Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ting persuaded Su Qian to let him enter the Library Pavilion immediately and secured three item selections by revealing that he was a Fourth-Rank Alchemist. As Su Qian escorted him there, Xiao Ting recorded his theory that a member of the Thunder Clan founded Jia Nan Academy, while the women reading his Notes debated his claims about the novel’s lore.

• Xiao Ting told Su Qian that his instincts urged him to visit the Library Pavilion that day, and Su Qian explained that waiting for a meeting could earn him a second selection chance.
• Xiao Ting insisted on going immediately and revealed his Purple Heaven Sky Flame and Fourth-Rank Alchemist badge, which he had earned under Fa Ma in Jia Ma Holy City.
• Su Qian increased Xiao Ting’s reward to three Library Pavilion item selections and offered him a separate reward for killing Blood Skull Elder.
• Xiao Ting asked Su Qian to arrange a place in the Inner Academy for his returning maid, and Su Qian agreed to have Hu Gan make arrangements in Peace Town.
• Su Qian led Xiao Ting toward the Library Pavilion while Xiao Ting wrote Notes claiming a Thunder Clan member founded Jia Nan Academy and outlining his guesses about the Eight Ancient Clans’ affiliated forces.
• The women reading Xiao Ting’s Notes discussed his claims about Tuo Dou and the history of Jia Nan Academy.

Huo Zhi explained the alliances between the Di Clans and outside forces, while Caili hinted she had an idea involving the Beast Clan. Xiao Ting reached Jia Nan Academy’s Library Pavilion, where the Two Elders of Qian and Bai discovered that he had hidden abilities beyond those Su Qian had described.

• Huo Zhi recounted how the Burning Flame Ancestor befriended Xiao Xuan and received the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes from him, prompting Tang Huo'er to hope she could befriend Xiao Ting.
• Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Caili teased Yun Yun about cultivating with Xiao Ting and gaining Yun Potian's inheritance.
• Huo Zhi outlined the forces supported by the Di Clans, including the Flame Clan's alliance with Old Man Shennong and the Stone Clan's support for the Beast Clan.
• Caili said she had an idea concerning the Beast Clan, then noted that Xiao Ting had arrived at the Library Pavilion.
• Su Qian asked the Two Elders of Qian and Bai to let Xiao Ting select three or four items, and described Xiao Ting's age, strength, alchemy rank, and victory over a Demon Flame Valley elder.
• Xiao Ting summoned the Purple Heaven Sky Flame, and the Two Elders of Qian and Bai sensed its power and realized he was still concealing something.

Xiao Ting entered the Library Pavilion after the Two Elders of Qian and Bai recognized his Half-step Spirit Realm soul and opened its Spatial Lock. After tempering his heart with the pavilion’s plaque, he began seeking treasures and received the Heavenly Thunder Induction soul technique.

• The Two Elders of Qian and Bai sensed Xiao Ting’s soul realm and learned he had reached the Half-step Spirit Realm.
• The Two Elders explained the Library Pavilion’s rules, then joined their power to open its spatial gateway.
• Xiao Ting entered the hidden valley, tempered his heart before the pavilion plaque, and decided to pursue a breakthrough in seven days.
• Xiao Ting entered the Library Pavilion’s great hall and waited for a suitable treasure to come to him.
• A silver beam approached Xiao Ting, revealing the Low Earth Tier Soul Secret Technique Heavenly Thunder Induction.

Xiao Ting explored the Jia Nan Academy Library Pavilion, collecting rare soul and movement techniques along with a treasure that could strengthen his soul. He finally obtained the Thunder Flame Indestructible Body, the Dou Di Inheritance he had been waiting for.

• Xiao Ting used Purple Heaven Sky Flame to break the barrier protecting the Heavenly Thunder Induction soul technique and Soul Weapon Stone.
• Xiao Ting rejected several cultivation techniques and Dou Techniques before claiming the Earth Tier Intermediate Instant Flame Thunder Shadow Step.
• Xiao Ting caught a jade bottle containing a heavenly treasure that could directly increase soul power and used his third chance to take it.
• Xiao Ting prepared himself before an energy barrier, and a lightning-patterned jade slip flew to him.
• Xiao Ting caught the jade slip containing the Thunder Flame Indestructible Body and confirmed that he had obtained the Dou Di Inheritance.

