Chapter Summaries

Mang Tian Chi praised Xiao Li for subduing the Fallen Heart Flame and arranged to make him an Elder of Jia Nan Academy. After a month of absorbing the flame and refining his accumulated medicinal power, Xiao Li awakened stronger and received a body-tempering Battle Skill from Mang Tian Chi.

• Su Qian asked whether the Fallen Heart Flame in the Heavenly Burning Refining Tower remained dangerous, and Mang Tian Chi explained that Xiao Li could weaken its source with the Child Flame he had subdued.
• Mang Tian Chi agreed that Xiao Li should become an Elder, then described his resentment toward the Lei Clan for attributing his achievements to his bloodline.
• Mang Tian Chi reflected on his progress toward becoming a Dou Sheng and his plans to seek a Void Thunder Pool after staying at Jia Nan Academy.
• After a month, Mang Tian Chi observed that Xiao Li had used the Fallen Heart Flame to digest medicinal power into his body instead of rushing his cultivation.
• Xiao Li awakened as an Eight Star Dou King with a stronger body, Dou Qi, and soul, and Mang Tian Chi gave him the Earth Grade Intermediate Dou Technique Heavenly Burning Flame Demon Body.

Xiao Li tested the Fallen Heart Flame by refining pills at Jia Nan Academy, where his alchemy improved enough for him to produce a top-grade Dou Spirit Pill and an Imperial Origin Pill. While he was engrossed in alchemy, Black Horn Region forces attacked the academy and were defeated; afterward, Mang Tian Chi explained Xiao Li’s Soul Force level and its potential.

• Fire Elder asked Xiao Li to demonstrate his Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Li began testing it with the Fire Cloud Cauldron after the academy elders brought medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Li accidentally destroyed one set of ingredients, then refined a top-grade Dou Spirit Pill on his next attempt and started working on an Imperial Origin Pill.
• Natural phenomena from Xiao Li’s alchemy drew Black Horn Region forces to Jia Nan Academy, where Old Ghost of the Earth Demon fled after seeing Mang Tian Chi and the academy elders killed the remaining attackers.
• Xiao Li refined an Imperial Origin Pill and looked up to find the elders bloodied; Su Qian told him they had dealt with intruders.
• Mang Tian Chi told Xiao Li that his Soul Force had reached the Mortal Realm Late Stage, comparable to a Rank 7 Intermediate Alchemist, and explained how it could advance with cultivation.

After spending six months refining pills and helping Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Li decided to return to the Xiao Clan in the Jia Ma Empire. He left Zi Yan at the academy and arrived home with Xia Yilong, where Xiao Che recognized him and escorted them inside.

• Xiao Li refined pills for six months, traded them for cultivation resources, and obtained the Heavenly Burning Flame Demon Body and four Rank 7 Beast Flames.
• Xiao Li told Mang Tian Chi and Su Qian that he was leaving Jia Nan Academy; Mang Tian Chi offered his help, while Zi Yan pleaded to go with Xiao Li.
• Xiao Li left Zi Yan at Jia Nan Academy with a supply of pills and took Xia Yilong back to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Li and Xia Yilong reached the Xiao Clan, where Xiao Che stopped them at the gate before recognizing Xiao Li and leading them to the main hall.

Xiao Li returned to the Xiao Clan and reunited with his brother Xiao Lin, whom he promised to help reach Dou Emperor, before visiting his grandfather Xiao Ting with a powerful cultivation pill. The chapter ended with Xiao Li presenting the gift to Xiao Ting.

• Xiao Lin warmly welcomed Xiao Li back and learned that Xiao Li had invited his classmate Xia Yilong to join the Xiao Clan as a steward.
• Xiao Lin gave Xia Yilong a letter of introduction and assigned him a place to live and learn the steward's duties.
• Xiao Li and Xiao Lin compared their cultivation; Xiao Li revealed he was an Eight Star Dou King and promised to help Xiao Lin become a Dou Emperor within five years.
• Xiao Lin brought Xiao Li to the Back Mountain, where Xiao Ting welcomed his grandson and thanked him for the Cultivation Method and pills.
• Xiao Li gave Xiao Ting a top-grade Supreme Imperial Origin Pill that could raise his cultivation by two stars.

