Chapter Summaries

After the Xiao Family settled in Jia Nan City, Xiao Yan advanced to thirteenth place on the Power Ranking while Liuli crafted magical prosthetic limbs for the clan. The Power Ranking Tournament began with the top-ranked students assembling in the arena, and Liuli launched the late Zi Yan onto the stage.

• The Xiao Family settled in Jia Nan City, and Xiao Yan resumed cultivating and challenging Power Ranking fighters.
• Xiao Yan reached Six-star Dou Ling, defeated Yao Han, and rose to thirteenth place on the Power Ranking.
• Old Yao helped Xiao Yan refine an Earth Spirit Pill whose formation produced strange phenomena and brewing Pill Lightning.
• Liuli spent five months crafting powerful Prosthetic Limbs for disabled members of the Xiao Family, earning their affection and becoming close friends with Xiao Yan.
• Great elder Su Qian opened the Power Ranking Tournament and called the ranked students into the arena.
• Liuli spun and hurled the sleepy, late Zi Yan toward the stage, where Zi Yan steadied herself in the air.

The Inner Academy’s Power Ranking Tournament began, and Xiao Yan defeated his old rival Bai Cheng in under three minutes. The matches continued as Yao Han stepped into the arena to face tenth-ranked Su Zi'ang.

• Su Qian explained that the fifty contestants would draw lots to determine their opponents.
• Liuli joined Xiao Xun'er in the stands, and they watched the competition together.
• Xiao Yan drew Bai Cheng as his opponent and quickly sent him out of the arena with Three Thousand Lightning Movement, Eight Extremes Collapse, and Fire Blowing Palm.
• Liuli praised Xiao Yan’s improved strength and considered how his future might change after absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao Han entered the arena to fight Su Zi'ang, the tenth-ranked student on the Power Ranking.

Yao Han defeated Su Zi'ang with a powerful sword technique and reunited with Liuli and the others after the match. Liuli gave Xiao Yan four powerful prosthetic limbs for his two brothers, leaving Xiao Yan deeply grateful.

• Yao Han unleashed his ink-black Sword Qi, defeated Su Zi'ang, and gave him a pill to dispel the chill from his wounds.
• The elder announced Yao Han as the winner, and Yao Han went to join Xiao Yan, Liuli, and Zi Yan in the stands.
• Yao Han sought Liuli's praise, then gave Zi Yan medicinal herbs he had collected in the Black Corner Region.
• Liuli gave Xiao Yan four refined prosthetic limbs made from a Dou Wang Nine Stars expert's skeleton, each capable of unleashing three full-force Dou Wang strikes.
• Xiao Yan thanked Liuli after learning she had spent about seven days refining each prosthetic limb.

After the first round of the Power Ranking Tournament, Liuli turned down Qin Zhen’s invitation to compete, while Han Feng broke through to Dou Zong in the Black Domain Great Plains and prepared to pursue a Heavenly Flame. The chapter left Han Feng plotting to claim more Heavenly Flames and lusting after Hua Ji.

• Several top Power Ranking contestants won their matches, and Liuli estimated that Xiao Yan could defeat anyone below Dou Wang without using the Fire Lotus.
• After the first round ended, Qin Zhen approached Liuli and urged her to enter the tournament, but she refused because the Origin Heart Flame would not benefit her.
• Qin Zhen watched Liuli leave with Zi Yan and privately planned to get close to her.
• In the Black Domain Great Plains, Han Feng broke through to Dou Zong and accidentally unleashed a force that tore through the Black Storm and injured or killed people below.
• Hua Ji reprimanded Han Feng for his uncontrolled attack and asked when he would take the Heavenly Flame; Han Feng said he would act once he sensed its aura again.

Han Feng gathered Black Corner Region powerhouses and offered rewards to enlist their help in seizing Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Flame. After revealing that the Academy had two Dou Zongs, he introduced Hua Ji, a Six-star Dou Zong or stronger, as an ally, leaving the gathering under her overwhelming pressure.

• Han Feng revealed that Jia Nan Academy possessed a Heavenly Flame and offered Storage Rings of rewards to those who helped him seize it.
• Han Feng demonstrated that he had advanced to the Dou Zong realm, but Yuan Yi warned that Jia Nan Academy had another Dou Zong who had destroyed the Hehuan Sect.
• Bai Wu reported that the mysterious Dou Zong who defeated his brother was a young woman wearing Jia Nan Academy student robes.
• Han Feng distributed rewards and promised the Gold-Silver Elders Sect Breaking Pills, then hinted that they would not need to face a Dou Zong alone.
• Hua Ji appeared in the seat of honor, and Han Feng introduced her as Venerable Yao’s companion, whose strength exceeded that of a Six-star Dou Zong.
• Hua Ji invited the gathered powerhouses to join the plan, and her pressure left them unable to move.

