Chapter Summaries

Xiao Bai ensured the students who bullied Xiao Yi Xian faced academy discipline, then learned that the library held an Earth Rank poison cultivation method she could pursue. After more than twenty days, he broke through to Six Star Dou Ling and sensed Xiao Yi Xian emerging from seclusion.

• Fire Elder ordered the three students who had bullied Xiao Yi Xian to report to the Law Enforcement Team, and Xiao Bai accepted the judgment.
• Fire Elder told Xiao Yi Xian about an Earth Rank Poison Attribute Cultivation Method in the Library Pavilion, and Xiao Bai decided to help her obtain it.
• Xiao Bai ended Xiao Yi Xian’s training assessment, and the two returned together after sharing an affectionate moment.
• More than twenty days later, Xiao Bai broke through to Six Star Dou Ling and considered the dangers of confronting Wu Protector and exploring beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower.
• Xiao Bai reflected on his sleeping Little Golden Dragon and its possible rivalry with Zi Yan, then sensed Xiao Yi Xian’s powerful energy fluctuation from the next room.

Xun Er revealed that she had advanced to Da Dou Shi, prompting Xiao Yi Xian to compare their progress and tease her alongside Xiao Bai. Instructor Ruo Lin arrived to check their readiness for the Inner Academy Selection Competition and, stunned by their cultivation, asked Xiao Bai to give her whatever he had given them.

• Xun Er revealed her breakthrough to Da Dou Shi, and Xiao Yi Xian joked that she must have turned on cheats.
• Xiao Bai comforted Xiao Yi Xian, and the two teased Xun Er until she scolded them.
• Xiao Yi Xian congratulated Xun Er, who asked whether she was close to a breakthrough too.
• Instructor Ruo Lin arrived and explained that the Inner Academy Selection Competition registration had begun ahead of the event in two days.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Instructor Ruo Lin she was a Nine Stars Dou Shi, and Xun Er said she had just become a Da Dou Shi.
• Instructor Ruo Lin reacted in disbelief and asked Xiao Bai to give her some of whatever had helped them advance.

After Instructor Ruo Lin left in despair at Xun Er and Xian Er’s rapid cultivation, Xiao Bai took Xiao Yi Xian to a secluded camp to watch over her Calamity Poison Body. When her poison erupted, he sealed the spread of its power, easing her pain.

• Instructor Ruo Lin believed Xiao Bai that Xun Er and Xian Er had advanced through their own cultivation, then left shaken by their talent.
• Xiao Bai reassured Xun Er that Instructor Ruo Lin would recover and said he would watch over Xiao Yi Xian during her Calamity Poison Body outburst.
• That night, Xiao Yi Xian swallowed a pill containing a trace of the Eight-Winged Black Emperor Snake’s poison, triggering her poison mist and visible pain.
• Xiao Bai resisted the poisonous mist with his Thunder Seeds and sensed a seven-colored thread spreading from Xiao Yi Xian’s lower abdomen toward her heart.
• Xiao Bai formed a seal at Xiao Yi Xian’s Dantian, stopping the thread and poison gas and reducing her pain.

Xiao Bai sealed Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body after sensing that its toxins could erode her Sea of Consciousness, and she reluctantly accepted that she would not compete. At the Inner Academy Selection Competition, Instructor Ruo Lin revealed that Xiao Bai would participate, while Xun Er defended him from Bai Shan’s insult and the academy’s Elders gathered in unusual numbers.

• Xiao Bai sealed Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body to protect her mind from accumulating toxins and told her to draw the poisonous mist back into her body.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she had hoped to break through and show off to Xun Er, but Xiao Bai insisted that her safety mattered more than the competition.
• At the crowded selection arena, Instructor Ruo Lin told Xiao Yu and Yellow Class Second Class that Xiao Bai would compete, surprising the students.
• Bai Shan mocked Xiao Bai for entering the competition as a new student, and Xun Er fixed him with a cold stare until Instructor Ruo Lin intervened.
• Instructor Ruo Lin noticed that nearly all the academy Elders had gathered for the competition and wondered whether they had come because of Xiao Bai.