Xiao Li returned to the Xiao Clan with pills and rare ingredients, then visited Old Wang and revealed how far his cultivation and alchemy had advanced. The chapter left him preparing to refine a pill for his teacher to observe, while the clan faced an upcoming life-or-death contest with the Chu Yun Empire.

• Xiao Li gave Xiao Ting a Supreme Imperial Origin Pill and revealed that he had refined it himself using a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Ting gave Xiao Li an Eight Mausoleums Magic Needle Fruit, a Rank 6 Magical Core, and a Thousand Year Blood Ginseng King he had found in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Lin told Xiao Li about the Strongest Experts Convention against the Chu Yun Empire, and Xiao Ting said Xiao Lin and Xiao Li would represent the Xiao Clan while he remained behind.
• Xiao Li gave Xiao Ting and Xiao Lin cultivation pills, then flew to the Alchemist Guild to visit Old Wang.
• Xiao Li told Old Wang that absorbing the Child Flame of the Fallen Heart Flame had raised him to the Eight Star Dou King realm and that he had reached Rank 6 Peak Alchemist skill.
• Old Wang asked Xiao Li to refine a pill so he could observe his disciple's alchemy.

After returning from his studies, Xiao Li visited Misty Cloud Mountain to see Yun Yun and learned that the sect was preparing for a dangerous convention with the Chu Yun Empire. He reunited with Yun Yun at the summit, where she ran into his arms in front of the sect disciples.

• Old Wang made Xiao Li an Honorary Elder of the Alchemist Guild, and Xiao Li flew toward Misty Cloud Mountain to visit Yun Yun.
• Misty Cloud Sect Disciples stopped Xiao Li, checked Yun Yun's jade token, and escorted him up the mountain.
• A disciple told Xiao Li that the sect was training for next year's Strongest Experts Convention against the Chu Yun Empire, prompting Xiao Li to reflect on whether he would risk his life for his family.
• At the summit, Yun Yun spotted Xiao Li and rushed into his arms before the watching Misty Cloud Sect Disciples.

Xiao Li reunited with Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect and demonstrated his strength when Great Elder Yun Ji tested him. He and Yun Yun met Yun Shan, whose cultivation had advanced to Nine Star Dou Emperor, while Yun Yun continued encouraging herself to catch up to Xiao Li.

• Xiao Li reunited with Yun Yun and recognized that she had reached Two Star Dou Spirit.
• Yun Ji tested Xiao Li with a cyan palm strike, but Xiao Li blocked it with his Rank 7 Phantom Gold Flame and burned Yun Ji’s hidden hand.
• Yun Yun introduced Xiao Li to Great Elder Yun Ji, who sent them to meet Yun Shan and privately praised Xiao Li’s strength and alchemy.
• Xiao Li told Yun Yun that he was an Eight Star Dou King and attributed his victory over Yun Ji to his Beast Flame and body-tempering Battle Skill.
• Xiao Li and Yun Yun entered the main hall, where Yun Shan greeted them; Xiao Li sensed that Yun Shan had reached Nine Star Dou Emperor after receiving pills and fighting across the region.

Xiao Li gave Yun Shan a Breaking Ancestor Pill and arranged for Yun Shan to help him withstand Pill Lightning when he began refining Rank 7 pills. Yun Shan accepted the offer, and Xiao Li left with Yun Yun to tour Misty Cloud Sect.

• Yun Shan praised Xiao Li's cultivation and warned him not to hurt Yun Yun, and Xiao Li promised to treat her well.
• Xiao Li offered Yun Shan a Breaking Ancestor Pill as a betrothal gift, but Yun Shan initially refused to accept it without reason.
• Xiao Li explained that he needed Yun Shan's help resisting Pill Lightning during future Rank 7 pill refining and would repay him with cultivation pills.
• Yun Shan accepted the Breaking Ancestor Pill and planned to attempt his breakthrough after the Strongest Experts Convention.
• Yun Shan sent Yun Yun and Xiao Li to tour the sect, where Xiao Li noticed an icy aura above Misty Cloud Mountain and learned it came from a battle between Ice Emperor and Yun Shan.

