Chapter Summaries

Ye Changge explained the Black Corner Region’s factions and Jia Nan Academy’s hidden strength to Medusa, then Xiao Yan arrived with Old Yao and received the Black List booklet. Old Yao’s Bone Spirit Cold Flame erupted from Xiao Yan’s Ring, forcing Medusa to defend herself as Ye Changge turned to address Old Yao.

• Ye Changge showed Medusa the Black List and warned her that the region and Jia Nan Academy both held hidden Dou Zong experts.
• Ye Changge suggested Jia Nan Academy had allowed the Black Corner Region’s factions to remain as a way to temper the academy and its students, and Medusa understood his reasoning.
• Ye Changge sensed Old Yao calling from Xiao Yan’s Ring and realized Xiao Yan had arrived in the Black Corner Region.
• Ye Changge handed Xiao Yan the Black List booklet, and Xiao Yan placed it into the Ring containing Old Yao.
• Bone Spirit Cold Flame burst from the Ring and attacked Medusa, who blocked it with her seven-colored Dou Qi before Ye Changge could react.
• Medusa checked on Ye Changge, and he told her to wait while he spoke with Old Yao about the flame’s eruption.

Ye Changge and Medusa arrived at Black Seal City, where he sold pills to obtain a VIP card and they attended the auction. The auction’s sixth item was a Flame Wolf King cub, and the chapter ended with the auctioneer noticing a pale, handsome young man among the front-row guests.

• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that Han Feng had betrayed and killed him, and asked Xiao Yan to avenge him; Xiao Yan agreed.
• Ye Changge left with Medusa for Black Seal City, and she frightened an overly flirtatious maid with the aura of the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.
• Ye Changge sold two Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pills and received a Level Two VIP card; the appraiser suspected he was connected to a powerful Alchemy Master and planned to inform Yuan Yi.
• Ye Changge and Medusa took front-row seats at the Black Seal Auction, where the sixth item, a Flame Wolf King cub, drew little interest.
• The auctioneer privately cursed the person who had forced the auction house to list the cub and glanced at a pale, handsome young man seated near the front.

At the Black Seal Auction, Fan Ling tried to assert himself over Ye Changge and Medusa, but their exchange ended without a fight as the auction moved on. When Ye Changge saw his Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pills go up for sale, he pretended to be an eager young buyer and revealed an aura of a peak nine-star Dou Master, setting his plan to provoke Fan Ling in motion.

• The auctioneer nearly declared the Flame Wolf King cub unsold, but Medusa offered to buy it before Ye Changge talked her out of it.
• Fan Ling tried to impress Medusa, then threatened Ye Changge and her after she rebuffed him; Ye Changge answered with a threat of his own.
• The Eight Gates Sect supervisor gathered support in the hall, but both factions held back, and the cub failed to sell.
• The auctioneer introduced two bottles of Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pills, which caught Fan Ling's interest.
• Ye Changge told Medusa he would toy with Fan Ling and pretended to covet the pills, loudly boasting that he was a peak nine-star Dou Master as his cultivation aura spread through the hall.

Ye Changge outbid Fan Ling for the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pills by tricking him into paying 4.5 million gold coins, then revealed that the pills were his and that he had broken through to Da Dou Shi. After the Eight Gates Sect’s deputy sect master stopped Fan Ling from attacking, Ye Changge identified himself as Xiao Yan, a Third-Grade Alchemist, and Fan Ling threatened him beyond Black Seal City.

• Fan Ling drove the price of the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pills up to 4.5 million gold coins, outbidding Ye Changge and winning the auction.
• Ye Changge revealed that he had consigned the pills for sale and thanked Fan Ling for raising their price, then showed that he had advanced to Da Dou Shi.
• Fan Ling attacked Ye Changge, but the Eight Gates Sect’s deputy sect master struck him back and ordered the Blood Sect to behave while in Black Seal City.
• Elder Wang restrained Fan Ling, and the deputy sect master warned that the two sides could settle their dispute after leaving the city.
• Fan Ling asked Ye Changge his identity, and Ye Changge claimed to be Xiao Yan, a Third-Grade Alchemist certified in the Jia Ma Empire’s Imperial Capital.
• Fan Ling threatened to make Xiao Yan pay once he left Black Seal City.

Ye Changge arranged to meet Fan Ling outside Black Seal City, then collected the auction proceeds after Fan Ling’s beast cub failed to sell. Fan Ling waited through the night for Ye Changge and Medusa, growing furious when they never appeared.