Jia Nan Academy's elders gathered to watch the selection competition and discussed Xiao Bai, whose talent and lack of backing made him a prize for the academy's factions. The Vice Principal revealed that the Grand Elder had already taken an interest in Xiao Bai, while Fire Elder said the young man was still in the Magical Beast Forest with his girlfriend.

• Elder Li complained that Fire Elder had failed to refine three sets of ingredients for a Dou Ling Pill, and Fire Elder insisted that each failure brought him closer to success.
• The Vice Principal arrived with his red-clothed granddaughter as the elders admitted they had come hoping to recruit Xiao Bai into their factions.
• The Vice Principal told the elders that the Grand Elder was already paying attention to Xiao Bai, discouraging them from pursuing him.
• Fire Elder said he had recently seen Xiao Bai in the Magical Beast Forest with his little girlfriend and denied trying to recruit him.
• The Vice Principal brought up Xiao Bai to test whether his granddaughter, who disdained male students, would react differently to his talent.

Xiao Bai arrived late to the Jia Nan Academy selection competition, startling the crowd by revealing his immense strength and rescuing Xiao Yi Xian from their delay. He faced Tu Shan in the first round and effortlessly stopped the senior’s spear, leaving the match’s outcome poised to be decided.

• Xiao Xun Er defeated Zhang Yuan in the selection competition, while Instructor Ruo Lin and Xiao Yu wondered where Xiao Bai was.
• Tu Shan took the stage to face Xiao Bai, and the crowd mocked the absent freshman as Xun Er waited anxiously.
• Xiao Bai arrived on a purple stream of light carrying Xiao Yi Xian, then identified himself as a student of Yellow Class Second Class rather than an Elder.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xun Er that Little Golden Dragon had awakened and delayed their arrival, while Little Golden Dragon complained about his diminished standing in the family.
• Tu Shan launched a powerful spear thrust at Xiao Bai, who stopped its tip between two fingers and remarked that Tu Shan was far too gentle.

Xiao Bai defeated Tu Shan with his Crimson Lightning, revealing its immense power while sparing Tu Shan’s life. After explaining that he had absorbed the Beast Fire of a Crimson Fire Thunder Serpent and possessed lightning, fire, and wood attributes, Xiao Bai drew the Alchemy Department’s interest, but insisted on continuing the selection competition.

• Xiao Bai’s Crimson Lightning destroyed Tu Shan’s spear and split to break his Dou Qi Armor, sending him crashing across the stage while the other bolt blasted a smoking crater into the platform.
• The elders checked Tu Shan and confirmed that he had no major injuries, then carried him away for treatment.
• When the elders questioned Xiao Bai about his thunderfire, he said he had absorbed the Beast Fire of a Crimson Fire Thunder Serpent and had lightning, fire, and wood attributes.
• Fire Elder tried to recruit Xiao Bai into the Alchemy Department and declared that Xiao Bai could skip the remaining selection matches.
• Xiao Bai insisted that he had to compete in the second round, leaving the old man puzzled about why he wanted to continue.

Xiao Bai brought Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian before Jia Nan Academy’s elders and secured their places in the selection competition’s top five. When Fire Elder questioned Xiao Bai about alchemy, Xiao Bai claimed he could refine a fifth-grade pill, leaving the elders astonished and skeptical as Fire Elder prepared a test.

• Xiao Bai introduced Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian to Hu Qian and the elders, then said he wanted them in the top five so they could enter the Inner Academy with him.
• Hu Qian accepted that both girls could be placed in the top five after learning Xiao Yi Xian had reached Da Dou Shi, and Xiao Yu admitted to Instructor Ruo Lin that Xiao Bai treated her differently from Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Hu Jia approached Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian to greet them, while Fire Elder asked Xiao Bai about his interest in alchemy.
• Xiao Bai revealed that he was already an alchemist, then said he could refine a fifth-grade pill; Fire Elder angrily doubted him, but Hu Qian agreed to let him prove it.
• Fire Elder supplied a pill furnace, medicinal ingredients, and a formula for the fifth-grade Dragon Strength Pill, promising to apologize if Xiao Bai succeeded.

