Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han and Xiao Yan recovered the Azure Lotus Core Flame and faced the Snake-People Tribe experts, who believed Jiang Han had hidden Medusa. Jiang Han told them Medusa had survived and evolved, then unleashed his Mirror Flame Spear as the battle escalated.

• Jiang Han gave Xiao Yan the Earth Fire Crystal, and the Seven-Colored Little Snake followed Xiao Yan into his robes.
• Xiao Yan used the Azure Lotus Seat to contain the Azure Lotus Core Flame after Jiang Han declined to take it.
• Yan Ci, Mo Bas, Yue Mei, and hundreds of Snake-People Tribe experts confronted Jiang Han and Xiao Yan, then attacked when they found Medusa's former body.
• Jiang Han repelled Yan Ci's fireball with the Azure Lotus Core Flame and fought off the three Snake-People Tribe leaders.
• Jiang Han told the Snake-People Tribe that Medusa had survived and evolved, then summoned a fiery mirror that launched countless azure flame spears at them.

Jiang Han returned to Jia Nan Academy after helping Xiao Yan escape the Snake-People Tribe, then resumed teaching and shared news of Xiao Yan with Xiao Xun'er. A year after becoming an Outer Academy instructor, he went to Headmaster Hu Qian to take the assessment for Inner Courtyard Elder.

• Jiang Han used the Azure Lotus Core Flame to attack the Snake-People Tribe’s leaders, then departed with Xiao Yan for Shi Mo City.
• Yao Lao recognized Jiang Han’s flame as another Azure Lotus Core Flame, and Jiang Han confirmed it before parting from Xiao Yan.
• Jiang Han returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Ruo Lin introduced him to his eager students and he let them choose treasures from his Storage Ring.
• Jiang Han warned Xiao Xun'er not to send anyone to follow him and told her that Xiao Yan had obtained the Azure Lotus Core Flame.
• After a year in the Outer Academy, Jiang Han asked Headmaster Hu Qian to assess him for the position of Inner Courtyard Elder.

Jiang Han entered the Inner Academy and explored its grounds before following students to a Strong Ranking duel. The arrival of the feared Brute Strength King drew everyone’s attention, and Jiang Han recognized the petite girl approaching as someone familiar.

• Hu Qian brought Jiang Han through a hidden silver gate into the Inner Academy and left him in the care of two elders.
• The elders showed Jiang Han his private pavilion and told him he would meet the Grand Elder the next day.
• Jiang Han followed a crowd to watch Wu Yang challenge You Peng for eighth place on the Strong Ranking.
• Wu Yang attacked You Peng, who countered with his iron hammer and knocked Wu Yang’s weapon aside.
• A warning that the Brute Strength King had arrived frightened the spectators, and Jiang Han recognized the approaching girl in white.

Zi Yan defeated Wu Yang and You Peng with ease, then challenged Jiang Han for laughing at her. Jiang Han caught her punch without moving, leaving the watching disciples stunned.

• Zi Yan chewed an Adamantine Bodhi and joined Wu Yang and You Peng on the arena.
• Zi Yan caught both men's weapons, knocked them off the arena with one punch each, and declared that her fists no longer itched.
• Zi Yan spotted Jiang Han laughing and ordered him to fight her.
• Jiang Han stayed calm as Zi Yan struck at him and caught her punch with his palm, stunning the spectators.

Jiang Han overwhelmed Zi Yan in repeated fights, then returned to his residence under the attention of the Inner Academy disciples. The next day, he met Grand Elder Su Qian and began using his staring ability on him.

• Zi Yan repeatedly attacked Jiang Han, but he blocked her blows and eventually restrained her until she agreed to stop fighting.
• The watching disciples followed Jiang Han around the Inner Academy, and he returned to his residence to escape their attention.
• The disciples identified Jiang Han as an elder when he entered the pavilion reserved for the Elder Council.
• The two elders brought Jiang Han to the main hall, where he met Grand Elder Su Qian.
• Jiang Han stared at Su Qian for two minutes as his target-lock progress increased, while Su Qian observed him in silence.

Jiang Han completed his gaze mission, left to break through, and reached Three-Star Dou Zong in the Endless Mountains. After receiving a Void Escape Tablet, he went to the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower to begin his new post.

