Er arrived at the tournament plaza and joined Pan Gate at a prime viewing spot.
• Xiao Yan and Wu Hao discussed why Xun Er was not competing and worried about facing powerful opponents.
• Xiao Tian invited Han Yue and Moon Spirit to join Pan Gate, and Xun Er and Han Yue spoke privately while exchanging glances at Xiao Tian.
• Liu Qing arrived, exchanged greetings with Xiao Tian, and expressed interest in fighting him.
• Xiao Tian asked Xiao Yan whether he could reach the top ten, and Xiao Yan straightened up and promised to do his best.

The Inner Academy’s Strong Ranking Tournament officially began, drawing Xiao Yan, Xiao Tian, Han Yue, and the other contestants into the arena. After Su Qian explained the lot-based rules, the competitors began drawing their first-round opponents.

• Xiao Yan declared that he would claim a top-ten spot, and Xiao Tian encouraged Han Yue to aim for one too.
• Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders arrived, and Su Qian called the Strong Ranking contestants into the arena.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated his Three Thousand Lightning Movements, then Xiao Tian and Han Yue arrived on a four-colored lightning dragon, drawing the crowd’s attention.
• Su Qian noticed Xiao Yan’s movement technique and decided to leave concerns about Wind Lightning Pavilion to Xiao Tian.
• Zi Yan joined the gathering, and Su Qian officially opened the tournament and explained that contestants would advance by winning matches against opponents with matching numbered lots in different colors.
• The contestants took turns drawing Bamboo Slips from the tube.

The contestants drew their matchups for the competition, and the first fights began while Xiao Tian, Han Yue, and their companions awaited their turns. The chapter ended as an arrogant contestant faced his opponent and assured Su Qian that he would not kill him.

• Xiao Tian drew Blue Ticket Number Three, Han Yue drew Blue Ticket Number Eighteen, and the other contestants drew their matchups.
• A Five-star Dou Spirit drew Red Ticket Number Three and feared facing Xiao Tian, while Han Yue, Wu Hao, Xiao Yan, and Zi Yan learned who they would fight.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Tian to fight her, and he agreed to face her later.
• Kong Yu won the first match after Xun Er predicted that the Gold Attribute fighter would lose to his Water Attribute opponent.
• After several more matches, an arrogant man entered the arena, and Su Qian warned him not to kill his opponent; the man promised he would not.

Zi Yan crushed Bei Qu in the Strong Ranking Tournament after he insulted her, then joined Xiao Tian and told him why she had intervened. Lin Xiuya asked Xiao Tian to persuade Zi Yan to spare him if they faced each other, as he feared a repeat of their past encounter.

• Bei Qu taunted Zi Yan before their match, and she defeated him with one strike that left him severely injured and unconscious.
• Su Qian declared Zi Yan the winner, and the crowd learned she held first place on the Strong Ranking.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Tian she had avenged him because Bei Qu had once threatened to defeat him and take Xun Er, then said he owed her a favor.
• Han Yue asked Xun Er about Zi Yan and Xiao Tian's closeness, and Xun Er explained that Zi Yan often visited Pan Gate while Xiao Tian refined pills for her.
• Lin Xiuya asked Xiao Tian to put in a good word with Zi Yan and give him a chance if they met in the tournament.
• Han Yue explained that Lin Xiuya had conceded to Zi Yan in a previous tournament and later avoided the Arena because Zi Yan kept seeking a chance to fight him.

Xiao Tian easily advanced after his opponent forfeited, while Xiao Yan defeated Bai Cheng as the Strong Ranking Tournament narrowed to its top twenty-five. On the second day, Xiao Yan learned his opponent had been changed to Yao Sheng, and he chose to face him as Lin Yan offered to switch matches.

• Wu Hao and Han Yue won their matches, while Xiao Tian's opponent forfeited before their bout began.
• Xiao Yan defeated Bai Cheng, and the first day's matches ended.
• The next day, Su Qian advanced Zi Yan directly and sent the remaining contestants to draw lots.
• Xiao Tian learned that Xiao Yan's opponent had been changed from a mediocre contestant to Yao Sheng, and Lin Yan offered to switch opponents with him.
• Xiao Yan declined Lin Yan's offer and said he would use the match to settle matters with Yao Sheng, while Xiao Tian teased them about looking romantically attached.

Han Yue and Xiao Tian advanced through the arena matches, while Xiao Tian easily defeated Mao Yi and offered him advice. After the competition ended, Xiao Tian gave Han Yue a powerful new Dou Technique to help her prepare for the next rounds.

• Han Yue defeated an opponent who had beaten her before, Wu Hao lost his match but seemed to gain from it, and Xiao Yan defeated Yao Sheng with his Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Tian stopped Mao Yi's attacks with ease, advised him on improving his technique, and won after Mao Yi admitted defeat.
• Han Yue defeated her next opponent with Frost Moon Battle, and the day's competition ended with thirteen contestants advancing.
• Xiao Tian asked Han Yue about her strongest Dou Techniques and passed Falling Cold Stars into her Sea of Consciousness, leaving her shocked.