Chapter Summaries

Su Baichen and his group departed Wutan City for the Black-Corner Region, leaving Xiao Yu and Xiao Xun'er to watch them go. Xiao Yu resolved to attend Jia Nan Academy, while Xun'er remembered Su Baichen explaining his distance from her and leaving their future reunion to fate.

• Su Baichen and his group quietly left Wutan City for the Black-Corner Region as Xiao Yan, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Xun'er watched from the gates.
• Xiao Yu felt the gap between her talent and her friends' abilities, then resolved to go to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Xun'er recalled asking Su Baichen why he kept his distance, and he said her background risked entangling him with the Dou God Clan.
• Su Baichen told Xiao Xun'er that his disciples chose their own paths and that whether they met again depended on fate.
• Xiao Xun'er returned from her memories and looked toward the road, Xiao Yu, and the saddened Xiao Yan.

After Yao Chen refused Xiao Yan’s plea to become his disciple, Xiao Yan resolved to follow him to Jia Nan Academy and win his trust. That night, Su Baichen encouraged Yao Chen to give Xiao Yan a chance, and Yao Chen quietly decided he might accept him as a registered disciple if he could catch up.

• Yao Chen gave Xiao Yan the inheritance memories of a first- to fourth-tier alchemist, but sidestepped his request to become a disciple.
• Xiao Yan learned that Yao Chen was headed to Jia Nan Academy and vowed to follow him until he earned his trust.
• Yao Chen reflected on Xiao Yan’s talent and character but hesitated because Han Feng’s betrayal still haunted him.
• Su Baichen told Yao Chen that Xiao Yan’s flaws did not outweigh his good character and urged him to consider accepting the boy.
• Yao Chen decided that if Xiao Yan caught up to him, he would first acknowledge him as a registered disciple.

Su Baichen and his companions explored Black-Seal City, where Xiao Yi Xian bought rare materials and tried to give Qing Lin a Spirit Snake Grass. Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils reacted to a magical beast egg at a nearby stall, and Xiao Yi Xian took her to investigate.

• Caidie dragged Cao Ying through the crowded market, and Cailin followed to keep them safe.
• Su Baichen took Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to Rare Treasure Pavilion, where Xiao Yi Xian bought a Grey Rock Heart and Su Baichen acquired several materials.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Qing Lin a Spirit Snake Grass, but Qing Lin’s eyes reacted to something at a stall selling magical beast eggs.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized the reaction of Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and pulled her toward the egg stall.

Xiao Yi Xian traded a Ningqi Pill and Snake Saliva Grass for the deep green egg Qing Lin had chosen. Su Baichen identified it as a rare Jade-Scaled Snake egg whose lifespan and potential could be transformed by a contract with someone possessing the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Qing Lin began caring for it.

• Xiao Yi Xian persuaded the stall owner to trade Qing Lin's chosen egg for a Ningqi Pill and three stalks of Snake Saliva Grass.
• Qing Lin felt the egg resonate with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils as she brought it to Su Baichen.
• Su Baichen identified the egg as a Jade-Scaled Snake and explained that a contract with Qing Lin could extend its lifespan and give it the potential to reach the ninth tier.
• Qing Lin accepted the responsibility of caring for the egg and returned with Su Baichen and Xiao Yi Xian to meet Caidie and Cao Ying.
• Qing Lin placed the egg beside her bed and felt its heartbeat gradually synchronize with her own.

Su Baichen brought his group to the Black-Seal City Auction Hall and offered several batches of top-grade pills for sale. After appraising them, Old Mo arranged for the fourth-tier pills to be purchased immediately and the fifth-tier pills to headline that day’s finale auction, then escorted the group to a Heaven-Class VIP Room.

• Su Baichen and his companions arrived at the auction hall, drawing the attention of the people outside.
• Su Baichen told the maid that he wanted to sell pills, and Old Mo appraised the five jade bottles.
• Old Mo identified the pills as high-quality treasures, including a peak fifth-tier Spirit-Breaking Pill that could boost a peak Dou Wang expert’s chance of advancing to Dou Emperor by thirty percent.
• Old Mo offered six hundred thousand gold coins for each Three-Pattern Spirit-Clearing Pill and arranged for the other fifth-tier pills to enter the finale auction for a ten-percent fee.
• Su Baichen accepted the terms, received a Black Gold VIP Card, and followed the maid toward the Heaven-Class VIP Room.

