Chapter Summaries

Han Feng sensed two Heavenly Flames near Jia Nan Academy and enlisted Hua Ji to help him pursue them. After Xiao Yan's fire attack, Gongsun reappeared unharmed, while Xiao Yan was left shaken by her apparent disappearance.

• Han Feng learned that Jia Nan Academy had captured Bai Shan and discussed the Hehuan Sect's decline with Hua Ji.
• Han Feng sensed two Heavenly Flames near Jia Nan Academy and begged Hua Ji to help him obtain them; Hua Ji agreed to repay a favor.
• Xiao Yan found Gongsun's blue Storage Ring amid the fire-ravaged cliff and believed she had vanished.
• The new students celebrated Xiao Yan's victory, while Xun Er spotted Gongsun standing in the sky and recognized her power as that of a Dou Zong.
• Gongsun approached Xiao Yan unharmed and teased him for looking sad about her apparent death.

After Xiao Yan defeated Liuli, she gave him Fire Energy and medicine before returning to the Inner Academy, where Su Qian warned her about the disturbance and told her White Yin and Bai Hui would be publicly beheaded in two days. Liuli concealed Xiao Yan’s ability to use two Heavenly Flames and left Zi Yan to forage for herself.

• Liuli offered Xiao Yan a Storage Ring containing five hundred points of Fire Energy, and Xiao Xun'er accepted it for him.
• Liuli gave Xiao Yan Third-grade Blood-healing Pills for the injured new students and left after ruffling his hair.
• Su Qian confronted Liuli about the disturbance in the training space, and she said Xiao Yan had caused it without revealing his two Heavenly Flames.
• Su Qian told Liuli that White Yin and Bai Hui would be publicly beheaded in the Inner Academy plaza in two days.
• Zi Yan asked Liuli for food, and Liuli told her to get some from the medicinal herb storehouse.

Liuli watched Xiao Yan’s progress in Jia Nan Academy and worried that he had not confronted her after learning of her strength. She ran into Xiao Yan and Yao Han discussing a treatment for Yao Han’s illness, and Xiao Yan revealed that a Heavenly Flame was needed to cure him completely.

• Liuli observed that Xiao Yan had founded Panmen, resolved conflicts with the White Gang and Medicine Gang, and advanced to Nine-star Great Dou Master.
• Liuli spotted Xiao Yan speaking with Yao Han about a Sunrise Fruit and hurried over to join them.
• Xiao Yan explained that Yao Han’s sword’s Extreme Yin Power eroded his body, and that a treatment using yang-aligned ingredients could create Origin Dou Qi to neutralize it.
• Liuli questioned why earlier treatments had failed, and Xiao Yan demonstrated his azure Heavenly Flame and said only an Alchemist with a Heavenly Flame could eradicate the illness completely.

Xiao Yan demonstrated that the Bone Spirit Cold Flame could ease Yao Han’s chronic ailment, then bought a Sunrise Fruit and threatened its price-gouging seller with a ban from Panmen. After Liuli confronted him over his distrust and rejection of their cooperation, Xiao Yan pulled her away from the watching crowd to talk privately.

• Xiao Yan showed Yao Han the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Yao Han said he would join Panmen if Xiao Yan cured his ailment.
• Xiao Yan bought the Sunrise Fruit for 120 days of Fire Energy and told the stall owner Panmen would no longer sell him medicinal pills.
• Xiao Yan rejected Liuli’s offer of cooperation, saying their difference in status meant they were not the same kind of people.
• Liuli angrily denied wanting Xiao Yan’s Jade Slip and declared it worthless to her.
• Xiao Yan took Liuli by the hand and led her away from the crowd so they could talk elsewhere.

Xiao Yan confronted Liuli about why she kept helping him and insisted on ending their dealings, while Liuli struggled to explain her motives. After he rejected her and walked away, Liuli broke down in tears.

• Xiao Yan questioned Liuli about her interest in him and the Tou She Ancient God Jade, but she could not explain her true reason for approaching him.
• Xiao Yan said he would repay Liuli’s help but wanted their cooperation and connection to end afterward.
• Liuli tried to stop Xiao Yan and threw the Blue Longsword in front of him, but he accused her of trying to suppress him or reveal her true intentions.
• Liuli cried and called Xiao Yan an ungrateful hypocrite, comparing his trust in Xiao Xun'er with his suspicion of her.
• Old Yao urged Xiao Yan to leave, and Xiao Yan walked away as Liuli crouched down and sobbed.

