Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ting thwarted Han Feng’s attempt to recruit allies by revealing his powerful companions and exposing his own alchemist status. Han Feng crushed a jade slip to summon help, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Han Feng offered to refine pills for free if the gathered factions helped him defeat Xiao Ting, but the leaders hesitated over his betrayal of Yao Lao.
• Xiao Ting bought time for Caili to complete a Dou Zong-level barrier that sealed the area, then warned the crowd against helping Han Feng.
• Caili revealed herself as a Two-Star Dou Zong, and Yun Yun joined Xiao Ting in displaying her Peak Dou Emperor aura.
• Su Mei, Tie Wu, Yin Gu Lao, and Mo Tianxing refused to help Han Feng, while Fan Lao and Yan initially held back.
• Xiao Ting revealed that he was a Fifth-Rank Alchemist and promised he could match Han Feng’s offers, prompting Fan Lao and Yan to distance themselves from Han Feng.
• Han Feng crushed a jade slip and declared that he still had help.

Xiao Ting, Caili, and Yun Yun confronted Han Feng, and Xiao Ting killed him and claimed his possessions. Xiao Ting took Han Feng’s soul and token, then announced he would take over Feng City and invited others to request pill refinement in exchange for a spiritual herb.

• A Jia Nan Academy figure arrived to protect Xiao Ting, while Caili’s attack weakened Han Feng and Xiao Ting erased the soul imprint on the Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron.
• Xiao Ting took the Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron, and Caili and Yun Yun attacked Han Feng, with Yun Yun severing one of his arms.
• Xiao Ting struck Han Feng with the Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron, killing him, then captured his soul and took his Nether Sea Storage Ring.
• Xiao Ting reforged Han Feng’s Special Token with his own mark and offered to refine pills for a spiritual herb.
• Xiao Ting announced that he intended to take over Feng City and asked everyone to help manage it.

Xiao Ting returned from seclusion, claimed Han Feng’s holdings, and asked Yao Chen to help him prepare for a breakthrough to Dou Emperor. His Storage Ring revealed that Han Feng had once belonged to Yao Chen, leaving Xiao Yan eager to confront the man who betrayed his teacher.

• Xiao Ting assigned Yun Yun to oversee Feng City, renamed it Zixiao City, and asked Fan Lao to secure Han Feng’s possessions for him.
• Xiao Ting returned to Jia Nan Academy, declined to attend the Inner Academy Disciple Selection Tournament, and visited Xiao Yan with Caili.
• Xiao Ting told Xiao Yan and Yao Chen that he had mastered much of the Fifth-Rank Alchemist knowledge and asked Yao Chen to refine an Emperor-Breaking Pill.
• Xiao Ting revealed that his Storage Ring had belonged to Han Feng, prompting Yao Chen to react with shock and Xiao Yan to ask where Han Feng was.
• Xiao Ting explained that Han Feng had already been killed, while Zi Yan urged Feng Qing’er to leave before Xiao Ting and Xiao Yan arrived.

Xiao Ting handed Han Feng’s soul over to Yao Lao and asked him to refine an Emperor-Breaking Pill before visiting Xun’er. There, he met Huo Zhi, who challenged his worthiness to stand beside Xun’er and revealed her Dou Zun cultivation.

• Xiao Ting delivered Han Feng’s soul to Yao Lao, who trapped it with the Bone Chilling Flame and agreed to refine an Emperor-Breaking Pill.
• Xiao Ting visited Xun’er and told her he needed to advance quickly because her clan would not let him grow at his own pace.
• Xiao Ting noticed Huo Zhi’s Red Lotus Karma Flame and realized she was a Flame Clan member who had come to see Jia Nan Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xun’er introduced Huo Zhi as her new friend, and Huo Zhi told Xiao Ting that he was not worthy of Xun’er.
• Huo Zhi released her Dou Zun aura and challenged Xiao Ting to explain how he could remain with Xun’er when she was already a Dou Zun.

Huo Zhi challenged Xiao Ting to prove he could become powerful enough to stay with Xun'er, and the two formalized a wager with rewards for Xiao Ting's breakthroughs and a penalty if he failed. Afterward, Xiao Ting cooked a celebratory meal for Xun'er, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian before the Inner Academy Selection Tournament.