Su Baichen and his companions settled into the Heaven-Class VIP Room at the Black-Seal City auction, while a man in another private room ordered his people to watch them after the auction. The auction began, and its first major highlight, a Tier 5 Dragon Strength Pill, sold for 1.2 million gold coins.

• Cao Ying, Xiao Yi Xian, Su Baichen, Caidie, Cailin, and Qing Lin entered the Heaven-Class VIP Room and watched the hall fill below.
• A middle-aged man in an Earth-Class room learned that Elder Mo had given Su Baichen's group a Black Gold Card and ordered his men to watch them after the auction.
• The auctioneer opened the event and sold the Tier 4 Green Wood Sword to a cultivator wearing a bamboo hat for 700,000 gold coins.
• After several lots were auctioned, the auctioneer presented the Tier 5 Dragon Strength Pill and explained that it granted temporary physical strength without consuming Dou Qi.
• Bidders drove the Dragon Strength Pill's price to 1.2 million gold coins, and an elderly man with a powerful aura won it.

The auction’s final item, jade that might contain Ancient Beast Essence Blood, triggered a bidding frenzy after the Spirit-Breaking Pill sold for 1.8 million. Cailin and Caidie sensed an ancient serpent bloodline inside the jade, and Su Baichen bid three sixth-tier Huangji Pills to help Caidie pursue a legendary evolution path.

• The Spirit-Breaking Pill sold to a mysterious bidder for 1.8 million.
• The auctioneer introduced jade said to contain Ancient Beast Essence Blood and began bidding on it.
• Cailin and Caidie sensed that the jade held an ancient serpent bloodline unlike the Heaven-Swallowing Python lineage.
• Cailin explained that the Medusa Clan had a legendary second evolution path, and Su Baichen considered using the essence blood to help Caidie reach it.
• Caidie told Su Baichen she wanted the jade, and he bid three sixth-tier Huangji Pills.

Su Baichen won a mysterious jade stone at auction with three Huangji Pills, then led his group through an ambush and departed Black-Seal City. Yuan Yi realized the group included a Dou Zun and ordered the Eight-Fan Sect to keep their presence secret, while Su Baichen began studying the stone for a way to refine it into a pill.

• Su Baichen outbid the auction hall for the jade stone by offering three Huangji Pills, and the auctioneer sold it to him after the other bidders withdrew.
• Su Baichen's group left the auction house and entered an alley, where Cailin crushed a bandit leader and Caidie took the attackers' Storage Rings.
• Su Baichen noticed observers nearby and opened a spatial rift, taking Cailin and the others away from Black-Seal City.
• Yuan Yi recognized that the group included a Dou Zun and ordered the Eight-Fan Sect to keep the encounter and the senior's whereabouts confidential.
• Inside a spatial passage, Caidie remarked that Yuan Yi had not seemed hostile, and Su Baichen produced the jade stone to study whether it could be refined into a pill.

Su Baichen arrived at Jia Nan Academy with Mang Tianchi’s token and requested an audience with Great Elder Su Qian. Su Qian prepared cautiously to meet him, while Su Baichen recalled an old promise to Mang Tianchi and came seeking cultivation opportunities for his companions.

• Su Baichen presented Mang Tianchi’s token to the gate guards and asked to see Su Qian.
• Su Qian reviewed reports about a purple-haired girl raiding the herb storehouse and cracks forming in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower’s seal.
• Hu Gan told Su Qian that a possible Dou Zun named Su Baichen had arrived carrying the Headmaster’s token.
• Su Qian ordered the academy’s defenses activated and Qian and Bai Elders to stand by in secret.
• Su Qian and Hu Gan headed to the gates to meet Su Baichen, who remembered Mang Tianchi’s old invitation to visit the academy.

Su Baichen won Su Qian’s trust by explaining that Mang Tianchi had given him the token and invited him to Jia Nan Academy as a guest elder. A month later, Su Qian asked for his help with the unstable seal beneath the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, where Su Baichen discovered a faint young Heart Flame and a soul body deep underground.

