Recaps

Xiao Jin killed two Blood Sect elders and offered their heads to Huo De as a pledge of allegiance before planning to join Jia Nan Academy’s Enforcement Team. He told Xun'er and the others that he needed to grow stronger quickly so he could marry Xun'er, while the Blood Sect was likely to retaliate over Fan Ling’s death.

• Xiao Jin returned to the Griffin with the heads of Fan Sui and Hei Xue after killing them and Fan Ling.
• Huo De recognized the two heads as belonging to Blood Sect elders, and Xiao Jin offered them as a pledge of allegiance.
• Xiao Jin warned Huo De that Fan Ling’s death would provoke the Blood Sect and said he would kill Fan Lao after joining the Enforcement Team.
• Xiao Jin found Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin playing together, then told them what had happened.
• Xiao Jin said he wanted to join the Enforcement Team to increase his strength quickly so he could marry Xun'er.

Xiao Jin and his companions reached Jia Nan Academy, where Hu Gan waived the Inner Academy entrance test for them and escorted them inside. The Great Elder Su Qian welcomed Xiao Jin and the three girls personally.

• Xiao Jin reminded Huo De to warn the Enforcement Team about Fan Lao, and Huo De agreed to report to the captain.
• Ruolin brought Xiao Jin and the three girls to Hu Gan, who was astonished by their strength and agreed to take them straight to the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Jin accepted Hu Gan's offer on behalf of the group, and Hu Gan led them through the academy's restricted forest passage.
• Su Qian met the group at the Inner Academy, greeted Xiao Jin and the three girls warmly, and told Hu Gan to leave them in his care.

Su Qian explained how Fire Crystal Cards and Fire Energy worked in the Inner Academy, and Xiao Jin revealed he could refine powerful Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pills. After selling a Bodhi Zongzun Pill to the Guardians Qianmu and Bailie for two hundred thousand Fire Energy, Xiao Jin promised to refine another for them.

• Su Qian gave Xiao Jin and the three girls Green Fire Crystal Cards and explained how students used Fire Energy to train and trade in the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Jin revealed he could refine medicinal pills up to the Seventh Grade and showed Su Qian a Bodhi Zongzun Pill.
• Qianmu and Bailie appeared, learned about the pill, and offered to buy it from Xiao Jin.
• Xiao Jin negotiated a price of two hundred thousand Fire Energy, and Qianmu transferred the payment before Xiao Jin handed over the pill.
• Bailie asked Xiao Jin to refine another pill, and Xiao Jin agreed to do so after settling in.

Xiao Jin settled into Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy, earning Su Qian’s support with his alchemy and arranging a residence for himself and the three women. As Su Qian continued showing him around, students began gathering around them.

• Su Qian worried that Xiao Jin’s pill sales could disrupt the Inner Academy’s Fire Energy economy, then invited him to become an elder while Xiao Jin confirmed he still intended to join the Enforcement Team.
• Su Qian guided Xiao Jin, Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin around the Inner Academy and warned them about the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower’s heart flame.
• Su Qian offered Xiao Jin a courtyard for fifty thousand Fire Energy, and Xiao Jin persuaded him to cover the fee by giving him a Zongyuan Barrier-Breaking Pill.
• Xiao Jin gave Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin three hundred thousand Fire Energy and sent them to choose rooms in their new residence.
• As Su Qian continued the tour with Xiao Jin, students leaving the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower saw them and caused an uproar.

Xiao Jin received his Inner Academy elder badge and announced that he would publicly refine a Bodhi Zongzun Pill the next day. Qing Lin then brought him to the arena, where Xiao Yi Xian was punishing a student who had harassed her, Xun'er, and Qing Lin.

• Su Qian gave Xiao Jin an elder badge and told him he could exchange for academy resources using Fire Energy.
• Xiao Jin asked Su Qian to invite the Alchemy Department elders to watch him refine a Bodhi Zongzun Pill the next day.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Jin that a male student had harassed her, Xun'er, and Xiao Yi Xian, and that Xiao Yi Xian had challenged him to a fight.
• Xiao Jin and Qing Lin reached the arena and found Xiao Yi Xian beating the student, whom she had poisoned mute so he could not surrender.
• Xiao Jin found Xun'er in the crowd, took her hand, and asked whether the student had insulted her; Xun'er said she could defend herself.