• Ye Changge agreed to meet Fan Ling in the forest west of Black Seal City, while Fan Ling left Elder Luo to pay the auction bill.
• The auction supervisor returned Fan Ling’s unsold magical beast cub, and Fan Ling drained its blood and swallowed it before leaving.
• Ye Changge collected 4.05 million gold coins and told Medusa they would deal with Fan Ling’s group the next day.
• Fan Ling and his men waited in the forest for Ye Changge and Medusa, but they stayed inside Black Seal City.
• Mosquitoes covered Fan Ling’s face with bites as he angrily insisted on waiting and vowed to kill Xiao Yan.

Ye Changge, disguised as Xiao Yan, confronted Fan Ling and revealed that he had reached peak Dou Ling, while Medusa faced Elder Wang. The chapter left Fan Ling in danger and Medusa overpowering Elder Wang with her Dou Ancestor strength.

• Elder Wang and Fan Ling waited through the night outside Black Seal City, and Ye Changge arrived at dawn with Medusa.
• Ye Changge mocked Fan Ling and fought him, knocking away his crescent blade before revealing his peak Dou Ling aura.
• Fan Ling called for Elder Wang to save him as Ye Changge pressed his attack.
• Medusa sent Elder Wang crashing through the forest with a light strike, then revealed herself as a transformed magical beast.
• Elder Wang tried to flee by air, but Medusa struck him back into a crater with a massive ribbon of seven-colored Dou Qi.
• A powerful aura crushed Elder Wang as Medusa approached him.

Ye Changge defeated Fan Ling with the Invisible Heavenly Flame, killed the Blood Sect Blood Guards, and burned Fan Ling away. As Ye Changge went to find Cai Lin, Medusa continued to torment Elder Wang, who finally challenged her to kill him quickly.

• Fan Ling saw Elder Wang get hurled to the ground by Medusa, then used the Bone-Melting Blood Fiend Palm against Ye Changge.
• Ye Changge countered Fan Ling's attack with the Invisible Heavenly Flame and revealed the source of Fan Ling's unease.
• Ye Changge summoned Invisible Fire Pythons to kill the Blood Sect Blood Guards and burn Fan Ling to nothing.
• Ye Changge rode the Invisible Fire Python toward Cai Lin while Medusa whipped Elder Wang as he struggled to dodge.
• Elder Wang shouted that Medusa should give him a quick death, and Medusa praised the little bug for having backbone.

Medusa and Ye Changge dealt with the white-haired Dou Wang before Yuan Yi arrived looking for Xiao Yan. Yuan Yi was forced to kneel and was badly injured by Medusa, left coughing blood in a pit beneath the hovering Invisible Fire Python.

• Medusa overwhelmed the white-haired Dou Wang, and Ye Changge ordered the Invisible Fire Python to swallow him when he tried to flee.
• Ye Changge and Medusa set off toward Peace Town, but Yuan Yi arrived and mistook them for powerful patrons of Xiao Yan.
• Yuan Yi tried to bluff his way out after realizing Ye Changge and Medusa were Dou Zong experts, but Ye Changge ordered him to kneel.
• Ye Changge summoned an invisible Heavenly Flame and told Yuan Yi to eat it, but Yuan Yi tried to redirect it to Xiao Yan.
• Medusa struck Yuan Yi with a massive energy palm, leaving the Eight Gates Sect master severely wounded in a pit.

Yuan Yi swallowed the Invisible Fire Python as Ye Changge and Medusa approached Jia Nan Academy. Outside Peace Town, the injured Ruolin faced execution by Liu Bi after he broke through her defenses, leaving her on the brink of death.

• Yuan Yi swallowed the Invisible Fire Python, and a flame mark briefly appeared on his forehead.
• Ye Changge and Medusa traveled toward Jia Nan Academy’s Outer Court and descended near Peace Town.
• Liu Bi confronted Ruolin, an injured Jia Nan Academy instructor, and explained that he sought revenge for the Enforcement Team cutting off his ear.
• Ruolin attacked Liu Bi with Water Mandala, but he shattered the unfinished technique with a saber strike.
• Liu Bi broke through Ruolin’s Force-Dispelling Water Mirror and rushed at her as she closed her eyes in despair.

Ye Changge and Medusa watched a battle near Jia Nan Academy, and Medusa teased him before dropping him toward the ground. He crashed onto Liu Bi, killed him, and agreed to escort Instructor Ruolin to Jia Nan Academy.

• Ye Changge explained that he wanted to take advantage of the situation to get into Jia Nan Academy, while Medusa teased him and asked him to smooth the wrinkles in her robe.
• Medusa vanished from Ye Changge's arms, then caught him as he fell and scolded him for dismissing her belief in love.
• Ye Changge crashed onto Liu Bi, who had been threatening Ruolin, and killed the six-star Da Dou Shi with an elbow strike.
• Ye Changge introduced himself to Instructor Ruolin and agreed to escort her to Jia Nan Academy.