• Su Baichen told Su Qian that Mang Tianchi had saved and taught him, then entrusted him with the token and permission to visit Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian welcomed Su Baichen and his group, arranged residences for them, and accepted him as a guest elder.
• A month later, Su Qian asked Su Baichen to inspect the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower because the Fallen Heart Flame was straining its seal.
• Su Baichen suppressed the tower’s reaction with his pressure and used his Heaven Realm soul to examine the formation and the flame beneath it.
• Su Baichen discovered a nearly undetectable newborn Heart Flame burning in the earth veins beside a soul body.

Su Baichen explained two ways to address the Fallen Heart Flame crisis at Jia Nan Academy, and the elders chose to cultivate an infant Sub-Flame as a replacement Core Flame. He agreed to have Cao Ying subdue it, promised to extract it at midnight, and left two medicinal pills as compensation before hinting that he might leave the academy.

• Su Baichen told Su Qian and the elders that strengthening the existing seal would delay the crisis but could make the mature Fallen Heart Flame erupt at Dou Zun level.
• Su Baichen revealed that an infant Fallen Heart Flame lay deep underground and could be nurtured into a new Tower Core Flame.
• Su Qian and the elders chose to cultivate the infant flame, and Su Baichen offered for his disciple Cao Ying to subdue it.
• Su Baichen promised two Huangji Pills and one Breaking Sect Pill as compensation, then placed the pills on the table.
• Su Baichen said he would enter the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower at midnight to extract the infant flame and asked the academy to care for Cao Ying and the other girls.
• Su Baichen departed, leaving Su Qian and the elders to prepare to welcome the new Core Flame the next morning.

Su Baichen entered the lava world beneath the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, subdued Fallen Heart Flame, and took a Sub-Flame. He found Yao Tianhuo guarding the juvenile flame and offered to discuss reviving him.

• Su Baichen entered Fallen Heart Flame’s territory and slapped the flame python aside when it attacked him.
• Su Baichen spent half an incense stick beating the flame python into submission, then extracted a wisp of its Sub-Flame and sealed it in the Tianxuan Bead.
• Su Baichen found the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame and called out the hidden presence watching him.
• Yao Tianhuo emerged as a remnant soul and rambled about his long isolation before asking Su Baichen to take him outside.
• Su Baichen told Yao Tianhuo that he wanted to discuss his revival, leaving Yao Tianhuo stunned.

Su Baichen rescued Yao Tianhuo’s remnant soul and planned to revive him once the necessary Heavenly Flames were available. Meanwhile, Yao Chen confronted his former disciple Han Feng in Feng City, leaving Han Feng face-to-face with the master he had betrayed.

• Su Baichen offered Yao Tianhuo complete revival, and Yao Tianhuo entered a Soul-Nurturing Stone to recover.
• Yao Tianhuo questioned Su Baichen throughout their return, so Su Baichen sealed the stone and decided Yao Chen could take charge of him.
• Su Baichen planned to help revive Yao Tianhuo after Cao Ying gathered three Heavenly Flames, then entered the Tianxuan Bead.
• Yao Chen arrived in Feng City, determined to settle his grievances with Han Feng.
• While refining a pill, Han Feng blamed Yao Chen for withholding a Nameless Cultivation Technique and justified murdering him.
• Yao Chen appeared in Han Feng’s alchemy chamber and addressed him as his traitorous disciple.

Yao Chen confronted Han Feng at the Han Mansion, where Han Feng tried to deceive him and escape after refusing to repent. Yao Chen destroyed Han Feng’s soul with the Bone Chilling Flame, ending their master-disciple bond for good.

• Han Feng was horrified to see Yao Chen alive and claimed the Soul Hall had controlled him into betraying his master.
• Yao Chen revealed he had sealed the space around the Han Mansion and blocked Han Feng’s secret message.
• Han Feng dropped his act, blamed Yao Chen for withholding the Nameless Cultivation Technique, and refused to admit wrongdoing.
• Han Feng tried to self-destruct and use the blast to help his soul escape, but Yao Chen seized the soul from his body.
• Yao Chen severed their master-disciple bond and burned Han Feng’s soul to nothing with the Bone Chilling Flame.

Su Baichen and Yao Chen discussed Han Feng’s death before Su Qian and three elders arrived to meet them. Yao Chen agreed to stay at Jia Nan Academy and guide its alchemy department, while Su Baichen entrusted the academy with the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame.