Xiao Bai refined a supreme-quality Dragon Strength Pill and impressed the elders with his skill, though he confirmed he was only a Fifth Rank Alchemist. Seven days later, he entered the Library Pavilion with Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, and the other competition finalists, where the Thousand-Hundred Two Elders appeared to receive them.

• Xiao Bai used his Soul Strength to refine the Dragon Strength Pill through an unconventional process and produced a supreme-quality pill.
• Fire Elder praised the pill and questioned whether Xiao Bai was above Fifth Rank, but Xiao Bai confirmed he was Fifth Rank.
• Xiao Bai left the competition with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian, and the elders treated him with newfound respect.
• Seven days later, Hu Qian led Xiao Bai, Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, and the other finalists through a hidden passage to the Library Pavilion.
• Hu Qian called for the pavilion elders, and the Thousand-Hundred Two Elders appeared through a spatial fluctuation as Xiao Bai sensed someone watching him.

Xiao Bai and the others entered Jia Nan Academy’s Library Pavilion, where he searched its treasures while helping Xun Er obtain a fire cultivation method. With the hour nearly over and Fire Elder’s promised method still missing, Xiao Bai activated the vertical eye on his forehead to see through the pavilion’s energy barriers.

• The Thousand-Hundred Two Elders opened the Space Lock, and Hu Qian warned Xiao Bai and the others to take only items their hands could pass through the energy covers.
• Inside the Library Pavilion, Xiao Bai caught a Black Rank Lightning attribute Qi Method as treasures began flying from the energy covers.
• Xiao Bai used his soul force to search the room and later drew a fiery light to himself, obtaining a Low-Grade Earth Rank Fire Attribute cultivation method for Xun Er.
• With the hour almost up and Fire Elder’s promised cultivation method nowhere to be seen, Xiao Bai poured Soul Strength into the vertical mark on his forehead.
• The vertical eye opened, and Xiao Bai’s vision expanded through the energy barriers to reveal what lay inside them.

Xiao Bai used the vertical eye on his forehead and Geng Metal Tribulation Thunder to free a gray light cluster containing a cultivation method for Xiao Yi Xian, exhausting his Soul Strength in the process. After Xiao Yi Xian learned what he had done, she embraced him, and the barrier in her heart toward him disappeared.

• Xiao Bai spotted the Earth Rank Poison Attribute Cultivation Method in a room behind an energy barrier, but its puppet stood motionless as time ran short.
• Xiao Bai used his vertical eye and Geng Metal Tribulation Thunder to break the binding on a gray light cluster and knock aside the puppet trying to intercept it.
• Xiao Bai sensed something near the Library Pavilion entrance, withdrew from his heightened state, and suffered dizziness from overusing his Soul Strength.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian worried over Xiao Bai, and he admitted he had exhausted himself while looking for a cultivation method for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian scolded Xiao Bai for risking himself, then embraced him as her doubts and reservations about him vanished; Xun Er rolled her eyes at them.

Xiao Bai recovered the Earth Rank poison skill after it escaped toward the sealed room, then gave the Poison Spirit Heart Sutra to Xiao Yi Xian. As the Library Pavilion’s time ran out, its guardians ordered everyone to leave and keep what they had seen secret.

• Tu Shan tried to take the Earth Rank poison skill, but the energy barrier repelled him and the light ball shot toward the wall.
• Xiao Bai caught the skill before it entered the barrier, while Bai Lie and Qian Mu discussed his abilities and the possibility that he was connected to the missing Headmaster.
• Xiao Bai gave the Poison Spirit Heart Sutra to Xiao Yi Xian and said she would need another thing to cultivate it.
• The light balls returned to their barriers, the barriers disappeared, and an aged voice ordered the five people to leave without revealing anything about the Library Pavilion.