One year later, the Strongest Experts Convention began at the border between the Chu Yun Empire and Jia Ma Empire, whose leaders and experts clashed. Hai Bodong defeated Silver Snake Old Ghost and then faced him and another Dou Emperor, while the Chu Yun Empire’s hidden plan to assassinate Wang Ming remained underway.

• Xiao Li and Xiao Lin attended the convention with the Jia Ma Empire’s experts, while the Chu Yun Empire’s leaders gathered opposite them.
• The Chu Yun Emperor and Jia Xingtian exchanged taunts and began fighting, then Silver Snake Old Ghost challenged the Jia Ma Empire’s experts.
• Hai Bodong fought Silver Snake Old Ghost and defeated him with his ice techniques.
• The Chu Yun Alchemist Guild President revealed that the Chu Yun Empire planned to kill Wang Ming, fearing his alchemy could help Jia Ma’s experts reach the Dou Ancestor Level.
• A second Chu Yun Dou Emperor joined Silver Snake Old Ghost against Hai Bodong, who summoned five ice dragons and held the advantage in their battle.

As the battle between the Jia Ma Empire and Chu Yun Empire escalated, Xie Biyan defeated Hai Bodong, but Jia Xingtian and Xiao Li helped turn the tide. Yun Shan killed two Chu Yun Empire Dou Emperors with a powerful technique, leaving the remaining enemy Dou Emperor fleeing.

• Xie Biyan joined the fight and defeated Hai Bodong with poisonous attacks, leaving him injured and poisoned.
• Old Wang treated Hai Bodong, while Jia Xingtian defeated the Chu Yun Emperor and challenged Xie Biyan.
• Yun Shan fought three Chu Yun Empire Dou Emperors as Old Wang, Yun Ji, and other allies battled the enemy forces.
• Silver Snake Old Ghost attacked Hai Bodong, but Hai Bodong and Xiao Li struck together and killed him.
• Yun Shan unleashed Extreme Wind, Meteor Kill and killed the Evil Poison Brothers, prompting the surviving Chu Yun Empire Dou Emperor to flee.

The Jia Ma Empire gained the upper hand as its fighters pushed back the Chu Yun Empire, but Fu Hai used the Demon Poison Spot to poison Old Wang before dying. Xiao Li and Yun Shan helped Old Wang, and Xiao Li used a Heavenly Flame to temporarily resist the poison.

• Xiao Lin and Nalan Jie fought back-to-back against the Chu Yun Empire's Dou Wang experts.
• Old Wang severely wounded Fu Hai, who absorbed Poison Dou Qi from a Dou Emperor and two Dou Wangs and fired the Demon Poison Spot into him.
• Xie Shan and Wu Ya struck Old Wang while the poison slowed his reactions, and Xiao Li caught him as he fell.
• Yun Shan drove Xie Shan away, while Xiao Li recognized the Demon Poison Spot and used a Heavenly Flame to temporarily resist it.

Xiao Li treated Old Wang after the Chu Yun Empire poisoned and grievously wounded him, but the Demon Poison Spot left his survival uncertain. When Jia Xingtian clashed with Xiao Li, Yun Shan revealed Xiao Li’s influence and secured offers of help to find a way to save Old Wang.

• Xiao Li used the Fallen Heart Flame to stabilize Old Wang’s Demon Poison Spot and discovered that the Yin Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill was resisting the other poisons.
• Xie Biyan withdrew after his battle with Jia Xingtian, satisfied that Old Wang’s injury had achieved the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate’s strategic objective.
• Jia Xingtian mistakenly spoke as if Old Wang were dying, angering Xiao Li, and then attacked him after learning he was a Nine Star Dou King.
• Yun Shan stopped Jia Xingtian and revealed that Xiao Li was a Rank 6 Alchemist, a Jia Nan Academy Elder, and the student of its Dou Zun Headmaster.
• Xiao Li said a Rank 7 Return Life Pill might save Old Wang, while Hai Bodong offered to search the Tagor Desert for a Heavenly Flame and Yun Shan offered to gather the pill’s ingredients.