Xiao Ting revealed the Thunder Clan’s Thunder Flame Indestructible Body, a body-refining method that could be cultivated without a special bloodline and whose first three levels could raise the body to Nine-Revolution Peak Dou Zun strength. The women realized the inheritance’s true value, while the Notes hinted that the technique had two further levels whose conditions and power remained unknown.

• Yun Yun, Han Yue, Cao Ying, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Ling, Huo Zhi, and Xun'er reacted to Xiao Ting’s claim that he had obtained a Thunder Clan cultivation method beyond Heaven Tier.
• Huo Zhi, Yao Ling, and Xun'er explained that Dou Di inheritances were difficult to cultivate and that the Dou Qi Continent lacked the resources needed to support top-tier cultivation.
• Xiao Ting’s Notes revealed that Thunder Flame Indestructible Body was a Quasi-Heaven Tier method that required no corresponding Dou Di Bloodline and could be cultivated from Dou Wang.
• The Notes described the method’s first three levels: lightning and fire tempering that could bring the body to the strength of a Nine-Revolution Peak Dou Zun.
• The Notes revealed that the technique had a fourth and fifth level, which the Jia Nan Academy founder had not known about and no Thunder Clan disciple had mastered.

Xiao Ting described the Thunder Flame Indestructible Body’s final stages, then explained how Dou Di and Dou Sheng compared with Great Thousand World cultivators. The women learned that Dou Di experts were only weakened Earthly Sovereigns, and the chapter ended as Xiao Ting’s account left them stunned.

• Xiao Ting revealed that the fourth stage required a Thunder-Fire Attribute and could forge a body as tough as a peak ninth-tier magical beast.
• Xiao Ting described the fifth stage’s immortal body and its power to regenerate, summon lightning, and transform into a giant.
• The women complained in the group chat when Xiao Ting stopped short of explaining how to cultivate the fifth stage.
• Xiao Ting introduced the Great Thousand World’s cultivation ranks and said a Dou Di roughly matched an Earthly Sovereign in life level and combat strength.
• Xiao Ting clarified that Dou Di was actually an incomplete, weakened Earthly Sovereign and explained the differences between lower-plane cultivation and Sovereign power.
• Xiao Ting said Dou Di cultivators who reached the Great Thousand World could rapidly reach Ninth Grade Sovereign and face no bottleneck entering the Earthly Sovereign Realm, leaving the women shocked.

Xiao Ting explained how cultivation in the Great Thousand World compared with the Dou Qi Continent and revealed that he was preparing his foundation for the transition. As the dungeon holders discussed ways to strengthen themselves, Yun Yun worried she was the only one without a clear advantage, until Xiao Ting’s final sentence turned everyone’s attention to Xun’er.

• Xiao Ting wrote about the Great Thousand World’s cultivation ranks, the Three Minor Tribulations of the Sovereign, and his preparations for them.
• Xiao Ting used the Notes to broaden the dungeon holders’ horizons and encourage them to invest in him, confident that they could only befriend him.
• Feng Qing’er, Tang Huo’er, and others discussed the advantages of their bloodlines and foundations, while Yao Ling and Huo Zhi agreed to trade techniques and help each other.
• Yun Yun suggested that the women share their resources to cultivate their bodies, energy, and spirits, but Caili, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Xun’er each described their own paths to strength.
• Yun Yun felt that she was the only one without a special advantage and resolved to improve, while Xiao Ting wrote a final sentence that drew everyone’s attention to Xun’er.

Xun'er reflected on her status in the Gu Clan and her refusal to marry Lei Dong, while Jia Nan Academy's elders learned about Xiao Ting's extraordinary talent and fought over recruiting him. The chapter ended with the Alchemy Department claiming priority over the Combat Department in recruiting him.