Xiao Yan defeated Yao Sheng in the tournament by using his Formless Dou Qi, speed, and the Dragon Might in his left arm. Afterward, he discussed the Ancient Void Dragon bloodline powering that arm with Liuli, while Xiao Xun'er watched them warily.

• Xiao Yan disrupted Yao Sheng's Black Water Domain, shattered his dagger with purple-gold energy, and knocked him unconscious with a palm strike.
• The presiding elder declared Xiao Yan the winner, and Su Qian praised his abilities as Venerable Yao's disciple.
• Elder Huo argued with Hu Gan over Xiao Yan's potential as an Alchemist until Su Qian ended their quarrel.
• Liuli asked Xiao Yan about his Formless Dou Qi, and he thanked her for helping him obtain the Primordial Void Dragon blood that strengthened his left arm.
• Liuli warned Xiao Yan about the danger of absorbing the weakened dragon blood, and Xiao Xun'er tightened her hold on his arm as they spoke.

Xiao Xun'er grew jealous as Xiao Yan and Gongsun Liuli discussed their postponed training, while Han Feng contacted Venerable Mu Gu to arrange an attack on Jia Nan Academy for its Heavenly Flames. Han Feng secretly planned to betray the Soul Hall, and Hua Ji reflected on the vanished alchemist she had waited decades to see again.

• Xiao Xun'er felt uncomfortable about Xiao Yan's closeness with Gongsun Liuli and became unsettled when Liuli complained that he had missed their daily training.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Liuli for being busy with cultivation, Power Ranking challenges, and Panmen's medicinal ingredients, and they agreed to train later.
• Han Feng told Venerable Mu Gu that Jia Nan Academy might possess at least four Heavenly Flames and said its additional Dou Zong made an attack difficult.
• Venerable Mu Gu promised Han Feng the support of two Soul Hall Protectors and ordered him to bring back at least two Heavenly Flames.
• Han Feng decided he would keep the Heavenly Flames and imagined becoming Han Venerate after increasing his strength and alchemy.
• Hua Ji remembered a renowned alchemist who had vanished more than twenty years earlier and lamented that Han Feng had not inherited his virtues.

Xiao Yan and Liu Qing fought to a devastating finish after both unleashed powerful techniques, leaving Liu Qing near death and Xiao Yan badly wounded. Xiao Yan used the Life Flame within him to stabilize Liu Qing, then Liuli arrived and began healing him as Su Qian declared Xiao Yan the winner.

• Xiao Yan unleashed the Earth-tier Flame Splitting Wave Crushing Ruler, and Liu Qing countered with Inch Radiance in a deadly one-for-one exchange.
• Xiao Yan was badly wounded by Liu Qing’s spear attack, but the Life Flame from the Yin Yang Twin Flames began healing his injuries.
• Liu Qing emerged from the flames gravely burned and collapsed unconscious, and Xiao Yan used his Sub-flames to keep him alive.
• Liuli came onto the arena and used white flames to restore Liu Qing’s body.
• Su Qian declared Xiao Yan the winner and allowed Liuli to continue healing Liu Qing.

Liuli healed Xiao Yan after his victory over Liu Qing, and the Power Ranking Tournament established Xiao Yan and Panmen as major forces in the Inner Academy. As student sparring began, Xiao Xun'er challenged Gongsun Liuli, leaving Liuli stunned.

• Liuli used the White Life Flame to heal Xiao Yan and warned him that the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower might be affecting his temper.
• The presiding elder declared Xiao Yan the winner, and Su Qian ordered the next matches to move to a spare platform.
• Liu Fei discovered that Liu Qing had recovered, and Liu Qing accepted his defeat by Xiao Yan.
• The remaining top-ten rankings were settled, with Zi Yan in first, Lin Xiuya in second, and Xiao Yan placed tenth; Panmen's reputation rose across the Inner Academy.
• As student sparring began, Xiao Xun'er challenged Gongsun Liuli, leaving Liuli bewildered.

Xiao Xun'er challenged Liuli, and their fight drew a large crowd as the elders raised a barrier around the stage. Liuli repeatedly cut through Xun'er’s attacks, but Xun'er’s aura surged to peak Dou Wang as the battle continued.