Xiao Li sought a source of strong Yang Qi to save Old Wang and traveled to a weathered volcano in the Tagor Desert, where he planned to cultivate before treating his teacher. Meanwhile, Yun Yun advanced through the Gate of Life and Death and discovered the Yin Yang Twin Flames.

• Xiao Li learned from Hai Bodong that a volcano in the Tagor Desert held dense Fire Attribute energy, rewarded him with a Qing Yuan Pill, and set off with Hai Bodong’s map.
• Xiao Li removed the main toxins from Yun Ji with Fallen Heart Flame and left him Detoxification Pills and instructions to rest.
• Xiao Li reached the volcano and placed the dormant Old Wang on a stone bed while monitoring the vital strand of Yang Qi within him.
• Xiao Li decided to cultivate away from Old Wang and break through to the Dou Emperor realm before attempting the Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill.
• Yun Yun, who had reached the Three Star Dou King realm in the Gate of Life and Death, recognized the distant black-and-white flame as the Yin Yang Twin Flames.

Xiao Li cultivated in the volcano’s magma and broke through to the Dou Emperor realm, while Yun Yun emerged from seclusion and became the Misty Cloud Sect’s new leader. The chapter ended with Xiao Ting noticing Old Wang’s life force fading as Xiao Li completed his breakthrough.

• Xiao Li decided the surface environment was insufficient for his breakthrough and entered the magma beneath the volcano, where his Fallen Heart Flame protected him.
• Yun Yun emerged from the Gate of Life and Death as an Eight Star Dou King, and Yun Shan named her the Misty Cloud Sect’s Ninth Generation Sect Leader.
• Yun Shan told Yun Yun about Old Wang’s injuries and gave her medicinal ingredients and a map to Xiao Li in the Tagor Desert.
• Yun Shan prepared to enter seclusion and attempt a breakthrough to the Dou Zong realm, while Yun Ji was tasked with arranging Yun Yun’s succession ceremony.
• Xiao Ting discovered that Old Wang’s life force was declining as Xiao Li’s energy vortex stopped and Xiao Li emerged from the volcano having reached the Dou Emperor realm.

After Xiao Li became a Dou Emperor, he struggled to save Old Wang from the Demon Poison Spot and sought help from Jia Nan Academy. Yun Yun revealed that the Yin Yang Twin Flames might help, while Bai Lie arrived and began treating Old Wang’s poison.

• Xiao Li discovered that Old Wang’s declining vitality made it dangerous to give him a vitality-restoring pill, and Yun Yun brought herbs for a Return Life Pill.
• Xiao Li contacted Mang Tian Chi for help with the Pill Lightning, and Mang Tian Chi sent Bai Lie through a spatial wormhole.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Li that she had found the Yin Yang Twin Flames in the Gate of Life and Death secret realm, and Xiao Li hoped they could save his teacher.
• Bai Lie arrived at the Volcano Cluster and examined Old Wang’s Demon Poison Spot after Xiao Li asked him to remove the poison.
• Bai Lie sent Dou Qi crystal dust into the poison spot, causing it to release black poisonous mist, which he knocked away.

Xiao Li began refining a Rank 7 Return Life Pill to save his teacher, Old Wang, whose life was fading as Bai Lie worked to remove a powerful Demon Poison Spot. After six days of refining and eight hours of nurturing the pill, Xiao Li completed it, and Rank 7 Pill Lightning gathered overhead.

• Bai Lie discovered the Demon Poison Spot contained Dou Qi close to the Dou Ancestor level and warned Xiao Li that Old Wang might not survive much longer.
• Xiao Li asked Bai Lie to protect him from Pill Lightning while he refined a Rank 7 Return Life Pill, and Bai Lie agreed.
• Xiao Li gave Yun Yun a Top-Grade Dou Spirit Pill and sent everyone away before beginning the refinement with the Fire Cloud Cauldron.
• Bai Lie watched Xiao Li enter the Dan Soul Realm as he refined and merged the pill ingredients over six days.
• Xiao Li nurtured the pill for eight more hours until it became a jade-green Return Life Pill, drawing Pill Lightning as Bai Lie, Xiao Ting, and Yun Yun watched.