Xiao Yi Xian defeated a Strong Ranking student who had harassed her and took his ninety-seventh place, while Xiao Jin encouraged the girls to pursue stronger cultivation. Su Qian told the Alchemy Department elders that Xiao Jin would publicly refine a Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pill there tomorrow, though his main purpose at Jia Nan Academy was to join the Enforcement Team.

• Xiao Yi Xian knocked out her opponent, then learned from a Strong Ranking recorder that defeating him earned her the ninety-seventh position.
• Xiao Jin explained the Strong Ranking's benefits and encouraged Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian to challenge it, while promising to prepare cultivation resources for Qing Lin.
• Xiao Jin corrected Qing Lin's formal way of addressing him, and the group returned to settle in at Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian told the Alchemy Department elders that Xiao Jin was a Seventh-Grade Alchemist who intended to join the Enforcement Team.
• Su Qian revealed that Xiao Jin would publicly refine a Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pill at the Alchemy Department the next day and would answer the elders' questions there.

Xiao Jin caught Zi Yan sneaking into his room to search for a fragrant treasure and learned she wanted to trade for medicinal pills. He gave her several bottles of pills, and she promised to bring him valuable things the next day.

• Xiao Jin sensed someone enter his room and pretended to be asleep while Zi Yan searched his chest and tried to remove his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Jin caught Zi Yan and questioned her, and she explained that she had come looking for the source of a pleasant smell after hearing from Su Qian about the new elder.
• Zi Yan introduced herself, and Xiao Jin recognized her as the Ancient Void Dragon who would later be brought to Jia Nan Academy by Su Qian.
• Xiao Jin gave Zi Yan a Third-Grade Medicinal Pill, and she swallowed it and asked him for more.
• Xiao Jin handed Zi Yan several bottles of pills and warned her not to sneak into his room again, while Zi Yan promised to return with good things to trade.

Fan Lao learned that Xiao Jin had killed his son and two Blood Sect elders, and vowed to wait for Xiao Jin to come to Twilight City. Meanwhile, Xiao Jin built a closer relationship with Zi Yan by promising to refine her rare medicinal ingredients into pills.

• Fan Lao heard that the Blood Sect had found Fan Ling's corpse and learned that the killer had defeated Fan Sui, Hei Xue, and other fighters.
• Fan Lao investigated Jia Nan Academy, ruled out Captain Wu, and decided to wait a month for the promised arrival of the killer.
• Zi Yan visited Xiao Jin with a Vajra Bodhi, but Xiao Jin told her to keep it and offered to refine her ingredients into pills instead.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Jin to make pills from her medicinal ingredients, and he promised to refine Tier 5 pills for her.
• Zi Yan pinky-swore with Xiao Jin and gave him a large collection of rare medicinal ingredients, which he accepted.

Xiao Jin brought Zi Yan to the Alchemy Department to refine a Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pill, while his friends learned that Zi Yan was the Inner Academy’s first-ranked Strong Ranking student. As Xiao Jin began preparing the rare ingredients before a crowd of spectators, the chapter left the pill refinement yet to begin.

• Zi Yan accepted Xiao Jin’s offer to stay with him and watch him refine medicine, explaining that she did not want to lose another friend.
• Xiao Jin introduced Zi Yan to Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan revealed that she was first on the Strong Ranking and offered her friends access to her belongings.
• Xiao Jin suggested that Xiao Yi Xian aim for the Strong Ranking’s top three and use Zi Yan’s Number One Training Room, which Zi Yan readily agreed to.
• Xiao Jin and the others arrived at the Alchemy Department, where a crowd had gathered to watch him attempt a Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pill.
• Xiao Jin began laying out rare ingredients, and Qianmu and Bailie agreed that the Fire Energy spent on them had been worthwhile.

Xiao Jin refined the ingredients for a peak Seventh-Grade Bodhi Zongzun Pill before an audience at Jia Nan Academy. As dusk fell, he began the crucial pill-forming stage, with success still uncertain.

• Xiao Jin ignited the Three Thousand Burning Flame and began refining ingredients in the Samsara Cauldron as Elder Liu, Elder Huo, and Su Qian watched.
• Xiao Jin used precise fire control and Spiritual Strength to refine multiple ingredients at different temperatures, impressing the Alchemy Department elders and students.
• Elder Liu and Elder Huo praised Xiao Jin for extracting the medicinal strength completely and finishing the work in a fraction of their usual time.
• Xiao Jin repeated the refining process four times over nearly six hours while the audience stayed to watch.
• At dusk, Xiao Jin drew more than twenty puddles of medicinal liquid together and began forming the pill, risking failure and a cauldron explosion.