• Xiao Xun'er challenged Liuli, who agreed to fight her on the battle stage.
• Su Qian ordered four elders to reinforce the defenses, and they activated a barrier around the stage.
• Xiao Xun'er and Liuli exchanged attacks, but Liuli’s Sword Qi cut through Xun'er’s palm winds and golden sphere.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that Liuli’s Sword Qi had an unusual ability to cut apart attacks and might strengthen his own techniques.
• Xiao Xun'er began floating above the stage as her aura rose from Eight-Star Dou Ling to peak Dou Wang.

Xiao Xun'er revealed her hidden strength during a fierce battle with Liuli, then gave Xiao Yan the first two seals of her family's Earth-tier Emperor Seal Art. After Xiao Yan reassured her about Liuli and kissed her, Xiao Xun'er nestled against him, still blushing.

• Xiao Xun'er unleashed the Mountain Splitting Seal and flew into the sky with Liuli to continue their battle, while the Power Ranking Tournament ended.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Xun'er later that night, and she admitted that Liuli had blocked all her attacks during their two-hour fight.
• Xiao Xun'er explained that the Mountain Splitting Seal belonged to the Emperor Seal Art and gave Xiao Yan a scroll containing its first two seals, warning him not to cultivate them before reaching the Dou Wang realm.
• Xiao Xun'er questioned why Xiao Yan accepted Liuli's favors so readily, and Xiao Yan said Liuli was only his friend.
• Xiao Yan called Xiao Xun'er his little sister, kissed her, and left her blushing in his embrace.

After the Power Ranking Tournament, Xiao Yan spent a quieter period supporting the Xiao Family and training with Liuli while preparing to absorb the Fallen Heart Flame. He then discovered that Ling Quan and a group of Dou Huang experts had come to take Xiao Xun'er back to her clan, and he revealed himself to stand beside her.

• Xiao Yan visited the Xiao Family and auctioned pills in the Black Corner Region as his clansmen rebuilt their strength.
• Xiao Yan trained with Liuli for a month, repeatedly defeating her in sparring, and told her he had reached Seven-Star Dou Ling.
• Liuli sensed trouble in the southwestern sky and sent Xiao Yan toward the Back Mountain.
• Xiao Yan secretly approached the Back Mountain and found Ling Quan and his group confronting Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Xun'er agreed to return after Ling Quan showed her a token engraved with the character Yuan.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside Xiao Xun'er, introduced himself to Ling Quan as Xiao Family's Xiao Yan, and challenged the group’s contempt.

Xiao Xun'er left with the Ancient Clan after warning Xiao Yan to guard the Tou She Ancient God Jade and wait until he was strong enough to come for her. After she departed, Ling Quan attacked Xiao Yan for his relationship with her, but a pink-haired girl arrived and intervened.

• Ling Quan mocked Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family, then asked whether Xiao Yan knew about the key held by the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Xun'er told Xiao Yan that she had to return to the Ancient Clan and privately warned him to keep the Tou She Ancient God Jade secret.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er embraced and promised to reunite, while she urged him not to approach her family before reaching Dou Zong.
• After Xiao Xun'er departed, Ling Quan insulted Xiao Yan and attacked him, driving him back despite his use of the Heavenly Flame Three Profound Transformations.
• A pink-haired girl appeared and cleaved the ground between Xiao Yan and Ling Quan with her sword, rebuking Ling Quan.

Liuli stopped Ling Quan from attacking Xiao Yan and drove him away from the Inner Academy’s Back Mountain. She then explained the Ancient Clan’s formidable younger generation to Xiao Yan and encouraged him to pursue his potential, leaving him more resolved despite feeling powerless.

• Liuli confronted Ling Quan and warned him not to attack Xiao Yan, then cut his sleeve and topknot when he invoked the Ancient Clan’s status.
• Ling Quan fled on his flying magical beast, and Liuli struck his back with a silver flaming palm before he disappeared.
• Xiao Yan thanked Liuli, who dismissed her intervention as beating up a lackey.
• Liuli explained that Ling Quan was a Deputy Commander in the Black Annihilation Army and described how its leaders included Dou Venerates.
• Xiao Yan worried that he was powerless compared with the Ancient Clans, and Liuli encouraged him by praising his talent and Heavenly Flame-fusion technique.

Xiao Yan and Panmen gathered with the other top Power Ranking students to enter the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower for body tempering. As the group prepared to go inside, Liuli worried over Xiao Yan, while deep underground the Fallen Heart Flame continued absorbing energy.

• Xiao Yan led Panmen to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where other factions made way for them.
• Lin Xiuya greeted Xiao Yan and learned that Xun Er had returned to her clan.
• Liuli brought Zi Yan to the gathering, and Xiao Yan agreed to refine more pills for her after body tempering.
• Liuli asked Yao Han about tempering his body despite the Extreme Yin Power within him, and warned Xiao Yan to be careful.
• The top Power Ranking students arrived as a huge Flame Serpent coiled inside a black barrier underground and absorbed energy from a point of purple light.