• Xun'er recalled how her God-Grade Bloodline had changed the Gu Clan elders' attitude toward her and resolved to become strong enough to control her own fate.
• Xun'er and Huo Zhi discussed Lei Dong's strength, and Xun'er said she would be embarrassed if she did not become a Dou Di within ten years while following Xiao Ting.
• Su Qian told the Inner Academy elders that he had brought Xiao Ting to the Library Pavilion and offered him three or four choices of items.
• Su Qian revealed that Xiao Ting was fifteen years old, a Two-Star Dou Wang, had killed a Dou Wang elder from Demon Flame Valley, and was a Fourth-Rank Alchemist.
• Elder Huo declared Xiao Ting qualified for rewards as a future Honorary Elder of the Alchemy Department, and the department heads argued over recruiting him.

Xiao Ting arrived at Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy and negotiated the terms of his enrollment with Su Qian. After agreeing to publicly refine a Tier 4 Medicinal Pill, he secured access to the lowest level of the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower and chose to join the Alchemy Department.

• The Two Elders of Qian and Bai reminded Xiao Ting not to reveal information from the Library Pavilion, and he flew to the Inner Academy.
• Su Qian told Xiao Ting that the elders approved his selection of three Library Pavilion items if he publicly refined a Tier 4 Medicinal Pill.
• Xiao Ting agreed to refine the pill before the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower the next morning and asked to cultivate at its lowest level, which Su Qian approved.
• Su Qian helped Xiao Ting complete his registration as a Jia Nan Academy student.
• Elder Huo and the head of the Combat Department invited Xiao Ting to their departments, and Xiao Ting chose the Alchemy Department.

Xiao Ting settled into Jia Nan Academy’s Alchemy Department and planned to refine a Tier 4 pill before entering the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower. At the Outer Academy, Han Yue joined Xun’er’s group and shared dinner with Xiao Ting, who ended the evening by writing that she reminded him of Han Xue.

• Xiao Ting declined Elder Huo’s offer to become an elder and chose a secluded courtyard in the Alchemy Department.
• Elder Huo warned the department’s alchemists not to scheme against Xiao Ting before his public pill refinement the next day.
• Xun’er, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian welcomed Han Yue into their Notebook Copy group after she moved into their courtyard.
• Xiao Ting visited Xiao Yan and Yao Lao for alchemy guidance before going to the Outer Academy with dinner for Xun’er.
• Xiao Ting invited Han Yue to stay for dinner, then wrote in the Notes that seeing her made him think of Han Xue.

Xiao Ting revealed Han Yue and Han Xue’s future roles in the Central Plains and discussed the risks facing the Han Clan and Feng Qing’er’s Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. The next morning, Xiao Ting arrived at the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower to refine a Tier 4 Medicinal Pill before a growing crowd.

• Xiao Ting noticed Han Yue react to the Notes mentioning Han Xue, but he kept quiet about her ability to read them.
• Xiao Ting wrote about Han Yue and Han Xue’s roles in Xiao Yan’s future and explained why the Northern Region needed its own representative power.
• Feng Qing’er, Han Yue, Tang Huo'er, and others discussed the Han Clan’s future and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s possible conflict with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Ting invited Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to watch him refine a Tier 4 Medicinal Pill at the Inner Academy the following day.
• Hu Gan brought Ruo Lin, Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Han Yue, and Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, where Xiao Ting arrived before the crowd as a Fourth-Rank Alchemist.

Xiao Ting publicly demonstrated his alchemy at Jia Nan Academy, revealing soul power and refining skill beyond Elder Huo’s. The chapter ended with the onlookers unable to identify the pill he was making.

• Xiao Ting greeted the crowd and brought out the Thunder Flame Cauldron he had formed from a Soul Weapon Stone.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that Xiao Ting’s soul had reached Mortal Realm Perfection and that his Spirit Realm soul could let him advance toward Dou Zun without bottlenecks.
• Xiao Ting began refining medicinal ingredients with the Purple Heaven Sky Flame while Elder Huo urged the alchemists to observe and identify the pill.
• Elder Huo admitted that Xiao Ting’s Tier 4 alchemy and flame control surpassed his own, leaving the gathered alchemists wondering what pill Xiao Ting was refining.