Xiao Jin successfully refined a pill from the Bodhi Seed after overcoming its resistance and nurturing the pill through the night. Pill lightning gathered over Jia Nan Academy, while Han Feng noticed the thunderclouds and flew toward the academy to investigate.

• Xiao Jin forced the Bodhi Seed to absorb the medicinal liquid from more than twenty ingredients, overcoming its growing resistance with the Three Thousand Burning Flame and his soul force.
• Xiao Jin nurtured the embryonic pill until it became smooth, while Xun'er and the others watched and Su Qian prepared the academy for the pill lightning.
• Black thunderclouds gathered over the square, and Elder Huo excitedly recognized the pill lightning.
• Han Feng saw the thunderclouds from Maple City, feared that a Seventh-Grade alchemist had appeared near Jia Nan Academy, and flew there to confirm their source.

Xiao Jin tested his strength against the Pill Lightning from his Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pill, then let his Earth Demon Puppet finish dispersing the storm. He completed the pill and asked Su Qian to pass it on for him.

• Xiao Jin met the first bolt of Pill Lightning with his Explosive Flame Whip Kick and was knocked back.
• Xiao Jin used Calamity Fire Flash to smash another bolt and charge into the thundercloud, weakening it.
• The Earth Demon Puppet entered the thundercloud to handle the remaining Pill Lightning while Xun'er used her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to remove the electricity from Xiao Jin.
• Xun'er scolded Xiao Jin for risking himself, and he promised to think more carefully before acting recklessly again.
• The Earth Demon Puppet dispersed the thundercloud, and Xiao Jin put the completed medicinal pill in a jade box and asked Su Qian to deliver it.

After refining a pill that produced Pill Lightning, Xiao Jin returned to his residence to prepare for a breakthrough, while Jia Nan Academy’s elders made plans to use the Bodhi Zongzun Pill. Han Feng arrived at the academy but fled as soon as he saw Su Qian and Bailie.

• Xiao Jin returned to his room after feeling his cultivation loosen and began preparing to break through to Six-Star Dou King.
• Elder Huo gained insight from watching Xiao Jin refine pills and left to pursue a breakthrough to Sixth-Grade Alchemist, while Su Qian gave the Bodhi Zongzun Pill to Bailie.
• Qianmu began seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zun, and Bailie agreed to guard the academy while Su Qian refined the pill Xiao Jin had given him.
• Bailie and Su Qian spotted Han Feng approaching Jia Nan Academy and confronted him in the sky.
• Han Feng recognized Su Qian and judged that he could not fight two Dou Zong, so he turned and fled.

Xiao Jin completed his breakthrough to Five-Star Dou King and prepared to leave for the Black-Corner Region. Zi Yan asked to join him, and he agreed after setting three rules for her.

• Han Feng fled after being drawn to Xiao Jin's Bodhi Zongzun Pill, while Xiao Jin resolved to hunt him down for the Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Jin absorbed energy through the Three Thousand Burning Flame and completed his breakthrough after half a day.
• Xun'er congratulated Xiao Jin and said she planned to challenge the Strong Ranking before beginning her own breakthrough.
• Zi Yan asked to accompany Xiao Jin to the Black-Corner Region, and he agreed after she accepted his three rules.
• Xiao Jin promised Zi Yan twenty Qi Cultivation Pills each day if she followed his rules.

Xiao Jin and Zi Yan arrived at Peace Town, where Xiao Jin joined the Enforcement Team’s operations against the Black-Corner Region. After hearing that Xiao Jin had killed two Dou Wangs, a mysterious figure left town.

• Xiao Jin left the Inner Academy with Zi Yan after Su Qian explained that he could act independently under the Enforcement Team.
• Xiao Jin and Zi Yan flew to Peace Town, where Xiao Jin inspected the Necro Tree and imagined hanging the Black List’s top ten from it.
• Instructor Huo De explained Peace Town’s rules and welcomed Xiao Jin and Zi Yan inside without requiring them to take the pill.
• Huo De sent a young Enforcement Team member to guide Xiao Jin and Zi Yan to Elder Wu while he stayed to guard the gate.
• Huo De told the gathered Enforcement Team members that Xiao Jin had killed two Dou Wangs, and a dark, thin figure quietly left Peace Town after overhearing him.