• Yao Chen told Su Baichen that he had tracked down and killed Han Feng after sealing the space around him.
• Su Qian and three elders entered and recognized Yao Chen as a renowned Dou Zun expert.
• Su Qian accepted the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame from Su Baichen and promised the academy would nurture it.
• Yao Chen agreed to stay at Jia Nan Academy and teach its alchemy department, asking Su Qian to keep his whereabouts secret.
• Yao Chen said he needed time to recover and investigate matters connected to Soul Hall, and Su Baichen assured him the academy would be safe.

Su Baichen refined a pill before the gathered alchemists of Jia Nan Academy, producing an Eight-Grade Pill that summoned Three-Colored Pill Lightning. He shattered the final lightning strike with his palm, leaving the pill’s tribulation overcome.

• Cao Ying admitted that she had told the academy’s alchemists about Su Baichen’s pill refining, and he allowed them to watch.
• Su Baichen used the Tianxuan Cauldron, his Liuli Burning Heaven Flame, rare ingredients, and ancient Magical Beast blood essence to refine the pill.
• Su Baichen activated a Spirit Gathering Array to draw in natural energy and complete the pill as the crowd watched.
• Yao Chen identified the resulting lightning as the tribulation of an Eight-Grade Pill, and three colors appeared in the clouds.
• Su Baichen used the array’s shields to withstand the Three-Colored Pill Lightning, then shattered its final violet bolt with his palm.

Su Baichen completed an eighth-tier pill that survived Three-Colored Pill Lightning and subdued its newly awakened spirit when it tried to escape. As he vanished from the square with the pill, Zi Yan remained fixated on her hunger for it.

• Su Baichen held the newly transformed three-colored pill as it tried to flee, then restrained and tamed it with a simple motion.
• The crowd erupted in shock and praise after witnessing Su Baichen subdue the legendary eighth-tier pill.
• Zi Yan, drawn by the pill’s fragrance, drooled and murmured that she wanted to eat it.
• Su Baichen stored the pill, glanced briefly toward Cao Ying and the others and toward Zi Yan, then vanished from the square.

After Su Baichen refined an Eighth-Rank Spirit Pill, Zi Yan became fixated on tasting it, while Caidie eagerly asked to eat her own pill. Su Baichen refused, revealing that he planned to use it as bait to catch a greedy fish that he expected to arrive that night.

• Su Qian dismissed the crowd and told the elders to let Zi Yan approach Su Baichen, hoping he would teach her a lesson.
• Zi Yan stared toward Su Baichen's courtyard and resolved to find a way to taste his pill.
• Caidie rushed into the courtyard and begged Su Baichen to let her eat her pill so her bloodline could evolve.
• Cailin scolded Caidie for acting rashly, and Su Baichen explained that he could not give her the pill yet.
• Su Baichen revealed that he planned to use the pill to fish for a greedy target expected to appear that night.

Zi Yan sneaked into Su Baichen’s courtyard to steal a pill, but fell into a pond and got caught in painful wooden traps. After discovering her Dou Qi was suppressed, she spotted the pill and cautiously began making her way toward it.

• After Su Baichen led the disciples away, Zi Yan climbed over the courtyard wall and fell into a pond.
• Zi Yan dismissed the wooden traps as harmless, then set them off and hurt her ankles while trying to escape them.
• Zi Yan found a sign saying the pill was ahead and realized the courtyard’s Formation Arts array had suppressed much of her Dou Qi.
• Zi Yan smelled a glowing pill beneath an old locust tree and cautiously approached it, finding no traps on her first few steps.

Su Baichen and the others entered the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower while Zi Yan recovered from the traps and resolved to steal the pill. Her next attempt left her dangling from a rope net, still just out of reach.

• Su Baichen explained that he had set the traps to teach Zi Yan a lesson, while Caidie worried that her eighth-tier pill might be stolen.
• Cao Ying teased Su Baichen and Caidie before entering the tower to fuse her flames, and Cailin led Caidie, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin inside to cultivate.
• Zi Yan crawled out of the pit, considered giving up, then caught the pill's fragrance and renewed her determination to eat it.
• Little Golden Fur watched Zi Yan prepare another attempt and mocked her for charging at the pill again.
• Zi Yan triggered a rope net that hoisted her upside down beside the pill, but her repeated swings still left her fingertips just short.