Xiao Ting refined three powerful Tier 4 pills at once, impressing the alchemists watching. When Zi Yan tried to snatch one, Xiao Ting fought back, and their clash sent the last pill flying as Su Qian noticed Xiao Ting's precise soul control.

• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen to identify Xiao Ting's pill, and Yao Chen guessed it was a modified Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill using Qianteng Spirit Flower and Companion Amethyst Source.
• Xiao Ting added three drops of Companion Amethyst Source to his cauldron and completed three top-tier Tier 4 pills at once.
• Elder Huo was astonished by the pills' quality and Xiao Ting's ability to refine three simultaneously.
• Zi Yan darted in to seize a pill, but Xiao Ting attacked her and stored two of the pills in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Ting and Zi Yan reached for the remaining pill as Zi Yan punched at his chest, and Su Qian prepared to intervene before noticing Xiao Ting's soul control.

Xiao Ting defeated Zi Yan when she tried to steal his newly refined pill, then accepted Su Qian’s offer to cultivate in the lowest level of the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower. Feng Qing’er read Xiao Ting’s Notebook Copy and learned he expected to find the remains of an Eighth Rank Heavenly Demon Phoenix in the Black-Corner Region, before discovering its claim that Zi Yan was an Ancient Void Dragon Princess.

• Xiao Ting struck Zi Yan with a soul-enhanced punch, sent her crashing through a rooftop, and took the Purple Crystal Extreme Spirit Pill.
• Su Qian apologized for Zi Yan’s behavior, explained her magical-beast origins, and offered Xiao Ting up to half a year on the lowest level of the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Ting gave pills to Xun'er and Xiao Yan, asked Xun'er to host Yun Yun if she arrived, and followed Su Qian into the tower to cultivate.
• Feng Qing'er read Xiao Ting’s Notebook Copy, learned he planned to seek an Eighth Rank Heavenly Demon Phoenix’s remains in the Black-Corner Region, and decided the information gave her reason to go there.
• Feng Qing'er read that Zi Yan was an Ancient Void Dragon Princess and reacted with shock.

Feng Qing'er learned that Zi Yan was the royal daughter of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and discovered how powerful her bloodline and future standing would be. Xiao Ting's Notes declared Zi Yan the continent's true number one rich, fair, and beautiful girl, and Xun'er welcomed her aboard the flying ship.

• Feng Qing'er recognized Zi Yan as an Ancient Void Dragon princess but decided not to oppose her because of her ties to Xiao Ting and his friends.
• Xiao Ting's Notes explained the hierarchy of beast-clan bloodlines and revealed that Zi Yan was Zhu Kun's only daughter with a pure royal bloodline.
• Zi Yan learned how exceptional her bloodline was and blamed Tuo Dou for her miserable childhood, while Xun'er and the others shared their own hardships.
• Xiao Ting's Notes explained that Zhu Kun would lavishly protect Zi Yan after returning and that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan surpassed the Gu Clan in strength and resources.
• Xun'er saw Zi Yan running toward her on the flying ship and called her the continent's true number one rich, fair, and beautiful girl.

Xiao Ting learned more about Zi Yan’s talents and the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, then began cultivating at the bottom of Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower. Three months later, Yun Yun faced the Gold and Silver Elders in the Black-Corner Region, who threatened her over an item.

• Xun'er reassured Zi Yan that she was not upset about Xiao Ting’s evaluation, and Zi Yan said she wanted to become strong enough to protect her friends.
• Xiao Ting’s notes described Zi Yan’s talents and her future chance to refine the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, while warning that Feng Qing’er could not survive refining it.
• Feng Qing’er abandoned her plan to pursue the fruit and decided to investigate the death of an Eighth Rank clan member in the Northwest Continent.
• Su Qian brought Xiao Ting to the bottom of the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, explained the Source Heart Flame, and gave him a Special Token for cultivation.
• Xiao Ting cultivated there for three months, while Yun Yun blocked an attack from the Gold and Silver Elders, who demanded that she hand over an item.

After three months of seclusion, Xiao Ting arrived just as Yun Yun was being attacked by the Gold and Silver Elders and blocked their strike. He revealed his greatly increased strength and unleashed Heavenly Thunder Induction against them as Jia Nan Academy’s powerful figures rushed to the scene.