Xiao Jin and Zi Yan left Peace Town to attack the Blood Sect, while Fan Lao learned that a Jia Nan Academy elder had killed his son and ordered revenge. Xiao Jin arrived at the Blood Sect’s Council Hall and announced that he had come to destroy it.

• Xiao Jin asked Elder Wu to recall the Enforcement Team to Peace Town while he and Zi Yan dealt with the Black List, and Elder Wu agreed.
• Xiao Jin obtained a map, chose Twilight City as their first destination, and told Zi Yan that the Blood Sect had damaged his heart by ambushing him.
• Fan Lao received word that the Young Sect Master’s killer was a Jia Nan Academy elder and ordered his subordinates to kill any Enforcement Team members they found.
• Xiao Jin and Zi Yan reached the Blood Sect’s Council Hall, where Xiao Jin told Fan Lao he had come to destroy the Blood Sect.

Xiao Jin confronted Fan Lao in Twilight City, where the Blood Sect had already been devastated by the Earth Demon Puppets. Their battle began in the Council Hall, and Xiao Jin’s knee strike sent Fan Lao crashing outside, where he saw the corpses of his sect’s disciples.

• Fan Lao called for his men, but Xiao Jin revealed that the Blood Sect’s guards had already been killed by the Earth Demon Puppets.
• Fan Lao recognized Xiao Jin as the man who had killed his son and asked what grudge he held against the Blood Sect.
• Xiao Jin sent Zi Yan outside to fight a surviving Dou Wang elder while he prepared to face Fan Lao alone.
• Fan Lao summoned a sea of blood, and Xiao Jin answered by forming a sea of Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Jin countered Fan Lao’s bloody handprints with Spiral Fire Cones, then used his soul perception to detect Fan Lao’s concealed approach through the mist.
• Xiao Jin struck Fan Lao with a Skull-Splitting Knee, interrupted his attack, and sent him through the Council Hall wall; outside, Fan Lao saw the Blood Sect strewn with corpses.

Xiao Jin defeated and killed Fan Lao, then destroyed the Blood Sect while Zi Yan defeated its Dou Wang. After collecting their reward and discussing the Necro Tree, Xiao Jin and Zi Yan flew back toward Peace Town, where their arrival caused a stir.

• Fan Lao charged Xiao Jin, but after a prolonged fistfight he ran out of strength and begged for his life.
• Xiao Jin killed Fan Lao, then used the Three Thousand Burning Flame to burn the Blood Sect's base to ash.
• Zi Yan defeated the Blood Sect's Dou Wang with help from an Earth Demon Puppet and celebrated with Xiao Jin.
• Xiao Jin rewarded Zi Yan with Qi Cultivation Pills and said they would hang Fan Lao's corpse on the Necro Tree.
• Xiao Jin and Zi Yan flew toward Peace Town, and two hours later the town was in an uproar.

After Xiao Jin killed Fan Lao and displayed his strength, the Black-Corner Region feared that its fragile balance with Jia Nan Academy had been shattered. Han Feng, convinced Yao Chen might be returning, decided to seek allies rather than wait for his enemies to find him.

• Xiao Jin hung Fan Lao's corpse on the Necro Tree, drawing cheers from the Enforcement Team while Zi Yan envied the admiration he received.
• Elder Wu praised Xiao Jin and offered him a residence, mistaking his decision to stop fighting for exhaustion; Xiao Jin instead planned to review his battle with Fan Lao.
• Fan Lao's death sent shockwaves across the Black-Corner Region and left Han Feng especially alarmed by the recent appearance of a powerful Alchemist at Jia Nan Academy.
• Han Feng feared Yao Chen could survive and return with Feng Xian, so he took out an emerald invitation and considered gathering others to act first.

Han Feng planned to unite the Black-Corner Region’s factions and seize the Inner Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame, while Xiao Jin prepared to attend the Black Seal Auction with Zi Yan. They set out for Black Seal City, where valuable auction items included a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map and Three Thousand Lightning Movement.

• Han Feng suppressed his panic, decided to form an alliance of Black-Corner Region factions, and infiltrated the Inner Academy to prepare to seize the Fallen Heart Flame.
• After ten days of rest, Xiao Jin learned more about Zi Yan’s strength and her origins, including that she had eaten Human-Shaping Grass as a child.
• The Enforcement Team brought Xiao Jin an invitation to the Eight Fan Sect’s Black Seal Auction, which was due to take place in three days.
• Xiao Jin decided to attend the auction to seek the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map and other valuable items, while sparing Yuan Yi until he obtained the map.
• Xiao Jin told Elder Wu he would travel with Zi Yan alone, then urged her to stop eating pills and get ready to leave.