Old Yao discovered that Fallen Heart Flame had influenced Xiao Yan’s emotions and removed its trace from his body, warning him to avoid the tower until he reached Dou Ling. Liuli grieved over her ruined relationship with Xiao Yan, and Zi Yan set off to confront him after hearing his name.

• Old Yao found that Fallen Heart Flame had planted a trace of Origin Heart Flame in Xiao Yan, which had made him unusually cold and impulsive, and erased it.
• Xiao Yan regretted how he had treated Liuli and learned from Old Yao that Fallen Heart Flame wanted to devour the other Heavenly Flames and had grown stronger.
• Old Yao dismissed Xiao Yan’s plan to seek another Heavenly Flame far away and advised him to apologize to Liuli and stay out of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower until he reached Dou Ling.
• Liuli raged over Xiao Yan’s ingratitude, considered abandoning her plans to help him, and then cried because she still wanted to fight alongside him.
• Zi Yan found Liuli asleep and heard her murmur Xiao Yan’s name, then leaped out the window to go drag him over and beat him up.

Xiao Yan refined a Heart Stabilizing Pill while Zi Yan came to Panmen looking for him because he had made Liuli cry. Zi Yan broke into the secret chamber and attacked Xiao Yan, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xiao Yan took Yao Han's herbs into Panmen's secret chamber, where Old Yao began refining a pill to cure Yao Han's illness and teach Xiao Yan about the Heart Stabilizing Pill.
• Zi Yan arrived at Panmen demanding Xiao Yan, knocked Ke Li unconscious with one punch, and told Hu Jia she wanted to punish him for making Liuli cry.
• Yao Han told Zi Yan that Xiao Yan was in the underground secret chamber, and she headed down to find him.
• Xiao Yan successfully refined a Heart Stabilizing Pill, but Zi Yan sensed the pill's fragrance and briefly hesitated before remembering why she had come.
• Zi Yan blasted open the secret chamber's Stone Gate, confirmed Xiao Yan's identity, and punched toward his abdomen.

Zi Yan beat Xiao Yan for making Liuli cry, then dragged him to Liuli so he could face her. Liuli had just relaxed in her room when Xiao Yan walked in and saw her in a thin nightgown, and she burned herself with spilled tea in her panic.

• Zi Yan struck Xiao Yan twice, breaking bones and sending him out of the secret chamber.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that Zi Yan was a Fifth-tier Magical Beast who could take human form after consuming Shaping Grass.
• Xiao Yan swallowed five Third-grade Body Restoration Pills, agreed to go with Zi Yan, and followed her to Liuli.
• Liuli woke, changed her sheets, bathed, and settled down to read while trying to treat her stay at Jia Nan Academy as a vacation.
• Zi Yan burst into Liuli's room with Xiao Yan, and Liuli sprang up in shock when she saw him.
• Liuli knocked over a teacup in her panic and burned her thigh with the spilled tea.

Liuli tried to repair her relationship with Xiao Yan and revealed that his Tou She Ancient God Jade was a key to a Dou Di's Cave Mansion. She warned him that the Soul Clan wanted him dead and explained that Xun Er's Ancient Clan might seek the Jade through peaceful means.

• Zi Yan explained that she had brought Xiao Yan to Liuli because she thought he had bullied her, and Liuli hurriedly silenced her.
• Liuli apologized for deceiving Xiao Yan and asked him to believe that she sincerely wanted to be his friend.
• Xiao Yan recalled the white-clothed girl who had once been his first friend as Liuli urged him not to judge friendship by strength.
• Liuli revealed that the Tou She Ancient God Jade was one of nine pieces needed to open a Dou Di's Cave Mansion, where a path to becoming a Dou Di was said to lie.
• Liuli told Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan had ordered his death and taken his father, while Xun Er's Ancient Clan might approach him peacefully to obtain the Jade.

Liuli explained the Sword Clan’s role in protecting Xiao Yan and the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and the two renewed their friendship. After Xiao Yan left, Liuli discovered that Zi Yan had eaten all four Fifth-grade Pills from her Jade Bottle.

• Xiao Yan learned that Xun Er belonged to the Ancient Clan, and Liuli explained that the Sword Clan had no designs on the Tou She Ancient God Jade and had approached him to protect him.
• Liuli and Xiao Yan apologized, affirmed their sincere friendship, and introduced themselves to each other anew.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Family might descend from the vanished Xiao Clan, one of the Ancient Clans.
• Xiao Yan and Liuli talked until dusk about the wider continent, and Xiao Yan left after thanking her.
• Liuli found Zi Yan asleep on her bed and realized she had eaten all four Fifth-grade Pills from the Jade Bottle.