Ye Changge and Medusa infiltrated Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Court and discovered that Fallen Heart Flame was imprisoned beneath the cultivation tower. After Ye Changge secretly sensed it, the awakened flame became enraged and tried to escape, but a mysterious black whip knocked it back into the magma sea.

• Ye Changge and Medusa entered the Inner Court, where Ye Changge confirmed that its invisible Heart Flame purified Dou Qi.
• Medusa warned Ye Changge that the cultivation tower was guarded by Dou Wang and Dou Zong experts and that a spatial prison lay below.
• Ye Changge sent his consciousness into the black hole and saw Fallen Heart Flame, a huge fire python, sleeping in a vast magma sea.
• Ye Changge concluded that the academy had built the tower to imprison Fallen Heart Flame and predicted that an eruption would give him a chance to devour it.
• Fallen Heart Flame sensed Ye Changge’s aura, grew furious, and tried to escape before a black energy whip struck it back into the magma.

The Fallen Heart Flame broke through the seal beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda, prompting Xiao Yan and Old Yao to prepare to capture it amid the chaos. Ye Changge watched Xiao Yan’s move and declared that the Heavenly Flame would belong to him only if he chose to bestow it.

• The Invisible Fire Python clashed with a mysterious expert, retreated beneath the magma, and vowed to surprise the humans soon.
• A gray-robed elder on the pagoda’s tenth floor worried that the growing Fire Spirit would soon overwhelm the Inner Academy’s defenses and wondered where Lord Mang Tianchi was.
• After twenty days of cultivation, Xiao Yan felt the Fallen Heart Flame’s heartbeat, and Old Yao sensed that it had reached the Dou Zong level.
• Xiao Yan planned to use the Fallen Heart Flame’s eruption to approach the pagoda’s central area and capture its true body.
• The Fallen Heart Flame shattered the seal beneath the pagoda, and the tenth-floor elder recognized its eruption as Xiao Yan and Old Yao prepared to act.
• Ye Changge rejected the offer to let his companion deal with Xiao Yan and decided that the Heavenly Flame would be Xiao Yan’s only if he granted it.

Fallen Heart Flame broke through the barrier above the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda's underground passage, forcing Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders to evacuate students and reinforce the remaining barriers. The elders repelled the Invisible Fire Python at the ninth-floor barrier, where it faced its old adversary Su Qian.

• A gray-robed old man discovered the Invisible Fire Python ramming the barrier and ordered all elders to the tower and all students to evacuate.
• Elder Liu and Instructor Hou Hu organized the first-floor evacuation while tower-guarding elders hurried toward the tenth floor.
• Su Qian learned the eruption was abnormal, ordered the Outer Academy to send Hu Gan, and flew to the tower with other elders.
• The Invisible Fire Python broke through the tenth-floor barrier, and Su Qian ordered the elders to trap it with the remaining barriers before driving it underground.
• At the ninth-floor opening, Su Qian and more than twenty elders reinforced the barrier and blasted the Invisible Fire Python back as it fixed its gaze on Su Qian.

Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders tried to contain the Invisible Fire Python as it broke through the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda’s seals. The Fallen Heart Flame reached the tower’s final defense, and the elders urged Su Qian to act before it escaped and drew Han Feng and the Black Corner Region’s forces to the academy.

• Su Qian and the elders reinforced the seals as the Invisible Fire Python broke through the barriers on the ninth and eighth floors and continued upward.
• After hours of interceptions, the elders believed the weakened Invisible Fire Python was nearly spent, but it revealed that it had been gathering strength.
• The Invisible Fire Python blasted through the first-floor barriers and struck the tower’s peak, where Mang Tianchi’s black energy membrane blocked its escape.
• The Invisible Fire Python repeatedly attacked the final defense while the gray-robed elder warned Su Qian that its escape could bring Han Feng and the Black Corner Region’s forces against the Inner Academy.
• The gray-robed elder called on Su Qian to give the order before the Fallen Heart Flame broke free.

Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders prepared a formation to recapture the Fallen Heart Flame if it escaped the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda. Xiao Yan, who had planned to seize it during the eruption, was forcibly evacuated and left outside the tower, while a mysterious woman mocked his ambition to capture a Dou Zong-level Fire Spirit.

• Su Qian ordered the students to retreat and led nearly thirty elders in forming a net around the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda.
• Xiao Yan stood at the edge of the crowd as Instructor Hou Hu reassured him that the elders would handle the eruption.
• Xiao Yan recalled that he and Old Yao had planned to take the Fallen Heart Flame while the tower's seal weakened.
• An instructor had dragged Xiao Yan out of his cultivation room, and Xiao Yan's efforts to persuade him to return had failed.
• A beautiful woman in the shadows teased Little Changge about Xiao Yan trying to seize the powerful Fire Spirit as a Da Dou Shi.