• Huo Zhi told Xiao Ting that he was unworthy of Xun'er unless he reached higher cultivation levels, and Xun'er defended him and rejected Huo Zhi's condescension.
• Huo Zhi offered Xiao Ting cultivation techniques and secret arts if he reached Dou Zong before twenty, Dou Zun by Xun'er's Coming-of-Age Ceremony, or Peak Dou Zun before thirty.
• Xiao Ting agreed to become Huo Zhi's guard if he failed, and proposed that Huo Zhi become his maid if he reached Dou Sheng before thirty.
• Huo Zhi and Xiao Ting signed a contract recording their wager, with Xun'er as their witness.
• Xiao Ting cooked for Xun'er, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian and toasted their success in the Inner Academy Selection Tournament.

Xiao Ting bet Huo Zhi that he would reach Dou Zong before age twenty and entered seclusion with an Emperor-Breaking Pill, while his name and power spread through the Black-Corner Region. Ten days later, he began a breakthrough beneath the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower as Zixiao City gained new allies and Xiao Yan’s group claimed the top five spots in the Inner Academy Selection Tournament.

• Huo Zhi revealed that she had bet Xiao Ting he would reach Dou Zong before twenty, and Xun'er confirmed she would witness the bet rather than prevent Huo Zhi from becoming his maid if she lost.
• Xiao Ting obtained Yao Lao's Emperor-Breaking Pill, returned to the Inner Academy, and began cultivating with the Fallen Heart Flame's power.
• News that Xiao Ting had killed the Gold and Silver Elders and Han Feng spread through the Black-Corner Region, drawing potential recruits to Zixiao City.
• Su Mei joined Zixiao City with the Rakshasa Sect, which became the Rakshasa Hall under her leadership.
• Han Yue, Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan took the top five spots in the Inner Academy Selection Tournament and later robbed older students of Fire Energy points.
• After ten days in seclusion, Xiao Ting began a dramatic surge in cultivation beneath the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower.

Xiao Ting entered the Magma World beneath the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, found Venerable Tian Huo’s remains and a second Fallen Heart Flame, and arranged to bring the weakened Dou Zun soul to Xiao Yan for resurrection. He forged Tian Huo’s remains into a sword and tested it on a Flame Lizard Tribe creature.

• Xiao Ting used the Fallen Heart Flame to enter the Magma World and locate the spatial barrier around Yao Tianhuo’s remains.
• Yao Tianhuo explained how he had died trying to subdue a second, infant Fallen Heart Flame after becoming a Five-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Ting offered to take Yao Tianhuo to Xiao Yan, whose teacher Yao Lao could help resurrect him, and Yao Tianhuo agreed to help Xiao Ting master the infant flame.
• Xiao Ting summoned the Purple Heaven Sky Flame, which drew the infant Fallen Heart Flame to it, and declined to learn Yao Tianhuo’s Five Wheel Fire Method.
• Xiao Ting used the Purple Heaven Sky Flame to melt Yao Tianhuo’s remains into a white-jade sword and sent it to kill a Flame Lizard Tribe creature.

Xiao Ting returned from the Magma World with the Fallen Heart Flame’s young flame and proposed exchanging it with Jia Nan Academy for the mature flame. Su Qian and the elders agreed, and Xiao Ting was left to explain how he would take away the peak Fallen Heart Flame.

• Xiao Ting entered the Magma World with Yao Tianhuo in a Flying Sword and rode the Fallen Heart Flame’s giant fire python back to the barrier.
• Su Qian and the elders watched in shock as the Fallen Heart Flame happily carried Xiao Ting out of the magma.
• Xiao Ting asked Su Qian to open the barrier and proposed trading a loyal young Fallen Heart Flame for the mature one.
• Xiao Ting showed the elders the young flame and explained how it could sustain the academy’s cultivation needs while resolving the danger of the mature flame erupting.
• Xiao Ting mentioned that he expected to become a Tier 6 Alchemist soon, and Elder Huo, Penalty Elder, and Su Qian agreed to the deal.
• Su Qian asked Xiao Ting how he planned to take away the peak Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Ting subdued Fallen Heart Flame and helped Jia Nan Academy install it in the Thousand-Layer Seal, then showed Xiao Yan a flame he had taken for himself. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan and Yao Chen stunned by the Fallen Heart Flame and Xiao Ting insisting Xiao Yan was the big brother.