Liuli waited for Xiao Yan to finish tempering his body, then rushed into the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower when he failed to emerge with the others. After Xiao Yan completed the tempering and they headed out, Fallen Heart Flame erupted, and Liuli warned Su Qian that it was about to break free.

• Liuli discovered Xiao Yan had remained at the bottom of the tower and rushed in after Zi Yan explained his body tempering had not finished.
• Old Yao told Liuli that Fallen Heart Flame was influencing Xiao Yan’s Origin Heart Flame and that Xiao Yan was nearing the end of the tempering.
• Liuli stayed beside Xiao Yan until he completed the tempering, rising to the peak of the Seven-Star Dou Ling realm.
• Liuli, Xiao Yan, and Old Yao headed for the tower exit, but violent tremors and surging magma revealed Fallen Heart Flame was erupting.
• Liuli and Xiao Yan escaped the tower, and Liuli urgently told Su Qian that Fallen Heart Flame was about to erupt.

Fallen Heart Flame broke through the seals beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, forcing Su Qian to evacuate Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy and rally its elders. Liuli stayed to confront the intelligent Peak Dou Zong flame and protect Xiao Yan, leaving the battle underway.

• Su Qian sensed Fallen Heart Flame’s immense strength and ordered everyone to evacuate the Inner Academy.
• Su Qian gathered eighteen elders to form a containment formation, while Liuli gave them enhancement pills and urged Zi Yan to leave.
• Liuli warned Xiao Yan that Fallen Heart Flame was now too strong for him to absorb, but he chose to stay.
• Fallen Heart Flame broke out of the tower and attacked Xiao Yan, so Liuli sent him away and blocked the flames with Sword Heart Rain.

Liuli fought the Fallen Heart Flame while Su Qian and the elders tried to maintain the seal around the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower. Han Feng appeared and demanded the Fallen Heart Flame, and as Su Qian moved to confront him, a group of gold- and silver-robed figures emerged from the clouds.

• Liuli used her bloodline and secret method to rise to Eight-star Dou Zong and battled the Fallen Heart Flame with the Heart Rain Sword.
• The Fallen Heart Flame endured Liuli's attacks, broke through Su Qian's seal with its tail, and injured several elders.
• Han Feng appeared as a Dou Zong and offered to absorb the Fallen Heart Flame, but Su Qian rejected his proposal.
• Liuli volunteered to hold back the Fallen Heart Flame while Su Qian led the elders and Zi Yan to confront Han Feng.
• Su Qian called out Han Feng's hidden allies, and more than a dozen figures in gold and silver robes emerged from the clouds.

Han Feng’s forces attacked Jia Nan Academy as its elders struggled to protect the damaged seal and contain Fallen Heart Flame. Liuli used Heart Rain to trap the Flame Serpent’s attacks, while the battle around the academy remained unresolved.

• Han Feng ordered the Gold-Silver Elders to hold Su Qian while he fought Wu Tianlang and Hu Gan, and the Black Corner Region fighters attacked the academy’s elders.
• Wu Tianlang and Hu Gan arrived with reinforcements, and Jia Nan Academy’s elders intercepted the enemy Dou Huangs.
• Zi Yan knocked one Dou Wang into the ground and chased the remaining four away from the formation.
• Liuli struggled to fight Fallen Heart Flame as it drew on underground magma and focused on breaking the seal’s formation.
• Liuli launched Heart Rain into the Flame Serpent, where its sword intent stopped Fallen Heart Flame from attacking.

Xiao Yan watched the battle while Old Yao urged him to conserve his strength for absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame. After Han Feng nearly killed Wu Tianlang, Xiao Yan rescued him and challenged Han Feng, leaving the two to face each other.

• Xiao Yan and Old Yao agreed to wait before joining the battle, while Xiao Yan noted Han Feng’s strength and vowed to help Old Yao settle his feud with his former disciple.
• Han Feng suppressed Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang, while Su Qian remained tied up by the Gold-Silver Elders and the other Jia Nan Academy fighters struggled against their opponents.
• Han Feng struck Wu Tianlang with the Sea Heart Flame, and the blast swallowed him as Hu Gan was thrown back.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the flames carrying the unconscious Wu Tianlang, gave him medicinal pills, and handed him to Hu Gan.
• Xiao Yan challenged Han Feng and asked Su Qian to let him handle the fight; Su Qian and Hu Gan returned to their other battles, leaving Xiao Yan and Han Feng facing one another.