• Su Qian gave Jiang Han an Elder Token and assigned him to maintain order among disciples entering the first aboveground level of the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower.
• Jiang Han hurried to a deserted valley, where he absorbed the energy of heaven and earth and broke through to Three-Star Dou Zong.
• The System rewarded Jiang Han with a Void Escape Tablet, which gave him a way to flee from future enemies.
• Jiang Han left before nearby elders could find him and traveled to the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower.
• Jiang Han entered the tower, refined its Heartfire, and was recognized by disciples as the elder who had beaten the Brute Strength King.
• An old man approached Jiang Han, laughing and welcoming him as the new elder taking over his shift.

Jiang Han used the Azure Lotus Core Flame to draw out and gaze at the Fallen Heart Flame, raising his cultivation and copying its abilities. Later, a violent disturbance in the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower prompted Grand Elder Su Qian to order everyone to evacuate.

• Jiang Han inspected the tower’s ground floor and warned disciples not to neglect their cultivation or seek shortcuts.
• Jiang Han used the Azure Lotus Core Flame to lure the Fallen Heart Flame from the tower’s central shaft and successfully gazed at it.
• Jiang Han copied and refined the Fallen Heart Flame, increasing his cultivation from Three-Star Dou Zong to Four-Star Dou Zong.
• The Fallen Heart Flame surged toward Jiang Han but was trapped by a spatial cage before it could reach the shaft’s opening, then retreated underground.
• A violent impact shook the tower and disrupted the energy in its cultivation rooms, so Grand Elder Su Qian ordered all disciples to evacuate and the elders to clear the floors.

The Fallen Heart Flame grew stronger and broke the first two seals of the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower, emerging as a colossal Fire Python. Su Qian led the elders in forming the Thousand Layer Sealing Array, while the Fire Python singled out Jiang Han.

• Jiang Han evacuated the disciples from the tower as violent flames surged from the central black hole.
• The first seal shattered, and the Fire Python emerged from the tower's peak, still restrained by a second seal.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to prepare the formation left by the Headmaster, and Jiang Han joined them after Su Qian called for his help.
• The Fire Python locked onto Jiang Han and attacked the second seal until the tower's peak exploded and magma flooded the surrounding area.
• Su Qian and the elders formed the Thousand Layer Sealing Array and intercepted the escaping Fire Python with layers of energy nets.

Fallen Heart Flame battered the formation around the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower while Jiang Han deliberately helped maintain a stalemate. Han Feng sensed the Strange Fire and gathered Black-Corner Region experts to travel to Jia Nan Academy's Inner Courtyard, where the story left them approaching.

• Fallen Heart Flame repeatedly struck the formation until it opened a gap, releasing an energy aura that Su Qian feared would attract trouble from the Black-Corner Region.
• Han Feng sensed the Strange Fire with Sea Heart Flame, identified Jia Nan Academy's Inner Courtyard as its likely source, and summoned influential Black-Corner Region leaders to help him.
• As the elders exhausted themselves and withdrew, Jiang Han increased his Dou Qi output to keep Fallen Heart Flame from breaking free or being suppressed before Sea Heart Flame arrived.
• Vice Dean Hu Qian and the Outer Academy experts arrived and took over maintaining the Energy Shield while the Inner Courtyard Elders rested.
• Han Feng and the gathered Black-Corner Region experts flew toward Jia Nan Academy's Inner Courtyard.

Han Feng led experts from the Black-Corner Region to seize the Fallen Heart Flame, while Jia Nan Academy's elders fought to stop them. With the elders tied up and Han Feng moving toward the sealed flame, an unknown figure suddenly appeared beside him.

• Han Feng arrived above the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower with leaders from the Blood Sect, Earth Flame Gate, and Eight Gates Sect, declaring that he intended to take the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian rejected Han Feng's demand and ordered Jia Nan Academy's elders to prepare for battle.
• Han Feng revealed his Deep Blue Strange Fire, and the Gold Silver Gentlemen exposed their identities and agreed to hold back Su Qian.
• Han Feng flew toward the seal as the Black-Corner Region experts intercepted the academy's elders, leaving him free to approach the Fallen Heart Flame.
• A streak of light tore through the sky, and a figure appeared beside Han Feng.

Jiang Han revealed himself as a Peak Dou Huang wielding a Strange Fire and killed Fan Lao with ease. As the battle shifted in the academy's favor, the Energy Shield around the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower shattered, drawing every expert's attention.