Xiao Li successfully refined a Grade 7 Low-grade Return Life Pill, and Bai Lie protected it from Pill Lightning. Xiao Li then began refining the Rank 7 Intermediate Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill, reaching the difficult stage of blending Magical Beast Essence Blood into its medicinal liquid.

• Bai Lie destroyed the Pill Lightning threatening Xiao Li’s Return Life Pill, and Xiao Li stored the completed pill in an Ice Jade Box.
• Xiao Li asked Bai Lie to stay while he attempted to refine a Rank 7 Intermediate Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill, and Bai Lie agreed to protect him from its Pill Lightning.
• After resting for a day, Xiao Li began refining the Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill with the Fallen Heart Flame and nearly a hundred ingredients.
• Six days later, Xiao Li added twenty-four drops of Magical Beast Essence Blood to the medicinal liquid and used the Fallen Heart Flame to suppress the blood energy as he worked to fuse them.

Xiao Li completed the Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill and used the Return Life Pill to awaken Old Wang, but giving his teacher the new pill sent him into a dangerous Nirvana State. Bai Lie explained that saving Old Wang required a Dou Zun Expert or an Alchemist with one of two specific Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Li refined the Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill, and Bai Lie blocked its powerful Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Li gave Old Wang the Return Life Pill, then passed out from exhaustion as Old Wang awoke.
• After waking in Yun Yun's care, Xiao Li learned Old Wang remained weak and his medicines and poison were locked in a precarious balance.
• Xiao Li gave Old Wang the Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill, causing him to enter the Nirvana State under the strain of its medicinal power.
• Bai Lie said Old Wang could be saved by a Dou Zun Expert or by an Alchemist using Life Spirit Flame or Yin Yang Twin Flames, and warned that Fallen Heart Flame was too dangerous.

Bai Lie explained that Life Spirit Flame or the Yang Fire of Yin Yang Twin Flames could help treat Xiao Li’s teacher, Old Wang, and Xiao Li chose to seek the twin flames. He and Yun Yun reached the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death, where Xiao Li entered the secret realm to find them.

• Bai Lie explained the healing properties and rarity of Life Spirit Flame and Yin Yang Twin Flames, and Xiao Li realized he knew where the twin flames were.
• Xiao Li asked Bai Lie to seal the medicinal power in Old Wang’s body; Bai Lie agreed to protect her for half a year while Xiao Li went to find Yin Yang Twin Flames.
• Xiao Li persuaded Yun Yun to take him to the Misty Cloud Sect, despite her concern that absorbing another heavenly flame could be dangerous.
• Yun Yun brought Xiao Li to the Gate of Life and Death and explained that Yin Yang Twin Flames lay behind a great Stone Sword inside the secret realm.
• Xiao Li kissed Yun Yun on the forehead, entered the Gate of Life and Death, and left her blushing outside.

Xiao Li entered the Gate of Life and Death to absorb the Yin Yang Twin Flames and save his teacher, but the two flames turned on the Fallen Heart Flame inside his body. The flames clashed, leaving Xiao Li gravely injured and seemingly at death’s door.

• Yun Yun told Yun Shan that Xiao Li had entered the Gate of Life and Death to obtain the Yin Yang Twin Flames, and Yun Shan trusted that he would survive.
• Xiao Li crossed the secret realm, endured the former Misty Cloud Sect Leaders’ interference, and found the Yin Yang Twin Flames beyond a giant Stone Sword.
• Xiao Li swallowed the Yang Fire along with protective medicines and the Yin Yang Rong Yan Pill, then began refining the Yin Yang Twin Flames in his body.
• The Yin Yang Twin Flames discovered the space holding Xiao Li’s Fallen Heart Flame and charged toward it, causing both Heavenly Flames to rampage.
• The Fallen Heart Flame and Yin Yang Twin Flames clashed inside Xiao Li, overwhelmed his Soul Force, and left his body ruined as he collapsed.