Xiao Yan was dragged out of the tower by Instructor Hou Hu and another instructor, preventing him from returning to help the elders or pursue his plan. When Han Yue was reported missing inside the tower, Xiao Yan tried to slip away, but the instructor caught him again and refused to let him leave.

• A middle-aged instructor dragged Xiao Yan out of the advanced cultivation room and onto the sixth-floor corridor, mistaking him for a student eager to play hero.
• Instructor Hou Hu greeted Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan privately asked Old Yao for advice and lamented that his plan had failed.
• Members of the Moon Spirit Organization revealed that Han Yue had gone back into the tower to search for Liu Ying, who had already come out.
• Hou Hu hurried away to find a solution after hearing Han Yue was still inside the tower.
• Xiao Yan tried to sneak off, but the middle-aged instructor grabbed his wrist again and insisted on keeping him safe.

Xiao Yan tried to find a way past the instructor guarding him while the Inner Academy refused to send anyone into the tower for Han Yue. The Fallen Heart Flame broke out of the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda, and the elders began forming a sealing array as Ye Changge saw a chance to claim it.

• Xiao Yan threatened the middle-aged instructor, who calmly revealed he was a five-star Dou Ling and refused to answer further questions.
• Instructor Hou Hu told the senior instructor that Han Yue remained inside the tower, but the instructor refused to authorize a rescue and sent Hou Hu back to Moon Spirit.
• Xiao Yan used Han Yue's situation as a chance to get closer to the tower, but the middle-aged instructor continued watching him.
• The Great Radiant King went berserk inside Xiao Yan's Spirit Nurturing Space, and the tower's pinnacle shattered as magma erupted.
• The Invisible Fire Python emerged from the tower, and the Inner Academy elders began forming the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array.
• Ye Changge told Cai Lin that they could take the Fallen Heart Flame without lifting a finger.

Su Qian and the elders trapped the Invisible Fire Python in layers of energy nets after it escaped the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda. The beast’s struggle damaged the plaza and exhausted much of its fiery defense, but the elders’ nets continued to multiply and tighten around it.

• Su Qian ordered the elders to cast their energy nets over the Invisible Fire Python as it burst from the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda.
• The elders’ nets wrapped around the python and began stripping away the flames protecting its body.
• The python slammed into the plaza, shattering the bluestone tiles and sending debris toward the Inner Academy students.
• Su Qian pulled Elder Li back into position after the python’s charge knocked him away.
• The python rolled across the plaza and tore through several nets, but the elders swiftly replaced them with many more.
• The python’s flames dwindled as the tightening nets continued to bind it.

After absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame, Ye Changge learned that Medusa had advanced to Seven-star Dou Zong and reached Five-star Dou Zong himself, while his Flame Mantra had risen to Earth-tier Mid-grade. He then sensed a summons connected to the Fallen Heart Flame and prepared to investigate the magma sea with Old Yao, where the Flame Lizardmen posed a grave danger.

• Medusa showed Ye Changge that she had reached Seven-star Dou Zong, kissed him, and transformed into a little snake in his arms.
• Old Yao asked Ye Changge to spare Xiao Yan, but Ye Changge argued that Xiao Yan was too dangerous to keep alive.
• Ye Changge revealed he had reached Five-star Dou Zong and that his Flame Mantra had advanced to Earth-tier Mid-grade.
• Ye Changge sensed a summons from below that seemed connected to the Fallen Heart Flame, and Old Yao agreed to investigate with him.
• Old Yao warned Ye Changge to be cautious in the magma sea, where the powerful Flame Lizardmen lived.

Ye Changge descended into the magma to find Venerable Tianhuo and the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame. After proving his strength and offering a Soul Restoration Pill to save Tianhuo’s Soul Body, he left Tianhuo hopeful that he could survive without the flame.

• Ye Changge left the Fallen Heart Flame’s barrier and descended through the magma, asking Venerable Reincarnation to guard him as he sought Venerable Tianhuo.
• Venerable Tianhuo awakened in his barrier and realized that Ye Changge had taken the mature Fallen Heart Flame he had left aboveground.
• Ye Changge reached Tianhuo’s barrier and listened as Tianhuo explained that he had been the flame’s former owner and was now relying on the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame to sustain his Soul Body.
• Tianhuo tried to demonstrate his flame-control skills by reaching for Ye Changge’s Heavenly Flame, but the dragon within Ye Changge’s body roared and severely wounded Tianhuo’s soul.
• Ye Changge asked Tianhuo for the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame and offered a Soul Restoration Pill to repair Tianhuo’s soul, prompting Tianhuo to wonder if Ye Changge was a seventh-grade alchemist.