• Jiang Han confronted Fan Lao while Han Feng continued toward the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Jiang Han unveiled his Peak Dou Huang aura and Azure Lotus Core Flame, astonishing the disciples and shifting the battle's balance.
• Fan Lao summoned a Blood Sea, but Jiang Han's Strange Fire consumed it and badly burned him.
• Jiang Han punched through Fan Lao's chest and burned his body and soul to nothing.
• The Energy Shield at the tip of the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower shattered, and the experts turned to look.

Fallen Heart Flame broke free of the Thousand Layer Sealing Array, forcing Jia Nan Academy’s elders and disciples to retreat while Jiang Han stayed behind. Jiang Han and Han Feng clashed over their Strange Fires as Fallen Heart Flame and the Black-Corner Region forces fought nearby, and the chapter ended with Han Feng forming a flaming trident against Jiang Han.

• Fallen Heart Flame shattered the Thousand Layer Sealing Array, and Su Qian ordered the elders to protect the disciples and retreat.
• Fallen Heart Flame charged Han Feng while Jiang Han attacked him too, hoping to copy his Sea Heart Flame.
• Han Feng called on the Gold Silver Two Elders and the Black-Corner Region experts to hold back Fallen Heart Flame, then attacked Jiang Han with flaming spears.
• Jiang Han blocked Han Feng’s attacks with the Azure Lotus Core Flame, and the two Strange Fires collided in a fierce exchange.
• Han Feng offered to stop fighting Jiang Han, but Jiang Han said he still wanted Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame.
• Han Feng grew furious and condensed his Deep Blue Flame into a trident.

Jiang Han defeated Han Feng by combining two Strange Fires, then destroyed Han Feng’s body and absorbed his Soul Body’s alchemy knowledge and Sea Heart Flame. As the Black-Corner Region experts fled, the Fallen Heart Flame remained rampant above the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower.

• Han Feng used Heavenly Cold Qi to suppress Jiang Han’s Azure Lotus Core Flame, but Jiang Han unleashed the Fallen Heart Flame and fused the two Strange Fires.
• Jiang Han’s bicolored flame hammer shattered Han Feng’s trident and defenses, striking him down and severely injuring him.
• Jiang Han ignored Han Feng’s questions, smashed apart his physical body, and used his ability to purify Han Feng’s Soul Body and gain his alchemy knowledge.
• Jiang Han duplicated and refined Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame while the Black-Corner Region experts struggled against the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Gold Silver Two Elders ordered a retreat, and the Black-Corner Region experts fled.

Jiang Han subdued Fallen Heart Flame by repeatedly hammering it until it returned to the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower. After the academy recovered, he gave Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame to Jia Nan Academy, which pledged to support him.

• Jiang Han confronted Fallen Heart Flame in the sky and knocked it back with his two-colored flaming giant and warhammer.
• Jiang Han chased down the fleeing Fire Python, hammered Fallen Heart Flame until it stopped resisting, and ordered it back into the Heavenly Flame Training Qi Tower.
• Su Qian and the elders repaired and reinforced the sealing formation while Jia Nan Academy returned to normal over the following days.
• Su Qian and Hu Qian led Jia Nan Academy’s elders in a purge of Han Feng’s supporters, including the Gold Silver Two Elders.
• Su Qian and Hu Qian promised Jiang Han that Jia Nan Academy would support him, and Jiang Han gave the academy Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame.

Jiang Han refined a perfect seventh-tier Transformation Pill, reunited with Xiao Yan, and learned that a Soul Hall Guardian had captured Yao Lao. He went to the Library Pavilion to target its two guardian elders, but remained outside even after they opened the doors.

• Jiang Han refined a flawless seventh-tier Transformation Pill using three kinds of flame.
• Jiang Han visited Teacher Ruo Lin and Yellow Class Two, where the students praised his strength and Xiao Xun'er joined him and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan told Jiang Han that a Soul Hall Guardian had defeated and captured Yao Lao, and Jiang Han offered to help rescue him.
• Jiang Han asked Hu Qian to take him to the Library Pavilion, where two gray-robed elders opened the doors for him.
• The two elders asked why Jiang Han had not entered the Library Pavilion after two minutes.

Jiang Han observed the Thousand-Hundred Two Elders wield spatial power, then advanced to the peak of Dou Zong but failed to break through to Dou Zun. After killing a shadow who had followed him, he flew toward the Inner Academy, while Xiao Xun'er waited anxiously for Teacher Ling to return.