• Xiao Ting weakened Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian and the elders opened the Thousand-Layer Seal so Xiao Ting could place its juvenile flame in the formation core.
• Xiao Ting offered to refine Fifth-Grade Medicinal Pills for Jia Nan Academy’s elders and students before leaving the tower.
• Xiao Ting found Xiao Yan and led him through a spatial rift to his courtyard.
• Xiao Ting revealed that the Purple Heaven Sky Flame could absorb Fallen Heart Flame’s origins and reproduce its cultivation-tempering effects.
• Xiao Ting presented Xiao Yan with a flame of Fallen Heart Flame, shocking Xiao Yan and Yao Chen.
• Xiao Ting told Xiao Yan not to call him little brother and declared that Xiao Yan was the big brother.

Xiao Ting gave Xiao Yan a mature Fallen Heart Flame and a jade bone sword containing Venerable Tian Huo’s soul, then tested the Purple Heaven Sky Flame’s ability to absorb traits from other flames. He visited Xun’er and bickered with Huo Zhi, ending by presenting Xun’er with a gift he claimed surpassed her Eighth Rank spirit herb.

• Xiao Ting explained that he had exchanged a newly born Fallen Heart Flame and a promise to refine pills for Jia Nan Academy for the mature Fallen Heart Flame, then gave it and the jade bone sword containing Venerable Tian Huo’s soul to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Ting used the Purple Heaven Sky Flame to absorb traits from Xiao Yan’s Green Lotus Core Flame and Yao Chen’s Bone Chilling Flame, including the latter’s hidden soul imprint.
• Xiao Ting found Xun’er in her courtyard and took her hand, while Huo Zhi complained that the two were ignoring her.
• Huo Zhi claimed she and Xun’er had shared a bed and mentioned giving Xun’er an Eighth Rank Heaven and Earth Spirit Herb, but Xun’er denied sleeping with her and said her gifts to Xiao Ting were voluntary.
• Xiao Ting summoned the Purple Heaven Sky Flame and offered Xun’er a gift, claiming it was better than Huo Zhi’s spirit herb.

Xiao Ting won a bet with Huo Zhi and used her Red Lotus Karma Flame to strengthen the Purple Heaven Sky Flame while creating a juvenile flame for Xun'er. After Huo Zhi left, Xiao Ting took Xun'er into a room and put up a barrier, while Huo Zhi secretly watched.

• Xiao Ting bet Huo Zhi that his gift to Xun'er was more valuable than her Eighth Rank Heaven and Earth Spirit Object, then revealed that he was giving Xun'er the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Huo Zhi admitted defeat and lent Xiao Ting her Red Lotus Karma Flame, warning him not to blame her if he got burned.
• Xiao Ting's Purple Heaven Sky Flame suppressed the Red Lotus Karma Flame, and Huo Zhi felt the overwhelming force through their connection.
• Xiao Ting returned the Red Lotus Karma Flame after absorbing its special ability and separating some of its energy to make a juvenile flame for Xun'er.
• Huo Zhi left after Xiao Ting asked for privacy, and he led Xun'er into a room and sealed it with a Purple Heaven Sky Flame barrier.
• Huo Zhi secretly peeped as Xun'er and others teased her in their notes.

Xiao Ting absorbed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame’s traits into his Purple Heaven Sky Flame, then helped Xun'er prepare to refine Heavenly Flames and tested its bloodline effects on Caili. After spending three months refining pills at Jia Nan Academy, he broke through to Seven-Star Dou Emperor and prepared to begin making Tier 6 Medicinal Pills.

• Xiao Ting analyzed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and integrated its traits into the Purple Heaven Sky Flame.
• Xiao Ting told Xun'er that the Fallen Heart Flame and Red Lotus Karma Flame had been prepared for her to refine with the Fen Jue.
• Xiao Ting tested whether the Purple Heaven Sky Flame could improve Caili's bloodline, then spent time with her.
• Xiao Ting publicly refined Fifth-Grade Medicinal Pills at Jia Nan Academy, earning Elder Huo's admiration and drawing students from major Central Plains clans.
• After three months of pill refining, Xiao Ting reached Seven-Star Dou Emperor, sensed Spatial Power, and decided to start refining Tier 6 Medicinal Pills.