Xiao Bai received the Thunder Dragon Rending the Sky Spear scroll and considered how he could use dragon blood to cultivate its powerful technique. As he prepared to enter the Inner Academy in two days, Hu Qian advised him to build a student force, an idea Xiao Bai began to consider with Xun Er’s offer of help.

• Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian revealed that they had found Xiao Bai a Silver Scroll, the Thunder Dragon Rending the Sky Spear.
• Xiao Bai read that the Dou Skill required dragon-type Magical Beast blood essence and considered using blood from the Little Golden Dragon, Zi Yan, or Zhu Kun.
• Xiao Bai left the Library Pavilion with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian while Hu Qian told the other students they would enter the Inner Academy in two days.
• Hu Qian advised Xiao Bai to form a student force in the Inner Academy, and Xiao Bai considered the benefits of gathering allies and resources.
• Xun Er offered to help Xiao Bai establish a force, and he accepted her support.

Xiao Bai began teaching Xiao Yi Xian the Heavenly Heart Induction Chapter to strengthen her soul and help her control the Calamity Poison Body. As she cultivated, Xun Er sensed spiritual energy gathering around Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Bai explained that the Poison Spirit Heart Sutra could help Xiao Yi Xian control her poison but required a strong soul to avoid backlash.
• Xiao Bai reminded Xiao Yi Xian of her dream of becoming an alchemist, and he learned that Xun Er was interested in arrays.
• Xiao Bai entered Xiao Yi Xian's Sea of Consciousness and guided her through the Heavenly Heart Induction Chapter.
• Xiao Bai watched for signs that Xiao Yi Xian might enter the mysterious chaotic space while her Soul Strength began to circulate.
• Xun Er sensed spiritual energy gathering around Xiao Yi Xian and marveled at Xiao Bai's method.

After spending the night helping Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Bai woke beside her and Xun Er, then discussed Little Golden Dragon’s nature and the Dragon Qi needed for a Dou Technique. Little Golden Dragon revealed it could transform into weapons, and Xiao Bai tested its spear form before deciding to pursue the technique.

• Xiao Bai embraced Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian, then fell asleep with both of them beside him.
• Xiao Bai questioned Little Golden Dragon about its essence blood, and Little Golden Dragon explained that it was a Spirit Body with origin instead.
• Xiao Bai showed Little Golden Dragon the Dou Technique scroll, and it discovered that the technique used essence blood to temper its power.
• Little Golden Dragon transformed into a Golden Dragon Spear and demonstrated its strength and lingering Spatial Insight to Xiao Bai and Xun Er.
• Xiao Bai tested the spear and said Little Golden Dragon’s abilities made him more interested in cultivating the Dou Technique.

Xiao Bai and the other selected students left the Outer Academy for the Inner Academy, where Xiao Bai agreed to consider Xu Su and Tu Shan for his planned faction after seeing how they performed in the coming welcome ceremony. Their Gryphons carried them toward a mountain stream as the group prepared to face the Inner Academy’s welcome.

• Xiao Bai joked with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian about rumors that he could not go without women, then praised both girls to satisfy them.
• Hu Qian congratulated the fifty selected students and sent them off on Gryphons, warning them not to stand unless they were strong enough.
• Xun Er asked Xiao Bai about the cultivation pills he had given Instructor Ruo Lin and members of the Xiao Clan before their departure.
• Xu Su asked to join Xiao Bai’s planned faction and explained that her brother, Xu Qingshan, had once ranked second on the Strong Ranking List before leaving the academy.
• Xiao Bai agreed to consider Xu Su and Tu Shan as founding members after observing their performance during the Inner Academy’s welcome ceremony.
• The Gryphons carried the students toward a spacious mountain stream.