Xiao Jin overheard Medusa threaten a Soul Hall Protector into giving her Soul Origin, then learned she had obtained it for him. The two cleared up his suspicion that she had betrayed him, and Medusa explained how she had become involved.

• Xiao Jin secretly listened as Medusa demanded an item from the Soul Hall Protector and threatened to kill him if he refused.
• Medusa displayed her Dou Ancestor aura, and the Soul Hall Protector handed her a bottle of Soul Origin before leaving Black Seal City.
• Medusa asked Xiao Jin why he had watched silently, and he hesitated because he was trying to understand her connection to the Soul Hall.
• Medusa realized Xiao Jin suspected her of betrayal and reassured him that she had not joined forces with the Soul Hall.
• Medusa gave Xiao Jin the Soul Origin and explained that she had sought it for him after his little girlfriend asked her to watch the Soul Hall.

Xiao Jin and Zi Yan arrived in Black Seal City and discovered signs that Soul Hall had established a presence there to collect souls. Xiao Jin agreed to let Pill Tower Ancestor investigate while he kept his own identity and strength concealed.

• Zi Yan told Xiao Jin that Black Seal City felt more prosperous than Twilight City, and they booked one room after she sensed a threat nearby.
• Zi Yan detected three strange, soul-like scents near the auction house and warned Xiao Jin that a powerful barrier blocked the area.
• Xiao Jin deduced that Soul Hall was gathering the souls of the dead in the Black-Corner Region and might have used its network there to uncover the Xiao Clan’s whereabouts.
• Pill Tower Ancestor offered to investigate, and Xiao Jin agreed that the powerful soul was better suited to act without exposing him.

The Pill Tower Ancestor investigated the barrier around Black Seal City and discovered that Soul Hall had designed it to brand souls and conceal a soul-harvesting scheme. After entering the barrier, he found a crystal core containing the Soul Origin of over ten thousand people, leaving him eager to learn who Soul Hall had sent.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor secretly tested the barrier, then evaded two Eight Fan Sect guards who doubled back to investigate.
• He found that the barrier branded souls that passed through it and concluded Soul Hall was exploiting Eight Fan Sect while harvesting its members' souls.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor tore open the barrier without triggering an alarm and stepped into the space beyond it.
• He seized a strange crystal core and realized it contained the Soul Origin of over ten thousand people, letting a Dou Zong create a powerful illusion.

Xiao Jin learned that Medusa had returned to Black Seal City alongside a powerful Soul Hall soul body and suspected she had betrayed him. He followed them to the Eight Fan Sect’s auction house, where he held back from acting until he could learn their goal.

• Xiao Jin asked Zi Yan about the three Dou Ancestor auras, and she said one had left Black Seal City while the other two remained.
• Xiao Jin sensed Medusa returning with an unfamiliar, evil aura and left Zi Yan protected by an Earth Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Jin followed the pair to the Eight Fan Sect’s auction house, where the barrier had been set up.
• Xiao Jin recognized the unfamiliar figure as a Six-Star Dou Ancestor soul body from Soul Hall and saw Medusa traveling with him.
• Xiao Jin suspected Medusa had betrayed him but decided to investigate their goal before taking action.

Xiao Jin reunited with Medusa in Black Seal City, where she gave him Soul Origin and planned to investigate the Soul Hall’s presence in the Jia Ma Empire. Back at the inn, Zi Yan met Xiao Jin’s teacher, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and mistook his soul body for a ghost.

• Medusa gave Xiao Jin a bottle of Soul Origin, and he admitted that her return moved him.
• Medusa agreed to return to Xiao Jin’s inn and investigate the Soul Hall’s arrangements in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Jin brought Medusa to the inn, where Zi Yan accused him of cheating on Xun’er before learning that Xun’er knew Medusa.
• Xiao Jin explained the Soul Hall’s threat to Zi Yan, and the Pill Tower Ancestor appeared to add details about its powerful members.
• Zi Yan hid behind Xiao Jin and called the Pill Tower Ancestor a ghost until Xiao Jin explained that he was his teacher.