Hungry Zi Yan followed the scent of Xiao Yan’s pill refining and traded the Ice Fire Dragon Beard Fruit for three years of pill refining. Liuli approved of the deal, while Xiao Yan secretly celebrated obtaining the ingredient he needed for the Earth Spirit Pill.

• Zi Yan, barred from Liuli’s pills and the herb repository, followed the scent of Xiao Yan’s Sealing Crystal Pill to his room.
• Xiao Yan agreed to refine pills for Zi Yan unconditionally for three years if she provided the herbs, in exchange for the Ice Fire Dragon Beard Fruit.
• Zi Yan returned to Liuli and bragged that she had found a Fifth-grade Alchemist with a Heavenly Flame.
• Liuli confirmed Zi Yan had made a good deal, while Xiao Yan was secretly pleased to have obtained the fruit.

Xiao Yan took Zi Yan to the Back Mountain to break through to Dou Ling and hunt a Sixth-tier Magical Beast for its Magical Core. Liuli joined them at the Inner Academy’s North Gate, warned them about a dangerous presence in the mountains, and secretly gave Zi Yan a Water Magical Core in case Xiao Yan failed to find one.

• Zi Yan and Xiao Yan grew close as he refined Pills for her, and she agreed to help him search for treasures in the Back Mountain.
• Liuli devoted herself to cultivation and reached the peak of the Two-star Dou Zong realm, eager to keep up with Xiao Yan’s future progress.
• After a month of cultivation and practicing Three Thousand Lightning Movement, Xiao Yan set out with Zi Yan to break through and hunt a Sixth-tier Magical Beast.
• Liuli met Xiao Yan and Zi Yan at the Inner Academy’s North Gate and warned them not to provoke the dangerous presence hidden in the mountains.
• Liuli secretly gave Zi Yan a Water Magical Core and told her to use it to bargain for ten years of Pill refining if Xiao Yan found no core himself.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan hunted a Fifth-Rank Flood Dragon to obtain an Autumn Water Jade Root, while Liuli warned Zi Yan to avoid a dangerous area farther west. They secured the root, and Xiao Yan made Zi Yan juice from her share.

• Xiao Yan learned from Old Yao that the cave held an Autumn Water Jade Root guarded by a newly Fifth-Rank Water-elemental beast, and planned to lure it out while Zi Yan fought it.
• Liuli revealed she had been following Xiao Yan and Zi Yan, warned Zi Yan to stay away from a dangerous area to the west, and gave her a Cold Moon Hundred Heart Grass.
• Xiao Yan lured a Flood Dragon out of the cave, and Zi Yan grabbed its tail and slammed it into the ground.
• Xiao Yan returned to the cave and took the Autumn Water Jade Root, then split it with Zi Yan and made juice from her share.
• Zi Yan drank three bottles of the juice that night and went to sleep happily.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan continued exploring Back Mountain, and Xiao Yan broke through to Two-Star Dou Ling before they headed toward a lake with a powerful life aura. Liuli found and attacked a horned Water Python guarding the lake, while Old Yao woke Xiao Yan and led him away from the cave.

• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan hunted treasures as they traveled deeper into Back Mountain, and Xiao Yan used the Sealing Crystal Pill and other treasures to break through to Two-Star Dou Ling.
• Zi Yan sensed a dense life aura at a lake about twenty li northwest, so Xiao Yan planned to scout the area and retreat if its guardian proved too strong.
• Liuli discovered a Seven-star horned Water Python beneath the lake and split the water with a sword strike to draw it out.
• The Water Python attacked Liuli, who severed its tail with a slash and noticed the beast's blood carried an unusually dense life aura.
• Old Yao woke Xiao Yan and led him out of the cave after Xiao Yan sealed the entrance to keep Magical Beasts away from Zi Yan.

Liuli killed the Seven-star Water Python and investigated the blood-tainted Life Force rising from the lake. Xiao Yan claimed the python's Magical Core, and Liuli emerged from the water to find him covered in gore.

• Liuli noticed the Water Python regrowing its severed tail, then killed it with Seven Swords, Dawning Wind, Waning Moon.
• Liuli leaped into the lake to investigate the strange Life Force, while Xiao Yan and Old Yao discussed the python and the lake-bottom treasure.
• Old Yao revealed that he had asked Liuli for permission to take the Magical Core, and she had replied, "Take whatever you want!"
• Xiao Yan burned through the python's scales, discovered its insides had been shredded, and recovered its Blue Crystal Magical Core.
• Liuli burst from the lake as Xiao Yan prepared to wash, then called him disgusting.