Xiao Ting advanced to Tier 6 alchemist and prepared to leave Jia Nan Academy for Zixiao City, offering Elder Huo a chance to reach the same rank. After learning that Lu Wanli’s cultivation had regressed under mysterious circumstances, Xiao Ting agreed to examine him and the Recovery Spirit Purple Pill’s potential to restore him.

• Xiao Ting refined a Recovery Spirit Purple Pill, attracting Jia Nan Academy’s elders and drawing attention from experts across the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Ting announced that he would stay in Zixiao City to fulfill his pill-refining promises and offered to help Elder Huo become a Tier 6 alchemist within half a year.
• Zi Yan received her pills and decided to accompany Xiao Ting to Zixiao City, while Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin continued cultivating at the academy.
• Xiao Ting distributed the Fifth-Grade pills he had promised and explained that the Recovery Spirit Purple Pill could restore cultivation lost through special circumstances for cultivators below Dou Zong.
• Lu Qian told Xiao Ting that his son Lu Wanli had fallen from Two-Star Dou Emperor to Peak Dou Wang after an ambush and could no longer break through bottlenecks.
• Xiao Ting agreed to examine Lu Wanli, recognizing that his case was unusual despite the pill’s ability to restore cultivation.

Xiao Ting examined Lu Wanli and discovered that a hidden injury and accumulated yang energy had caused his cultivation to regress. After learning the Yin-Yang Heaven Spirit Flower might still be growing in Yang Spring Valley, Xiao Ting set out to find it.

• Xiao Ting gave Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin pills and said they could cultivate indefinitely in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, while Xiao Yan was told to gain experience in the Combat Department.
• Xiao Ting agreed to refine Break-Sect Pills and other Tier 6 pills for Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang in exchange for academy Contribution Points and ingredients.
• Xiao Ting examined Lu Wanli and found a hidden injury in his dantian, along with yang energy accumulated after Lu Wanli consumed a Yin-Yang Heaven Spirit Flower's flower core.
• Xiao Ting explained that a Moon Spirit Pill could heal Lu Wanli and restore his cultivation, then asked where the flower had been found.
• Lu Wanli said he had encountered the flower in Yang Spring Valley, where a Demon Flame Valley elder and a mysterious person attacked him, and Xiao Ting hurried off to find it.

Xiao Ting returned to Zixiao City, promised Yun Yun a chance to advance to Dou Zong, and took her to Yang Spring Valley to claim a nearly mature Yin-Yang Heaven Spirit Flower. There, he discovered two people waiting for the flower, including a mysterious man who seemed to be from the Spirit Clan.

• Xiao Ting took a detailed map from Su Qian and set out for Zixiao City with Zi Yan, while Xun'er and the others prepared to return to the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Ting explained to Zi Yan that he could use spatial power despite being a Seven-Star Dou Emperor, then brought her to Zixiao City.
• Xiao Ting reunited with Yun Yun, promised to refine a Soul-Cleansing Pill for Yun Shan, and said he had an opportunity that could help Yun Yun reach Dou Zong.
• Xiao Ting summoned Caili to guard Zixiao City, left Zi Yan with her, and took Yun Yun to Yang Spring Valley.
• Xiao Ting sensed that a Yin-Yang Heaven Spirit Flower would mature in three to five days and spotted a Demon Flame Valley elder and a hidden, mysterious man watching it.

Xiao Ting brought Yun Yun to Yang Spring Valley to help her seize a breakthrough opportunity and found a Yinyue Spirit Clan woman guarding the Yin-Yang Heaven Spirit Flower. After revealing the Spirit Clan’s ties to the Dou God Clan and its future destruction by the Hun Clan, he identified himself to the woman and asked her to pledge loyalty to him.

• Xiao Ting killed a One-Star Dou Emperor from Demon Flame Valley and revealed that the other person at Yang Spring Valley was connected to the Spirit Clan.
• Xiao Ting’s Notes explained the Spirit Clan’s origins, its unusual bloodlines, and its future as the first Di Clan destroyed by the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Ting found a masked Yinyue Spirit Clan woman guarding the Yin-Yang Heaven Spirit Flower and demanded that she pledge loyalty to him.
• The woman said she would serve either a Dou Zun or someone exceptionally talented like Xiao Ting, then learned that the man before her was Xiao Ting, a Seven-Star Dou Emperor.
• Yun Yun reacted with conspicuous shock when Xiao Ting announced his breakthrough, and Xiao Ting asked the woman whether she wanted to become his.