• The Gold and Silver Elders combined their strength to attack Yun Yun, who realized they had reached power comparable to a Dou Zong.
• Xiao Ting appeared behind Yun Yun, revealed that he had reached Peak Dou Wang and advanced his physique and soul, and explained that he had come to save her after learning of the ambush.
• Xiao Ting blocked the Elders’ giant palm with Purple Heaven Sky Flame and mocked their strength.
• Xiao Ting gathered the surrounding energy into the Thunder Flame Cauldron, alerting Su Qian, Hu Gan, Wu Tianlang, and other nearby cultivators.
• Xiao Ting used Heavenly Thunder Induction to summon lightning that locked onto the Gold and Silver Elders, leaving them shocked by his power.

Xiao Ting broke through the Gold and Silver Elders’ defenses and nearly killed them, but Han Feng intervened to save Gold Old Ghost. In Peace Town, the women gathered around the Notebook Copy and wondered whom Xiao Ting had called a treacherous idiot.

• The Gold and Silver Elders defended themselves against Xiao Ting’s lightning, but Xiao Ting shattered their energy mountains with his punch and the Purple Heaven Sky Flame.
• The Gold and Silver Elders used the Blood Escape Secret Technique to flee in separate directions, and Xiao Ting pursued Silver Old Ghost while his Thunder Shadow Clone chased Gold Old Ghost.
• Xiao Ting struck Silver Old Ghost and left him severely injured, while Han Feng blocked the Thunder Shadow Clone from reaching Gold Old Ghost.
• Xiao Ting recognized Han Feng and called him the Dou Qi Continent’s number one ungrateful, treacherous idiot in his thoughts.
• Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Huo Zhi, Feng Qing'er, Han Yue, Han Xue, and Zi Yan read the Notebook Copy in Peace Town and wondered whom Xiao Ting meant.

Feng Qing'er and Zi Yan bickered before Xiao Ting’s Notes revealed how Yao Chen had raised and trained Han Feng, making Han Feng’s betrayal seem especially foolish. Han Feng asked Xiao Ting to spare the injured Gold and Silver Elders, but Xiao Ting refused to show him respect unless he brought Venerable Yao.

• Zi Yan criticized Feng Qing'er for showing off, and Xun'er explained that Zi Yan’s concern stemmed from her own childhood and appearance.
• Xiao Ting’s Notes recounted how Yao Chen avenged Han Feng’s family, took him as a disciple, and carefully developed his talent.
• The Notes explained that Han Feng betrayed Yao Chen for Fen Jue despite having little reason to resent him or gamble away his secure future.
• Han Feng introduced himself as the Medicine Emperor and asked Xiao Ting to spare the Gold and Silver Elders, acknowledging their wrongdoing.
• Xiao Ting refused to give Han Feng face and said he might consider it if Han Feng brought Venerable Yao.

Xiao Ting exposed Han Feng’s betrayal of Venerable Yao before the Black-Corner Region’s gathered experts, then provoked Han Feng into attacking him. Xiao Ting countered with the Purple Heaven Sky Flame and overwhelmed Han Feng with Heavenly Thunder Induction, leaving Han Feng to claim that an alchemist’s true strength lay elsewhere.

• Xiao Ting revealed that Han Feng had betrayed Venerable Yao and helped the Soul Hall ambush him, shocking the onlookers.
• Xiao Ting explained Venerable Yao’s Nine-Revolution Peak Dou Zun strength and accused Han Feng of fleeing to the Black-Corner Region out of guilt.
• Han Feng denied Xiao Ting’s accusations and blamed the Soul Hall and Old Man Mu Gu for Venerable Yao’s death.
• Xiao Ting threatened to inform Feng Zunzhe of Han Feng’s location, causing Han Feng to lose control and attack with the Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Ting countered with the Purple Heaven Sky Flame and struck Han Feng with Heavenly Thunder Induction.
• Han Feng struggled under Xiao Ting’s assault and declared that an alchemist’s true strength did not lie in combat.