Xiao Bai and the other freshmen entered the Inner Academy’s Fire Energy Hunting Competition, where older students were allowed to seize their Fire Energy. Xiao Bai turned the tables by overpowering the older students and declaring them his prey, then revealed Soul Strength strong enough to restrain nearly everyone present.

• Hu Qian brought the freshmen through a spatial gate, where Elder Su explained that they had to cross the forest while protecting their Fire Energy Cards.
• After Xiao Bai asked whether fighting was permitted as long as nobody was killed, he swiftly knocked down five older students who had whistled at the girls and had Tu Shan collect their cards.
• Xiao Bai took the five students’ Fire Energy, then declared that the remaining older students were his prey and demanded their cards.
• A sturdy older student tried to rally the group by warning Xiao Bai about their numbers and the Black White Killing Squad, but Xiao Bai rejected his threats and mocked his attempt to speak for the Inner Academy.
• When the older students charged, Xiao Bai released overwhelming Soul Strength that immobilized them and briefly pressured Elder Su, Elder Han, and Hu Qian before he withdrew it and called the incident a mistake.

Xiao Bai overwhelmed the veteran students with Soul Strength, took their Fire Energy, and devised a plan to gather the remaining competitors before reaching the exit. He left the chapter confident that even if the bait failed, his net would catch everyone in the forest.

• Xiao Bai used his Soul Strength to subdue the veteran students, and Elder Su reprimanded them when they protested losing to him.
• Tu Shan collected the veteran students’ Fire Energy Cards, raising Xiao Bai’s total to 789 points.
• Xiao Bai sent Tu Shan, Xu Su, and the other new students toward the exit as bait, then ordered the veteran students to lure their peers toward an ambush.
• Mo Dun warned Luo Men and four others about Xiao Bai, prompting them to head for the exit and spread the warning.
• Xiao Bai explained to Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian that he had expected the veteran students to spread fear and drive everyone toward the exit, where he planned to trap them.

Xiao Bai confronted the Black and White Killing Squad leaders, Liu Qing and Lin Yan, after reports of his strength drew them to challenge him. The fight began with Xiao Bai revealing his Six Star Dou Ling cultivation and countering Liu Qing’s opening attack, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Liu Fei warned Liu Qing that the feared new student could fly, and the old students scattered after learning he had Dou Wang energy wings.
• Liu Qing and Lin Yan chose to face Xiao Bai together and offered their Fire Energy whether they won or lost.
• Xiao Bai arrived and identified Liu Qing and Lin Yan as the Black and White Killing Squad captains; they agreed to fight him as a pair.
• Xiao Bai revealed that he was a Six Star Dou Ling, surprising Liu Qing and Lin Yan, who had expected a Dou Wang.
• Liu Qing attacked with Great Coffin Splitting Claw, but Xiao Bai countered with Thunderclap and sent a lightning palm toward him.
• Liu Qing drew his spear and unleashed Great Rock Split against Xiao Bai’s advancing lightning palm.

Xiao Bai defeated Liu Qing and Lin Yan in the valley and collected the Fire Energy Cards from their squads. When Lin Yan’s card held only twelve points, Xiao Bai wrote something on paper and ordered him to sign it.

• Xiao Bai crushed Lin Yan’s axe strike with his bare hand while Xiao Yi Xian and Xun Er watched from the valley entrance.
• Xiao Bai used Bing Fire... Yang Thunder to force Liu Qing and Lin Yan to abandon their attacks, and both admitted defeat.
• Liu Qing collected his squad’s Fire Energy Cards and gave them to Xiao Bai, bringing Xiao Bai’s total above two thousand points.
• Xiao Bai made the Black Killing Squad hand over their cards, then threatened to hang Lin Yan from a tree until Lin Yan surrendered his card.
• Xiao Bai discovered Lin Yan’s card held only twelve points, wrote something on paper, and told Lin Yan to sign it.