• Jiang Han asked the Thousand-Hundred Two Elders to demonstrate their spatial abilities, and he watched until his observation progress reached 100%.
• Jiang Han left the elders and Vice Dean Hu, then rose from five-star to nine-star Dou Zong but did not reach Dou Zun.
• Jiang Han confronted a shadow who claimed he was only passing by, then killed him with spatial power and flames when he fled.
• Jiang Han flew toward the Inner Academy, and Xiao Xun'er wondered why Teacher Ling had not returned to report to her.

Jiang Han followed Fallen Heart Flame through the magma to find Yao Tianhuo, the Heavenly Flame Venerable, and offered to take him out and forge him a body. Before they could leave, Fallen Heart Flame returned with a giant Fire Lizardman whose aura revealed it was a Dou Zun-level threat.

• Jiang Han descended into the magma with the giant Fire Python and followed Fallen Heart Flame to Yao Tianhuo’s remains.
• A Fire Lizardman ambushed Jiang Han, and he killed it before wiping out the surrounding Fire Lizardmen with battle qi arrows.
• The giant Fire Python quietly disappeared while Jiang Han fought the Fire Lizardmen.
• Yao Tianhuo introduced himself and explained how two Fallen Heart Flame seeds had wounded him before the Fire Lizard Clan attacked.
• Jiang Han offered to take Yao Tianhuo out and forge him a body, but Fallen Heart Flame returned with a giant Dou Zun-level Fire Lizardman.

Jiang Han defeated a Dou Zun-level Fire Lizardman with Godslayer and escaped the magma with Heavenly Flame Venerable. He left the Fallen Heart Flame alive but erased its intelligence after it betrayed him.

• The Fallen Heart Flame led a Dou Zun-level Fire Lizardman to Jiang Han and Heavenly Flame Venerable, hoping to use the lizardman to escape.
• Jiang Han activated Godslayer, causing the weaker Fire Lizardmen to explode and killing the Dou Zun-level lizardman with his Extreme Blade Three Styles.
• Jiang Han took the Dou Zun-level lizardman's fire bead as two Half-Saint Fire Lizards approached, then grabbed Heavenly Flame Venerable and pursued the fleeing Fallen Heart Flame.
• Jiang Han escaped the magma with Heavenly Flame Venerable, while the Half-Saint Fire Lizards abandoned their pursuit.
• Jiang Han erased the Fallen Heart Flame's intelligence, and Heavenly Flame Venerable praised his strength.

Jiang Han agreed to help Heavenly Flame Venerable forge a physical body and learned that the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill would be auctioned in Black Emperor City. He arrived at the auction, reunited with Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, Su Qian, and Hu Qian, and waited for the bidding to begin.

• Jiang Han promised to help Heavenly Flame Venerable regain a physical body, and Heavenly Flame Venerable offered him the Five Round Li Fire Method.
• Jiang Han learned that the Black Emperor Sect's auction would feature a Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill that could help forge a physical body.
• Jiang Han spent seven days repairing Heavenly Flame Venerable's soul, then traveled to Black Emperor City for the auction.
• Jiang Han encountered Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er at the VIP entrance, where Xiao Xun'er asked whether he had seen Teacher Ling.
• Jiang Han joined Su Qian and Hu Qian in the VIP section and told them that he wanted the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill.
• Mo Tianxing opened the auction and saluted Su Qian and Hu Qian before leaving the platform.

At the Black Emperor Auction House, Jiang Han offered a Rank 8 Fire Pearl for the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill and won the bid. Before he could complete the transaction, Earth Demon Old Ghost tried to seize the pill, leaving Jiang Han facing a standoff with the elder and Mo Tianxing.

• The elder auctioned various items while Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er successfully bid on things they needed, and Jiang Han watched without participating.
• Mo Tianxing presented the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill as the auction’s final item and required bidders to barter valuable treasures for it.
• Su Qian, a black-robed Dou Zong, and Earth Demon Old Ghost made bids before Jiang Han offered a Rank 8 Fire Magical Beast Fire Pearl.
• Su Qian scolded Jiang Han for offering such a valuable Fire Pearl, but Mo Tianxing accepted the bid and declared the pill sold.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost appeared before Jiang Han and threatened to take the pill, while Mo Tianxing hesitated to confront him.
• Jiang Han mocked the conflict between Earth Demon Old Ghost’s appeal to strength and Mo Tianxing’s appeal to auction rules.