Xiao Yan learned that Liuli had been protecting him and discovered her standing as a Divine Grade Bloodline possessor from the Sword Clan. Old Yao questioned her loyalties, and Liuli pledged to support Xiao Yan unless he committed unforgivable evil.

• Liuli told Xiao Yan she had come to protect him and Zi Yan from the dangers of the mountain range.
• Liuli warned Xiao Yan that a Peak Dou Zong lived in the western mountains and said she could help them escape it.
• Old Yao recognized Liuli’s Sword Clan mark as proof of her Divine Grade Bloodline and confirmed that she was the clan leader’s daughter.
• Old Yao asked whether Liuli or her clan intended to harm Xiao Yan over the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Liuli said the clan had no such design.
• Liuli declared that she would stand with Xiao Yan if he had done no wrong, while supporting the Sword Clan if he committed unforgivable evil.
• Old Yao warned Liuli not to harm Xiao Yan without cause, and Liuli resolved to earn Xiao Yan’s trust through companionship.

Liuli gave Zi Yan a drop of Ancient Void Dragon Essence Blood, which stirred painful memories of her lonely childhood and fear that her parents had abandoned her. As Zi Yan prepared to absorb it, Liuli promised to protect her and worried that the story’s future might unfold differently because Xiao Yan had not become enemies with the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Liuli gave Zi Yan a drop of purple-gold Essence Blood and explained that it could help her break through to Six-star.
• Zi Yan remembered growing up alone and cried as she wondered whether her parents had abandoned her, while Liuli comforted her.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao left the cave, and Xiao Yan spoke about missing his father as Old Yao recalled losing his own parents.
• Liuli told Xiao Yan that Zi Yan would absorb the Essence Blood in the cave and asked him to make sure she never suffered grievances.
• Liuli worried that the Misty Cloud Sect had not become Xiao Yan's enemy and wondered how the future assaults on the sect would happen.

Zi Yan began a breakthrough as a mysterious monster awakened and drove nearby Magical Beasts into a Beast Tide. The disturbance reached Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian sent elders to restrain affected students before heading northwest to confront the threat.

• Liuli found Zi Yan cocooned in purple light and encouraged her breakthrough, while Old Yao explained to Xiao Yan that she was an Ancient Void Dragon.
• A monster emerged from a Rift Valley and its eerie cry sent nearby Magical Beasts charging toward the cave where Liuli, Xiao Yan, and Old Yao were gathered.
• Liuli fed Xiao Yan a Blue Pill after the cry nearly made him collapse, then spotted the approaching Beast Tide.
• Su Qian noted that Medicine Emperor Han Feng had disappeared from view before a roar sent Jia Nan Academy students into a frenzy.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to subdue the affected students and flew northwest toward the source of the roar.

Liuli left Xiao Yan and Old Yao to defend Zi Yan from a Beast Tide while she confronted the monster advancing from the Rift Valley. Her Heavenly Flames repelled the monster’s Black Slime, but the powerful creature remained unharmed and attacked her.

• Liuli told Old Yao and Xiao Yan to guard Zi Yan while she headed southwest to confront the approaching threat.
• Xiao Yan chose to stay and fight beside Old Yao rather than abandon Liuli’s trust, and Old Yao began burning the charging beasts with white flame.
• Liuli confronted a massive, tentacled monster covered in Black Slime, which revealed that it sought to consume Zi Yan and Liuli to reach the eighth tier.
• Liuli’s sword strike failed to harm the monster, and its Black Slime ensnared Heart Rain and began creeping toward her hand.
• Liuli used Heavenly Flames to drive the Black Slime back and repel a tentacle, but the monster remained a threat.

Liuli used her Heavenly Flames to overpower and steadily wear down the slime-covered monster, while Xiao Yan slaughtered Magical Beasts at the cave entrance with Old Yao's power. The Beast Tide began to subside, but Xiao Yan spotted a huge monster advancing through the Dark Mist.

• Liuli recognized that the monster feared her Heavenly Flames and struck it with White Rainbow Piercing the Sun.
• The Black Fire burned through the monster's tentacles and flesh, preventing its wounds from regenerating as Liuli pressed her attack.
• Liuli pursued the retreating monster, continuing to slash at it while estimating that she would need about an hour to break through its defenses.
• Xiao Yan killed Magical Beasts with Old Yao's power and collected their Magical Cores as he defended the path to the cave.
• The Beast Tide began to tire and retreat, and Xiao Yan sensed Liuli fighting a powerful opponent to the southwest.
• Xiao Yan saw a huge, pitch-black monster emerging from the Dark Mist and advancing toward him.