Yue Xi revealed her Yinyue Spirit Clan heritage and became Xiao Ting’s disciple, asking him to rescue her mother someday. Xiao Ting then took Yun Yun to the Yin-Yang Heaven Spirit Flower, accelerated its maturity, and began helping her refine its power so she could break through to Dou Zong.

• Yue Xi introduced herself as the daughter of Yue Ziling, the former young mistress of the Yinyue Spirit Clan, and explained that she wanted to save her imprisoned mother.
• Xiao Ting accepted Yue Xi as his disciple and promised to help rescue her mother when he was strong enough.
• Xiao Ting gave Yue Xi a token to obtain the Yin-Yang Heaven Spirit Flower, and Yue Xi warned him about a concealed Dou Emperor from Demon Flame Valley.
• Xiao Ting told Yue Xi that he had already killed the Dou Emperor, then took Yun Yun to the island where the Yin-Yang Heaven Spirit Flower grew.
• Xiao Ting used the Purple Heaven Sky Flame to accelerate the flower’s maturity and draw out its black and white energy fish.
• Xiao Ting and Yun Yun began refining the energy fish, with the white one entering Xiao Ting and the black one entering Yun Yun as he tempered her Dou Qi with Heavenly Flames.

While Xiao Ting and Yun Yun cultivated in seclusion, Old Demon of Earth attacked Zixiao City, and Caili confronted him. Caili unleashed her Seven-Colored Heaven-Connecting Light and shattered his giant ice-and-flame sword, leaving a weakened storm rushing toward him.

• Xiao Ting helped Yun Yun cultivate in a sealed world, and their bodies underwent major transformations over several days.
• Old Demon of Earth attacked Zixiao City with blood-red ice, prompting Su Qian and several other powerful figures to head toward the city.
• Huo Zhi reassured Xun'er that Caili could handle Old Demon of Earth, while Yao Lao and Yao Tianhuo prepared to help Xiao Yan intervene if necessary.
• Caili blocked Old Demon of Earth's falling ice and met his attack with a seven-colored arrow fired from a longbow forged by Xiao Ting.
• Caili transformed into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and used the Seven-Colored Heaven-Connecting Light to destroy Old Demon of Earth's giant ice-and-flame sword, sending the remaining storm toward him.

Old Demon of Earth and Protector Xuan joined forces to attack Zixiao City and kill Xiao Ting, but Jia Nan Academy and the city’s allies assembled to resist them. Yun Yun and then Xiao Yan revealed that Zixiao City had more Dou Zong fighters than the attackers expected.

• Old Demon of Earth confronted Su Qian over Jia Nan Academy’s defense of Zixiao City and called on Protector Xuan of the Soul Hall to join the attack.
• Protector Xuan arrived with three Soul Hall Dou Emperor Soul Envoys, while Demon Flame Valley’s Fang Yan and two other elders joined Old Demon of Earth.
• Su Qian refused Protector Xuan’s offer to withdraw and gathered Hu Gan, Wu Tianlang, and Lu Wanli to defend the city.
• Yun Yun arrived as a newly promoted Dou Zong, challenged Protector Xuan, and attacked him with her sword.
• Medusa prepared a Heaven Connection Arrow while Su Qian held Old Demon of Earth back.
• Xiao Yan, controlled by Yao Lao, appeared as a Four-Star Dou Zong and confronted Old Demon of Earth.

Xiao Ting arrived at the battle over Zixiao City just as Old Demon of Earth and Protector Xuan prepared to retreat. He instantly killed four Dou Emperors and then barred the two leaders from leaving.

• Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, Su Qian, and the others fought Old Demon of Earth, Protector Xuan, and their forces while Su Mei challenged a Soul Hall Soul Envoy.
• After losing one Dou Emperor each, Old Demon of Earth and Protector Xuan decided to withdraw and return with reinforcements.
• Xiao Ting descended in purple flames, sealed the area around Zixiao City, and killed four Dou Emperors from Soul Hall and Demon Flame Valley in an instant.
• Xiao Ting confronted Old Demon of Earth and Protector Xuan and declared that neither would leave Zixiao City.